John Ojijatekha Brant-Sero is one of those characters, when you're exploring archives, who don't neatly fit into 'hero' or 'villain' but are more interesting because of that. The handsome, well-built man from Six Nations, a descendant of Joseph Brant, adopted several, in fact one could say many, personas in his life: scientist, lecturer, linguist, advocate, translator, Shakespearean actor, orator, and womanizer. Traveling to England, with his fluency in English, the self-taught Brant-Sero soon struck a chord with London’s men of science. In 1900 he read a paper before the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He became so highly regarded that articles about him appeared that year in the column “ People talked about” in Leslie’s Weekly. The next year he was elected a fellow of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, but he resigned in 1902. His lecture tours in England attracted enthusiastic crowds. On 13 Feb. 1902, for example, he spoke to an audience of 1,311 in Liverpool on “Canada and the Indians”, and used musical and lantern illustrations. he went on to do lecture tours and performing Shakespeare on stage, and acquiring several women partners, including wives, whose abandonment, possibly saw him doing prison time. He passed away in London, England, in 1914.