Traditional governance, band/tribal elections.

Ohswé:ken 'Six Nations of the Grand River'.

Canada, shared governance between Kahnawà꞉ke and Kanehsatà꞉ke.

Tioweró:ton (Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides, Quebec).

Canada, traditional governance, band/tribal elections.

Kanehsatà:ke ( Oka) 'Where the snow crust is'.

Kahnawà:ke (south of Montréal) 'On the rapids'.

Regis, New York and Quebec/Ontario, Canada) 'Where the partridge drums'.

Kanaʼtsioharè:ke 'Place of the washed pail'.

Kanièn:ke (Ganienkeh) 'Place of the flint'.

The self-governing communities are listed below, grouped by broad geographical cluster, with notes on the character of community governance found in each. governments usually prefer to deal exclusively. Mohawks of most of the reserves have established constitutions with elected chiefs and councilors, with whom the Canadian and U.S. One group are the hereditary chiefs ( royaner), nominated by Clan Mother matriarchs in the traditional Mohawk fashion. Many Kanienʼkehá:ka communities have two sets of chiefs, who are in some sense competing governmental rivals. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario south to greater New Jersey and into Pennsylvania eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont and westward to the border with the Iroquoian Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory.Ĭlass=notpageimage| Contemporary Mohawk communities As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League, the Mohawk are known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door – the traditional guardians of the Iroquois Confederation against invasions from the east.Īt the time of European contact the Mohawk people were based in the valley of the Mohawk River in present-day upstate New York, west of the Hudson River. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. The Mohawk people ( Mohawk: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka ) are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. Map of Mohawk River Flag of Kenhtè꞉ke, the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

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