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Coocoochee (c. 1740 – after 1800) was a Mohawk leader and medicine woman. [1] She was born in a village near Montreal but lived most of her life in the remote North American Ohio Country among the Shawnee led by the war chief Blue Jacket. [2] She was born into the important Wolf Clan, later marrying a warrior member of the Bear Clan.
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 ...
Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, is a Mohawk former model and a political activist for the Kahnawake First Nation. Her father, who is of German and Scottish descent, is a lawyer. [ 5 ] Horn, her mother and her older half-sister Waneek (later a broadcaster and co-captain of the Canadian women's water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics ) [ 6 ...
Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine, and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Mohawk/Algonquin Catholic saint and virgin.
The Mohawk, also known by their own name, Kanien'kehà: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).
Canadian Mohawk women (5 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Mohawk women" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
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 "Canadian Mohawk women" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Talena Atfield; B.