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Answer for the clue "Chief Joseph ____ ( Leader of Mohawks in eastern Canada ) ", 5 letters:
brant

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Any of several wild goose, of the genus ''Branta'', that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, ''Branta bernicla''. Etymology 2 a. 1 (context dialectal English) steep, precipitous. 2 (context Scotland English) smooth; unwrinkled ...

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Brant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aaron Brant (1984–), American football player Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), Brazilian writer Antony Thomas Brant (1983–), English pop singer Beth Brant , Canadian Mohawk writer David ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brand goose \Brand" goose`\ [Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandg[*a]s. Cf. Brant .] (Zo["o]l.) A species of wild goose ( Branta bernicla ) usually called in America brant . See Brant .

Usage examples of brant.

Only once did Brant look back at the crouching monster, whose agelong vigil was now drawing to its close.

He and Rick had become closer than brothers, sharing fun and adventure, and the Brants treated him exactly as they treated Rick and Barby.

The Brants agreed immediately, and the Millers, who were offshore in the Coast Guard vessel, moved into the big Brant house that same night.

By the time the Camerons, Millers, Winstons, and Brants gathered in the library, Mysto had slept for nearly six hours.

They felt, too, a sense of exultation over Brant, Sangerachte, Hiokatoo, the Butlers, the Johnsons, Wyatt, and all the crew that had committed such terrible devastation in the Wyoming Valley and elsewhere.

We saw Brant, Timmendiquas, the Butlers, and Wyatt enter the house for a conference.

They had hoped to go far into the Iroquois country, to break the power of the Six Nations, to hunt down the Butlers and the Johnsons and Brant himself, but they could not wholly blame their commander.

The White Lightning of the Wyandots and the Joseph Brant of the Mohawks stood for a space side by side, gazing out of the window, taking a last look at the great Seneca Castle.

Rick Brant looked up from the workbench in his second floor bedroom and watched the spray shoot high, to be caught by the wind and carried almost to his window.

This problem, an urgent matter of anti-submarine warfare, had taken big Hobart Zircon and little Julius Weiss, both of whom had rooms on the third floor of the big Brant house, to sea for many weeks with a Navy task force.

Barbara Brant, with Jan Miller, had borrowed the car he and Scotty owned jointly and they were visiting friends in Whiteside, a usual Saturday activity when nothing exciting was happening on the island.

Originally, Scotty had rescued Rick from what might have been a bad beating, and was hired by Hartson Brant as a guard.

Barbara Brant, an equally attractive blonde, began talking the moment he stepped to the pier.

We planned to send invitations to our opening on Thanksgiving Eve for both the Brant and Miller families.

Hartson Brant followed, and went through door one, which had accepted Dr.