A Swiss museum has returned two sacred artifacts to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacy.

The objects — a medicine mask and turtle rattle — had been in the possession of the Geneva Museum of Ethnography (MEG) for nearly 200 years.

Mohawk elder and activist Kenneth Deer was one of three men sent to retrieve the objects.

He says he was "surprised and thankful" for the museum's co-operation and called the MEG "progressive" for returning the objects without conditions or complications.

The museum held a ceremony in Geneva on Feb. 7 to mark the first time that the MEG returned a sacred object to its rightful owners. [...]

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Mohawk ironworkers who built the Chrysler Building, ca. 1930. For more on the Mohawks who built Manhattan's skyscrapers, see here.

Photo: Smithsonian Institution via the Daily Mail

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I have depression hair, lol. My hair is my visual focal point and one of the main ways I express myself outwardly. I've been dyeing and cutting it since I was 11. Since giving birth 9 years ago and realizing the Spawn's favorite thing to do was grab fistfuls of the stuff and YANK, I've had a short cut. I'm also a dog groomer with a tight budget and more often than not in the last five years or so I've just done it myself rather than pay a stylist (anxiety in the seat also doesn't help, I never feel uglier than when I'm in a salon). I've had a Mohawk for about as long.

My lines are all messed up and the back is longer than the front. I butchered my calik on the crown of my head.

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It's Billy Ray Cyrus bad.

I share this because I have a haircut scheduled at noon, and will be providing an after pic. Stay tuned. 😁

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“Indians Count Moons To Set History Dates Long Before Columbus,” Toronto Globe. January 27, 1932. Page 11. ---- Perhaps the ‘dark ages’ were not always quite dark. At least, the Indians on this continent had their own manner of counting time.

We have long been told by the histories that the centuries of Indian occupation of this continent were uncounted, vague, and indefinite. For example, the date of the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, in what is now New York State, was uncertain. This confederacy has sometimes been described as the first League of Nations. Additional interest attaches for Canadians because the Six Nations, as they later became known, moved over into Canada with the Loyalists after the American Revolution and have ever since been loyal citizens.

One of the tribes was the Mohawks, and a visitor to Toronto this week was one of the prominent women of this tribe, Mrs. H. A. Brant, of the Deseronto Reserve, herself a direct descendant of Joseph Brant, Chief of the Mohawks, for years before his death in 1807. Mrs. Brant, whose maiden name was Teresa Brant, and whose father, a great-grandson of Joseph Brant, still lives on the Deseronto Reserve, married R. A. Brant, who is not related to the original chieftain.

During her visit to this part of Ontario, for the first time in her life, Mrs. Brant was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. Nelson Campbell, 214 Glennir Avenue, Forest Hill. To a party of friends, she read  a paper which traced the history of the Mohawks, in some detail, with information derived from tribal tradition rather than printed books. One of her most interesting statements was that the Iroquois Confederacy was formed in 1390. As that year was more than a century before the discovery of America by Columbus, and long before clocks, almanacs, and other means of computing time were available on this continent, Mrs. Brant was asked to explain.

‘Oh, this came down to us through tradition. Our tribe counted time by the number of moons, and the year 1390 was reached through counting back the number of moons.’

A group of local historians heard the news with surprise and delight. Selwyn P. Griffin, author of ‘Open Secrets,’ in which Iroquois lore is presented, said:

‘I should say the date of the formation of the Confederacy was about 1450, but if Mrs. Brant says 1390, I would not contradict her. She should know more about it than we should, especially in view of the traditions in her tribe. It is unlikely that any one can settle this date, and she is as likely to be correct as any one.’

Mrs. Brant, who is deeply interested in Mohawk history, displays a keen poetic touch in her prose and verse. She is proud of the record of her race, and recollects the satisfation felt by the Deseronto Mohawaks over a great Mohawk of modern times, Dr. Oronhyatekha, who was married to Ellen Hill, a great-granddaughter of Joseph Brant.

Researchers say newly discovered archival records reveal an important connection between Ontario First Nations and Irish famine victims.

The Irish Potato Famine was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland, and one of the most traumatic events in modern Irish history. Year after year, the country's potato crop failed. By the time the worst was over, one million people had died of disease and starvation. Survivors were forced to emigrate. In the summer of 1847, Toronto gave refuge to 38,000 Irish famine victims — at a time when Toronto's population was only 20,000.

The part of this history that is virtually unknown is the contribution to the relief fund from Indigenous communities in Canada.

"At least 15 bands answered the call and requested that donations be deducted from their government annuities, added to the fund, and then sent to 'our suffering fellow subjects and Christian brethren in Ireland and Scotland,'' according to Mark McGowan's research. McGowan is a professor of history at the University of Toronto and has spent time going through the archival documents. [...]

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Isaac Jagues Mense Septembri Hurons rogaverunt a Iesuita missionarium ut eos in legatione ad Mohawks comitarentur, qui priores hostes ad singula foederis componenda invitaverant. Jogues alium laicum adiutorem sibi assumpsit, Ioannem de La Lande, virum peritum nemus, qui in Nova Gallia consederat, priusquam Iesuitis auxilium praeberet. Parva factio Quebecum discessit 24 sept. Solus unus Huron offerebat se cum Jogues et La Lande pergere. Interim Mohawks in Ossernenon segetem defectum et pestilentiam passi sunt, reprehendentes in cista vestimentorum et librorum, quos Iesuita post se reliquerat, cum legatus Gallicus eos visitabat. Milites quidam Francum ad occidendum quaerentes profecti delectati sunt cum die 17 mensis Octobris Ioguem et duos eius comites ceperunt

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