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After being brought to Kahnawake, the boys were adopted into Mohawk families and converted to Catholicism; they were also given Mohawk names. (Sarah was redeemed by a French family and converted to Catholicism. Under the name of Marguerite, in 1708 she joined the Congregation of Notre Dame.) The boys as adults married daughters of Mohawk chiefs ...
Though mascots and names may seem trivial today, they are rooted in a legacy of assimilationist policies that reduced Indigenous cultures to simplified, non-threatening images for consumption. [1] The practice of deriving sports team names, imagery, and mascots from Indigenous peoples of North America is a significant phenomenon in the United ...
A young man wearing a mohawk Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in 1944 Girl with rattail mohawk, 1951 Ukrainian Cossack musician with chupryna or oseledets. The mohawk (also referred to as a mohican in British English) is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the center.
Canadian Mohawk people (5 C, 27 P) M. Mohawk code talkers (1 P) Mohawk women (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Mohawk people" This category contains only the following page.
Pages in category "American Mohawk people" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Dawn Avery; B.
The result was the signing of a Spirit Charter with the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes to retain the name while agreeing to avoid any derogatory or disrespectful Native American references. [157] Elko High School, Elko, Nevada - A resolution by the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada allows the school to retain its mascot. [158]
The Mohawk, also known by their own name, Kanien'kehá:ka (lit. ' People of the flint ' [ 2 ] ), are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee , or Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Five Nations or later the Six Nations).
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...