Kahnawake
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The Kahnawà꞉ke Mohawk Territory is a First Nations reserve on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Established as Seigneury Sault du St-Louis by French
Sault-Saint-Louis seigneury, 1829. The surveyor (McCarty) identifies the portion of land that is claimed by the people of Kahnawake as "Morceau réclamé par les Sauvages" - portion claimed by the Indians. Also, with the words "Vraie ligne de la seigneurie Sauvage" - true boundary of the Indian Seigneury, the surveyor highlights that the original boundary of the Iroquois seigneury is situated in the Seigneury of LaPrairie.
Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier (Major de Lorimier), sketch, c. 1810.
Kahnawà:ke Lacrosse Club, Montreal, QC, 1867, by William Notman
An article on European-Mohawk conflict from the Montreal Star, 1907
Kateri Tekakwitha
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Kateri Tekakwitha, given the name Tekakwitha
Kahnawake
…Dexter Stacey (born 1992), NASCAR driver Kateri Tekakwitha (Mohawk/Algonquin, 1656–1680), born in a village in New York, but lived in Kahnawake later in life. She was canonized as the first Native American…
Portrait of Catherine Tekawitha, c. 1690, by Father Chauchetière
Sculpture of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Statue of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha by Joseph-Émile Brunet at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, near Quebec City
Statue of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha by Cynthia Hitschler at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in La Crosse, Wisconsin