The Mohawk tribes of Canada are found along the Saint Lawrence River located in Quebec.The Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or The Iroquois. It is made up of six different First Nations that have made a allience between the nations for support. One trbes from the Mohawk nation called the Akwesasne is the home of the Mohawks capital. The Mohawks were worried when they meet the first European. Since these people from another land they didn't know thier coustoms which could cause problems wihen the group if one nation is treated differently then another. To make sure this didn't happen the Haudenosaunee made The Kaswentha or Two Row Wampum. It is a belt that is mostly white with to equal shaped purple lines that run parallel the full lenght of the belt. the white part is to repersent the River of Life while the purple lines repersent the Haudenosaunee and Europeans. The Mohawk used this as a base to deal with other Europeans and the United States. Then in 1794 the United States and Great Britain made the Jay Treaty of 1794. It protected the rights to travel between the two countries without trouble for the Mohawk. This maybe the case the Canadien government never did causing some goods to have tariffs. The Mohawk have gone to court over this matter.
resouses:
http://www.akwesasne.ca/haudenosaunee.html
http://www.akwesasne.ca/tworowwampum.html
http://www.akwesasne.ca/jaytreaty.html
http://www.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca/autochtones/english/recherche/index9.html