Orange Shirt Day

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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.

Equivalents

FrançaisJour du chandail orange Journée du t-shirt orange

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

orange site orange squash orange staff sergeant orange stick orange sunshine orange swift

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