Brantford, ON – On Friday, the Mohawk Village Memorial Park team met to celebrate the $50,000 Community Building Fund grant received from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) in which the Project Coordinator position was renewed, enabling the Mohawk Village Memorial Park Board to once again function with current technology and expertise.
Voices of Survivors
Written by Roberta Hill, Mohawk Village Memorial Park’s Chairperson
Runaways
By Roberta Hill.
My sister Dawn Hill and Lillian Beaver were friends at the Mush Hole. I can’t remember the year the two of them decided to run away.
Broken Spirit
By Roberta Hill
My memories of living with my parents were happy ones until my father died in 1954. My mother struggled to raise 7 young children on her own. Unfortunately, she was not able
Bad Residential School Memories
A story by Doug George-Kanentiio
I was a student at the Mohawk Institute (a.k.a. the “Mushhole” for its unique brand of watery porridge) in Brantford, Ontario from January, 1967 to June, 1968 when I, along with a large group of Akwesasne Mohawks, were informed we would no longer be welcome to one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools