The Kanien'kehá:ka - People of the Flint : Kahnawà:ke Branch of the Mohawk Nation, Ne Ià:ia’k Nihononhontsá:ke - Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy
The Mohawk people (who identify as Kanien'kehá:ka are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. The name means "People of the Flint Place". :
They are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America. The Mohawk were historically based in the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York west of Albany; their territory ranged to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, greater New Jersey, southward into Pennsylvania, eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont, and westward to the border with the Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League the Mohawk were known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door. For hundreds of years, they guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction by tribes from the New England and lower New York areas. Their current major settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada and New York.
The Dutch derived the name "Mohawk" from the term used for the Kanien'kehá:ka by the competing Muh-heck Heek Ing, an Algonguian-speaking tribe (whom the Dutch called "Mohican" or "Mahican"). The Mohican/Mahican referred to the Kanien'kehá:ka as Maw Unk Lin (Bear Place People). The Dutch transliterated this as "Mohawk". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Haudenosaunee ( The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) languages are Mohawk, Oneida, Onandaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Syracuse University offers a Certificate of Iroquois Linguistics .