Friday evening, there will be a formal apology prepared by the Alaska Quakers at Sayéik Gastineau School in Juneau – the site of the former Douglas Island Friends Mission School, which forcibly assimilated Lingít children.
A mother and son hold up a sign for Orange Shirt Day in front of a former Bureau of Indian Affairs school on Douglas Island, on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in Juneau, Alaska.
There were dozens of residential schools across Alaska. Generations of Alaska Native children were also taken from their homelands to attend boarding schools in other parts of the country.to bring attention to the damage these schools did to Indigenous children, and to offer a way to honor victims and begin healing.
In Anchorage and Juneau, people will wear orange shirts and gather during morning commute times on Friday to“Understanding what’s happened here and understanding that history allows for us to strive to tend well to the landscape that we live in,” she said. “And to each other in a way that encourages us to support things like native language revitalization.”
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