Story Circle Presenter – Mohawk Elder Ellie Joseph

Ellie Joseph, Mohawk Elder from Six Nations is of the Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, born, raised, and still lives on the Six Nations Reserve along the bank of The Grand River. She retired from a thirty-four-year tenure as a classroom teacher of Elementary School in our public school system a decade ago but remains an active volunteer in the education field, and tutors privately.

After paddling on the sixteen-day Two Row Renewal Campaign from Albany to Manhattan, New York, on The Hudson River in 2013, Ellie Joseph was one of four participants who established what is now known as “Two Row on the Grand.” Functioning as a grassroots volunteer committee, they have watched this project’s participation increase in size. Two Row on the Grand is an annual nine-day family-oriented camping and paddling excursion on The Grand River, starting in Cambridge and ending at Port Maitland, Lake Erie.