Brooklyn Rudolph, a member of Pimicikamak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, at a Walmart in Winnipeg on Sept. 24. She was selected by Walmart to create their Orange Shirt Day design.

Jenny Kay Dupuis was recently in a Winners store, when a senior asked for help finding certain sizes of an orange shirt on display.

The older woman was on her way to visit her grandchildren in the United States and wanted to bring them each the artistic shirt with “Every Child Matters,” the phrase synonymous with Orange Shirt Day.

She explained that she wanted to share with the kids the meaning of the shirt and the movement to recognize and honour residential school survivors and those who never made it home.

The woman didn’t know she was speaking with the Anishinaabe artist who designed the shirt hangin

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