The Orange Shirt Story featuring Phyllis Webstad

Bedtime Stories Podcast Fairytales and Folk Tales from the Lilypad for kids

Lily, a frog

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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“The Orange Shirt Story” read by author Phyllis Webstad with permission from Medicine Wheel Educationwww.medicinewheel.education This is the true story of a little girl and her very important orange shirt. Six-year-old Phyllis Webstad was as excited to wear her shiny new orange shirt as she was to attend school for the first time. But her first day at the St. Joseph Mission near Williams Lake, BC was nothing like she expected. Her orange shirt was taken away from her, never to be returned. Since 2013, each year on September 30th, we wear orange to honour the Residential School survivors like Phyllis. We honour their experiences and the experiences of their families. Orange Shirt Day is an opportunity for Indigenous Peoples, local governments, schools and communities to all come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for future generations of children. It is a day to reaffirm that EVERY CHILD MATTERS. Music by Alexander Reid Whelton For more information about Orange Shirt Day visit www.orangeshirtday.org Books available: medicinewheelpublishing.com/collections/english-books/products/the-orange-shirt-story

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0:00.0	Hello, it's me, Lillie, a frog who lives in a pond and loves to tell stories.
0:10.0	It's September back to school time for kids who go to school and wherever you are learning
0:19.0	growing and playing, I wish you a year full of curiosity, friendship and, of course, great stories.
0:33.0	This episode of Tales from the Lillie Pad is a bit different because instead of going to story land,
0:41.0	we have a friend here to tell us a true story, her going to school story, in her own words.
0:51.0	Phyllis Webstad is here to share the orange shirt story with us.
0:56.0	You might have heard of Orange Shirt Day, it's a day to remember and honor the true history of the first peoples of Canada.
1:04.0	Phyllis has been sharing her story for years now and it's because of Phyllis' orange shirt in the orange shirt story that we wear orange shirts on September 30th.
1:16.0	It's a way to say we want schools to be free of racism and bullying and we want to make news stories where schools are a place for learning and connection and community for kids.
1:33.0	For every child, because every child matters. Here's Phyllis.
1:41.0	When I was a little girl, I lived with Granny on the dark creek reserve part of the Strachem Khatlam First Nation.
1:49.0	We had no electricity and no indoor toilet.
1:53.0	In the summer when the sun was hot, I would cool myself off in the bathtub full of water that Granny kept in her garden.
2:01.0	Granny and I lived off the food we grew in Granny's Garden and berries from the land.
2:07.0	Granny and I would go to the Fraser River and catch fish.
2:11.0	We would eat some for dinner and dry the rest on the drying rack to save for winter.
2:16.0	We didn't have much, but we got by with what we had.
2:21.0	Growing up, I felt lonely. There weren't many children on the reserve to play with.
2:28.0	Each September, all the other children, like my cousin, would leave the reserve to go to school.
2:35.0	I looked forward to the day that I could go to.
2:39.0	I didn't get many hugs when I was little, but I did have Granny and Granny's house was a safe place for everyone on the reserve.
2:49.0	There were lots of people who came to Granny for help and advice.
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