Events across the state aim to teach and heal.
Families stencil orange t-shirts with the message “Truth Healing” at Alaska Native Cultural Charter School in Anchorage on Sept. 27, 2023.
Heather Painter’s daughter holds up her t-shirt at an Orange Shirt Day event at Alaska Native Cultural Charter School. “I’m thinking about enrolling them here,” Painter said of her children as she worked on her shirt, on Sept. 27, 2023. “These kids are the next generation of future generations recognizing this trauma,” she said. “Many of our families are suffering, trying to cope with the trauma of being silenced by the government and religion, assimilation of boarding schools, the loss of culture, the loss of language.”
In the hall, fourth grade teacher Georgianna Starr greets students and parents and guides them towards the bustling gym or the theater where Molly of Denali is showing. “It’s always an explanation of why things are the way they are, but it’s also an enduring strength of our people. I tell them, ‘Your parents or grandparents are survivors,’” she said. “Our elders, our grandparents, our aunts, our uncles — we all know somebody who’s been affected by boarding schools, one way or another. And so one of the important things is to not forget what their stories are.”
“I think that we need to give them credit for the empathy piece. And so we start at the emotions associated with historical trauma,” she said. She uses a
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