Mohawk people (Oregon)

Not to be confused with Mohawk nation.

The Mohawk or Mohawk River people were a tribe or band of the Kalapuya Native Americans who originally lived in the Mohawk River area of Oregon in the United States.[1][2] They spoke a dialect of the Central Kalapuya language.[3]

Like the other bands of the Kalapuya, they signed the Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc. in 1855, also known as the Dayton Treaty, which was negotiated by Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs Joel Palmer.[4] In 1856, they were removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation. Descendents of the Mohawk band are now part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.

References

  1. ^ Zenk, Henry B. (1990). Suttles, Wayne. ed. Northwest Coast. Handbook of North American Indians. 7. Smithsonian Institution. pp. 548, 552. 
  2. ^ Gilsen, Leland. "Pyroculture: Kalapuya and the Land: What Did the Willamette Valley Look like When the Indians Lived There?". Oregon Archaeology. http://www.oregon-archaeology.com/theory/pyroculture/. 
  3. ^ Carolyn M. Buan and Richard Lewis, ed (1991). The First Oregonians (first ed.). Oregon Council for the Humanities. pp. 95. 
  4. ^ Charles J. Kappler, ed (1904). Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Vol. II (Treaties). Washington: United States Government Printing Office. http://books.google.com/books?id=N10YAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA665&lpg=RA1-PA665&dq=Mohawk+Kalapuya+Oregon&source=bl&ots=mm63B6E8pu&sig=g9sPSA4nwM9CCfvb9sCs365p5gw&hl=en&ei=buatSfyQNoHasAP_jeWtDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result.