José Barreiro

Jose Barreiro (born 1948, Cuba) is a writer, Cuban native, journalist and former professor of Native American Studies at Cornell University. Barreiro currently serves as director of Office for Latin America, at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Barreiro was an early editor and contributor at Akwesasne Notes (1976-1984), during the years of Seneca luminary, John Mohawk. At Akwesasne Notes, Barreiro led the human rights group, Emergency Response International Network. Later, he and Mohawk founded the Indigenous Peoples Network. At Cornell, Barreiro was founding editor of Native Americas Journal (1995-2002). In 2003-2006, he redesigned and was Senior editor of Indian Country Today." Barreiro's first novel, published in 1993, was called The Indian Chronicles," and is a pseudo-journal of the life of Diego Colon, a 12-year-old Taino that Christopher Columbus brings back with him to Spain in 1493, and who later returns to the Americas where he supports the Taino resistance led by Guarocuya. He is also the editor of "Indian Roots of American Democracy," (1988), and the ethnographical testimony, "Panchito: Mountain Cacique" (2001). A recent book, America is Indian Country, canvasses issues and personalities in Indian Country. Barreiro is editor of the announced book, "Thinking in Indian: A John Mohawk Reader." He is a member of the Taino Nation of the Antilles.

References

• Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4