A Mohawk Memoir Worldview Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

The author examines the Oka Crisis and Ipperwash in the final chapters

Brief chapters set the stage of Brant's cultural identity and his early years and the remaining chapters locate Brant during the years of early America and the Revolutionary War

Gerhard Ens is an associate professor at Brandon University

Mari Kurisato

A Mohawk Memoir Worldview Dalhousie UniversityIn A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812, John Norton Teyoninhokarawen, historian Carl Benn introduces, annotates, and edits part of John Nortons memoir. John Norton was born of a Cherokee man and a Scottish woman in 1770 and adopted by the Mohawks in the 1790s. He was an influential diplomat and political figure within and beyond Indigenous society taking leadership and war chief positions among the Six Nations of the Grand River north of Lake Erie.