A Voice from the Eastern Door
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With the cold weather upon us, now is the time to be safe with children home for the holidays. Here you will find a room by room checklist for you to help prevent poison by pesticides. We cannot stress enough the importance of checking your home for poisons. By doing this you will ensure that you and your family will have a safe and happy holiday. Any questions call: The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s Environment Office- Helping Build A better Tomorrow Julia Jacobs – Environmental Outreach 518-358-5937 ext: 126...
Submitted by Scott Peters, Environmental Assessment Officer Department of the Environment, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne To ensure a Merry Christmas and fire safe Holiday Season for everyone. The following fire safety guidelines be observed: THE KITCHEN Grease and fat fires are a leading cause of home fires in Canada, so be extra careful when doing this kind of cooking. Here’s what to do if grease in a pot or pan catches fire: Smother the flames by covering the pan with a lid. Turn off the heat immediately. Use baking soda (flour can be e...
The Akwesasne Mohawk Territory is home to a wide variety of plants and animals that are used for reasons from food sources to building materials and medicines. For many years the natural resources that were once depended upon by our people have been lost or greatly reduced. Habitats in the territory in which many of these plants and animals depended upon have vanished or reduced to the point that only a few species remain. This is true not only in Akwesasne, but in the outside communities as wel...
On Kentenhko: WA 10, 2009, Julie Jacobs, Environmental Outreach Coordinator and Angela Benedict, Air Quality program manager visited at Salmon River Central to do a presentation on how the SRMT Environment Division uses the book Words That Come Before All Else produced by the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, in their programs. The students had been reading the book which helps explain environmental philosophies of the Haudenosaunee. While at Katsiionni Fox’s 11th grade Mohawk language cla...
As we enter a new millennium, the findings of a majority of the international scientific community indicate that our world is most likely becoming warmer. Data from the past 150 years seem to show that average global temperatures have taken a sharp turn upward. Recent observations about trends in warming include: • The 1980s and 1990s are the warmest decades on record • The 20th century’s 10 warmest years all occurred in the last 15 years of the century • The 20th century was the warmest...
With winter coming soon to the North Country, we need to focus on what else around our home will also need shelter. PESTS! Pests like to be warm, want food, and water just like us humans. By following three simple steps you should be able to protect your family’s health and keep them safe. Step one is to eliminate their access to food. Seal up boxes of food. Store open food in plastic bags or containers, like cereal, sugar, and flour. Clean up the spills and sweep up leftover crumbs ASAP. Use t...
Tips for controlling indoor air pollution 1-2. Clean air conditioners, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, and heat exchangers regularly. Use distilled or demineralized water when filling humidifiers. 3. Vent kerosene or gas heaters to the outside of your home. If you must use a kerosene heater, burn a low-sulfur (1-K) fuel, fill the heater outside, and keep it clean and properly adjusted, 4. Wash bedding materials frequently in hot water (at least 130°) to reduce dust mites, 5. • Fit your gas range wit...
Ok, so we know a few reasons why practicing the ‘three R’s’ is good for the environment but there is another important reason. Did you ever think about your garbage affecting the weather? Match the descriptions below with the correct word in the box to see if you can make the connection! 1. The average weather we experience over a long period of time. It is affected by the way we treat our trash. 2. The air above the Earth’s surface, which naturally contains ‘greenhouse gases.’ 3. Two common greenhouse gases that warm the Earth enough for...
Home visits provide an opportunity to educate and equip asthma patients with the tools to effectively manage their disease in concert with a physician’s care. This checklist-designed for home care visitors-provides a list of questions and action steps to assist in the identification and mitigation of environmental asthma triggers commonly found in and around the home. The checklist is organized into three sections-building information, home interior and room interior. The room interior is further subdivided by categories (such as bedding and s...
LYME DISEASE Lyme Disease is caused by a bacterium that is normally carried by small mammals such as mice. It can be passed to humans when ticks feed on infected animals, become infected themselves and then bite people. Lyme Disease is spread by the bite of certain species of ticks. In Ontario it is the blacklegged tick (often called deer tick). For more information go to: www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/diseases-maladies/lyme-eng.php...
The Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (HETF) partnered with SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) Center for Native Peoples and the Environment to establish the first Native Earth Environmental Youth Camp funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). A group of educators got together with a group of environmentalists and developed an environmental youth camp integrating western science with traditional knowledge through a series of hands on outdoor activities focused on...
DO NOT FLUSH OR POUR UNWANTED, UNUSED OR EXPIRED MEDICATION DOWN THE DRAIN This includes expired and unused prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs. WHY NOT FLUSH? * Flushed medications can get into our lakes, rivers and streams Pharmaceuticals enter our wastewater from a variety of sources including the flushing of unused medications. A nationwide study done in 1999 and 2000 by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) found low levels of drugs such as antibiotics, hormones, contraceptives and steroids in 80% of the rivers and streams...
