AMERICAS INDIANS - JACOBS TO RETURN

Were Ancient Maya people, Children of God and NOT Mohawks, a name given to them by white hunters and murderers; terrorists as they are called today. (Read Isaiah Chapter 35 KJV)

The Mohawks of the seventeenth century were the eastern-most of the five Iroquois nations, keepers of the eastern door of the confederacy known as the League of the Iroquois.

Their traditional territory was the Mohawk River valley of what is now eastern New York State. There were nearly eight thousand Mohawks when they were first visited by Europeans in the early sixteenth century, living in four palisaded villages of bark longhouses. They called themselves the Kanyenkehaka, "People of the Flint [or Crystal] Place." The Dutch and English called them Mohawks, a term meaning "man eaters" that they borrowed from the Indians of southern New England.

The League of the Iroquois had been formed earlier, during a period of chronic warfare, probably in the early part of the sixteenth century. The Mohawks led the creation of this political innovation and later remained dominant in its interactions, with both Europeans and other Indian nations.

Like other Iroquoians, the Mohawks were strongly matrilineal in their social structure and matrilocal in their residence patterns. Longhouses were filled by clan segments made up of nuclear families that were linked through their female members.

The social organization of the Mohawks facilitated the growth of large and compact villages in which women could effectively mitigate internal strife. A horticultural system that depended upon a mix of corn, beans, and squash as staples provided basic support for the villages. Women predominated in this activity, too, being the primary food producers.

The Mohawks had begun to coalesce as a nation by the fourteenth century. Chronic warfare prompted them to increase the sizes of their villages by joining together previously separate communities. These larger villages in turn sought protection by relocating to hilltop sites remote from the main course of the Mohawk River.

The Mohawks were among the first of the Iroquois nations to come into regular contact with Europeans. Trade with Basque and French fishermen and explorers began along the St. Lawrence in the middle of the sixteenth century. Competition for access to this trade stimulated Mohawk warfare against other Iroquoians in the St. Lawrence area. A breakthrough occurred in 1609 when Samuel de Champlain explored southward toward Mohawk territory and Henry Hudson sailed northward on the river that now bears his name. Hudson's exploration led the Dutch to establish a trading post at what is now Albany by 1614. As the Dutch trade grew, so did the strength and political importance of the Mohawks. By 1626 they were the largest and most powerful of the Iroquois nations.

The first of many devastating epidemics struck the Mohawks in 1634. The initial epidemic was smallpox, followed by waves of measles, scarlet fever, influenza, and other Old World diseases to which no Mohawk was immune. The Mohawk population declined by two-thirds in one decade.

The epidemics led indirectly to increased warfare as the Mohawks and other Iroquois lashed out at their traditional enemies. Arms supplied by Dutch traders gave them a military advantage. Enemies not killed or dispersed were captured and brought home for adoption—the preferred means of counteracting the population decline.

By 1650 the Huron and Neutral confederacies had been destroyed, and many residents of Mohawk villages were former refugees, captives, or their descendants.

The English took over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it New York. After the Dutch returned briefly in 1673, the English set about winning the permanent support of the Mohawks. Governor Edmund Andros and the Iroquois League chiefs forged the Covenant Chain, an abstract symbol to bind them politically.

The arrangement sought simultaneously to bring the neighboring colonies under Andros's direct control and to bring a broad range of Indian nations under the control of the League of the Iroquois.

The traditional longhouse village had disappeared by the early eighteenth century. The conversion of many Mohawks to Catholicism by French Jesuit missionaries led to their departure to the community of Kahnawake near Montreal. French attacks demonstrated the vulnerability of traditional palisaded villages. The rise of self-made men called Pine Tree Chiefs undermined the traditional leadership of clan matrons and league chiefs.

This development acted in concert with the physical fragmentation of the clan segments by warfare and disease to destroy the viability of the bark longhouse as a residential unit. After 1700 most Mohawks lived in dispersed European-style cabins surrounded by fields cultivated by women using a combination of traditional and European techniques. Men continued to help with the heavy work, but they also continued to be deeply involved in diplomatic, economic, and political affairs.

Theyanoguin, a Mohawk known to the English as Hendrick, emerged as the principal Iroquois League chief in this era. Joseph Brant, a Pine Tree Chief, followed him in that role after Theyanoguin's death in the French and Indian War. The defeat of the French left the Iroquois unable to secure themselves by playing the two colonial powers off each other. A few years later the American Revolution tore the league apart. The Mohawks and many other Iroquois sided with the English and were forced out of the Mohawk Valley.

The upper-valley Mohawks followed Joseph Brant to the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, Ontario. They remain there today with the descendants of other Iroquois who sided with the English. The lower-valley Mohawks fled to Montreal, and were later granted a reserve at Tyendinaga, on the north shore of Lake Ontario.

A faction from the Catholic Mohawk reserve at Kahnawake had earlier broken away to form a new community at Akwesasne. This community now found itself straddling the new international boundary between the United States and Canada. During the nineteenth century, some Mohawks began moving to the Lake of Two Mountains Reserve (Kanesatake) and to a new community called Gibson near the eastern shore of Lake Huron. Around 1977 a small community of Mohawks was granted reservation land (Ganienkeh) by New York State in the town of Altona. Finally, in 1993, a small community of Mohawks relocated from Akwesasne back into the Mohawk Valley (Kanatsiohareke), creating a Mohawk presence there for the first time in two centuries. Mohawks continue to live in all of these communities today.

Having reached an all-time low a century ago, the Mohawks' numbers now exceed the previous high level of the early seventeenth century. A century ago, Mohawk men found a new niche as steel construction workers in the expanding industrial economy. The work has meant that once again Mohawk men engage in lucrative and prestigious work away from home while Mohawk women maintain family and community.

CONSCIOUSNESS
I DO NOT SEE A DELEGATION
FOR THE FOUR FOOTED.
I SEE NO SEAT FOR THE EAGLES.
WE FORGET AND WE CONSIDER
OURSELVES SUPERIOR,
BUT WE ARE AFTER ALL
A MERE PART OF THE CREATION,
AND WE MUST CONSIDER
TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE,
AND WE STAND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
THE MOUNTAIN AND THE ANT,
SOMEWHERE AND ONLY THERE
AS PART AND PARCEL
OF THE CREATION.

People of GOD, we live in but NOT of this world, arise and understand that no philosopher, so-called discoverer, or so-called pilgrimage can "murder" or "destroy" what was BEFORE.

Take the time to learn about a people that lived before America and many so-called pilgrims, discoverers, and europeans, destroyed it all.

Get to the understanding that Christopher Columbus was a "merciless Pirate" "astrology sorceror" equivalent to a Mass Murderer.

Check out his anti-God slavery mission:

"Columbus suggested that the Caribs and Indians be sold as slaves in order that they might be instructed in the Christian Faith".

I say what Christian faith? You mean anti-christian faith.

As for the many indian and other tribes of this world such as the iroquios tribe, cherokee tribe, american indian tribe, apache tribe, boo yaa tribe, hopi tribe, sioux tribe, seminole tribe, inuit tribe, blackfoot tribe, african tribe, navajo tribe, cheyenne tribe, mohawk tribe, sioux indian tribe, zuni tribe, chinook tribe, zulu tribe, masai tribe, kiowa tribe, comanche tribe, what matters most is that you all be united into the 12 tribe or tribes of Israel within of God Almighty.

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