Tears on my heart.....of joy, to see my Mohawk brethren walking this path. Were I younger and physically able to be of real help, I would seek sanctuary with them so that I could go back to where I belong.....living with our Mother and the gifts given to us through her by our creator, Shonkwaya'ti:shon. I know, in my heart, this is the good way and for me, the truth and the privilege of caring for our Mother. I think perhaps, the greatest joy came from looking at the faces of the young ones.
I am not an NA, but I too find this video inspiring. If everyone lived in ways like these -- ways that held them in communion with the land they live on there would be no "environmental crisis" for we modern humans would cease destroying the web of life. Baby steps I am taking to do this where I live. I wish for a community, though, and I also wish for the opportunity to learn from those who are some steps further along this path than I am. Peace.
These are truly the happiest Native American tribe I have ever seen along with the Lumbee tribe. Getting back to our roots is key and absolutely vital for physical, spiritual, and mental well being! Self sufficiency is healing!
I'm grateful for finding this. About 7 years ago after studying extensive family history I found out that Octs Toch Hertel of The Turtle Clan was my great++++ grandmother. I spent a year going through rigorous factual information of as much as I could find. I'm hesitant to reach out due to she was married to Van Slyck. An Iroquois, who is a beloved teacher of mine told me not to reach out due to certain people who think they have Native blood, and get excited about it, not realizing what their ancestors went through. I watched this, and I felt the connection. I've been vegan for 6 years and I never ate red meat. I always loved planting my food, and grew up on a farm in the Midwest. I can and dry my own fruit, and I know-how valuable nutrition is. Since I was a child I felt nature was my home, and still do. I don't drink, and never liked it, and I know it's poison. With all my ancestors who I pray, and honor every day I hope to meet my Mohawk ancestors. Love and Light to all of you and your families.
She's mine as well! Wish I had known about our culture growing up! I have found great Peace because of learning about all these things. Blessings to you!
Knowing that our traditions will live on through them and the faces yet to come. To see my old friend Kiotenhariyo once again and to hear his words of hope and wisdom, was a treat for me and that's the only way I can describe it. I have always had great respect for this young man and always will. I hope he thinks of me kindly now and then. Greetings to all. Your (younger) Tuscarora brother. Nia:wen. Ona.
Inspiring video.....people who do....not people who talk. People of action. Action in caring and compassion as well as self sufficiency. People with a plan and a way of life that is logical, sustainable and inclusive. Could it really be this good.... I'm blown away. 🙏🏼
I love this documentary. If more kids were taught to hunt, fish, ride horse and grow their own food, we wouldn't have kids huffing glue, sending nude photos of themselves to each other, and spending an hour a day on facebook.
My Songhees family, Tarslip are trying to protect Fairy Creek & wish I was there with them. Then we have to creep taken a holiday to Tofino on TRUTH & Reconciliation Day. Thank God my School Mate Judith Sayers called him out.
Stay strong and independent. Love your culture and language and continue on the true path you have taken. You are an example in a world gone mad with hate and greed.
I pass along to you my appreciation and gratitude for producing this video. This is a way of life I have always dreamed of living and believe it is how it should be across our great country and the world. The benefits of these philosophies and behaviors are beyond measure in this day and age. There is love and peace, a gift to all of sharing and caring, giving and replacing everything that is needed to survive in body, mind and soul. This video has restored my faith in the human spirit and the coming together of the people for the benefit of the generations yet to come.
all natives should be millionaires to some degree...if we werent cheated in dealing with the invaders. many mohawks as my nishnaeb people are disgusting apologists for much which includes intermarriage. They like most so called native americans are interbred with the white people having that burning urge to lay with them for hundreds of years. That fact suggests a strange twisted self view...a screwed up view of self.
This is a wonderful story, and I hope that you share your experiences with the reservations that seem to have no direction. I live near the Pikwakanagan Reservation in Ontario, where it seems that marijuana is their only focus. It's as though much of the community has turned a blind eye to the destructive daily use of marijuana, and many other reservations have fallen to this misinformed mentality as well.
