Intense ground-surveying work started up again this summer on the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute but, behind the scenes, it’s never stopped.

The search of the 607-acre property looking for anomalies that may point to undocumented graves could grind to a halt due to lack of funding.

For now, eight summer students and two coordinators are back on the grounds using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and other high-tech procedures after getting emergency funding from the Six Nations administration.

But the work that’s guiding the ground search really hasn’t stopped since beginning in 2021

“We’re doing a lot of archival research,” said Laura Arndt, lead for the Survivors’ Secretariat that’s heading the project.

“There are 150 databases we know of and we’ve accessed 50 of them, gatherin

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