Kanesatake, Quebec
| Kanehsatà:ke | |
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| Mohawk Territory | |
 Location within Deux-Montagnes RCM. |
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 Kanehsatà:ke
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| Coordinates: 45°29′N 74°07′W / 45.483°N 74.117°WCoordinates: 45°29′N 74°07′W / 45.483°N 74.117°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Laurentides |
| RCM | Deux-Montagnes |
| Government | |
| • Grand Chief | Serge Otsi Simon |
| • Federal riding | Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel |
| • Prov. riding | Mirabel |
| Area | |
| • Land | 11.88 km2 (4.59 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | ~1,350 living on territory; 2,400 registered |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Kanehsatà:ke is a Kanien'kéha:ka Mohawk settlement on the shore of the Lake of Two Mountains in southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers and about 30 miles west of Montreal. People who reside in Kanehsatà:ke are referred to as Kanehsatà:kehró:non. As of 2014, the total registered population was 2400, with a total of ~1350 persons living on the Territory. Both they and the Kanien'kéha:ka of the Kahnawà:ke reserve, located across from Montreal, also control and have hunting and fishing rights to Tiowéro:ton (aka Doncaster 17 Indian Reserve).
The Kanien'kéha:ka historically were the most easterly nation of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois), who were based mostly east and south of the Great Lakes, in present-day New York west of the Hudson River, and in Pennsylvania of the United States, with hunting territory extending into the Ohio and Shenandoah valleys.
Some Mohawk moved closer for trade with French colonists in what became Quebec, Canada, or settled in mission villages. In the mid-nineteenth centuries, the people of Kanehsatà:ke were formally recognized as one of the Seven Nations of Canada, First Nations who were allies of the British. Today this territory, an interim land base, is one of several settlements or reserves in Canada where the Kanienkehaka are self-governing. Reserves include Kahnawake and Akwesasne along the St. Lawrence River, and the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, where the Mohawk constitute the majority of residents.
Beginning about 1000AD indigenous people around the Great Lakes area began adopting the cultivation of maize. By the 14th century, Iroquoian-speaking peoples, later called the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, had created fortified villages along the fertile valley of what is now called the St. Lawrence River. They spoke a discrete Laurentian language. Among their villages were Stadacona and Hochelaga, visited in 1535-1536 by explorer Jacques Cartier.
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