While some sources I’ve looked at have focused on recent immigrants reaching out to Indigenous Peoples, this video is a great example of the opposite. This video, posted onto the website of the Immigrant Services Society, is a video created by Indigenous Peoples from youth to elders as a welcome to Canada. Starting with a friendly welcomes and brief descriptions of their role as stewards of the land, the viewer is drawn in and offered chances at comparisons of beliefs. The video ends however with a crash course of the history of colonization and of residential schools, with the clear intention of shock value after the previous 7 minutes of smiles and friendly welcomes. The approach is purposeful to make immigrant groups empathetic and aware of the treatment of indigenous peoples in the area to which they’ve just moved. The website is meant as a resource and information centre for new immigrants, so this video would be among the first videos that many new immigrants would watch. The video is also accompanied with a brief study guide that has terminology and summaries with links to further information about key events in Indigenous history post-colonization. Overall, this seems like in could be a successful method of direct messaging to new immigrants for immediate historical awareness of their new homes.
https://issbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Welcome-To-Canada-Study-Guide.pdf