Any orange shirt works, of course. But if you hope to truly honour the cause behind Orange Shirt Day, you might want to think a little more carefully.

Here's how to create the kind of change Indigenous families are looking for.

As a kid, I was jealous of my non-Indigenous peers whose families had the luxury of not being touched by this traumatic history.

I want my daughter to see that an Indigenous way of life isn’t an alternative lifestyle but a priority. It is essential, then, that I return to the parenting principles of my ancestors and consciously integrate Indigenous kinship practices into her childhood.

Before I became a mom, I needed to end the cycle of discord and abuse in my life.

I carried my baby in a tikinagan—an Indigenous parenting practice once restricted and now reclaimed.

There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.

Teaching my daughter how to love the land, how to play on the land, and how to be grateful for the land is what living on the reservation is all about.

“They increased the Pitocin and my body responded in a way that made me think that maybe this was like poison for us.”

Others might say that nursing a toddler is "extended breastfeeding," but my Indigenous community just calls it what it is: breastfeeding.