Mohawk people are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
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17 Facts About Mohawk people
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The Dutch heard and wrote this term as Mohawk people, and referred to the Kanien'keha?ka as Egil or Maqua.
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Mohawk people operated from the Fort Nassau area for about six years, writing a record in 1644 of his observations of the Mohawks, their language, and their culture.
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In 1645 the Mohawk people made peace for a time with the French, who were trying to keep a piece of the fur trade.
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In 1664, the Pequot of New England killed a Mohawk people ambassador, starting a war that resulted in the destruction of the Pequot, as the English and their allies in New England entered the conflict, trying to suppress the Native Americans in the region.
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The Mohawk people attacked other members of the Pequot confederacy, in a war that lasted until 1671.
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Mohawk people's moved with relatives to Caughnawaga on the north side of the river after her parents' deaths.
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Mohawk people's was known for her faith and a shrine was built to her in New York.
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Mohawk were among the four Iroquois people that allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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The construction companies found that the Mohawk people ironworkers did not fear heights or dangerous conditions.
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Work and home life of Mohawk people ironworkers was documented in Don Owen's 1965 National Film Board of Canada documentary High Steel.
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Approximately 200 Mohawk people ironworkers participated in rebuilding the One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
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In 2008 the Mohawk people Nation was working to obtain approval to own and operate a casino in Sullivan County, New York, at Monticello Raceway.
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Ten years after Jogues' death Kateri Tekakwitha, the daughter of a Mohawk people chief and Tagaskouita, a Roman Catholic Algonquin woman, was born in Ossernenon and later was canonized as the first Native American saint.
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Mohawk people'storically, the traditional hairstyle of Mohawk men, and many men of the other groups of the Iroquois Confederacy, was to remove most of the hair from the head by plucking tuft by tuft of hair until all that was left was a smaller section, that was worn in a variety of styles, which could vary by community.
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Mohawk Nation people have a matrilineal kinship system, with descent and inheritance passed through the female line.
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