A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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Akwesasne is one of eighteen First Nations communities in Ontario that have been selected randomly to participate in The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment study. Eight Community Research Assistants (CRA(s)) from Akwesasne start training on October 9th, 2012 to learn how to properly survey community members for this project. Surveyors will have until December 13, 2012 to collect all the data for the study, so we are asking our community for assistance in achieving our goal of 200...
A joint project between the Toronto Zoo, MCA Tehotiienawakon Environment Program and the Anishnabek is called the Turtle Island Conservation Program. The object was to preserve turtle species in our joint territories. One portion of the program was to design turtle crossing signs that were in Mohawk and Anishnabe. This resulted in the production of turtle crossing signs that are a Mohawk version (using Tyendinaga linguistics) of the more familiar English/French pancake turtle signs that...
It is getting close to that time of the year again when walleye go up into the tributaries of the larger rivers in order to spawn so that they complete the next cycle of their life. Without the spawning, we would not be able to enjoy the fishing and eating of this type of fish. I am a diehard walleye lover. I love catching them, and even better, I love to eat walleye (as long as someone else cleans them…). For all of my life, and even longer than that actually, members of my family have been f...
