author
J. B. Mackenzie
1851–1919
Best known for writing about the Six Nations in Canada, this late-19th-century writer left behind works of history, poetry, and drama. His books reflect a strong interest in Indigenous history and in figures tied to Canada’s colonial past.
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A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians
by J. B. Mackenzie
About the author
James Bovell Mackenzie (1851–1919), usually published as J. B. Mackenzie, was a Canadian author whose surviving bibliographic records identify him by that full name and lifespan. He is best remembered for A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians (1882), a work connected with the Six Nations community on the Grand River in Ontario.
Records for his other books show that he wrote across several forms, including historical writing, poetry, and drama. Among the titles linked to him are The Six-Nations Indians in Canada and Thayendanegae: an historico-military drama, suggesting a sustained interest in Haudenosaunee history and in Joseph Brant.
Detailed personal biographical information appears to be scarce in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him primarily through his published work rather than through a fuller life story.