Description
Karenna’onwe (Gaw-law-naw-oo-way) Dr. Karen Hill is a Mohawk physician from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is the mother of two sons and step mother to five daughters. She completed medical school in 2003 and Family Medicine Residency in 2005 – both from McMaster University. Her passion is to see Traditional Indigenous Knowledge return to the centre of life and healthcare for Indigenous people across Canada. In 2015 Karen became the first recipient of the Thomas Dignan award for Indigenous Health conferred by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the same year she also received The College of Family Physicians Excellence Award for leading the way in Indigenous collaborative care in primary practice. Also, in 2016 she was honoured by McMaster University with a Community Impact Award.
The Good Mind is about Karenna’onwe's mother who was born during the Depression on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Within vignettes from her mother’s life growing up on the Rez, “The Good Mind” offers the embodiment of Creator’s Original Instructions to the people and the beauty of life that ensues.
Karenna’onwe's passion is to see traditional Indigenous knowledge return to the centre of life for Indigenous people along with the love for her mother has brought her to write this first book in a series of four.