"Mohawk Institute a Historic Site"

Six Nations Band Council has designated the former Mohawk Institute a Six Nations Historic Place.

A group of residential school survivors came to band council's general meeting last week to witness the historic designation. "They (the local survivors' group) wanted us to designate the property a Six Nations Historic Site," said Elected Chief Ava Hill. "We're designating it a site so that it will help them to also go and get other people to designate as a site. It's the first time, I think, we've ever been asked to designate a building a historic site."

The designation will allow Six Nations to take steps with Heritage Canada to get the former residential school on Mohawk Street in Brantford designated a National Historic Site, and allow funding to be sought for the building.

Six Nations already has three national historic sites. The former Confederacy Council building, Chiefswood Mansion and Royal Chapel of the Mohawks. All three are pre-confederation buildings.