About the Author, Editor and IllustratorThe Birch Clump Series
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About the Author: Bro. Joshua Seidl, SSPPhoto is cropped from his United Nations Indigenous Forum ID
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Brother Joshua Seidl is a member of the Society of St. Paul on Staten Island, New York and a
Michigan native.
His work in religious media includes editorial, business and publication. His efforts concerning
the historical and current relationships between Native American culture and the Churches
brought to North America inspired this book.
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• Bro. Joshua speaks to college and university students, including the University of
Youngstown,
Walsh University and Cleveland University. He has also been invited to speak at a Native American
Retreat for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, office of Native Concerns. more about Joshua.
About the illustrator:
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Kathy Johnson, an art teacher, spends six months of the year in Northern Wisconsin near Lake
Superior. The rest of the year is spent in central Illinois along the Illinois River.
Johnson, renown for her on location landscape paintings, also engages in life drawing and
carvings.
• "Creating the
illustrations for Hawk Dancer," she says, "has brought together my
own life experiences."
• Her interpretations make the
viewer an eyewitness to the phenomena of Northern Wisconsin's
mystery. The sights, smells, sound and texture of the pristine landscape, waters and flora are
all there in her works. She dipped her brush unto the pallet provided by Grandfather Great
Mystery before touching it to the canvas. It is an experience to behold the connectedness of all
creation through Johnson's works.
About the editor, Charles M. Browne.
(Not pictured.)
Charles (Meymahongebe) Browne, a life time resident of Wisconsin's Lake Superior coastline, is
the son and grandson of the ordained Ministers/Medicine Men who inspired this book. He is also
the paternal uncle of the author, Bro. Joshua. Without Browne's expertise and given history,
Hawk Dancer probably would not have been published. Charles and his wife Elaine made essential
corrections to assist their author-nephew who has dyslexia. Browne, a writer and artist in his
own rite, presented many suggestions to clarify the cultural, historical and spiritual incidents
brought out in the book.
Hawk Dancer © 2004 Bro. Joshua Seidl,SSP
Hawk Dancer llustrations © 2004 by Kathy Johnson
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