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ve built historic· Brantfon Place section of Brantford, on ~ the house built by Kah-ke-w• ltill stands. Kah-ke-wa-quon-a-by Feathers in the Mississauga language. He got this name from his aoon after his birth in UIO'l. This Wore he became. a minister in the Qiurch. His English name was Rev. Jonl!s. . 1'lle home which Sacred Feathers built in Place was named Echo Villa. The area bDed Echo Place because of strange which could be heard there after the was partially cleared away. Echo Villa a bli'ge house for the time. It was built in Eight of the rooms had their own fire- , including the boys' room on the second • His wife, the former Eliza Field of Lam- England, had a wealthy father, who prob- cmtributed to the building of this fine Our Town George Beaver . ing themselves with alcohol,· he showed them a way and a reason to survive. He met Eliza on a trip to England where he had been sent to raise money for the Methodist church. At age 29, Sacred Feathers was tall, muscu- lar and ruggedly handsome. After a childhood among the Mississaugas, he had spent his teen- age years learning the ways of the white man in the bouae of his father, the surveyor Augus- tus Jones. He learned to read, write and speak Feathers' successful marriage with English temarkably well. Like many white men wife Eliza, could be called a triumph of his time, Auaustus Jones had two wives, .one over adversity and racial prejudice. Af- in the bush and one in the settlement. His In- conversion to Christianity at the age of dlan son, Sacred Feathers, was a better man in lacred Feathers successfully converted every way than his father. ~ bis own Mississauga band to the Meth- When Sacred Feathers and Eliza married in dmn:h. He then proceeded to preach to 1833 in New York City, it scandalized many Ojibway ban$ around lakes Huron and white people. President Andrew Jackson was in r At a time when the Indians were the midst of removing by force, tens of thou- m=:::a.::dri:::.:ven=..::o:::ffa..:the= irc..il~ !'..,land= _..man,._.,_'---'-'--we,,.re~ kill.,..· ..__- _ sands of eastern Indians to lands west of the Mississippi. The white people wanted to hea stories that said Indians were wild, bad sav ages incapable of human emotions in order td ease their own consciences. H Indians could envisioned as sub-human and unworthy of f. · treatment, then no one needed to lose any sl over their plight. A New York newspaper of the day com pared the marriage of Sacred Feathers to that of Othello in the Shakespearian play. It dismi sed Shakespeare's story as "too unnatural fi probability" that a white woman would willing ly marry "such a black a moor as Othello". The Kingston Chronicle and Gazette called the marriage "improper and _revolting". The York Patriot called Eliza an "unhappy and deceived woman". Only the Niagara Gleaner wished them well and assured its readers that Eliza would be "well provided for" by the now indus- trious Mississauga Indian farmers. Sacred Feathers continued as a famous preacher until his death years later. He and Eliza had several sons whose descendants have ~ on the family name down to the presedt ho·----