Achieving Goal 3

As part of an on-the-land learning event at Brown Bear Woman Cultural Centre in Tsuut'ina on August 10, 2022, the Indigenous Advisory Committee led a challenge map exercise for Champions. Participants were asked to reflect on three questions about Goal 3 of the Enough for All strategy: Indigenous people are equal participants in Calgary’s future. The key themes are summarized below.

• All voices need to be heard
• Importance of diversity, equality, and inclusivity
• To rectify historical and ongoing exclusion, violence, and oppression
• Preserving Indigenous cultures, languages, and knowledge
• Human rights (we are all human, we are equal, it is a basic human right, etc.)
• It is our responsibility as settlers
• Learning from the past, creating a better shared future
• Indigenous people were here first, and this is their land
• Changing the system, breaking the pattern
• To make our community stronger – “the city will thrive when everyone is equal”

• Fear (of change, of doing harm, of getting it wrong, of discomfort, of the complexity, of offending)
• Lack of capacity (time, money, resources)
• Unconscious bias
• Existing policies, processes, practices
• The people in power, government
• Systemic barriers, systemic racism, systemic oppression
• Lack of knowledge and understanding (where to start, what to do?)
• Lack of relationships with Indigenous people and communities
• Lack of education

• Fear (of failure, of contributing to the problem, of doing harm, of insulting, of asking questions, of making a mistake, of conflict with colleagues, of being a performative ally, of offending, of the unknown, of mis-stepping, of going against the grain, of getting it wrong, of tokenizing people, of being overwhelmed)
• Not knowing where to start or what to do
• Impatience
• Lack of time and energy
• Feeling overwhelmed and fatigued
• Feeling comfortable in Western/colonial culture/systems
• Lack of knowledge and understanding
• Privilege and internalized bias
• Lack of relationships with Indigenous people and communities
• Guilt, shame, discomfort
• Lack of education, needing to unlearn