This edition SPOTLIGHTS National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. 

This date was chosen because it represents the season when children were taken from their homes to begin their time at residential schools.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.

Orange Shirt Day (National) is an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day that honours the children who survived residential schools and remembers those who did not.  

Canadians are encouraged to wear orange to raise awareness of the very tragic legacy of residential schools and to honour the thousands of Survivors.

WATCH! Sharing The Message Of Truth And Reconciliation With Your Kids CBC Parents  

What can we teach our kids, our friends, our extended family members, our colleagues and our neighbours about being allies? Or, if you’re an Indigenous parent, what can we teach kids about rising above past and present oppression and standing tall in their Native Pride?..

WATCH!! What is Reconciliation? CBC Kids

BOOKS

CBC Indigenous 10 books about residential schools to read with your kids 



        Today's Parent 11 books to teach kids about residential schools

Reconciliation Canada Set Up a A Youth Voices : Lunch + Learn PDF Do you want to contribute to the reconciliation movement? Well, now’s your chance! Reconciliation Canada is calling upon student leaders who are ready to explore and embed within their personal live, and for their communities. They need you to start the conversation, and encourage increased efforts towards reconciliation within your school, family, and social networks…Learn How Here

Orange Shirt Day Mindfulness Colouring Pages 

For Tweens & Teens

·      Spirit Bear & Friends 

"A LOVE WE KNOW" 

FN Caring Society Official Music Video 

ReconciliACTION: Learn more about the human rights case for First Nations kids and Spirit Bear’s plan to end inequalities in public services for First Nations children, youth, and families

Five dollars from every shirt directly supports the Orange Shirt Society and the remaining proceeds go towards Trellis’ Iiyika'kimaat program to support Indigenous youth to find a sense of belonging and social inclusion from an Indigenous worldview

$30.00 Adult $25 Child/Youth

Purchase an Orange Shirt Day T Shirt from Trellis Society! 

Congratulations to Grade 11 student Geraldine Catalbas from Ponoka, Alberta, this year’s winner of the Official 2022 Orange Shirt Day Design! Geraldine Describes what her design means: "The remembrance of children lost their lives in residential schools and how it’s important to recognize the impacts of their deaths and the survivors triumph through the actions of the past and making up for the mistakes made. The shoes represent the children who died in residential schools. The shoe lace coming off into an eagle representing their freedom up in the heaven and their fight through difficult times."

SEPTEMBER EVENTS

ALIGN Agencies and Caregivers are Invited to Coming Together With Our Community Fire It has been a long couple of years. It is time to feel grounded on the land and focus on moving forwards. You are invited to come and make your own tobacco “offerings” and spend some time learning, connecting and reflecting with each other “Sharing with our grandfather fire” Calgary Sept 29th Fort Calgary 1- 4 pm 

Making Treaty 7 presents: O'KOSI (oh-go-see)

Calgary Sept 22–Oct 1, 2022, O’KOSI, a Blackfoot word meaning, ‘In the fall, when we gather’, is a visually spectacular production filled with music and poetry and features a cast of Blackfoot actors.O’KOSI depicts how Indigenous People are healing from the multidimensional and multi-generational effects of the signing of Treaty 7 and the Indian Act and how the repercussions of these policies have been passed to parents, sons and daughters.

2nd Annual Orange Shirt Day Run/Walk Every Child Matters 

Sept 30, 9:00 p.m. Kinsmen Park, Edmonton, AB

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Walk with Elders 

Sept 30, 10:00 –11:30 a.m. Family Connection Centre 5600 50 St, Stony Plain

Orange Shirt Day Run/Walk 

Sept 30, 9:00 p.m.10380 Queen Elizabeth Park Rd, Edmonton

Pokaiks – The Children: Orange Shirt Day Walk Free to Attend September 30, Fort Calgary, 750 9 Ave SE, Calgary