Wave of orange marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

A wave of orange could be seen at Market Square in Belleville on Tuesday as a crowd gathered to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The day honours the survivors of the Canadian Indian residential school system and the Indigenous children who never made it home.

Among the speakers at the ceremony included Chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte R. Don Maracle.

He spoke about how interconnected First Nations people are with Canada, showcasing a map put together by a cartographer and published in a magazine back in 1758.

On the map, Chief Maracle highlighted how the names of Mohawk villages on the map would end up being places we would know now as Belleville and Napanee.

He says the Mohawks have been a part of several wars since the arrival of European settlers to Cana