Indigenous artist shares buyer-beware for Orange Shirt Day [Video]

Many people will soon be wearing an orange shirt, an action meant to honour those impacted by residential schools, but not all orange shirts are what you think.

An Indigenous artist has a buyer-beware warning ahead of Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Jackie Traverse said she’s been dealing with stolen art on orange shirts for five years now. This year, she’s found two online sellers on Facebook using her art, one a more recent work featuring a turtle, the other of four women, which she says was first stolen from her 13 years ago.

Art work by Jackie Traverse, which she says is constantly stolen and used as a design for products. Uploaded Sept. 24, 2024. (Jackie Traverse)

“It’s still very popular. It’s my most stolen image,” Traverse said.

She could send a cease-and-desist order, but Traverse said it keeps happening every year. Instead, she and …