Kanatsiohareke: Traditional Mohawk Indians Return to Their Ancestral Homeland

American Native Indians. Kanatsiohareke is an old Mohawk word meaning "the place of the clean pot." This word comes from a section of a nearby creek that has large kettle holes formed from tumultuous waters eroding the stone creek bed by the swirling od smaller stones. Kanatsiohareke is an old name filled with new hope for the Mohawk people. Indeed, it is hope for all the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquis Confederacy of Nations.