Theyendanega was a famous chief of the Mohawk and became chief of 6 Iroquoise Tribes. The Euro-Americans did know him as Joseph Brant. He was born in the year 1742 in the Ohio-Valley and did raise in the Mohawk-Valley. With the age of 13 years he did fight in the war between the indians and the French. He went to school in Connecticut and visited England. During the Independance-War he did fight aside the British. He succeded in convincing 4 Iroquoise-Tribes to fight with them. He did fight in the battle of Oriskany in the year 1777 and lated did fight as a guerilla against the Americans in the states of NewYork and Pennsylvania. He was very succesful that a small Army was send to get hold of him. When the war was over he went with the Mohawk into the exile to Canada. There he translated the christian Liturgy into the Mohawk language. He died in Burlington,Ontario on November 24, 1807.