Pink Shirt Day
The residential school Phyllis Webstad attended
St. Joseph's Residential School (or The Mission)
What is the similarities and differences of Bullying and harassment?
Harassment is similar to bullying because someone hurts another person through bad behaviors.
Harassment is not bullying because it is a type of discrimination.
How many First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were forced to attend Residential School
Around 150,000 (globalnews.ca)
What is bullying?
Bullying is a physical, verbal, or social attack where there is one person who has the power; the person doing the bullying has power over the person being bullied
How many Indigenous, Métis and Inuit children survived residential school?
An estimated 80,000 survivors are living today
In 2007, a grade nine student in Cambridge, Nova Scotia was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. Two students herded the other students. The next day, all the other students were wearing pink shirts.
On Phyllis Webstad's first day at Residential School she wore an shiny orange shirt which was taken away from her, and she never saw it again.
“The colour orange has always reminded me of that and how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and how I felt like I was worth nothing.”
Who were Travis Price and David Shepherd?
Why the quote “Every Child Matters.”?
On Phyllis Webstad's first day at the Residential School she wore a shiny orange shirt which was stripped from her body.
Said that, it made her feel as though she didn't matter