{"id":37915,"date":"2017-10-28T13:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=37915"},"modified":"2017-10-28T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T19:06:32","slug":"orange-shirt-day-the-first-of-many-organizer-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2017\/10\/28\/orange-shirt-day-the-first-of-many-organizer-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Shirt Day the first of many, organizer hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n September, SAIT had its first Orange Shirt Day, organized by Blair Cunningham, a new adviser at the Chinook Lodge.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he slogan for Orange Shirt Day was\u00a0\u201cEvery Child Matters,\u201d Cunningham said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the event, Cunningham said the hope was that the event would bring awareness surrounding the survivors who suffered at residential schools in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of Orange Shirt Day come from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangeshirtday.org\/\">Phyllis Webstad<\/a> and the shirt she wore, which was taken away when she went to residential school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraging everyone to wear orange,\u201d Cunningham said.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham used to work at Bow Valley College where he helped hold the event for three years.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes that SAIT will also be receptive to holding it each year, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an initiative I\u2019m pushing forward at SAIT this year,\u201d Cunningham said.<\/p>\n<p>The day was to include a panel of people who attended residential schools.<\/p>\n<p>The panel featured Florence Kelly, an elder from Ontario, who was to speak of her own time in a residential school.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has affected several generations because of the trauma. &#8211; Blair Cunningham<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Afterward, a prayer and a candlelight vigil were planned.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whom the vigil is for, Cunningham said \u201cthe survivors and the children that did not make it out of those schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has affected several generations because of the trauma,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham hopes that next year the Orange Shirt Day will happen again as this is a great way to spread awareness of the legacy of residential schools and their effect on indigenous people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>SAIT will be having its first Orange Shirt Day this month thanks to Blair Cunningham, a new advisor at the Chinook Lodge.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery Child Matters,\u201d Cunningham says this is the slogan for the Orange Shirt Day.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2017\/10\/28\/orange-shirt-day-the-first-of-many-organizer-hopes\/\" title=\"Orange Shirt Day the first of many, organizer hopes\">[ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":37948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S1 Orange Shirt Day TK","footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-natoysopoyiis","8":"category-campus-2","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37915"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39395,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37915\/revisions\/39395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}