WATERFALL
UNITY
ALLIANCE
"We are at a time when Mother Nature is fighting extinction. Human beings are spiritually and physically sick, and many people are seeking new ways of living in balance. As the oldest living democracy in the world, our traditional methods of living in right relationship will help us all heal together. It is time to make the old ways new again. It is time to restore balance and return to the original message of the Great Law of Peace." - Kanerahtiio Roger Jock
THE LONGHOUSE
The Longhouse will be a place of teaching about our creation stories and principles of living in harmony as they were given to our people in the original Good Message,” says Kanerahtiio. People of all walks of life have come to welcome the Mohawks back to the Valley and learn about the Great Law of Peace, which governs how we come together as communities.
The idea for the Longhouse project began in 2017, when Roger Kanerahtiio Jock, a founding member of the Waterfall Unity Alliance, began to meet with local officials and residents to begin the Longhouse project in West Fulton, ancestral homelands of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk, People of the Flint) Peoples - as an initial point of return and place of teaching about the Great Law of Peace. In 2019 the work began through the help of volunteers far and wide. On September 13, 2020, the first foundational poles were placed in the ground.
However, due to complications during the pandemic, the project stalled and work beyond the initial framing was halted. Since then, the Longhouse has reached a state of needing repair.
However there is newfound excitement as the Longhouse project finds new life through the rematriation of Skywoman's Forever Farm! The longhouse frame will be dismantled at it's current location in West Fulton, and moved to the farm, and will be completed there, on land that once housed a Kanien’kehá:ka Turtle Clan Village.
We are currently in the process of putting together a budget for the completion of this project and will be sharing a link soon with further details on how you can support this project.
THE GREAT LAW OF PEACE
When the Europeans first came to these shores, the People of the Longhouse taught the visitors the principles of the Great Law, including how to caucus, methods of impeachment, the supremacy of governance by and from the people, and the exclusion of religion from governance. These teachings formed the basis of the fledgling colonial democracy. However, the framers of the U.S. Constitution left out the central concepts of the rights of nature and the equality of women from their borrowed blueprint.
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