<p>In this episode, the Fort Calgary team chats with Phyllis Webstad, the founder and ambassador of the Orange Shirt Society. She talks about her work sharing her story across Canada, and raising awareness about the impacts of the residential school system.</p>

In this episode, the Fort Calgary team chats with Phyllis Webstad, the founder and ambassador of the Orange Shirt Society. She talks about her work sharing her story across Canada, and raising awareness about the impacts of the residential school system.

What is the Orange Shirt Society?

Explore the vast network of places and complex stories that reach across Canada and connect to the place we now call Fort Calgary National Historic Site. Unravelling Complex Stories (formerly Complex Stories) delves into the reality of our histories and the questions that emerge from it.

Fort Calgary is situated where the Bow and Elbow Rivers meet in Treaty 7 territory, these were the ancestral lands of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy, as well as the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations comprising Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley; the Tsuu'tina Nation of the Dené people, and the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3.

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Explore the vast network of places and complex stories that reach across Canada and connect to the place we now call Fort Calgary National Historic Site. Unravelling Complex Stories (formerly Complex Stories) delves into the reality of our histories and the questions that emerge from it. Fort Calgary is situated where the Bow and Elbow Rivers meet in Treaty 7 territory, these were the ancestral lands of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy, as well as the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations comprising Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley; the Tsuu'tina Nation of the Dené people, and the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3.

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What is the Orange Shirt Society?

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