E. Pauline Johnson

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E. Pauline Johnson 1861-1913

Location
The Six Nations Reserve
In Onondaga, in front of the museum 'Chiefswood' on the SE corner of County Road 54 and the bridge over the Grand River, 2 km west of Middleport

Photographer
Alan L Brown

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Posted
June 18, 2004

Text from the Plaque
In this house "Chiefswood", erected about 1853, was born the Mohawk poetess Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Her father, Chief G.H.M. Johnson a greatly respected leader of the Six Nations, built "Chiefswood" as a wedding gift for her English mother, a cousin of the well-known American novelist William Dean Howells. By her writing and dramatic recitals from her own works in Great Britain and throughout North America, Pauline made herself the voice of the Indian race in the English-tongue. No book of poetry by a Canadian has outsold her collected verse, "Flint and Feather".

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