Orange Shirt Day, also known as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or National Day of Remembrance, is observed yearly on September 30. Orange Shirt Day was first established as an observance in ...
Phyllis Webstad, a tribal citizen of the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, is a prime example of how one person can make a difference and create an Indigenous movement across North America. Editor’s ...
Kim Barrington was on the subway in Toronto last September when a young boy admired the orange shirt that she wore to honor the survivors of Canada's residential schools system. "It was a little boy, ...
The orange-clad people were too vibrant, too active and too many to go unseen — even in the misty damp of just-barely dawn darkness. In response, periodic bursts of supportive car horns punctuated the ...
Tuesday was Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance for Indigenous children who were separated from their families, language and culture and sent to residential schools across North America from the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — September 30 is "Orange Shirt Day". It is a movement to raise awareness of the traumatic legacy, residential boarding schools have created on Native American communities. The ...
GRAND FORKS — Countless Indigenous children died after being forcibly sent to residential boarding schools in the United States and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, but even the ones who ...
The paint on Linda Jacobs’ sign was still wet when she arrived at the Mendenhall Wetlands viewing area in Juneau on Saturday morning. Jacobs said she didn’t mind and, alongside more than a dozen other ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — On Monday, Sept. 30, communities across North America observed Orange Shirt Day. It is a day dedicated to remembering the Indigenous children who were forced into residential ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — September 30th is International Orange Shirt Day. It's a day of significance in the Native Community as the lives of thousands of children were lost because of residential boarding ...
“This really is a way for people to come together, celebrate our resilience, celebrate our cultures, respectively, from all of our nations and really create a moment of beauty together,” said Lawrence ...
ANGOLA, NY — On Thursday, the Lake Shore School District honors Orange Shirt Day, or Every Child Matters Day. It is a day to remember the Indigenous children sent to residential schools across the US.