September 30, 2021
Shawnee Tribe Commemorates Orange Shirt Day at Shawnee Mission
Author: Shawnee Indian Tribe
FAIRWAY, Kan., Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Shawnee Tribe and its Chief Ben Barnes commemorated "Orange Shirt Day," at the Shawnee Indian Mission to encourage comprehensive federal investigation into all residential boarding schools and honor the Native American children who were taken and often died at residential schools beginning in the 19th century. Orange Shirt Day began in Canada in 2013 to remember the thousands of Indigenous children killed at church-run residential schools. Tribal...