Jerry McDonald

Produced by Jonathan Maracle and Jerry McDonald

Jerry McDonald is a member of the Wolf Clan from the Mohawk Nation and resides with the Mohawks at the Bay of Quinte where the Peacemaker was born. The PEacemaker was a great Indian prophet that succeeded in establishing the first united Indian Nations into a league of peace.

At the early age of 15, Jerry danced and taught Iroquois songs and dances to urban Indians at local schools. Since then, he has run with the Olympic Torch for the 1980 Olympic games at Lake Placid in New York as a Mohawk representative, was chosen to help make a commercial for Mazola Corn Oil, canoe scene. Also sang for the Pope in Midland, Ontario in 1984 and sang at a special invitation for the Dalai Lama in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also chosen to represent the Confederacy in a fifty-four day run from New York to Los Angeles called The Longest Run which was in tribute to Jim Thorpe who was considered the greatest Indian athlete in the world.

He is founder of the Peacemaker's Drum and has performed with this native organization at the National Department of Defence, the Hudson river revival Festival in New York for the opening act with Joanne Shenandoah, performed at Harbourfront's Earth Festival in Toronto, and many more, just to mention a few.

He has worked as a teacher, singer, dancer and actor for Unsolved Mysteries, How the West was Lost,(a documentary)Thunder Alley, TNT's Movie Tecumseh(1995) and is currently acting in a production called Tribute 1648 at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Midland, Ontario.

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