In a powerful reminder of why the meetings between Pope Francis and Indigenous delegations took place this week, delegates from the Assembly of First Nations on Friday gave Francis several gifts including a white leather stole beaded with orange crosses.
Orange has become synonymous with residential schools in Canada, after author Phyllis Webstad wrote about her experience having an orange shirt taken from her on her first day of residential school.
Canada forced more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children to attend residential schools between the 1880s and 1997, a policy the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called “cultural genocide.” Francis apologized Friday for
