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Akwesasne. The Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne (/ ˌækwəˈsæsneɪ / AK-wə-SAS-neh; [5] 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 ...
The chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk police noted that drug smuggling was a problem that extended along the Canada–US border and was not limited to Akwesasne. In March 2006, the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation was awarded a $263,000 grant from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Legal Services, in order to "fight drug use, violent crime, and ...
Mohawk people. The Mohawk, also known by their own name, Kanien'kehà:ka ( {lit|"People of the flint"}} [2]), are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. Mohawk are an Iroquoian -speaking people with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily ...
The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (French: Territoire Mohawk de Kahnawake, pronounced [ɡahnaˈwaːɡe] in the Mohawk language, Kahnawáˀkye[6] in Tuscarora) is a First Nations reserve of the Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Established by French Canadians in 1719 as a ...
www.akwesasne.ca. Iroquois of St Regis Indian Reserve 59 (Kawehnò:ke) [2] is an Indian reserve in Ontario. It is part of The St Regis Indian reserve,which includes St Regis, Quebec (Indian Reserve)in Quebec and St. Regis Reservation, in New York. The Iroquois of St Regis are independent of the federal and provincial governments, this division ...
The Akwesasne Cultural Center houses a library and museum about the Mohawk Nation community of Akwesasne. Opening in 1971, the Akwesasne Library was the first Native American Library east of the Mississippi River. [1] The museum houses 2,000 photographic objects and over 700 ethnographic objects, of which over 300 are baskets.
Coordinates: 45°00′20″N 74°42′59″W. Indigenous people making lacrosse sticks, Cornwall Island, Ontario, c. 1910. Cornwall Island (Mohawk: kawehno:ke) is an island in the Saint Lawrence River, directly south of the city of Cornwall. The island is located completely within Canada, but it is also part of the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve ...
Akwesasne Freedom School. Appearance. Coordinates: 44°59′16″N74°42′49″W44.98778°N 74.71361°W. The Akwesasne Freedom School was founded in 1979 in a grass-roots effort by the Mohawk tribe. The Akwesasne Freedom school is located in St. Regis Mohawk Reservation (also known as Hogansburg), New York. It was founded with the intention of ...