I'm a new immigrant to Canada and, like many immigrants, I had had an inaccurate idea of Canada being merely a beautiful country with shiny stories to tell all around. I had known that there were injustices done to the First Nation peoples, but nothing near how bleak the reality has been. I'm so deeply touched and I feel so emotional listening to you, Phyllis, and many other great people of this country telling their stories of survival and the heinous injustices inflicted upon them and their families and people, yet calling mostly for reconciliation and healing. Power to you, thank you.
I attended a French Catholic school, with nuns, at the very time when a local residential school was closed and the indigenous children were being integrated into regular schools. Looking back it was much like trying to place a square peg in a round hole. They were bused in from the "Indian Reserve" where many lived in squalor. Funny thing, I remember they were given free chocolate milk cartons for lunch, and despite being poor ourselves, we had to pay, but my mother could not afford it. The injustices were not only found in schools, but throughout every part of society and even to this day and around the world. The racist treatment towards indigenous peoples is not exclusive to Canada. It has been pervasive around the world whether by way of colonialization or through the various acts of ethnic genocide around the world and in almost every country. The real challenge now is whether governments and the Vatican will renounce The Doctrine of Discovery, the framework Spain, Portugal, and England used for the colonization of many lands, including North America.
You have been lied to. The residential schools were just schools. They were instituted because of the horrifying neglect, abuse and addiction that Native kids were subjected to in their own communities. Without those schools, indigenous people would be extinct today. Yet instead of being grateful, a race without a soul continues to invent fantasies of how they were abused, spitting in the face of those who only wanted to help them.
I was born and raised, went to school here in Canada and am just now learning of the atrocities that took place. I'm so ashamed to be from a country that allowed this to happen to children!
Thank you for your story Phyllis and I can't imagine the horrors you and others have lived. The orange shirt has not only made your stories accessible for adults, but especially for my and others' children, with whom I've shared your story. Since telling them, my daughter often speaks about it, listens to First Nations music, watches traditional dances, etc. One colour reached the entire nation and has been the most effective tool to have us connect. You are loved.
Thank you for having the courage to share your story. While these stories bring much pain and grief, they need to be told. We can not allow history to repeat itself. I will be showing this video to my students, and will actively work on truth and reconciliation.
Lots of holes in her story. The nuns were gone by the time she was staying at St Joseph's which was converted to a student hostel, and she went to public school at William's Lake. Some of the staff were Indigenous and they may have taken her shirt and returned it when she left a year later, or it might not have fit her anymore and was passed on to a smaller child.
After hearing this story again, I have become more clear on what I must do. I am in the process of ordering 100 or more orange shirts that I was planning to sell and give away, however the selling part was bothering me. Instead of putting a price on them I believe, to honor this story, I must give them to anyone that wants one. Since I live below the poverty line, I would be limited in what I can do, so to allow others to help, I will take donations from those taking the shirts so I can make more available to others. Thankyou Phyllis Webstad for sharing this story and being such and inspiration to us all.
Thank you Phyllis for sharing your story. Many of us have been touched and are appalled by the injustices that have happened to the indigenous people. Praying for healing to come to all those who are affected and may we treat each other with love and respect.
Thank you for sharing this story. I live in the US, but my son is a citizen of Ontario. He recently shared your story with me. Coincidently, I wore an orange shirt today. In the future, I will mark orange shirt day on my calendar. Prayers to you.
I read your book "The Orange Shirt Story" to my child today. Thank you for sharing your story and writing a book to help parents and kids begin the conversation on this important topic.
