ka.niʌ̃ˈkɛ | Lower Mohawk First Nation

The Lower Mohawk First Nation is located in Tyendinaga Territory in Ontario, with a rich Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) cultural heritage.

POPULATION

4,620

Rank #39 nationally

GEOGRAPHY

183.2 KM²

Rank #60 nationally

BAND COUNCIL TERM

Indefinite

Term Expiration

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Community Profile

Overview

Last Updated 2025-08-02 04:13:51 UTC

Name

Lower Mohawk (ISC Code: 254)

Former Names

Tyendinaga Mohawks, Bay of Quinte Band

Band Style

First Nation

Cultural Area

Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Indigenous Language

Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)

Number of Registered Members

4620

Band Website

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Phone Number

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Address

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General Email

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Band Council

Governance Type

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Chief

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Term Expires

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Financial Overview

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Band Financial Statements

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Laws, Bylaws, and Codes

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Intergovernmental Agreements

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Active Court Cases

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Location Map

Reserves

ISC Code: 6224
GLEBE FARM 40B
41.2 Hectares
N SHORE OF GRAND RIVER SE OF BRANTFORD NORTH OF SIX NATIONS NO. 40
[43.1347017, -80.2397989]
ISC Code: 6225
SIX NATIONS 40
18278.5 Hectares
8 KM SE OF BRANTFORD
[43.1394191, -80.263623]

News Coverage Summary

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Media Reports

Issues still unresolved 25 years after Oka Crisis: Mohawk leaders

Indigenous group files lawsuit against Quebec government over Northvolt battery plant

Manitoba Chiefs decry reduced federal funds for residential school searches

Human remains found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: OPP

Haunted by Salmon

New Native Theatre continues Good Medicine Festival

Mohawk Christian singer shares power of forgiveness with incredible testimony

Michael Connors, Chief, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe

Toronto university slashes 18 programs due to financial pressures

Mohawks prepared for legal war with Big Tobacco over multi-billion dollar lawsuit

UdeM has a new advisor on aboriginal peoples

Teaching Indigenous Star Stories

Canadian Sports History

First Nations law enforcement focuses on peacekeeping before policing

Every street name in Vancouver, organized

Ryerson to introduce new Indigenous courses for next academic year

Ontario Supporting Local Projects to Protect the Great Lakes

"A new era in Canadian law"

‘Save the Evidence’ campaign hopes to restore Mohawk Institute Residential School

Indigenous classical violinist Tara-Louise Montour

Border agent standoff lingers on Cornwall Island

Indigenous cannabis store owner fights back

First Tee – Ontario partners with Indigenous communities across Ontario to positively impact youth

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

John Kane True Champion of Native Sovereignty

Indian Tribe Joins Big Pharma at the Supreme Court, Defending a Lucrative Deal (Published 2019)

6 Terms That Non-Indigenous People Need to Stop Appropriating

Should We Be Offended That Germans Are Obsessed With North American Indigenous Culture?

One Family’s Road to Building a House Despite the Obstacles (Published 2024)

Tribes have climate wisdom -- and good reason not to share it

Communities plan to search for more Indigenous children's remains in Canada

Indigenous Peoples: Defending an Environment for All

‘We’re rebuilding relationships’: Wáhta Mohawk elder says Muskoka making ‘major gains’ in support of Indigenous issues

Reducing cancer’s burden on Indigenous peoples

MIddlesbrough tribute to Mohawk Indian

Indigenous women lead protest calling for removal of cross on Mount-Royal

Submissions are now open for $10,000 Henry Armstrong Award

Montreal-area wind farm born of partnership between Mohawk community, Hydro-Québec and Kruger

First Nations Technical Institute rebuild gets off the ground 2 years after devastating fire

First Nations in Ontario

Human remains found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: OPP

Boogey the Beat Wins The 2025 Henry Armstrong Award Celebrating Indigenous Musicians

Ten of the Greatest Lies in American-Indigenous History by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne Mohawk

Mohawk membership no longer blood simple

Ontario court overturns injunction against group of Indigenous people who occupied proposed housing development

Opinion: Indigenous women must decide for ourselves if we want to play lacrosse

Waterloo Architecture mourns the passing of Elder Bill Woodworth

Opportunities / Deadlines

Tree planted on McGill campus for Haudenosaunee peace ceremony

Supreme Court denies leave to appeal

Human remains found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: OPP

The Mohawk Institute: A first look at the former residential school, preserved to tell its history

