Mohawks

Boston Tea Party

(December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9015841

There are several accounts of this incident, all describing the party as being dressed as MOHAWK, I cannot find a single account describing the Sons of Liberty as being dressed as Iroquois.

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_boston1774.html


The Mohawk Nation, then known as Kanien'kehake (people of the flint) was one of the five founding Nations of the Iroquois League (or confederacy). The name Mohawk was given to the tribe by the Algonquin and was later adopted by the Europeans who had difficulty pronouncing Kanien'kehake. The other Nations in the Confederacy were the Cayuga, the Seneca, the Oneida, and the Onondaga. The sixth Nation to join were the Tuscarora.

http://www.mohawktribe.com/

Mohawk is a subset of Iroquois
Iroquois is NOT a subset of Mohawk.