• To teach and preserve the Mohawk Language through the identification of the local trees and plants and their translation into Mohawk.
• To teach and preserve the plants and trees and the uses of them in the Mohawk tradition.
• And through this, the continuation of the teaching and preserving of the Mohawk culture itself.

Method

To gather, identify and prepare specimens of ferns and their allies, herbs and trees for a Herbarium which would catalogue the local plants harvested at the Tree of Peace Society Learning Center in Rossie, NY.  All specimens are to be gathered from this tract of land.  The Herbarium is arranged according to flower color and is to be stored in a temperature-stable environment convenient and accessible to the Mohawk Nation for use as a reference.  The Herbarium would serve as a base from which a herbal class text and field guide would be generated.

The herbal class text would be arranged in the same format as the Herbarium, by flower color.  It would consist of scanned pictures of the entire area or select Herbarium specimens with their Mohawk name, common and Latin names and bound into a book or workbook format.  It would contain detailed information for study on the traditional uses of the plants and trees as food, medicine, shelter, sport, spiritual use..etc, as determined by the Tree of Peace Learning Center.  This would be a teaching guide for use as an adjunct to the traditional ongoing Mohawk education program or as a specific class by itself on the Mohawk uses of the plants and trees.

The field guide would also be arranged according to flower color and would contain a site map, photos of significant plants and trees and their traditional Mohawk names and uses, in addition to their common and Latin names.  The plants and trees would be keyed into the site map for ease of locating them on the land in their natural habitat.