The son of a Mohawk chief from the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York, he attended Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he excelled as a student while playing baseball.
Seventy African-Americans were among the internees as were two American Indians, a Mohawk and a Cherokee.
Only two Mohawk boys were recorded as having been imported to Bermuda following Dutch-Mohawk wars, but to many English in the 17th Century, the Mohawks were the best known Native American people, and any Native American was likely to be described as a Mohawk.
He had good friendships and business relationships with the Lenape and Mohawk people who inhabited the area at the time.
At the time, it was still a wooded frontier and home to Seneca and Mohawk Indians.
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Mohawk chief Joseph Brant led a group of Loyalists, Mohawk and other warriors against rebel colonial settlers in the area.
The Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation are the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora.