Bear Fox with Delia Cook, Mohawk

Akwesasne Reservation, New York, 2009

Theresa Kenkiokoktha Fox, or ‘Bear’ Fox (seated), is a Mohawk singer, composer and educator. Delia Cook is one of the Turtle Clan Mothers of the Mohawk Nation.

Delia Cook leans over Bear Fox who was being awarded a Community Spirit Award from the First People’s Fund—a national organization that supports Indigenous artistic expression and its relationship to the collective spirit of First Peoples.