Mohawk
See also: mohawk
English
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Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution.
Etymology
From Dutch Mohawk. An exonym, probably from an Narragansett word meaning "they eat (animate things)", "cannibals". The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanien'kehá:ka (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).
Proper noun
Mohawk
- An indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
- The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.
Translations
indigenous people of North America
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hairstyle
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See also
Mohawk Nation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mohawk language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mohawk hairstyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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