we are all one

spinning though mother sky

a good chief

he does not

TAKE

biography: the mohawk are the most easterly tribe of the iroquois confedera-tion. they called themselves kanien’gehaga, “people of the place of flint.” the mo-hawk are an iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of north america orignally from the mohawk valley in upstate new york. their territory ranged to present-day quebec and eastern ontario. their current settlements include areas around lake ontario and the st. lawrence river in canada. their traditional homeland stretched southward of the mohawk river, eastward to the green mountains of vermont, westward to the border with the oneida nation traditional homeland ter-ritory and northward to the st. lawrence river. as original members of the iroquois leage, or haudenosaunee, the mohawk were known as the “keepers of the eastern door” for hundreds of years they guarded the iroquois conferderation against in-vasion from that direction by tribes from new england and lower new york areas. the mohawk religion is primarily animist.

territory: upstate new york and canadalanguage: kanien’keha MOHAWK

cannot dwell together

&

DUWAMISH territory: washington statelanguage: lushootseed

biography: the duwamish are a luhootseed native american tribe in western washington and the indigenous people of metropolitan seattle, where they have been living since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8000 b.c.e. or 10,000 years ago) . the duwamish tribe dedcends from at least two distinct groups from before intense contact with people of european ancestry-- the people of the inside (the environs of elliot bay) and the people of large lake (lake wash-ington)-- and continues to evolve both culturally and ethnically. by historic language, the duwamish are lushootseed; lushootseed is a salishan language. adjacent tribes throughouth the puget sound-strait of georgia basin were, and are, interconnected and interrelated, yet distinct. the present0day duwamish tribe developed in parallel with the times of the treaty of point elliott and its aftermath in the 1850’s although not recognized by the u.s. federal government, the duwamish remain an organized tribe with roughly 500 enrolled members as of 2004.

those that lay with dogs

get up with fleas

those who have

foot in the canoe foot in the boat&

will fall into the river

don’t let yesterday use up too much of

it is less of a problem to be poor than to be

each bird loves to hear himself

sing

EVERYONE WHO IS MUST HAVE OF SOMETHING

we will be known forever by the tracks

the rain falls on the just

and

the frog does not drink up the pond in which

he lives

is always out there waiting and

is always hungry

a hungry

makes a short prayer

IF YOU SEE NO REASON FOR GIVING THE FAULT LIES WITHIN

you already possess everything you need to b e c o m e

IT IS BETTER TO HAVE LESS THUNDER IN THE MOUTH AND MORE LIGHTENING

IN THE HAND

Most of us do not look

as handsome to others as we do

to ourselves