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The SJM Project arranged for schools in the Williams Lake area to wear orange shirts on September 30, in memory of the residential school victims. [86] [87] The observance of Orange Shirt Day quickly spread across Canada, and in 2021 it became a national statutory holiday, officially titled the "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation." [88]
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]
Tribal members were giving out orange T-shirts, featuring pictures of a Native American child dressed in regalia, until 5 p.m. on Friday at the government center. ... An Orange Shirt Day rally is ...
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.
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 ...
The other survivors founded the SJM Project, and on September 30, 2013—the time of the year when Indigenous children were taken away to residential schools—they encouraged students in schools in the area to wear an orange shirt in memory of the victims of the residential school system. [226]
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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.