{"id":2215,"date":"2023-09-29T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/pranorth\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:27:29","slug":"grace-village-holds-special-smudging-ceremony-ahead-of-truth-and-reconciliation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvationarmy.ca\/pranorth\/2023\/09\/grace-village-holds-special-smudging-ceremony-ahead-of-truth-and-reconciliation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Village holds special smudging ceremony ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Salvation Army\u2019s Grace Village in Edmonton held a special smudging ceremony on Tuesday ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day to acknowledge and honour the generations of past and present indigenous peoples affected by Canada\u2019s residential school system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceremony was organized by Grace Village\u2019s Chaplain John Luth and led by Elder Harold Roscher, who performed the smudging and sang a song from the Mi\u2019kmaq First Nations tribe in Atlantic Canada. The event included a chef who cooked up some bannock \u2013 a traditional type of bread that became a staple for many indigenous families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Salvation Army has committed to the journey of truth and reconciliation, and so this is an event that is just a really natural one for us to promote and support,\u201d Chaplain John said. \u201cWehave so many indigenous participants across our programs, so it\u2019s also really important and meaningful to honour them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of Grace Village and Grace Manor gathered outside in a semi-circle and listened to Elder Harold share the importance of learning and talking about Canada\u2019s not-so-distant history and the positivity we can create when people from different backgrounds come together with respect and empathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/salvationdev.wpengine.com\/pranorth\/files\/2023\/11\/20230926_134501-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Village and Grace Manor residents gather in a semi-circle for the smudging\" class=\"wp-image-7097\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s all about recognizing humanity,\u201d Elder Harold said after the ceremony. \u201cIndigenous kids weren\u2019t recognized for the gift that they were simply because of the colour of their skin, and so that\u2019s why Truth and Reconciliation has become important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe journey is more fun when we have everybody along with us,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd certainly, from my perspective of trying to disseminate information, I need allies. So, the more people that can tell the story, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sage was used for the ceremony, which is also known as the women\u2019s smudge. The smoke symbolically washes a person from head to toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the smudging ceremony began, Elder Harold asked all the participants to remove items like glasses, hats, and watches. He explained that people come into the world as naked babies full of humility, and when people go through the smudging process, they should approach it with the same humility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile we\u2019re doing this, we are asking Creator, or whomever you subscribe to, to help you on your journey today to create in you that moment of a clean heart,\u201d Elder Harold said before the smudging. \u201cHaving a clean heart usually translates to the words coming out of my mouth being more meaningful, more loving, and more kind. So that\u2019s one of the reasons we smudge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An element of Truth and Reconciliation Day is wearing an orange shirt to raise awareness and show solidarity. The act stems from when six-year-old Phyllis Webstand enthusiastically wore her new orange shirt on her first day at a Williams Lake, BC, residential school in 1973. When she arrived, the school cut her hair, stripped her of her clothes, and she never saw her orange shirt again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe colour orange has always reminded me of that and how my feelings didn\u2019t matter, how no one cared, and how I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying, and no one cared,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/orangeshirtday.org\/phyllis-story\/#story\">she wrote years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The residential schools aimed to indoctrinate indigenous children \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca\/the_residential_school_system\/#:~:text=Survivors%20recall%20being%20beaten%20and,a%20shockingly%20high%20death%20toll.\">into Euro-Canadian and Christian ways of living<\/a>&nbsp;and assimilating them into mainstream white Canadian society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/salvationdev.wpengine.com\/pranorth\/files\/2023\/11\/20230926_140407-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7108\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cindy, who is currently staying at The Salvation Army\u2019s Cornerstone program for sober living, participated in Tuesday\u2019s smudging ceremony. Her grandmother attended a residential school, and she explained that her traumatic experience affected how her family would go on to approach their own culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy mom never spoke Cree to us. She knew Cree fluently, and she spoke it with my grandparents, but they didn\u2019t speak it to their children\u2026she didn\u2019t teach us any of the leatherworking and beading. She didn\u2019t teach us any of that,\u201d Cindy said. \u201cShe was trying to help us to be able to integrate into the white society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cindy believes Truth and Reconciliation Day is leading to a greater awareness of the residential schools\u2019 impact on indigenous communities that hasn\u2019t been as accepted in the past. Acknowledging what happened is not only giving non-indigenous Canadians more knowledge, but indigenous people who are affected by the residential school system are also beginning to understand their own trauma better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people that are still carrying all that trauma because it just gets passed from one generation to the next. A lot of people are healing because they know now where that is coming from. But they didn\u2019t understand it back then,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c(My grandmother) didn\u2019t talk much about anything, and my mom didn\u2019t either. They just held all that stuff inside as a way to cope.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/salvationdev.wpengine.com\/pranorth\/files\/2023\/11\/20230926_140646-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chef cooks fried bannock at Grace Village\" class=\"wp-image-7105\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elder Harold was present when the land that<a href=\"https:\/\/salvationdev.wpengine.com\/pranorth\/2023\/06\/the-salvation-army-holds-ribbon-cutting-ceremony-for-grace-village\/\">&nbsp;the newly built Grace Village<\/a>&nbsp;sits on was blessed. He believes simple acts like a land blessing, holding a smudging ceremony outside, and serving bannock display a willingness to look for opportunities to show progression and an awareness of social issues that were rarer only a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I like about the Salvation Army thinking about these moments is that they\u2019re&nbsp;<em>thinking<\/em>,\u201d Elder Harold said. \u201cEven thinking about having this (event) outside \u2013 Indigenous people like being on the land\u2026they could have served hot dogs, and people wouldn\u2019t have complained one little bit, but it\u2019s a nice touch to have fried bannock. It makes you feel like your culture is being honoured and recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elder Harold believes wearing an orange shirt is an excellent way to acknowledge Truth and Reconciliation Day because it is not only a conversation starter, but it also makes the person wearing the shirt responsible for educating themselves about Canada\u2019s residential schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI like the shirt because it\u2019s there. It makes you want to ask that question: \u2018Why are you wearing orange today?\u2019\u201d Elder Harold said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Salvation Army will continue to recognize Truth and Reconciliation Day each year and encourages its staff to reflect as we recognize the historic and current impact that the residential school system had on Indigenous communities across Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salvation Army\u2019s Grace Village in Edmonton held a special smudging ceremony on Tuesday ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day to acknowledge and honour the generations of past and present indigenous peoples affected by Canada\u2019s residential school system. 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