NORTH AMERICA’S TATTOOED INDIAN KINGS

Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, or Brant, a Mohawk war chief with musket in handIn April 1710, four “Indian Kings” representing the Five Nations Confederacy of the Iroquois (Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk) traveled across the Great Water to visit the court of Her Majesty Queen Anne in London. These Iroquois sachems, or civil chiefs, hoped to secure British military support against the