Truth and Reconciliation Day events set for weekend, Monday – Nunatsiaq News

Sep 27, 2024

Gatherings planned across Nunavut, Nunavik and in Ottawa to mark the occasion

Communities across Nunavut and Canada are marking the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 with educational events, community walks and other ceremonies.

Liberal MPs and Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout have issued statements commemorating the day that honours the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools.

The Government of Nunavut is doing long-term work to remember the residential school system by creating a “made-in-Nunavut” curriculum that will include the history of residential schools, according to a news release about this year’s holiday.

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