Editing St. Regis Mohawk Reservation (section)

== Location ==
The reservation contains the community of [[St. Regis, New York|St. Regis]] and borders the community of [[Hogansburg, New York|Hogansburg]] in the Town of [[Bombay, New York|Bombay]].<ref name="akwesasne">{{cite web |url=http://www.akwesasne.ca/PDF/AkwesasneMap.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-11-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102070551/http://www.akwesasne.ca/PDF/AkwesasneMap.pdf |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The Mohawk people dispute the Town of Bombay's claim to jurisdiction within the "Bombay Triangle", as these lands are part of the 1796 Treaty with the United States and have never been diminished by the US Congress.

Under the terms of the [[Jay Treaty]] (1794), the Mohawk people may pass freely across the [[Canada–United States border]].  The two parts of the reservation are separated by the [[St. Lawrence River]] and the [[45th parallel north|45th parallel]].

The Mohawk are one of the original Five Nations of the [[Iroquois League]], historically based south of the Great Lakes and in present-day New York and Pennsylvania. This nation was located primarily in the Mohawk Valley west of what developed as Albany and were known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door". They were prepared to defend the Iroquoian territory against other tribes located to the east of the [[Hudson River]].

The St. Regis Reservation, and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal government, adopted [[gambling]] in the 1980s. It has generated [[Impact of Native American gaming|deep controversy]]. Broadly speaking, the elected chiefs and the [[Mohawk Warrior Society]] have supported gambling, while some traditional leaders have opposed it. Today, the reservation is home to the [[Akwesasne Mohawk Casino]], which has generated revenues for tribal welfare.

The elected tribal governments on the New York and Canadian sides and the traditional chiefs of Akwesasne often work together as a "Tri-Council" concerning areas of shared interest, for example to negotiate land claims settlements with their respective national governments.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Mohawk people view the reservation as a [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation. Under US treaty law, the federal government has jurisdiction over certain crimes on the reservation, but the Mohawk have their own police force for other cases.