KanatsioharEke
Mohawk Community
Re-established September 1993
Skennenhatie
Take Peace with You
2024 at Kanatsiohareke
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The 2024 Strawberry Festival, June 29-30, was a great success - our return to a full two days of Indigenous music, food, dance, crafts, storytelling, silent auction and more. Niawen'ko:wa to everyone who worked together to make it happen, and to all who attended! Here's a fine writeup and gallery of photos of the festival, by our good friend and master photographer Alex Hamer:
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https://nativeviewpoint.com/photos-celebrating-31-years-of-the-mohawk-strawberry-festival/
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Happening Now! - Mohawk Language Camp: 3 sessions, July 8-26
On-site summer language classes return this July for three one-week sessions, beginners through proficient levels. Full program details and registration forms are in the Language section below.
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Coming soon: 2024 Indigenous Writers Retreat, August 12-16 at Kanatsiohareke. ​For Indigenous Graduate students & writers: Kanatsiohareke offers a week-long opportunity to work on a dissertation, thesis, academic paper, report, proposal, article, journal, course outlines, or other literary works, with support from academic advisors. Registration in this Indigenous Group will give each writer an opportunity for daily quality writing time,
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Monday thru Friday.
Here are the details, with a registration form:
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2023 events - a great year...
30th Anniversary Celebration for Kanatsiohareke
Nov 4, 2023 at Skidmore College, Saratoga NY was a day to celebrate our 30th anniversary, with film screenings, speakers, dancers, and musicians. All proceeds benefited Kanatsiohareke - we thank all our friends who joined us!
Saturday Homesteading and Wellness Classes, July-September 2023
Kanatsiohareke partnered with Unity Garden last summer to offer a series of workshops and classes on Saturdays in July, August and September. For details, see Workshops and Events (scroll down to Saturday Workshops).
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Mohawk Language Camp: 3 sessions, July 2023
On-site summer language classes returned to Kanatsiohareke iin 2023.
Strawberry Festival: June 24, 2023
Kanatsiohareke's Strawberry Festival also returned on-site in 2023 with live performances, craft vendors, silent auction, strawberry drink and more. It was great to all be together on site again, after our long shutdown. Here's a video of the 2023 festival by Kahentawaks Perkins for Akwesasne TV: https://fb.watch/lTNV3Zw0UT/
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Indigenous Writing Retreat: June 5-9, 2023
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Our popular writers retreat returned to on-site sessions again, after three years of being online only.
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Kanatsiohareke's Fall Festival, Nov. 2022 - Thanks to everyone for all your great support during our 2022 Kanatsiohareke Fall Festival - whether in person at our benefit concert, joining online in our vendor market and auction, or contributing to the very generous donations we received. We raised over $9000 to help get Kanatsiohareke ready to hold on-site events and classes at the community again after our long shut-down.
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Special thanks to Caffe Lena in Saratoga for hosting us on Nov 13 and for donating all the ticketing, stage crew, food service and logistic support we needed. Great thanks to: Joe Bruchac, as emcee, musician and story-teller that day; to Jimmy Wolf and his band; to story-tellers Kay Olan and Perry Ground, and to Tom Porter for sharing his wisdom with the traditional Opening and Closing Words. And many thanks to all our volunteers who made the live show and the online events the great successes they were.
Niawen’kó:wa, everyone!
- Kanatsiohareke's Board of Directors
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Tsi Iakwateweiénhsta Kanien'kéha Kana'tsioharè:ke Nòn:we
Mohawk Language at Kanatsiohareke
Tetitewaha ne Onkwawen:na!
Let's bring our language back!
Mohawk Language Program
2024 Summer Mohawk Language Classes: July 8-26 Kanatsiohareke's On-site Language classes Summer 2024: 3 one-week sessions (Beginners, Basic, and Basic Practice) - weekdays, Monday-Friday. Here are the 2024 Class Flyer and the Registration forms:
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Mohawk Language Program (July, 2024)
Language Registration is now open!!!
Three (3) levels of learning being offered on line- Monday to Friday in one-week sessions:
Level 1: Introduction to Mohawk –
An intensive Beginners class for those who have had NO prior, or very minimal, exposure to the Mohawk language. Study includes: practice with sounds, vocabulary, greetings, short dialogues.
Registration deadline: upcoming
Level 2: Basic Mohawk –
A language class for those who have some prior Mohawk language-learning experience. Study includes: grammar, pronouns, vocabulary, phrases, sentences, dialogues. Registration deadline: upcoming
Level 2.5: Basic Mohawk Practice –
A Mohawk class for those who have been learning the language. Providing opportunity for oral practice of basic learning to improve speaking proficiency. Study includes: vocabulary, verb tenses, dialogues, short conversations. Registration deadline: upcoming
On-Line Donation at: www.mohawkcommunity.org/donate
Registration Fee is a Donation of $500 (US) per session due at time of registration. Includes accommodations, all meals, instruction and materials. Also accepting Mail-in Checks or Money Order: Payable to “Kanatsiohareke"
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