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40-595: Ticonderoga may refer to : Places in the United States [ edit ] Ticonderoga, New York , a town Ticonderoga (CDP), New York , a hamlet and census-designated place within the town Fort Ticonderoga , a fortification in New York Ships [ edit ] USS  Ticonderoga , five naval vessels of the US Navy Ticonderoga class,

80-703: A " Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Reverse", teaching Mohawk language and culture. Located at the ancient homeland of the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk), it was re-established in September 1993 under the leadership of Thomas R. Porter (Sakokwenionkwas-"The One Who Wins"). The community must raise their own revenue and frequently hold cultural presentations, workshops, and academic events, including an annual Strawberry Festival. A craft shop on site features genuine handmade Native crafts from all over North America. The primary mission of

120-457: A 2006 album by Morning 40 Federation Dixon Ticonderoga , an American office and art supplies manufacturer See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Ticonderoga All pages with titles containing Ticonderoga Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ticonderoga . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

160-405: A household in the town was $ 34,160, and the median income for a family was $ 41,992. Males had a median income of $ 35,896 versus $ 21,441 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 16,418. About 10.5% of families and 15.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 21.4% of those under age 18 and 9.7% of those age 65 or over. The H.G. Burleigh House was built in 1894 and

200-562: A large number of morphemes . Mohawk expresses a number of distinctions on its pronominal elements: person (1st, 2nd, 3rd), number (singular, dual, plural), gender (masculine, feminine/indefinite, feminine/neuter) and inclusivity/exclusivity on the first person dual and plural. Pronominal information is encoded in prefixes on the verbs; separate pronoun words are used for emphasis. There are three main paradigms of pronominal prefixes: subjective (with dynamic verbs), objective (with stative verbs), and transitive. There are three core components to

240-467: A noun. For example: 1) oʼ nenste "corn" 2) o ienʼkwa "tobacco" Here, the prefix o- is generally found on nouns found in natural environments. Another prefix exists which marks objects that are made by humans. 3) ka nhoha "door" 4) kaʼ khare "slip, skirt" Here, the prefix ka- is generally found on human-made things. Phonological variation amongst the Mohawk dialects also gives rise to

280-546: A short documentary film released in 2016 that explores personal experiences with Mohawk language revitalization in Tyendinaga , a Mohawk community roughly 200 kilometres east of Toronto , Ontario, Canada. The film was set to be shown at the 4th annual Ethnografilm festival in Paris, France . The Mohawk language is used in the 2017 film Mohawk , the 1991 film Black Robe , and the 2020 television series Barkskins . The language

320-962: A variant of the US Navy Essex -class aircraft carrier Ticonderoga -class cruiser Ticonderoga (clipper) Ticonderoga (steamboat) , a museum ship belonging to the Shelburne Museum , formerly operated on Lake Champlain Ticonderoga II , formerly of the Lake George Steamboat Company Ticonderoga , a 72-foot ketch, built in 1936 Other uses [ edit ] Battle of Ticonderoga (disambiguation) Ticonderoga Publications , an Australian independent publishing house Ticonderoga High School , Ticonderoga, New York Ticonderoga station , an Amtrak train station in Ticonderoga, New York Ticonderoga ,

360-550: Is a Queen Anne -style building with Colonial Revival features. It was originally owned by U.S. Congressman Henry G. Burleigh and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1988. A museum called the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour is in Ticonderoga, on Montcalm Street. It has been, and continues to be, visited by cast members of the show and of its spin-off and movies. The museum

400-512: Is a town in Essex County , New York , United States . The population was 5,042 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Mohawk tekontaró:ken , meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways". The Town of Ticonderoga is in the southeastern corner of the county and is south of Plattsburgh . In the 17th century, French explorers such as Samuel de Champlain encountered the area. The town

440-515: Is currently classified as threatened, and the number of native speakers has continually declined over the past several years. Mohawk has the largest number of speakers among the Northern Iroquoian languages, and today it is the only one with more than a thousand remaining speakers. At Akwesasne , residents have founded a language immersion school (pre-K to grade 8) in Kanienʼkéha to revive

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480-462: Is located near Montreal, many individuals speak both English and French, and this has contributed to a decline in the use of Mohawk language over the past century. The Mohawk Survival School, the first immersion program was established in 1979. The school's mission was to revitalize Mohawk language. To examine how successful the program had been, questionnaire was given to the Kahnawake residents following

520-429: Is partly conjoined with NY-9N in the town. New York State Route 74 , an east–west highway, intersects NY-9N/NY-22 near Ticonderoga. As of the census of 2010 , there were 5,042 people, 2,028 households, and 1,352 families residing in the town. The population density was 63.2 inhabitants per square mile (24.4/km ). There were 2,581 housing units at an average density of 31.6 per square mile (12.2/km ). The racial makeup of

560-419: The National Register of Historic Places . Amtrak , the national passenger rail system, provides service to Ticonderoga, operating its Adirondack daily in both directions between Montreal and New York City . Mohawk language The Mohawks were extremely wealthy traders, as other nations in their confederacy needed their flint for tool-making. Their Algonquian-speaking neighbors (and competitors),

