(1841-08-10)10 August 1841 Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario, Canada
Died
3 March 1907(1907-03-03) (aged 65) Savannah, Georgia, United States
Oronhyatekha (10 August 1841 – 3 March 1907), ("Burning Sky" or "Burning Cloud" in the Mohawk language, also carried the baptismal name Peter Martin), was a Mohawk physician, scholar, and a unique figure in the history of British colonialism. He was the first known aboriginal scholar at Oxford University; a successful CEO of a multinational financial institution; a native statesman; an athlete of international standing; and an outspoken champion of the rights of women, children, and minorities. He was once thought to be the first Native M.D. in Canada, having gotten his degree in 1866 from Toronto School of Medicine, but Peter Edmund Jones (Ojibwa), from New Credit, has been documented as having graduated a few months before Oronhyatekha.[1][2] The fact that Oronhyatekha achieved these results during the Victorian era, when racism and pressure for First Nations peoples to assimilate were commonplace, has made him a figure approaching legend in some aboriginal circles.
^"Biography – JONES, PETER EDMUND – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
^Sherwin, Allan (2012). Bridging Two Peoples Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843–1909. Waterloo: WLU Press.
Oronhyatekha (10 August 1841 – 3 March 1907), ("Burning Sky" or "Burning Cloud" in the Mohawk language, also carried the baptismal name Peter Martin),...
community leader, Oronhyatekha. Of Mohawk descent, he was born in 1841 at Six Nations near present-day Brantford, Ontario, Oronhyatekha ("Burning Sky")...
replaced the earlier wooden church that was completed in 1794. In 1860, Oronhyatekha came to teach at Tyendinaga after studying briefly at Kenyon College...
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as a sculptor. Other early works included a life-sized figure of Dr Oronhyatekha commissioned by the Independent Order of Foresters for the opening of...
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tractor; and Earl Alexander, the Second World War general. Mohawk chief Oronhyatekha, an Oxford scholar, was also a member. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland...
native Munsee language, English, and Iroquoian languages, and assisted Oronhyatekha with a vocabulary of Munsee/Lenape in 1865. Anthony graduated as an Anglican...
Canada.(died 1885) August 10 James David Edgar, politician (died 1899) Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society, native statesman...
graduated BA. Marshall was a contemporary at Oxford of the Mohawk student Oronhyatekha, whom he took under his wing on the Canadian’s arrival in 1862. Marshall...
English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842) March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Canadian Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society,...
Oppenheimer Mayor (Vancouver), businessman, Jewish community leader 2008 Oronhyatekha First Canadian First Nations physician 2001 William Osler Physician,...
August 6 – Florence Baker, Hungarian-born explorer (d. 1916) August 10 – Oronhyatekha, Canadian Mohawk physician, CEO of an international benefit society,...
1906 Dr. Acland Oronhyatekha Joseph W. Brant Daniel H. Maracle Andrew T. C. Maracle Thomas Hill Sampson Green Dr. Acland Oronhyatekha (son of the more...
or French and separate name in their ancestral language, for example Oronhyatekha (Mohawk), who was also called Peter Martin. For an overview of common...
Warren Antoine Cartier Thomas J. Cox Frank Fitzgerald Daniel P. Markey Oronhyatekha Milton C. Pettibone Treffle Raiche Winfred J. Sanborn Knights of the...
Royal in 2010. The chapel also houses a memorial window given by Dr. Oronhyatekha, who is buried at the Royal chapel. Plaques commemorating the service...
States beginning in 1902 and often had international participation. Oronhyatekha was on the team in 1871, and Rufus Carter was on the team in 1897. They...
Sans Frontières; fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies Oronhyatekha (M.D. 1866) – first Canadian Aboriginal medical graduate, former President...
Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834) March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841) March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician...
Indian Nation Joseph Onasakenrat, Mohawk chief of Kanesatake, Quebec Oronhyatekha, first Aboriginal medical doctor Helen Betty Osborne, Manitoba woman...
"Going Out of Town. Timely Reflections for Next Season.", 1894 "Dr. Oronhyatekha", 1896 Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham (1894). The Congress of Women Held...
Times. April 28, 1900. p. 1. Comeau-Vasilopoulos, Gayle M. (1994). "Oronhyatekha". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography...
Elizabeth Eunice Marcy (1821–1911), author, activist, and social reformer Oronhyatekha (Peter Martin) (1841–1907), (Mohawk), second accredited Native medical...
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