I live in Canada and i know a little about this story,i also saw the movie Anne with and E on Netflix and i saw a little of what the school did to people ,but im glad you are alive and can share this for all to know what happened to the indigenous people.I am so sorry you and your family had to go through all that. Sending you hugs,light and love. 🧡i am wearing the orange shirt today with my boys.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I'm an educator in the Gulf Islands who has Secwepemc roots - blatantly spreading freedom and joy in the face of historical and cultural ugliness. Blessings! - Quentin
I’m a French teacher in the United States and I support you. My grandmother told me stories about her great grandmother who was Indigenous. I don’t know which band she was from because it wasn’t talked about. Where I live in West Virginia, it was ILLEGAL for any Indigenous to own land until the 1960s. I know that I have no rights to call myself indigenous, please don’t misinterpret what I am saying. On my own I have tried to learn about indigenous cultures in general and I am very saddened to learn about the abuses. I am sad to learn about the missionaries condemning the beautiful relationship that the indigenous have with the Creator and the Earth. I teach my students about Orange Shirt Day and the cultural genocide propagated by the colonials. My heart breaks for those children stolen from their families who return broken and those who never made it home. Every. Child. Matters.
Hello dear, Thanks for sharing your story with us. As an Iranian person I respect all of you. Before we came to Canada we did not have any idea about this issue, but when we learnt this story we were so upset. We wear orange T-shirts on this day and we are your voice.
I'm a Mum of 3 First Nations Sons, who've lost their paternal Grandfather and paternal Aunt, to suicide.🕊My Sons are the last generation of their Métis namesake. I tiptoe in moccasins, with you. 🇨🇦✌🏻💔
So sorry about what happened to your elder family members... It is our duty, all of us living in Canada, to do better for the future of this country and for its children, particularly First Nations children like yours.
Re:comment: Jesus Christ Almighty God will be the real authentic judge in every single case/situation/experience. Nobody’s gonna be left out feeling like they haven’t really been heard. Jesus Christ is hearing you in ways that you may not even be aware of. Re: all the people who have been lost & hurt by hate > I can understand it in my own way! It’s brutal! The orange ‘T’ shirt will be around for as long as you let it. Yet; think about this: your precious loved one is sleeping soundly. 😴it’s virtually impossible for anyone’s loved one to see or hear or know anything under the sun! They’re literally at peace! You’re the ones living still & think that wearing an orange T-shirt will make a difference; maybe it will. But with the devil showing his true colours like he did in those residential schools that was absolute evil. The Catholic Church was involved in that, I’ve learned about that, that’s sickening to say the least. I’m deeply sorry for your losses no 2 ways about it. Hate is also connected with Satan the Devil; thus evil! There’s NO WAY this would have occurred with Jesus Christ. He’s having to allow the Devil to show up all his ugliness so that nobody can say that they didn’t understand! Line up with Jesus Christ & you won’t be sorry! 🙏Blessings to all of you!
Every child matters because when the kids passed away at the residential school some dead and Sunday and I love orange shirt, cause it’s a special day. Remember the kids from residential school and that and people that didn’t I don’t know how funeral was from the past.
This speaks to me of a blessed non-conformity. Many schools (private ones) make their students conform to wearing uniform clothes, but for her, for residential schools, to lose her bright shirt & be given/told what to wear is symbolic of being told how to think, act, believe & live; that her family life & heritage that gave her a bright joy, life & hope was stolen from her, & the efforts to make her & her people conform only lead to horrible abuses.
Re:comment: agree & understand all of this! Read your story & yup I understand what you’re talking about. Anything that makes people conform is NOT of Jesus Christ a totally loving God beyond human words & NOT 1 act or word of cruelty or violence or abuse was found in Him > that’s not who he is, not His nature. So anything connected that leads to horrible abuses is from Satan himself NOT Jesus Christ! Try to remember that for the days to follow. Blessings to you! 🙏
This is a very embarrassing part of our history, but we have vowed never to do it again, R.I.P. to all the children who died in those horrible schools.😞😔😣😖😭
Having never worn a uniform to school myself, I am amazed at the amount of conformity down to the socks, belts, shoes in schools with uniforms. My daughter's experience working in a restaurant also had this kind of conformity forced on her. First nations children's lives matter as much as children in all classes of society (yes, Canada does have a lingering class system based on race, status, money). Thanks for sharing your story to inspire others.
