CANADA
Leader-Post
By Jason Warick, The StarPhoenix June 23, 2012
Twelve-year-old Chance Adrian sat onstage with 32 other relatives, listening to his grandfather, Ted Quewezance, tell the audience about his residential school experience.
“(Quewezance) has been talking about this for a long time. I thought it would be good to be here for him,” Chance said Friday following the morning session of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada hearings at Prairieland Park.
“I learned a lot. They were treated almost like animals. It was crazy.”
Residential school survivors are testifying before the commission this week as part of the TRC’s fourday national gathering in Saskatoon, which continues through the weekend. Survivors are generally accompanied by a spouse, friend or counsellor as they testify. Chance and the rest of his family, wearing colourful matching scarves, decided they all needed to be there.
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