A new museum is putting one of Canada’s darkest chapters into the spotlight, to foster education and an understanding of the history of Indigenous culture.

At the former site of the Mohawk Institute Residential School, a new interpretive cultural centre is set to officially open in Brantford.

For over 140 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken away from everyone and everything that they knew or loved. The building now holds their truth and honours the children who were forced to attend the Mohawk Insitute.

“What I’m seeing in this building today is our history. This is also Canada’s history,” said Roberta Hill, a Mohawk Institute survivor.

“It was important to us to try to give visitors to place themselves into the foot steps if those children or even to think about their o

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