September 17, 2026

A 2017 Supreme Court ruling authorized the destruction of 38,000 Indian Residential School Survivor’s records, including their testimonies after September 2027. As September 2027 approaches, Mohawk lawyer and co-lead of the Indian Residential School Records Project asks, what truths must we protect to ensure that the gross violations of human rights and other atrocities that occurred against Indigenous children never happen again?