Description:
engraving by Selmar Hess, New York; Seel engraving, black and white with hand coloring: view of Indians in a village. A wood house with a railing to the right next to a dock. More people standing on the dock and in boats in the water. A church steeple can be seen in the distance. The original settlement was known as Akwesasne, called Saint Régis by French Jesuit missionaries, after Jean François Régis, the priest canonized as a Catholic saint in 1737. He had expressed a desire to be a missionary to the Iroquois people.
The settlement was founded about 1755 by several Catholic Iroquois families, primarily Mohawk, who moved upriver from the mission village of Caughnawaga, Quebec (now known as Kahnawake), which was south of Montreal. They were seeking better lives for their families, as they were concerned about negative influences of traders at Caughnawaga, who plied the Mohawk with rum. The Mohawk families were accompanied by Jesuit missionaries from Caughnawaga. After the United States acquired this territory in settlement of its northern border, relations among the people and the varying jurisdictions became more complex. But according to the 1795 Jay Treaty settling the border, the Mohawk retained the right to travel freely across the border in either direction.
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