Fran Houston<\/a>, one of the speakers. “She said her main problem was that she couldn’t speak her Tlingit language and when she did they punished her.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\tAnother speaker recalled the firing of the Douglas Indian Village, whose land Savikko Park now stands on.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“While we were on the river fishing, and they knew where we were at, [the Douglas city council] found a loophole,” said John Morris. “I was present when they burned my house. The fire trucks came, they broke all the windows, and started the fire.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Hasselquist displayed an article from the Alaska Daily Empire, the old name for the Juneau Empire, describing the fire, describing the 1962 event as “a nice night for a fire” and talking about children who, disappointed that the flames were too hot to roast hot dogs on, were encouraged to fling stones at the windows instead. While the passage of time smooths some edges, Morris said, the memory is perfectly clear.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“These things are burned into my memory forever. I have lived with the bitterness for many, many years,” Morris said. “I forgave but I cannot forget. I still wish to see these injustices corrected.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Hasselquist said that the subjects being discussed were painful but necessary.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“There’s a lot of hard conversation going on today. We’re breaking the silence to facilitate healing,” Hasselquist said. “If we don’t heal we were bound to pass it on. We must break the silence name the true source of the pain.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
This year’s event was the first major Orange Shirt Day event in Juneau, but it won’t be the last, Hasselquist said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“The whole event in itself was very impactful. We had a great turnout- Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We’re just in awe of the outpour and the awareness we created, the conversations and the healing actions to follow,” Hasselquist said. “We’re definitely going to keep doing this. It’s just, how is this going to look next year with this act? I suspect they’ll start doing investigations and recovery of our young ones.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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