HETF has a meeting with NYSDEC on Friday, October 30, 2009 to discuss the impacts Hydro-fracking will have to the Haudenosaunee and the natural world. Here is an article that will enlighten the people about the impacts Hydro-fracking will have when it comes to New York State. Will we be prepared? In August of 2009, the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force and the Onondaga Nation’s environmental team visited Bradford, PA to talk to neighbors there and witness first-hand the impacts of h...
In 2008, the Akwesasne Mohawk Freedom School was the first Native group to take on the Lost Ladybug Project themselves. Children led by Aronhiaies Herne worked hard during a scorching August and amassed an amazing collection of 80 ladybug photographs. The Onondaga Nation Afterschool Program participated in a different way through visits and surveys led by Lost Ladybug Project team members. During these visits the team developed much of the ladybug curriculum of activities now found on their...
WHAT IS IDLING? An idling vehicle is basically one whose engine is running when it is parked or not in use. The most common reasons for engine idling are: • Warming up the car • Waiting or dropping off someone • Doing an errand • Listening to the radio • Parked illegally • Keep the heat/a.c. on • Remote car starters promote unnecessary idling WHY IS IDLING A PROBLEM? Waste money and natural resource • Thirty seconds of idling can use more fuel than turning off the engine and restarting it • Damages our vehicles • Creates unnecessary polluti...
Department of Environment - MCA The Department of Environment has been reacting to too many calls regarding the illegal dumping of construction and deconstruction waste in Akwesasne. It is illegal to dump construction debris anywhere in Akwesasne especially close to waterways. A 30-meter buffer zone must be maintained to ensure that our rivers and streams stay healthy. The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne is looking at this issue and will be coming up with rules and regulations to curb this...
The Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment (ATFE) in collaboration with SRMT Environment Division, MCA Model Forest Program and the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (HETF) has been collecting black ash seeds to produce seedlings to plant in the Akwesasne community in the future. Now these efforts are needed even more with the threat of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) coming this way. This invasive species was found south of us in Allegheny county and in the north of us at Montreal. Once detec...
20 A Sugar maple in Snye produced a seed. 1956 The seed germinated to form a new tree seedling. 1963 the tree had reached 4’ in height, indicated by innermost ring, earliest record in tree. 1968 Tree is 1” DBH, Salmon River School gets Mohawk representation on board of directors. 1970 this tree began a faster rate of growth, at this time is likely when the site was logged and this tree released, with more light and less competition the tree experienced better growing conditions. 1978 tree is...
With the arrival of fall and cold weather, it is essential to complete a few projects to keep your yard and garden protected through the dormant months. Prepare shrubs, trees and grass now and they will return healthy in the spring and will also leave you with a neat, well tended yard through winter. Lawn Although grass appears to stop growing in the fall, the roots are growing deeper to prepare for winter. Now is the best time to fertilize and reseed your lawn. Feeding the lawn early in autumn will give the roots a boost before winter...
Submitted by Angie Hicks www.angieslist.com About 36 million Americans suffer from ragweed allergies, and it’s blooming right now. If you’re among them, make this the year you beat the sneezing before it starts. 1. Kiss your mower good bye: Ragweed alone comes in 17 different species, and each plant can emit a billion grains of pollen. While you can’t stay sealed up indoors until the first frost, you can minimize your contact with the pollen. Hire a reliable lawn service to mow, get rid of ragweed and other unwanted plants from your yard and ga...
Several gardeners have called the MCA Environment Department recently to inquire about a disease that has been affecting their tomato plants. The disease is called tomato blight. There are actually two types of blight, an early blight and a late blight. Both diseases are caused by fungi. Alternaria and Phytophthora are the fungi that cause these blights. The following excerpt from the Purdue University Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory website describes each blight in further detail and...
I have many fond memories of my childhood, and one of my favorites was the day my mom took my brother and me on an Antlion hunt. I do not remember exactly the spot in Cold Spring, New York where we found the Antlion’s pit, but I do remember that the area had some sandy spots. After looking around for a while, my mom picked a single long, wide blade of grass. She then kneeled down in front of the Antlion’s pit we found, and she told my brother and me to kneel down in front of the same pit and...
The Black-Eyed-Susan, Rudbeckia hirta (Asteraceae) is a stiff, upright annual or short-lived perennial native. It is found throughout North America. The Black-Eyed Susan is probably the most common of all American wildflowers. The characteristic brown, domed center is surrounded by beautiful bright yellow ray florets. This wildflower thrives in most soils, even in sandy conditions, but it likes to be in the full sun. The “Susan” as it is sometimes called is a true sunshine worshiper that forgive...
If the plant, stinging nettle, has ever stung you you know why it has its name. The stinging nettle is an herbaceous flowering plant found in Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America. It stings because their leaves and stems are covered with brittle, hollow, silky hairs that contain three chemicals, a histamine that irritates skin, acetylcholine which causes a burning feeling, and serotonin. Brushing up against the plant with any bare skin, especially the legs, or the arms, will result...
