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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…