Gowongo Mohawk
Seneca playwright and actor
Died when: 63 years 180 days (761 months)Star Sign: Leo
Gowongo Mohawk (Go-Won-Go/Go-Wan-Go;August 11, 1860 - February 7, 1924) was a Seneca playwright and actor.She was born in Gowanda, New York, to father Ga-Na-Gua, also known as Dr.
Alan Mohawk, a chief medicine man of the Seneca Nation, and mother Lydia, who was known as "The Angle" on the Cattaraugus Reservation.
Gowongo's stage name (Gowongo) translates to "I fear no one." Her English name was Carrie A.Mohawk.In an interview with the Liverpool Weekly Courier, she gave an English translation of her name as 'Majestic Palm', along with a signed photograph of herself.
As a child she attended boarding school in Ohio, which she did not enjoy, and later attended university at the University of Ohio.
Before writing her first play, she acted with Louise Pomeroy and at the Windsor Theatre.Beginning her performing career in America, Gowongo's prestige as an actor and playwright translated across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom where she toured her work.
She died in 1924 at the age of 63 and is buried in Edgewater Cemetery, New Jersey, with her husband Charles W.
Charles, an army captain who served with General Custer.