BRIAN RICE''S EXCELLENT NEW BOOK ON THE IROQUOIS IS JUST NOW OUT

NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR  (AUGUST 11  2013)

Brian Rice's excellent work, THE ROTINONSHONNI -  A TRADITIONAL IROQUOIAN HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF TEHARONHIA: WAKO AND SAWISKERA, has just appeared via Syracuse University Press,  It contains two endorsements on the cover:  myself (as Hunter Gray) and Denis Foley, Curator of the Lewis Henry Morgan Institute.  The Link to the book is at the conclusion of this message.

"This is a fine and splendid book in all respects. Dr. Brian Rice, Mohawk scholar, takes an extraordinary journey, as seen by the People of the Longhouse, on a fascinating trail into the cosmos of the Iroquois. From the Creation onward, he guides the reader epoch by epoch, vista by vista-all integrally related-until this vital, living and interpretive cosmic totality is seen in all of its great complexity and full richness. He draws both on his own extensive and deeply reflective cultural life-and also from the oral traditions of knowledgeable elders."-Hunter Gray (Abenaki / Mohawk), University of North Dakota 

"A significant contribution to Iroquois studies as it contains a Rotinonshonni (Iroquois) perspective of the covenant that occurred between the Creator and the Rotinonshonni.  This book is a must for ethno-historians and the Iroquois themselves, as well as the general public that wishes to learn more about the First Peoples of New York State.  Rice's insights are a breakthrough in the interpretation of Iroquois culture, both past and present."  -- Denis Foley, Curator, Lewis Henry Morgan Institute, SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica, N.Y.

http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2013/rotinonshonni.html  

The Link again, just to make sure:  http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2013/rotinonshonni.html

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(I am a formally retired Full Professor, American Indian Studies and Honors, UND. -- H.   )


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / 
St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO

Check out our massive social justice website with much
material on grassroots organizing techniques:
www.hunterbear.org  The site is dedicated to our
one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray, and to Sky Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm
.
See the new expanded/updated "Organizer's Book," 
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new substantial 
introduction by me. This book is a full, very detailed 
discussion of the rise and development of the Jackson  
Movement of 1962-63.  And this book is also an organizer's
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And see the related http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm 
and also "Fifty Years: Remembering Medgar Evers" :          
 http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3876

See the Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Many photos.)