Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1359 - Covenant Chain of Friendship and the Two-Row Wampum with Daniel Coleman

Brian interviews Daniel Coleman. Daniel recently retired from being a professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and an associate professor at Six Nations Polytechnic on the Grand River territory. He is a writer who is fascinated by the power of narrative arts to generate a sense of place and community, mindfulness, curiosity and wonder. Daniel Coleman talks about the Covenant Chain of Friendship and the Two-Row Wampum. These indigenous covenants of peace, friendship, and respect not only laid out a vision for nation-to-nation, political relationships, but also based these in a strong ecological commitment to peace, friendship, and respect with the more than human world as well. Given Good Friday and the Trump arguments to eliminate trade agreements threaten our sovereignty, understanding how indigenous people negotiated treaties and peace and then kept it, is interesting.