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"Orange Shirt Day is observed annually on September 30th to honour Residential School Survivors and their families, and to remember those who did not make it. It was initially envisioned as a way to keep the conversations going about all aspects of Residential Schools in Williams Lake, and the Cariboo Region of British Columbia, Canada and it has now expanded into a movement across Canada and beyond.

Orange Shirt Day was inspired by the story of a Residential School Survivor named Phyllis Webstad. When Phyllis was six years old she went to an Indian Residential School for the first time wearing a brand new "shiny orange shirt" bought by her Grandmother. When she arrived at the school her shirt was taken away, never to be worn again.

To Phyllis Webstad, the colour orange symbolized that she did not matter. Today, she has learned to accept the colour, and even have fun with it, and now the orange shirt has instead become a symbol of hope and reconciliation. By wearing an orange shirt on Orange Shirt Day, you will make a powerful statement that Residential Schools were wrong, and you commit to the concept that EVERY CHILD MATTERS.

The Orange Shirt Society is a non-profit organization, based in Williams Lake, B.C., that guides the Orange Shirt Day movement. The purposes of The Society are:

1. To support Indian Residential School reconciliation
2. To create awareness of the individual, family and community intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools through Orange Shirt Society activities
3. To create awareness of the concept of "Every Child Matters""--Back cover. 

155 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps. 

Includes bibliographical references.