The Mohawk Indians and the Navajo Indians

The Mohawk Indians and The Navajo Indians

The Mohawk Indians called themselves the Kaniengehaga, meaning "people of the flint".

The Mohawks have three clans: The Bear, The Wolf, and The Turtle. In 1650 the Mohawk

Indians had 5,000 Indians. Then 10 years later they went down to 2,500 Indians because of war

with Mohicans, Conestoga, and to mission villages like the Caughnawaga. The Mohawk Indians

are part of the Iroquois nation. They stay along Lake Ontario and on the side of the St.Lawrence

River. The Mohawk Indians were also known as the "keepers of the eastern door" they protected

their corner of the Iroquois nation with their ferocity that they were known for in battles. The

first tribe name was the kanienkeh. In the battles they earned the Mohawk name. The Navajo

Indians called themselves the dine. They are the largest tribe in North American because there

reservation stretches 17.5 million acres. The Navajo Indians lived in Hogan's they are made out

of mud, sticks, grass, and logs. Once the Spanish settled in, the Navajo Indians began to steal

sheep and horses from them. The Spaniards and Mexicans started to get violent with the Navajo

Indians because they were taking their animals so the Spaniards and Mexicans sent their military

to take them over so two thirds of the Navajo Indians surrendered and did what the Spanish and

Mexicans wanted them to do and the others ran for the mountains and canyons to avoid them.

Both the Navajo Indians and the Mohawk Indians live in the mountains. The Mohawks

live in the Vermont Mountains and the Navajo Indians lived in the New Mexico and Arizona

Mountains. Both the Navajo Indians and the Mohawk Indians still hunt their own food, like deer,

Squirrels, and other animals. Both the Mohawk Indians and Navajo Indians speak English the

Mohawk learned there English from the Dutch, and the Navajo Indians learned there English

from schools that the government sent them to when they were children. Both the Mohawk and

The Navajo Indian hunters used bows and arrows, they both used whatever was in there

environment to make the bows