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The Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne (/ ˌ æ k w ə ˈ s æ s n eɪ / AK-wə-SAS-neh; French: Nation Mohawk à Akwesasne; Mohawk: Ahkwesáhsne) is a Mohawk Nation (Kanienʼkehá:ka) territory that straddles the intersection of international (United States and Canada) borders and provincial (Ontario and Quebec) boundaries on both banks of the St. Lawrence River.
The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains, northwest of the Capital District. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region's counties have a combined population of 622,133 people. In addition to the Mohawk River valley ...
The Mohawk Trail began as a Native American trade route which connected Atlantic tribes with tribes in Upstate New York and beyond. It followed the Millers River, Deerfield River and crossed the Hoosac Range, in the area that is now northwestern Massachusetts . Today the Mohawk Trail is a part of Routes 2 and 2A.
Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) is a public community college in Oneida County, New York.It is part of the State University of New York system. MVCC was founded in 1946 as the first community college established in New York State and currently consists of the main campus in Utica, N.Y., and a branch campus in Rome, New York It is the largest college between Syracuse, N.Y., and Albany, N.Y.
Kanatsiohareke. Kanatsiohareke (Gah-nah-jo-ha-lay-gay) ( Mohawk: Kana’tsioharé:ke) is a small Mohawk / Kanienkahaka community on the north bank of the Mohawk River, west of Fonda, New York. The name means "The clean pots" and is derived from Canajoharie or "Upper Castle", one of the two major towns of the Mohawk nation in 1738. [1]
The Oka Crisis (French: Crise d'Oka), also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (French: Résistance de Kanehsatà:ke), was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 78 days until September 26, with two fatalities.
Ganienkeh. Ganienkeh (meaning Land of the Flint in Mohawk) is a Mohawk community located on about 600 acres (2.4 km 2) near Altona, New York in the far northeast corner of the North Country. [1] Established by an occupation of Mohawk warriors in the late 1970s, it is a rare case in which an indigenous people reclaiming land from the United ...
0957470. Website. mohawk-ny .org. Mohawk is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 2,731 at the 2010 census. [2] The village was named after the adjacent Mohawk River . The village is at the northern border of the town of German Flatts and adjacent to the Erie Canal.