"You live very close to the Mohawk reservation?"

In 1985, anti-gambling Oneidas burned a bingo hall, and in 1990, two Indians were killed during protests against illegal casinos on the Mohawk reservation.

The gambling issue has divided the Mohawk reservation for years.

Ms. General noted that the high school in Massena, next to the Mohawk reservation on the Canadian border, still calls its teams the Red Raiders.

He spent two years of his childhood living on the Mohawk reservation, and the rest of it in upstate New York and New Jersey.

Protests against illegal casinos on the Mohawk reservation in 1990 led to the deaths of two Indians.

For instance, the U.S. side of the Mohawk reservation has recently had unemployment as high as 46 percent.

On the Mohawk reservation, where unemployment ranges between 35 and 40 percent, Mr. D'Amato was a familiar figure.

For six days, this Mohawk reservation has been sealed off to outsiders by the New York state police.

Indian leaders expressed concern that increased surveillance of the Mohawk reservations could increase tensions between Mohawks and the police and lead to violence.