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Mohawk may refer to:

• Mohawk nation, an indigenous people of North America (Canada and New York)
• Mohawk language, the language spoken by the Mohawk people
• Mohawk hairstyle, from a hairstyle once thought to have been traditionally worn by the Mohawk people
• Mohawk people (Oregon), a band of the Kalapuya Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Oregon

Places

Communities

• Lake Mohawk, New Jersey
• Mohawk, Arizona
• Mohawk, Indiana
• Mohawk, Herkimer County, New York
• Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York
• Mohawk, Oregon
• Mohawk, Tennessee

Lakes and rivers

• Lake Mohawk (Ohio)
• Mohawk River in New York, a tributary of the Hudson River
• Mohawk River (New Hampshire), a tributary of the Connecticut River
• Mohawk River (Oregon), a tributary of the McKenzie River

Other

• Mohawk Mountains, in southwestern Arizona
• Mohawk Valley, the area surrounding the Mohawk River in New York
• Mohawk Valley (Arizona)
• Mohawk State Forest, in Connecticut
• Mohawk Dam, Jefferson Township, Ohio
• Mohawk Island, Ontario, Canada
• Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
• Mohawk Sports Park, Hamilton, Ontario

Ships

• USS Mohawk, three US Navy ships, as well as Coast Guard and Revenue cutters and a navy reserve tug
• HMS Mohawk, thirteen ships of the Royal Navy

Airplanes

• Grumman OV-1 Mohawk military observation aircraft
• P-36 Hawk, an American fighter aircraft called the Mohawk in British service
• Miles Mohawk, 1930s British monoplane

In business

• Mohawk Airlines, a defunct airline
• Mohawk Productions, Inc., a company owned by Time Warner
• Mohawk Gasoline, a gasoline station company in Canada owned by Husky Energy
• Mohawk Industries, manufacturer of flooring and other home products
• Mohawk Innovative Technology, a product and research and development technology company
• Mohawk Mall, a defunct mall in Niskayuna, New York
• Mohawk Commons (Niskayuna, New York), the retail center that replaced Mohawk Mall

In music

• Essra Mohawk, born Sandra Elayne Hurvitz, American singer-songwriter
• Frazier Mohawk, American record producer, husband of Essra Mohawk
• The Mohawks, a band fronted by composer Alan Hawkshaw

Other uses

• Mohawk, name of an Operation Redwing nuclear test detonation
• Mohawk Area School District, a school system in Pennsylvania
• Mohawk College, a college in Hamilton, Ontario
• Mohawk Chapel, the oldest church in Ontario
• Mohawk Raceway in Campbellville, Ontario
• Mohawk Trail, a Native American trade route, now part of Massachusetts Route 2
• Mohawk turn in figure skating
• Mohawk Subdivision, a railroad line in New York
• NYC Mohawk, the 4-8-2 steam locomotive wheel arrangement
• Mohawk, one of the Sunbeam side-valve aircraft engines
• Mohawk (film), a 1956 Western movie directed by Kurt Neumann

See also

• All pages beginning with "Mohawk"
• Mohocks, an early eighteenth century London gang

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Mohawk

Wikipedia

English

Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution.

Proper noun

Mohawk

1. An indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
2. The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.

Noun

Mohawk (plural Mohawks)

1. (also mohawk) A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.

Synonyms

• (UK/Australia hairstyle): Mohican, Mowie

Translations

See also

• Mohawk Nation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mohawk Nation
• Mohawk language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mohawk language
• Mohawk hairstyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Mohawk hairstyle

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Mohawk, moh

From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

	The Mohawk Language - Kanien’kéha Welcome! or should I say, Tekwanonwerá:tons, to the Mohawk Wikibook! Whether you're here to learn your heritage by learning your language, or to learn the language because a freind of yours speaks it, or because you live in a Mohawk community and would like to learn the local language, you've come to the right place. Mohawk is an Iroquoian language with unique pronounciation and a predictable and simple set of rules for reading.
Table of Contents - Tsi Nahò:ten Kahiatónnion
Lesson 1: The Mohawk Alphabet (Kanien'kéha iewennonniá:tha) Appendix: Phrases