Six Nations of the Grand River asks Trudeau for help searching grounds of Mohawk Institute

Canada’s largest First Nations territory is asking the federal government to help it search the grounds of a former residential school for unmarked graves.

Six Nations of the Grand River issued an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling on the government to equip the community for a comprehensive search.

Elected Chief Mark Hill notes that the Mohawk Institute in the southern Ontario territory was one of Canada’s first residential schools.

Hill says that the school was “unregulated and unaccountable from the start.”

Six Nations is asking the federal government to provide the latest ground-penetrating radar technology to expedite the search.

It comes following the discovery of children’s remains at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

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