Mohawk Tribe

1. MohawkTribe By Maxwell Wray October, 15th, 2013

2. The Mohawk lived in New York and Ontario, but now live on reservations.

3. History • Before the Europeans arrived the Mohawk had wars against other tribes. • Then someone they call peacemaker said the tribes should join and fight their common enemy, the Algonquin. • The tribes that joined were the Oneidas, Cayuga, Seneca and the Onondaga. They called themselves the Iroquois .

4. History (continued) • The French came in 1534, the Dutch in 1609, and the English in 1664. • The trading was important to the Mohawk, because that’s when they first got stuff like guns and beads. • The Mohawk became friends with the Dutch and the other nations that came. They signed a treaty that said the nations wouldn’t take land from them, but they later broke that treaty and moved more men into the Mohawk land.

5. Way of Life • The Mohawk women farm. They grow corn, melons, squash, pumpkins, beans, tobacco, sunflowers and peas. • They also had apple orchards and maple syrup farms. • The men hunt, fish and trade. • Men dress in a two piece deer skin garment and woremoccasins. • They fish using spears. They wait until night and they go out on canoes with a torch in front of the boat. When a fish comes by, they spear it.

6. Way of Life (shelter) • For shelter the Mohawk lived in longhouses. • Longhouses were poles bent into an upside down “u” shape with elm bark covering the poles. • The longhouses were about 20 feet wide and 150 feet long. • One clan lives in a longhouse and the tribe was split into 3 clans: bear, wolf and turtle. • When the men and women got married, the man moved into the wife’s home.

7. Belief The Mohawk believe that they got here when a woman fell through a hole in the sky. Then a group of herons caught her and carried her to a giant turtle. There she had a daughter who had twins and the population grew.

8. The End Presentation by Maxwell Wray