Orange Shirt Day

Etymology
. From the colour of the shirt worn by a survivor of the system, which was forcibly removed by Christian missionaries, who desired to   children forcibly enrolled at the schools.

Proper noun

 * 1)   30th; A national  in remembrance of the time of year that  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  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.

Coordinate terms

 * A coincident statutory holiday of Canada in remembrance of the cultural genocide suffered by the Indigenous peoples of Canada caused by Canadian government policies. First observed in 2021.

Translations

 * Cree:
 * French: Journée du t-shirt orange, Jour du chandail orange
 * Inuktitut: