 After Johnson 's death in 1774 , Brant and her children returned to her native village of Canajoharie on the Mohawk River . A Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War , she fled to British Canada , where she worked as an intermediary between British officials and the Iroquois . After the war , she settled in what is now Kingston , Ontario . In recognition of her service to the Crown , the British government gave Brant a pension and compensated her for her wartime losses . 
