E. Pauline Johnson

E. Pauline Johnson was born March 10, 1861 and died in 1913. Pauline had an English mother and a Mohawk Native-Canadian father Emily used the Mohawk name Tekahionwake. At the age of 31, when her society expected her to marry and have children, she began on tour the country where she gave popular recitals of her poetry, comedy routines, and plays from Halifax to Vancouver. Pauline was the first native poet to have her work published in Canada. Pauline’s famous poem was “The Song my Paddle Sings’’. There is a school named after Pauline Johnson and I go to that school.

By Samantha