Old Mohawk lands at Kanatsiohareke are regenerating after logging damage

Evidence

The hills, once laid waste by lumbermen, have regrown with straight stands of pine and oak. A powerful artesian well pours from a cleft in the bluff with a strength that endures even the deepest drought and fills a clear mossy pool. In the still water, you can see your own face. The land speaks the language of renewal. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 943

Categorization

• FICTION: ‘In the still water, you can see your own face’ — a threshold image of a land that reflects the viewer’s belonging back; ripe for narrative.
• STORYSTEM: A return-community story where the recovering land itself becomes a character that mirrors those who have come home.
• XREF: connects to: Sweetgrass and the Mohawk language vanished together from the Mohawk Valley — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 933