Adirondack Indians got their name from the Mohawk Indian word atirú: taks, meaning " tree eaters ".

Joe Keaton owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the " Mohawk Indian Medicine Company ", which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side.

A former naturalized United States citizen, Hagbard supposedly relinquished his citizenship after representing a Mohawk reservation in court against the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

During this time in America, he married the daughter of a Mohawk Indian chief.

He had notable service as an officer with Roger's Rangers during the French and Indian War, when he was captured but saved from ritual burning by Mohawk warriors by intervention of a French officer.

The name is from a Mohawk Indian word meaning " on the other side of the pine lands " and is pronounced.

The county seat is Schoharie, a name that comes from a Mohawk Indian word meaning " floating driftwood.

The 1838 and 1842 Treaties of Buffalo Creek were treaties with New York Indians, such as the Seneca Nation, Mohawk nation, Cayuga nation, and Oneida Indian Nation, which covered land sales of tribal reservations under the US Indian Removal program, by which they planned to move most eastern tribes to Indian Territory.

One of these lights is placed at the location of the Kahnawake Indian Reservation, which the Mohawk ironworkers requested to be placed there to honor their labor.

In the poem is legendary Onondaga and Mohawk Indian leader Hiawatha.

Located along the Mohawk Trail, the area was part of the Pocomtuc Indian Nation, whose villages nearby included Squawkeag in what is now Northfield, and Peskeompscut in what is now Turners Falls.

The development of Lake Mohawk was referred to as a " reservation " in most promotional materials to continue the Indian tribe imagery.

During the various French and Indian Wars during the mid-18th century Van Schaick Island became the site of a military road that came from Albany north along the islands at the mouth of the Mohawk River.

* King Hendrick, Mohawk leader, lived in Indian Castle.

One of Ballston's historic sites is Indian Rock, a large boulder where Mohawk tribesmen reputedly took white captives ( children, in some cases ) to torture and kill them.

Saratoga is a corruption of an Indian word from the Mohawk language.

On Saturday, June 30, 1843, a Seneca Indian from Cataragus County, NY named Sam Mohawk murdered Mrs. James Wigton and her five children ( three girls and two boys ) in their home in Slippery Rock.

St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is a Mohawk Indian reservation in Franklin County, New York, United States.

One of the Canadian teams consisted entirely of Mohawk Indian players.

Because of his close relationship with the Mohawk, in 1746 Johnson was appointed as New York's agent to the Iroquois, replacing the Albany-based Indian commissioners.

Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.

In 1761, Johnson arranged for three Mohawk, including Brant, to be educated at Eleazar Wheelock's " Moor's Indian Charity School " in Connecticut.

* Sir Frederick Haldimand: His Influence on the Mohawk Valley

* The frontier area Deerfield is the first home of the fictitious Gilbert ( Gil ) Martin in Walter D. Edmunds novel, Drums along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), covering the period 1776-1784.

In 1776, American colonists Gilbert Martin ( Henry Fonda ) and Lana Borst ( Claudette Colbert ) marry and leave her luxurious home in Albany, New York for a small farm in Deerfield on the western frontier of the Mohawk Valley in central New York.

Platt also designed a large manor house and grounds, built in 1915 in the City of Little Falls, New York ( extant, in private ownership ) for Mr. J. Judson Gilbert, owner of the Gilbert Knitting Company and several other then very prosperous factories in the Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York.

* Ruth Carol Taylor, first verified African-American stewardess, hired by Mohawk Airlines in 1958

In 1958 Mohawk moved its headquarters from Ithaca to Oneida County Airport in the Town of Whitestown, New York, near Utica.

In 1958, the airline moved its headquarters to Utica, NY, in the heart of the Mohawk Valley.

On February 11, 1958, Ruth Carol Taylor was hired by Mohawk Airlines, becoming the first African-American flight attendant in the United States.

The story of the 17th century Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha is interwoven with the story of a love triangle between an unnamed anglophone Canadian folklorist ; his Native wife, Edith, who has committed suicide ; and his best friend, the mystical F, a member of Parliament and leader in the Quebec separatist movement, who dies after being imprisoned in an institute for the criminally insane.

Their traditional homeland stretched southward of the Mohawk River, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, westward to the border with the Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory, and northward to the St Lawrence River.

From the top of the escarpment, which reaches 1300 ft ( 400 m ), there are fine views of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys as well as spectacular panoramas of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains of Vermont.

Columnists for NFIC range from Mohawk author Doug George-Kanentiio from Akwesasne, New York to the award-winning Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, an Ojibwe now residing in Kamloops, British Columbia.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

The Greater Bay of Quinte area includes the municipalities of Brighton, Quinte West, Belleville, Prince Edward County, and Greater Napanee as well as the Native Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

The Book of Common Prayer has also been translated into these North American indigenous languages: Cowitchan, Cree, Haida, Ntlakyapamuk, Slavey, Eskimo-Aleut, Dakota, Delaware, Mohawk, Ojibwe.

Aqueduct over the Mohawk River at Rexford, New York, one of 32 aqueduct s on the Erie Canal.

Several languages of North America, such as Mohawk, lack both of the labials and.

The Mohawk, and the Attacapa, Tonkawa, and other Texas tribes were known to their neighbours as ' man-eaters.

Steinmetz maintained a small cabin overlooking the Mohawk River near Schenectady, New York.

During that time the lake drained through present-day Syracuse, New York into the Mohawk River, thence to the Hudson River and the Atlantic.

* Split Rock Lighthouse, NY south of Essex, NY, near a natural boundary of the territory between the Mohawk and Algonquin tribes.

" In November 2007, Mr. T appeared in a television commercial for the online role playing game World of Warcraft with the phrase " I'm Mr. T and I'm a Night Elf Mohawk ".

* 1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.

He dresses in a punk style and has a Mohawk haircut.

The typical male punk haircut was originally short and choppy ; the Mohawk later emerged as a characteristic style.

On April 26, 2006, the Supreme Court heard Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Williams,, which concerned what sort of corporations fell under the scope of RICO.

Mohawk Industries had allegedly hired illegal aliens, in violation of RICO.

The court was asked to decide whether Mohawk Industries, along with recruiting agencies, constitutes an ' enterprise ' that can be prosecuted under RICO, but in June of that year dismissed the case and remanded it to Court of Appeals.

In Canada, the Mohawk tribe of Kahnawake has been criticized for evicting non-Mohawks from the Mohawk reserve.

The Mohawk government claims that its policy of racially exclusive membership is for the preservation of its identity, but there is no exemption for those who adopt Mohawk language or culture.

Although some concerned Mohawk citizens have contested the racially-exclusive membership policy, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the Mohawk government may adopt policies it deems necessary to ensure the survival of its people.