September 30
is orange t-shirt day
a day of reconciliation,
Orange shirt day is a movement that officially began in 2013 but in reality it began in 1973 when six year old Phyllis Webstad entered the St. Joseph Mission Residential School, outside of Williams Lake, BC. Young Phyllis was wearing a brand new orange shirt for her first day of school – new clothes being a rare and wonderful thing for a First Nation girl growing up in her grandmother’s care - but the Mission Oblates quickly stripped her of her new shirt and replaced it with the school’s institutional uniform.
I dunno I can't imagine the damage that was done by ripping kids from there home and forcing them to give up family culture language everything in a residential school.
my mother broke down in tears one day telling me how she was left handed and the nuns at school would tie her left hand down and make her use her right and hit her if she tried to use her left., she said it seriously traumatized her for years, and this was only because she was left handed other wise a nice normal white girl.
you can't tell me the residential school system hasn't done damage that will last for generations
is orange t-shirt day
a day of reconciliation,
Orange shirt day is a movement that officially began in 2013 but in reality it began in 1973 when six year old Phyllis Webstad entered the St. Joseph Mission Residential School, outside of Williams Lake, BC. Young Phyllis was wearing a brand new orange shirt for her first day of school – new clothes being a rare and wonderful thing for a First Nation girl growing up in her grandmother’s care - but the Mission Oblates quickly stripped her of her new shirt and replaced it with the school’s institutional uniform.
I dunno I can't imagine the damage that was done by ripping kids from there home and forcing them to give up family culture language everything in a residential school.
my mother broke down in tears one day telling me how she was left handed and the nuns at school would tie her left hand down and make her use her right and hit her if she tried to use her left., she said it seriously traumatized her for years, and this was only because she was left handed other wise a nice normal white girl.
you can't tell me the residential school system hasn't done damage that will last for generations
