Haudenosaunee Diversity – Part Four: Covenant Chain – the thing by which we link arms

One way of making peace between diverse groups was to extend the rafters of our longhouse to them. This was actually the underlying protocol in…

Cauterizing infected wounds: On boats, canoes and being bi-racial

After we moved to Six Nations, my father always told me, “You’re either in the boat or in the canoe.” Even though I was raised…