New York tribe

Usage examples of mohawk.

Me and the missus had a little place on the Mohawk back in them days, near Albany, until they burned us out.

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

Mohawks were Keepers of the Eastern Door, defending the Nations from the Algonquian tribes of New England.

The granting of comforts to a condemned prisoner was not the Mohawk way, either.

One of the older women held a cradleboard, and without hesitation she walked up to Roger and pressed it into his arms, saying something in Mohawk.

Sir William Johnson strings a line of forts up the Mohawk River towards Oswego on Lake Ontario, and he keeps his forest rangers, under the famous scout Major Robert Rogers, scouring the forest and mountain trails of Lake Champlain for French marauder and news of what the French are doing.

The rest, decimated by dysentery and small-pox, began their march to Lake Champlain, with bands of Mohawk, Oneida, and Mohegan allies.

Schuyler reported his loss in killed at 21 whites, 16 Mohawks, and 6 Mohegans, besides many wounded.

And the Mohocks of London know more about honour than all the Mohawks in Canada.

Over the winter, Ate had tried to teach Jack the full-blooded yell that the Mohawk gave in battle, the one that his Mohocks in London had so singularly failed to render.

She wished she had thought to ask her mother more about the girl Ian called Emilythe Mohawk name was something multisyllabic and unpronounceable.

Old Skanawati, the Onondaga, old Atotarho, Onondaga, too, Satekariwate, the Mohawk, Kanokarih, the Seneca, and others, head chiefs though they were of the three senior tribes, did not hesitate to eat as the rich Romans of the Empire ate, swallowing immense quantities of all kinds of meat, and drinking a sort of cider that the women made.

That night an Onondaga runner arrived from one of the farthest villages of the Mohawks, far east toward Albany.

Cherokee alphabet, of the Mohawk, the Blackfoot, the Cree, the Lakota, the Potawatomi, and others.

In the ship Chief Bender, Mohawk and steelman extraordinary, talked to the Shed and to one Charley Red Fox.