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

The racial makeup of Mohawk Vista was 146 ( 91. 8 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 1 ( 0. 6 %) Native American, 7 ( 4. 4 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 1 ( 0. 6 %) from other races, and 4 ( 2. 5 %) from two or more races.

Savoy is located among the Berkshire Hills, with much of the town being dominated by Savoy Mountain State Forest, as well as parts of three other state forests ( Mohawk Trail State Forest, Windsor State Forest and Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest ), and a wildlife management area in the southwest corner of town.

Today the town industry also includes tourism, with a ski area and other tourist areas along the Mohawk Trail.

Because of losses to war and disease, the Mohawk and other tribes often adopted younger captives into their tribes.

Mohawk is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a charter, the other villages having incorporated or re-incorporated under the provisions of Village Law.

Due to the influence of Johnson and their long trading relationship with the British, the Mohawk and three other Iroquois nations allied with them during the American Revolution.

With the British defeat, the United States forced the Mohawk and other allied Iroquois nations to cede nearly all their territory in New York.

Johnson was particularly an ally of the Mohawk and was married to a woman of the tribe, along with other women.

United States settlers essentially drove the Oswegatchie, former British allies, out of the area ; many went to Akwesasne or other Mohawk reserves in Canada.

It was after this trip that he published his book, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, which featured a paean to the historic Cohoes Falls called Lines Written at the Cohos, or Falls of the Mohawk River, among other famous verses.

: This article is about the language spoken by the Mohawk people ; for other uses, see Mohawk.

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.

Mohawk and other allies of the British also became established there.

For the duration of the Cold War the runway and facilities were shared with the United States Army who operated helicopters, the Grumman OV-1 Mohawk and other fixed wing aircraft at Echterdingen Army Airfield on the southern portion of the facility.

The Dutch trade partners equipped the Mohawk to fight against other nations allied with the French, including the Ojibwe, Huron-Wendat, and Algonquin.

One group are the hereditary chiefs nominated by clan matriarchs in the traditional Mohawk fashion ; the other is the elected chief and councilors with whom the Canadian and U. S. governments usually prefer to deal exclusively.

Kateri's village was highly diverse, as the Mohawk were absorbing many captured natives of other tribes, particularly their competitors the Huron, to replace people who died from European diseases or warfare.

( The Mohawk and other Iroquois had a matrilineal kinship system, in which children were born into the mother's clan and took their status from her.

While there, the Jesuits studied Mohawk and other native languages in order to reach the people.

Piercing the body to draw blood was a traditional practice of the Mohawk and other Iroquois nations.

( While it attracted other Iroquois, it was predominately Mohawk.

Anastasia and other Mohawk women introduced Tekakwitha to the regular practices of Christianity.

Main characters in Finnish psy trance are artists such as Mullet Mohawk, Texas Faggott and Squaremeat.

The firm's first two advisory clients were Mohawk Airlines and Texas International Airlines in 1971.

* MO = The AT & T telephone exchange office at 4068 Bellaire Boulevard in West University Place, Texas — the office is known as the " Mohawk office "

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

The Iroquois Confederacy was an alliance of tribes, originally from the New York state area consisting of the Seneca tribe, Cayuga tribe, Onondaga ( tribe ), Oneida tribe, Mohawk nation, and Tuscarora ( tribe ).

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.

During the 17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy ( then consisting of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Seneca tribes ) drove the Hurons from the state.

In the late Woodland period, the area was considered to be the winter hunting grounds for the Mohawk and Algonquian tribes.

Loyalist and allied Iroquois tribes had been raiding colonial settlements in the Mohawk Valley and related areas.

The various Iroquois tribes all had similar words for the concept: the Oneida called it Te-ah-o-ge, the Mohawk called it Te-yo-ge-ga, the Cayuga called it Da-o-ga and the Seneca called it Da-yo-o-geh.

The Mohawk gained a near-monopoly in the fur trade with the Dutch by not allowing the neighboring Algonquian-speaking tribes to the north or east to trade with them.

The traditional trade route connecting the tribes of the Hudson and Connecticut River valleys ( today, Route 2, known as the Mohawk Trail ) passes beneath the northern flank of Mount Greylock.

The conflict pitted the nations of the Iroquois Confederation, led by the dominant Mohawk, against the French-backed and largely Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Great Lakes region.

On July 8, 1788, the Seneca ( along with some Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes ) sold rights to land east of the Genesee River in New York to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts.

In the west, Captain DePeyster's negotiations proved instrumental in maintaining peace between the British and tribes such as the Mohawk and Ojibwa nations.

Four elders from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, along with Fay and members of the Lakota, Seneca, Mohawk, and Cayuga tribes, performed a naming ceremony on July 28 at the farm ; the calf was named Yellow Medicine Dancing Boy.

Tecumseh revived an idea advocated in previous years by the Shawnee leader Blue Jacket and the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, which stated that American Indian land was owned in common by all tribes, and thus no land could be sold without agreement by all.

Based on increasing understanding of the political dynamics with other tribes and the French, and more knowledge about the origins of other tribes, many historians have now concluded that the St. Lawrence Iroquoians were essentially destroyed by the Mohawk of the Iroquois, who wanted to dominate hunting and trade in the valley below Tadoussac.

In May 1775, a group of Delaware, Mohawk and Shawnee emissaries formed a delegation which headed south to support the British who were trying to gain the help of the Cherokees and other tribes.

The Mohawk Trail began as a Native American trade route which connected Atlantic tribes with tribes in Upstate New York and beyond.

# A 1676 treaty between the Mohawk nation and the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut which ended King Philip's War in New England ; it also governed relations between the Iroquois and a number of other tribes, including the Mahicans of the Hudson River, and the Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Massachusett of New England.

This was a term applied to one of the Mohawk tribes.