Each year on September 30, Orange Shirt Day offers a chance to acknowledge Indian boarding school survivors as we remember the trauma that these schools inflicted on generations of Indigenous peoples across North America. This day opens the door to global conversation and is an opportunity to create meaningful discussion about the effects of residential schools and the legacy they have left behind. In that shared spirit, Red Cloud grieves these tragic injustices in our own past and commits to addressing that history with honesty and humility.
The year 2020 has brought so many changes for everyone in so many facets of our lives. It has been no different for our Kateri meetings. After suspending the rest of our meetings in mid-March for the 2019-2020 year, we thought that the same would happen for the remainder of the calendar year. However, technology has come to the rescue. Seeing how successful using the Zoom platform can be to remain virtually connected to one another, we decided that it is worth a try rather than scrapping the rest of our meetings for the year.
