Upcoming Events
December 14, 2024 – 1924: What We Know/What Have We Learned?
Join the Woodland Cultural Centre on December 14th in-person or online for a conversation about the “removal” of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council in October 1924 and its impacts upon the Six Nations community.
Dinner will be provided for in-person attendees. There is limited seating available for in-person attendance, so be sure to register in advance.
Event Agenda:
2 PM: Keynote Address by Rick Hill – “Tale of Two Governments – How the Dominion tried to dominate the Haudenosaunee”
Panel Discussions:
3 PM: Six Nations of the Grand River 1784–1924: Reform, Sovereignty, Challenges
4 PM: From 1924 to Now: Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council
5 PM: What’s Next? 2024–2124:
Panelists to be confirmed
6 PM: Dinner
7 PM: Community film premiere of “Deskaheh”
With Director Allan Downey and Special Guests
Location: Hybrid
In-Person: Woodland Cultural Centre
184 Mohawk Street, Brantford, ON, N3S 2X2
Virtual: Zoom
Everyone is welcome to attend. Free admission!
December 18, 2024 – Public Virtual Screening of Silent No More
The Woodland Cultural Centre presents a screening of Silent No More: A Virtual Tour of the Former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School on Wednesday December 18 at 6:00pm.
The former Mohawk Institute Residential School (Mush Hole) was the longest operating residential school in Canada. A building created to destroy Indigenous identity and heritage is now the home of the Woodland Cultural Centre, a site dedicated to the revitalization of Hodinohsho:ni cultures and languages.
“Residential School is the only school you’re considered a survivor and not a graduate.” Beau Miller, 2022 (Mohawk Institute Survivor)
Thank you to our film production team, Achimowin Films, and to the generous funders of the Educational Enhancement Project, Inspirit, Brant Community Foundation, McLean Foundation, The Slaight Family Foundation, CIBC Foundation, and TD Bank Foundation.
Your donation will help support our education department to create and deliver virtual programming at the Woodland Cultural Centre. We want to continue to deliver the highest quality programs centered on a Hodinohsho:ni worldview, celebrating, and sharing Indigenous cultures, languages, and art. Please join us in bearing witness to the experiences of residential school survivors through the new virtual tour of the former Mohawk Institute.
This Film is rated PG-13, parents strongly cautioned. Some material may not be suited for children under age 13 (verbal descriptions of violence and sexual assault towards children).
Cost: $10 donation to the education department