Human remains found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: OPP

Mohawk Actress Kaniehtiio Horn First Featured Guest for CAPE 2024

How Native American Tattoos Influenced the Body Art Industry

St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Paves the Way to a Sustainable Future; Kicks Off Community Solar Initiative

Kanesatake's 301-year-old land dispute highlights flaws in Canada's Specific Claims Policy

'Short-sighted' new Kahnawake law excludes Mohawks adopting non-indigenous children

Human remains found in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: OPP

Indigenous trustee joins Limestone District School Board in 'historic' change

Police prepare to end Mohawk demonstration along railway

Bishop's descendants return beaded cross to Tyendinaga

The Motivation of a Mohawk: Waneek Horn-Miller Inspires First Nations to Exercise and Eat right

In New York City, centuries worth of Indigenous history is being uncovered through art, stories and community

Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day

Submissions are now open for the Henry Armstrong award

Muskoka Road 38 officially renamed to honour Indigenous culture

Meet the man who is helping revitalize Mohawk language through memes

Kahnawake's Mohawk Council proposes temporary Indigenous police force in Wet'suwet'en territory

Indigenous sisters developing video games to revitalize Mohawk language

Exhibition of First Nations headdresses explores issues of diversity and cultural appropriation

Mohawk band official drew up 'enemies list' after 2014 protest, lawsuit alleges

Cabinet approves $240M Mohawk settlement for 132-year-old land claim

Celebrating Mohawk Creation at the OPG Visitor Centre

Mohawk burlesque dancer named one of the most influential

Save the Date: All-Nations Native Veterans Memorial Dedication Ceremony

The Native American Government That Helped Inspire the US Constitution

The 6 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy

Search for Indigenous Children Takes New Step, Calling Police (Published 2021)

Procurement Information and Opportunities -

Witness Blanket on display at the Hamilton Public Library

Guelph poet celebrates launch of first book

Oka Journal; In Canada, Too, the Indians Look Back in Anger (Published 1994)

Archeological dig at old Montreal hospital on hold after incident with security guard.

U of T professors fight to save dying Indigenous languages

Amazing Hoop Dance Gathering Place celebrates Canada's indigenous cultures

Akwesasne chief disputes data showing few residents fully vaccinated

Pipeline Protests Cause Widespread Travel Delays Across Canada (Published 2020)

To Honor Canadian Natives, a Lawmaker Speaks in Mohawk (Published 2017)

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Detective Sergeant Thomas appointed to federal commission

Abraham Lincoln’s Uneasy Relationship With Native Americans

Last Day for Henry Armstrong Admissions

Coroner's probe finds 220 additional deaths at Ontario residential schools

Survivors, first-time visitors drawn to former Mohawk Institute on inaugural day for truth and reconciliation

Prosecutors, Onondaga Nation talking about tribe's lack of cigarette-making license, refusal to pay tax

Mohawk woman looks to MMIWG inquiry closing ceremony for healing

The Mohawk Lodge Indian Store houses a treasure of Native American culture in Clinton

A Closer Look at 8 Native American Code Talker Coins

Abraham Lincoln’s Uneasy Relationship With Native Americans

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Allergan bid to use tribe to shield drug patents

Niagara College celebrates Indigenous students at awards banquet with Orange Shirt Society founder

How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City’s Tallest Skyscrapers

From Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, these two men have spent their lives pushing for Indigenous rights

Figure 6. Mohawk sweetgrass and black ash baskets for sale at...

Face tattoos and our changing perception of an ancient tradition

Unlocking the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of a Dying Language (Published 2023)

St. Regis Mohawk tribe applauds NY ban of Indigenous mascots

The 1990 Oka crisis: Lessons for today

Indigenous woman who passes as white struggles to own her identity

New name for district road honours Wahta Mohawks First Nation history, culture and language

‘Mohawk’: An Action-Thriller With Bisexual Native Americans That Hollywood Would Never Make — Fantasia

Submissions are now open for the Henry Armstrong award

Mohawk columnist on The Gifts of the Seven Grandfathers, an Indigenous teaching

Police Move to Clear Canada Rail Blockade by Indigenous People (Published 2020)

Court-ordered community hours go towards healing in Indigenous-led justice efforts in Montreal

Hamilton public board pauses Mohawk language program at 1 of 2 elementary schools offering it

How Mohawk ironworkers from Kahnawake helped build New York's skyline

Mohawk teens from Kahnawake write and record music video exploring Indigenous identity

The movement to revive the Mohawk language is growing

Mohawk Trail ‘Big Indian’ moved to Route 66 in Oklahoma

Mohawk Trail ‘Big Indian’ officially resides on Route 66 in Oklahoma

Iconic Native American statue along Mohawk Trail removed

Mohawk Mothers, McGill reach agreement to search former Montreal hospital for possible unmarked graves

Reserves in Ontario

Figure 1. Sweetgrass growing in a Mohawk gathering site in New York State.

