Kahnawake
Proper noun
Meaning
Kahnawake
a large Mohawk community on the South Shore region of Montreal
Examples
A 22-year-old Châteauguay man is facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of a 30-year-old man from Kahnawake.
As Deer in Kahnawake explained, Mohawks are sympathetic to the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who are protesting the construction of a pipeline on their territory in British Columbia.
A spokesman for the Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers wasn’t immediately available on Tuesday, but Chief Peacekeeper Dwayne Zacharie has previously said he would not enforce an injunction on his own people.
A sign at the entrance to the village area of Kahnawake on December 10, 2015.
Grand Chief Joe Norton is pictured in Kahnawake on Sept. 18, 2018.
“Kahnawake is bigger, they are really into it, but we do have people here that love it,” said Bonspiel, including himself in the lot.