A grandmother’s prophecy of return drove Mohawk resettlement at Kanatsiohareke

Evidence

Sakokwenionkwas, also known as Tom Porter, is a member of the Bear Clan. The Bear is known for protecting the people and as the keeper of medicine knowledge. Just so, twenty years ago, Tom and a handful of others set out with healing in mind. As a boy, he had heard his grandmother repeat the old prophecy that someday a small band of Mohawks would return to inhabit their old home along the Mohawk River. In 1993, that someday arrived when Tom and friends left Akwesasne for ancestral lands in the Mohawk Valley. Their vision was to create a new community on old lands, far from PCBs and power dams. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 942

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying the specifics of Tom Porter’s 1993 community and its current status for the restorative-justice thread.
• XREF: The prophecy-of-return motif hooks to ch49’s circular time where origin stories double as prophecies. — connects to: Sweetgrass and the Mohawk language vanished together from the Mohawk Valley — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 933