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Stirring the Ashes

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Author: 
John Kane
Year: 
2014

Stirring the Ashes

Stirring the Ashes
Stirring the Ashes

One of the biggest challenges for any people is broad participation in the issues that affect everyone. And when you stop and think about it, there is very little from the smallest ripples in a family to major calamities in a community that occurs without impacting others.

The notion of “mind your own business” or “let someone else handle it” has become commonplace in many cultures. As we observe the flaws of some of these other cultures and societies there are those among us that would like to think the Haudenosaunee lived in a utopian society where conflict and controversy could never find a home. We speak of “the good mind” as though our ancestors never had bad thoughts...

citizen engagement, citizen participation, custom and tradition, Haudenosaunee, oral tradition, traditional governance systems
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Iroquois Confederacy
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News and Opinion
Topics: 
Cultural Affairs, Governance, Leadership

Kane, John. "Stirring the Ashes." Let's Talk Native. The Two Row Times. April 1, 2014. Opinion. (http://www.tworowtimes.com/opinions/columns/lets-talk-native/stirring-th..., accessed April 1, 2014)

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