Juneau descendants of boarding schools survivors sing to remember what wasn’t lost on Orange Shirt Day

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Tuesday was Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance for Indigenous children who were separated from their language, families and culture and sent to residential schools across North America from the late 1800s well into the 20th Century.

At the Zach Gordon Youth Center, people wore orange shirts and came together to educate young people about the history of residential schools and to celebrate Native languages and cultures that thrive in spite of that history.

There was drumming, singing and dancing, and tables with crafts like beading or tea-making.

Ha’naxgm Ggoadm ‘Tsoal Naomi Leask stands at a table with a bowl of medicine — Labrador tea, which is called s’ikshaldéen in Lingít.

Leask is with Haa Tóoch Lichéesh Coalition,