![]() To provide income, he hoped to lease or sell land to non-Indigenous people. This became Brant’s Ford (nowīecause their tract of land was too small for hunting, Brant feared that Indigenous people would have to learn agriculture to survive. Was granted to the Six Nations in compensation for their losses in the war ( See also Haldimand Proclamation). In the fall of 1784, following the American Revolution, Joseph Brant led the Mohawk Loyalists and other Indigenous peoples to a large tract of land on the Grand River it Although Brant traveled to London in November 1785 to ask King George III for help to defend the Western Confederacy from attack by the Americans, the British government gave no promise of support. His dream ultimately was undermined by factionalist jealousies among the First Nations, by American opposition, and finally by British betrayal. He inspired such confidence that non-Indigenous fighters sometimes requested a transfer to join him.īeginning in 1783 and through the mid-1790s, Brant worked to form the Western Confederacy, a united group of Haudenosaunee(Iroquois) and western Indigenous peoples, created to block American expansion westward. He was considered the perfect soldier with remarkable stamina. He was greatly admired as a soldier and was commissioned captain by the British in 1780 however, With the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, Joseph Brant immediately rallied to the royal cause and, in 1775–76, he visited England with Guy Johnsonīrant fought throughout the war with an Indigenous- Loyalist band. Religious materials into Mohawk ( See Kanyen’kéha: Mohawk Language). Teaching Christianity to the Indigenous people and he helped translate Joseph Brant saw action during the Seven Years’ War and was with Sir William Johnson in the expedition against Fort Niagara in 1759.įor many years, he acted as an interpreter for Johnson and his successor in the British Indian Department, Guy Johnson. Pontiac ’s Rebellion in 1763 thwarted his plans to attend King’s College (now Columbia University) in New York City. In Connecticut, Brant learned to speak, read, and write English. His teacher Eleazar Wheelock described him as “of a sprightly genius, a manly and gentle deportment, and of a modest, courteous and benevolent temper.” In 1761, Sir William Johnson, Brant’s British military commander and his sister’s common-law husband, sent him to Moor’s IndianĜharity School (the forerunner of Dartmouth College) at Lebanon, Connecticut. Margaret was reportedly a granddaughter of Mohawk chief Theyanoguin (also known as King Hendrick, Hendrick Peters, or White Head). Margaret then married Nickus (Kanagaradunkwa) Brant, a Mohawk believed to be part Dutch, who lived and dressed in EuropeanĪmong the Mohawks, the Brants were a family of distinction. The family settled at Canajoharie near Little Falls, New York. ![]() York, with her infant Joseph and his sister Mary. After Peter died while the family was living on the Ohio River, Margaret returned to the Mohawk Valley, in northern New Joseph Brant’s parents were Margaret Onagsakearat (circa 1715-1779) and Peter Tehowaghwengaraghkwin (1707-1743), both Protestants. Painting of Joseph Brant by William Berczy, circa 1807, oil on canvas. ![]()
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