600-509: The Mohawk proposition: the noun, the predicate, and the particle. Mohawk words can be composed of many morphemes. What is expressed in English in many words can often be expressed by just one Mohawk word, a phenomenon known as polysynthesis . Nouns are given the following form in Mohawk: Noun prefixes give information relating to gender, animacy, number and person, and identify the word as

640-528: The People of Muh-heck Heek Ing ("food-area place"), a people called by the Dutch " Mohicans " or "Mahicans", called the People of Ka-nee-en Ka "Maw Unk Lin" or Bear People . The Dutch heard and wrote that as "Mohawks" and so the People of Kan-ee-en Ka are often referred to as Mohawks . The Dutch also referred to the Mohawk as Egils or Maquas . The French adapted those terms as Aigniers or Maquis , or called them by

680-582: The Town of Ticonderoga. As early as 1812, Ticonderoga was the site of graphite mining. Commercial mining of graphite began in 1832, though logging remained the chief Industry. Graphite was not widely used in the 19th century, as most writing was done in pen, rather than pencil. It was not until the mid-20th century that pencils came into greater use, with the No. 2 HB pencil becoming the standard writing implement in schools and universities. The iconic Dixon Ticonderoga pencil

720-533: The community is to try to preserve traditional values, culture, language and lifestyles in the guidance of the Kaienerekowa (Great Law of Peace). Kanatsiohareke, Inc. is a non-profit organization under IRS code 501c3. In 2006, over 600 people were reported to speak the language in Canada, many of them elderly. Kahnawake is located at a metropolitan location, near central Montreal , Quebec , Canada. As Kahnawake

760-659: The end of a word or before a voiceless sound. /s/ is voiced word initially and between vowels. Mohawk has oral and nasalized vowels ; four vowel qualities occur in oral phonemes /i e a o/ , and two only occur as nasalized vowels ( /ʌ̃ ũ/ ). Vowels can be long or short. Mohawk words have both stress and tone , and it can be classified as a restricted tone system (aka pitch-accent system). Stressed vowels carry one of four tonal configurations, two of which are contour tones : high, low, rising and falling tones. Contour tones only occur in syllables with long vowels. Stress, vowel length and tone are connected in Mohawk phonology. In

800-625: The first year. The results indicated that teaching towards younger generation have been successful and showed an increase in the ability to speak the language in private settings, as well as an increase in the mixing of Mohawk in English conversations were found. In 2011, there were approximately 3,500 speakers of Mohawk, primarily in Quebec, Ontario and western New York. Immersion (monolingual) classes for young children at Akwesasne and other reserves are helping to train new first-language speakers. The importance of immersion classes among parents grew after

840-422: The following consonant clusters. All clusters can occur word-medially; those on a tinted background can also occur word-initially. ⟨th⟩ and ⟨sh⟩ are pronounced as consonant clusters, not single sounds like in English thing and she . The consonants /k/, /t/ and the clusters /ts kw/ are pronounced voiced before any voiced sound (i.e. a vowel or /j/ ). They are voiceless at

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880-658: The game's main character, the half-Mohawk, half-Welsh Ratonhnhaké꞉ton , also called Connor, and members of his native Kanièn꞉ke village around the times of the American Revolution . Ratonhnhaké꞉ton was voiced and modelled by Crow actor Noah Bulaagawish Watts . Hiawatha , the leader of the Iroquoian civilization in Sid Meier's Civilization V , voiced by Kanentokon Hemlock, speaks modern Mohawk. The stories of Mohawk language learners are also chronicled in 'Raising The Words',

920-522: The generic Iroquois . The Mohawks were the largest and most powerful of the original Five Nations , controlling a vast area of land on the eastern frontier of the Iroquois Confederacy. The North Country and Adirondack region of present-day Upstate New York would have constituted the greater part of the Mohawk-speaking area lasting until the end of the 18th century. The Mohawk language

960-520: The hallway to recite the Thanksgiving Address in Mohawk. An adult immersion program was also created in 1985 to address the issue of intergenerational fluency decline of the Mohawk language. Kanatsiohareke (Gah-nah-jo-ha-lay-gay), meaning "Place of the clean pot", is a small Mohawk community on the north bank of the Mohawk River , west of Fonda, New York . Kanatsiohareke was created to be

1000-603: The language is represented, and the clusters /ts(i)/ , /tj/ , and /ky/ are written as pronounced in each community. The orthography matches the phonological analysis as above except: The low-macron accent is not a part of standard orthography and is not used in the Central or Eastern dialects. In standard orthography, ⟨h⟩ is written before ⟨n⟩ to create the [en] or [on] : kehnhó꞉tons 'I am closing it'. Mohawk words tend to be longer on average than words in English, primarily because they consist of

1040-603: The language. With their children learning it, parents and other family members are taking language classes, too. The radio station CKON-FM (97.3 on-air in Hogansburg, New York and Saint Regis, Quebec and widely available online through streaming), licensed by the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, broadcasts portions of its programming in Kanienʼkéha . The call sign is a reference to the Mohawk word "sekon" (or "she:kon"), which means "hello". A Mohawk language immersion school

