Mohawk people
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The Kanien'kehá:ka, also known by the name given them by the Dutch, "Mohawk", are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
Painting of Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant, by Gilbert Stuart (1786)
Kanienʼkehá:ka dancer at a powwow in 2015
Contemporary Quebec Kanienʼkehá꞉ka person performing a hoop dance at Wikimania 2017
Teyoninhokovrawen (John Norton) played a prominent role in the War of 1812, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against Americans. Norton was part Cherokee and part Scottish.
Louis Cook
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Louis Cook, or Akiatonharónkwen, was an Iroquois leader and commissioned officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Born to an African father and an Abenaki mother in what is now
Colonel Louis of the Oneidas. John Trumbull sketched this pencil drawing in 1785.
Colonel Louis defiantly raises his Tomahawk in The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 by John Trumbull