Frederick Ogilvie Loft was a Mohawk nation activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada. He has been counted among "the great Indian activists of the first half of the twentieth century. " He was also a World War I veteran and active in encouraging recruitment. He stood nearly six foot tall and weighed 170 pounds.

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  • Frederick Ogilvie Loft was a Mohawk nation activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada. He has been counted among "the great Indian activists of the first half of the twentieth century. " He was also a World War I veteran and active in encouraging recruitment. He stood nearly six foot tall and weighed 170 pounds.
  • Fred Ogilvie Loft o Onondeyoh (Muntanya Bella) Fill d'anglicans mohawks, va treballar en diversos càrrecs administratius menors, fou maçó i superintendent de les Sis Nacions. El 1914 col·laborà en el reclutament per a la guerra, on hi participà com a tinent d'enginyers. En tornar el 1917 fundà la League of Indians of Canada, que celebrà conferències a Ohsweken (Six Nations Reserve, Ontario) el desembre del 1918, a Sault Ste. Marie (Ontàrio) el 1919, a Elphinstone el 1920, Thunderchild Reserve, Saskatchewan, el 1921; i Hobbema, Alberta, el 1922. El govern canadenc, però, els considerà subversius per reclamar terres. Col·laborà al creixement de la Lliga malgrat la seva mala salut.
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  • Frederick Ogilvie Loft was a Mohawk nation activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada. He has been counted among "the great Indian activists of the first half of the twentieth century. " He was also a World War I veteran and active in encouraging recruitment. He stood nearly six foot tall and weighed 170 pounds.
  • Fred Ogilvie Loft o Onondeyoh (Muntanya Bella) Fill d'anglicans mohawks, va treballar en diversos càrrecs administratius menors, fou maçó i superintendent de les Sis Nacions. El 1914 col·laborà en el reclutament per a la guerra, on hi participà com a tinent d'enginyers. En tornar el 1917 fundà la League of Indians of Canada, que celebrà conferències a Ohsweken (Six Nations Reserve, Ontario) el desembre del 1918, a Sault Ste.
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  • Fred Loft
  • Fred O. Loft
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