Round dance set for Portage and Main Monday
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The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs will hold a round dance at Portage and Main on Monday to mark Orange Shirt Day, an annual event that honours residential school survivors.
“The purpose of the round dance is to bring people together in ceremony, song and prayer to honour Indian residential school survivors, Indian Day School survivors, ’60s Scoop survivors and the families of those affected,” the assembly says in a news release.
A round dance will take place at the intersection at 1 p.m. The dancers will walk to the Oodena Circle at The Forks at 2 p.m., where guest speakers will address the crowd.
A round dance “symbolizes our interconnectedness and the support we have for one another as we build on our strength as First Nations,” the release says.
Orange Shirt Day comes from a story shared by residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, who said she was deeply affected at age six, while on her first day of residential school, her new orange shirt was thrown in the garbage by her principal.
Orange Shirt Day takes place annually on Sept. 30 because Indigenous children were taken from their communities and placed in residential schools at the end of September each year.