Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1

At thirteen, Joseph Brant trembled at the first shots of the Battle of Lake George, gripping a sapling to steady himself. The man later cast as a merciless savage begins here as a frightened boy—and as a figure whose story, Dent argues, has been told unfairly.

In the eighteenth-century world of the Mohawk Valley and colonial wars, Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea—would become a leader of the Six Nations and a British ally. John Charles Dent opens this portrait by challenging the inherited tales that reduce Indigenous people to either monsters or “Noble Savages,” and that bury Brant’s character beneath the violence of war. He asks readers to reckon with conquest, partisan histories, and the scant space given to the people whose lands were taken. Can a closer look at Brant separate the man from the legend?

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