KANATSIOHAREKE: Traditional Mohawk Indians Return to Their Ancestral Homeland Tom Porter Foreword by John Mohawk on Haudenosaunee and Mohawk history Chapters by Kayeneseh Paul Williams & Doug George-Kanentiio Hardcover with full color illustrations Approx. 164 pages Size: 7” x 10” tall

KANATSIOHAREKE (pronounced Ga na jo ha lay gay) is the true account of how a small group of traditional Kanienkehaka (Mohawks) set out to fulfill a prophesy of hope and determination. Generation after generation of these First Nations People had passed on the story of how they would someday return to the homeland of their ancestors, the Mohawk River Valley in central New York State. In that place, they would reestablish a community where they would work hard to revitalize and teach their cultural traditions, language and spirituality. The reader of this extraordinary book is invited to learn not only about the past, present and future plans of Kanatsiohareke, but also about the history and traditions of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) to which the Kanienkehaka belong. Kanatsiohareke is more than just “The Place of the Clean Pot;” it is a symbol of a returning to the great principles of the Haudenosaunee—Peace, Unity and Respect, of the returning to the Good Mind for the seeking, restoring and maintaining of the Great Peace. The Mohawk community of Kanatsiohareke is a great treasure . . . —Kayeneseh Paul Williams . . . the story of the Mohawk return to Kanatsiohareke is a story of people making friends, sharing values, recruiting people to work hard, and creating a context of sharing and living Native American spiritual values. —John Mohawk When we left two hundred and some years ago, our old people said: “Some day we will return. Some day our children and great-grandchildren will go back to the Mohawk Valley and they will rekindle the fires and the fires will burn bright again. —Tom Sakokwenionkwas Porter

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