Rick Hill

(Tuscarora · Haudenosaune)

Biography

For decades, Rick Hill’s work has focused on improving North American museum relations with Indigenous Peoples through repatriation. He is a citizen of the Beaver Clan from the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and is currently an Indigenous Innovations Specialist at Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario.

Rick Hill is a renowned educator of Indigenous cultures, histories and arts whose work has helped shape educational programming across institutions in Canada and the United States.

Previously, Rick served as Assistant Director for Public Programs at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Museum Director at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Assistant Professor, Native American Studies at the University at Buffalo. For decades, his work has focused on improving North American museum relations with Indigenous Peoples through repatriation.

Rick recently retired as Senior Project Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic in Ohsweken, Ontario. In his current role as Indigenous Innovations Specialist, Rick is developing exhibitions for the recently renovated Mohawk Institute in Hamilton, Ontario. It is the oldest residential school in Canada.

Rick is a citizen of the Beaver Clan from the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.