Chi Miigwech for Orange Shirt Day
Every lesson Noojimo’iwewin Gitigaan Educator Maya Ferguson Klinowski shares with the Hippo Nursery School Children ends with a chorus of small voices saying “Chi miigwech/A big thank you.” This week, the lesson was challenging, as the children are beginning to learn about Indigenous children who were taken from their families to go to residential school. Vanessa Barnes gently told the children about Phyllis Webstad, whose story of her Grandmother giving her an orange shirt t
