Organizations

Lcnaf uri	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086500
Organization name	Mohawk indians
Other names	Canienga;Caughnawaga;Kaniakehaka;Mohaqu;Mohaux;Oka;Saint Regis;Conawaybrunas;Grand River Mohocks
Org type	Indian group
Bio notes	Also known as Canienga, Caughnawaga, Oka. “People of the Flint Place.” They were the easternmost members of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Most of their settled villages were located between the Schoharie and East Canada Creeks in the Mohawk Valley, with hunting territory stretching towards the Adirondacks and the eastern Susquehanna. In 1667 they founded the Kahnewake Village near Montreal, and roughly a century later founded Akwasasne (also known as St. Regis). They were part of the lesser-known Seven Nations Confederacy, a group of Huron, Abenaki, and Mohawk peoples who were first French and then English allies. Both Mohawk groups fought against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, after which most of their New York land was taken by the debt-ridden new government. Joseph Brant and John Desoronto led their dispossessed tribesmen into Canada, around Ontario, or on the Bay of Quinte, where they founded the Six Nations of the Grand River. Much controversy resulted from US treaties with both Mohawk groups, both of which contested the other's authority to cede New York lands. The Six Nation's Treaty of Canandaigua (1794) allowed them to own land in the United States and produced a small community back in Mohawk Valley named Canajoharie, while the Seven Nations signed a 1796 treaty that guaranteed the St. Regis reserve (Akwesasne) straddling the New York-Ontario border in exchange for New York land cessions.
See also	Six Nations
Citations	Handbook of the North American Indians Northeast ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_people ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nations_of_Canada;Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nations_of_Canada#cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-0; http://www.wampumchronicles.com/toomanychiefs7.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwesasne