NEW YORK, Oct. 15 -- Mohawk Indian construction workers who ... when they began "walking iron" on a bridge under construction over the St. Lawrence River in Canada. Some of today's workers ...

But the Mohawk men soon became known for their agility and fearlessness when walking across high iron beams. This led them to become riveters, who would fasten parts of the bridge together from ...

The design for the replacement bridge for Champlain Bridge is shown in a 2014 artist's rendering. A handful of Mohawk ironworkers from Kahnawake are working on the project, expected to be ...

The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center. For more than 120 years, six generations of Mohawk Indian ironworkers, known for their ...

Just four months into the job, Rice Mohawk Steel and Quebec have agreed to tear up a $36 million contract to maintain the LaSalle side of the Mercier Bridge following lengthy delays – and a ...

In the tradition of their fathers and grandfathers, a new generation of Mohawk iron workers now descend upon the World Trade Center site, helping shape the most distinct feature of Lower Manhattan ...