#57:

Support awareness training to public sector staff

Indigenous Relations Office (IRO):    

• Delivers training programs on topics related to Truth and Reconciliation to a variety of City staff including an all-employee Indigenous Awareness online platform.
• Has produced a pronunciation video of basic phrases in Treaty 7 Nation and Metis languages; and a Treaty 7, Metis, Urban Indigenous awareness guide.
• Advises business units on land acknowledgement and cultural protocols.
• Has planned and delivered awareness events including Aboriginal Awareness Week Opening Ceremonies and Orange Shirt Day.

#62 i:

Develop curriculum for school children

• City Hall School is developing a plan to incorporate Indigenous education in its curriculum. The plan will include the overall implementation of the Calls to Action.
• Collaborated with Safe and Caring Schools for Orange Shirt Day at City Hall
• Community Social Workers offered two Indigenous summer programmes in Dover and Bowness that involved hosting Elders, playing cultural games, and establishing links to Indigenous partners and traditional knowledge keepers.
• Parks and Recreation developed on-line at home learning activities for school children on Treaty 7 topics.   

#69 iii:

Support public awareness programming in libraries, museums, and archives

Calgary Public Library has:

• Issued an expression of interest for Indigenous artists, developed land acknowledgement training, has an Indigenous resources center and worked with Treaty 7 authors to write children’s books in their own Indigenous languages.
• Hired Indigenous Staff responsible for connecting, consulting and collaborating with Calgary and area Indigenous communities.
• Worked with partners to promote residential school history awareness, Orange Shirt Day, Witness Blanket, and other events.
• Partnered with Bow Valley and local Indigenous people to host Indigenous events at the libraries on an ongoing basis.

#93: 

Create new immigrant’s information kits

• Community Social Workers worked with newcomer groups to look at the history of colonialism and intergeneration trauma.
• Community Social Workers are in discussions with newcomer agencies for the development and resourcing of Indigenous awareness/TRC toolkits.
• Calgary Local Immigration Partnership (CLIP) has been amplifying Indigenous awareness activities undertaken by newcomer agencies and has been including Indigenous perspectives in their work.

#21:

Fund a healing center

#22:

Recognize value of healing practices

#48 ii:

Enhance self-determination in spiritual matters

Work collaboratively to seek real estate, appropriate infrastructure, public buildings, gardens and parkland for Indigenous ceremonial, cultural, commemorative activities, as well as healing. 

• The City and the Indigenous Gathering Place Society have entered an MOU where the parties agree to work together to establish an Indigenous Gathering Place where “we will share, connect, heal, renew and celebrate Indigenous cultures.”
• Parks is working on completing the culturally significant areas/traditional land use inventory/story collection that will help inform park management and amenities to support Calls to Action #22 and #48.

#79:

Create school site commemoration and framework

#82:

Establish monument

• Parks and Public Art are collaborating on ways to advance the establishment of a monument for the St. Dunstan’s school site as well as Parks Public Art program that focusses on Calls to Action #82 and #83. 
• Planning & Development created an Indigenous engagement framework and piloted this framework in several local area plans (i.e. Beltline, Ricardo Ranch). 
• Resilience and Infrastructure is leading a coordinated effort with targeted Business Units on Duty to Consult projects to streamline the work and provide input to revisions to Provincial policies.

#83:

Create collaborative art that contributes to reconciliation

• Public Art hired an Indigenous Curator and formed an Indigenous advisory committee known as the Moh’kinstiss Public Art Guiding Circle to advise on Public Art’s implementation of the TRC and recommend ways in which the Public Art program can decolonize.
• Public Art has an Indigenous Artist in residence program, supporting projects and events for Aboriginal artists as per Cultural Plan, including 8 new Indigenous Public Art projects in collaboration with Calgary Arts Development.

#45 iii:

Reaffirm and renew Treaty relationships, and maintain them for the future (see Appendix E for Proclamation)

Calgary Aboriginal Urban Affairs Committee works further with Council to create the conditions for mutual respect and sustained collaboration on matters impacting Treaty relations and Indigenous peoples living in Calgary and area.

Display a Treaty 7 flag at the Municipal Complex.

• Council approved the Indigenous Policy in 2016.
• Treaty 7 flag was raised in front of City Hall in 2016.
• Langevin Bridge was renamed the Reconciliation Bridge in 2018, with full representation and participation of Indigenous leaders and community members. 
• Treaty 7 Nations and Metis Nation Region 3 Flags were displayed in Council chambers in 2019.
• Discussions are ongoing with City Clerks to add a Metis Flag to the flag bank outside of City Hall.
• Meeting rooms on the 11th floor of the municipal building were given Treaty 7 and Metis Names in 2019.
• Council implemented its commitment to leadership-to-leadership relations by meeting/lunching with Treaty 7 Chiefs.
• Council directed Administration to work with the Indigenous Community to co-create an Indigenous governance model for The City. 
• Indigenous Relations Office is working with Metis Nation Region 3 on developing a Policy Guide specific to their Nation. 

#75:

Investigate School Cemeteries

#77:

Deliver records

Corporate Records (Archives) and Calgary Parks (Cemeteries) engaged and this work has been completed.

• Calgary Neighbourhoods conducted research into the one residential school in Calgary, St. Dunstan’s. Only one known grave site was discovered. 
• Delivery of records occurred under the direction of Calgary Neighbourhoods.

#87:

Celebrate Indigenous athletics history

#88:

Enhance athletic development

#89:

Deepen policies to promote physical activity

#90:

Establish stable funding, programs for coaches, anti-racism awareness

Calgary Recreation and partners explore internally how to incorporate Indigenous content into the design and delivery of recreation/sports programs, services and facilities, specifically:

• Historical contribution of Indigenous athletes in and around Calgary.
• Internal practices that could present barriers to participation.

Calgary Recreation and partners explore barriers to long-term Indigenous athlete development and growth (as per The City's role in recreational/introductory stages of Long-Term Athlete Development).

Calgary Recreation and partners explore how to enhance Indigenous participation via policies, programs and initiatives including, but not limited to, anti-racism awareness and training programs. 

• The Sport for Life Policy was approved by Council in May 2018. The Policy recognizes The City’s role, in coordination with partners, to remove barriers that prevent under-represented groups (such as Indigenous peoples) from participating and enjoying sport, as well as the equitable, inclusive and accessible provision of sport programs and initiatives.