Love, Respect and Defiance: Eye of the Tiger
Sago Skennako, So let’s have strength in our heart and minds so we can be the independent free spirits that Sonkwaiatison the Great Natural Spirit…
Luv
Tewasarake – Love is like rain
By Bubzy Martin War and Peace, male and female, left handed and right handed twins. In the spirit of the Two Row Wampum. In the…
Come Together
Sago Akwatsire: The cry from the Indigenous public should go out if anything ever makes us feel and look like we are worth two cents.…
Love, Respect and Defiance: Ashes to Ashes
By: Bubzy Martin Sago, Ashes to ashes, let us give thanks for the faces in the earth that have yet to be born. Tread lightly,…
Love, respect and Defiance: Power is Sacred
Many times we get into rough waters as the Haudenosaunee family. Sometimes with each other we quarrel. When we do this we’re playing into a…
Medical distress in custody: always make the call
The world looks like its going a little crazy. We must constantly re-assess whats going on in the most populated indigenous territory in the land.…
Respecting the mothers for the great good
The rise in the mothers of the world is tantamount to the great peace: after all, mothers are the backbone of humanity. Persons with this…
In memory of Misty Upham
Let us say Nia:wen/Thanks to the Great Natural Power for allowing us this beautiful day and to have in our presence good health and a…
Shondoweknowa
In the Canadian “just-us” system there are many tiers, trap doors, smoke and mirrors in a man made machine. It’s fuel? Red blood and tears…
Be ready for when winter comes
I once had a good conversation with a American Anthropologist from Akwesasne. He was a very intelligent gentleman, but he couldn't get over the fact…
Freedom, a poem by Tewasarake
Freedom is a beautiful Mohawk woman singing by the river. Freedom is a doe laying in the trees. Freedom is a willow seed. floating on the breeze. It is sacred for all. Just that talk of touching it. Would make us think of war.
Peace, power and reason
Inside the bowels of the “just-us” system of incarceration I found something out. The old people at longhouse always told me hats-sqay/you see. Ya gotter…
Luv, Respect N Defiance
Recently there was a murder in Oneida Territory. A man was shot dead by a masked intruder in his home. Nobody has been arrested. Police…
Luv, respect and defiance: A column from prison
I knew this man last year. The inmates called him “Chief” which is a common name for aboriginal inmates. In the shady paranoid world of…