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Memorial for native children. For Orange Shirt Day, which remembers the abuse of native children who were forced to go to residential schools, some of whom died trying to run away from the schools and make their way home. September 26, Morewood Community Centre, Ontario.
Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Lamoureux Park, Cornwall, September 30 2026. Social dance, open to everyone. I don't know the name of the drum but they were very good. A woman in a hijab joined in. Multiculturalism at its finest.
Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - full list here
Lacrosse players - the game was developed by Haudenosaunee and other First Nations.
'Gutch' Salinas of Kakhwí:io foods in Akwesasne shows me how flint (hard) corn is prepared. The grains are boiled in water with wood ashes, which produces an alkaline reaction in a process called Nixtamalization that softens the corn and releases nutrients. It can be pounded in a mortar into a flour that can be made into a mush with other ingredients like beans, or the grains of corn can be eaten as is.