Hi phyiles we learned about you in my school called pehdan hill school hope you live nice and I fell bad I wear orange shirt ever Monday and on September 30 stay well naniosns
Her story is not factual. It was impossible for Nuns to take away her shirt, all Nuns had left the school years before she was there. Actually, a Native person probably took her orange shirt to be cleaned and later returned to her. Why doesn't she mention that 9% of the teaching staff at residential schools were indigenous by 1961? In fact, her teacher remembers her as a happy student. Why don't they interview her? In another interview, she tells how her Native mother and White father abandoned her, She was raised by her grandmother, and her Native uncles beat her when she was at the reservation. If you want Truth and reconciliation you have to tell the entire truth and interview everyone.
Lots of holes in her story. The nuns were gone by the time she was staying at St Joseph's which was converted to a student hostel, and she went to public school at William's Lake. Some of the staff were Indigenous and they may have taken her shirt and returned it when she left a year later, or it might not have fit her anymore and was passed on to a smaller child.
It is HER story, I believe she is telling it exactly as she remembers it. I dont believe she is trying to mislead anyone. We can look up history, even history is how someone remembers it. The sadness of how many children were treated is not nullified by finding "holes" in someones story vs memory.
@@deband4 In a CBC kids interview Phylliss Webstad stated "The Mission(formerly St. Joseph's) was the place where we slept and ate. When I attended in 1973, there were 272 students in total, boys and girls. All of the students were bussed into Williams Lake to attend public school, about 20 minutes away. ... I liked my teacher there, she had crazy red curly hair, she smelled good, and she was kind - I wished she could take me home with her."
There are no part people of the great and honorable Cherokee Indian Nation, my friend. There are only whole human citizens, the same as there are no part Americans or part Canadians. We belong to sovereign Indian nations, or we do not. There are no part Indians. If you are a settler, who shares Cherokee ancestry (and it's been confirmed by you personally, not simply passed down family lore) I invite you to instead, to claim some Cherokee ancestry, rather than describe yourself as part, as the Cherokee people are no more part of belonging to their great nation, than you are part of yours. Walk with love and honor.
As a father of two boys I cannot imagine the trauma that having your children taken away from you would cause you. I feel ashamed of my ancestors for performing such evil deeds. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Maybe because White children didn't ever get ripped away from their families, brought to a place where they were forbidden to speak their language or practice their culture, were beaten and sexually assaulted, and when they died were thrown into unmarked graves. The slogan is Every Child Matters because it's meant to infer that all children should be valued the same, which Indigenous children absolutely were not in the era of residential schools. Tell me you've got a major prejudice towards Indigenous people without telling me you're prejudiced against Indigenous people. 🙄
MESSAGE: You present day Canadians are guilty and responsible for others past misdeeds and must embrace this distortion of the facts of life at the turn of the century.
I'm a new immigrant to Canada and, like many immigrants, I had had an inaccurate idea of Canada being merely a beautiful country with shiny stories to tell all around. I had known that there were injustices done to the First Nation peoples, but nothing near how bleak the reality has been. I'm so deeply touched and I feel so emotional listening to you, Phyllis, and many other great people of this country telling their stories of survival and the heinous injustices inflicted upon them and their families and people, yet calling mostly for reconciliation and healing. Power to you, thank you.
I attended a French Catholic school, with nuns, at the very time when a local residential school was closed and the indigenous children were being integrated into regular schools. Looking back it was much like trying to place a square peg in a round hole. They were bused in from the "Indian Reserve" where many lived in squalor. Funny thing, I remember they were given free chocolate milk cartons for lunch, and despite being poor ourselves, we had to pay, but my mother could not afford it.
The injustices were not only found in schools, but throughout every part of society and even to this day and around the world. The racist treatment towards indigenous peoples is not exclusive to Canada. It has been pervasive around the world whether by way of colonialization or through the various acts of ethnic genocide around the world and in almost every country.
The real challenge now is whether governments and the Vatican will renounce The Doctrine of Discovery, the framework Spain, Portugal, and England used for the colonization of many lands, including North America.
You have been lied to. The residential schools were just schools. They were instituted because of the horrifying neglect, abuse and addiction that Native kids were subjected to in their own communities. Without those schools, indigenous people would be extinct today. Yet instead of being grateful, a race without a soul continues to invent fantasies of how they were abused, spitting in the face of those who only wanted to help them.
shit like this happened to little white kids too, but nobody cares. our government even refused to appologize for it.
just remember, canada is one of the least racist countries on the planet. this is our past, but not who we are now.
