In fact, it was Orange Shirt Day before it was anything else. That's the message Phyllis Webstad, the creator of Orange Shirt Day, wants Canadians to remember on Sept. 30 each year. Webstad is a ...

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, Dickinson students and faculty gathered on the Academic Quad to commemorate the Indigenous people who suffered in schools ...

People from the ages of 12 to 90 attended an Abegweit First Nation Truth and Reconciliation event to educate themselves on Indigenous history.

There were nearly 100 people at the Diamond Family Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of Orange Shirt Day by author Phyllis Webstad. At this event ...

A story from residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad inspired the idea for Orange Shirt Day. Young Phyllis arrived at a mission school in Williams Lake, B.C., wearing a beautiful orange shirt ...

We weren’t hugged. We weren’t consoled. We could be half-dead and we weren’t tended to.” — Phyllis Webstad, creator of Orange Shirt Day In 2019, in response to the Calls to Action of the Truth and ...

Related: Canada continues to face residential school denialism Residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, started Orange Shirt Day in 2013. She chose the ...

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5. Untold Tales of Old British Columbia — Daniel Marshall (Ronsdale Press). 6. Today is Orange Shirt Day — Phyllis Webstad, ...

Phyllis was preceded in death by her husband Norman E. Tooker; daughter Lila L. Tooker; parents Harold and Helen Zeilinger; brother Robert Zeilinger. She is survived by her son Russell N. Tooker ...

Phyllis Lynn Lavender, age 74, of Glenwood, Ark., passed away peacefully on October 26, 2024. Born on February 23, 1950, in Lincoln, Neb., to Morris C Lavender Sr. and Pearl Laurene Lavender ...

FALL RIVER—Phyllis Wilma James, 76, of Fall River, passed away on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. A memorial gathering will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic ...