A four-year-old boy was murdered at Mt. Elgin Residential School, but his family members can’t find his body. He was thrown out a window because he was crying. He was crying because his ears were infected so severely, they were leaking blood and puss. “It’s the truth. It’s well documented. We have the records from the London hospital where he died. We have all of the medical records and the coroner’s report,” Diane Hill, a board member of the Survivors Secretariat and survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School said. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon account and the Canadian government continues to throw up roadblocks for families and communities to locate their ancestors, despite acknowledging the residential school system as a cultural genocide in 2022. Hill has been working…
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