'There are bodies here': survivors braced as search begins at Canada's oldest residential school
Long-overdue search for unmarked graves at notorious Mohawk Institute prompts renewed calls for full transparency
The shameful history of Canada’s residential schools – mapped
by Leyland Cecco in Brantford, Ontario
Wed 10 Nov 2021 05.00 EST
The yellow tape of the police cordon snapped and fluttered as a chill breeze swept over the grounds of what was once one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools.
The entire 500-acre property is now being treated as a huge crime scene as the long-overdue search finally begins for the children who were sent to live here – but never returned home.
“I hope they find bodies because of what they did to us,” said Alfred Johnson, who attended the school in 1947. “They used us for slave labour.”
On Tuesday, police and community members at the Six Nations of the Grand River began searching the grounds of the Mohawk Institute – the oldest and longest-running residential school in Canada – as they launched a grim search for the remains of children who many believe were buried here in unmarked graves.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/10/canada-residential-schools-unmarked-graves-mohawk-institute
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