Join us on Monday, September 30 at 11:00 am on Robins Green at Peninsula College’s Port Angeles campus where Integrated Indigenous Studies Professor Migizi Miigwan/Nicole Nesberg will host a gathering for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day.
On this day, in Canada and the United States, individuals wear an orange shirt in honor of children removed and forced into boarding and residential schools. This day serves as a remembrance of those families torn apart by this system. Truth and reconciliation days remember the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse suffered at the schools, and such days seek to move communities forward in healing those who are survivors and their ancestors' historic trauma.
Professor Migizi Miigwan will briefly discuss the history of the American Indian Boarding Schools and her grandmother's experience. Orange shirts will be given out to the first 50 attendees.
For more information, please contact Professor Migizi Miigwan at nnesberg@pencol.edu.
This event is co-sponsored by the First Nations Club and ʔaʔkʷustəŋáw̕txʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse.