TORONTO The very first cohort of high school graduates from l Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School in Toronto are celebrating the impact of their Indigenous-led education. It is just an exciting time to be transitioning from high school to university, especially coming from a very Indigenous-based school,” said graduating student Ella Laforme to CTV News. LaForme and her peers make up the very first high schools graduates at Kâpaâmahchakwêw, where Ojibwe language and Indigenous cultures, values and traditions particularly from the Anishinaabe perspective are “interwoven” through the curriculum, which is taught by Indigenous educators, elders, and knowledge keepers.
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In a brief news conference held outside the former school, Six Nations of the Grand River elected Chief Mark Hill called for a probe by Ontario Provincial Police, as well as Brantford and Six Nations police, into the children who died at the Mohawk Institute, which was Canada’s longest-running residential school.
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Hill said the Truth and Reconciliation Committee discovered at least 54 death records associated with the school.
“We don’t know where those little bodies are buried,” said Hill, citing that the school was relocated and destroyed twice by fire, making the search even more difficult.