Canada must act to end the pretendian problem

Eastern Ont. land dispute calms after tensions rise

NDP Candidate Profile: Cody Groat

RCMP, Quebec police investigating use of fake Indian status cards for tax breaks

Quebec premier's claim that protesters have AK-47s at blockade 'reckless,' says Mohawk Council of Kahnawake

Quebec’s special relationship with its native peoples

Canadian archeologists show a way forward for Indigenous reconciliation

Bradford Bypass threatens ancient Indigenous site ‘more significant than 95 percent of all historic/archaeological sites in Canada’

First Nations leaders say Quebec has ignored their pleas to be exempt from Bill 96

Ontario colleges face job cuts amid international student cap

Hidden Tkaronto: 10 places connected to the city’s Indigenous history

Illegal tobacco trade booming in Canada

Kanesatake Mohawk grand chief faces backlash after calling for end to rail blockades

Kahnawake Pow Wow celebrates Indigenous culture in sweltering heat

Tyendinaga History

Reevely: Jason Arbour's long fight for the capital's Mohawk history

Local native and settler history opens library’s Indigenous history month programs

4,500-km Indigenous snowmobile expedition will carry message of reconciliation, healing and hope

SAQ warehouse expansion paused due to possible asylum gravesite

22 Quebec Indigenous police forces file complaint with human rights commission

Breaking down barriers with mobile classrooms

Canada Border Services Agency and Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Collaborate to Improve Cornwall Port of Entry

My Story: Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs on Queer Indigenous Representation in Media

McGill encampment protesters take down controversial letter, but still have support in Kahnawà:ke

Moses: In residential school, we were treated as sub-human, and hunger was never absent

'It’s So Cold… ' Jokes, Indian Style

This 35-year-old Six Nations language immersion school in Ontario still doesn't have a home of its own

Doug George-Kanentiio: Ten lies in American-Indigenous history

Indigenous journalism legacy ends in Akwesasne with Indian Time closing

See Rare Images From the Early History of Tattoos in America

How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories

‘Above the poison’: Mohawk land defenders refuse to surrender Barnhart Island to New York

Redefining American Art: Native American Art in The American Wing

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Citizen, Justice Mark Montour, Appointed State Appellate Court Justice

The Unique Role of Iroquois and Cree Employees at Fort Vancouver

Muriel Miguel and the Native American Bohemia in Brownstone Brooklyn

I Embraced My Mohawk Identity So My Kids Can Be Proud, Too

Storytelling, truth-seeking and Hot Docs: In conversation with Mohawk podcaster Falen Johnson

Mohawk College cuts 65 jobs in first phase of massive layoff plan

Judge orders McGill to comply with deal on unmarked grave search at former hospital

Mohawk language course to be offered at Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School

The Superior Court Proposes To Replace the Van der Peet Test

Indigenous minister says 'modest' progress made after day-long meeting with Mohawk Nation

Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte take first step toward reconciliation with partial settlement of historic claim

Indigenous Peoples

Carbon price grievances end in doubled returns to Indigenous governments — not exemptions

Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message (Published 2021)

A Mohawk Book Review on 'Minnesota Lacrosse: A History' by J. Alan Childs (2015)

The 1990 Oka crisis: Lessons for today

RCMP, Quebec police investigating use of fake Indian status cards for tax breaks

Muskoka Road 38 officially renamed to honour Indigenous culture

THC slushies, pirate radio and the cannabis-driven boom in a Mohawk community

Heritage advocates hope to save Indigenous wall murals in former Guelph Correctional Centre

Women and Girls: Melanie Montour

Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Protesters at Wahta Mohawk cultural centre say they vacated building as OPP arrived

Mysteries surround Mohawk children housed with Home Children on way to residential school

Twin Mohawk sisters create Haudenosaunee-inspired silver jewelry at Six Nations

How Native American Tattoos Influenced the Body Art Industry

Mohawk (United States, 2017)

A Mother’s Prayer: Bring the children home

Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation

Saint Regis Mohawk & New York’s Environmental Conservation Dept. Enter into Agreement to Restore Part of St. Lawrence River

How to Protect a Drug Patent? Give It to a Native American Tribe (Published 2017)

