Agmegue, Or Gagmegne, the proper name of the Mohawks, one of the Five Nations of the Ho-tinonsionni or Iroquois. As a tribe they called themselves Ganniagwari, " the She Bear," whence they were termed by the neighboring Algonquin tribes Mahaqua, a name corrupted by the English into Mohawk. The French joined the Canada tribes against them in 1609; but the Dutch made a treaty with them in 1618 at Norman's Kill, which proved lasting, and the English also secured their friendship. Yet French Catholic missionaries won many converts among them, who subsequently contributed to build up their three villages on the St. Lawrence. During the French and English wars they did good service against Canada, but in the revolutionary war the tribe under Brant joined the English and committed great ravages in the American settlements. In 1784 they retired to Grand River, Upper Canada, where they now are. The "Mohawk Radicals" of Bruyas is the fullest published dictionary of their language, though Marcoux's grammar and dictionary are the most complete.

Brant translated the " Book of Common Prayer " and a part of the Bible into Mohawk.