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Following the Truth and Reconciliation
Commissions process, many institutions and

Canadian people are trying to find ways to

repair and reverse the major harm that was

done to the Indigenous people. The Mohawk

language course is not a direct decendent of the

Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but came
about because those that followed these issues

noted that teaching of Indigenous languages

was one of the recommendations of the Truth

and Reconciliation Commission and saw an

opportunity to help.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-timeline-of-

residential-schools-the-truth-and-reconciliation-

commission-1.724434

The land for 5 miles either side of the Grand

River is an area promised by the Crown for

Indigenous people to live in perpetuity. In time

German farmers and other settlers moved into
the area and the land was eventually taken over,

developed and the population grown, hence

why there is a strong German Mennonite

presence in Waterloo, St.Jacob’s and many

surrounding areas.