Adam Martin is an emerging Kahniakehaka (Mohawk) artist from Six Nations, Ontario. Born in 1976 with an artistic career beginning in 1993 at the age of 16 designing a logo and weekly advertisements for New Directions: Drinking and Driving Awareness Committee. The logo still stands at four main roads marking the entrance of the Six Nations territory. From there, he has been invited to paint murals in various homes and businesses in Six Nations including a short time working at the Tekawennake newspaper as an editorial cartoonist; addressing political and social issues of not only the people of Six Nations, but that of Native North America. This attempt to "wake people up" continued into studies at Dundas Valley School of Art and McMaster University in Honors Art and Humanities. Where "I learned not only about the injustice and pain of our own people, but that it is still happening today all over the world; of the world's poor and North America's greed, that colonialism continues today and the loss of rights and freedoms that it brings, environment and how these things are affecting every aspect of our lives and the lives of those yet to be born and that there is something we can do about it."

Adam Martin 2003

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