WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Students at Wichita's Hyde Elementary School wore orange shirts on Tuesday to honor thousands of Indigenous children taken from their parents.

The goal of Every Child Matters Day is to raise awareness of the historical impact of residential boarding schools. It is a lesson that is not lost on the students.

"They were forcibly taken from their native parents with no expectation and no idea of when they were going to be returning home. and so these children they're at the prime age of where those children were when they were taken from them," Chantal Nez Dominguez with the Native Women's Collective said.

The Wichita City Council recently approved a proclamation to honor the day.

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