The syllables recited over lunch at the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community last week had a special ring to them. Every summer the community offers a series of immersion classes in Kanien, native language ...

It was morning on Ganienkeh, a Mohawk community near the Canadian border in Upstate New York, and about ten people had showed up for the daily tobacco burning ceremony. Mostly older folks, 7 a.m., ...