Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales dealt with the Mohawks — who were going under that name at the time. They are part of the Iroquois Confederation. They resided in upstate New York and up into Canada. The Kahnawake branch operates the server farm and licenses many of the poker sites still servicing U.S. Clients. Their greatest claim to fame before that was as members of the Ironworker union with a reputation for being fearless working high steel.
Indians of all flavors (I’m part Cherokee…the ‘civilized’ ones.) have treaty agreements with both the U.S. and Canada. We treat with them in many respects as sovereign nations. On this basis is the development of casinos on Indian land. The Kahnawake group took it to the Internet and developed an operation that caters to that.
As them or even as a group of Poles, Dutch, or whatever residing in Plumpuk, Utah or again whatever, you wouldn’t expect a great deal of Internet/Geek savy. That has been pretty apparent along the way. They’ve provided the basic support for the various sites and have been subject to painful laughter as poker players have sought to resolve problems with various Kahnawake sites. (The better ones now have their own support lines.) The mantra of the Kahnawake folks brings tears of laughter when they use their stock solution,