Thayendanegea Joseph Brant Thayendanegea Joseph Brant (1743 - 1807) was a Mohawk Kanyen'kehà:ka military and political leader. Sovereign over the Mohawk Valley, the Mohawk were people of the Eastern Woodland, originally owners of what is present-day, upstate New York. In exchange for their help in the revolutionary war, England made promises to the Mohawk, and Brant and his volunteers allied themselves with Britain, during, and frustratingly, after the revolution. As illustra

NEWS BRANTFORD – Rumours have haunted Oxbow Road for decades... A prominent thread running through the narrative of the Grand River Saga centres on a documented story of land theft. In the notoriously turbulent mid-nineteenth century, this particular land theft might have gone unnoticed except for one woman's determination. That woman was the mother of Squire Tehawennihárhos. Her name was Margaret Riley (O'Reilly) Davis. For simplicity, Margaret. At the time of Margaret's hu

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Squire Davis had several run-ins with the authorities. Was he a forerunner of #IdleNoMore, or a scofflaw, or both? Squire’s claim to...

"The Grand River project was unique in one particular way. It was the only major project in Canadian history financed by Indian funds. . . . Their total investment subscribed without their knowledge or consent, amounted to over £40 000. Over a hundred years of protest by the Six Nations Indians and the periodical efforts of lawyers have not reimbursed them.” B. E. Hill Bruce Hill brings to light a serious 19th-century financial and land-jobbing scandal. Unvested writers, his

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