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Mohawk" (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous...

Mohawk" (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Their current settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada. Their traditional homeland stretched southward of the Mohawk River, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, westward to the border with the Oneida Nation traditional homeland territory, and northward to the St Lawrence River. As original members of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, the Mohawk were known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door", who guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction (it was from the east that European settlers first appeared, sailing up the Hudson River to found and inhabit Albany, New York, in the early 17th century.) The name of the Mohawk people in the Mohawk language is Kanien'kehá:ka, "People of the Flint", and alternately attributed various spellings (e.g. Canyenkehaka) by early French-settlers and ethnographers. There are various theories as to why the Mohawk were called the "Mohawk" by Europeans, but the