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Organizers June Skye-Stacey and Helen Montour spent Thursday morning handing out orange t-shirts at the Knights of Columbus hall in anticipation of today’s event for Orange Shirt Day.

By: Tahotharatie Diabo, The Eastern Door’s Heads Up Honcho Since I was young my mother has taught me everything I know, from reading to writing to math to science and history.

Hundreds of moccasin vamps cover the floor of Kateri School’s gymnasium for Walking With Our Sisters, a commemorative art installation to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Kakaionstha Deer, a former Kateri School principal, also taught the first Kanien'kéha immersion nursery classes. (Jessica Deer The Eastern Door)

Women in International Security Canada executive director Dr. Cassandra Steer (left) hosted intergenerational panel of Inuk Nina Segalowitz, Kanienkehá:ka Ellen Gabriel, and Cree Maïtée Labrecque-Saganash.

Chanie Wenjack's sad final journey along the tracks in tragic animated beauty is a testament to Gord Downie's talent and Canada's shame at the same paradoxic time.

One colour was spread throughout Kahnawake Friday in a glowing reminder of the legacy of residential schools and their impacts on those forced, coerced or convinced to attend the institutions.

Remnants of the St. Joseph Residential School in Spanish, Ontario. (Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door) The Canadian government’s residential school policy left lasting and real scars on thousands of Onkwehón:we people and their family for decades, due to abusive school practice over the 120-plus years the policy was in place.

This morning the community will gather to honour residential school survivors and remember the ones who never came home. Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started a few years ago in BC and based on a story from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack-Webstad, is as important a day as any other.

Organizers hope to triple last year's participation for tomorrow's Orange Shirt Day. (Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door) For the second year in a row, a group of Kahnawake women will bring the nationwide “Orange Shirt Day” to the community as a way to honour residential school survivors.