What is Mohawk people?
[[File:Joseph Brant by Gilbert Stuart, 1786.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A portrait of a Mohawk person by [[Gilbert Stuart]] in 1786]] The '''Mohawk people'''<ref name=Council>{{cite web|title=About the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs|url=http://www.mohawknation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=56|website=Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy|publisher=Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs|access-date=4 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811190057/http://www.mohawknation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=56|archive-date=11 August 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or [[Iroquois]] Confederacy. They are an [[Iroquoian languages|Iroquoian]]-speaking [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous people]] of [[North America]]. They had communities in northern [[New York (state)|New York State]] and southeastern [[Canada]], mainly around [[Lake Ontario]] and the [[St Lawrence River]]. They are part of the [[Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands|Northeast Woodlands]]. As one of the five original members of the [[Iroquois League]], the Mohawk are known as the '''Keepers of the Eastern Door'''. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Demographics of the United States}} [[Category:Native Americans]] {{US-stub}}