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Confronting Canada’s residential school history at what was the Mohawk Institute

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Richard Hill is pictured here at the Grand Unveiling of the Mohawk Institute Residential School on Monday, September 22, 2025. Hill was recently appointed as an honorary officer of the order of Canada for his contributions to indigenous art history and culture (Photo by Michael Stamou).
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With the release of the book, Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School, the editors and many contributors, including survivors, shared personal stories, unvarnished accounts and truthful insight into the residential school, which operated from 1828 to 1970 in Brantford, Ont.

Richard W. Hill Sr., a historian, and one of the editors of the book, as well as a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River, described his journey in first discovering his roots, and ultimately leading to his research into the Mohawk Institute residential school.

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