As we honor the lives lost or damaged, and recognize the atrocities inflicted on our indigenous brothers and sisters for decades in the Residential School System, we also must walk with them to demand Truth and reconciliation through Reconcili-Action✊🏽✊🏿 #SwipeLeft . . Phyllis Webstad was six-years-old when the new orange shirt she excitedly chose for her first day of school was stripped off her back. She never saw it again. . "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". Today, 2,800 names of children who died in residential schools will be released today along with a ceremony in Quebec... #EveryChildMatters #Sept30 #OrangeShirtDay #ResidentialSchools https://www.instagram.com/p/B3DJA0IlEoaDaOS8GhkLxSg3Fm0tnj3iKOaMJI0/?igshid=az9r20u3xo61