I was born and raised, went to school here in Canada and am just now learning of the atrocities that took place. I'm so ashamed to be from a country that allowed this to happen to children!
"Confirmation" instead of "discovery" - absolutely! Thank you for your heartfelt message.
Miigwech Phyllis for your bravery, resilience and the sharing of your story.
Thank you for your story Phyllis and I can't imagine the horrors you and others have lived. The orange shirt has not only made your stories accessible for adults, but especially for my and others' children, with whom I've shared your story. Since telling them, my daughter often speaks about it, listens to First Nations music, watches traditional dances, etc. One colour reached the entire nation and has been the most effective tool to have us connect. You are loved.
Thank you, Phyllis, for sharing your story. ❤ I care!
Thank you for having the courage to share your story. While these stories bring much pain and grief, they need to be told. We can not allow history to repeat itself. I will be showing this video to my students, and will actively work on truth and reconciliation.
Lots of holes in her story. The nuns were gone by the time she was staying at St Joseph's which was converted to a student hostel, and she went to public school at William's Lake. Some of the staff were Indigenous and they may have taken her shirt and returned it when she left a year later, or it might not have fit her anymore and was passed on to a smaller child.
@@sessayu2502 And you know this how? Where are your sources?
Respect. And a commitment to listen and educate myself and my children. Committed to action for better for our indigenous communities.
I'm literally so happy that she survived, Phyllis you are so strong you're orange shirt changed the world, Thank you so much.
Roses are red violets are blue we got scammed when he got views
After hearing this story again, I have become more clear on what I must do. I am in the process of ordering 100 or more orange shirts that I was planning to sell and give away, however the selling part was bothering me. Instead of putting a price on them I believe, to honor this story, I must give them to anyone that wants one. Since I live below the poverty line, I would be limited in what I can do, so to allow others to help, I will take donations from those taking the shirts so I can make more available to others. Thankyou Phyllis Webstad for sharing this story and being such and inspiration to us all.
Thank you Phyllis for sharing your story. Many of us have been touched and are appalled by the injustices that have happened to the indigenous people. Praying for healing to come to all those who are affected and may we treat each other with love and respect.
Thank you for sharing this story. I live in the US, but my son is a citizen of Ontario. He recently shared your story with me. Coincidently, I wore an orange shirt today. In the future, I will mark orange shirt day on my calendar. Prayers to you.
Thank you for sharing your story. ❤
I read your book "The Orange Shirt Story" to my child today. Thank you for sharing your story and writing a book to help parents and kids begin the conversation on this important topic.
I live in Canada and i know a little about this story,i also saw the movie Anne with and E on Netflix and i saw a little of what the school did to people ,but im glad you are alive and can share this for all to know what happened to the indigenous people.I am so sorry you and your family had to go through all that. Sending you hugs,light and love. 🧡i am wearing the orange shirt today with my boys.
Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I'm an educator in the Gulf Islands who has Secwepemc roots - blatantly spreading freedom and joy in the face of historical and cultural ugliness. Blessings! - Quentin
I’m a French teacher in the United States and I support you. My grandmother told me stories about her great grandmother who was Indigenous. I don’t know which band she was from because it wasn’t talked about. Where I live in West Virginia, it was ILLEGAL for any Indigenous to own land until the 1960s. I know that I have no rights to call myself indigenous, please don’t misinterpret what I am saying. On my own I have tried to learn about indigenous cultures in general and I am very saddened to learn about the abuses. I am sad to learn about the missionaries condemning the beautiful relationship that the indigenous have with the Creator and the Earth. I teach my students about Orange Shirt Day and the cultural genocide propagated by the colonials. My heart breaks for those children stolen from their families who return broken and those who never made it home. Every. Child. Matters.
Hello dear, Thanks for sharing your story with us. As an Iranian person I respect all of you. Before we came to Canada we did not have any idea about this issue, but when we learnt this story we were so upset. We wear orange T-shirts on this day and we are your voice.
thank you for sharing the stories of you and your family...sending you love
Thank you for your strength in sharing your story.
