According to the Mohawk Prophecy
of the Seventh Generation... seven generations after contact with the Europeans...
the Onkwehonwe would see the day when the trees would die from the tops down.
The prophecy said that strange
animals would be born deformed and without the proper limbs.
Huge stone monsters would tear
open the face of the earth.
The rivers would burn.
The air would burn the eyes of
man.
According to the prophecy of the
Seventh Generation the Onkwehonwe (Real People)
would see the time when the birds would fall from the sky.
The
fish would die in the water.
And
man would grow ashamed of the way that he had treated his mother and provider,
the earth.
Finally,
according to this prophecy, after seven generations of living in close contact
with the Europeans, the Onkwehonwe would rise up and demand that their rights
and stewardship over the earth be respected and restored.
According to the wisdom of this
prophecy, men and women would one day turn to the Onkwehonwe, and particularly
to the eastern door of the Confederacy, for both guidance and direction.
It is up to the present
generation of youth of the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) to provide leadership and
example to all who have failed.
The children of the Kanienkehaka
are the seventh generation.
Painting; My Spirit Is Your
Breathe ~Marcine Quenzer
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