National Day of Remembrance

. For 150 years, over 500 Indian boarding schools operated in the United States, where Native children were forcibly taken from their families and communities, prohibited all expression of Native language and culture, and required to perform manual labor, with a goal to "kill" the Indian in them.“ Religious organizations collaborated with the federal government in operating more than half of these federally-funded schools.

We wear orange on September 30, the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, marking this day in worship, and learning more about Truth Seeking and Truth Telling Initiative on Indian Boarding Schools.