On Campus Event: Truth Healing and Change: A Discussion about why the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission Matter, Thursday, Nov. 29 @ 3PM, Nixon Lounge

Truth, Healing, and Change: A Discussion about Why the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Matters

Thursday, November 29, 2018, 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Hawthorne Longfellow Library, Nixon Lounge

Join Dawnland director Adam Mazo and film participant Esther Anne in a discussion about the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC), its historic work to uncover the devasting impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on families in Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribal communities, and ongoing efforts by Maine-Wabanaki REACH to heal and strengthen those communities and to resist the cultural erasure exposed by the TRC.  First Light, a short documentary that introduces the TRC and its work, will be shown, and a selection of archival materials from the TRC Archives, which are housed at Bowdoin College, will be on view.