Dr. Vanessa Watts awarded $2M to address Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action

A research project examining the experiences of Indigenous residents of the Mohawk Institute Residential School and the Hamilton Mountain Sanatorium has received more than $2 million dollars in funding.

Re-Neighbouring as Reconciliation: Indigenous Stories of Resistance, a multi-year project led by Indigenous Studies and Sociology associate professor Vanessa Watts, will explore how residential schools and the forced displacement of Inuit to tuberculosis sanatoriums were both part of the same colonial process of assimilation.

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