Saturday (September 30th) is The National Day For Truth and Reconciliation, a day to remember the hurt, loss, and trauma that many Indigenous people experienced at residential schools.
Parkland Crossing will play host to a special commemoration event.
Susie Secord with the Dauphin Friendship Center is helping organize this event.
"I think it is important for people to recognize and to acknowledge what happened with the residential school system, and the fact that children were basically taken from their home at a very young age, and parents were forced to give over their children and it was not a volunteer thing, particularly in the early onset of the residential school system. Many children did not make it home. "
Secord mentioned it will be a busy morning of speakers, including an elder from, Ebb and Flow First Nation, The Metis Council's Fran Chartrand, representatives from the city, and more.
The ceremony starts at 11 a.m. and will wrap up with drum groups, fiddling, and dancing.
Secord says the day is just a small part of the healing that needs to happen going forward.
"To us, when people come out, it is their way of acknowledging what happened, and their attempt at trying to get some education on what happened."
While there is rain in the forecast, the backup plan is to move into the gym inside of Parkland Crossing.
