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Canada's History › Key Figures
What is the significance of Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)?
- The first Indigenous person elected to the House of Commons
- A Mohawk leader and British military officer who led Loyalist Mohawk Indians into Canada after the American Revolution
- An Iroquois chief who signed the first peace treaty with European settlers
- A Métis leader who led the Red River Resistance
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Joseph Brant was a Mohawk military and political leader who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. After the war, he led many Mohawk people into what is now Ontario, where the Crown granted land along the Grand River as compensation for their losses.