Yesterday was Canada's fourth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which was established to mark the history of and intergenerational trauma caused by the country's residential school system. Here, @globeandmail's team breaks down what you need to know about this, and Orange Shirt Day.

https://flip.it/rtKLrD

#Canada #TruthAndReconciliationDay #Indigenous #IndigenousRights #OrangeShirtDay #CanadianHistory #History @histodons #FirstNations

Yesterday, on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, I had the privilege of attending a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History to unveil the new residential schools monument, created by Kwagu’l master carver Stanley C. Hunt. Taking its inspiration from the traditional west coast totem pole, it is both ominous and inspiring. #OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation

Children as young as 2 were taken to Haskell reeducation camp.

Orange Shirt Day founder fears Sept. 30 being co-opted from survivors
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/orange-shirt-day-founder-fears-sept-30-being-co-opted-from-survivors-1.7056976

Weleaka. Nuyaka. Euchee. Haskell. Eufaula. Carter Seminary.

These are the reeducation camps our family were forced to attend.

We are the first generation not to be stolen to your federal Indian boarding "schools."

This is not long ago history. We still live with this now. It's your turn to help us carry it.

Today is National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools. Let's all join together to reflect on the boarding school era that affected so many Native children and families in America and Canada. To this day, we are still feeling the impacts of the loss of our language and culture. #OrangeShirtDay

Today is Truth and Reconciliation Day, a day to recognize and learn about the stories of the lost children and survivors of residential schools and their communities through remembrance and education.

CIRA has raised funds to support the important work being done by the Odawa Native Friendship Centre, which provides dedicated programs and services to the Indigenous community in Ottawa and the surrounding region. #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay

This one is digital only...

Dethgod - "With All My Hate"
https://dethgod.bandcamp.com/track/with-all-my-hate

from Stoney Nakota First Nation

#NowPlaying Music for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation...

Jesse Davis - Jesse Davis (1970)
https://album.link/ca/i/281171592

The Band - The Band (1969)
https://album.link/s/4vXFiaDS8zuEl5bOUbW53x

Redbone - Message From A Drum (1971)
https://album.link/i/966419647

Blackfoot - Strikes (1979)
https://album.link/ca/i/78982159

Orange shirt day, what is it?

https://orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/

Reposting for my Winnebago friend Emmy :

For #OrangeShirtDay, donate to give pumpkins to Native kids on my Winnebago Reservation. Our children were once stolen from us & many didn’t return, while others did with immeasurable trauma. Uplifting community events with our children bring healing. #EveryChildMatters

gofund.me/c7ba91e0

9 years later, only 13 of 94 Calls to Action outlined in the Truth and Reconciliation Report have been completed. None of the 12 related to health and child welfare have been completed.

Track the progress of each call to action here: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/beyond-94

It’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day. #OrangeShirtDay

I acknowledge that we live on the lands of the Blackfoot people of the Canadian Plains and pay respect to the Blackfoot people past, present and future while recognizing and respecting their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship to the land. I offer respect to the Metis and all who have lived on this land and made Lethbridge their home.

In honour of the lost lives and innocence taken too soon.

by jackalopepaperstudio

#Canada #UnitedStates #MMIWG2S #FirstNations #indigenous #OrangeShirtDay
#TruthAndRconciliation
#NationalDayOfTruthAndReconciliation
#justice #ResidentialSchools

This National Day for Truth & Reconciliation take the time to learn what this day stands for and take action as well. Read the TRC report and the 94 Calls to Action and see what you can do to act on these actions #OrangeShirtDay #TruthAndReconciliation https://trcreadingchallenge.com/

I wear orwinge to show
Jus how much I care
For all da liddle hoomins
Da ones dat surbibed
Da ones dat neber came home
Wen dey was all sended
To wezzydenshil skool

I wear orwinge to show
Dat liddle hoomins matter
To neber forget
To halp dem all heal

Listening:
Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble:
Music For The Native Americans

30 years old, & still moving.
Album:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkE5-eyt9iUQGRKKhUYOLcOtRp1OVa5I&si=FYUo_vzwusM5LMvK

Robertson (1943-2023) was a renowned performer, songwriter & producer, of Cayuga & Mohawk descent & member of Six Nations near Toronto:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/americana-indigenous-roots-robbie-robertson/

Today is #TruthAndReconciliationDay in Canada, a.k.a. #orangeShirtDay, when we recognise historic & ongoing harm to indigenous communities by residential schools
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation/

I share this patreon about my family's history with residential school for #orangeshirtday and to counter genocide denialism.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/family-history-52230301?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

For National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in #Canada, I recommend reading #history, whether on residential schools, or on the broader question of #colonialism. Here's a short piece I quite like - it provides necessary context for the histories of migration that figure prominently in so many of our families' stories.

Sheelah McLean, “‘We Built a Life From Nothing’: White Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Meritocracy” (2018)

https://policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2017/12/McLean.pdf