Innu survivor wants former Labrador residential school building turned into a museum

To get to the post office in North West River, for years Joanna Michel would pass the residential school where she spent eight years in  the 1970s. “It’s a bad reminder of what happened, what took place there,” she  says, sitting in an empty conference room at the Innu Round Table  Secretariat office in Sheshatshiu. Having to walk by the school’s junior dormitory, with its boarded windows and chipped paint, led Michel to call for the building’s destruction in 2021. Now she’s had a change of heart and would rather see the building turned into a museum. Last year, Michel made the proposal to North West River’s town  council, she told The Independent, in order to “have people’s stories in  there so people can know what took place there, as…

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