Watching this with tears in my eyes. i wish i knew more about the culture that should be a part of my life.. For me it all got lost trough silence - and shame.... Shame of who my fathers dad was because my grandmother got pregnant without being married - so she was married away in haste to a Norweigan man..But my father was such a handsome man with his indigenous features that he passed down to us , his children. still looking to find out more about relatives/family. (Thank GOD for DNA tests..). I hope i can visit Canada some day
kuntbrigade yeah remember you are related to may-an confederacy part of the six nation's Ottawa, Ojibwa relationships Aztecan's from North great lake's, Aztalan, Cahokia, Hopewell,and other too.
I am so proud of the Iroquois! Well done. Now if only my people (so called African Americans) could get together and be self reliant, that would be even more grand for me! No violence, no drugs, no alcohol. Great policy.
Interesting, I grew up being told don't go into the woods the mohawks will scalp you. They were very violent towards other tribe way back when. They invaded and killed many other native tribes parent. I'm a American, I'm Abenaki.
OMG! I am so happy for you. I would love to live the life you are living now. It is just a shame that it took so long for the government to do right by your people.
It is a beautiful thing that these people have found a peaceful living. Being self sufficient and unifying as a group in all aspects of life. But could similar condition every exist for ALL people of the earth? The Bible reveals the answer - Isaiah 65:21-25.
Will the Mohawk welcome back the children of the 60's Scoop that were stolen in the 50's through to the present time? Will these children (adults) receive their status?
Can anyone help me try to connect my roots back to the Mohawk that was called, "King Hendrick"? I believe his native name was, "Tee Yee Ho Ga Row", I know from research that he was part Mohawk and part Mohegan. He lived with the wolf clan.
I did not understand where actually is the location this video was shot. I wished so bad to learn Mohawk language. Any suggestion guys? I love so much the purity of the 6 nations life.
I wish I spoke a native language, I love the culture and wish I could learn more but all the tribes native to Pennsylvania were ejected to other states like Ohio and Michigan centuries ago. It fills me with great sadness to know that the earth is dying and we may not be able to save her and the fact that we as "animals of the same fruit bearing tree" have all helped contribute to Gaia's discontent. Truly sad
They judge us for bad an pagans but really we were loveable caring generous an sharing people an we accepted the great peace an we lived for the day not tmrw so we didn't have big dreams like they want you to have today . Be someone your not . The government only want your ideas not you
I speak native language I really more related to Mahican same dialect the Delaware are the most ancient and our grandfathers . Be well wunnee manitouam
I am seeking my Mohawk roots. My great great grand mother was Mohawk. I am seeking elders to help me find my way back to the woods. My soul is pushing me to find the way of life that is true.
I am sitting wondering why I have suck a strong association with flint. I can not stop making arrow heads, atlatl points and other stuff. I am really tyring to understand plz help.
I found out last year I was part Mohawk. During the queen Annes war descendents of mine were taken and raised with in the Mohawk nation. Silas Rice, one of four Rice boys who were captured during Queen Anne's War by Mohawks on 8 August 1704 in Marlborough (later Westborough), Massachusetts, carried off and raised in Kahnawake, Canada.
Kanien'kéha territory established 50,000 years BP?! My God! No, the Paleolithic proto-ancestors of the Native American peoples were probably all on the continent of Asia, in what is now called Siberia and Mongolia 50,000 years ago! My goodness! More like the Paleolithic proto-Amerindian peoples first arrived to the region of what is now southern Ontario and Upstate NY around 11,000 years ago...... but that almost certainly wasn't the Iroquoian speaking peoples that inhabited the area when the first European colonists met...... their ancient ancestors probably migrated all over the continent over many millenia, until finally reaching the area they would inhabit traditionally in what we now call southern Ontario and New York State.... they probably finally ended up there like 1500 or 2000 years ago......
My Grandmother was born on the reservation in Brantford, Canada why did our people get separated? My Grandmother will not tell me anything about my heritage or what happened.
