It’s taken a month, but I have at last reached the last page (excluding notes, index, bibliography etc.) of JOSEPH BRANT 1743-1807:  MAN OF TWO WORLDS.  Scholarly but written in an accessible style it was well worth the effort.   The two worlds were the frontier of the British Empire and the ancient homeland of the Mohawk “Indians”, the easternmost branch of the Iroquois confederacy.  He was alleged to be the son of Sir. William Johnson, his majesty’s Commissioner for Indian affairs whose home and headquarters still stand in Ft. Johnson, NY where I was briefly the Methodist minister (1957-58).  But in the Mohawk world, as in many of indigenous  cultures, one belonged to his or her mother’s clan.  Kelsay in her first chapter, “The World of the Longhouse” explains this matrilineal world in detail.    WORK IN PROGRESS  COME BACK LATER FOR MORE