His father Tekahionwake was born in Mohawk territory in the colony of New York, in what became the United States. Smoke was reared in traditional Mohawk culture, but likely learned English as well. His father was Jacob Tekahionwake Johnson (1758–1843).
In the Mohawk matrilineal kinship system, the mother's clan and eldest brother were most important in her children's life they took their status from her clan. Smoke Johnson was born in 1792 in Ontario into the Bear clan of his Mohawk mother at the Six Nations Indian reserve. He was influential in the Mohawk and Anglophone communities of Upper Canada.
After Johnson fought for the British Crown in the War of 1812, he was honoured by his tribal council as a "Pine Tree Chief", a non-hereditary position. John Smoke Johnson (December 2 or 14, 1792 – August 26, 1886) or Sakayengwaraton (also known as Smoke Johnson), was a Mohawk leader in Canada.
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