What happens when we are boozing
(Courtesy: Kanien’keháka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center)
Story told by Geraldine Standup
Whether it’s booze or drugs, what happens is that your physical body will really reflect what is going on in your mind. So, you may see someone walking into a bar, and they’re alive, lively, talkative and chatty.
They throw back one drink after another and you can see the body begin to sag and if they insist on more, their heads will bounce off the bar. That’s when the lower beings come in.
This is when we all get into fights, we are robbed or killed. Any kind of thing can happen when we are in that state. These are understandings I got from the old people.
“Tóhsa shnekì:ra, don’t drink.”
There’s going to be trouble because you are going to be attracting it - you are now in negative mode.
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Tsi niiá:wens nó:nen ionkwanonhwarahtòn:'on
(Courtesy: Kanien’keháka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center)
Geraldine Standup IAKOKÁ:RATON
Iah the teiotié:ren tóka' onen'tákeri akénhake tóka'ni iontsheiaronkwáhtha, tho neniá:wen ne saieròn:ta entewatena'ké:rahte tsi nitiá:wens ne sa'nikòn:rakon. Ne ki', tóka' nòn:wa enhshé:ken ónhkak tsi ionthnekahráhkhwa wa'akotaweia'tonhátie, tánon iakónhnhe, iakoia'ta'neká:ron, iakotewennatiè:ni tánon iakoterihwatiè:ni.
Kwah iothnekaténion tsi rotihnekì:ren tánon ió:ken tsi satkáhthos tsi tewà:sen's noieròn:ta tánon tóka' thotirihwà:re sénha é:so ahatihnekì:ra, ionthnekahrahkhwà:ke tentiottá:ko ne raotinón:tsi. Thò:ne ki' wáhi entkontáweia'te ne ehtà:ke nikón:nes atónhnhets.
Ken' neniá:wen nó:nen entewateriiohá:ton, enionkhinénsko thé:nen tóka'ni enionkhírio. Kwah thikawenní:io nahò:ten neniá:wen nó:nen tho nensa'nikòn:rawen. Ken' ní:tsi ionke'nikonhraientastén:ni ne thotí:iens.
"Tóhsa shnekì:ra."
Tó:kenske tenka'nikonhrhá:rake áse' kenh entehsatirón:ten eh nahò:ten - ó:nen ki' iah teka'nikonhrí:io nisa'nikonhrawèn:'en.