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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.
During this reunion, survivor Phyllis Webstad told the story about her first day in residential school in 1973, when the new orange shirt that her grandmother had bought her was taken away from her and never returned. The SJM Project arranged for schools in the Williams Lake area to wear orange shirts on September 30, in memory of the ...
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]
Orange Shirt Day pre-existed the government's efforts to make it a holiday. The day started in 2013, when at a residential school reunion, survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad told her story. She recounted how her grandmother bought her a new orange shirt to go to school in, and when she arrived at the residential school, the shirt was stripped away ...
Michelle Stafford talks to TODAY.com in an interview about playing Phyllis on "The Young and the Restless" for 30 years and the storyline with Michael Graziadei.
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.
Liberty's Kids (stylized on-screen as Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS stations until October 10, 2004. [1]
Hallmark Cards released the homonymous line of greeting cards with animal characters wearing T-shirts upon which was a message. Those cards were among Hallmark's best sellers at that time, which led the company to team with Hanna-Barbera Productions to adapt the Shirt Tales into a Saturday morning cartoon, which premiered on NBC on September 18, 1982. [2]