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What Is Orange Shirt Day? Annual Event Inspired By A Girl Who Couldn't Wear Hers

30.9.17

Zi-Ann Lum The Huffington Post Canada -- What Is Orange Shirt Day? Annual Event Inspired By A Girl Who Couldn't Wear Hers: [huffingtonpost.ca] "The colour orange has always reminded me of that and how my feelings didn't matter, how no one cared and how I felt like I was worth nothing," she said in a statement. "All of us little children were crying and no one cared."

From the 1880s until the last school shut down in 1996, Canada's residential school system forced about 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children to attend church-run facilities that aimed to "take the Indian out of the child."

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