{"id":51891,"date":"2020-06-21T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=51891"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:12:05","slug":"meet-ode-our-reconciliation-ambearrister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/meet-ode-our-reconciliation-ambearrister\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ode\u2019, our Reconciliation Ambearrister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CHANDAIL<\/p>\n

Bozhoo (Hi)! My name is Ode\u2019 and my pronouns are they\/them. I am Anishinaabe and I speak Anishinaabemowin and English. I am 7 years old now, I\u2019m in Grade 2, and I\u2019m also a Club kid! I can\u2019t believe my classes are all online now! I miss going to school in person\u2014it\u2019s been a tough year, but virtual programs at my Club have definitely made it better. Seeing my Club friends online is the best part of my day. I think my favourite program so far has been Kid Food Nation! One time, we made blueberry yogurt parfaits\u2014my favourite!<\/p>\n

I still live with my Nookomis (grandmother) and I worry about her as she is the keeper of many of our traditions, our language, and stories about our relationships with the land.<\/p>\n

These days, I spend most of my time in Tkaronto (Toronto\u2014the place where there are trees<\/p>\n

standing in the water). It is on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Toronto is now home to not just Indigenous Peoples, but also so many amazing Peoples from around the world!<\/p>\n

I love spending time outdoors and watching the world around me, especially in the spring time. Some of my favourite things to do include fishing and gathering berries. I have learned lots of lessons from the land, like how important it is to respect everything and everyone around us no matter how big or small.<\/p>\n

I have many friends at BGC Clubs from coast to coast to coast. My friends are my family and it\u2019s important for me to talk to them about Truth and Reconciliation because we all have a part to play.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m curious to know if there are other Reconciliation Ambearristers in BGC Clubs? If there are, maybe you could introduce yourself on social media\u2014I\u2019d love to meet you! When you do, tag @BGCCAN<\/strong> in your post because they always love to see what Clubs are up to.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t post on social media, that\u2019s okay! You can introduce yourself to Dominique at drobinson@bgcccan.com<\/span><\/a> and she can pass it along to me!<\/p>\n

\"Un \u00a0 \"Un\u00a0 \"Ode,<\/p>\n

Ode\u2019 is part of the Reconciliation Ambearrister<\/a> program, created by our friends at the First Nations Children & Family Caring Society. And a big thank you to BGC Canada’s National Youth Council<\/a> for working with Ode’!<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more Ode\u2019 blog posts as they guide BGC in our Truth & Reconciliation work over the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bozhoo (Hi)! My name is Ode\u2019 and my pronouns are they\/them. I am Anishinaabe and I speak Anishinaabemowin and English. I am 7 years old now, I\u2019m in Grade 2, and I\u2019m also a Club kid! I can\u2019t believe my classes are all online now! I miss going to school in person\u2014it\u2019s been a tough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[891,892,742,893,501],"class_list":["post-51891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-ambearrister","tag-first-nations-child-family-caring-society","tag-national-indigenous-peoples-day","tag-ode","tag-truth-and-reconciliation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91339,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51891\/revisions\/91339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}