Sosehawa

Sosehawa was a prophet and religious leader of the Iroquois in the 1840s.

Sosehawa in The Two Georges
Sosehawa was revered throughout The Six Nations for his vision and foresight that allowed the Iroquois culture to survive British encroachment.

In 1821 Sosehawa travelled east into the province of New York where he observed all the new things that the Europeans were doing. He saw the steamships, the iron foundries and the beginnings of the railroad which convinced him that the Iroquois needed to learn. He returned to the lands of the Iroquois and set up schools to teach his people these new technologies. This allowed the Iroquois to meet the eventual westward expansion of the British as equals and so keep their land and their culture and thus forming The Six Nations.