Mohawk Warrior Society

{{Short description|Mohawk group}}

File:Flag of Mohawk Warrior Society.svg, used between 1974 and 2016{{Cite web |title=HAUDENOSAUNEE - MOHAWK - ONEIDA - ONONDAGA - CAYUGA - SENECA - TUSCARORA- Kahnawake Branch Of The Mohawk Nation Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy |url=http://www.kahnawakelonghouse.com/index.php?mid=1&p=3 |access-date=June 12, 2022 |website=www.kahnawakelonghouse.com}}]]

{{Indigenous rights}}

The Rotisken’rakéhte,{{Cite web |last=Cohen|first=Stanley L.|date=September 19, 2016 |title=The Road from Standing Rock to Gaza is a Straight Line |url=https://cagedbutundaunted.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/the-road-from-standing-rock-to-gaza-is-a-straight-line/ |access-date=June 24, 2022 |website=Caged but undaunted |language=en}} also known as the Mohawk Warrior Society ({{langx|moh|Rotisken’rakéhte}}) and the Kahnawake Warrior Society, is a Mohawk group that seeks to assert Mohawk authority over their traditional lands, including the use of tactics such as roadblocks, evictions, and occupations.

The society was founded in 1971 in Kahnawake, Québec, Canada.{{cite book |author1=Bruce Elliott Johansen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zibNDBchPkMC&pg=PA330 |title=Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) |author2=Barbara Alice Mann |date=January 1, 2000 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30880-2 |pages=330–}} It first gained notoriety in 1973 when they, along with American Indian Movement activists, held a standoff with the Quebec Provincial Police at Kahnawake, and another in Kanehsatake in 1990.{{cite book|author=UTA Edco|title=Upping the Anti #2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2qXNipWIpMC&pg=PA90|publisher=UTA Publications|isbn=978-0-9682704-7-9|pages=90–}} The members of this society are known as Warriors.