Tears on my heart.....of joy, to see my Mohawk brethren walking this path. Were I younger and physically able to be of real help, I would seek sanctuary with them so that I could go back to where I belong.....living with our Mother and the gifts given to us through her by our creator, Shonkwaya'ti:shon. I know, in my heart, this is the good way and for me, the truth and the privilege of caring for our Mother. I think perhaps, the greatest joy came from looking at the faces of the young ones.
This brings tears to my eyes! The dream of our people continuing on is here. Our Language and culture will pass to the next generation.
I am not an NA, but I too find this video inspiring. If everyone lived in ways like these -- ways that held them in communion with the land they live on there would be no "environmental crisis" for we modern humans would cease destroying the web of life. Baby steps I am taking to do this where I live. I wish for a community, though, and I also wish for the opportunity to learn from those who are some steps further along this path than I am. Peace.
My Grandmother was Mohawk , I try to teach my children to have pride in their heritage . This helps greatly
A beautiful film. A beautiful people. A beautiful world you all have gone back to. Much respect and admiration.
These are truly the happiest Native American tribe I have ever seen along with the Lumbee tribe. Getting back to our roots is key and absolutely vital for physical, spiritual, and mental well being! Self sufficiency is healing!
I am so glad I found this video. I wish nothing but prosperity for the people of Ganienkeh. May it always prosper.
I'm grateful for finding this. About 7 years ago after studying extensive family history I found out that Octs Toch Hertel of The Turtle Clan was my great++++ grandmother. I spent a year going through rigorous factual information of as much as I could find. I'm hesitant to reach out due to she was married to Van Slyck. An Iroquois, who is a beloved teacher of mine told me not to reach out due to certain people who think they have Native blood, and get excited about it, not realizing what their ancestors went through.
I watched this, and I felt the connection. I've been vegan for 6 years and I never ate red meat. I always loved planting my food, and grew up on a farm in the Midwest. I can and dry my own fruit, and I know-how valuable nutrition is. Since I was a child I felt nature was my home, and still do. I don't drink, and never liked it, and I know it's poison. With all my ancestors who I pray, and honor every day I hope to meet my Mohawk ancestors. Love and Light to all of you and your families.
She's mine as well! Wish I had known about our culture growing up! I have found great Peace because of learning about all these things. Blessings to you!
Wow, very inspirational to see that there are solutions to today's problems natives face. Self sufficiency is the key!!
Awesome! This is what I want for my children's children..... too!
So deeply moving and inspiring.
Knowing that our traditions will live on through them and the faces yet to come. To see my old friend Kiotenhariyo once again and to hear his words of hope and wisdom, was a treat for me and that's the only way I can describe it. I have always had great respect for this young man and always will. I hope he thinks of me kindly now and then. Greetings to all. Your (younger) Tuscarora brother. Nia:wen. Ona.
Inspiring video.....people who do....not people who talk. People of action. Action in caring and compassion as well as self sufficiency. People with a plan and a way of life that is logical, sustainable and inclusive.
Could it really be this good....
I'm blown away. 🙏🏼
I love this documentary. If more kids were taught to hunt, fish, ride horse and grow their own food, we wouldn't have kids huffing glue, sending nude photos of themselves to each other, and spending an hour a day on facebook.
amazing. I wish I can some day visit you... All my love to all of you from Russia.
Mohawk Turtle clan working in Vancouver BC...local 97 was local 736 ....transferred in ...living the dream Mohawk style!!
My Songhees family, Tarslip are trying to protect Fairy Creek & wish I was there with them. Then we have to creep taken a holiday to Tofino on TRUTH & Reconciliation Day. Thank God my School Mate Judith Sayers called him out.
Nyah'wen! This is beautiful, I wish we had more traditional communities, for all Indigenous peoples.
Stay strong and independent. Love your culture and language and continue on the true path you have taken. You are an example in a world gone mad with hate and greed.
I pass along to you my appreciation and gratitude for producing this video. This is a way of life I have always dreamed of living and believe it is how it should be across our great country and the world. The benefits of these philosophies and behaviors are beyond measure in this day and age. There is love and peace, a gift to all of sharing and caring, giving and replacing everything that is needed to survive in body, mind and soul. This video has restored my faith in the human spirit and the coming together of the people for the benefit of the generations yet to come.
