Joseph Brant Quotes
We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.
Stone, William L. Life of Joseph Brant-Thayendanegea. Vol. 1, Alexander V. Blake, 1838, p. 153.
A sense of grievance can accumulate with the success of conflict no matter how it has been resolved.
In 1964 Canada stood at a crossroads. a serious political movement dedicated to separation had formed in Quebec. . A terrorist group, the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ.) was at work. The response of Prime Minister Lester Pearson was to create a bipartisan bicultural Royal Commission on Bilingualism.
Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant was a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. Perhaps the Native American of his generation best known to the Americans and British, he met many of the most significant Anglo-American people of the age, including both George Washington and King George III.