Riley Grant Staff reporter
Starting this year September 30 is now “National Truth and Reconciliation Day” started to honor the children who attended the residential schools. It was created as a part of the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” and its 94 calls to action. It became an official holiday after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation found 200 potential burial sites, probably of the children that attended the school, on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C, and is now a national holiday for federal agencies. I asked a few people what truth and reconciliation day meant to them
Truth and reconciliation day is also the same as Orange Shirt Day. Orange shirt day is a Indigenous-led day that also respects children who lived through residential schools and those who did not, on orange shirt day as it says in the name you would wear an orange shirt to honor the day. I asked a few people how they honored Orange shirt day
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