 The Aboriginal Rights Coalition decided that it was important to create some kind of educational resource that would focus on the major themes and recommendations of the report of the World Commission. And it was developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples who talked about the importance of an educational process that engages not only mind but heart as well. I'm going to ask everybody to please find your spot on the blanket and we'll get started. The facilitation settler team in the blue t-shirts will be joining us soon. They haven't arrived yet. These blankets represent the northern part of Turtle Island or what we now know as Canada before the arrival of Europeans. You represent the Indigenous peoples. European explorers had just quote, unquote, discovered you in your lands. And this is what this exercise is. It's a transformative process that affects not just mind but heart. The land belonged to you and you had your own governments. The settlers will now walk to the west and surround one blanket. Those with white index cards, please raise your hands. You also died from various diseases. Please have a seat in your chair. The last person recognized by the Europeans as your people, your language and culture became extinct. The settlers will have one blanket full of people leave the exercise to represent this. You were enfranchised. Like residential schools, the purpose of the 60s scoop was assimilation. You represent those who were taken out of your communities and placed in residential schools far from your homes. In the high Arctic, Inuit communities were moved to isolated, unfamiliar and barren lands, often with very bad results. Please step off the blanket. You represent those who died of hunger after being forced off your original land and away from your hunting grounds. At this point, we asked people to look around to remember what the room looked like at the beginning, to notice how things have changed, to hold those thoughts in your mind, to ask yourselves what you have felt during the last 40 minutes.