A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The Akwesasne Family Wellness Program staff delivered over 600 pink shirts to Kawehnoke, Kanatakon and Tsi Snaihne Schools and area childcare centers. On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, students wore these pink shirts with the printed saying "Kindness is One Size Fits All" as part of Pink Shirt Day, an anti-bullying initiative campaign. Pink Shirt Day was started in Nova Scotia with two incredible high school teens. The two teens, David Sheperd and Travis Price, took a stand when they noticed...
Saturday, February 26, was an evening of experience, appreciation, and visualization. It was an event called "Art Wars", a first for Akwesasne's community and sponsored by Native North American Traveling College. It was exciting to watch and the evening's "war," which lasted from 5pm until 9 pm as it showcased 14 local artists. The St. Regis Mohawk School was the location of the paint off and the room was quickly filled to capacity. Upon entering the multipurpose room, a spectator would see 14 e...
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On Sunday February 29, 2015, the Seven Dancers Coalition and the Three Sisters Program collaboratively hosted Beading for Healing with Niio Perkins: Healing through Art & Expression class. The Seven Dancers Coalition is a federally funded community program that primarily works to create conversations focused on the awareness and prevention of sexual assault, domestic violence, campus safety, teen dating, stalking and sex trafficking. The Seven Dancers Coalition also provides training to service...
The next generation of explorers and scientists are getting their start at AMBE Schools in Akwesasne. Students at each of the schools in head start to kindergarten eagerly learned about an array of topics. Early years students at Tsi Snaihne explored the topic of "Flight," while students at Kanatakon concentrated on "Transportation" and students at AMS on Kawehnoke focused on the "Sea." Teachers at each of the AMBE schools worked days in advance to decorate each schools gymnasium according to...
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Thank You/Niawen Ko:wa Father Henry Sands from the Black and Indian Mission office in Washington, D.C. for the Saint Kateri Door Prizes: Winners: 1st Brenda King, 2nd Cole Phillips and 3rd Carole Ross. Sister Kateri Mitchell, SJ for Tekakwitha Conference, National Office in Alexandria, L.A. for the information about Saint Kateri, Mr. Irving Papineau and the six confirmation candidates who lead in the Rosary. Minerva White, Cole Phillips, and Kathy Herne who played our music. Caroline Peters for the information about our local Saints. To...
By Connie Gerow, 4-H Mentoring Coordinator The invitation was extended, but for many who have travelled from the southern part of our great New York State to our North Country communities, the weather can be unbearable. Clearly, at this time of year one may encounter an array of weather conditions that may include clear sunny skies to highly hazardous white-out conditions. In an effort to attend the Franklin County CCE 4-H Youth and Family with Promise (YFP) Tribal Mentoring program's 4th...
(Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Press Release) Akwesasne, NY - Members of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council were onhand as the Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) recognized Brayden Sonny White as a 2016 Champion for Change on Tuesday, Enníska/February 25, 2016. Held during a special presentation at the National Congress of American Indian’s Tribal Nations Legislative Summit in Washington, DC, Sonny White was one of five Native youth to receive the prestigious award for serving as extraordinary young leaders in their resp...
by Rachelle Garrow-Hayes....
New York, NY—For the Onondaga Nation, it’s all about relationships. Relationships with ancestors, relationships with governments, relationships with each other, and relationship with the natural world. Each of these is highlighted in The Good Mind, a new film by New York filmmaker Gwendolen Cates that premiered on February 27, 2016 during the 13th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana. “This film takes on the amazing task of showing how as a traditional nation we still raise up our leaders in our traditional way while...
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued the following statement on today’s decision by the Appellate Division in the office’s lawsuit against Trump University: “Today’s decision is a clear victory in our effort to hold Donald Trump and Trump University accountable for defrauding thousands of students. The state Supreme Court had already granted our request for summary judgment determining that Trump and his University are liable for operating illegally in New York as an unlicensed educational institution. Today’s decision me...
The Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment (ATFE) will be offering a fruit tree pruning workshop for the community on Saturday March 5th at 12:30. It will be held at the apple orchard behind the Akwesasne Library. Follow the road towards the river. Equipment will be available for people to use. Workshop is free but please call to register. Contact Craig Arquette at 518-358-5937 ext. 119....
Joanne Shenandoah's condition as of February 29: Joanne is doing well and has undergone many tests and treatments prior to her being placed on the liver transplant list. Once all of her assessments are completed she will wait for the right donor and then undergo a 6-10 hour operation followed by two months of recovery. She is optimistic that she will be returned to good health by late spring....
Submitted by Hannah Leaf As part of the Valentine's Day activities in AMBE schools this year, we incorporated the Have a Heart Day initiative. Have a Heart Day is a national event that brings together caring Canadians to ensure First Nations children living on reserve have the services they need to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy, and be proud of who they are. AMBE classes participated by sending Valentine's Day cards to the Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of...
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Last week after a weather delay the Akwesasne Mohawk School students showed their scientific and creative sides during a two day Science Fair. The Early Years program had their portion of the Science Fair on Thursday. Their projects were water related and the students were allowed to have their families help them put together their projects. The older classes held their "Science On the Wall" presentations on Friday, February 26....
Submitted by Lynda Brown...
When the world was new, long ago, an old man was wandering around. This old man had long, white hair and wherever he stepped the ground grew hard as stone. When he breathed the rivers stopped flowing and the ponds became solid. The birds and animals fled before him and plants dried up and died as the leaves shriveled and fell from the trees. Finally this old man found a place where he could set up his lodge. He made the walls of ice and covered it over with snow. He sat inside his lodge in...
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By Tyler Touchette We are a culture that has lost its way in many ways. We are disconnected from the Earth, disconnected from our food, disconnected from our spirit, and disconnected from our selves… As a good friend of mine once told me “Tyler, we are all sick.. All of us. And only we can get ourselves out of it.” I believe many people feel as though getting in better physical condition is like climbing Mount Everest. We think its impossible. We think we are screwed and there’s no fixing the damage done. Then we simply wait for illness...
Submitted by Paul Hetzler Senescence is the decline in vigor that happens to all creatures great and diminutive as they close in on the life expectancy of their species. People my age suddenly find they require reading glasses to see the phone book. Though I suppose by definition anyone still using a phone book is old enough to need glasses, right? The onset of this process varies—you probably know of families whose members frequently retain good health into their 90s, and other families where that is not the case. Of course environment is i...
Carlos relaxing on his hill after the last snow storm....
ALBANY, N.Y. The New York State Department of Health issued a “Don’t Eat” fish consumption advisory for walleye fish taken from Rondout Creek (downstream of Eddyville Dam), and the Hudson River (between the Rip Van Winkle Bridge at Catskill and the Tappan Zee Bridge). Rondout Creek is a tributary of the Hudson River. This advisory is more stringent than the previous advisory for this species, which recommended limiting intake of walleye to one meal per month. The current advisory is based on new data showing elevated levels of PCBs in these...
