2010.54.10008

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Ganienkeh
Ganienkeh
c. 1970s
14.12 in HIGH x 22.62 in WIDE
(35.88 cm HIGH x 57.47 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.10008

In the bottom left corner of the poster is a union label for International Workers of the World I.U. 450, Glad Day Press. Along the bottom center is "Ganienkeh is a new Mohawk settlement in the Adirondacks established May 13, 1974. It was begun as a rebirth of the Original Instructions of the Mohawk people, and a rebirth of Mohawk life on Mohawk lands. Support for Ganienkeh can be sent to Ganienkeh...Additional copies of this poster can be obtained from Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation..."





Poster consists of a sepia image within a thin blue border on white paper with blue and white text. Image depicts three Mohawk children of about the same age sitting on the edge of a doorway with a smaller child sitting behind them. Text reads "Ganienkeh / "We have a little territory left- just enough to live and die on. Don't you think your governments ought to be ashamed to take that away from us by pretending it is part of theirs?" - Deskaheh."

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