The indigenous names of the Capital Region

AMERICAS | Land deal for Mohawks

No national inquiry into missing and murdered women, community responds

Point of View: The Oka Crisis — looking forward after 30 years

Residential school survivors press Ottawa for more money to find unmarked graves

It's business as usual for this Mohawk First Nation's marijuana stores while court challenges planned

10 Indigenous guardian programs, including Yukon’s Kluane First Nation's, get federal funding

78 days of unrest and an unresolved land claim hundreds of years in the making

Quebec Liberal MP Marc Miller employs Mohawk language lessons in the House

Sixties Scoop settlement a rotten deal for survivors but a windfall for lawyers

Ontario First Nations leaders say federal government's carbon tax is discriminatory

Marry out, move out: Member of Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke speaks out

Judge orders McGill to comply with deal on unmarked grave search at former hospital

Bringing Indigenous scholarship to the forefront at McGill

Family to follow footsteps of 13-year-old who died fleeing Mohawk Institute residential school

This Mohawk language teacher had Hamilton students write cards to Indigenous veterans

Reserves in Quebec

Blockade continues despite 'modest progress' made in talks between federal minister and Tyendinaga Mohawk

Sharing his heritage

Sharing his heritage | Architecture

'You're not an Indian': Mohawk woman says clerk rejected status card, saying she didn't look Indigenous

Inside the meeting between Mohawk and Canada's Indigenous services minister

Mohawk woman fights cancer, strikes balance between western and Indigenous medicine

Day ends quietly as Mohawk rail protests expand, trains remain stopped

U of T to cover tuition for students from nine First Nations communities

William Woodworth

Minister signs deal to return land to Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

Tracey Deer, creator of Mohawk Girls, fears eviction from her native Kahnawake where show is set

Indigenous Tuition Initiative

Successful Inaugural Indigenous Ontario Championship Finishes in Dramatic Playoff

Indigenous Peoples and the injustice of justice

Marvel's newest superhero Kahhori speaks Kanien'kéha

The Six Nations tobacco tycoon, his angry ex-girlfriend and the world’s craziest child support case

Akwesasne residents have concerns about proposed hydrogen facility in N.Y. state

Without WWII Indigenous code talkers, 'we would be speaking German'

Memorial park at former Mohawk Institute among projects at risk due to funding cuts

Here is a detailed picture of vaccination across the country. See where your county stands.

5 TV Shows by Native Americans You Need to Watch Next

21 Native American Heritage Sites in NYC - Untapped New York

The Mohawk skywalkers who shaped New York City

Men of Steel: How Brooklyn’s Native American ironworkers built New York

MontHill Golf & Country Club to Host Indigenous Ontario Championship

The Nation That Sits Astride the U.S.-Canada Border

Native American Cancer Risks

Why You Should Spend Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the National Museum of the American Indian

‘If something can be described, it can be named’

Native presence in the Adirondacks: Debunking historical myths

Court of Appeal reverses order on McGill excavation at former hospital

How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City's Tallest Skyscrapers | HISTORY

Horn and Mitchell claim victories at Indigenous Ontario Championship

New language centre in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory to bring adult and children's classes under one roof

Mohawk Mothers Decry Hate Crime: Great White Pine Planted Yesterday Uprooted in Hate Crime

Tree planted on McGill campus for Haudenosaunee peace ceremony

Academic Research

Ojibway, Mohawk, and Inuktitut alive and well? Issues of identity, ownership, and change

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

30 Mohawk First Nations: successes and challenges of small business owners

Resolving Indigenous village occupations and social history across the long century of European permanent settlement in Northeastern North America: The Mohawk …

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

Would you like to hear a story?: Mohawk youth narratives on the role of the history of Quebec and Canada on indigenous identity and marginality

Mohawk Histories and Futures: Traditionalism, Community Development, and Heritage in the Mohawk Valley

Instructional preferences of Cree, Inuit, and Mohawk teachers

Reestablishing roots of a Mohawk community and a culturally significant plant: Sweetgrass

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

From Adoption to Eviction: The Blood Quantum and the Mohawks.

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Barriers to climate change adaptation in indigenous communities: A case study on the mohawk community of Kanesatake, Canada

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

The river is in us: Fighting toxics in a Mohawk community

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

In defense of Mohawk land: Ethnopolitical conflict in native North America

Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous education at the Akwesasne freedom school

Would you like to hear a story?: Mohawk youth narratives on the role of the history of Quebec and Canada on indigenous identity and marginality

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