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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.
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.
The inspiration for Orange Shirt Day came from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad, who shared her story at a St. Joseph Mission (SJM) Residential School Commemoration Project and Reunion event held in Williams Lake, British Columbia, in the spring of 2013. Webstad recounted her first day of residential schooling at six years old ...
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 from her and never returned. [ 225 ]
St. Joseph's Mission was a Catholic mission established near Williams Lake, British Columbia in 1867. The mission was operated by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.It is primarily known for the notorious [2] St. Joseph's Indian Residential School located on the property, a part of the Canadian Indian residential school system that operated on the Mission from 1891 to 1981.
Year Title Author ISBN Notes 1988: Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School: Celia Haig-Brown: ISBN 0889781893: One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.
Orange Shirt Day, a day created to raise awareness of the Canadian Residential School System, was started in 2013 after Phyllis Jack Webstad spoke at the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) Residential School Commemoration Project held in Williams Lake. Esk'etemc chief Fred Robbins has been credited with starting the project.
Originally from Selkirk, Manitoba [1] Sinclair is the son of judge and senator Murray Sinclair.. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Winnipeg, a Master of Arts in Native- and African-American Literatures from the University of Oklahoma, and a Doctor of Philosophy in First Nations and American Literatures at the University of British Columbia.