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Mohawk

noun

A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State.

The Iroquoian language spoken by the Mohawk.

Haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp. Synonym: mohawk haircut.

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"Mohawk" Quotes from Famous Books

... I will say. It is now many years, as thou knowest, since the savage Mohawk, or Narragansett, Pequot, or Wampanoag, broke in upon our settlement, and did his vengeance. We were then children, Martha; and 'tis as a child, that I have thought of that merciless burning. Our little Ruth was, like thyself, ...

— The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish • James Fenimore Cooper

... a rather romantic story of how Cody came to take up experimental work with kites, and it is repeated as it was given by a Mohawk chief ...

— The Mastery of the Air • William J. Claxton

... race whose energy so stunted the growth of early Canada and made the cause of France in America impossible, have long been wrapped in mystery. In the days of the first white settlements the Iroquois are found leagued as the Five Nations in their familiar territory from the Mohawk River westward. Whence they came thither has always been a disputed question. The early Jesuits agreed that they were an off-shoot of the Huron race whose strongholds were thickly sown on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, but the Jesuits were not clear as to their course of migration from that ...

— Hochelagans and Mohawks • W. D. Lighthall

... the Mohawk Indians were still numerous in Pennsylvania. Every year a party of them used to pay a visit to Springfield, because the wigwams of their ancestors had formerly stood there. These wild men grew fond of little Ben, and made him very happy by giving him some of the red and yellow paint with which ...

— Biographical Stories - (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... realized, my Son, that even that part of his father's farm that was first put under cultivation was becoming distinctly reduced in productiveness. He remembered, too, the stories often repeated by your grandfather of the run-down condition of the once exceedingly fertile soils of the Mohawk Valley and other parts ...

— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins

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