Digital Journal

Mohawk Turtle Clan Twins Recognized for Entrepreneurial Indigenous Enterprise by CCAB

For the first time in CCAB award history, Six Nations twin sisters, Dakota and Jesse Brant, of Sapling & Flint jewellery manufacturing chosen as dual recipients of CCAB Young Aboriginal Entrepreneur ...
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First Major Retrospective of Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s Work To Go on View at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York

Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1954), “The Rebel,” 1987. Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. Collection of the artist. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the ...
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Shelley Niro on Her Life in Art

Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan), “Passage” from “La Pieta” series (2007), inkjet on canvas, 40 x 28 inches (image courtesy the National Museum of the American ...
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Clanology : clan system of the Iroquois / [writing & research, Tom Porter]

NMAI copy 39088019778257 gift of Rayna green. History of clans -- Clans of the Mohawk people -- Retrieving of a name -- Turtle clan -- Bear clan -- Wolf clan -- Snipe clan -- Deer clan -- ...
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Keeping the 'Turtle Island' Alive: The Mohawk’s Fight Against Industrial Pollution

According to the Mohawk, an Indigenous tribe based in North America, the Earth as we know it used to rest on the back of a gigantic turtle – and after the continents separated, North America was known ...
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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian

Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1954), “The Rebel” (1987), hand-tinted gelatin silver print (collection of the artist) Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch — the first ...