Mashpee Public Schools will wear orange on Tuesday, September 30, to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous children who were removed from their homes and forced to attend residential boarding schools.

“September 30 is Orange Shirt Day," superintendent Michele Connors said during the School Committee's meeting on September 17. "This is a time to honor our Indigenous children who were taken from their families and placed in residential and boarding schools throughout history.”

Connors said these "troubling" practices occurred as recently as the 1990s.

“This history touches on the Wampanoag people here in Mashpee directly, where many children were sent to places like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,” she said.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1879 becam

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