09/30/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 🧡
We wanted to acknowledge today, but struggled with what to say and how to say it. So we reached out to an Indigenous friend for some perspective. He reminded me about how much of Indigenous history was simply absent from what many of us learned growing up, and how much there still is to learn.
So we started close to home.
Inglemere is based in Adjala-Tosorontio, on lands within Treaty 18 and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe peoples, including the Ojibwe, Odawa and Pottawatomi Nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.
The names around us hold history we didn’t fully understand. Adjala was named for the wife of Shawnee leader Tecumseh, while Tosorontio is a Wyandot word meaning “beautiful mountain.”
The residential school system — the children taken from their families, those who never came home, and the generations who continue to live with its effects — are central to September 30. Understanding why it happened also means learning about the broader history of colonization: the displacement of Indigenous Peoples from their lands, the suppression of languages and cultures, the separation of families and communities, and policies intended to assimilate Indigenous Peoples.
There is so much history that many of us were never taught. Join us in learning today. 🧡
