- Ritual
- Ohero:kon／オヘロコン（Under the Husk）
- Region and community
- カナダ・米国国境Akwesasne／Kanien’kehá:ka（Mohawk）男女
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity / New social responsibilities
- Legal age of majority
- Canada18 or 19 years, by province or territoryCanada · Calendar unspecified · 18: Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. 19: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. · Law and supporting sources
- United States18–21 years, by stateUnited States · 47 states and Washington, D.C., use 18. Alabama and Nebraska use 19, and Mississippi uses 21. Mississippi permits certain property contracts from 18. · Law and supporting sources 1 · Law and supporting sources 2
About the rite
Ohero:kon, “Under the Husk,” is a four-year Kanien’kehá:ka program at Akwesasne for adolescents of different genders. Elders guide participants through language and cultural learning, sweat-lodge practice, and progressively demanding fasts.
The final return to a community feast marks readiness to carry adult responsibilities. Akwesasne’s 2023–2024 annual reporting records the contemporary program.
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