About 500 people participated in a feast and round dance in North Battleford this past weekend to honour residential school survivors.

The event was organized by the Sunchild Law Office of the Battlefords area.

The firm represents about 700 residential school survivors.

Spokesperson Eleanore Sunchild says the event was a way to show how much residential school survivors are respected, for all they went through.

She notes there are many harsh stories of sexual abuse and missing children that are not yet known.

Participants came from across Saskatchewan and as far away as Manitoba.