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The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (sometimes shortened to T&R Day) (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), [1] is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2]
Phyllis Webstad (née Jack; born July 13, 1967) is a Northern Secwepemc (Shuswap) author and activist from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, [note 1] and the creator of Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance marked in Canada later instated as the public holiday of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Along with the orange shirts, Frye intended to give families packets of educational information about Orange Shirt Day. In the packet, Frye included the story of Phyllis Webstad, who was taken ...
Returning Home is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sean Stiller and released in 2021. [1] The film is a portrait of Phyllis Webstad, an Indian residential school survivor who founded Orange Shirt Day, and depicts both her national speaking tour about the residential schools and the activism of her home Secwepemc community around the decline of the Pacific salmon.
Sep. 30—TRAVERSE CITY — The national Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools known as Orange Shirt Day is observed today to honor survivors and remember those who did not make it back ...
Sep. 30—TRAVERSE CITY — Today's national remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools — known as Orange Shirt Day — commemorates the children lost to the residential school system and honors ...
Man in an Orange Shirt is a two-part British television movie from the BBC.It was produced by Kudos Film and Television and premiered on 31 July 2017 at BBC One.The film drama tells three love stories from two generations of a family, in the 1940s and in 2017.
A Mendota Heights company is marking Orange Shirt Day, a Canadian grassroots movement to reflect on the treatment of First Nations people in the residential school system. Patterson Cos., a large ...