“Blow the dust from your ears so you may hear and understand all that is being said to you and be able to recognize the truth.”
Beverly Cook (beh-ver-lee cook), Mohawk chief and nurse practitioner
“In my vision as a Mohawk midwife, reproductive justice and environmental justice intersect at the nexus of woman's blood and voice.”
Katsi Cook (good-gee cook), Mohawk midwife
“We need to identify the processes that so often lead people who are honestly seeking to resist and destroy colonization to unconsciously re-create the elements of their own oppression.”
John Mohawk (jahn mow-hawk), Seneca philosopher and activist
“Because we were sovereign nations we had to start fighting for the land the Creator said was where we were supposed to live.”
Leon Shenandoah (lee-on shen-on-dough-wah), Onondaga chief
“I have come here to deeply listen to what the seeds have to share.”
Rowen White (row-when wite), Mohawk seedkeeper
“Every human being comes from an indigenous people.”
Tom Porter (tahm pour-terr), founder of the Mohawk community of Kanatsiohareke (gah-nah-jo-ha-lay-gay)
“We are a people who sat under a tree for a long time…talking about the importance of community.”
Oren Lyons (aw-ren lie-unz), Onondaga faithkeeper
“We are responsible for seven generations, in my tradition, seven generations into the future.”
Audrey Shenandoah (aw-dree shen-on-dough-wah), Onondaga clanmother