"Forbidden Boice is descended from a long lone of Mohawk chieftains, and daughter of a Clan Mother. She grew up on a farm just inside the edge of the Grand River Lands in Ontario and has written down in this book, for the white man to understand, the things she experienced. 'Growing up red is not the same as growing up white, for my people—the real people. tje red men—think our own thoughts; we have our own magic and our own mysteries.This book is about some of them.' Though she has associated with white men all her life, the real world for Forbidden Voice is the one which the red man has lost. She explains the importance of the medicine man; her own initiation as a medicine womanl the remedies practised for generations by her forbears; the ceremonies that perpetuate the line of clan leader; the gods whom the Mohawks honour; the variety of their beliefs in witchcraft, ghosts and dreams. Forbidden Voice, who is now a Clan Mother herself, also expresses the Indians' disillusionment with Christianity, the imposition of the what man's world and the deception of his claim of ownership in Indian land, rich in minerals, ores and oil. Ironically the Mohawks and the other tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy once worshipped the Tree of Peace, which had at its summit an eagle with the power of long vision to discover any evil that might threaten them. To Forbidden Voice the confederacy, with its beliefs in freedom and peace, represents the power of her people bedore the white man came, symbolized by the bird aloft the great tree. Her reflections provide a unique contribution to North American Indian literature."--dust jacket