(Ottawa, ON) October 29, 2020 – The Legacy of Hope Foundation honours the Ottawa- based Indigenous store, Beaded Dreams, and its owner, Kim Vincent, for selling the LHF’s Orange T-shirts in their store to support Orange Shirt Day and Reconciliation in Canada.

For more than 25 years, Beaded Dreams has been supporting Indigenous artists by selling a range of items including jewelry, moccasins and mitts, dreamcatchers, Indigenous art, handmade candles and soaps, smudge medicines, books, stones and crystals, craft supplies and much more. Not only did they sell all of LHF’s Orange T-Shirts that they were given, they are giving 100% of the proceeds back to LHF help support the printing of LHF’s latest curriculum on the Sixties Scoop. Beaded Dreams is located at 426 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario. For more information about the Indigenous arts and crafts store, please visit their website at www.beadeddreams.ca.

Orange Shirt Day is designed to educate people and promote awareness about the Residential School System and the impacts it’s had on Indigenous communities for more than a century in Canada, and still does today. “This type of support is incredible! When more Canadians wear the shirts, discuss what happened and look at solutions to address racism, real change can happen. The LHF is so grateful for the help, generosity, and kindness that Beaded Dreams has shown us in offering to sell the shirts. This money will go toward printing our curriculum on the Sixties Scoop as the two issues (Residential Schools and Sixties Scoop) were largely connected by colonial legislation and practices,” said LHF’s Executive Director and In-House Legal Counsel, Teresa Edwards.

The LHF is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for 20 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School Systems and subsequent Sixties Scoop on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote hope and healing in Canada. The LHF works to encourage people to address discrimination and injustices in order to contribute to the equality, dignity, and respectful treatment of Indigenous Peoples and to foster equity and Reconciliation. To purchase the LHF’s Orange T-Shirt, or to donate to the LHF, or for more information about the LHF visit the Legacy of Hope Foundation website at www.legacyofhope.ca. Our charitable # is 863471520RR0001.

The LHF is working on making its other exhibitions available on line. LHF also has curriculum from K-12 and for adults, along with Activity Guides, aimed at educating Canadians about Indigenous history and the shared history of Residential and Day Schools, the Sixties Scoop, and other colonial acts of oppression. The LHF works to develop empathy and understanding so as to eliminate racism and to foster Reconciliation in Canada.