The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has begun to record statements from residential school survivors in Pelican Narrows.
Willie Littlechild is representing the commission at the two-day event.
This morning, he listened to David Roger Bear tell his story of being taken from his home in 1948 to the residential school in Prince Albert.
Bear said life there was very hard.
Speaking through an interpreter, he told the commission he and his friends were often cold and the clothes they were dressed in often fell apart by the end of the school year.
He said hunger was a way of life, and they would often scrounge for food themselves.
Bear added he liked it when his hair was cut short, because it was harder for his abusers to hold onto when they wanted to bang his head against a wall.
Meanwhile, the chief of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation says he thinks young people should hear more about what happened at residential schools.
Darrell McCallum thinks if more young people understood what happened at the institutions it would help bridge the gap between the two generations.
McCallum says a good way to do this would be to introduce the subject through the school curriculum.