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The Jesuits had to learn Mohawk.  They didn’t force us to learn French.  They borrowed names and concepts from our creation story to teach us their story.  Karonhià:ke, the Mohawk name for Sky World, became the Mohawk word for heaven in the Lord’s Prayer.  This was not just a linguistic shortcut, but a conceptual bridgeContinue reading “A Lily Among Thorns: The Mohawk Repatriation of Káteri Tekahkwí:tha”