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In
Grandfather of the Treaties, Daniel Coleman traces the long-neglected history of the Covenant Chain of Friendship and the Two Row Wampum Covenant, the founding agreements made between the Haudenosaunee and European nations as they first encountered each other and strove to live together in peace.
About the author
Daniel Coleman is a recently retired English professor who is grateful to live in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe in Hamilton, Ontario. He taught in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. He has studied and written about Canadian Literature, whiteness, the literatures of Indigeneity and diaspora, the cultural politics of reading, and wampum, the form of literacy-ceremony-communication-law that was invented by the people who inhabited the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence-Hudson River Watershed before Europeans arrived on Turtle Island.
Daniel has long been fascinated by the poetic power of narrative arts to generate a sense of place and community, critical social engagement and mindfulness, and especially wonder. Although he has committed considerable effort to learning in and from the natural world, he is still a bookish person who loves the learning that is essential to writing. He has published numerous academic and creative non-fiction books as an author and as an editor. His books include
Masculine Migrations (1998),
The Scent of Eucalyptus (2003),
White Civility (2006; winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize),
In Bed with the Word (2009) and
Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (2017, shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize).
