A CALL TO ACTION BY THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD
MOHAWK NATION NEWS: April 27, 2026.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE WAR!
‘BEFORE THE MEN CAN GO TO WAR, THE WOMEN MUST MAKE THEIR MOCCASINS.”
In the tradition of our ancestors, it was customary for the women to make the moccasins worn by the men who were going to war. If the women did not want war, they did not make the moccasins. Our ancestors belonged to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Europeans called us Iroquois.
This is a momentous time in history …. a time when women worldwide are hearing the Call … The Call to demonstrate a new way of consensual decision making based on partnership, cooperation, harmony and balance.
We can stop wars from ‘disappearing’ our children.
We overcame a horrible legacy of war and violence when Dekanawida, the Peace Maker, gave us our Kaianerekowa Great Peace. The United States Senate has acknowledged that our law served as a model for the Constitution of the United States [U.S. S. Con. Res. 76, 2 Dec. 1987]. The U.S. Constitution was, in turn, a model for the Charter of the United Nations. Our way is the basis of modern international law.
The Americans copied our laws and customs, but they did not understand them. Our ancestors recognized the sovereignty of all men and women by solving community conflicts through discussion in a People’s Council. In our tradition, three criteria must be kept in mind through all deliberations:
1]Peace must be kept at all costs;
2]Righteousness meaning decisions must be morally right, taking into consideration the needs of all our future generations to come, and;.
3]Power: meaning the power of the people must be maintained including the equal sovereignty of all men and all women.
Conflicts between nations were resolved through diplomacy and consensus. War – or the use of violence – was only a last resort. Even then the women and children of the opponents were spared. Throughout, our ancestors always respected the other nation’s different customs, laws and ways of life, whether they approved of them or not.
They would work out agreements on how to live and stand together and find a way not to become involved in these current conflicts. We now see that this has gone too far. Innocent lives and mother earth are at stake. As women and caretakers of this earth, we have decided to speak up.
According to the way of our ancestors, the soil of onowarekeh turtle island [North America] is vested in the women. Serious decisions about warfare had to involve the other half of the people – the women – the bearers of life, the nurturers of the earth.
Please tell your mothers, grandchildren, great-grandchiidren involved in this current conflict, friends, as well as the men and boys in your lives.
We are asking people to wear pink [as hot a pink as you want]. “Codepink” is a code used in hospitals when a child is nearing death. The women will wear pink to express deep outrage about the suffering and death of the children, as well as our outrage about the impacts of violence on children.
We are now facing an unnecessary war. We have a duty to use our power to do good. We have decided to remind all humanity of this important truth. War cannot happen without the support of women. We are asking the women of the world to come forward and play their rightful role as the progenitors, the creators of all men, all humanity, the caretakers of the earth and of all that lives upon it.
As women, we know the pain and suffering of childbirth. We feel a deep loss when our children die. This understanding is compelling us to act to stop the destruction of lives. The children must not suffer. Not our children, Not the children of anyone we disagree with. We respect the sovereign and sacred right of each individual to live on this earth.
We ask you, the women of the world, and the men who support us, to come forward and stop this madness. This decision to go to war is causing deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children. This is being made primarily by men without the input of the people of the nation attacking or being attacked, without the input of the women. Most of these men have grandmothers, mothers, wives, girlfriends, sisters, aunts, daughters, nieces, granddaughters, nannies, friends, etc….. Or anyone who is involved in causing the current threat to destroy the world.
We are asking all women to put pressure on current and past criminal presidents.
Women., remember your power. Remember your responsibility. Every person has personal power. We must all use our power to do good. We must stop the war. We must maintain the peace. We must hold back the moccasins.
JOIN YOUR VOICE. WITH SISTERS, MOTHERS, AUNTS, GRANDMOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, AND SAY “NO” TO WAR…NOT NOW… NOT EVER AGAIN.
Kahentinetha, Mohawk mother, grandmother & great grandmother
Kahente, Mohawk mother & grandmother
Karonhio’he, daughter
kokowa, daughter, mother
Grace, aunt &, sister
Sign this petition to stop the war and send it to your representatives. Your voice counts, but you have to do something. Use your power. What if every woman in the world refused to have a baby?
Our divine sister, Helen Reddy, says it very clearly about the power of the mocasin makers, the woman.
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