By Aaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews Content warning: This article contains details about residential schools. Please read with care for your spirit. On the eve of Orange Shirt Day, more than 100 people gathered in Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc to cleanse and reclaim a site where a white nationalist demonstration occurred earlier this week. For nearly three hours on Tuesday night, Secwépemc people and their allies drummed, sang and prayed — for the land and the people, and for all the families impacted by residential schools. Ashley Michel from Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc organized Tuesday’s gathering with four other Secwépemc (Shuswap) mothers. After seeing images of a group of masked white nationalists circulating on social media early this week, she told IndigiNews that they felt they had to come together

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