Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake in the spring of 2013.
It grew out of Phyllis's account of losing her shiny new orange shirt on her first day of school at the Mission. It has become an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually.
Orange Shirt Day is also an opportunity for First Nations, local governments, schools and community agencies to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for generations of children to come.
On this day of September 30th, we are called upon to listen with open ears to the stories of survivors and their families and to remember those that didn't make it.
For more information on this event, click here.
In honour of this event, the library has gathered books from our collection on the topic of residential schools, stories from indigenous writers, and books that confront the settler with us.
There are three different "display", ebooks (which can be read online 24/7), print books and children's books (which can be borrowed in the library).
If you would like to learn about indigenous resources in the library as well as how to research indigenous subjects, please check out our guide (here).
Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman; Kirstie Hudson
Call Number: E 96.2 N49 2019
Performing Turtle Island: Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin and Moira J. Day
Call Number: PN 2301 P47 2019
The Way Home by David A. Neel
Call Number: N 6549 N34 A2 2019
What Has No Place, Remains: The Challenges for Indigenous Religious Freedom In Canada Today by Nicholas Shrubsole
Call Number: KE 4430 S57 2019
Reconciliation in Practice: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Ranjan DATTA (Editor)
Call Number: E 78 C2 R43 2020
From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould
Call Number: E 78 C2 W55 2019
Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation by Sheilla Jones
Call Number: E 98 T77 J66 2019
Residential schools and reconciliation : Canada confronts its history
Call Number: E 96.5 M53 2018
A knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: E 96.5 T782 2016
Unsettling the settler within : Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada
Call Number: E 96.5 R44 2010
Broken circle : The dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir
Call Number: E 96.5 F66 2010
From the ashes : My story of being métis, homeless, and finding my way
Call Number: FC 109.1 T45 A3 2019
Phyllis's Orange Shirt
Call Number: CURR E 96.5 W42 P55 2019
A day with Yayah
Call Number: CURR E 78 B9 C154 D39 2018
The First Mosquito
Call Number: CURR E 78 B9 S593 F3 2015
The Circle of Caring and Sharing
Call Number: CURR E 78 C2 L377 C57 2019
Raven
Call Number: CURR E 78 N77 M33 2001
Seven Sacred Teachings: Niizhwaaswi Gagiikwewin
Call Number: CURR E 98 F6 B74 2018
Trudy's Healing Stone
Call Number: CURR E 99 K55 S65 T78 2016
Discovering Animals: English * French * Cree
Call Number: CURR PM 988 A9431 2017
Nipehon / I Wait
Call Number: CURR PM 989 N53 N56 2017
No Time to Say Goodbye
Call Number: CURR PS 8579 L728 N62 2001
I Lost My Talk
Call Number: CURR E 99 M623 J64 2019
I'm Finding My Talk
Call Number: CURR E 99 M623 T486 2019
My First Métis Lobstick
Call Number: CURR E 99 M47 D67 M94 2014
A Is for Aboriginal
Call Number: CURR E 77.4 M22 A37 2013
Sila and the Land
Call Number: CURR E 78 C2 A54 2017
Sila and the Land
Call Number: CURR E 99 B9 V4525 E24 2000
The Circle of Caring and Sharing
Call Number: CURR E 78 C2 L377 C57 2019
Gifts from Raven
Call Number: CURR E 99 H2 J23 G54 2019
Title: Secret Path
Call Number: GRAPH ML 54.6 D69 2016
Title: The Hoop Dancer's Teachings
Call Number: CURR E 998 R3 A63 H66 2019
Title: What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal
Call Number: CURR E 77.4 Y45 2019
Title: Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Schools
Call Number: CURR E 96.2 T688 2018
Title: I Am Not a Number
Call Number: CURR 96.5 D87 I62 2016
Title: Righting Canada's Wrongs - Residential Schools
Call Number: CURR E 96.5 F56 2016
Title: Stolen Words
Call Number: CURR E 96.5 F567 S76 2017
Title: The Orange Shirt Story: The True Story of Orange Shirt Day
Call Number: CURR 96.5 W42 O73 2018
Title: Blueberry Patch / Mayabeekamneeboon
Call Number: CURR E 99 C6 L43 2019
Title: The Owl and the Lemming
Call Number: CURR E 99 E7 A398 O9 2016
Title: Fishing with Grandma
Call Number: CURR E 99 E7 A95 F58 2015
Title: Kamik Joins the Pack
Call Number: CURR E 99 E7 B35 K35 2016
Title: Raven's Feast
Call Number: CURR E 99 H2 J23 R28 2016
Title: Trudy's Rock Story
Call Number: CURR E 99 K55 S65 T78 2017
Indigenous Writes
Indigenous Identity and Resistance