Many Mohawk ironworkers helped raise the original World Trade Centre Towers in New York City.

In 2001, they were also there to help clean up the remnants after the 9/11 attacks.

For some, that clean up has come at a great cost to their health.

Lindsay Richardson Reporter / Montreal Lindsay was born and raised on the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), and joined APTN News as a Quebec correspondent in 2019. While in university, she collaborated on a multiplatform project about the revitalization of the Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) language to commemorate the International Year of Indigenous Languages. Before APTN Lindsay worked at the Eastern Door, CTV Montreal and the Montreal Gazette.

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