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 \u00a0the 1970s. \u201cIt\u2019s a bad reminder of what happened, what took place there,\u201d she \u00a0says, sitting in an empty conference room at the Innu Round Table \u00a0Secretariat office in Sheshatshiu. Having to walk by the school\u2019s junior dormitory, with its boarded windows and chipped paint, led Michel to call for the building\u2019s destruction in 2021. Now she\u2019s 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\u2019s town \u00a0council, she told The Independent, in order to \u201chave people\u2019s stories in \u00a0there so people can know what took place there, as… <\/p>\n
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 \u00a0the 1970s. \u201cIt\u2019s a bad reminder of what happened, what took place there,\u201d she \u00a0says, sitting in an empty conference room at the Innu Round Table \u00a0Secretariat office in Sheshatshiu. Having to walk by the school\u2019s junior dormitory, with its boarded windows and chipped paint, led Michel to call for the building\u2019s destruction in 2021. Now she\u2019s 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\u2019s town \u00a0council, she told The Independent, in order to \u201chave people\u2019s stories in \u00a0there so people can know what took place there, as... <\/p>\n