Guest Storyteller Kelsie - "When We Were Alone", National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2021
Channel: Slay the Day Youth Program
Date: 2021-10-09

Slay the Night KIDS! acknowledges that we operate on Treaty 6 territory, the ancestral and traditional lands of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux and Nakota Sioux, as well as home to the Métis nation.

September 30, 2021 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day. We wear orange today as a symbol of how the Indian Residential School system attempted to take away the identities of over 150 000 Indigenous children who attended residential schools between 1870 and 1996. The inspiration behind Orange Shirt Day comes from residential school Survivor, Phyllis Jack Webstad. On Phyllis's first day of school, when she was six-years-old, the new orange shirt her grandmother had given her was taken away by the nuns who taught at the school and was never returned.

Today, we are honoured to have Special Guest, Kelsie, read us the award-winning story When We Were Alone, by David A. Robertson, in which a kokum shares her memories of her time in the Indian Residential School system and how those memories shape how she lives her life today. Thank you so much, Kelsie for reading with us.

***DISCLAIMER - Slay the Night does not own the copyright to the music in this video - this video is for entertainment purpose only***         

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About Slay the Night KIDS!:
Slay the Night is an amateur drag group from Lloydminster Canada. We began hosting shows for our local community in June of 2019, but those shows were largely geared toward adult audiences. Over the last two years, Drag-On's interest of, and growing love for, the art of drag prompted us to create "Slay the Night KIDS!" - a branch of drag art and performance designed to create a safe place for children to explore and create, with content MADE FOR KIDS, BY KIDS, 100% family friendly, and appropriate for all ages. Thank you, Drag-On for your inspiration and passion! You truly are a monarch-in-training!

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