National Day for Truth And Reconciliation

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September 30, 2022

September 30 marks Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth And Reconciliation

As a response to Call to Action 80 in the 94 Calls to Action, calling for a federal statutory day of commemoration, September 30th was established as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

This important day serves to recognize the legacy of Residential Schools, and the painful, ongoing impact it has had on generations of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. It is a day to honour both the Survivors and the many children lost forever.

Canadians are encouraged to wear orange to remember the Indigenous children who were sent to Residential Schools and never returned home as well as to honour the Survivors, their families, and their communities.

CITT/ICTS encourages you to find time to reflect and honour the Indigenous Peoples of your community.

Indian Residential School Survivors Society Crisis Line
24-hour crisis line for survivors and families of survivors.

Phone: 1-866-925-4419 (Toll-free)

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Missing Children of Indian Residential Schools

On discovery of unmarked graves at former Indian residential school sites in Canada

Between the 1870s and the late 1990s, at least 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation children were taken from their families and communities to attend government-funded, church-run residential schools in an attempt to assimilate them. Many of those children who went to residential schools never returned. They were lost to their families.

This website offers a map that shows all the locations of those 139 residential schools, and adresses and comprehensively documents the most basic of questions about missing children — Who died? Why did they die? Where are they buried?

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