1. Creating Host and Guest Encounters for our Shared Future
Photo: S. de la Barre
December 6 and 7, 2017
Cultural Centres Forum, YFNCT
Suzanne de la Barre and Joelle Hogan

2. Can/should First Nation Cultural Centres support reconciliation
Can/should First Nation Cultural Centres support reconciliation? Can/should Indigenous tourism support reconciliation?

3. Reconciliation must inspire Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to transform Canadian society so that our children and grandchildren can live together in dignity, peace, and prosperity on these lands we now share.
(TRC, 2015, p. 4)

4. “AIR”

5. Assess the photos on your table for where the Indigenous experience falls in the “AIR” framework? Is it A, I or R?
Discuss why you think it belongs there?

6. Using AIR as a resource, go back over the photos and think of ways that you could increase host/visitor engagement.

7. What types of visitor-oriented experiences do you offer at your cultural centre presently?
Where do those currently offered experiences fit into the AIR model?

8. Keeping AIR in mind, how could your cultural centre offer different kinds of experiences than those you offer presently? What could the experiences look like?

9. What support will be required?

10. We have described for you a mountain, we have shown the path to the top, we call upon you to do the climbing.
- Justice Murray Sinclair, Past Chairman TRC

11. Gunalchish, Masi Cho, Thank you!