Re: Native spirituality

Lisa Mitten (lmitten@vms.cis.pitt.edu)
Tue, 4 Feb 1992 11:45:00 EST

Please refer to the New York Times obituary of Gregory Markopoulos, kindly provided by Mr. Highwater's publishing agency, which definitively establishes the separate identities of Markopoulos and Highwater, contrary to the claim referred to in this posting to NATIVE-L. This obituary proves that the article that appeared in Akwesasne Notes, late summer, 1984, written by Hank Adams comes to incorrect conclusions concerning Mr. Highwater having been born Gregory Markopoulos and later re-inventing himself.

RE: Lee Flier's comments on Jamake Highwater...

It has been pretty well established that Jamake Highwater is
really Gregory Markopoulos (sic), an up and coming Greek-American experi-
mental filmmaker in the late '50's-early '60's. He disappeared for a couple
of years and came back in this Jamake Highwater incarnation. There was a
very thorough expose donw of him by Hank Adams several years back in
AKWESASNE NOTES.
My main problem with him and people like William Least Heat Moon
is that they write a book that gets good reveiws and suddenly become the
media spokesmen for the Indian world. Any Indian issue that the press
pays attention to is handed over to these born-again Indians for their
expert and definitive opinions, while the people actually involved are
not given the time of day because they do not have the name recognition
so important to the press.

Lisa Mitten