"Discovering" the US - John Mohawk

Описание: "Discovering" the US: Haudenosaunee Influences on U.S. Culture and Democracy was a presentation by Dr. John Mohawk. It was held on April 18, 2006 as part of the year-long educational series Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future. The series was coordinated by Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation in collaboration with Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It was co-sponsored by the Inter-Religious Council and the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

John Mohawk, Ph.D. was a Seneca educator and author. He directed the Indigenous Studies Center and codirected the Center for the Americas at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He wrote extensively and edited various Native American publications, including Akwesasne Notes (1967-1983) and Daybreak magazine (1987-1995). The work of Akwesasne Notes was of signal importance to the movement of Indian people seeking human and civil rights. John’s intellectual leadership, grounded in a strong traditional Longhouse base, provided the Native discussion with clear parameters on which to build. His latest book is Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest and Oppression in the Western World, a history of the impact of revitalization movements on the history and culture of Western Civilization. John has been a delegate and/or negotiator in several significant conflicts, including the Ganienkeh Indian Territory (1975), a factfinding trip to Iran during the American Embassy hostage crisis (1980), the Crisis at Racquette Point (1981), Salamanca Lease Negotiations (late 1980s) and the Oka Crisis (1990). John is also the founder and director of the Iroquois White Corn Project and the Pinewoods Café, located on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation. IWCP and the Pinewoods Cafe are projects that promote and sell Iroquois white corn products and foods to revitalize indigenous agriculture and to reintroduce the traditional Iroquois dietary and to support contemporary indigenous farmers. John passed away on December 13, 2006.