National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day
September 27, 2024
This toolkit aims to assist the NOHT-ÉSON and its partners in marking the upcoming National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day on Monday, September 30, and to demonstrate our allyship with Indigenous peoples throughout the Niagara region.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities.
Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day intended to raise awareness of residential schools’ individual, family, and community inter-generational impacts and to promote the concept of Every Child Matters. The orange shirt symbolizes the stripping of culture, freedom, and self-esteem experienced by Indigenous children over generations.
To assist partner organizations with marking September 30, the NOHT-ÉSON has produced a statement highlighting the allyship work that has taken place. It also compares the NOHT-ÉSON’s reconciliation efforts to date with the calls to action under Health from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report.
The full statement is as available for download here.
Download the Indigenous Allyship Toolkit here.