After five decades, and two full generations, the Mohawks can sit on the shores of Kaniatarowanenneh, our 'big river", and see the great and permanent changes the St. Lawrence Seaway has brought about to our lives.
Once we were masters of the rapids, a people strong and healthy who were known throughout the world for our ability to take delicate watercraft into areas others feared.
From our homes astride the Big River we guided the courier des bois deep into the continental interior as no other group was as adept as the Mohawks in navigating the thousands of miles of lakes, rivers and streams by which the fur traders and missionaries made their way west.
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