Beginning in 2013, Orange Shirt Day was designed to educate people and promote awareness about the impact that the Indian residential school system had, and some would say still has, on Indigenous communities of Canada for more than a century. It is held annually on September 30 in Canadian communities with students and staff being encouraged to wear an orange shirt to school that day.
Orange Shirt were chosen as a result of residential school survivor Phyllis Jack Webstad sharing her story at a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada, in the spring of 2013. On her first day at residential school Phyllis had her new orange shirt taken away from her. Phyllis’ experience is used today to teach students about residential schools and their assimilation practices.
With the date of September 30 being chosen because it is the time of year in which Indigenous children were historically taken from their homes to residential schools.
In addition to simply wearing an orange shirt people are encouraged to learn more about the history of residential schools with many communities holding memorial walks, film screenings, and public lectures to raise awareness about Indigenous history.
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Hi, Garfield!
Crap, I forgot to put on my kids orange shirt for today! It has been a big deal in our house for since it started but with the kiddo out of town I gapped.
It took me a long time to get dressed because of these back spasms so I am not getting changed. Sort of lazy but mostly just in pain.
I am going to be having an MRI within the next few days to see if the root cause of all this can be figured out.
In the mean time the walker and all the pain killers are helping.
Nice graphic for the Orange Shirt day BTW
I “borrowed” the graphic from a site that I should have credited (and will)
I am wearing my plain orange shirt today but that took 3 reminders on my phone and hanging up the shirt where I couldn’t help but see it to be sure that I remembered.
the image above was borrowed from
https://www.uvic.ca/info/orangeshirtday/index.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kdz6wlfzG8&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0kjLXnxkq17nOUfCx27SY0aJYS9ilkKmuzTTWa6GShqlGt0xqb03LXXO0
for some cancon listening and watching pleasure.
Hi gang! I don’t think I have an orange shirt anymore. I used to but it shrunk or something. 😉
I filled in on another Radio show today. Kind of scary with daytime during the week people listening. Ha!
That video was at the end of my video playlist Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTByHia3bVrJwV96vAuh6qLC0TpY-ZdGU
I hope the back spasms stop and if not they figure out why and what to do about it. Geesh Morgana, that’s enough!
This has been a thing since 2013? I didn’t hear about it until this year, but this year I heard about it a lot. Just not paying attention before, I guess. Also, I see this was actually yeterday’s post, so I guess the fact that I don’t own an orange shirt is the least of my problems at this point.
Hey Loozrboy! Sorry you didn’t find out sooner but glad you found us!