ok-wa-ho's

Updated: May 26, 2025

Far off that cry reached the ears of the older men, smoking about their council fire. "'It is Ok-wa-ho's voice, they said proudly, 'and it is the cry of victory. We may never hear that cry again, for the white man's law and rule begins to-day. Which was true, for after that the Mohawks came under the governmental laws of Canada.

E. Pauline Johnson - The Shagganappi

Thou hast a woman's wrist, a baby's fingers. They could not swing a tomahawk. "'No? the boy sneered. 'Perhaps thou art right, but they can plunge a knife. Did thou not lend my brother a knife last night? Yes? Then I have come to return it. There was a flash of steel, a wild death cry, and Ok-wa-ho's knife was buried to the hilt in the heart of Black Star of the Bear Clan."

E. Pauline Johnson - The Shagganappi