We Share Our Matters

Rick Monture is a member of the Mohawk nation, Turtle clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. He is also the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University, Canada.

"In this study Rick Monture, a Mohawk and an academic, turns our attention to the ways that the Haudenosaunee remember and tell their story through literature, poetry, art, and letters to reveal a history understood by few beyond the Six Nations."--Douglas Hurt "Canadian Journal of History" "An important and ambitious endeavor that makes a significant contribution to Indigenous studies' scholarship and to our understanding of Haudenosaunee-settler relations in both the past and present."--Cecilia Morgan "H-Net Reviews" "Long considered a laboratory for outside ethnographic research into Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture and history, the Six Nations of the Grand River community possesses a long-overlooked but rich intellectual tradition of its own. Monture, a Turtle Clan Mohawk and member of the Grand River community, captures 230 years of Haudenosaunee thought, writing, and activism originating in this unique North American indigenous locale."--J.W. Parmenter "CHOICE" "With We Share Our Matters, Monture takes his place in the long history of Grand River intellectual tradition. For all the Six Nations struggles Monture describes, his overarching tone is one of optimism: as he states in his acknowledgements, "This is a book that will always be 'in progress'". --Eric Russell "The Goose"