Kanien:keha Onkwehonwe!!!
Very interesting and inspiring. I enjoyed watching this very very much, thanks for uploading.
Now this is what you call, "Living The Dream"
all natives should be millionaires to some degree...if we werent cheated in dealing with the invaders. many mohawks as my nishnaeb people are disgusting apologists for much which includes intermarriage. They like most so called native americans are interbred with the white people having that burning urge to lay with them for hundreds of years. That fact suggests a strange twisted self view...a screwed up view of self.
Good stuff! Thanx for sharing.
much respect
This is a wonderful story, and I hope that you share your experiences with the reservations that seem to have no direction. I live near the Pikwakanagan Reservation in Ontario, where it seems that marijuana is their only focus. It's as though much of the community has turned a blind eye to the destructive daily use of marijuana, and many other reservations have fallen to this misinformed mentality as well.
This seems like the natural way to be.
im not indian, but i love the ways of the indians, and the care for the land, i hate what my people have done, and i hate what it looks lie today
Yeah. Malls everywhere now.
Please dont call us Indians call us natives
Watching this with tears in my eyes. i wish i knew more about the culture that should be a part of my life.. For me it all got lost trough silence - and shame.... Shame of who my fathers dad was because my grandmother got pregnant without being married - so she was married away in haste to a Norweigan man..But my father was such a handsome man with his indigenous features that he passed down to us , his children. still looking to find out more about relatives/family. (Thank GOD for DNA tests..).
I hope i can visit Canada some day
Thank you for uploading!
This is excellent!
Indigenous self-government is an inherent right that can never be "extinguished" by legal artifice.
kuntbrigade yeah remember you are related to may-an confederacy part of the six nation's Ottawa, Ojibwa relationships Aztecan's from North great lake's, Aztalan, Cahokia, Hopewell,and other too.
pilar troncoso huh?
Andrew Goering =you think only you would say something like that well think again buddy ✋😆✌
Moss Lake is a special place. I am lucky to know it.
Respect and Love
I LOVE THIS!
Wow!!!
Yes, wow!!
fantastic
respect from this tsalagia peace to my Mohawk brothers
This is the native in my blood, Mohawk. 👣
I am so proud of the Iroquois! Well done. Now if only my people (so called African Americans) could get together and be self reliant, that would be even more grand for me! No violence, no drugs, no alcohol. Great policy.
Interesting, I grew up being told don't go into the woods the mohawks will scalp you. They were very violent towards other tribe way back when. They invaded and killed many other native tribes parent. I'm a American, I'm Abenaki.
OMG! I am so happy for you. I would love to live the life you are living now. It is just a shame that it took so long for the government to do right by your people.
Navajo code talkers ww2
All tribes done there bit. I like how your not promoting intoxication & restoring the language. Teiohonwa:ka ne'ni akhonwe:ia
It is a beautiful thing that these people have found a peaceful living. Being self sufficient and unifying as a group in all aspects of life. But could similar condition every exist for ALL people of the earth? The Bible reveals the answer - Isaiah 65:21-25.
Until the dams are gone,let the land heal
Grew up,in the Mohawk valley in ny
Awesome! What song is that at the end? Yo hi yo yohi oh... its beautiful
My grandpa is full mohawk Indian. I would love more information. I'm a granddaughter. My grandpa is buried in Saginaw Michigan.
This is my 14th grandparent----- Norihiko Kaneko Turtle Clan (1557 - 1635)
The rez aint that bad but I love the video im kaniehkehaka from SIX NAY and id say keep it up maybe one day ill move my family there
+Joe Martin I’m Mohawk, my father grew up there, trust me. don’t go there
@905 Young Shoota why do you say that?
@@MontourRto re build and re store many are needed to help guide. There is no perfection today. Uniting as family brings cultural strength.
Don't be afraid to return, but ask many questions...it's time
Will the Mohawk welcome back the children of the 60's Scoop that were stolen in the 50's through to the present time? Will these children (adults) receive their status?
