Womens Dance Episode 6: Our House

The Aboriginal Outlaws

Women’s Dance, Indigenous Women from The Mohawk Nation Territory of Akwesasne share their thoughts, lives, challenges, and triumphs.

In this episode Viktoria, Allie, and Sarah talk about returning to the quintessential Haudenosaunee tradition: The Longhouse. People of The Longhouse, a name invoking the ancestral Iroquoian domicile.

Today “The Longhouse” serves as a shorthand for the longhouse tradition, or longhouse religion as it was called back in the olden times. Colonization has left a deep rift in the spiritual landscape of The People, and many now desire a return to something more indigenous, and with that, each of our hosts has overcome or is in the process of overcoming fears, confusion, and the momentum of history in a return of wandering mohawk people to the traditions of the ancestors, or our best approximation. Each of us has a story of return to share.