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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.
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.
Parks Canada designated Oronhyatekha as a national historic person in 2001, erecting a plaque at Tyendinaga. In 2002, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Woodland Cultural Centre curated an exhibit called Mohawk Ideals, Victorian Values: Oronhyatekha M.D.. [12] It featured his museum collection, once displayed at the IOF Temple building.
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
The Culbertson Tract is an 827-acre parcel of land; it includes much of downtown Deseronto and part of Tyendinaga Township, which the government has acknowledged was never ceded by the Mohawk. In November 2006, the Mohawk protested against a planned $30-million, 8.5-hectare waterfront development on the waterfront, which was within the area of ...
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]
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.