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Kanienkehaka

Kanienkehaka

English

Proper noun

Kanienkehaka

  1. The Mohawk people.
    • 2011, Harry Swain, Oka: A Political Crisis and Its Legacy, page xii:
      Tribal names are less contentious, though the word “tribe” itself is used principally in the United States. The Mohawk people, or Kanienkehaka (Kanien'kehá:ka), meaning “people of the flint,” are properly understood as the easternmost of the Six Nations []
  2. The Mohawk language.