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Pope Francis apology: Emotional moment as Indigenous woman sings anguished song in Cree

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An anguished rendition of a song similar to the tune of Canada's national anthem in Cree by an Indigenous woman as tears streamed down her face marked one of several emotional moments in the first leg of Pope Francis's apology tour in Canada on Monday.

Si Pih Ko’s song is being shared and resonating with people around the world — but on Tuesday, she told Global News it is being mistaken for the wrong tune.

“It wasn’t O Canada. It’s our village in our language of the Four Winds,” Si Pih Ko said at the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage, a day after her unscripted moment was shared around the world.

“For them to say it’s O Canada — I said no, it’s O Canada translated for their anthem. It’s an older dialect of the language of the Four Winds.”

After finishing singing, she spoke what she said was the “law of these lands” to Pope Francis.

The unscripted moment capped a ceremony fraught with symbolism for thousands of residential school survivors who sat in sombre silence as Francis said how "deeply sorry" he was for the Catholic church's role in Canada's abusive residential school system.

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