A List of Their Names
5 min readOct 10, 2019
September 30th is Orange Shirt Day, commemorating children who were forced into Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.
Today on Facebook I saw the list of 2,800 children who died in these schools. There are at least 1,600 more unnamed children who died. My chest feels heavy with grief. I remind myself to soften my shoulders. To keep breathing.
