Artwork from Benjamin Eklund, a Grade 9 student from St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School in Red Deer. The artwork will be featured on Orange Shirt Day September 30, 2021. (Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools)
Spirit Of Healing
Student artwork represents Orange Shirt Day
Jun 30, 2021 | 12:42 PM
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A Grade 9 student from St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School in Red Deer will soon have his artwork on display to represent Orange Shirt Day on September 30.
Here is an explanation of Benjamin Eklund’s artwork:
“To Indigenous peoples, the Eagle symbolizes love and recognizes that love is a great law from the creator. The Eagle flies the highest and carries the prayers to the creator. We all carry the spirit of love; it is with our collective actions of kindness, caring and patience that our prayers of love will invoke the spirit of healing.”
“The winner of the Orange Shirt logo identifies an eagle who will wrap its wings around the residential school survivours, their families and all the children that did not make it home.”
