by MDCC Communications Officer

October 14, 2021

Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre (MDCC) recently announced a new partnership with RBC, which will provide multi-year support for its Roots of Reconciliation Program (ROR). This new funding commitment of $225,000 will enable MDCC and its partners (Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey and Treaty Education Nova Scotia) to deliver a free, accurate, engaging, and meaningful program encompassing elements of Mi’kmaw culture and experience specifically through three content levels: Foundations, Treaties and Renewal, and Reconciliation to 120,000 students across Atlantic Canada over the next four years.

“We’ve heard from educators across Nova Scotia that there’s a demand for treaty education content and resources,” says Tim Bernard, Executive Director of MDCC. “Our Roots of Reconciliation program is a specific response to this demand. This new commitment from RBC will help us grow the resources necessary to inform the next generation of treaty people in our schools and communities and will guide everyone toward understanding and reconciliation.”

“The ROR program and the MDCC digital portal will empower our students by giving them access to Mi’kmaw voices and perspectives, lived experiences, and contextualized history details necessary to move all of us toward becoming culturally competent treaty people,” says Matt Arsenault, Teacher at Redcliff Middle School. “As we ...

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