Orange Shirt Day is tomorrow, an annual awareness day held September 30th to honour Indigenous children who were sent to residential schools.
The executive director of the Orange Shirt Society, Phyllis Webstad, explains why it’s important to commemorate Orange Shirt Day.
"The truth and reconciliation commission came to Williams Lake for a week long of truth telling and we also had a St. Joseph’s Mission Reunion that weekend. I was a part of both planning committees and we were doing a press event in the park leading up to the event and I was the residential school survivor representative. That was when I told my orange shirt story for the first time. So by the time the TRC event was in Williams Lake in May of 2013, “Orange Shirt Day” had been born.”
Webstad encourages Canadians across the country to wear an orange shirt tomorrow to spread awareness and to honour residential schools survivors.
Listen to Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.
