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By wearing orange on September 30th we honour residential school students and survivors and recognize the harm caused by Canada’s residential school system.

Learn more by checking out some of these resources:

A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools  – Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials – Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report – Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School – Sam McKegney

Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past – Tantoo Cardinal

Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School – Celia Haig-Brown

Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation – Monique Gray Smith

Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing – Jo-Ann Episkenew

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir – Joseph Auguste Merasty, David Carpenter

The Survivors Speak – Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Truth and Reconciliation – Simon Rose

When I Was Eight – Christy Jordan-Fenton, Gabrielle Grimard, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton

Find all of these titles and more here: https://concordia.on.worldcat.org/list/16021270