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Laura Arndt

Survivors Secretariat Volunteers

Rising Up: Lifting The Voices & Contributions of Indigenous Youth

For over 136 years, parents of children who attended the Mohawk Institute were robbed of their ability to care for their children. This summer, a group of intergenerational Survivors – youth aged 17-29 – stepped forward to partner with Survivors in the search for unmarked burials and missing children using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology.

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Survivors’ Secretariat Board of Director member and Mohawk Institute Survivor, Dawn Hill, speaks at a Press Conference in 2021.

The Time is Now: Survivors Urge Canadian Government and Anglican Church to Release All Records

At a special council meeting held on May 17, 2022, Brantford City Council unanimously supported a Notice of Motion that calls on the federal and provincial governments, as well as the Anglican Church, to release all documents in the possession of the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and the Anglican Church related to the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School to Survivors’ Secretariat immediately.

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Members of the Survivor Group

We Are The Witnesses

How a group of Survivors are working to uncover and share the truth about what happened at the Mohawk Institute In May 2021, when the

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