Two years after the TRC started traveling across Canada to hear testimony from residential school survivors, it visited Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for three days. "[Shame] was a common residential school storyline, unfortunately--and he talked about his shame of being this Indian in the dressing room. Later in his testimony, though, Sasakamoose told commissioners about how the sport had helped him heal. Later in his hockey career, Wilson said, Sasakamoose played in the middle of a line with a Black right winger and Chinese left winger. He said to Littlechild that he was a survivor, and told Wilson that she was a woman, and women were strong, she recalled.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2020 12:56 UTC