Scholars are connecting survivors from the Mush Hole in Brantford and Inuit tuberculosis patients who were brought from Nunavut to the sanatorium in Hamilton.
Vanessa Watts will examine the experiences of Indigenous individuals sent to the Mohawk Institute Residential School and the nearby Hamilton Mountain Sanatorium, bringing together and ‘re-neighbouring’ members of two disparate communities affected by colonialism.
Vanessa Watts is exploring what reconciliation looks like outside of state-informed processes, helping to create forward-looking, intergenerational connections between Inuit and Haudenosaunee communities.
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