Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.
We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.
Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)
https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/
#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse
CBC: The Orange Shirt Society has spent more than a decade promoting Orange Shirt Day to create awareness about the impacts of Indian Residential Schools, but it's now fighting back against companies that have appropriated the Orange Shirt with non-complaint designs.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6919926
#ndtr #truthandreconciliation #orangeshirtday #everychildmatters #canada #IndigenousRights #orangeshirt #residentialschools #reconciliation
The Orange Shirt Society has spent more than a decade promoting Orange Shirt Day to create awareness about the impacts of Indian Residential Schools, but it's now fighting back against companies that have appropriated the Orange Shirt with non-complaint designs.
UBCIC calls on BC Conservatives to fire a caucus staffer for a social media post calling the survivors' flag at the BC Legislature a disgrace and an orange shirt hung inside the Legislature "a shirt of lies."
#TruthAndReconciliation #racism #ResidentialSchools #orangeshirt
Happy TRC day in Canada!!! Please learn about an Indigenous culture near you and how you can help the reconciliation process today. Here is a great website about the Metis which has a great section on "Métis Scrip". Do you know what scrip was and who it was given to? Click the link below to begin your learning journey!
#trc #orangeshirt #orangeshirtday #reconciliation #michif #metis #scrip #land #chinuk #chinook #indigenous
Look at all that orange down there. The kids get it. Why are so many others ignorant about it.
Watching the lebreton park show via CBC Gem from my back yard, knowing that @WTL is part of the amazing behind the scenes folk who are there making it happen.
Wore my #orangeshirt from the indigenous store in the Byward Market when out in public this morning, as I have very mixed feelings about today.
‘Every Child Matters’ now protected by copyright: https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-01-31/every-child-matters-now-protected-copyright
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