Kahnawake

Like all Native American tribes in the continental United States, many aspects of the Mohawk tribe’s culture, social institutions and economy were forever changed after the arrival of Europeans. Dutch, French and British and eventually American interaction and wars would all change the course of Mohawk history. The Mohawk, or Kahniakenhaka as they call themselves, are part of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Five Nation Confederacy. The Iroquoian name Kahniakenhaka means “people of the flint…

was still a great amount of tension between the Franco-phones and Anglo-phone Canadians. “Robin Philpot argues in Oka: Dernier Alibi du Canada Anglais (Oka: English Canada's Last Alibi) that English-language coverage of the standoffs at Oka and Kahnawake was tainted by anti-Quebec,” potentially caused by the end of the Meech Lake constitutional accord (Wells, 1991). This accord was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to follow the 1982 constitutional amendments (Wells, 1991). The…

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At a theoretical level, Mullings explained the discrepancy between race, which is an institutional feature, and identity as “recognition as the imposition of race inevitably creates the structural context for producing oppositional sites of resistance as well as creative spaces for the articulation of subaltern consciousness, culture, and opposition. Race thus potentially becomes a space for resistance and counter-narrative. “(2005, p.682) Hence, the dichotomy between institutional imposition…

of Mercy Carter takes place in 1704 and is based off of the historical settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The story follows 11-year old Mercy Carter from the moment she is kidnapped by the Mohawk Indians through her journey to her captor’s Kahnawake Indian Village in Canada. In her time with the Mohawk tribe, she is adopted into one of their families and given a name to resemble her new life as an Indian. Her transformation from an English girl to a Mohawk Indian is the essence of the…

implemented, showing the difficulty in doing so little as continuing the growth of Hydro Quebec. Following the dispute, the larger question of Quebec sovereignty was posed again. “On this issue of land rights, Williams remarked: “A Mohawk spokesman in Kahnawake said that if the Quebecois leave Canada, they take with them ‘only the land they came here with -- the little bit of dirt between their toes.’” 12 The First Nations of Quebec have always been against the idea of Quebec sovereignty and…

The novel begins by introducing the main character, Eunice Williams. She a is a young girl living in a puritan, English town, in Massachusetts. Based in the early 1700’s, there is a war between the English and the French, in which the Native Americans from the north are aiding the French. Eunice has three brothers, two older and one younger, and two older sisters. Her father is the reverend of the town, and her mother stays at home. The town fears that the Native Americans will come and raid the…

The spiritual lives of indigenous people have long been of interest to outsiders, especially colonial occupiers. Indigenous spirituality, once evaluated as non-conforming to colonial powers’ pre-existing ideas of religion, was used as justification for the subjugation of indigenous peoples and the seizure of their lands. Interactions between the English and the Wampanoag, an indigenous nation whose members inhabit the eastern coast of what is now considered New England, can be categorized in…