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Uploaded by on May 8, 2008

Reporter Karihwakaste Deer and her grandmother talk abot this year's planting season....all in Mohawk!

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  • I find it touching when the elder lady helps the younger in pronounciation and words. Keep it alive.

  • this should be your peoples first lanuage, cause you're not european and you dont live in europe, so a european language shouldnt be the primary language....you guys still have a chance, my peoples language was lost to time after years of rape by spaniards

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  • @Seanconley08 True. plus, dont forget there are europeans who speak non-indo european languages too, hungarians, finns, samis and basques are some of them.

  • @shooshoobob1

    That is a very ignorant comment. The majority of Americans are of European descent. Our ancestors did speak a European language. Only a very small minority of Americans are descendants of any Native American society. While this is an extremely unfortunately outcome of the European colonialism. With that argument, Europeans shouldn't even speak Indo-European languages as they all had languages prior to the expansion of Indo-European northward from India. 

  • Niawen:kowa! Oneh, Karontes

  • Man I feel riped off! I wasnt taught my mohawk language. my grandmother knows but would not teach her children. Sad Sad

  • Tóta is slang :P Shé:kon Skennen'ká:wa ken?

    Oh nahò:ten iesá:iats? :)

  • Everyone living in Eastern New York State

    should be thrilled to be connected to Mohawk history, culture and language.

    For those of you in other parts of New York State, there is a Nation for you to connect with.

    For all upstate people, our DNA is Iroquois.

    Discover the 6 Nations!

  • @wahattoke1

    ioh.

  • Shekon.It's great to hear you speaking Kanienkeha.I am a German and be learning your language,because some of my Friends are Kahnawakeronon.Niawen ko:wa!

  • This is wonderful! I had read about the Mohawk language and the heart-breakingly difficult but elegant grammar, but this is the first time I ever heard it. It sounds beautiful!

    I hope your language will be passed down generation after generation and continue to thrive.

  • Is there a reserve that we can come visit and live on to learn?

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