Mohawk traditional territory

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Mohawk traditional territory refers to the ancestral homelands historically inhabited and used by the Mohawk people, encompassing regions in what is now upstate New York and parts of Quebec and Ontario.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations territory
Haudenosaunee territory
Indigenous homeland
Kanienʼkehá꞉ka territory
ancestral land
cultural region
historic region
traditional territory
affectedBy European colonization
land dispossession
treaty-making with colonial powers
alsoKnownAs Kanienʼkehá꞉ka traditional territory
associatedWithRiver Hudson River
Mohawk River
Saint Lawrence River
surface form: St. Lawrence River
associatedWithWaterBody Lake Champlain Valley
surface form: Lake Champlain region

Lake Ontario
borders Abenaki traditional territory
Algonquin traditional territory
other Haudenosaunee nations’ territories
containsHistoricSiteType burial grounds
ceremonial sites
longhouse villages
palisaded settlements
coreAreaIncludes north shore of Lake Ontario
surface form: Lake Ontario region

Mohawk Valley
surface form: Mohawk River Valley

St. Lawrence Valley
surface form: St. Lawrence River Valley

eastern Great Lakes region
historicallyUsedFor agriculture
fishing
hunting
settlement
trade routes
isTraditionalTerritoryOf Mohawk
surface form: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Mohawk people
languageAssociated Mohawk language
locatedInPresentDay Canada
New York State
Ontario
Quebec, Canada
surface form: Quebec

United States of America
surface form: United States
partlyOverlaps current Mohawk reserves and communities
partOf Iroquoia
surface form: Haudenosaunee Confederacy homelands
recognizedIn Indigenous land claims processes
significance cultural identity of Mohawk people
political autonomy of Mohawk communities
spiritual practices of Mohawk people
timeDepth pre-colonial period
pre-contact era

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Ganienkeh partOf Mohawk traditional territory
People of the Flint hasGeographicAssociationWith Mohawk traditional territory
this entity surface form: Mohawk traditional homelands in the Northeast of North America
Fort Hunter, New York hasHeritage Mohawk traditional territory
this entity surface form: Mohawk Nation homeland