w7ec n7élye ey: We Are Still Here: A Life of Truth & Reconciling Two Worlds

July 1973 – When 6 year old Phyllis Webstad picked out a bright orange shirt to wear on her first day of school, she didn’t know that it would be taken from her and never returned. She had no way of knowing that her orange shirt would eventually become a national symbol to honour Residential School Survivors, their families, and those who didn’t make it home.

Forty years later, Phyllis told her truth publicly for the first time at a 2013 Truth and Reconciliation Event in Williams Lake, B.C.,...