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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOHAWK , a tribe of See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians, the See also:chief See also:people of the See also:Iroquois confederacy. The name probably means " See also:man-eaters "; they See also:call themselves Kaniengehaga, " See also:flint people." Their villages were in the valley of the Mohawk See also:river, New See also:York. Their territory extended northward to the St See also:Lawrence and southward to the See also:Delaware river and See also:Catskill Mountains. They were thus See also:early in See also:touch with Dutch and See also:English, and were the first Indians to obtain firearms. In the See also:War of See also:Independence they fought with the English, and finally took See also:refuge in See also:Canada, where most of them have remained. See INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN. For Mohawk cosmology see 21st See also:Annual See also:Report See also:Bureau Amer. Ethnol. (1899-1900).

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