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Six Nations police seek help with probe of deaths at Mohawk Institute
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Six Nations police seek help with probe of deaths at Mohawk Institute
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“Many children died at the institute,” Hill said, reading from a letter sent to Six Nations police Chief Darren Montour on behalf of herself and other survivors. “We do not know what happened to them or where they are buried.
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“We request the police to investigate the deaths of these children and where they are buried. We need answers and we need to find the children.”
Chief Mark Hill of Six Nations of the Grand River said the survivors’ “official request” is enough to trigger a multi-police force criminal investigation into what happened to 54 children whose death records were filed at the school.
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Local Indigenous leaders on Wednesday called for a criminal investigation over children they say went missing from the former Mohawk Institute residential school in Brantford
In a brief press conference, Six Nations of the Grand River Chief Mark Hill called for a probe by Ontario provincial police, as well as Brantford and Six Nations police, into the children – at least 54, he said – who died at the Mohawk Institute, which was Canada’s longest-running residential school.
“What we don’t know is where those little bodies are buried,” he said. The probe will be in consultation with school survivors.
Indigenous leaders demand search for graves at area residential school
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