Six Nations Musician Jace Martin debuted a new song dedicated to honouring the children lost to the Canadian residential school system. Martin's "Honour Song" was released on Sept. 29.

Martin spoke on his hopes to help people move forward but never forget about those lost to the Canadian residential school system.

"It's not about forgetting what happened but its about moving forward together in unity," he said.

"I know it's such a dividing issue, if we want to move in the future, we want to get better, we want to heal," he added. "A lot of Indigenous want to heal from that, there's got to be some kind of forgiveness and moving together in unity in order to heal."

Martin said that while he was making the song, he kept wanted to make sure he brought awareness to the issue and also wanted to assist in bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous people together.

"I didn't want to divide people, I didn't want to shame people or make people feel bad because that's not what music does. Music is supposed to inspire and bring hope and bring us together so I hope that's what the songs doing," he said.

"I know it's all about bridging the gap, it's all about forgiving, it's all about moving forward and we have to do that together because we're allies, Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, everyone in Canada."

He spoke about the importance of talking about the impact that the residential school system had on indigenous people in Canada and allowing the current generation to heal to end the trauma caused.

"I feel like that's kind of the key for us to move forward. To be strong, to be together, be with each other and be a place that people can talk about it openly," he said.

"Our parents and their parents they couldn't talk about it and they didn't want to talk about it, it was too hard and too real. But I feel like us as the next generation, as the kids we need to talk about it, we need to do that trauma work, we need to heal so that we don't keep that pattern going for our kids. It's got to stop at one of these generations."

Martin detailed shooting the music video for the song at the Mohawk Institute in Brantford that operated from 1831 to 1970 as a residential school.

"When you go there you can feel it, it's not a dark presence but there's a presence there and it's got a history," he said.

"It's definitely there and you definitely feel it but I think it's something to be respected."

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