Phyllis Webstad was six years old when she was forced ... her grandmother bought her a new orange shirt, but it was taken away when she arrived at the school. Webstad has been telling the story ...

Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad shared her experience as an intergenerational survivor of the Indian Residential School system, including her ongoing work towards healing and reconciliation ...

The inspiration for Orange Shirt Day came from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad, who shared her story at a St. Joseph Mission Residential School Commemoration Project and Reunion ...

Children from Weledeh Catholic School and École St Patrick High School walked with Phyllis Webstad, a residential school survivor who had her clothes, including a new orange shirt bought for her ...

It's also Orange Shirt Day. 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.

The name refers to the orange shirt that Phyllis Webstad, the founder of Orange Shirt Day and a member of Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, received from her grandmother before she was sent to ...

It was in 2013 that Canada’s first-ever Orange Shirt Day was held at schools ... It was into one of these schools that Phyllis Webstad, a member of the Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation ...

The founder of Orange Shirt Day, Phyllis Webstad, will be recognized with an honorary degree next week, along with Elder Larry Grant, economist Esther Duflo and artist Stan Douglas. The honorary ...

The munk-yeʔlan sax̣ali marketplace, a Northeast Portland service hub created by the Native American Youth and Family Center, was bathed in orange ... story of elder Phyllis Webstad, a survivor ...

The horrors pressed upon the Indigenous people cannot be overstated, and the fact that these awful indignities continued until the not-too-distant past is even more egregious. By now, most of us ...