THE VISION
As I stand alone and apart on the shores of my Hotinonshón:ni ancestors,
they have been giving me information, in the language which I can understand
as the architect that I am, to expect the return to balance among all our
relations - healing everything caught almost helplessly in the dissociated
trauma we humans have invented as the modern western life way.
This is what
I can share with you now. In the native languaging of my Mohawk Ancestors,
I close by saying:
Tekwanonweraton akionkwetaokon?a tsinikaien sewatonhehtstonh tanonsewaianehson
ohnahoten skwanatoni. Akewkon nohoten nisewaiere naionkwario? tonhake.
"We are extending our greetings to be compassionate to our people who
have gone on before us, those who are our leaders, and for what they have
shown us: the way that you led your lives shows us how we should lead our
lives".
Ethoh nikawen:nake. Ta: ethoh.
William Woodworth, Raweno:kwas B. Arch., Ph.D. Mohawk, Six Nations
of the Grand River. Beacon to the Ancestors Foundation.