The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day, is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of
Banners advertising Orange Shirt Day flying in Williams Lake, BC – a city located within T'exelc (Williams Lake First Nation territory)
The schools aimed to eliminate Indigenous languages and cultures and replace them with the English or French language and Christian beliefs. Pictured is Fort Resolution, NWT.
Teachers in a Canadian school wearing orange shirts for Orange Shirt Day
“Every Child Matters” painted on a barn in Manitoba
Phyllis Webstad
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Phyllis Webstad is a Northern Secwepemc author and activist from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, and the creator of Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance marked in Canada later instated as the
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
…culture. Orange Shirt Day was first established as a day of observance in 2013. The use of an orange shirt as a symbol was inspired by the accounts of Phyllis Jack Webstad, whose personal clothing—including a new orange shirt—was taken from her during her first day of residential schooling, and never returned. This was…
An Every Child Matters sign on display.
Canoe Creek, British Columbia
Girls sewing at St. Joseph's Mission Residential School.