(Hogansburg), Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor Organization, [1947]. The first edition of this account in words and pictures of the migration of the Iroquois from the Great Plains to the Eastern woodlands and the formation of the Five Nations confederacy. Aren Akweks was the pen name of Ray Fadden, aka Tehanetorens, a white man of Scottish descent who married an Iroquois woman and was adopted into the Wolf Clan. He founded the Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor Organization as a way to teach young Iroquois children about their culture and their past, and later he was co-founder of the Six Nations Indian Museum. His son, John Fadden, aka Kahiones or, in this book, Ka-Hon-Wes, illustrated the book and later became a much published and much admired illustrator, primarily of books by or about Native Americans. Edge-sunned, otherwise near fine in stapled wrappers. This first edition is uncommon; a second edition was done in 1972, in the early stage of the "Native American renaissance," and it has been reprinted since then. [#031467] SOLD