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Kahnawà Ke: Factionalism, Traditionalism, and Nationalism in a Mohawk Community

Kahnawà Ke: Factionalism, Traditionalism, and Nationalism in a Mohawk Community

Reid, Gerald F.

Paperback

Series: Iroquoians and Their World

Native American HistoryAnthropology

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0803222556
ISBN13: 9780803222557
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Today Kahnawà ke (at the rapids) is a community of approximately seventy-two hundred Mohawks, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. One of the largest Mohawk communities, it is known in the modern era for its activism--a traditionalist, energetic impulse with a long history. Kahnawà ke examines the development of traditionalism and nationalism in this Kanien'keká ka (Mohawk) community from 1870 to 1940.

The core of Kahnawà ke's cultural and political revitalization involved efforts to revive and refashion the community's traditional political institutions, reforge ties to and identification with the Iroquois Confederacy, and reestablish the traditional longhouse within the community. Gerald F. Reid interprets these developments as the result of the community's efforts to deal with internal ecological, economic, and political pressures and the external pressures for assimilation, particularly as they stemmed from Canadian Indian policy. Factionalism was a consequence of these pressures and an important ingredient in the development of traditionalist and nationalist responses within the community. These responses within Kahnawà ke also contributed to and were supported by similar processes of revitalization in other Iroquois communities.

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