Welcome to the RPG ALLIANCE Convention!

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, We are grateful for the opportunity to work on this land and call it our home. We know that this work does not end with acknowledgements but that it starts with each of us making the commitment to listen, learn, and act as called upon by the communities we live in and alongside.

In the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation, we are grateful to be collaborating with the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth, Calgary. USAY has been an influential not-for profit organization in Calgary since 2001. USAY strives to provide essential programming and services to Calgary’s Indigenous youth between the ages of twelve and twenty-nine.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Sept. 30

Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.

Orange Shirt Day - Sept. 30

(From the CBC) September 30th marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day established by the Canadian government in 2021 to honour survivors and those who never returned home from residential schools.

It's also Orange Shirt Day. In fact, it was Orange Shirt Day before it was anything else.

That's the message Phyllis Webstad, the creator of Orange Shirt Day, wants Canadians to remember on Sept. 30 each year.

Webstad is a residential school survivor. She was forced to attend St. Joseph's Mission, an institution near Williams Lake, B.C., at the age of six. Her grandmother gave her a new orange shirt to mark the occasion, but it — along with the rest of her clothing — was taken away as soon as she arrived at residential school.

Learn more at the Orange Shirt Society

Photo Credit to Tom Kalis (Many thanks Tom, this land is beautiful beyond words).