Canada honors the survivors of residential schools on a day inspired by an orange shirt
What began as one survivor's story about a stolen orange shirt has transformed into a national movement in Canada to honor the children lost to the residential school system.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is deeply rooted in the story of Phyllis Webstad, who arrived at a residential school in 1973 wearing a vibrant orange shirt her grandmother bought her. The shirt was immediately confiscated and never returned, becoming a symbol of the systematic stripping away of Indigenous culture and identity.
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