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I'm a Mum of 3 First Nations Sons, who've lost their paternal Grandfather and paternal Aunt, to suicide.🕊My Sons are the last generation of their Métis namesake. I tiptoe in moccasins, with you.
🇨🇦✌🏻💔
So sorry about what happened to your elder family members... It is our duty, all of us living in Canada, to do better for the future of this country and for its children, particularly First Nations children like yours.
I'm very sorry for your loss.
Thank you for your strength in telling your story. How could it have taken us so long to get here???..Seems unimaginable
Excellent video. My heart breaks for Phyllis and all those who were inflicted by the scourge of residential schools. And I am so sorry.
Thank you for sharing this story 🥹
I will always learn, reflect, and remember. Thank you for sharing your story. 🧡
Kchi wliwni for sharing your story. 🖤🖤🖤❤🧡🧡🧡 every year we honor our future generations and those lost and hurt by hate
Re:comment: Jesus Christ Almighty God will be the real authentic judge in every single case/situation/experience. Nobody’s gonna be left out feeling like they haven’t really been heard. Jesus Christ is hearing you in ways that you may not even be aware of. Re: all the people who have been lost & hurt by hate > I can understand it in my own way! It’s brutal! The orange ‘T’ shirt will be around for as long as you let it. Yet; think about this: your precious loved one is sleeping soundly. 😴it’s virtually impossible for anyone’s loved one to see or hear or know anything under the sun! They’re literally at peace! You’re the ones living still & think that wearing an orange T-shirt will make a difference; maybe it will. But with the devil showing his true colours like he did in those residential schools that was absolute evil. The Catholic Church was involved in that, I’ve learned about that, that’s sickening to say the least. I’m deeply sorry for your losses no 2 ways about it. Hate is also connected with Satan the Devil; thus evil! There’s NO WAY this would have occurred with Jesus Christ. He’s having to allow the Devil to show up all his ugliness so that nobody can say that they didn’t understand! Line up with Jesus Christ & you won’t be sorry! 🙏Blessings to all of you!
Phyllis you matter to me, I made a orange feather at school with a nice word. I hope your happy and feeling alright. you matter…
Every child matters because when the kids passed away at the residential school some dead and Sunday and I love orange shirt, cause it’s a special day. Remember the kids from residential school and that and people that didn’t I don’t know how funeral was from the past.
thank you for sharing your story.
Phyllis u are strong no women can be stronger than u AND TO DAY IS ORANGE SHIRT DAY! I bless u for heaven u deserve it!
Thank you for sharing your story.
Amazing strength. 🧡🧡🧡🧡
This speaks to me of a blessed non-conformity. Many schools (private ones) make their students conform to wearing uniform clothes, but for her, for residential schools, to lose her bright shirt & be given/told what to wear is symbolic of being told how to think, act, believe & live; that her family life & heritage that gave her a bright joy, life & hope was stolen from her, & the efforts to make her & her people conform only lead to horrible abuses.
Re:comment: agree & understand all of this! Read your story & yup I understand what you’re talking about. Anything that makes people conform is NOT of Jesus Christ a totally loving God beyond human words & NOT 1 act or word of cruelty or violence or abuse was found in Him > that’s not who he is, not His nature. So anything connected that leads to horrible abuses is from Satan himself NOT Jesus Christ! Try to remember that for the days to follow. Blessings to you! 🙏
This is a very embarrassing part of our history, but we have vowed never to do it again, R.I.P. to all the children who died in those horrible schools.😞😔😣😖😭
Having never worn a uniform to school myself, I am amazed at the amount of conformity down to the socks, belts, shoes in schools with uniforms. My daughter's experience working in a restaurant also had this kind of conformity forced on her. First nations children's lives matter as much as children in all classes of society (yes, Canada does have a lingering class system based on race, status, money). Thanks for sharing your story to inspire others.
Being forced to wear a uniform is one thing, but to have a special gift from one's grandmother stolen from you by those in authority in unforgivable.
