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Oronhyatekha
Mohawk physician and scholar
Oronhyatekha (10 August – 3 March ), ("Burning Sky" or "Burning Cloud" in the Mohawk language, also carried the baptismal name Peter Martin), was a Mohawk physician, scholar, and a unique figure in the history of British colonialism.
He was the first known aboriginal scholar at Oxford University; a successful CEO of a multinational financial institution; a native statesman; an athlete of international standing; and an outspoken champion of the rights of women, children, and minorities.
He was once thought to be the first Native M.D. in Canada, having gotten his degree in from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine having studied at the Toronto School of Medicine, but Peter Edmund Jones (Ojibwa), from New Credit, has been documented as having graduated a few months before Oronhyatekha.[1][2] The fact that Oronhyatekha achieved these results during the Victorian era, when racism and pressure for First Nat