Roberta Hill has been talking about the brutality of Canada's residential school system for years, but it took the discovery of unmarked graves at the site of a former school in British Colombia for people to really start listening.
She was just six years old when she was sent in 1957 to the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario — one of 139 residential schools operating for Indigenous children between the 1870s and the 1990s.
To this day, locals from the nearby Six Nations reservation call the Mohawk Institute the "Mush Hole", a reference to the bland, mushy food served up there.
