On his blog Sweet with Fall and Fish, Aaron John Curtis, a buyer at Books & Books, Coral Gables, Fla., has posted "Dear Publishers, Dear Booksellers: A Mohawk Indian Explains Why You Shouldn't Work with Amazon."
"I'm a member of the Akwesasne Nation," he wrote in the introduction. "Mohawk by birth, I'm here to tell you that working with the power who is out to destroy you will never, ever end well. As proof, I offer ten reasons why Amazon's takeover of online retail mirrors the slaughter of Native Americans."
The tragicomic list includes "The Government Offers Justice for Some More Than Others" (with a picture of President Obama visiting an Amazon warehouse); "[Hachette] CEO Michael Pietsch is the Reincarnation of Seminole Warrior Osceola" ("a useful tip Mr. Pietsch: if Amazon invites you to Seattle for 'negotiations,' don't go. It's a trap. Use e-mail, use phones, just don't end up buried headless like Osceola"; and "Jeff Bezos is the Reincarnation of Andrew Jackson."