Tag: mohawk

Do you have any resources about Mohawk people? I’m mostly looking for what medicines and methods that they used to treat injuries and sickness. And what other indigenous people of North America were there?

ghostflowerdreams:

I don’t, but I can put something together right here. All the links below contain the information about them and what you’re looking for. Though some topics are a little more difficult to find sources on. If there’s something that you really want to know, than I suggest contacting an actual Native American, specifically a Mohawk to ask.

They do have official websites and places such as a museum and communities that you can ask. Even on Tumblr, you may be able to find someone to discuss it with (via Diversity Cross Check). If not, there’s Reddit: Native American (Reddit: Indian Country – By Native, About Natives & The Americas) and many Native American authors that are open to educating and/or assisting you to write accurate, non-stereotypical and non-colonialist mindset portrayal of Native American characters.

Mohawk Language

Medicines

As for other indigenous people of North America I’ve included the sources that contain that information.

lav3nderwolf:

okay here begins my journey of learning two languages at once someone slap me

so mohawk has Too Many fucking pronouns oh my god. there are four pronouns for a singular female based on age, same for a singular male, and then more based on plural. And those plurals are divided by what genders are in the plural group? so like two women would have a different plural pronoun than two males or a group consisting of different genders im gonna have an aneurysm

there are thirty of these pronouns in total

also the way Mohawk is structured is kinda like “let’s take a bunch of individual words and mash those into one gi-fucking-gantic word instead of using, oh i dunno, sentences???” so to say anything at all you need a huge vocabulary

okay so i dunno if read mores even exist anymore but i def can’t do it on mobile anyway so here’s a reblog i guess idk just blacklist the tags i guess lmao

but anyway im gonna list all the pronouns so i can study them so if that’s interesting to you, hooray. if not im so sorry about this long ass post omfg

Singular Female:

Kid- ieksá:a’

Teen- ieià:tase’

Adult- iakón:kwe

Elder- akokstén:ha

Singular Male:

Kid- raksá:’a

Teen- ranekénhteron

Adult- rón:kwe

Elder- rokstén:ha

Singular:

Me/I- í:i

You- í:se

She/Her (respectful)- akaónha

She/Her (informal)- aónha

He/Him- raónha

It- aónha

Plural:

You two- teseniiáhshe

We two- teiakeniiáhshe

She/Her- teteniiáhshe

He/Him- tehniiáhshe

Both- teteniiáhshe

You all- sewakwé:kon

We all- iakwakwé:kon

All females- onónha

All males- ronónha

All of us including speaker- tewakwé:kon

okay here begins my journey of learning two languages at once someone slap me

so mohawk has Too Many fucking pronouns oh my god. there are four pronouns for a singular female based on age, same for a singular male, and then more based on plural. And those plurals are divided by what genders are in the plural group? so like two women would have a different plural pronoun than two males or a group consisting of different genders im gonna have an aneurysm

there are thirty of these pronouns in total

also the way Mohawk is structured is kinda like “let’s take a bunch of individual words and mash those into one gi-fucking-gantic word instead of using, oh i dunno, sentences???” so to say anything at all you need a huge vocabulary