CHARACTERS

Teyoninhokarawen AKA John Norton

Half Cherokee and Scottish, he studied in Europe before the war. Appointed a war party chief by Joseph and John Brant at the Battle of Queenston Heights, he led Native American forces that caused havoc among American troops, both militarily and physiologically. Following Queenston Heights, he continued to lead Native American contingents into several of the war's most significant battles. There is some suggestion that Norton's contributions were limited and that local settlers inflated his role because they could not believe that they could be defeated so effectively by native forces. Norton played on this and published a book in 1816 under the title The Journal of Major John Norton.