Mohawk

Five Nations member

The Mohawk are an Indigenous people of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, one of the original five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

The term also refers to their Iroquoian language.

The Mohawk Valley in upstate New York takes its name from the people. (Lowercase mohawk is a hairstyle or skating turn.)

Indigenous

Iroquois

Native American confederacy

Six NationsIroquois tribal confederacy
longhouseElongated communal dwelling structure
wampumIndigenous American bead currency

clan · confederacy · Hiawatha · Oneida · Onondaga · Cayuga · Seneca · lacrosse · ironworker · sachem

river

valley

Low ground between heights

HudsonMajor northeastern river
Erie CanalHistoric New York waterway
New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state

waterway · tributary · Albany · Schenectady · falls · gorge · watershed

Categories

First NationsCree, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Inuit, Algonquin
IroquoisIroquois, Iroquois Confederacy, Oneida, Onondaga, Six Nations
Native TribesApache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Comanche, Navajo
New York TribesOneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Iroquois
Quebec NativesCree, Inuit, Algonquin, Abenaki, Huron
Turf GrassesRiviera, Sahara, Yukon, Santa Ana, Trinity

Opposites

Haudenosaunee Confederacy Position

MohawkSeneca

Stoic moralist of Rome

Onondaga · Cayuga · Oneida

Indigenous vs. Colonial/Settler Identity

Mohawkcolonizer

One who occupies foreign land

outsider · settler · British · French

Hairstyle Conformity

Mohawkcrew cut

Very short hairstyle

buzz cut · clean-cut · side part · bob · military cut

Phrases

Mohawk NationIroquois Confederacy founding member

Family

Mohawks

Familiarity: Top 200,000
Profile: Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G