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A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.

Survivor shares chilling truth about life in Mohawk Residential School

December 11, 2024

Roberta Hill is a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford. She is also a member of the board of directors for the Survivors’ Secretariat and shared a harrowing account of life inside the institution. She was taken there at the age of six in 1957, following the passing of her father and the hospitalization of her mother who had become sick. Hill was one of seven siblings, six entered th…

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