A wave of orange moved along Saskatoon’s Meewasin Trail Wednesday as people gathered to remember Indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools and honour survivors. This is the third year Alethea Greyeyes has directed the Orange Shirt Day Run and Walk. “It’s a beautiful bright wave of orange,” she said. Greyeyes is a running coach and yoga instructor. She said movement can offer a sense of community, healing and joy. “This is an opportunity for us to hold that grief together, but give it back to the earth, give it back, give it away and move with each other,” Greyeyes told CTV News. Derek Rope, a race volunteer and emcee, told race participants about his father, who spent 14 years at Lebret Residential School. Growing up, Rope said those experiences were rarely discussed outside families or Indigenous communities. He said it’s encouraging to see people from different backgrounds gather to listen and learn. “There’s so much dividing us here at times,” he said. “Days like today are great reminders and great ways for us to see the humanness in one another.”
