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23.2.18

HOW OUR MINDS WERE STOLEN | Mohawk Nation News - Our language was beaten out of us. Our language guides us te-tsi-kwa-ni-kon-ra. Colonial brain bashing was designed to prevent us from using our minds to describe complete details of our world, how to go about our lives and define ourselves. Our language shows us what is real, how creation works, how the moon, stars, sun and everything continue to exist that we are part of. Creation gave us mental tools oni-kon-ra to make decisions by using our reason to dissect ta-sha-to-reh-ton all matters that come to us. We make decisions from our mind and not from our gut. We don’t take issues at face value, which create incomplete decisions. We learn from thousands of generations of onkwe-hon-weh minds, not from man-made words based on unproven fables. onkwe-honwe-onwe thinking is naturally scientific, using both parts of our brain. Our parents, families, clans and people seri-wa-kwen-ies guide us to learn.


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