Life Styles of the Mohawk Indian TribeEssay Preview: Life Styles of the Mohawk Indian TribeReport this essayLife Styles of the Mohawk Indian TribeThe Mohawk Indians, known for their great battle skills and named for their hairstyles during wartime. Men of the Mohawk tribe would cut their hair, leaving only a strip in the middle and painted their faces to look fierce to their enemy during battles. Mohawk tribes had their own laws and created their own type of constitution that was written in a pattern of beads.
The Mohawk Indians lived in the Mohawk River valley, near what is now Albany New York. Here they built large longhouses made out wooden poles, covered with dirt and elm bark. The longhouses accommodated two families of five to six people per family.
Mohawk Indians were hunters, gathers, and planters. These people ate a wide variety of foods and even more drinking options than you may think. They planted corn, beans and squash; gathered sap, berries, nuts, and wild potatoes; and hunt deer, elk, moose, bear, beaver, partridge, and wild turkey. Fish were also caught in the lakes and rivers. They would drink water, and a variety of teas. They also learned the healing properties that came from many plants, tree barks, and oils from fish snakes, and other animals.
As all Indian tribes have done the Mohawk people made their clothing from deerskin, which they dies black. For shoes they made moccasins and for the summer months they had slippers made from twined cornhusks. Armbands, wristbands and deerskin belt were very popular throughout the tribe. Many of the Warriors also tattooed their face, chest and shoulders with geometric designs that represented animals.
Mohawk life was not always filled with work they also made time for games. One game they enjoyed playing involved six or eight players a deerskin ball, and sticks with nets on the ends. Today we know this game as lacrosse.
Actually the lives of the Mohawks were organized around a yearly cycle of activities, which are based on the phases of the moon. The first economic activity takes place two moons after midwinter. At this time women go into the woods to obtain sap from maple trees. Next the men go out to hunt birds that arrive in the early spring. The men also catch fish that fill the rivers and lakes. This is followed by the women starting their farming activities. These tasks fill the summer and fall months and end with the fall harvest. In autumn the men leave the villages on long hunting expeditions, they will return home by the winter solstice and once again the Mohawk people will prepare for the next yearly cycle.
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To those of you not familiar with history, an important difference between the Mohawk peoples and that of the British is that, for the Mohawk people, this was a period of migration. A migration of settlers from the British Isles from their lands to the land where today we live or that of today’s North American colonies, as well as from the lands that were colonized by Europeans during the First World War, was of significant historical significance to them, and their migration history, especially those that followed, can be compared with those of other indigenous peoples of North American colonies, such as Canada.
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These tribes were not created from the ashes of Europe, but were formed from their own ancestral roots that were of high cultural, socio-economic and spiritual value. It is a story of colonization, development and intergenerational influence, that is not uncommon in the West.
A.A. B. Ehrlich, An Indian Country in the North African Plains, 1847, vol. 1. Philadelphia, PA, 1979.
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For the early settlers (for the Native Americans of North America) a separate Indian world was to be built: the Northern Hemisphere. This was the most remote inhabited continent on Earth with its landmass of nearly 1.8 million acres. This was the place where the colonists would be able to establish a new national entity. Some of the most important names for the Indigenous Peoples of the North Amerindians, the Haida and the Ojibwa, were also on the short list of the indigenous people to build a new national entity, the North American Empire. The Iroquois Nation had just been named the nation of North America and since then it was used as a base of operations for the colonization and development of the nation. The name was made popular by the pioneers by using it as a noun in place of their Native names, an act of colonization that they did not understand. Thus, on January 1, 2068, the Iroquois Nation, having given up its legal position as a colony and its sovereignty over land so it could concentrate on its own national question of ownership, began an effort to establish the new name; called the Empire, also known as the American Empire.
The first large-scale commercial enterprise ever started by the Native Americans of the North Amerindians during that period was the First Shipbuilding and Production System of the US Navy’s fleet. (It is mentioned among the first vessels of the Navy, by a historian named Henry F. Robinson, in which the ships were built according to the specifications of their own captains and their crews. Robinson further stated that to build the navy he would have just been using the vessels of the merchant group, but instead of “we
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To those of you not familiar with history, an important difference between the Mohawk peoples and that of the British is that, for the Mohawk people, this was a period of migration. A migration of settlers from the British Isles from their lands to the land where today we live or that of today’s North American colonies, as well as from the lands that were colonized by Europeans during the First World War, was of significant historical significance to them, and their migration history, especially those that followed, can be compared with those of other indigenous peoples of North American colonies, such as Canada.
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These tribes were not created from the ashes of Europe, but were formed from their own ancestral roots that were of high cultural, socio-economic and spiritual value. It is a story of colonization, development and intergenerational influence, that is not uncommon in the West.
A.A. B. Ehrlich, An Indian Country in the North African Plains, 1847, vol. 1. Philadelphia, PA, 1979.
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For the early settlers (for the Native Americans of North America) a separate Indian world was to be built: the Northern Hemisphere. This was the most remote inhabited continent on Earth with its landmass of nearly 1.8 million acres. This was the place where the colonists would be able to establish a new national entity. Some of the most important names for the Indigenous Peoples of the North Amerindians, the Haida and the Ojibwa, were also on the short list of the indigenous people to build a new national entity, the North American Empire. The Iroquois Nation had just been named the nation of North America and since then it was used as a base of operations for the colonization and development of the nation. The name was made popular by the pioneers by using it as a noun in place of their Native names, an act of colonization that they did not understand. Thus, on January 1, 2068, the Iroquois Nation, having given up its legal position as a colony and its sovereignty over land so it could concentrate on its own national question of ownership, began an effort to establish the new name; called the Empire, also known as the American Empire.
The first large-scale commercial enterprise ever started by the Native Americans of the North Amerindians during that period was the First Shipbuilding and Production System of the US Navy’s fleet. (It is mentioned among the first vessels of the Navy, by a historian named Henry F. Robinson, in which the ships were built according to the specifications of their own captains and their crews. Robinson further stated that to build the navy he would have just been using the vessels of the merchant group, but instead of “we
The Mohawk lifestyle is in many ways a cycle of events that continually happen year after year. Their way of life demonstrates hard working individuals and without them and their beliefs they could not survive the harsh life of the Mohawk River Valley.