Orange Shirt Day
Sep. 30th, 2020 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrToday is Orange Shirt Day. If you aren't Canadian, you might not have heard of it. Residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad started Orange Shirt Day in 2013. She went to a residential school in Williams Lake, BC. On her first day of school she arrived wearing an orange shirt, a gift from her grandmother, which school staff took away from her. It's a great day to expand your awareness of Canada's treatment of First Nations peoples, so here are a couple of videos:
