Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Residential School
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Qu’Appelle and ESL
This poem references the experience of First Nations children who were systematically stripped of their culture and language in Canada’s residential schools. September 30th is set aside in the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation and marked by the wearing of orange shirts in memory of one young girl’s experience. https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-orange-shirt-story-1.4839035
Outdigenous
Aboriginal pictograph, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem Land, Australia
Prairie Labyrinth
Eagle Bone Whistle
Setting the Poles c. 1910
Maniwaki Moon
Learned From My Native Friend
Eagle on the Moon
Sioux Death Song
When someone passes away, many aboriginal people say that they do not die, but instead “walk on.” This implies a continuation of a journey rather than an endpoint on a linear path.
Bronze statue “Santee Death Song” by Dave Buffington 1977 overlay on prairie image by hosynth from Pixabay
Circles
