The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has announced that the last surviving World War II Mohawk code talker has died. Levi Oakes was one of 17 Mohawks from the Akwesasne tribe in northern New York that the ...

Guy Whidden, a former WWII paratrooper, first cut his hair into a mohawk back in 1944, right before D-Day. The idea, a popular one at the time, was to wear the hairstyle so as to intimidate the ...

Guy Whidden, a former WWII paratrooper, first cut his hair into a mohawk back in 1944, right before D-Day. The idea, a popular one at the time, was to wear the hairstyle so as to intimidate the ...

Cook is from the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and is the commander of the American Legion in Akwesasne, a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) community that straddles the Ontario, Quebec and New York state borders.

During World War II, some American paratroopers donned mohawks ... Guy Whidden, a 96-year-old who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, shaved his mohawk the night before the landings.

But the old name has persisted.) British forces: About 700 strong made up of 500 Iroquois (mostly Seneca and Mohawk warriors), Loyalist rangers and the King's Royal Regiment of New York.