I meant to make a page about this because of being partly Mohawk. My ancestors were a Mohawk woman who had married a Scotch man. It said the two nationalities were getting along well. I know the Indians are not all very much favor with this but we have to make do.
I had seen the film Kanehsatake and it was very good. It gave me a good understanding of what had happened. After the uprising I had been searching for information that was hard to find in newspapers. I found it in MacLeans magazine from Canada finally. There were quite a few articles. Fury of Oka is in Maclean's September 10, 1990.
A link on here is to the film Kanehsatake on the Mohawks at Oka. Lasagna who had become famous in the crisis I had just read had gotten out of prison has died now.
Books that I have found to be good on the Mohawk history are Gold and the White
history book which was very good on helping me to understand the history. Also
good is Apologies to the Iroquois but it is a little outside of it. He mentions
the Mohawk language being beautiful and I heard that myself in the movie it was
the only time I have heard it. A new photo book on them is People of the Sky, the Iroquois Way - photos by Myron Zabel.
Another book I have found to be good about the Mohawks are Fathers and Crows by
William T. Vollmann, it is not about the trouble but it is very good. He likes the Mohawks and talks of them, but the character in it is a Huron girl.
I have seen another poem by them in a book from native american museum in NYC that is about animals. It tells me that we have something in common in liking animals.
My mother would tell us that they the ancestors knew the one the prophet that put a curse on the US presidents. I don't know how that went or whether to believe it. She was a little mixed up.
I hope the Mohawks do not mind I have this page here. It is meant to be helpful.
They said at the gathering that they wanted us to go and
tell about it.
Also because I had worked
for the French govt as a temp in NYC (and SF hotel they probably mean) just as a temp and they were calling me the typist. I also
worked for a hotel they were there in S.F. I also had worked on reading Joan of
Arc and they knew it and had come up to me about it and fooling around but of
course they were in NYC not Canada. They kept saying it was kids though. I saw
a group of little kids they were maybe Mohawk kids in NY and some black kids
were chasing them though. Maybe they were not but I wanted the French to know
I'm partly Mohawk and partly English also. I'm English, Scotch-Irish, Mohawk,Penn Dutch,
German American.
The scene is not worked on now over the age although Sarah Bernhart did later. I didn't have time to with trying to work. I had tried to audition. I didn't use the Joan of Arc scene to audition because it had become too special. so I think they do know, I saw one of their French mothers in NYC.
I read Black Robe and I thought oh they are being so horrible it scared me. But I am partly that and I think they are sorry. I used to hear stories. I saw the other movie recently what was it that Opie made and it had Apaches in it The Missing. My friend was an Apache girl in the army and she really looked it. I tried to look up info on it. The girl in that was good. I was wondering if she was going to be an extra on Geronimo that I saw, that was good.
I probably wouldn't know this woman was Mohawk. (Alex Rice)I had a link up to her and then me being in Hollywood and an extra and I don't know her I thought why am I doing that? She can promote her own career. Sometimes you see she has more attention for being ethnic looking. You can't tell in NYC sometimes.
I have decided to leave it with Tonto for now. I saw him later on TV I hardly remember (I barely related to him as being Mohawk) and he was so cool. I know they work on the skyscrapers.
Eithinoha is an Iroquois Goddess (for my notes also) Onatah corn maiden daughter
Gathering for Mohawk benefit in L.A. I went to
Links to other sites on the Web
Kanehsatake movie of Mohawk uprising
Mohawk and Iroquois Myths
Recent Mohawk News
Native/Mohawk & 9/11
Tonto actor Jay Silverheels
Mohawks and 9/11
Kahentinetha Horn - Mohawk woman activist Mohawk Nation News
