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People: Mohawks
Joseph Brant Joseph Brant (1742-1807), Chief of the Mohawks, who led Iroquois allies of the British through American Revolutionary warfare and who directed the Six Nations Iroquois to new homes in Ontario territory in the 1780s.
ID #20114
Lacrosse Champions Caughnawaga Mohawks, lacrosse champions of Canada, 1869, on the St. Lawrence River.
ID #10058
Mohawk Indian Bust of a Mohawk Indian, 1804. Coloured Wash by Sempronius Stretton (1731-1842).
ID #21760
Joseph Brant Joseph Brant, Leader of Six Nations settlement on the Grand River, he was an able diplomat and cultivated leader, playing an important role in early Canada before his death in 1807.
ID #10202
People: Ojibwa
Ojibway Indians Shooting the Rapids Ojibway Indians shooting the rapids. By Frederick Arthur Verner (1836-1928).
ID #20624
Ojibwa Indians "They Travelled." A photo of a 1905 pageant of Ojibwa Indians at Grand River.
ID #20067
Native Soldier A Native Ontario soldier of World War I, Antoine Minneseswasque, an Ojibwa Indian from Biscotasing, Ontario, west of Sudbury.
ID #20173
People: Pacific Coast
Nootka Indians Wakeshan (Nootka) Indians of northern Vancouver Island, wearing close-woven bark-fibre hats, good for the rainy coastal climate.
ID #10048
Shaman A tribal Shaman (Medicine Man) at Kitwanga, 1915, up the Skeena near the coast, a healer of both body and mind through native herbal lore, psychology and belief.
ID #10050
Cedar Costume A woven cedar costume at Quatsino, Vancouver Island, 1920.
ID #10051
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