Mohawk storyteller fights stereotypes about Native Americans

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11 жыл бұрын

"Spotlight" - NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTRY - MOHAWK STORYTELLER - Storyteller Kay Olan is a retired school teacher who still enjoys educating people about Native traditions through stories. She also says people should avoid stereotyping Native peoples, and uses the tales she tells to help combat some of those stereotypes. Paul Larson produced this segment for the Native American Artistry series. It was presented as a "Spotlight" segment on Mountain Lake PBS programs. The Native American Artistry pieces are produced by Mountain Lake PBS in cooperation with the New York State Historical Association's Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York. This project is also a partnership with the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. "Spotlight" is made possible, in part, by the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, dedicated to improving the quality of life for year-round residents of the Adirondack Park. www.pearsallfoundation.org

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@shadowpuppet7715 3 жыл бұрын

She indeed have the nicest voice I've ever heard in life, she is born storyteller💜

@GD-pv9vc 2 жыл бұрын

The Greek and Chinese philosophers didnt hold a candle to the Native Americans

@amyzielinski6239 3 жыл бұрын

I am born and raised in Ontario, Canada right around Mohawk territory. Any help you can give to lead me to my tribe would be much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my message

@justlooking4771 8 ай бұрын

My ancestor’s last name was “Chawgo”. Mary was my great, great grandmother. I just this found this out a few years ago (I was adopted in the 75 after I was born) and a DNA test back in 2017 opened up the truth finally. What an honor.

@mexica8759 5 жыл бұрын

Mexicans , central americans, native americans, first nation people of Canada etc using colonial terms. We are one people indigenous to this continent CemAnahuac ✊🏾

@xmusjaxonflaxon-waxon9175 3 жыл бұрын

@@sdmqp1329 that’s why we had the great law to stop all that

@patriciademekpe5522 2 жыл бұрын

Nope, unless you’re just speaking of the Athabaskan-Siberian-Mongoloid-Tarter bloodline.

@jaenmartens5697 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I realized that when I first explored Mexico in the 70s It felt so spiritual, like I'd imagine Tibet. Then I knew it was the genuine indigenous culture I had grown up craving. In the US it has been vanquished except for summer camp 🥴

@Sparrow-bh5ie 8 жыл бұрын

My family came to America and got kidnapped by the native American mohawk tribe and they feel in love with them and didn't want to leave and there of spring of kids end up sensitive to feelings and nature. my kids have awesome survival skills.

@OfficialDJTasawennateken 3 жыл бұрын

Nice story but it's a lie what you just said because my tribes never captured people who came here from other countries you liar I'm Mohawk and I don't appreciate you making up lies about my people

@xmusjaxonflaxon-waxon9175 3 жыл бұрын

@@OfficialDJTasawennateken we did kidnap people though mostly from the other tribes that are now the Iroquois

@RAHSdaboy12 3 жыл бұрын

i believe it lol. my favourite stories about onkwehonwe people is how when we captured people, they sometimes wouldnt wanna leave when they had the opportunity to and decided to live out the rest of their lives with us.

@sasaantunovic1291 Жыл бұрын

Dont lie

@jillarymartin7895 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this!✌🏽🖤

@Happy_HIbiscus 9 жыл бұрын

dude, this lady kicks ass!

@starrlehner1881 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@LoriTrott 10 жыл бұрын

wonderful

@jchigheagle 3 жыл бұрын

Good!

@Happy_HIbiscus 9 жыл бұрын

dude, this is cool !

@jimbarnes9398 7 жыл бұрын

I have always beena native American girl

@stansigstad6721 6 жыл бұрын

I am part Iriquois but don't know much about my ancestry. Where do I get information to study this

@OfficialDJTasawennateken 3 жыл бұрын

First of all Iroquois is not a native tribe it's a Confederacy of Native American tribes so no you're not Iroquois I love how people like you get this wrong

@marymunro6164 7 жыл бұрын

when I was a child I always wanted to be an native American Indian as soon as I came home from school I would put my Indian dress on I would run up and down the street on my bike as if it was a horse I am now 67 years old still wishing😇😘😂

@amyzielinski6239 3 жыл бұрын

Can you message me please. I need to know more about my native culture. I feel pulled to Mohawk but I am not sure. I recently had confirmed what I always felt in my spirit, that I am of indiginous decent via my fathers mothers mother who was half native and half french

@missikechkechqua1110 11 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Sadly enough the stereotyping goes on still and now the new age movement is one of the biggest perpetrators.

@blakegriplingph Жыл бұрын

Them New Agers are woo-peddling weirdoes anyway. So I get how this is basically cultural appropriation writ large.

@starrlehner1881 2 жыл бұрын

This lady is very similar looking to my grandmother Rosa Clement.

@NearlyNativeNursery 10 жыл бұрын

Iroquois confederacy are one of the most beautiful, colorful, imaginative, and cultural rich people of the NE US and Canada. Just as the Mvskoke confederacy of the SE US. I live in the middle of the stolen Mvskoke home land. Sadly, people down here just as every where, go day to day living the Materialistic Fake American Dream of a life and it never crosses most of their minds that this country,, like all of the continent was invaded by the first illegal aliens that used of Racism, Greed, Theft and Genocide to claim that they found it and that it is theirs by gods word. What criminals.

@pamle1 8 жыл бұрын

+Jim Rodgers ;Well, now that you brought it up, the fossil record shows that the first people in North America that we know of were Europeans. Now you may respond with the help of the inventions of the microchip, fiber optics, and a written language. It certainly beats the wheel.... opps, forgot, you couldn't even manage that invention either.

@NearlyNativeNursery 8 жыл бұрын

+pamle1 records are records maybe, I have not seen them, but early Euros did not make here and the more modern Euros could have not made it without the honest heart felt natives peoples compassion that showed the first illegal aliens how to survive the NE harsh winters.

@lindadechiazza2924 2 жыл бұрын

O mr rodgers say what you will so sad sad for you

@SusanA1056 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the name Haudenosaunee. (Since Iroquois is a term the white men gave us and which means "snake in the grass". A terrible slang.)

@amyzielinski6239 3 жыл бұрын

I will do my best to remember the proper name given to your tribe. No longer will you be called snake in the grass!!

@SusanA1056 3 жыл бұрын

@@amyzielinski6239 Miigwetch. Thank you.

@RAHSdaboy12 3 жыл бұрын

why snake in the grass though?

@user-nv5sn3tb4e 3 жыл бұрын

@Amy Zielinski the Haudenosaunee is a confederacy of six independent nations, not a nation itself. and for future reference, “tribe” has fallen out of favor for its culturally imperialistic implications (conveying a false sense of european superiority), and many indigenous people prefer “nation,” as it indicates their sovereignty. obviously, some have the name “tribe” in their official english name, so in those cases it’s perfectly fine.

@lindadechiazza2924 2 жыл бұрын

Nobel Savage so stereotypical muk. Nobody really pay attention to the story the culture sayings that the one person is trying to connect and line up for this ny cooperstown event...just blahs blahs woke trash talk. I want to hear story not blah blah blah