Communities set out to search for more Indigenous children’s remains in Canada

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Flowers, shoes and moccasins sit on the steps of the main entrance of the former Mohawk Institute, which was a residential school for Indigenous kids, in Brantford, Ontario. The memorial is to honor the children whose remains were discovered in unmarked graves in recent months in Canada.

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Geronimo Henry, 84, is a regular fixture at the site, helping tidy up the tributes and speaking with visitors. «If you guys got any questions about the school, I went to this school from ’42 to ’53 — 11 years, he tells a couple on a recent afternoon.

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This building once housed the Mohawk Institute, the oldest and longest-running boarding school for Indigenous children in Canada. It is currently undergoing renovations to become a museum about the residential school experience.

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A photo of Joey Commanda, a boy who died while running away from the Mohawk Institute, sits at a makeshift memorial on the steps of the former boarding school in Brantford, Ontario.

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A photo of Joey Commanda, a boy who died while running away from the Mohawk Institute, sits at a makeshift memorial on the steps of the former boarding school in Brantford, Ontario.

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«It makes me feel my time is worth it, you know, coming up here. We’re getting through to them, he says. «Hopefully these spirits are feeling what they’re feeling. [The visitors are] in mourning.

The ground-penetrating radar work will get underway in mid-October.