Tekakwitha is the name the girl was given by her Mohawk people. It translates to "She who bumps into things."[4] She was born around 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon in Northeastern New York state.She was the daughter of Kenneronkwa, a Mohawk chief, and Kahenta, an Algonquin woman, who had been captured in a raid and then adopted and assimilated into the tribe. Kahenta had been baptized Catholic and educated by French missionaries in Trois-Rivières, east of Montreal. Mohawk warriors cap