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They control the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, which is a 7,362.5 ha (18,193-acre) [1] Mohawk Indian reserve on the Bay of Quinte in southeastern Ontario, Canada, east of Belleville and immediately to the west of Deseronto. [2] They also share Glebe Farm 40B and the Six Nations of the Grand River reserves with other First Nations.
By 1971, negotiations were complete at Tyendinaga Territory for the Mohawk to found and construct a centralized elementary school building on York Road, to replace the overcrowded Quinte Mohawk Indian Day School. It would be large enough also to replace the three single-room schoolhouses: Eastern, Western, and Central Indian day schools.
Map of Tribal Jurisdictional Areas in Oklahoma. This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [1] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California.
The Mohawk Nation people have a matrilineal kinship system, with descent and inheritance passed through the female line. Today, the marriage ceremony may follow that of the old tradition or incorporate newer elements, but is still used by many Mohawk Nation marrying couples.
Beth E. Brant, Degonwadonti, [1] or Kaieneke'hak [2] (1941–2015) was a Mohawk writer, essayist, and poet of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] She was also a lecturer, editor, and speaker.
Tyendinaga is an alternate spelling of Thayendanegea, an eighteenth-century Mohawk chief also known as Joseph Brant. Tyendinaga may also refer to: Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, a First Nations reserve on the Bay of Quinte Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation, the First Nation government that governs that reserve
In 1780, he took part in Sir John Johnson's raid on the Mohawk valley and he was at the Battle of Klock's Field. In 1781 he led multiple raids into the Mohawk valley destroying mills and cattle and taking prisoners. In the spring of 1782, Deseronto and Captain Isaac Hill destroyed the mill at Little Falls on the Mohawk and took some prisoners. [6]
FNTI (formerly known as First Nations Technical Institute) [1] is an Indigenous-owned and -governed post-secondary institute located in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario. The institute puts on programming rooted in Indigegogy and Indigenous ways of knowing.