Have you heard the word reconciliation before? It comes up a lot around Orange Shirt Day, which is marked every year on September 30 as a day to raise awareness about the horror faced by Indigenous people who were forced to attend Canadian residential schools. In 2021, Canada announced that September 30 would officially be called the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and federal workers would be given the day off in order to acknowledge that history. But what does reconciliation even mean?

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