TURTLE ISLAND NEWS SPECIAL EDITION: Truth and Reconciliation…the searches go on

Mohawk Institute survivor Sherlene Bomberry and Survivors’ Secretariat Outreach Lead Misty Ladd stand among a display commemorating the children who died attending the Mohawk Residential School. See story and photos inside our special edition. (Photo by Austin Evans)

Survivors’ Secretariat holding hope for missing children By Austin Evans Writer One hundred children…so far. Children who would have been lost to history if the Six Nations of the Grand Rivers’ Survivors’ Secretariat hadn’t stepped in. With the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on the horizon on the lawn outside the secretariat’s Fourth Line headquarters are 100 signs in the shape of feathers not just to commemorate the national day, but to honour 100 children the secretariat has identified, so far, as having either died at, or due to, the Mohawk Institute. “By using feathers, they are a symbol of how feathers fall from a bird, and they become a part of the environment where they land, returning back to mother earth where we come from,” said display creator Misty…

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