Orange shirts in Red Lake honor children of residential boarding school era
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Via Red Lake Nation News
RED LAKE - Thousands participated in Orange Shirt Day across the U.S. and Canada Wednesday, Sept. 30. Known as Truth and Reconciliation Day across the border, the event encourages people wear orange shirts to represent a traumatic moment of 6-year-old Phyllis Webster's life: the day the First Nations girl arrived at the St. Joseph Mission, a residential boarding school, in 1973. "She...
