Orange feather pins project kicks off in Regina with Orange Shirt Day coming up | 24CA News
Pro Metal Industries Ltd. helps by giving again to the neighborhood, one orange feather at a time.
An initiative that started three years in the past goals to honour youngsters who attended residential faculties and didn’t make it dwelling. The Pasqua First Nation-owned metallic firm began the undertaking in the summertime of 2021, when findings of unmarked graves have been being introduced.
“It started in Kamloops and then in Cowessess, and at that time we had some staff here internally that wanted to just show their support for the project … as an Indigenous-owned business,” mentioned Treena Amyotte, Pro Metal Industries business growth director. “The staff came up with this idea that we produce a metal feather and that we could donate the proceeds to a cause.”
The orange feather consists of a boy and a woman, moccasins, a solar and a pair of wings. The two youngsters are pictured carrying their conventional apparel, together with a pair of moccasins to symbolize their journey dwelling to the spirit world, with a solar to information them and a pair of wings to represent that they’re angels now.
“I designed this feather with a tenderness in my heart for the children that were forced to attend residential school,” artist Jonas Thompson said on the Pro Metal web site. “I think it is important that we remember these children as they were, and always will be – in their traditional clothing, braided, gifted (represented with their feathers), strong, valued, and loved. We cherish our children – Gilesbie iyuhana te unhinabi. We will always cherish our children.”
The orange feather pins for this yr’s Every Child Matters marketing campaign bought out in a matter of days. The second batch of pins might be prepared in just a few weeks, simply in time for Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.
“We feel that if we can use our platform to help spread (and) create awareness about the history of residential schools, we’re absolutely more than willing to do that again,” Amyotte mentioned. “We’re 100 per cent First Nations-owned. It is very near and dear to our leadership.”
More data on the Feather Project 2023 Pins could be discovered on the Pro Metal web site.
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