Jesse Deer Scholarship 2-Time Winner
Written by Paul Graif on 1 May 2020
The annual Jesse Deer Memorial Media Scholarship has its first repeat recipient. Tehosterihens Deer is a 21-year-old studying communications and journalism at Syracuse University. He earned a spot on the honour roll last semester with a 3.7 GPA out of a possible 4.0:
“I’m still shocked, it’s honestly a very prestigious award that commemorates a really wonderful man in the community and I’m just really honoured.”
Deer hopes to come back and work in his field in Kahnawake. He has already spent time writing for the Eastern Door in the past:
“Yes, I do plan to work for the Eastern Door, just hoping that jobs will be available, but if there are no jobs I’ll probably do either freelance or just probably get a small contract with them, because I do love writing, I do love informing the community and it’s a really fun job.”
The scholarship is administered and handed out by a board of directors made up from K1037, The Eastern Door and Ioriwase.
