My first Blog. the last few days I've been doing research on a few different subjects. One is about the Mush Hole, the Mohawk massacre of 1943.
A few months ago my heart was set on writing a book on God and Country, Without God There is No Country. Now i have started looking in to the history of the Mohawk.
August 12, 2017
At the Dawn of the 20th Century
Native Americans were thought to be a vanishing race.However, despite four hundred years of warfare, deprivation, and disease, American Indians have not gone away. Countless thousands have lost theirs lives, but over the course of this century, (we are coming back) the populations of native tribes have grown tremendously. Even the ones struggling to adopt to modern western life, they have also kept their flames of our traditions alive. the languages, stories, and everyday ways of life. An exhilarating renaissance in the Native American culture is now sweeping the nation coast to coast.
I come from Indigenous blood. My bloodline comes from my mothers side. there is not much known about us. But is known is, we come from the Mohawk tribe. i thought i knew everything about our family. I was fooled! i found out that its not just being a member of a tribe its about knowing who you are inside.of yourself. i have talked with my mother and many times about our people. I've gotten a ear full. i have heard many stories growing up.
Despite the social and cultural of major nation, from early history of native peoples in North America to their present-day struggles for survival and dignity.
Historical or complementary photographs of traditional subjects, as well as the period are blended in half truths. throughout each article I amble to write so that readers may gain a sense of each Nations way of living. there over 550 nations. No single person can comprehensively portray the intricate and vary the ways of life of an entire nation. there will never be enough paper or ink, not enough memory on any hard drive to get it all. i have found books dated back to the early 1700's, and thats bout it for now. i only hope that the young and the old people a like will come away with a deeper appreciation for this rich tapestry of Indian way of life- both past and the future, and a more interest to learn more about my people.
We can start here
Origins: a blend of lakes, rivers and forest the home country of the Iroquois is known for its strking beauty. Our story on how the world began. listen to the story. your mind will take you to another kind of reading all most the same.
"Turtle Island"
Long ago, before the Earth came to be a husband and a wife who were expecting a child lived in the sky. Sky World. in the center of the Sky World stood a great tree with four white roots stretching north, south east, and west in the direction of the wind. It was a sacred tree, not to be touched be anyone, from which grew many kinds of leaves, fruits, and flowers. One day the woman was gathering seeds and berries but also desired some bark from the tree. She pervaded her husband to scrape the bark for her, but he also dug at the root. The floor of the sky collapsed. Gazing into the opening, the husband and wife, were astonished that far below, there was only water and creatures who could live in or on it. Bending down for a closer look, the woman lost her balance and fell through the hole in the sky she had been caught by a flock of swans, which, flying wing tip to wing tip, they made aa feathery raft and carried her aloft.
But htere was no land, only water below in which swam with the fish and animals. the woman could nether fly nor swim, and the birds did not know what to do with her. Finally a turtle swam up and said,
"there is room on my back." So the swans gently placed her on its shell. Realizing that there must be earth on which the woman could live. the creatures of the world below plunged deep into the water searching soil. Again and a again they dove, but only the muskrat, could reach the bottom, it''s lungs nearly bursting, he brag up little mud each time he went down and came up.
"Place the earth on my back," the turtle said. The muskrat did so, and the woman began to walk in circles, in the same direction as the sun the mud grew and grew until it became Turtle Island, which is the Iroquois name for their_ home in the North America. the woman dropped the seeds and berries she had carried from the Sky World, and they sprouted into the plants and trees that now cover the earth. the woman later became
HODENOSAUNE
pronounced:
(hoe-de-no-Show-nee)
"which means people of the long house"
this is what the Iroquois call themselves, and how the land people came to be.
