The shock from many Canadians following the harrowing discovery at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site has reignited conversations about the knowledge gap Canadians still have about residential schools. Today, students might mark Orange Shirt Day or Indigenous History Month, but experts say more learning is needed including for educators.
Kootenay Lake School District is encouraging everyone in schools to wear the colour orange this week in honour of all Indigenous children who were forced into the residential school system. “Last week's news of the discovery of the mass grave of 215 children at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is a heartbreaking confirmation that many of the Indigenous