Mohawks, McGill, Quebec clash over how to search for Indigenous graves at Royal Vic
As distrust deepens over results of archeological digs at the former hospital property, a court decision looms.
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As distrust deepens over results of archeological digs at the former hospital property, a court decision looms.
They want a full investigation to determine whether the land on which the provincial liquor board wants to build an automation centre has human remains.
Quebec's liquor board - the SAQ - has halted excavation work at a warehouse in Montreal after questions were raised about the presence of an informal 'pigsty' cemetery where children's bodies from the 'Duplessis Orphans' era may lay.
"What we want is for all of the truth to come out," a confident woman named Kahenitetha tells MTL Blog. "And eventually this will happen." Kahenitetha is a member of a group of Mohawk mothers, Kanien'kehá:ka kahnistensera, who have been fighting a legal battle — and won a landmark case — with McGill University and the Societe québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) to archaeologically examine an area of land currently under development by the university. The mothers believe the site contains the unmarked remains of Indigenous children.