Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grass-roots movement started by Phyllis Webstad from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation to acknowledge the harms inflicted on Indigenous peoples through the residential school system (Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre). Phyllis is a residential school survivor.

In Anishnaabemowin/Ojibwe manoonmin “is the word for ‘good seed’ or ‘good berry’ and is a wild rice, “a very valuable grain that has been used by the First Nations people from parts of North America, as food, for thousands of years” (Kawartha Lakes Public Library).

Smudging is a “sacred ceremony to most First Nations” (Indigenous Saskatchewan Encyclopedia) and Métis Nation (Fiola, 2015). Smudging is a significant aspect of Indigenous culture across Turtle Island, connecting people to “spirit and to the creator” using the “sacred medicines sage, sweetgrass, cedar, and tobacco” (