Editing Fonda, New York (section)

== Kanatsiohareke==
In 1993 Tom Porter (Mohawk) re-established the first Mohawk community in the valley since 1783; he bought land between Fonda and [[Palatine Bridge, New York|Palatine Bridge]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.mohawkcommunity.org| title=Getting Here| publisher=Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community| accessdate=March 10, 2025}}</ref> to cultivate corn and other agricultural produce. Other Mohawk joined him at this historic village site, naming their community ''Kanatsiohareke''.<ref name="baugher"/> This is the first land the Mohawk have held in the valley since being forced out in 1783 after the Revolution, when Great Britain ceded its former territories in the colonies to the United States.<ref name="baugher">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qbhh1u8U1l0C&q=Jigonhsasee&pg=PA375 |title=Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes  |author= Sherene Baugher and Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood |publisher=Springer |date=2010 |pages=48|isbn=9781441915016 }}</ref> The name ''Kanatsiohareke'' means "The Place of the Clean Pot", referring to a ten-foot-wide and ten-foot-deep pothole in the creek bed caused by rock scouring.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community |url=http://www.mohawkcommunity.com/home/aboutus.html |website=Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community |access-date=Mar 17, 2022}}</ref>