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FYI. BELOW.
Distinguished Colleagues,

It is with sadness that I write to you of our loss of John Mohawk, Seneca
Historian, Scholar and Native American Studies Professor at the University
of New York at Buffalo.

Barry White, Seneca UB Professor called me tonight and reported John was
found in his home today after Donald Grinde, UB AMS Dept Chairman and the
police entered John's Buffalo, NY home because John failed to come to UB
yesterday and today.

John is at the coroner's now and Wentland Funeral Home, 10634 Main Street,
North Collins, New York 14111 telephone: 716-337-2632 may take care of him
after that. Best to call and confirm arrangements. The funeral maybe on
Friday 12/15/06.

In grief and at loss,

Agnes Fay Williams, Seneca
12148 Burning Springs Road
Perrysburg, NY 14129

Email: Agnesfay@aol.com

716-532-4228 voice & message
716-532-4868 fax
716-522-4901 pager
Note: See good bio on John at :
_http://www.indiancountry.com/author.cfm?id=220_ (http://www.indiancountry.com/author.cfm?id=220)



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FROM:
_http://www.syracuse.com/news/updates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/syr_poststandard/archives/2006_12.html#215296_
(http://www.syracuse.com/news/updates...12.html#215296)

John Mohawk, author and scholar, dies

Haudenosaunee scholar and author John Mohawk, who was a featured speaker at
Syracuse Stage during the Onondaga Nation land rights lecture series, was
found dead Tuesday in his Buffalo home.

Mohawk, 61, a member of the Seneca Nation and associate professor at the
University of Buffalo, was a leading voice on Native American issues, said
Tadodaho Sid Hill, the spiritual leader of the six Haudenosaunee nations.

"He educated native people about who we are and why we’re still here. He’s
a great loss to us,” Hill said.

In 1990, Mohawk helped negotiate a peaceful resolution to a violent
confrontation between Mohawks and Canadian authorities at Oka, said Donald Grinde,
chair of UB’s American Studies program. That same year, Mohawk traveled with a
Haudenosaunee delegation to Moscow in 1990 to address an international
environmental forum.

Mohawk wrote “Utopian Legacies: A History of Conquest and Oppression in the
Western World” and was a contributing editor of “Exiled in the Land of the
Free.”

--Mike McAndrew

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