It was morning on Ganienkeh, a Mohawk community near the Canadian border in Upstate New York, and about ten people had showed up for the daily tobacco burning ceremony. Mostly older folks, 7 a.m., ...
The Mohawks of Akwesasne have historically been the keepers of “the eastern door” of the Iroquois Confederacy. In the late 1700s, French Jesuit priests called a settlement on the St. Lawrence River ...
AKWESASNE — Instructors are sought to invigorate a revival in learning and speaking the Mohawk language to preserve its use for future generations. The St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council created a ...
Marvel Studios recently unveiled a new Mohawk superhero named Kahhori in its animated series “What If?…” The episode is entirely in the Mohawk language and was produced in cooperation with members of ...
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has announced that the last surviving World War II Mohawk code talker has died. Levi Oakes was one of 17 Mohawks from the Akwesasne tribe in northern New York that the ...
HOGANSBURG, N.Y. (AP)-- A century after the first commercial dam was built on the St. Regis River, blocking the spawning runs of salmon and sturgeon, the stream once central to the traditional culture ...