Editing Joseph Brant (section)

{{Short description|Mohawk leader (1742–1807)}}
{{distinguish|Joseph A. Brandt}}
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{{Infobox person
|name=Joseph Brant<br><small>Thayendanegea</small>
|image=Joseph Brant painting by George Romney 1776 (2).jpg
|signature=Joseph Brant Signature.svg
|signature_alt=Jos. Brant Thayendanegea
|caption=A 1776 portrait of Brant by [[George Romney (painter)|George Romney]]
|birth_name=Thayendanegea
|birth_date={{Birth date text|March 1743}}
|birth_place=[[Ohio Country]] along the [[Cuyahoga River]]
|death_date={{Death date and age|1807|11|24|1743|03}}
|death_place= [[Burlington, Ontario|Burlington Beach]], [[Upper Canada]]
|other_names = 
| spouse     = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Neggen Aoghyatonghsera|1765|1771|reason=died}}
* {{marriage|Susanna Aoghyatonghsera|reason=died}}
* {{marriage|[[Catharine Brant]]|1779}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thayendanegea_5E.html|title=Joseph Brant; The Dictionary of Canadian Biography|accessdate=August 16, 2021}}</ref>
}}
|nationality = [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]]
|children  = [[John Brant (Mohawk leader)|John Brant]]
|relations = [[Molly Brant]] (sister)
}}

'''Thayendanegea''' or '''Joseph Brant'''  (March 1743&nbsp;– November 24, 1807) was a [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]] military and political leader, based in present-day [[New York (state)|New York]] and, later, [[Brantford]], in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] during and after the [[American Revolution]]. Perhaps the best known [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|North American Indigenous person]] of his generation, he met many of the most significant American and British people of the age, including both [[United States]] President [[George Washington]] and King [[George III|George III of Great Britain]].

While not born into a hereditary leadership role within the [[Iroquois|Iroquois Confederacy]], Brant rose to prominence due to his education, abilities, and connections to British officials. His sister, [[Molly Brant]], was the wife of [[Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet|Sir William Johnson]], the influential British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the [[Province of New York]]. During the [[American Revolutionary War]], Brant led Mohawk and colonial [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]] known as [[Brant's Volunteers]] against the rebels in a bitter partisan war on the New York frontier. He was falsely accused by the Americans of committing atrocities and given the name "Monster Brant."

In 1784, Quebec Governor [[Frederick Haldimand]], issued a [[Haldimand Proclamation|proclamation]] that granted Brant and his followers land to replace what they had lost in New York during the Revolution. This tract was about {{convert|2000000|acre|order=flip}} in size, 12 miles (19.2 kilometers) wide along the whole length of the [[Grand River (Ontario)|Ouse or Grand River]] in what is now southwestern Ontario.{{sfn|Wilson|2013}} Brant relocated with many of the Iroquois to the area where the [[Six Nations Reserve]] is now located, and remained a prominent leader until his death.