S. Minsos is a Canadian Author and Philosophical Theorist...
.... who has written seven published novels and academic works including the Mohawk Trilogy and the Culture Club Series, with its most recent addition to the series, her newly released book, Culture Clubs: The Real Fate of Societies.
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2014 Minsos served as Writer-in–Residence at MacEwan University, Edmonton. MacEwan's student body is more than sixty percent female, with more than twelve-thousand full-time students in credit programs and just over nineteen-thousand students across all credit- and non-credit programs.
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2017 Minsos' writing was recognized for courage, accuracy and verisimilitude in fiction. S. Minsos was awarded a Canada Bicentennial pin for Books One & Two of the Mohawk Trilogy.
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2018 Foreword Magazine reviewer Lillian Brown accorded Book Three of the Mohawk Trilogy, Sky Walker: Tehawennihárhos Charter, the magazine's highest designation⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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2023 Minsos' Book One of the Mohawk Trilogy, Sky Walker Tehawennihárhos, thanks to the BPAA – Book Publishers Association of Alberta and Eschia Books – was recorded for CELA. Mark Demeda, reader.
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2024 Culture Clubs: The Real Fate of Societies was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Education-Academic (non fiction). The NGIBA is the largest international awards program of its kind, open to independent publishers, small publishers and university presses.
Researching her Squire Davis family, Minsos discovered Bruce E Hill's book at Iroqrafts: The Grand River Navigation Company. Hill documents the great theft. There could be millions of dollars involved in a settlement. Perhaps that's why a deathly silence greets anyone writing about this tragic event.
Let us not silence the chroniclers. We must know the truth and grapple with the facts, however displeasing.
In the novels all the historical (real) characters are fictionalized. The matrix game of Weird Tit-for-Tat, via affordances and personal choices, informs historical Canadian socialization. If the past has a story to tell we should hear it, and mannerists offer insights. We might see a bit of our wonderful selves – or our enemies – in Thayendanegea, Squire Davis, Jennet Ferguson, William Ferguson (Sr and Jr), Barton Farr, David Thompson 1, Lucille Goosay, Jeddah Golden, Nellah Golden, Jake Venti, Aughguaga Polly, Sara Johnson, Lizzie Bosson, Bride Munny, Boy Hewson, to name a few of the trilogy's colourful characters.
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Sakayengwaraton, Shakoyen·kwaráhton. John Smoke Johnson
Barton Farr