CANORA - On Sept. 27, Canora Composite School hosted an assembly in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Principal Derek Serdachny introduced guest speaker Robert Severight from the Cote First Nation and presented him with tobacco, a customary gift.
Severight’s presentation focused on residential schools in our area and across Canada. He spoke of how the Indigenous children were taken from their parents and placed into these boarding schools. At these schools, the braids of the children were cut off, and they were kept away from their culture and language. Eventually over 215 unmarked graves were found of children that were beaten and murdered.
Severight talked of the colour orange and where the orange T-shirt came from. “Every child matters!”
He challenged everyone to keep all Fridays as Orange Day “to remember the Truth”
At the end of the assembly a friendship circle was formed as Severight banged the friendship drum and sang his song in his native language, the students and teachers joined hands and danced in a circle.
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