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Mohawk comes from the Narragansett word Mohauwaaak meaning they eat animate things. The mohawk refer to themselves as Kaniengehaga - people of the place of the flint.The word Mohawk comes from a name their Algonkian enemies used to call them, meaning "man-eaters." In their own language, the Mohawk people call themselves Kanienkehaka, which means "people of the flint." its not clear if the Mohawk tribe was not a man-eating tribe or if it just was an insult to the tribe and the leader. The Mohawks are original people lived in New York State, our Map of New York Indian tribes and the location of their original home lands. Some Mohawk people still live in New York today, but most Mohawks retreated to Canada in the 1700's.
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