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Upper Mohawk First Nation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ24191205 ↗
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The Upper Mohawk First Nation is a Mohawk band based in southern Ontario and is a member nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. Members of the Upper Mohawk share the territory of Six Nations and is governed under their council.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Upper, Mohawk and First providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24191205. Authority coordinates are 43.069, -80.170. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Upper Mohawk First Nation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.