Raising Awareness: Indian Boarding Schools and Orange Shirt Day

Let’s remember and teach our kids. ❤️ I learned about Indian Boarding Schools several years ago through kid books. As more information has been uncovered about the truths of the history of these schools, it is ever more important for us to remember and push for change. Orange Shirt Day started in Canada because of a First Nations woman with a true story about her childhood. It now has been given an official name and is recognized as a national holiday—- all because someone saw the need and wrote a kid’s book. 🇨🇦✔️Residential schools 🇨🇦✔️National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🇺🇸 ✔️Indian Boarding Schools 🇺🇸 ..… Lets’s change this! Perhaps by bringing the conversation into our homes, we are raising the generation to make even more impact. Here’s to furthering the global conversation through picture books. 📕Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story ✍️Joseph Bruchac; 2018 📗When I Was Eight ✍️Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Polish-Fenton; 2014 📘I Am Not a Number ✍️Jenny Kay Dupuis; 2019 ****** You have a week to gather your orange shirts and your books for September 30, 2022. Check out my blog link in bio for more info about Orange Shirt Day and resources. ***** See what books my friends are using: Jamie 🇺🇸 @aroundtheworld_homeschool Jenny 🇨🇦 @learninghappenseverywhere Sarah 🇨🇦 @findingourownway 👉Have you heard about this day? I’d love to know if this is new to you.