{"id":3045,"date":"2010-10-21T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2010-10-21T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:03:46","slug":"remembering-jake-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/10\/21\/remembering-jake-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Jake Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Swamp &#8212; Mohawk chief and spiritual leader, planter of peace trees &#8212; died unexpectedly a week ago. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancountrytoday.com\/national\/Mohawk-leader-Jake-Swamp-has-died-105179139.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancountrytoday.com\/national\/Holy-Road--105180014.html\">here<\/a> from Indian Country Today. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard-freeholder.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2805749\">here<\/a> from the Cornwall Ontario Standard Freeholder.<\/p>\n<p>He was 68, but seemed centuries older than one life span. Maybe that was because he confronted ageless questions, and practiced ageless rituals to try to heal the modern world. He was often found at international gatherings, at the U.N., in the Hague, with the Pope,\u00a0 planting a northern white pine tree to symbolize peace.<\/p>\n<p>He was a public face of often very private traditional Mohawks \u2013 opening ceremonies with a prayer in the Mohawk language, and teaching locally and worldwide about the Haudenosaunee.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll share a story from our 2002 archives, \u00a0during tomorrow\u2019s 8 O\u2019clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Swamp &#8212; Mohawk chief and spiritual leader, planter of peace trees &#8212; died unexpectedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}