Thayendanegea - Boxing Day 2007

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Thayendanegea - Boxing Day 2007
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

I took this picture during my travels downtown today.

The man who is honoured - so we hope - by his inclusion in the statuary of the Valiants Memorial was known by several names. Thayendanega was one. Joseph Brant, another.

We call him a hero of the British side of the American Revolution, this man of the Ganienkeh(or, by some accounts, the Mohawk). He helped some of our ancestors keep what was left of "British North America" out of the hands of the United States. And so we have Canada today.

I've looked at this statue often. Sometimes, I wonder what he'd make of what we've done with what he left us.

Note: thanks to wallflower for some corrections on basic facts that I should have remembered about this man.

Comments

[madlycool.livejournal.com]

Actually, Brant died before the War of 1812. Maybe you're thinking of Tecumseh (who was Shawnee, not Mohawk)?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

*head in hands*

Thanks for the correction.