Kahnawake
Sign in to saveThe Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (, in the Mohawk language, Kahnawáˀkye in Tuscarora) is a First Nations reserve on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Established as Seigneury Sault du St-Louis by French Canadians in 1719 as a Jesuit mission, it was formerly known as Caughnawaga (after the ancestral Mohawk villages named Mohawk village (Kahnawake) in the Mohawk Valley of New York). There are 17 European spelling variations of the Mohawk Kahnawake and the name Kahnawake refers to at least three historical places in New York State, in addition to t
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kahnawake
- Settlement.official_name
- Kahnawake First Nations Reserve No. 14
- Settlement.other_name
- Caughnawaga
- Settlement.native_name
- Kahnawake:ronon
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Indian reserve
- Settlement.image_map
- Kahnawake Quebec location diagram.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Kahnawake, outside of Roussillon RCM.
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- Canada Southern Quebec#Quebec
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in southern Quebec.
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Montérégie
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- RCM
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- RoussillonWithin RCM, but unassociated
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- Electoral DistrictsFederal
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21 sectionsContents
- History
- Historical land claim
- Multi-cultural community
- Effects of construction projects in/through community
- Working in New York
- Late 20th century to present
- Membership and residency on the reserve
- Restorative justice
- Geography
- Gambling/gaming
- Politics
- International use of Kahnawake flag
- Historic sites
- Representation in other media
- Notable Kahnawakehro:non
- Media
- Kahnawake powwow
- Schools
- See also
- References
- External links
The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (, in the Mohawk language, Kahnawáˀkye in Tuscarora) is a First Nations reserve on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Established as Seigneury Sault du St-Louis by French Canadians in 1719 as a Jesuit mission, it was formerly known as Caughnawaga (after the ancestral Mohawk villages named Mohawk village (Kahnawake) in the Mohawk Valley of New York). There are 17 European spelling variations of the Mohawk Kahnawake and the name Kahnawake refers to at least three historical places in New York State, in addition to the latest one.
Kahnawake's territory totals an area of . Its resident population numbers slightly above 8,000, with a significant number living off reserve. Its land base today is unevenly distributed due to the federal Indian Act, which governs individual land possession. It has rules that are different from those applying to Canadian non-reserve areas. Most Kahnawake residents originally spoke the Mohawk language, and some learned French when trading with and allied with French colonists. Together with most of four Iroquois nations, including the Mohawk, they allied with the British government during the American Revolutionary War and the Lower Canada Rebellion. They have since become mostly English speaking.