Wave of Orange hits Brantford for National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

A crowd of hundreds marched from Brantford’s Civic Centre down Mohawk Street all the way to the former Mohawk Institute Residential School marking Orange Shirt Day Monday and the children that went there. (Photo by Jim C. Powless)

By Austin Evans Writer BRANTFORD- While hundreds donned their orange shirts and marched through the streets of Brantford marking Orange Shirt Day, a residential school survivor says bones have been found at the former Mohawk Institute. Dawn Hill is a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School and board member of both the Survivors’ Secretariat and the Mohawk Village Memorial Park. She told Turtle Island News construction on a memorial park, planned adjacent to the former school, is on hold after an archaeological assessment found bones in the ground this past spring. “First of all, we had three experts look at those bones,” she said. “One guy said they’re human bones, another guy said those are animal bones, third guy said that one’s human and these ones are animals.” Since…

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