Mohawk Warrior Society

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The Rotisken’rakéhte, also known as the Mohawk Warrior Society (Mohawk pronunciation: [rodisgʌ̃ʔraˈgɛ́hdɛ]) and the Kahnawake Warrior Society, is a Mohawk group united around the care, preservation and defence of the Mohawk people and their land. Responsibilities and actions range from chopping wood for elder community members to erecting roadblocks or initiating evictions, and occupations. Rotisken’rakéhte represent one part of decentralized indigenous governance under the Great Law of Peace (Mohawk: Kaianere’kó:wa) and similar groups to the Mohawk Warrior Society exist for all peoples of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Rather than formal organization the group represents the duties of Mohawk men within traditional society and as practitioners of the Great Law of peace. The current form of the society was rekindled in the late 1960s after decades of colonial assimilation efforts disrupted traditional Mohawk methods of governance and organization. It gained notoriety in 1973 when they,...

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