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The Mohawk (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Their current settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada. Their traditional homeland stretches southward of the Mohawk River, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, westward to its border with the Oneida Nation traditional homeland territory, and northward to the St Lawrence River. As original members of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, the Mohawk were known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door" who guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction.
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The idea that the Indians had not occupied the Mohawk Valley more than 150 years before the coming of the white men will have to undergo some revision in the light of new and old data. The Indians who occupied the valley that bears their name, were not the first occupants. Algonquins, Mohicans and possibly some other tribes were the first settlers. The Indians that Jacques Cartier, who discovered the St. Lawrence River in 1634-5, found were part of the Iroquois. When Samuel Champlain passed up the St. Lawrence in 1603 the Iroquois had vanished and in their place there were Algonquins of a different tongue and lineage. The Mohawks had been driven out and down into what is now New York.
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For centuries, along the valley that traverses present-day Eastern and Central New York, the Mohawk lived in villages composed of many longhouses. They thrived on the natural bounty of the region. The men were warriors, protectors and providers. The women cultivated the fields and nurtured the children.
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