Orange Shirt Day

Orange shirt day🧡🧡
In 1973, at the age of 6, Phyllis Webstad was sent to boarding school. Her grandmother bought her a brand new orange shirt to wear on her first day of Mission school, but when she arrived at Mission school, she was stripped and her clothes taken away - in That has an orange shirt.
“I don't understand why they don't give it back to me, it's mine! Orange always reminds me of that and how my feelings don't matter, no one cares and I feel like I have no value. All of us children cried and no one cared.” - Phyllis Webstad, Founder, Orange Shirt Association.
On September 30, we wear orange to remember the story of Phyllis and the 150,000 Indigenous children like her who were taken from their families, communities and cultures.