Mohawk may refer to:

Related to Native Americans

Mohawk people The Mohawk people ( moh, Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern Ne ...

, an indigenous people of North America (Canada and New York) *

Mohawk language Mohawk (; ''Kanienʼkéha'', " anguageof the Flint Place") is an Iroquoian language currently spoken by around 3,500 people of the Mohawk nation, located primarily in current or former Haudenosaunee territories, predominately Canada (souther ...

, the language spoken by the Mohawk people *

Mohawk hairstyle The mohawk (also referred to as a Mohican) is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the center. It is today worn as an emblem of non-conformity. The ...

, from a hairstyle once thought to have been traditionally worn by the Mohawk people *

Mohawk people (Oregon) The Mohawk or Mohawk River people were a tribe or band of the Kalapuya, who originally lived in the Mohawk River area of present-day Oregon in the United States. They spoke a dialect of the Central Kalapuya language. Like the other bands of the ...

, a band of the Kalapuya Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Oregon

Places

Communities

Mohawk, Arizona Mohawk is a populated place in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is part of the Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Mohawk is located on the south border of the Gila River valley on Interstate 8; it is 13 miles east of Tacna, a ...

* Mohawk, California *

Mohawk, Indiana Mohawk is an unincorporated community in Buck Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana. History Mohawk was laid out and plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece ...

Mohawk, Herkimer County, New York Mohawk is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 2,731 at the 2010 census. The village was named after the adjacent Mohawk River. The village is at the northern border of the town of German Flatts and adja ...

Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York Mohawk is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 3,844 at the 2010 census. The Town of Mohawk is on the northern border of the county, west of the City of Amsterdam. The county seat, Fonda, is located in Mohaw ...

Mohawk, Oregon Mohawk is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, on the Mohawk River, about seven miles upstream from Springfield. When a post office was established at this locale in 1862, it was named "Mohawk" after the river. The ...

Mohawk, Tennessee Mohawk is an unincorporated community in western Greene County, eastern Tennessee, located west of the town of Greeneville. Its post office has the zip code 37810. The community is situated between two hills near the confluence of Riley and L ...

Mohawk, Virginia Mohawk was an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, United States. References Unincorporated communities in Lee County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{LeeCountyVA-geo-stub ...

Lakes, rivers and waterfalls

Lake Mohawk (Ohio) Lake Mohawk is a private reservoir located about south of Malvern, Ohio, USA and east of Waynesburg, Ohio. It resides in Brown Township and Harrison Township. The lake is relatively small, being a private lake containing of water with a maxi ...

* Mohawk River (disambiguation) *Mohawk Falls, one of the

waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park File:Ricketts Glen State Park Waterfalls Base Map Labels.png, alt=A map showing Kitchen Creek flowing southeast from Ganoga Lake, through Lake Jean, and then through the dry bed of Lake Rose into Ganoga Glen with ten waterfalls. A second branch of ...

in Pennsylvania

Other

;United States *

Mohawk Dam Mohawk Dam, located in Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio northwest of Nellie, is a dry dam constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the mid-1930s for the purpose of flood control on the Walhonding River. The ...

, Jefferson Township, Ohio *

Mohawk Mountains The Mohawk Mountains ( mrc, Vii Kachkwiny, ood, Kusvo To:b) is a mountain range in the northwest Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It abuts the western Gila River valley to the north (the Lower Gila River Valley), and is located in southern ...

, in southwestern Arizona *

Mohawk State Forest Mohawk State Forest, also known as Mohawk State Forest/Mohawk Mountain State Park, encompasses over in the towns of Cornwall, Goshen, and Litchfield in the southern Berkshires of Litchfield County, Connecticut. As overseen by the Connecticu ...

, in Connecticut *

Mohawk Valley The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains, northwest of the Capital District. As of the 2010 United States Census, ...

, the area surrounding the Mohawk River in New York *

Mohawk Valley (Arizona) The Mohawk Valley is a valley in the lower regions of the western Gila River Valley in southwestern Arizona in the western Sonoran Desert. The Mohawk Valley along the Gila River proper contains the agricultural communities of Wellton, Noah, R ...

;Canada *

Mohawk Island Mohawk Island is a small ("Mohawk Island National Wildlife Area."
''Environmen ...

, Ontario, Canada

Ships

* USS ''Mohawk'', three US Navy ships, as well as Coast Guard and Revenue cutters and a navy reserve tug * HMS ''Mohawk'', thirteen ships of the Royal Navy *''Mohawk'', a wooden steamboat once known as the ''

Inland Flyer ''Inland Flyer'' was a passenger steamboat that ran on Puget Sound from 1898 to 1916. From 1910 to 1916 this vessel was known as the ''Mohawk''. The vessel is notable as the first steamer on Puget Sound to use oil fuel. ''Inland Flyer'' was on ...

Aircraft

Curtiss P-36 Hawk The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, is an American-designed and built fighter aircraft of the 1930s and 40s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was one of the first of a new generation ...

, an American fighter aircraft called the Mohawk in British service *

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is an armed military observation and attack aircraft that was designed for battlefield surveillance and light strike capabilities. It has a twin turboprop configuration, and carries two crew members in side-by-side seating ...

military observation aircraft *

Las Brisas Mohawk The Las Brisas Mohawk is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Las Brisas Sales of Ozark, Missouri. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCra ...

, an American homebuilt aircraft design *

Miles Mohawk The Miles M.12 Mohawk was a 1930s British two-seat, tandem cabin monoplane built by Phillip & Powis Aircraft (later to become Miles Aircraft) to the order of Charles Lindbergh in 1936. After being used by Lindbergh in Europe it was impressed into ...

