National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Culture of origin: National · National holiday

Holiday sources: Canada (federal)

Also called Orange Shirt Day, it recognizes the atrocities of Canada's Indian residential school system, where about 150,000 Indigenous children were placed to cut them off from their culture and assimilate them. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recorded about 3,200 child deaths and called the system a cultural genocide. The orange shirt recalls Phyllis Jack Webstad, whose new shirt was taken from her on her first day at school.