Jonathan Rex, an American author based in Krakow, will be giving a reading and talk about his recently published book, "Blood in the Water", which recounts the untold story of the armed conflict between Native American tribes and American colonists during the time of the Revolutionary War - some of the tribes successfuly unified themselves and claimed armed victories against the colonists attempting to make illegal land purchases in Kentucky. The evening with Mr. Rex, however, will not merely focus on historical events, but how those wounds continue to fester in contemporary U.S. society, recently made apparent by the heated stand-off between Native American tribes and law enforcement officials at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Please join us for this timely reading and discussion!
From the backcover:
"In 1775, just before the Americans declared their independence from Great Britain, a man named Tsiyu Gansini (Dragging Canoe) declared war on the Virginians who were attempting to illegally purchase Kentucky for the Transylvania Land Company at the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals. Defecting from the Cherokee he relocated to the Chattanooga region, rallied thousands of warriors to him from over fourteen different Indian nations, and began diplomatically organizing a Pan-Indian Kingdom with all of the leading war chiefs east of the Mississippi at the time. Handing the United States its most humiliating defeat ever in 1791 he successfully established his union and disappeared from recorded history as all of his head warriors went on to become dominant figures among their various tribes. This is his story, the first book of a new genre called Nawodi Literature."
JONATHAN REX is a writer and photographer from San Francisco, California. He is the author of "Blood in the Water" and creator of the Uku Books series for children (available beginning January of 2017).
