Every September 30 in Canada is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. For Every Child Matters, Orange Shirt Day Commemorates the history and legacy of residential schools, honouring its survivors and the over six thousand souls who never made it home.
From the 1800s to the closing of the 20th century, these federally-run institutions took children of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples from their families to have them forcefully indoctrinated into Euro-Canadian society, their culture and heritage erased.
To respect the day, today’s ASL Word of the Day is Aboriginal.
The ASL visual mimics the feather headdress, so My ASL Dictionary had a First Nations Chief illustrating the hand sign.
F hand touches the cheek, then the side of the temple, a visual of the headdress.
In my dictionary, he stands beside a short biography on Indigenous Sign Language, a Hand Talk that existed long before ASL.
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For book owners, a correction to the Dictionary’s hand sign. As the animation illustrates, the hand sign movement is once, not twice.