"Thinking in Indian: A John Mohawk Reader "presents the Native
perception of philosopher-thinker-activist John Mohawk
(Sotsisowah). An elder of the Seneca Nation and deeply rooted
Haudenosaune (Iroquois) traditionalist, Mohawk's intellectual
approach is keenly universal while founded in the practice of his
ancient longhouse culture. A participant and leader in the Native
traditional movement, John Mohawk's gifted oratory and clear
thinking became the basis of a substantial current of Native
activism. These essays, produced and published over thirty years,
are prescient in the prophetic tradition yet thoroughly current.
They reflect consistent engagement in Native events and issues and
deliver a profoundly indigenous analysis of modern existence.
Native sovereignty, cultural roots and world view, land and treaty
rights, globalization impacts and mitigation, spiritual
formulations, and fundamental human wisdom coalesce to provide a
genuinely indigenous perspective on current events.
Presently a senior scholar at the Smithsonian National Museum of
the American Indian, Jose Barreiro is a novelist, essayist, and an
activist of nearly four decades on American indigenous hemispheric
themes. In 1974 Barreiro was enlisted by John Mohawk to help
produce the national Native newspaper "Akwesasne Notes," published
by the traditional Mohawk Nation. For ten years, they served as
joint coordinators on numerous indigenous human rights and
community building campaigns. As editor of Cornell University's
Akwe: kon Press from 1984 to 2002, and later as senior editor of
"Indian Country Today," Barreiro published dozens of Mohawk's
essays and columns. Barreiro is a member of the Taino Nation of the
Antilles.
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