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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.
It includes Canadian Mohawk people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Beth Brant (born 1941), Bay of Quinte Mohawk; Mary Brant, Mohawk leader; Mary Brave Bird (1953–2013), Brulé Lakota writer and activist [12] Bras Piqué, Natchez woman who tried to warn the French of her tribe's plans to attack them; Ignatia Broker (1919–1987), Ojibwa writer; Ticasuk Brown (1904-1982), Iñupiaq educator, poet and writer ...
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.
Waneek Horn-Miller (born November 30, 1975) is a Canadian former water polo player from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. [1] She was a member of the Canadian women's water polo team that won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. [2] Horn-Miller also became the first Mohawk woman from Canada to ever compete in the Olympic games ...
The Yakoyaner also has several duties related to her clan and the law, specifically concerning family continuity. She is responsible for maintaining the order of the clan's family names. She is consulted alongside other women in naming a new child–ensuring that no child takes on the name of a living person. [7]
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 ...