Mr. Richard Wayne Hill

  • Oshweken, Ontario, Canada

Order of Canada

  • Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada

    • Awarded on: November 14, 2023
    • Invested on: September 18, 2025

    Richard Wayne Hill, O.C.
    Ohsweken, Ontario

    Rick Hill is a member of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation and a leading knowledge specialist at the First Nation Technical Institute. A historian and museum curator, he has led a 40-year campaign to repatriate wampum to their original Haudenosaunee owners and makers. He is also celebrated at Hamilton’s Mohawk College for educating new generations of Indigenous learners in Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous intellectual, social, political and artistic traditions.

    This is an honorary appointment.