About 1,000 people were in attendance to acknowledge National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in Prince George on Friday at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park from 2 to 3 p.m.
Kim Gouchie was master of ceremonies and sang a song of welcome after one minute of silence took place at 2:15 to honour and remember the 215 who were discovered in unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Residential school survivors and their families who wished to be drummed into the event were invited to do so and then they took to the stage to be honoured by the sea of orange-clad attendees. "Don't ask for anything because no one cared, and don't tell - don't ever talk about what happened to you at the school," Quaw said.
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