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Between 2018 and 2022, I helped some Nishnaabeg, including Bonnie Bressette, write a book about their struggle to reclaim their home reserve in southwestern Ontario. One Sunday, before going to Bressette’s place for supper, I dropped in at a local United Church service. I had heard that someone in the congregation had photos of some of the children who’d been sent to the nearby Mount Elgin residential school — which was run by the United Church — and asked where they might be. I thought that Bressette, in her 80s, would be interested since her mother…