William Woodworth's The Morning Star: It is Bright connects personal awakenings with collective transformative experience, clarifying the workings of imagination and intentions behind creative action. He describes journeys that walk respectfully between his ancestral British and Hotinonshon:ni worlds. The book describes creative imagination that passes through suffering and healing, becoming a prayer and an offering. Woodworth offers an architectural setting and ritual structure entitled "Toronto: A Beacon to the Ancestors." The work is dedicated to All Our Relations, all Creation and the Ancestors.
William (Bill) Woodworth is a member of the Lower Mohawk Kanien'kehá:ka Nation of Six Nations of the Grand River in the Bear Clan. Adopted into the Deer Clan of the Cayuga Nation he was named Raweno;kwas "he dips the words" in the Haudenausaunee tradition. Educated in architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he has an independent architectural practice and is an educator. His principle teacher there was the well known Latvian architect Gunnar Birkerts. William completed his doctoral work in Traditional Knowledge, Recovery of the Indigenous Mind, at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. He studied under Dr. Apela Colorado and Jurgen Kremer.
