Kahnawake Mohawk mission

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The Kahnawake Mohawk mission was a 17th-century Catholic settlement of Christianized Mohawks near Montreal that became a key center of Indigenous Catholic life and the community where Kateri Tekakwitha lived and practiced her faith.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic mission
Indigenous settlement
Mohawk community
associatedWith Kateri Tekakwitha NERFINISHED
associatedWithEthnicity Iroquoian peoples NERFINISHED
associatedWithEvent spread of Catholicism among the Mohawk
associatedWithOrder Society of Jesus NERFINISHED
country Canada
culturalContext Haudenosaunee NERFINISHED
Mohawk Nation NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Mohawk people NERFINISHED
foundedBy French Catholic missionaries
Jesuits NERFINISHED
foundedInCentury 17th century
governedBy mission clergy
governedWith Indigenous leadership structures
hasAlternativeName Caughnawaga mission NERFINISHED
Kahnawà:ke mission
hasBuiltFeature Catholic church
chapel
mission houses
hasCommunityType Indigenous Christian community
mission village
hasDemographicCharacteristic primarily Mohawk inhabitants
hasEconomicBase hunting and fishing
subsistence agriculture
hasHeritageStatus important site of Catholic Indigenous heritage
hasReligiousPractice Catholic sacraments
Christian prayer
hasReligiousSignificance site of veneration of Kateri Tekakwitha
hasRole center of Indigenous Catholic life
mission village
historicalPeriod French colonial era
influenced development of Indigenous Catholic communities in Canada
language French
Mohawk NERFINISHED
locatedIn New France NERFINISHED
Quebec NERFINISHED
locatedNear Montreal NERFINISHED
locatedOn St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED
partOf Catholic missions to Indigenous peoples in North America
population Christianized Mohawks
religiousAffiliation Catholicism
Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
residenceOf Kateri Tekakwitha NERFINISHED
significantFor Indigenous Catholicism in North America
Mohawk Catholic history
significantPerson Kateri Tekakwitha NERFINISHED

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Kateri Tekakwitha associatedWith Kahnawake Mohawk mission