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By the 1950s, over 700 Mohawk people lived in Little Caughnawaga. The enclave lasted until the 1970s. While mostly Mohawk, Iroquois and Indigenous workers also lived in the neighborhood. [12] The 9/11 Memorial and Museum has hosted an exhibit on the Mohawk skywalkers titled "Skywalkers: A Portrait of Mohawk Ironworkers at the World Trade Center ...
The Mohawk called their neighborhood "Little Caughnawaga," after their homeland in Canada. For nearly 50 years, most Mohawk in New York lived within 10 square blocks in Brooklyn; they were from Kahnawake, a reserve in Quebec, Canada. The men were ironworkers known as Mohawk skywalkers on the bridge and skyscraper projects of New York. The women ...
Battles involving the Mohawk (1 C, ... Mohawk skywalkers; Mohawk Valley raid; Most Holy Trinity Church, Detroit
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They had also worked in construction in Quebec. The men were ironworkers who helped build bridges and skyscrapers, and who were called skywalkers because of their seeming fearlessness. [16] They worked from the 1930s to the 1970s on special labor contracts as specialists and participated in building the Empire State Building. The construction ...
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Mohawk Radio, an Internet-based radio station (Defunct) Mohawk TV/Loud Spirit Productions; CKER The Seeker Kahnawake's first community channel (Defunct) Kwatokent TV, a bi-weekly informational program produced by The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake; Iorì:wase, print and online newspaper of the Kanien’kéhá:ka Nation found at www.kahnawakenews.com
It also explains how the Mohawk people living across the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal first gained their reputation for high steel work in the late 19th century by working on a railway bridge that ran through their land. However, as the film recounts through narration and archival photos, such a reputation came at a terrible cost.