Clans of many nations

The works of a Mohawk Indian, ex-high steel construction worker, ex-newspaper editor. In one he writes: "We were to be a nation scattered, / a people lost. / In our loneliness we were to seek / one another, to counsel again / and be of one mind, / living in the midst of death / we were to live the Great Good, / live in truth, / and not as the mouthing of words."