Birthday of Tekahionwake (Emily Pauline Johnson)

Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh, meaning 'double-life'), was a Six Nations poet, author, and performer who was popular in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a Mohawk chief and her mother was an English immigrant. In 1909, she moved to Vancouver, where she spent the rest of her life and worked with her friend Chief Joe Capilano of the Squamish people to publish his stories under the title Legends of Vancouver.