A Williams Lake advocate will receive a 2024 Reconciliation Award from B.C.'s Lieutenant Governor. Williams Lake's Phyllis ...

KAMLOOPS — A group of leaders from the eight Secwépemc communities and the founder of the Orange Shirt Society received B.C. Reconciliation Awards for 2024.

In fact, it was Orange Shirt Day before it was anything else. That's the message Phyllis Webstad, the creator of Orange Shirt Day, wants Canadians to remember on Sept. 30 each year. Webstad is a ...

In the packet, Frye included the story of Phyllis Webstad, who was taken from her family when she was six years old. Webstad, according to the informational packet, was a tribal citizen of the ...

The day of remembrance, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, was established in Canada in 2013 and ...

There were nearly 100 people at the Diamond Family Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of the founding of Orange Shirt Day by author Phyllis Webstad. At this event ...

Related: Canada continues to face residential school denialism Residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, started Orange Shirt Day in 2013. She chose the ...

We weren’t hugged. We weren’t consoled. We could be half-dead and we weren’t tended to.” — Phyllis Webstad, creator of Orange Shirt Day In 2019, in response to the Calls to Action of the Truth and ...

Today is Orange Shirt Day is a picture book by Phyllis Webstad, right, illustrated by Natassia Davies, left. (Medicine Wheel Publishing) Today is Orange Shirt Day by Phyllis Webstad, illustrated ...

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 ...