Tekarihogen or Dekarihokenh (Tekarihó:ken) is the title and office of an Iroquois League sachem of the Mohawk nation.
The title of Dekarihokenh is hereditary through the maternal line; each office holder is a male of the Mohawk Turtle clan.
He is appointed by the senior women of the clan, as the Iroquois have a matrilineal system of descent and property.
In the council of the Six Nations Confederacy the chief who bore it served as the titular head of the Mohawks, the first in rank of that tribe’s nine sachems.
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