National Day for Truth and Reconciliation should be a solemn day to reflect, says author
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Three First Nations women are saying that Canadians should take the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 to reflect on their history and participate in events.
"I really think it needs to be considered in the same vein as Remembrance Day," said Michelle Good, author of the award-winning book Five Little Indians, which chronicles the journey of five residential school survivors.
"It's a solemn day and there should be events associated with it that reflect that solemnity and I really hope there will be," she said.
Good, who is from Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, said her mother, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents were all affected by residential schools.
She is in support of the new holiday and said she is glad to see heightened awareness around the legacy of the schools.
"[Indigenous people] have carried the burden of educating non-Indigenous Canada about what these schools really were and I think it's a milestone that we've come to, that now the rest of Canada is recognizing that day in particular," she said.
The day has been marked in past years as Orange Shirt Day.
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