September 30 is Orange Shirt Day: A Day of Rememberance of Residential Schools

Editor's Note: This article was posted on Native News Online on 30th September 2014. For details of the current event, please click here.

Williams Lake, British Columbia - Phyllis Weststad's grandmother took her to buy a new costume for the first day at school. Even though she was just six years old, her grandmother allowed Phyllis to pick a shirt to go to school.

Some of the clothes she chose were orange shirts. Excited to go to school, she is proud to wear an orange shirt

She is wearing an orange shirt at the accommodation school on the first day, one day. She never saw her orange shirt again. It was taken by school officials. She wore a uniform.

"Orange has always reminded me of ways of feeling it irrelevant to me, a way I do not care if I do not care what I think." A few decades later, Web Stud was a residential school in India It reflects her experience at. "All our children are crying, nobody cares"

Phyllis and other indigenous children who attended boarding school took off their clothes and gave uniforms to them.

Indian boarding school is an Indian boarding school for Indian students in India.

Putting indigenous children away from their families and placing them in government - sometimes religiously operated residences and boarding schools - in the pretense of "murdering Indians and rescuing men" It is policy. century

Most indigenous children are allowed to meet their parents and family in a few months or years. Its purpose is to rob the children of "India".

This is a dark chapter of indigenous peoples. Therefore, Canadian elders called September "crying moon" because the history related in September is the month the children are kicked out of their homes.

"At last, I understand that deep-rooted, worthless, meaningless emotions on the first day of execution of my execution have influenced my way of life for years, even now I will move forward beyond the truth You can not do it. Even after all the work is done, it may not be a problem, "Webstad told Native News.

On September 30th I announced Orange Shirt Day in Canada. Recognizing the damage to happiness in children's self esteem and home school system, they remind them of the pain caused by our ancestors and continue today.

Orange Shirt Day was founded by Phyllis Jack Webstad, a woman from Northern Secwpemc (Shuswap) who confiscated an orange shirt on school first day in 1972. In 2013, people in Williams Lake started watching Orange Shirt Day, receiving the legacy of Saint Joseph's mission boarding school spreading nationwide. A class examined students, teachers, and parents about reconciliation before the day of an orange shirt. They wrote them down and showed them to the library. The local WSÁNE monks came to school and heard the news of local writer Monique Gray-Smith who participated in the skeleton game which is a traditional guessing game.

Orange Shirt Day is a monument of the Saint Joseph Church (SJM) residential school in Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada, in the spring of 2013. It comes from the story of Phyllis wearing a shiny new orange shirt on the first day of the mission and it was an opportunity to discuss every aspect of the school every year. This day was chosen because children were home when they went home to a boarding school from their home in the year and it was an opportunity to set the stage of racial discrimination and bullying prevention policies of the coming year. It also gives teachers time to plan activities including children because we want to make sure we pass the story to the next generation.