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Mohawk ironworkers helped build the Twin Towers and Mohawk ironworkers helped clear the massive debris when the towers came down
Native American iron workers joined in the search-and-rescue effort around Ground Zero after 9/11. "Mangled Beams" written by Cayuga-Iroquois Dawn Jamieson is their story.
Cayuga-Iroquois playwright Dawn Jamieson presented a play, in 2018, based on the Native American iron workers who went to New York City to join in the search-and-rescue effort around Ground Zero after 9/11/01.
The play details "four Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) high-beam walkers who contribute to the Ground Zero cleanup efforts. Along the way, these iron workers—whose trade tends to be passed down from father to son in Native American families—strive to reclaim their identity by untangling beams laid by their own ancestors."
It should also be noted the toxicity the search-and-rescue teams encountered had serious repercussions. "Brad Bonaparte, a worker who died from cancer developed after exposure to the air at Ground Zero, became a particular inspiration." Brad Bonaparte's Antenna [Interview] · September 11 Digital Archive
AMERICAN THEATRE | Native Iron Workers and 9/11 Linked by ‘Mangled Beams’
Ethnicity: Dawn’s father was Cayuga (part of the Iroquois Confederacy) from the Six Nations Reserve in Brantford, Canada. Her mother was a Canadian of Scottish/English heritage. Born in Canada, raised in Michigan, she has lived in Manhattan since graduating from college. She is proud of her family and her Board Membership in the American Indian Community House www.aich.org. NAAR | NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST ROSTER
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