Thank you for sharing, I am near your heart
Hi phyiles we learned about you in my school called pehdan hill school hope you live nice and I fell bad I wear orange shirt ever Monday and on September 30 stay well naniosns
They played this at our school assembly yesterday.
Thank you dear heart.
sorry for your loss, it must be hard on you
Thank you !!!
i am so sorry
GLAD TO SEE THAT ORANGE SHIRT AND CONVOY 2022 ARE TOGETHER!
Her story is not factual.
It was impossible for Nuns to take away her shirt, all Nuns had left the school years before she was there.
Actually, a Native person probably took her orange shirt to be cleaned and later returned to her.
Why doesn't she mention that 9% of the teaching staff at residential schools were indigenous by 1961? In fact, her teacher remembers her as a happy student. Why don't they interview her?
In another interview, she tells how her Native mother and White father abandoned her, She was raised by her grandmother, and her Native uncles beat her when she was at the reservation.
If you want Truth and reconciliation you have to tell the entire truth and interview everyone.
damn u packed her story real quick 😭
great video!
🧡🧡🧡
Lots of holes in her story. The nuns were gone by the time she was staying at St Joseph's which was converted to a student hostel, and she went to public school at William's Lake. Some of the staff were Indigenous and they may have taken her shirt and returned it when she left a year later, or it might not have fit her anymore and was passed on to a smaller child.
It is HER story, I believe she is telling it exactly as she remembers it. I dont believe she is trying to mislead anyone. We can look up history, even history is how someone remembers it. The sadness of how many children were treated is not nullified by finding "holes" in someones story vs memory.
Also, if you wish to refute her story, please add references, so that others can judge the veracity of your report
@@deband4 In a CBC kids interview Phylliss Webstad stated "The Mission(formerly St. Joseph's) was the place where we slept and ate. When I attended in 1973, there were 272 students in total, boys and girls. All of the students were bussed into Williams Lake to attend public school, about 20 minutes away. ... I liked my teacher there, she had crazy red curly hair, she smelled good, and she was kind - I wished she could take me home with her."
omg i m so sorry r you ok
I learned about orange shirt today at school and p.us it was orange shirt day
I’m from the USA and I’m part Cherokee , I was appalled that Canada had a history of abusing First Nations families.
There are no part people of the great and honorable Cherokee Indian Nation, my friend. There are only whole human citizens, the same as there are no part Americans or part Canadians. We belong to sovereign Indian nations, or we do not. There are no part Indians.
If you are a settler, who shares Cherokee ancestry (and it's been confirmed by you personally, not simply passed down family lore) I invite you to instead, to claim some Cherokee ancestry, rather than describe yourself as part, as the Cherokee people are no more part of belonging to their great nation, than you are part of yours.
Walk with love and honor.
US of A is stolen Indigenous lands..read Trail of Tears…
I am in Canada❤
Were you forced to go to the residential schools in 1973? Were you taken away from your parents? Did you have to live there too?
I’m so happy that every cilhd matters onger is the best🎽
Canadian Pacific: Yes we’ll make a unit on this
i feel bad for you 😢
Our prayers to the families who lost their children under such a nefarious culture
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As a father of two boys I cannot imagine the trauma that having your children taken away from you would cause you. I feel ashamed of my ancestors for performing such evil deeds. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Granny should have prepared you that you would be wearing a uniform.😢
Happy NDP day!
You should change your slogan to “native children matter”. You aren’t talking about every child when you use the slogan, so why not tell the truth.
Maybe because White children didn't ever get ripped away from their families, brought to a place where they were forbidden to speak their language or practice their culture, were beaten and sexually assaulted, and when they died were thrown into unmarked graves. The slogan is Every Child Matters because it's meant to infer that all children should be valued the same, which Indigenous children absolutely were not in the era of residential schools.
Tell me you've got a major prejudice towards Indigenous people without telling me you're prejudiced against Indigenous people. 🙄
Also, it's Indigenous, not "native", you ignoramus.
Wait I love oran-
Roses are red violets are blue we got scammed when he got views
MESSAGE: You present day Canadians are guilty and responsible for others past misdeeds and must embrace this distortion of the facts of life at the turn of the century.
🧡🧡🧡🧡