Emily Pauline Johnson

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), born at Chiefswood, on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, to a Mohawk chief and an Englishwoman, signed from 1886 with the Mohawk name of an ancestor, Tekahionwake. She tried to live by her pen, then lived by the stage from 1892: seventeen years of recital tours in Canada, the United States and England, where she appeared in a Mohawk buckskin costume, then in a drawing-room gown. Retired in Vancouver in 1909, she rewrote there the stories of the Squamish chief Joe Capilano. She died of cancer; her ashes rest in Stanley Park.

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• PoetryThe White WampumEmily Pauline Johnson · 1895LiteraturePublic domain