The keepers of the eastern door whose ironworker skywalkers built America's greatest skylines while their ancestors built the most powerful political confederacy in the history of North America.
Mohawk People — the Native American nation whose traditional territory encompasses the Mohawk Valley of present-day New York State, the eastern gateway of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy whose Mohawk people served as the Keepers of the Eastern Door, the guardians of the confederacy's eastern frontier whose diplomatic and military responsibilities made them the most frequently encountered and most consequential of the Six Nations in the colonial history of the northeastern woodlands, the Mohawk people's strategic position between the Dutch and English colonies of the Atlantic seaboard and the French colonial world of the St. Lawrence valley giving them a geopolitical centrality whose skillful exploitation through alliance, trade, and diplomacy made the Mohawk among the most politically sophisticated indigenous actors in the entire colonial period. The Mohawk world — whose people's membership in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Iroquois League of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later Tuscarora nations whose Great Law of Peace, the Gayanashagowa, established a constitutional framework of confederate governance, individual rights, and collective decision-making whose influence on the framers of the American Constitution has been debated by historians and acknowledged by the United States Congress in a 1988 resolution recognizing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy's contribution to American democratic principles, whose Mohawk warriors' alliance with the British Crown during the American Revolution under the leadership of the war chief Thayendanegea, known to the English as Joseph Brant, reflected the Mohawk people's calculation that British treaty commitments offered better protection for Haudenosaunee sovereignty than the land-hungry American republic whose expansion the Revolution would unleash, a calculation whose tragic vindication in the dispossession that followed American independence sent the majority of the Mohawk people into exile in Ontario where the Six Nations of the Grand River community maintains today the largest Haudenosaunee population in the world, and whose Mohawk ironworkers of Kahnawake whose fearlessness at heights — a characteristic first noted by construction supervisors during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge at Lachine in 1886 and subsequently recruited for the high steel construction of the bridges and skyscrapers of New York City whose Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and World Trade Center were built in significant measure by Mohawk ironworkers whose communities in Brooklyn's North Gowanus neighborhood maintained the Kahnawake connection across generations of skywalking — gave America its most iconic skyline while asserting with every rivet driven at a thousand feet the Mohawk people's undiminished capacity to master any world they choose to enter. This interactive t-shirt connects you to that sovereign and skywalking legacy with a QR code linking to the full story.
HERITAG is a purpose-driven brand that celebrates cultural diversity and awareness. Wear and share your social identity and cultural heritage with a unique collection of interactive t-shirts that carry flags of native Americans in the US. Create informative and fun moments by inviting people to scan the visible QR code and learn about the diverse US population.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk also helps reduce overproduction, and this quality t-shirt is made especially for you as soon as you place an order.
Few more details about this t-shirt: • Scannable QR code printed on the back for an interactive and fun experience • Designed to educate about a nation's proud history and rich culture • Custom print-on-demand unisex t-shirt • 100% cotton Gildan t-shirt. Soft, comfy, pre-shrunk jersey knit • Sport Grey is 90% cotton, 10% polyester • Heather colors are 50% cotton, 50% polyester • Classic fit, taped neck and shoulders for soft feel • Double seam at sleeves and bottom hem for more durability • Fabric weight: 5.0-5.3 oz./yd² (170-180 g/m²)
