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Where did pauline johnson live!
JOHNSON, EMILY PAULINE, author and performer; b. 10 March 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve, Upper Canada, daughter of George Henry Martin Johnson* and Emily Susanna Howells; d. unmarried 7 March 1913 in Vancouver.
Pauline Johnson, the youngest of four children, was born at Chiefswood, an imposing residence built by her father.
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The house, with its identical entrances, one facing the road and the other the Grand River, seems emblematic of her status as a mixed-blood writer and performer who straddled two cultures. Although her mother was English, Johnson was native by birth, her father being a Mohawk of the wolf clan.
The great-granddaughter of Tekahionwake (Jacob Johnson), whose name she would later adopt, and the granddaughter of John “Smoke” Johnson*, known for his skill as an orator, she saw herself as primarily “Indian.” At the same time, she embraced Canada, particularly the emerging west, as her larger home and reflected that response in her work
