by John Mohawk
John Mohawk, a leading scholar and spokesperson for the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy died in Buffalo, New York, December 12th.
On Tuesday Dec. 17 Amy Goodman noted John Mohawk's life and death on Democracy Now. Since then I have been searching the corporate owned press for any mention of John Mohawk's death. I have found none. Activists and scholars of color often get short shrift when it comes to acknowledging their achievements. Here's what Amy Goodman said:
Mohawk was a leading advocate for the rights of indigenous people worldwide. He served as director of Indigenous Studies at the Center for the Americas at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Mohawk was also director of the Iroquois White Corn Project, which promoted and sold Iroquois white corn products and foods and supported contemporary indigenous farmers. John Mohawk was a columnist at Indian Country Today, and his last book was Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest & Oppression in the Western World.
John Mohawk spoke last month in New York at the "Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Economic Globalization: a Celebration of Victories, Rights and Cultures." The teach-in was sponsored by the International Forum on Globalization and the Tebtebba Foundation.
John Mohawk began by talking about the Spanish conquest of the Americas and ended by discussing the domination of indigenous people in the United States. (more)
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