DONALD’S GOING DOWN!

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MNN. 24 Feb. 2016. Trump always had a severe back problem that caused him pain for a lot of his life. He met some Mohawk steel workers who were erecting the steel on one of his building in New York City. They advised him to visit Kahnawake and see one of our medicine men, who fixed him. He should have also visited the ‘slapping medicine man’ because he needs a good smack for what he says about us.

"What goes around, comes around, Donnie!"

“What goes around, comes around, Donnie!”

Showing his disdain for us, he later saw some of our men working on a job in NYC and gave them a piece of his mind. He did not go up to the top of the steel where they work. He waited for them to come down to the ground so he could verbally abuse them.

Trump is showing his disdain for the onkwe’hon:weh. His whole existence is based on the lie that somehow America has legitimate title to our land, when they do not. He pledges to rename great turtle island place names. So as a consequence we have given him the name “rot’kon”.

We call everything on our homeland by their real onkwe'hon:weh names from where naturally originate.

We call everything on our homeland by their spiritual onkwe’hon:weh names from where we naturally originate.

Trump will lose the election. 99% of the Americans are not benefiting from the big lie. They will support their onkwe’hon:weh brethren.

Foreclosure, Donnie, like "Little Big Horn"!

Foreclosure, Donnie, like “Little Big Horn”!

Frank Zappa probably wrote this song thinking about Donald Trump: “Hey, there people, I’m Bobby Brown. They say I’m the cutest boy in town… O, god, I am the American dream. But now I smell like vaseline. And I’m a miserable son of a bitch…. Am I a boy or lady, I don’t know which. I wonder, wonder, wonder.“

 

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Akwesasne military surveillance.

Trump changing onkwe’hon:weh place names.

Follow the money in Indian country.

Alberta onkwe’hon:weh end their kids to Israel.

 

 

HIGH STEEL

mnnlogoMNN. June 26, 2013. The Haudenosaunee ironworkers “Ratiristakehron” worked on nearly all the big structures of greater New York: Empire State Building, George Washington Bridge, Chrysler Building, World Trade Center, Triborough Bridge, Verrazano Bridge, Pulaski Skyway and West Side Highway. They worked all over the world, even helping to rivet the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Panama Canal. Mohawks were sent to California to teach ironworkers how to erect with a guy derek. 

Ratiskerakete, our men.

Ratiskerakete, our men.

 

In 1886 Dominion Bridge of Montreal was building a cantilevered bridge over the St. Lawrence for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. It was partly set on the Kahnawake Mohawk community on the south shore. The Mohawks demanded jobs. Dominion Bridge agreed – assuming they would unload box cars and do other menial tasks. The Indians climbed all over the bridge, “as agile as goats”. They wanted to try riveting. As the work progressed, the Mohawks were found to be at ease at great heights. 

Keepers of the Eastern Door of Great Turtle Island.

Keepers of the Eastern Door of Great Turtle Island.

Riveting is difficult and dangerous. Rivets were heated until they were red-hot, tossed thirty to forty feet through the air, then caught and forced through steel beams with a pneumatic riveting gun, all standing on a narrow beam 500 feet or more above the ground. 

Soon 70 iron and steel riveters were working projects throughout Canada. Men from all Six Nations joined. Mohawks worked 10 years before the international Iron Workers Union was formed. They had always adapted to highly skilled building trades. They were guides for fur trappers, rode rafts for lumber companies, shot the rapids, circus performers and even ‘snake oil’ salesmen. 

In 1907 the Quebec Bridge collapsed, killing 96 workers, 35 of them Mohawks. Instead of quitting, Mohawk boys became even more determined to become steelworkers. Construction companies preferred Iroquois iron workers.

Haudenosaunee hands in NYC skyline.

Haudenosaunee hands in NYC skyline.

 

By the 1910s they arrived in New York. In the 1930s over 700 Mohawks lived in the old North Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Local Italian grocers carried their favorite cornmeal. They hung out at the Spar Bar and the Wigwam Bars. It is said there was a sign, “The Greatest Iron Workers in the World Pass Thru These Doors”. 

Their ties to their families and communities were very strong. On Friday nights the steel workers made the twelve-hour trip home to a joyous reception and drove all night back to the city on Sunday nights to be on the job on Monday morning. 

Eagles at the top of Tree of Peace.

Eagles at the top of Tree of Peace.

Their skill remains a mystery. Some thought it was genetic. Others said they knew how to deal with fear. By the late 1960s riveting had all but disappeared. The Brooklyn community dissolved. The lure of high steel did not disappear. The graves of men who died on the job are marked with steel girders. By the 1990s 20 to 25 percent of Mohawk men were in steel work again. Men who want to do it are rare and men who can do it are even rarer. 

As Joni Mitchell sang, “Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada, They can balance and they can climb, Like their fathers before them, They’ll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline … Song for Sharon.

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