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Mohawk History & Genealogy
My ninth great-grandmother, Ots-Toch or Alstock, who was born circa 1620 in the Mohawk village of Canajoharie, New
York, was the reason for my delving into the culture and traditions of the Mohawk nation. Ots-Toch married a Dutch settler,
Cornelis Van Slyke, but never left the Mohawk village. I became intrigued with her story and wanted to know more about her
heritage and mine. Brian Brown generously shared his own research, much of which you can read on these pages.
Historical Overview
The Mohawk were a tribe of the Iroquoian language family and the Eastern Woodlands culture area. They occupied the
Mohawk River valley. In the Mohawk community women farmed while men hunted and fished. Each community was governed
by a ruling council and a chief or sachem. Their organization was totemic and matrilineal with political and religious clan
organizations within tribes, and tribes within a confederacy or league. Their totemic organization involved a system of ideas,
symbols and practices based on an assumed relationship between an individual or social group and a natural object which the
group believed it was linked to in some way.
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 The Van Slyke Family in America A Genealogy of Cornelise Antonissen Van Slyke, 1604-1676 and his Mohawk Wife Ots-Toch, including the story of Jacques Hertel, 1603-1651, Father of Ots-Toch and Interpreter to Samuel de Champlain
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Dawes Commission Index, 1896 records of Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek and Chickasaw
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