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‘I can still hear the children’: Canada’s residential schools survivors welcome chance to reclaim sites

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Former Mohawk Institute in Ontario latest to become a museum, as survivors hope preserving sites will prevent horrors they witnessed from being forgottenIn the foyer of the former Mohawk Institute residential school, a plaque makes a request to visitors: help us identify unnamed survivors. “We do not know the names of some of the people in the photos used in the exhibition. If you recognize someone, please share that information.”

Former Mohawk Institute in Ontario latest to become a museum, as survivors hope preserving sites will prevent horrors they witnessed from being forgotten

In the foyer of the former Mohawk Institute residential school, a plaque makes a request to visitors: help us identify unnamed survivors.

“We do not know the names of some of the people in the photos used in the exhibition. If you recognize someone, please share that information.”

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