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Vanessa Watts, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology, McMaster University

How one research project is ‘re-neighbouring’ two Indigenous communities

The Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., in 1917. The former residential school and nearby Hamilton Mountain Sanitorium are subjects of a research project aiming to bring together two Indigenous communities. (Library and Archives Canada)

December 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report and its Calls to Action. Other forms of reconciliation are also happening among Indigenous communities that had previously been unconnected but share common experiences of systemic removal at the hands of powerful institutions.

This new reconciliation includes two Indigenous groups that narrowly missed one another at a very specific and dark time in Canadian history now coming back together under new terms — their own.

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