Indigenous Musicians Merit Centre Stage: We Will Not Remain Silent
by Doug George-Kanentiio
Rumble: Indians Who Rocked the World premiered on PBS two years ago, on January 19/2019. This remarkable, and long overdue, show featured Indigenous musicians who have had significant impact on contemporary and...
Mohawk Numbers One to Ten and the Creation Story by Doug George-Kanentiio
Featured: Doug George-Kanentiio
Creation stories are essential to understanding all human societies since these narratives define place, origin, spirituality, psychology, social-gender relations and in some instances politics. It summarizes what a people value and how they perceive the universe...
Trump Calls Soldiers Losers and Suckers
Every Political Candidate Must Condemn His Insults to the Military
By Doug George Kanentiio Akwasane Mohawk
My brother is S/Sgt Daniel William George, a retired US Marine from the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne. He served with...
Confederacy Takes in Many Nations: We Are Many Peoples
by Doug George-Kanentiio
"I think no institutional achievement of mankind exceeds it (the Confederacy) in either wisdom or intelligence" John Collier, US Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1933-1945.
One of the great things the Rotinosionni Confederacy has done is...
It’s American Music, but Where are the Natives?
by Doug-George Kanentiio
The music of America was rightfully indigenous for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the immigrants from the east. Not only drums and flutes by the power of the human...
The Roots of Rez Life
by Doug George-Kanentiio Mohawk Akwasasne
The Laws of Burgos was enacted by Spain on December 27th, 1512 in response to the massive slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Native people in the Caribbean by the...
Strawberry-the food of the Skyworld
By Doug George-Kanentiio Akwasasne Mohawk
Among the traditional Mohawks there is a special appreciation for the strawberry plant-called Niihontesha. It is a unique plant as its seeds are outside of the skin of the berry...
Why Native Americans Should Welcome Southern Kin
By Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk
Our Native American ancestors have a wonderful tradition of welcoming those in need to our lands. I am from the Mohawk Nation which is part of the Iroquois Confederacy and...
Iroquois Governance in 2018
By: Doug George Kanentiio, Akwesasne-Mohawk
There are presently three types of administrative agencies on Iroquois reservations within New York state: elected, of which there are two, and traditional, which number four and two others which...
The Maple: Chief of all Trees
By Doug George-Kanentiio, Akwesasne Mohawk
When the Creator, Sonkweiiateson in Mohawk, planted the trees of the world, a decision was made to make Wahta-the Maple-the chief of all trees.
Not only did the Maple carry the...