Orange Shirt Day (English, name)
expansion: Orange Shirt Day (plural Orange Shirt Days)
Senses:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: memorials
glosses: September 30th; A national observance in remembrance of the time of year that Indigenous children were forcibly removed from Native homes to be forced into schools to assimilate into the colonizer's culture and lose their birth culture; and the cultural genocide and deaths of children at the schools, caused by the residential school system. Observers frequently wear orange shirts to stand in solidarity with survivors of the residential schools. First observed in 2013.
tags: Canada
Forms:
form: Orange Shirt Days
tags: plural