Tag Archives: First Nations
TRUTH & RECONCILIATION (ORANGE SHIRT) DAY 2022
Listen to survivors! Believe survivors. It happened, and must never happen again. To anyone, anywhere.
HISTORY RESOURCE: ORANGE SHIRT DAY
Try here if you’re looking for some resources for Orange Shirt Day coming up at the end of this month: https://www.orangeshirtday.org/teacher-resources.html https://www.twinkl.ca/resource/orange-shirt-day-powerpoint-ca-ss-1629306476
HISTORY-IN-THE-MAKING: POPE FRANCIS’S PENITENTIAL PILGRIMAGE
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-pope-alberta-apology-1.6530947 And residential schools, and all other atrocities committed against native peoples in Europe’s ‘discovered’ lands, were set in motion by this:
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: PAPAL APOLOGY
Apologies for what happened to children in Canada’s residential schools have been made before, but not by the Roman Catholic church. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/some-m-ikmaw-react-strongly-to-pope-francis-apology-1.6405426 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/pope-francis-apologizes-for-catholic-church-s-role-in-canadian-residential-school-system-1.5843937 https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/canadian-indigenous-leaders-ask-pope-spend-night-thinking-their-abused-children
HISTORY SHARE: NATIVE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST
Though the word holocaust is now most only thought of as applying to the twentieth-century Nazi annihilation of ‘undesirables’, there was a Native American holocaust, too. And it was way bigger. https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
HISTORY SHARE: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
I spent my childhood living back and forth between England (Berkshire / Oxfordshire) and Canada (Ontario / British Columbia). In Ontario, my parents sometimes took two First Nation children at a local residential school on outings and special occasions like Christmas, since they were not always allowed to go home. They were sisters, Rebina, aged […]
Time Travelling With Kids 