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• Title:Basic call to consciousness / edited by Akwesasne notes ; [preamble, Chief Oren Lyons ; introduction, John Mohawk ; afterword, José Barreiro].
  
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• Related Title:Akwesasne notes.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices, ©2005.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: CG A568 B37 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Iroquois--Politics and government.
  Iroquois--Government relations.
  Iroquois--Social conditions.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., Iroquois.
  
• Description:160 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:This impassioned vision of sovereign Native peoples calls for fundamental changes in the policies of developed nations and an end to the destruction of the Natural World. In clear, direct terms leaders of the Haudenosaunee - the Six Nations Iroquois - discuss the importance of honoring the sacred Web of Life, and describe the spiritual roots of their traditional lifestyle which pioneered concepts of peacekeeping and government later emboidied in the United States Constitution.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.
  
• ISBN:1570671591
  9781570671593
  
• Contents:Introduction / John Mohawk
  Preamble / Chief Oren Lyons
  The Haudenosaunee : a nation since time immemorial / Segwalise
  Thoughts of peace : the great law / Sotsisowah
  Deskaheh : an Iroquois patriot's fight for international recognition
  Geneva, 1977 : a report on the hemispheric movement of indigenous peoples / José Barreiro
  A basic call to consciousness : the Haudenosaunee address to the western world. Spiritualism, the highest form of political consciousness ; The obvious fact of our continuing existence ; Policies of oppression in the name of "democracy"
  Our strategy for survival / Sotsisowah
  Indigenous into the 21st century / José Barreiro.