After the discovery of 215 children's bodies, all buried in a mass grave at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., Indigenous communities across Canada reflected on the past.

They did so in remembrance of the trauma that residential schools had brought, with many of the victims still living to this day.

The vigil was held on Friday and had a wide range of special guest speakers, like Michael Lonechild, a Saskatchewan artist who prayed for the children in Cree and gave a short speech. Elder Norm Fleury was also present and gave prayers in Michif as a Métis elder.

Linda Sopp, the organizer of the event and President of the Métis Nation Saskatchewan's local #25 area says that the vigil was quite the experience.

"It was awesome. We had approximately 100 people come and we were overwhelmed by the positive response we received from it. It was really awesome," said Sopp.

For Sopp, she saw that the Indigenous community wanted people to know what had happened in those schools.

"There were a lot of broken hearts and they were proud that we had done it and we had given people an idea as to what happened," said Sopp, "They were hoping that this opened up everyone's eyes as to how indigenous people have been treated and are still treated."

Sopp says that many of the non-Indigenous people in attendance learned a lot from the guest speakers.

"A lot of them had no idea. They didn't realize the pain and the suffering that parents had to go through when their kids were taken from their homes and put into the schools," said Sopp, " It was very sad. They're still having a hard time, the ones that were in residential schools have a very hard time talking about it because it was very torturous."

The Métis community has another event planned; they'll be holding a Métis Cultural Day in July. Sopp says anyone can attend, so they can learn more about her culture.