Louis Cook

Biography

Louis Cook (Mohawk: Akiatonharónkwen, also transliterated as Atiatoharongwen) (died October 1814) was a Mohawk Haudenosaunee leader and commissioned officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Born to an African father and an Abenaki mother in what is now Schuylerville, New York, he and his mother were taken captive in a French-Mohawk raid and taken to Kahnawà:ke, a Mohawk village south of Montreal. They were adopted by a Mohawk family.

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