The RAIC is pleased to report that the motion to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?proposed by RAIC Truth and Reconciliation Task Force Co-Chairs, Patrick Stewart, MRAIC and Alfred Waugh, MRAIC?passed with overwhelming support at the RAIC’s Annual General Meeting on June 30.
This is a symbolic first step in the RAIC?s journey towards justice and peace. The Declaration is a framework for reconciliation and will help build a better RAIC and architecture community for Indigenous peoples and all architects today and for future generations.
What happens next" The Task Force will continue its work to identify actions and recommendations to inform an action plan, including strategies that the RAIC can take to achieve the goals of ?The Declaration? and of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?s Calls to Action. The RAIC Truth and Reconciliation Task Force of the RAIC includes two Indigenous architects, Patrick Stewart, MRAIC and Alfred Waugh, MRAIC and two members of the RAIC board, Jill Stoner, MRAIC, and Dale Taylor, FRAIC. On May 27, 2021, the four members met on Zoom for an informal conversation about the proposed adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People by the RAIC membership.  Here is their conversation:
Dale Taylor (DT): We’d like to start with a few questions that have come up from the RAIC membership to clarify what the adoption of this Declaration is and is not about, in the ge...