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Mohawk nation
Mohawk" (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Their current settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence...
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Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian and an actor. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful Native American companion of the Lone Ranger in a long-running American television series.
Silverheels...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1912
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1980 (age 67 years)
Joseph Brant
Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (c. 1743 – 24 November 1807) was a Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution. Brant was perhaps the most well-known North American Indian of his generation. He met many of the most...
Date of birth:
- 1743
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1807 (age 64 years)
Kateri Tekakwitha
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha or Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha (pronounced [ɡɔdeɺi deɡɔɡʷidɔ] in Mohawk; 1656 – April 17, 1680), the daughter of a Mohawk warrior, Kenneronkwa, and a Catholic Algonquin woman, Kahenta, was born in the Mohawk fortress of...
Date of birth:
- 1656
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1680 (age 24 years)
Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. Johnson was notable for her poems and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1861
Date of death:
- Mar 7, 1913 (age 52 years)
Mary Brant
Koñwatsiãtsiaiéñni or Mary (Molly) Brant (c.1736 – April 16, 1796) was an important Mohawk woman in the era of the American Revolution. Brant had considerable influence within the Iroquois confederacy, more than her more famous younger brother...
Date of birth:
- 1736
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1796 (age 60 years)
John Smoke Johnson
John Smoke Johnson (December 2 or 14, 1792 – August 26, 1886) or Sakayengwaraton (also known as Smoke Johnson), was a Mohawk chief and leader. Johnson fought for the Crown in the War of 1812 and was made a Pine Tree Chief. Bilingual, he was...
Date of birth:
- 1792
Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1886 (age 94 years)
Anahareo
Anahareo, CM (June 18, 1906 – June 17, 1986) was the Iroquois wife of Grey Owl, born Archibald Belaney, a writer and one of Canada's first conservationists.
Gertrude Bernard, or "Pony" as her friends called her – or "Anahareo" as Grey Owl called her...
Date of birth:
- Jun 18, 1906
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1986 (age 80 years)
August Schellenberg
August Werner Schellenberg (born July 25, 1936) is a Canadian actor. His ethnicity is Mohawk and Swiss-German. He was trained at the National Theatre School of Canada.
His first film was Rip-Off in 1971. In 1981, he did voices for the animated film...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1936 (age 73 years)
John Norton
The Mohawk Major John Norton (Teyoninhokovrawen) played a prominent role in the War of 1812, leading Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) warriors from Grand River into battle against American invaders at Queenston Heights, Stoney Creek, and Chippawa.
Norton...
Tekarihogen
John Brant or Ahyonwaeghs (September 27, 1794 – August 27, 1832) was a Mohawk chief and government official in Upper Canada.
Brant was born near the current site of Brantford, Ontario, the son of Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) and Catharine Croghan...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1794
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1832 (age 37 years)
Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson (born Jaime Royal Klegerman, 5 July 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100...
Date of birth:
- Jul 5, 1943 (age 66 years)
George Henry Martin Johnson
George Henry Martin Johnson (Onwanonsyshon) (October 7, 1816 – February 19, 1884) was a chief of the Six Nations and an interpreter.
Johnson was born at Bow Park on the Grand River on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation near Brantford in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 7, 1816
Date of death:
- Feb 19, 1884 (age 67 years)
Derek Miller
Derek Miller (born in Six Nations on October 29, 1974) is an aboriginal Canadian singer-songwriter. He is a two-time winner of the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, for his albums Lovesick Blues and The Dirty Looks.
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1974 (age 35 years)
Don Eagle
Chief Don Eagle (birth name: Carl Donald Bell) (b. abt. 1925 - d. March 17, 1966) was a Mohawk Native American professional wrestler during the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Kahnawake, Quebec, Eagle became an AWA Boston World Champion.
Don Eagle...
Date of birth:
- 1925
Date of death:
- Mar 17, 1966 (age 41 years)
John Deseronto
Captain John Deseronto (alt. Deserontyon, (Odeserundiye) UE (c1740's - 1811) was a prominent Mohawk war chief during the American Revolutionary War.
He was born in the 1740s, most likely in the Mohawk valley. He was educated in a white school and...
Date of birth:
- 1740
Date of death:
- 1811 (age 71 years)
Taiaiake Alfred
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is an author, educator and activist, born in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal) in 1964. Alfred is an internationally recognized Kanien’kehaka intellectual, political advisor and he is currently a professor at the University of Victoria ...
Date of birth:
- 1965 (age 44 years)
Ots-Toch
Ots-Toch is the traditional name given to a 17th century Mohawk woman from Canajoharie who married Dutch trader Cornelius Anthonisse Van Slyck and founded the Van Slyck family in New Netherland.
Little is known of Ots-Toch, although she is...
Thomas Davis
Thomas Davis (c. 1755 – c. 1837) was a Mohawk war chief. In Mohawk he was called Tehowagherengaraghkwen.
Davis' place of birth is uncertain, but he was probably born in upstate New York.
During the American revolution, Davis fought as an ally of the...
Date of birth:
- 1755
Date of death:
- 1837 (age 82 years)
Missy Stone
Missy Stone (born November 26, 1987 in Texas, United States) is an American pornographic actress..
Born in Texas, she was raised in Maryland. She entered the adult film industry in 2007 at the age of around 20, and has since appeared in over 20...
Date of birth:
- Nov 26, 1987 (age 22 years)
Joseph Louis Cook
Joseph Louis Cook was an Iroquois chief in the 18th and early 19th centuries. He supported the United States during the American Revolutionary War, and became the highest ranking Native American officer in the Continental Army.
Cook's name in the...
Date of death:
- 1814
Flemish Bastard
The Flemish Bastard (also known as Smiths John) (fl. 1650 - 1687) was a Canadian Mohawk chief. He has been described as an astute diplomat and he has been considered the primary spokesman for the pro-French faction of Canada.
The Flemish Bastard was...
Billy Two Rivers
Billy Two Rivers (Mohawk name Kaientaronkwen), born May 5, 1935, is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. He began wrestling professionally in 1953 and competed until 1977. During his career, he wrestled in the United States, United Kingdom,...
