Orange Shirt Day

Today was Orange Shirt Day, which is a day to raise awareness of the history of indigenous peoples in Canada who were forced to endure the hardships, and abuses that occurred at residential schools across the country for over 100 years.   Our focus has not been on feeling bad for what we cannot change in the past, but on sharing the stories of those that lived through this so that we can connect, and understand a community, and culture that not many of us have experience with.  We talked at length about how raising awareness is really just developing knowledge, and since knowledge is power, a day like this makes all of us more powerful.
Here are some stories we shared...

Here is the full version of Gord Downie's 'Secret Path'