
September 26- 29th This week was packed with some important learning to honor and raise awareness around Orange Shirt Day/National Truth and Reconciliation. Our work, this week was to develop an understanding about how in the past, Indigenous children and their families were forced to give up who they were to fit in yet never truly belonged. Through literature, oral stories and discussions we took action and steps to learn, connect and take a stand toward reconciliation. One story we centered our work around was Nicola Campbell’s book Shi-Shi-Etko as it is gentle way to discuss Residential schools. This beautiful story is about the four days before a young Indigenous girl must leave her family and go to residential school. Her mother, father and grandmother, each in turn, share valuable teachings that they want her to remember, while Shi-shi-etko carefully gathers her memories to remind her of home. After reading the book we then spent time honoring our own ...