Akwesasne
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The Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne ( ; ; ) is a Mohawk Nation (Kanienʼkehá:ka) territory that straddles the intersection of international (United States and Canada) borders and provincial (Ontario and Quebec) boundaries on both banks of the St. Lawrence River. Although divided by an international border, the residents consider themselves to be one community. They maintain separate police forces due to jurisdictional issues and national laws.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Akwesasne
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Mohawk Territory
- Settlement.official_name
- Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Akwesasne.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Road sign in Akwesasne
- Settlement.image_map
- Akwesasne Territory.png
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- Map of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne
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- Language
- Settlement.leader_name
- English (de facto) Mohawk (official)
- Settlement.established_title
- Permanently Settled
- Settlement.established_date
- 1754
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 85.89
- Settlement.population_total
- 14,000
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Akwesasro꞉non
- Settlement.timezone
- Eastern (EST)
- Settlement.utc_offset
- −5
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EDT
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Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- History
- Battle of the Cedars
- Dundee land claim
- 20th-century institutions
- Geography
- Communities, hamlets and villages
- Surrounding communities
- Government
- Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
- Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
- Chiefs of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
- Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
- Council of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
- Governance: Canada and the United States
- Legal system
- Education
- Education in Canada
- Education in the United States
- Private schools
- Media
- Radio
- Online and print media
- Attractions
- Political activism
- 1969 border crossing dispute
- 2001 "anti-globalization" direct action
- 2009 border crossing dispute
- History of disputes
- Arms trafficking and human smuggling
- In popular culture
- Notable Akwesasronon
- See also
- References
- External links
The Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne ( ; ; ) is a Mohawk Nation (Kanienʼkehá:ka) territory that straddles the intersection of international (United States and Canada) borders and provincial (Ontario and Quebec) boundaries on both banks of the St. Lawrence River. Although divided by an international border, the residents consider themselves to be one community. They maintain separate police forces due to jurisdictional issues and national laws.
The community was founded in the mid-18th century by Mohawk families from Kahnawake (also known as Caughnawaga), a Catholic Mohawk village that developed south of Montreal along the St. Lawrence River. Today Akwesasne has a total of 12,000 residents, with the largest population and land area of any Kanienʼkehá:ka community. From its development in the mid-eighteenth century, Akwesasne was considered one of the Seven Nations of Canada. It is one of several Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk), meaning "people of the flint" in Mohawk, territories within present-day Canada; others are Kahnawake, Wahta, Tyendinaga, Kanesatake, and the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation (which includes several subdivisions of Mohawk, the other five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and some other Native American tribes), founded after the American Revolutionary War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akwesasne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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