page_title: Mohawk people
section_title: Mohawk communities
hierarchical_section_title: Mohawk people / Mohawk communities
caption_attribution_description: English: A dancer performs at the welcome reception for Wikimania 2017.
context_page_description: The Mohawk people are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America, with communities in northern New York State and southeastern Canada, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League, the Mohawk are known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door – the traditional guardians of the Iroquois Confederation against invasions from the east.
  Historically, the Mohawk people were originally based in the valley of the Mohawk River in present-day upstate New York, west of the Hudson River. Their territory ranged north to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario; south to greater New Jersey and into Pennsylvania; eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont; and westward to the border with the Iroquoian Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory.
context_section_description: Members of the Mohawk tribe now live in settlements in northern New York State and southeastern Canada. 
  Many Mohawk communities have two sets of chiefs, who are in some sense competing governmental rivals. One group are the hereditary chiefs nominated by Clan Mother matriarchs in the traditional Mohawk fashion. Mohawk of most of the reserves have established constitutions with elected chiefs and councilors, with whom the Canadian and U.S. governments usually prefer to deal exclusively. The self-governing communities are listed below, grouped by broad geographical cluster, with notes on the character of community governance found in each.
  Northern New York:
  Kanièn꞉ke (Ganienkeh) "Place of the flint". Traditional governance.
  Kanaʼtsioharè꞉ke "Place of the washed pail". Traditional governance.
  Along the St Lawrence in Quebec:
  Ahkwesásne (St. Regis, New York and Quebec/Ontario, Canada) "Where the partridge drums". Traditional governance, band/tribal elections.
  Kahnawà꞉ke (south of Montréal) "On the rapids". Canada, traditional governance, band/tribal elections.
  Kaʼnehsatà꞉ke (Oka) "Where the snow crust is". Canada, traditional governance, band/tribal elections.
  Southern Ontario:
  Kenhtè꞉ke (Tyendinaga) "On the bay". Traditional governance, band/tribal elections.
  Wáhta (Gibson) "Maple tree". Traditional governance, band/tribal elections.
  Ohswé꞉ken “Six Nations of the Grand River”. Traditional governance, band/tribal elections. The Mohawk form the majority of the population of this Iroquois Six Nations reserve. There are also Mohawk Orange Lodges in Canada.
  Given increased activism for land claims, a rise in tribal revenues due to establishment of gaming on certain reserves or reservations, competing leadership, traditional government jurisdiction, issues of taxation, and the Indian Act, Mohawk communities have been dealing with considerable internal conflict since the late 20th century.
caption: Contemporary Quebec Mohawk dance performance at Wikimania 2017
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