Captain Brant was the grandson of Jacob Brant (himself a grandson of the distinguished Iroquois War Chief, Joseph Brant) and of Molly Jones Brant, Peter Jones's sister. For information on the Indians and World War I, see Duncan Campbell Scott's "The Canadian Indians and the Great World War", in Canada in the Great World War, volume III (Toronto: United Publishers, 1919), pp. 285 - 328. Why did so many native people enlist?
Courtesy: Duncan Campbell Scott, "The Canadian Indians and the Great World War" in Canada in the Great World War, volume III, p.300
