By Jan Murphy  Local Journalism Initiative TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY- A mentor apprentice program launched by Tsi Tyonnheht Onkwawen:na (TTO) is helping connect young learners with a first language role model to better facilitate language transmission in the community. Callie Hill, TTO’s executive director, said during an interview at the centre that less than two percent of the population on the Mohawk reserve west of Kingston can speak fluently in their mother tongue. “I think it’s growing,” she said. “People are at different levels of proficiency. In the past, it has been less than 1%, it might be more than 1% now. The on-reserve population is around 2,200, so there’s probably about 20 people (who speak fluently in their mother tongue).” Funded by the Tyendinga Mohawk council, and in collaboration with

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