Ratitsenhaienhs participating in Orange Shirt Day activities

09/29/2023

The Mohawk Council of Kahnaw�:ke (MCK) wishes to inform the community that Ratits�nhaienhs will be participating in several Orange Shirt Day (National Day of Truth & Reconciliation) events over the next few days.

• Iets�nhaienhs Jessica Lazare spoke at two events on Wednesday: the Saputo Corporate Headquarters in Montreal alongside local Chef Anna Lazare; and the reconciliation efforts by the Montr�al Alouettes organization, who carried out a Meet and Greet with local youth. Iets�nhaienhs Lazare will attend an event at Kuper Academy and Kells Academy in Montreal today.
• Rats�nhaienhs Harry Rice spoke at the same Montr�al Alouettes Meet and Greet on Wednesday. Today, Rats�nhaienhs Rice will be speaking with school children from the English Montreal School Board, taking part in a virtual panel discussion with Read Jones Christofferson LTD, and on Saturday attending the inauguration of a mural, a memorial and tribute to the missing children titled �Piwkentukun� (Relive again through the heart) at Caf� Milton on Parc Ave in Montreal.
• Oh�n:ton �:iente ne Ratits�nhaienhs Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer will be attending the Blue Jays & Rogers Communications Inc. in partnership with the Downie-Wenjack Foundation Orange Shirt Day event (ball game with a first pitch) in Toronto with several other First Nations Chiefs. Tickets are being provided by Rogers.

Locally, several Ratits�nhaienhs will be attending the Orange Shirt Day event on Saturday at the Golden Age Club, which begins with a Tobacco Burning Ceremony at 9am, followed by birthday party for all the survivors of Canada�s residential school system who were denied birthday celebrations.