The Orange Shirt Story

PHYLLIS WEBSTAD | Northern Secwpemc, Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation

BROCK NICOL

  • English

  • Residential School system, Canadian history, Indigenous history, Reconciliation, Residential School survivors, apartheid, genocide, intergenerational trauma and healing, resilience

  • Pre Kindergarten +

When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shirt. It is also the story of the movement of Orange Shirt Day which could become a federal statutory holiday