Residential school survivors testify in front of international tribunal
Residential school survivors testify in front of international tribunal

A spirit chair draped with a blanket and set with small red bundles was set at the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Montreal to represent the children who never came home from Canada's Indian Residential Schools.

A panel of residential school survivors provided witness testimony on Tuesday to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, an international independent court of opinion investigating Canada's responsibility for the residential school system and the human rights violations associated with it.