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Tekonnonhwará:tons Tsi Weseníniake
1. Óh nahsewákiere kí:ken onkiahia'kserò:kten? What did you all do this past weekend? 2. Ionkwaten'niota'nónhne We went to a wedding 3. Ónhka...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. Phillip Deer sat in a straight-backed chair, with a red blanket folded on his lap. Now it was late at night, and we were in the basement of a building in Geneva and before...
Kén:ie
1. Kenienahní:nons I am buying fuel or oil 2. Kenienáta'as I am putting fuel or oil in it 3. Kenienáhrhos I am rubbing oil on it 4. Wakateienáten...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. Juan Condori, Aymara from Bolivia, stood up. He too was adamant. “We have heard their speeches,” he said. “All their polite words, all their empty words. No. I am here...
Katate'serehtakwatákwa'as
1. Iekiéhstha ne kawistóhtha aohné:ka I am adding coolant (antifreeze) 2. Katkèn:se ne okahkwèn:ta tó: ní:kon káwera I am checking the tire...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. Geneva, 1977: A report on the Hemispheric Movement of Indigenous Peoples The Immigration guards and officials at the Geneva airport were perplexed. The twenty-two delegates...
Wa'ke'serehtaiénhne Tenthatikwatá:ko
1. Wa'ke'serehtaiénhne tenthatikwatá:ko I am taking my car in to get repaired 2. Tsi thati'serehtahserón:ni A car repair shop 3....
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. One word more so that you will be sure to remember our people. If it had not been for them, you would not be here. If one hundred and sixty winters ago, our warriors had not...
Wahonhiákhe
1. Kwáh tsi takarahkwíneken'ne kí: ratiksa'okón:'a ohrhon'kéhstsi akwé:kon wahontkétsko When the sun came up, early in the morning, all the...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. You Mothers, I hear you have a great deal to say about your government. Our Mothers have always had a hand in ours. Maybe you can do something to help us now. If you white mo...
Tsi Niionhiákwas Ó:nen Onhiá:ri
1. Tsi niionhiákwas ó:nen onhiá:ri Berry season 2. Skanekwen'tará:non Raspberries 3. Kahrhata'kéha Blueberries 4. Kontatewenní:io...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. About three winters ago, the Canadian Government set out to take mortgages on farms of our returned soldiers to secure loans made to them intending to use Canadian courts to...
Wa'kaná:to'ne
1. Taio'nahkwáweron tsi na'okén:nore It was very rainy 2. Sótsi iohshnó:re It was too fast 3. Kahonwa'takè:ron There are scattered puddles 4....
Basic Call to Consciousness
The Last Speech of Deskaheh (on the evening of March, 10, 1925, suffering from a serious attack of pleurisy and pneumonia, he made his last speech. It was before a radio microphone in Rochester. Once...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Time wore on and though a few Englishmen and Canadians spoke up for the Six Nations Indians, though the representatives of the Netherlands and Albania listened sympathetically and spoke of supporting...
Entkarahkwíneken'ne Tenhsatenonhwará:ton
1. Oh ní:ioht tsi enkherihónnien ne entkarahkwíneken'ne tenkatenonhwará:ton How I will teach Sunrise Salutation 2. Shonkwahtsì:'a Kiohkehnékha...
Basic Call to Consciousness
The raiders arrested and jailed a number of Iroquois, and though Deskaheh was known to abstain from alcoholic liquors, they searched his house on the pretext of looking for illegal beverages. The...
Ka'nikonhriióhston
1. Ka'nikonhriióhston Mindfulness 2. Oh ní:ioht tsi ahsherihónnien ne onekwèn:ta nòn:we entehsatón:rie How you will teach belly breathing 3....
Basic Call to Consciousness
Deskaheh: An Iroquois Patriot Fights for International Recognition The old chief, Clinton Rickard, lived in a little house near the Niagara County town of Sanborn on the reservation of his nation,...
Sewatón:rie!
1. Kherihonnién:ni ne ka'nikonhriióhston I teach students about mindfulness 2. Oh thé:nenk kenh sewaterién:tare ne ka'nikonhriióhston? Do any of...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. In a way, the Peacemaker was centuries ahead of his time. He set forth a system of government organization which was a marvelously complex enactment of the concept of...
Kathónkia'ks Akenonhsaktónkie
1. Kathónkia'ks akenonhsaktónkie I am cutting the grass around my house 2. Enióhrhen'ne enkathónkia'ke I will cut the grass tomorrow 3....
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week. Internally, the law was to be the power by which the people were united ideologically and administratively under a dispute settlement process to which all had agreed to...
Tóhsa Onerahtókha Nikahá:wi Enhsathónkia'ke
1. Sheié:nawas sateweièn:ton iakotikhwanón:tens tsi kontì:teron Help preserve crucial pollinator habitat 2. Í:iah Onerahtókha nikahá:wi...
Basic Call to Consciousness
Continued from last week “Righteousness” refers to something akin to the ideology of the people using their purest and most unselfish minds. It occurs when the people put their minds and emotions...