Canada’s annual Nationwide Day for Reality and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day on September 30 is a time of recognition, remembrance and respect for survivors of residential faculties and a day to study in regards to the lasting impacts these faculties have had—and proceed to have—on Indigenous communities.

The Ontario Tech group stays devoted to listening to the voices of Indigenous Peoples as we work towards implementing the Reality and Reconciliation Fee’s suggestions and addressing systemic limitations.

The college has declared Monday, September 30 as a meeting-free day to create area for training and reflection on Canada’s involvement in, and historical past of, residential faculties. 

As we pursue reconciliation and therapeutic, allow us to honour the lives of survivors, their households and communities, and always remember their tales.       

Occasions schedule, Ontario Tech sources and the right way to get entangled:

• Dawn Ceremony with Kathy MacLeod-Beaver and Tim Smoke to specific gratitude, and appreciation for a brand new day.
  • When: Monday, September 30, from 6:45 to eight:30 a.m.
  • The place: 285 Britannia Avenue West, Oshawa (Windfields Farm).
  • The ceremony will start promptly at 6:45 a.m., which is able to embrace a ceremonial fireplace, sacred medicines and honouring of water and berries. Conventional tobacco can be out there for choices and light-weight refreshments can be offered after the ceremony in Mukwa’s Den (Shawenjigewining Corridor, Room 217).
  • Register by Wednesday, September 25 utilizing the Dawn Ceremony net type.

• Reconciliation within the Establishment skilled growth workshop.

• Campus Library:
• Lighting up for Orange Shirt Day: The exteriors of Shawenjigewining Corridor and Bordessa Corridor can be illuminated orange throughout the evenings of Sunday, September 29 and Monday, September 30.
• Buy an Orange Shirt from an Indigenous Schooling and Cultural Companies authorized vendor: