Welcome to Tekahnawiiaks.com

Welcome to my website. My name is hard to spell but easy to pronounce. It's pronounced Deh-gunna-WEE' -yuks. I'm also known as Joyce King.

My website is under construction so please come back in a few weeks and I probably will have more information posted for you.
Niawen (Thank you)

~Tekahnawiiaks


Cornell Law Journal Publishes My Essay

“As a young girl, an elder shared a prophecy with to me: One day we would have to buy our water.”

I recently had a 24-page essay published in The Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (Issue 16:3, Summer 2007). It's entitled, "THE VALUE OF WATER AND THE MEANING OF WATER LAW FOR THE NATIVE AMERICANS KNOWN AS THE HAUDENOSAUNEE."