, 1930s British monoplane

In business

Mohawk Airlines Mohawk Airlines was a regional airline, regional passenger airline operating in the Mid-Atlantic states, Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, mainly in New York and Pennsylvania, from the mid-1940s until its acquisition by Allegheny Airli ...

, a defunct airline * Mohawk Productions, Inc., a television company *

Mohawk Gasoline Mohawk Oil was an oil recycling and chain of gas stations in Canada that is wholly owned by Husky Energy. Mohawk was an independent chain of gas stations started in 1960 by Hugh Sutherland, which began to invest in oil recycling and built their ...

, a gasoline station company in Canada owned by Husky Energy *

Mohawk Innovative Technology Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. is an American product and research and development technology company that develops oil-free foil bearings, magnetic bearings and non-contacting foil seals for high-speed rotating machinery, such as gas turbine ...

, a product and research and development technology company *

Mohawk Mall Mohawk Mall was an enclosed shopping mall in the town of Niskayuna, New York, on a parcel located at the corner of State Street and Balltown Road. It was managed by Genesee Management. It had three courts with groups of fountains and seating ar ...

, a defunct mall in Niskayuna, New York * Mohawk Commons (Niskayuna, New York), the retail center that replaced Mohawk Mall *

Mohawk Industries Mohawk Industries is an American flooring manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia, United States. Mohawk produces floor covering products for residential and commercial applications in North America and residential applications in Europe. The com ...

, a flooring manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia, USA

In music

Essra Mohawk Essra Mohawk (born Sandra Elayne Hurvitz on April 23, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter who has recorded a dozen albums, many receiving critical acclaim. Her best-known songs include "Sufferin' Til Suffrage" and "Interjections!" (both from ...

(born 1947), American singer-songwriter * Frazier Mohawk (born 1941), American record producer and husband of Essra Mohawk *

The Mohawks William Alan Hawkshaw (27 March 1937 – 16 October 2021) was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for movies and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company ...

, a band fronted by composer Alan Hawkshaw *Mohawk, a jazz tune composed by Charlie Parker appearing on the 1950 album '' Bird & Diz''

In transportation

* Mohawk Subdivision, a railroad line in New York *

NYC Mohawk The New York Central Railroad (NYC) called the 4-8-2 type of steam locomotive the Mohawk type. It was known as the ''Mountain'' type on other roads, but the New York Central didn't see the name as fitting on its famous Water Level Route. Instea ...

, the 4-8-2 steam locomotive wheel arrangement *Mohawk, one of the

Sunbeam side-valve aircraft engines Sunbeam, Wolverhampton, England, started to build aircraft engines in 1912. Louis Coatalen joined Sunbeam as chief engineer in 1909, having previously been Chief Engineer at the Humber company works in Coventry. The company quickly became one o ...

*the '' Mohawk (GTW train)'', a named passenger train of the

Grand Trunk Western Railroad The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company is an American subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Since a corporate restructuring in 1971, the railroad has been under CN's subsidiary holding ...

*the ''

Mohawk (NYC train) Mohawk may refer to: Related to Native Americans * Mohawk people, an indigenous people of North America (Canada and New York) * Mohawk language, the language spoken by the Mohawk people *Mohawk hairstyle, from a hairstyle once thought to have been ...

'', a named passenger train of the

New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mi ...

Roads and raceways

Mohawk Raceway Mohawk Racetrack (branded as Woodbine Mohawk Park) is a harness racing track in Campbellville, Ontario. It is owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group (formerly the Ontario Jockey Club) and is about 40 km southwest of the company's other racetr ...

, Campbellville, Ontario, Canada *

Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario) Mohawk Road is an arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, running through the Ancaster and Upper City (mountain) districts, and has two distinct segments. The western segment begins as a continuation of Rousseaux Street in Ancaster just west o ...

Mohawk Trail The Mohawk Trail began as a Native American trade route which connected Atlantic tribes with tribes in Upstate New York and beyond. It followed the Millers River, Deerfield River and crossed the Hoosac Range, in the area that is now northwestern ...

, a Native American trade route, now part of Massachusetts Route 2

Other uses

*Mohawk, the name of a 1956

Operation Redwing Operation Redwing was a United States series of 17 nuclear test detonations from May to July 1956. They were conducted at Bikini and Enewetak atolls by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7).Blumenson, Martin and Hugh D. Hexamer (1956). ''A History of ...

nuclear test *

Mohawk Area School District Mohawk Area School District is a rural, public school system in Bessemer, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. Mohawk Area School District encompasses approximately . It is the largest school district in Lawrence County by area, serving ...

, a school system in Pennsylvania *

Mohawk College Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology is a public college of applied arts and technology located in Hamilton, Ontario. Established in 1966, the college currently has five main campuses: the Fennell Campus on the Hamilton Mountain, the M ...

, a college in Hamilton, Ontario *

Mohawk Chapel His Majesty's Royal Chapel of the Mohawks in Brantford, Ontario is the oldest surviving church building in Ontario and was the first Anglican church in Upper Canada. It is one of only three Chapels Royal in Canada. In 1981, the chapel was designa ...

, the oldest church in Ontario *

Mohawk Sports Park Mohawk Sports Park, is a large park on the east mountain of Hamilton, Ontario, 1100 Mohawk Road East, also known as Commonwealth Park and Upper King's Forest Park. Facilities A number of sporting venues including: * an 8 lane dedicated competitio ...

, Hamilton, Ontario * Mohawk turn in figure skating * ''Mohawk'' (1956 film), a 1956 western * '' Mohawk'' (1986 novel), a 1986 novel by Richard Russo * '' Mohawk'' (2017 film), a 2017 thriller set during

The War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It beg ...

* Mohawk (crater), an impact crater in the Elysium quadrangle of Mars