Tag Archives: Native Americans
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:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, U.S.A. 2021
Have a safe, socially distanced, Thanksgiving. https://tinyurl.com/yxd2zrx8
HISTORIC RECOGNITION: ORANGE SHIRT DAY
In honour and recognition of Canada’s newest statutory holiday. An historic move in itself. https://www.orangeshirtday.org/
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 […]
HISTORY SHARE: SLAVERY IN CANADA
Lest anyone think slavery was all south of the border. https://tinyurl.com/y3nf25jy https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada
Time Travelling With Kids 