Mohawks

The Mohawks whose significance is “man-eater” in the language of their hereditary enemies Algonquin, but whose true name is Kanienkehaka meaning people of the flint, were called Agniers at the time colonial Frenchwoman and Maquas with the New-Country-Low, is one of the six great Nations iroquoises (the name iroquois is a word Algonquin which means poisonous snake, the six nations which of is in west are Tuscaroras, Sénécas, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Mohawks prefer to be called Haudenausee which means Peuple of the long house.)

Current location

Having adopted the English language, they indicate from now on them even Mohawks . They live mainly in the territories of:

Kanesatake .
Kahnawake (in the past Caughnawaga) - reserve.
Akwesasne (reserve so located partially at the Quebec in Ontario and in the State of New York) - reserve.

History

The Mohawks Indians took again the path of the war

Estimating that their ancestors were formerly despoiled by the Jésuite S and the Sulpicien S which adapted vast " seigneuries" to then resell them with the White, of the autochtones set out again in war to take advantage of their territorial rights. Mohawks, armed with Kalashnikov occupied the cemetery of Oka, village close to Montreal. The conflict burst in spring 1990 when the municipality wanted to increase a golf course by shaving a nearby thicket of pines. However, this one sheltered an old cemetery mohawk. In front of the refusal of the Indians to evacuate the ground, the authorities gave the attack during which a police officer was killed. Large a pardie of the Amerindian community gave its support for the " warriors" (warriors) of Oka. Some could be mercenaries raised by the Maffia of the Bingo which would like to establish this play in the reserves. At the end of August, at the request of the Prime Minister for Quebec, the federal army intervened.

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