What is "mohawks"

Usage examples of "mohawks".

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

They are the Onondagas, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras.

Thayendanegea was the great war chief of the Mohawks, but not their titular chief.

He was opposed in this plan by Tododaho, then head chief of the Onondagas, but he went to the Mohawks and gained the support of their great chief, Dekanawidah.

Thayendanegea unbuttoned his military coat and threw it back, revealing a bare bronze chest, upon which was painted the device of the Mohawks, a flint and steel.

Next to the Onondagas came the fierce and warlike Mohawks, who lived nearest to Albany, who were called Keepers of the Eastern Gate, and who were fully worthy of their trust.

These three, the Onondagas, Mohawks, and Senecas, were esteemed the three senior nations.

When Hiawatha left the Onondagas and fled to the Mohawks he crossed a lake supposed to be the Oneida.

It was Timmendiquas, who, as the bravest chief of the brave Wyandots, was about to become, as a signal tribute, and as a great sign of friendship, an adopted son and honorary chief of the Mohawks, Keepers of the Western Gate, and most warlike of all the Iroquois tribes.

He and his Mohawks, proud Keepers of the Western Gate, would lead in the onset.

Timmendiquas, as an honorary chief of the Mohawks, and as the real head of a brave and allied nation, was present throughout the council.

In this case the match was on a grand scale, Mohawks and Cayugas against Onondagas and Senecas.

The Mohawks and Cayugas retired, stripped of their goods and crestfallen.

We found that others, Senecas and Mohawks, led by Wyatt and Blackstaffe, who are of your race, had gone before, and when we came up there had just been a battle.

Thayendanegea, the mighty war chief of the Mohawks and the living spirit of the Iroquois nation.