1080-476: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ticonderoga&oldid=1134426380 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ticonderoga, New York Ticonderoga ( / t aɪ k ɒ n d ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ ə / )

1120-709: The major Mohawk territories since the eighteenth century. The pronunciation of /r/ and several consonant clusters may differ in the dialects. The phoneme inventory of Mohawk is as follows (using the International Phonetic Alphabet ). An interesting feature of Mohawk (and Iroquoian) phonology is that there are no labials (m, p, b, f, v), except in a few adoptions from French and English, where [m] and [p] appear (e.g., mátsis "matches" and aplám "Abraham"); these sounds are late additions to Mohawk phonology and were introduced after widespread European contact. The Central ( Ahkwesáhsne ) dialect has

1160-412: The northern end of Lake George and a portion of Lake Champlain near its southern end. The short, but rapidly flowing, La Chute River connects the two lakes. The eastern town line is the border of Vermont , and the southern town boundary is the county line of Warren and Washington counties . New York State Route 9N is a north–south highway. Another north–south highway, New York State Route 22 ,

1200-563: The passage of Bill 101 , and in 1979 the Mohawk Survival School was established to facilitate language training at the high school level. Kahnawake and Kanatsiohareke offer immersion classes for adults. In the 2016 Canadian census, 875 people said Mohawk was their only mother tongue. Mohawk dialogue features prominently in Ubisoft Montreal 's 2012 action-adventure open world video game Assassin's Creed III , through

1240-422: The prefix ga- . Noun roots are similar to nouns in English in that the noun root in Mohawk and the noun in English have similar meanings. (Caughnawaha) 5) –eri- "heart" 6) –hi- "river" 7) –itshat- "cloud" These noun roots are bare. There is no information other than the noun root itself. Morphemes cannot occur individually. That is, to be well-formed and grammatical, -eri- needs pronominal prefixes, or

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1280-428: The standard spelling, a colon is placed after a vowel to lengthen it. There are 4 tones: mid, high, mid-low falling and mid-high rising, the latter two appear on long vowels (marked as V:). Mohawk orthography uses the following letters: ⟨a e h i k n o r s t w y⟩ along with ⟨’⟩ and ⟨꞉⟩ . The orthography was standardized in 1993. The standard allows for some variation of how

1320-530: The town was 98.08% White, 0.46% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, and 0.85% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.41% of the population. There were 2,028 households, out of which 31.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 11.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.0% had someone living alone who

1360-445: The two lakes, George and Champlain . The Town of Ticonderoga was formed in 1804 from part of the town of Crown Point . By the end of the 18th century, the town was noted for wood products such as paper and lead pencils. The position of the now former Ticonderoga village at the north end of Lake George made it an important port. The village was dissolved on December 31, 1993, after a public referendum, its operations were absorbed by

1400-451: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.04. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.4 males. The median income for

1440-585: Was established. Mohawk parents, concerned with the lack of culture-based education in public and parochial schools, founded the Akwesasne Freedom School in 1979. Six years later, the school implemented a Mohawk language immersion curriculum based on a traditional cycle of fifteen seasonal ceremonies, and on the Mohawk Thanksgiving Address , or Ohén꞉ton Karihwatékwen, "The words before all else." Every morning, teachers and students gather in

1480-486: Was named after the graphite that was mined and processed in Ticonderoga. Historic Fort Ticonderoga is in this town, east of the former village of Ticonderoga . According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 88.5 square miles (229.1 km ), of which 81.4 square miles (210.9 km ) is land and 7.0 square miles (18.2 km ), or 7.93%, is water. The town encompasses both

1520-601: Was on the direct route, utilizing rivers and two long lakes, between New York City to the south and the French settlement of Montreal to the north. The town was the setting for historic battles and maneuvers during both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War . Fort Ticonderoga , constructed by the French, who called it Fort Carillon , in the 1750s, marked the location of an important portage between

1560-889: Was opened by James Cawley, who financed it with his earnings as an Elvis impersonator, after he inherited a copy of the original set blueprints from a costume designer on the show. In addition to the Burleigh House, the Amherst Avenue Historic District , Black Watch Library , Central School , Clark House , Community Building , Clayton H. Delano House , Crandall Marine Railway , Ferris House , Fort Ticonderoga , Frazier Bridge , Gilligan and Stevens Block , Hancock House , Lake George Avenue Historic District , Liberty Monument , Silas B. Moore Gristmill , NYS Armory , Pad Factory , Ticonderoga High School , Ticonderoga National Bank , Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company Office , and United States Post Office are listed on

1600-553: Was used throughout in the Marvel Studios animated series What If...? , in the season 2 episode " What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World? ", where they introduce an original Mohawk superhero named Kahhori. Mohawk has three major dialects: Western ( Ohswé:ken and Kenhté:ke ), Central ( Ahkwesáhsne ), and Eastern ( Kahnawà꞉ke and Kanehsatà꞉ke ); the differences between them are largely phonological. These are related to

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