The second day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is underway in Pelican Narrows today.
This morning, audience members witnessed an apology on behalf of a United Church minister.
David Kim Cragg heads up a congregation in Saskatoon.
He said he can’t imagine someone coming to his house and asking to take away his son to a far away school.
Meantime, Veronique Ballantyne described her experience in vivid detail.
Ballantyne said she was just six years old when the plane came to take her away to Sturgeon Landing.
She said, when they landed, the boys were separated from the girls and they were marched into school.
She remembers having her hair cut with all the other girls and an oily substance rubbed into it.
Ballantyne said she also recalls many of the children crying in their beds that night, and how determined she was not to cry herself.
The hearings in Pelican Narrows end today and begin in Stony Rapids on Thursday.