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Truth, Reconciliation, and Awāsisīwiwin
ᑕᐦᑐ ᐊᐋᐧᓯᐢ ᐃᐢᐱᐦᑌᔨᐦᑖᑯᓯᐤ [1] This is the text on my Orange Shirt. A child asked me what it said yesterday at Forest Nursery, and I replied it says "Every Child Matters" in Cree Syllabics, an Indigenous language from this land. "But how do you say it," he insisted. I repeated, "Every Child Matters". And again, he says, "No, not in English, it's another language." It was then I realized he was asking me how to say it in Cree, and I was humbled once again, to be reminded that the c

Katie Daman
Sep 30, 20256 min read
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