The Mohawk or Mohawk River people were a tribe or band of the Kalapuya Native Americans

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 who originally lived in the Mohawk River

Mohawk River (Oregon)

The Mohawk River is the largest tributary of the McKenzie River, approximately long, in west central Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the foothills of the Cascade Range on the southeast end of the Willamette Valley northeast of Springfield....

 area of Oregon

Oregon

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 in the United States. They spoke a dialect of the Central Kalapuya language

Central Kalapuya language

Central Kalapuyan was a Kalapuyan language indigenous to the central and southern Willamette Valley in Oregon in the United States. It was spoken by various bands of the Kalapuya peoples who inhabited the valley up through the middle of the 19th century. The language is closely related to Northern...

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Like the other bands of the Kalapuya, they signed the Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc. in 1855, also known as the Dayton

Dayton, Oregon

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 Treaty, which was negotiated by Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs

Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs

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 Joel Palmer

Joel Palmer

General Joel Palmer was an American pioneer of the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. He was born in Canada, and spent his early years in New York and Pennsylvania before serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.Palmer traveled to the Oregon...

. In 1856, they were removed to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation. Descendents of the Mohawk band are now part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon consists of twenty-seven Native American tribes with long historical ties to present-day Western Oregon between the western boundary of the Oregon Coast and the eastern boundary of the Cascade Range, and the northern boundary of...

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