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Hendrick Tejonihokarawa (c. 1660–c. 1735), Mohawk chief of the Wolf clan; one of the four kings to visit England to see Queen Anne to ask for help fighting the French St. Kateri Tekakwitha (Mohawk/Algonquin, 1656–1680), "Lily of the Mohawks", Roman Catholic saint
The three Mohawk were: Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow of the Bear Clan, called King of Maquas, with the Christian name Peter Brant (grandfather of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant); Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row of the Wolf Clan, called King of Canajoharie ("Great Boiling Pot"), or John of Canajoharie; and Tee Yee Ho Ga Row, meaning "Double Life", of the Wolf ...
Through Governor Robert Hunter, Tejonihokarawa offered Mohawk land in his territory to the refugees, some of whom took land near Schoharie Creek. Tejonihokarawa was deposed by Wolf Clan matrons in the winter of 1712-1713, apparently because of differences with the missionaries.
Coocoochee (c. 1740 – after 1800) was a Mohawk leader and medicine woman. [1] She was born in a village near Montreal but lived most of her life in the remote North American Ohio Country among the Shawnee led by the war chief Blue Jacket. [2] She was born into the important Wolf Clan, later marrying a warrior member of the Bear Clan.
As the Mohawk were a matrilineal culture, he was born into his mother's Wolf Clan. [4] The Haudenosaunee League , of which the Mohawks were one of the Six Nations, was divided into clans headed by clan mothers. [ 5 ]
The Wolf clan members had founded the Reserve after resettling from New York during the American Revolution. He was the son of John Smoke Johnson, a Mohawk Bear clan chief, and Helen Martin, a Mohawk whose Dutch mother Catherine Rolleston had been captured as a girl and adopted and assimilated into the Wolf clan. [1]
Adams, a hereditary member of the Mohawk wolf clan, was born on Cornwall Island [1] at Akwesasne on the Mohawk Nation, which straddles the New York/Canadian border.
Kiawentiio is a Mohawk Wolf Clan member. [4] She was born into a Mohawk family in Akwesasne, a First Nations reserve that is located on both sides of the Canada–United States border, spanning the St. Lawrence River in Quebec province and New York State. [5] [6] On the US side, this is also known as the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation.