Articles written by Alma Ransom

Alma Ransom|Apr 5, 2012

Reprinted with permission from Indian Country Today It seems like no one realizes that Tekakwitha lived a full life of learning and practicing our traditional culture and knew how to survive before she became a Catholic. There were missionaries who had learned our language and dialects among the Iroquois and she learned their prayers. At the age of 20, a Mohawk woman is very strong in her ways and determined when making a decision. Consider my remarks for those people that might want to imply that Tekakwitha was abused or forced by the...