Mohawk Research at AccessGenealogy
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all the Indian Tribes. We add complete books on many of the tribes, their
tribal history, great information from knowledgeable people on a particular
tribe and in general what you ask for from your emails.
This page is the first in what we hope
will provide our reader with all pages
available on AccessGenealogy/Native for the
Mohawk Tribe of Indians, which includes
information on Six Nations also. Many
of the pages contain only a brief amount on
the tribe, use your browser find on page for
a search.
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Indian Biographies
Ahyouwaight, Mohawk Chief
Indian Missions of the Middle
Atlantic States
The earliest mission establishment within
this territory was that founded by a company
of 8 Spanish Jesuits and lay brothers with a
number of educated Indian boys, under Father
Juan Bautista Segura, at "Axacan," in
Virginia, in 1570.
Monuments to Six Nation Indians,
by Aren Akweks
One early dawn of the Moon of New Grass
a group of young Awkesasne warriors started
on a tour through the eastern country, their
destination, every known marker or important
monument erected to Six Nation Indians. The
young Mohawks did not travel on foot as did
their ancient forefathers.
Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk Women, Auriesville, New York
Mohawk Church, Brantford, Ontario,
Canada
Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk Poetess,
Six Nation Country
Coming of the Mohawks, Thendinaga
Reservation, Ontario, Canada
Thayendanegea, Captain Joseph Brant
Mohawk Monument, Annapolis Royal, Nova
Scotia
Joseph Brant, Captain of the Six Nations
The parents of Brant were Mohawks,
residing at the Canajoharie castle, in New
York; but he is said to have been born on
the banks of the Ohio, in 1742, during an
excursion of his parents to that region. He
was not a chief by birth, although his
family seems to have been one of some
consideration.
Ahyouwaighs Mohawk Chief,
1794-1832
This chief was born on the 27th of
September, 1794; he received a good English
education and is said to have improved his
mind by reading. In the war of 1812-15,
between the United States and Great Britain,
he espoused the cause of the latter, and
participated in the dangers of the earliest
part of the contest, but had not the
opportunity to acquire distinction.
Handbook of the American Indians North of
Mexico, by Fredrick W. Hodge
Mohawk (cognate with the Narraganset
Mohowałuck, 'they eat (animate) things,'
hence 'man-eaters') The most easterly tribe
of the Iroquois confederation. They called
themselves Kaniengehaga, 'people of the
place of the flint.'
Mohawk Indian Tribe History
Mohawk Indian Villages and Towns
Mohawk Indian Chiefs and Leaders
Indian Land Cessions in the United States,
Bureau of Ethnology
Among the various problems forced on
European nations by the discovery of America
was that of determining their respective
rights in regard to the territory of the
newly discovered continent. The fact that
the country was inhabited by and in
possession of a native population does not
appear to have been taken into consideration
in the solution of. this problem.
New York
New York Indian Tribes, by John
R. Swanton
Location of Tribe and Bands
Indian
Treaties with the Mohawk
Treaty with the Six Nations October 22, 1784
Treaty with the Six Nations, January 9, 1789
Treaty with the Mohawk, March 29, 1797
Mailing
Lists, Query
and Message Boards
Indian Mailing Lists
A great place to start your research.
There are many lists specific to a tribe and
there is one for each state and Canada. You
will meet people who have been searching for
years, know all the tricks and rocks to look
under, places they hid, and how to make your
search worthwhile. If you are new to Indian
Genealogy, I recommend
NA-NEWBIES, you will find others
like yourself who are just starting on the
search of a lifetime.
Mohawk-Indian-Tribe Mailing List
Mohawk
Queries
Post
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Census and
Indian Rolls
Indians in the 11th Census
(1890) of the United States
Prior to 1846 there was no general law for taking a census of the Indians
within the United States, Thomas Jefferson in 1782 gave a careful analysis of
the location of tribes and their numbers in the United States, which then comprised
only the country east of the Mississippi and north of the Floridas.
Books
Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth
Century, by Francis Parkman
Few passages of history are more striking
than those which record the efforts of the
earlier French Jesuits to convert the
Indians. Full as they are of dramatic and
philosophic interest, bearing strongly on
the political destinies of America, and
closely involved with the history of its
native population, it is wonderful that they
have been left so long in obscurity.
Introduction to the Study of Mortuary
Customs Among the North American Indians,
by H.C. Yarrow
The mortuary
customs of savage or barbaric people have a
deep significance from the fact that in them
are revealed much of the philosophy of the
people by whom they are practiced. Early
beliefs concerning the nature of human
existence in life and after death and the
relations of the living to the dead are
recorded in these customs.
Indian Linguistic Families of America North
of Mexico, by John Wesley Powell
A single language is called a stock or
family when it is not found to be cognate
with any other language. Languages are said
to be cognate when such relations between
them are found that they are supposed to
have descended from a common ancestral
speech. The evidence of cognation is derived
exclusively from the vocabulary.
Iroquoian Family
Iroquois General Ethnology of Western New
York, by Henry R. Schoolcraft
The aboriginal nation, whose statistics and
history, past and present, are brought into
discussion in the following report, stand
out prominently in the fore ground of our
own history. They have sustained themselves,
for more than three centuries and a half,
against the intruding and progressive races
of Europe.
St. Regis Colony or Band
Mohawk Vocabulary
Indian Races of North and South America,
by Charles DeWolf Brownell
In describing the
adventures and proceedings of the pioneers
in the settlement and civilization of the
Western Continent, the interesting nature of
the narrative may have led the author, in
some instances, away from the immediate
object of his attention, viz.: the manners,
peculiarities, and history of the aboriginal
inhabitants.
Iroquois Tradition relative to their Former
History
Joseph Brant, Thayendanagea
History of Brant
Condition of the Six Nations Subsequent to
the Revolution
Iroquois History of the Aborigines,
by James H. Smith
We have no authentic history of a people
inhabiting this country anterior to those
who occupied it on the advent of the
Europeans, and who are classed under the
generic term Indians.
Sign Language Among North American Indians
As the few publications on the general
subject, possessing more than historic
interest, are meager in details and vague in
expression, original investigation has been
necessary.
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