Healing Through Storytelling: Commemorating Residential School Survivors of Kenhtè:ke

The Museum will be hosting a special in person event with Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawèn:na Executive Director, Callie Hill, who will be presenting their newly published book, Healing Through Storytelling: Commemorating Residential School Survivors of Kenhtè:ke, Their Families and Descendants.Register HereIn 2019, Tsi Tyonnheht Onkwawenna (TTO) applied for a grant from Canadian Heritage’s Celebration and Commemoration Program to help the organization carry out activities focused on increasing awareness of the history and legacy of residential schools and honoring residential school survivors, their families and communities. The project included workshops that produced written and mixed media art pieces by descendants with the final outcome being a book and a short video. Callie Hill, Executive Director of TTO will present the video and the book and speak about the project and the impacts the residential school system had on her community of Kenhteke (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory).