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Mohawk Indians,
The most celebrated of the Five Nations (see Iroquois Confederacy). Their proper name was Agmegue, and they called themselves, as a tribe, She-bears.
That animal was their totemic symbol.
The neighboring tribes called them Mahaqua, which name the English pronounced Mohawk.
Champlain and his followers, French and Indians from Canada, fought them in northern New York in 1609.
At Norman's Kill, below the site of Albany, the Dutch made a treaty with them in 1698, which was lasting; and the English, also, after the conquest of New Netherland, gained their friendship.
The French Jesuits gained many converts among them, and three villages of Roman Catholics on the St. Lawrence were largely filled with the Mohawks.
They served the English against the Canadians in the French and Indian War, and in the Revolutionary War, influenced by Sir William Johnson and his brother-in-law Brant, they made savage war on the patriots, causing the valleys in central New York to be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mohegan , or Mohican, Indians , (search)
Mohegan, or Mohican, Indians,
An Algonquian family found by the Dutch on the Hudson River above the Highlands.
The name was also given to several independent tribes on Long Island, and in the country between the Lenni-Lenapes, or Delawares (see Delaware Indians), and the New England Indians.
Of this family the Pequods, who inhabited eastern Connecticut, were the most powerful, and exercised authority over thirteen cantons on Long Island.
They received the Dutch kindly, and gave them lands on which they erected Fort Orange, now Albany.
They were then at war with the Mohawks, and when furiously attacked by the latter the Mohegans fled to the valley of the Connecticut, whither a part of the nation had gone before, and settled on the Thames.
This portion was the Pequods (Pequod Indians). A part of them, led by Uncas, seceded, and these rebels aided the English in their war with the Pequods in 1637.
The bulk of the nation finally returned to the Hudson, and kept up a communicati
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schuyler , Peter 1710 -1762 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schuyler , Philip (John) 1733 -1857 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The case of the South against the North . [from New Orleans Picayune , December 30th , 1900 .] (search)