Communities plan to search for more Indigenous children's remains in Canada
Thousands of Indigenous children in Canada died in the custody of boarding schools meant to assimilate them. Communities are searching for their remains.
BRANTFORD, Ontario — Rows of kids' shoes and stuffed animals fill the front steps of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in this city about an hour and a half's drive southwest of Toronto. Visitors have created this memorial for Indigenous children whose remains were found buried on the grounds of other former boarding schools across Canada.
Geronimo Henry, 84, is a regular fixture at the site, helping tidy up the tributes and speaking with visitors.
"If you guys got any questions about the school, I went to this school from '42 to '53 — 11 years," he tells a couple on a recent afternoon.
"My dad's a survivor," says one of the visitors, Chris Buswa, "So was my grandma. She passed
