National Day of Remembrance (Orange Shirt Day)
Schedule
Fri Sep 30 2022 at 05:30 pm
Location
222 Mesa Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, United States | Colorado Springs, CO
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Our community will come together to honor the lives of all boarding school survivors and our relatives who never made it back home. To honor the initial 215 Indigenous children found in mass grave at Kamloops Residential School, we will walk the same route from before (2.15 miles). The first mile will be in silence as we pray for the children & their families. These relatives would have been our elders today. They stole future knowledge keepers, first language speakers, medicine people, grandmas & grandpas. This was not an isolated incident & happened in both the US & Canada. "June 17, 2022 Knowns Deaths at Indain Schools Turtle Island 8,152+ & 6,000+ Canada (truth and reconciliation recorded numbers).Meet at 5:30 pm near the demonstration garden at 222 Mesa (in Monument Valley Park behind the Fine Arts Center & near the pond). There is a parking lot there. The walk will be a little over 1 mile each way for a total of 2.15 miles.
We will also be passing the monument in Boulder Crescent Park that honors a "massacre" of 3 white men.
**Wear orange if possible, we will try to bring extra orange shirts (Broncos shirts inside out will work)
Bring hand drums to sing on the way back.
The Indian Residential School Survivors Society has set up a national Indian Residential School Crisis Line to provide support for former students and anyone affected. You can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419.
Learn more here:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/05/30/children-remains-discovered-canada-kamloops-school-newton-pkg-nr-intl-vpx.cnn
https://boardingschoolhealing.org/
https://narf.org/nill/resources/meriam.html
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Where is it happening?
222 Mesa Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
