Category: Mohawks

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The Mohawk Ten Commandments

GANIENKEH – 40 years ago on this day, Karoniaktajeh (aka Louis Hall) authored what he termed “The Mohawk Ten Commandments” in the Warrior Society’s newsletter. Karoniaktajeh was an artist and teacher who designed the Unity flag,...

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Iroquois Cosmology and the Clan System

By Tom Keefer SIX NATIONS – Tehahenteh is a Turtle Clan Kanien’kehà:ka elder from Six Nations who teaches the Kanien’kéha language. On February 3rd, 2016 he sat down to speak with Real Peoples Media about...

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Indigenize or die

Restoring indigenous knowledge of the land By Fernando Arce TORONTO – What do we really know about Indigenous Peoples outside of movies and history books? Why do we call them “native” in the first...

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Akwesasne Animals in Kanienkéha

AKWESASNE – Kanienkéha (Mohawk Language) student Monica Peters has recently produced a video of all the beautiful animals she sees in the forest of her home community in Kawehno:ke ko:wa, Akwesasne, Cornwall Island. Peters...

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Ganienkeh and the escape from Band Council control

AKWESASNE – Kanasaraken (aka Loran Thompson) speaks about the problems affecting his community in Akwesasne, and the problems that traditional Onkwehon:we people are facing at the hands of the colonial Band/Tribal Councils. In discussing possible ways...

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WGO 9 – The Deyodyohkwahnhasta – The People’s Wampum

ONEIDA OF THE THAMES – Episode 9 of the What’s Going On Podcast was recorded at Oneida of the Thames territory on May 6th 2015. A group of Rotiskenrakehte gathered to speak about the...

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The Onkwehon:we connection with Ecuador

By Tom Keefer AKWESASNE – Mohawk elder Kanasaraken (aka Loran Thompson) recently spoke to Real Peoples Media about his visit to Ecuador to see the devastation in the Amazonian rainforest caused by Chevron. Kanasaraken...

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30 Years and $33 Million

By John Kane January 21, 2014 It’s not a prison sentence. It just feels like one. And I’m sure it feels the same to many others. It’s the cost for gaining “recognition” by the...

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Rule of Law or Rule of Lawyers?

by John Kane September 18, 2013 We often hear from the righteous voices of the U.S. and Canada when looking at countries and peoples they view as inferior, that the “ rule of law...

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Ka’nikonriyo Podcast 8 – Operation MYGALE and the Six Nations tobacco industry

Kelly MacNaughton, a Mohawk business woman from Six Nations speaks about the implications of Operation MYGALE, and what she thinks will be next for the Tobacco Industry at Six Nations.