What do native americans think of the mohawk hair cut?
Answer The style of hair now known as a “Mohawk”, descends from a style worn by men in several traditional communities including the Akwesasne (Mohawk Council) and other people of the Haudenosaunee (long-House People: Iroquois Confederacy), other Northeastern Woodlands nations and a few Northern Plains Nations including the Absaroke, Cheyenne, Blackfeet and others. Known as a “scalp-lock” style, traditionally, it also resembles a dance/ceremonial wearing item known as a “roach” which is fashioned from stiff badger or porcupine hair in a vertical, narrow strip worn upon the head and decorated with feathers and other regalia. It may have served as a style to designate warrior status, as a means of taunting the enemy, reducing the amount of hair available to grab in hand-to-hand combat or as a form of ceremonial tonsure. The taking of human scalps is a practice that was engaged in by the Europeans as well as the combatant American Indian nations and may preceed the coming of the whites. A
