Indian Time - A Voice from the Eastern Door

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...

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 in...

Thoughts of Peace: The Great Law Haudenosaunee oral history related that long before the Europeans arrived, Native Peoples of the Northeast Woodlands had reached a crisis. It is said that during this...

Continued from last week At about this time, the State of New York was attempting to negotiate its own treaties with our peoples. The settlers knew that our governing council would never relinquish...

Akwesasne Notes The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois Confederacy, are an ancient people of North America. Our tradition states that our people originate in the northeastern...

Continued from last week. And they say that it’s not long after that, the Creator, that’s where Teharonhiawako, the holder of the skies, his name now changes to Shonkwaia’tison. He’s the one that cr...

Continued from last week. So they say again, after that, not long after that, one day Teharonhiawako was down on the earth. And he’s all by himself now. And his brother Sawiskera is living up in h...

Continued from last week And they also say that they split the day at that time. And what that means is that the daylight hours would be the time that Teharonhiawako, the holder of the skied, would...

Continued from last week And he understood what had happened when he thought back to the winter. And he went back to where his brother’s small dwelling was and he went in and grabbed him out. And h...

Continued from last week And they say as they grew to be young men that in the wintertime they would take turns going out hunting, each one of these boys. One winter it would be Teharonhiawako’s t...

Continued from last issue And, they say, as the two young boys grew to be young men, they found that they had special gifts as well, and their special gift was one of creation. Each one of them had th...

Continued from last week And they say that because this young woman had lost her life giving birth, that there was a great force emitting from her in all directions, this life-giving force, and as...

Continued from last week So again, as they say, “as the time went on”, this young woman, she had a dream. And they say, in this dream, she was approached by a handsome young man. And he said that he...