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Brandi Morin

MYSTERIOUS: The indigenous elder hoping for an apology from the pope - What They Never Told You

Chief Wilton Littlechild is a residential school survivor and an official delegate to meet Pope Francis in Rome [Amber Bracken/Al Jazeera]

Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419.

Alberta, Canada – Thumbing through a binder of photographs and mementos gathered during the course of his lifetime, Dr Wilton Littlechild stops to trace the lines of a pencil drawing with his finger. It is a sketch of Pope Pius XII that he drew almost 60 years ago when he attended a residential school.

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