National Aboriginal Day increasingly celebrates culture, healing

When Irene Morin addressed the crowd at Edmonton City Centre to give the opening prayer for National Aboriginal Day celebrations Monday, she noticed a lot of volunteers wearing red T-shirts.
“We like the colour red because everybody bleeds red, so we’re all brothers and sisters in this world,” the Enoch Cree nation elder said before delivering a prayer in Cree.
Hundreds of shoppers and spectators, including provincial Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Fe