Can anyone help me try to connect my roots back to the Mohawk that was called, "King Hendrick"? I believe his native name was, "Tee Yee Ho Ga Row", I know from research that he was part Mohawk and part Mohegan. He lived with the wolf clan.
I did not understand where actually is the location this video was shot. I wished so bad to learn Mohawk language. Any suggestion guys? I love so much the purity of the 6 nations life.
+partenopolo1 Kahnwake their is a 2 year program Rotiwennanih:ratsh if you're interested you can look into
+partenopolo1 the video isnt in kahnawake , but thats where their is a program
I wish I spoke a native language, I love the culture and wish I could learn more but all the tribes native to Pennsylvania were ejected to other states like Ohio and Michigan centuries ago. It fills me with great sadness to know that the earth is dying and we may not be able to save her and the fact that we as "animals of the same fruit bearing tree" have all helped contribute to Gaia's discontent. Truly sad
Sad Boi Zero -Look @ it as a new beginning brother wolf
They judge us for bad an pagans but really we were loveable caring generous an sharing people an we accepted the great peace an we lived for the day not tmrw so we didn't have big dreams like they want you to have today . Be someone your not . The government only want your ideas not you
#riseup, themilitantmontessorian
Конфедерація Ірокезів, могавки Сенека онондага онейда каюга і тускарора.
"They call us Mohawks, but in our language we are ---" What did he say and Is this different from Kanienkeha?
Onkwehonwe
Shé:kon.
The word is "onkwehonwe", meaning the real or original people of this land.
I speak native language I really more related to Mahican same dialect the Delaware are the most ancient and our grandfathers . Be well wunnee manitouam
Yá'át'ééh from arizona
Mino Maadziwin.
It’s called manifest destiny BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
The languages will come back. They're here already we just gotta work them.
I am seeking my Mohawk roots. My great great grand mother was Mohawk. I am seeking elders to help me find my way back to the woods. My soul is pushing me to find the way of life that is true.
I am sitting wondering why I have suck a strong association with flint. I can not stop making arrow heads, atlatl points and other stuff. I am really tyring to understand plz help.
Are there any elders that can help me understand about my heritage? please Contact me.
I found out last year I was part Mohawk. During the queen Annes war descendents of mine were taken and raised with in the Mohawk nation. Silas Rice, one of four Rice boys who were captured during Queen Anne's War by Mohawks on 8 August 1704 in Marlborough (later Westborough), Massachusetts, carried off and raised in Kahnawake, Canada.
Kwe Bob. I have been exploring my roots more. Except I now live in South Dakota so it is sort of hard to find People of the Flint out here.
Ryan Hunter= are you a skin?
Unggoy hnngwhe??
My grandfather always told me we were Cherokee my mother would get upset and tell me we are black
Gerrod Richardson u are black from Africa
You could be black and Cherokee, you're a half-breed just like me
At min 21,, He can't be talking about Marijuana
I do wish indians were every where instead of certain places
U dont have to be a certain race to enjoy other cultures
Kanien'kéha territory established 50,000 years BP?! My God!
No, the Paleolithic proto-ancestors of the Native American peoples were probably all on the continent of Asia, in what is now called Siberia and Mongolia 50,000 years ago!
My goodness!
More like the Paleolithic proto-Amerindian peoples first arrived to the region of what is now southern Ontario and Upstate NY around 11,000 years ago......
but that almost certainly wasn't the Iroquoian speaking peoples that inhabited the area when the first European colonists met...... their ancient ancestors probably migrated all over the continent over many millenia, until finally reaching the area they would inhabit traditionally in what we now call southern Ontario and New York State.... they probably finally ended up there like 1500 or 2000 years ago......
Andrew Goering -Many historians bungle those dates. I don't think it matters much.
they call us mohawks"-we call u something else,trust me.
His point? Nothing other than showing his ignorance.
My Grandmother was born on the reservation in Brantford, Canada why did our people get separated? My Grandmother will not tell me anything about my heritage or what happened.
Traveling Cam no we are mohawk so