See what it’s like to go to work 800 feet off the ground in the open air.
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Are the “boys” working on these hi-rise projects still of primarily American Indian heritage? My Croatian-American uncle used to do this work, and he said that the most able and, shall we say, daring of his co-workers were mainly from the Mohawk tribe. Something about a connection to native coming-of-age rites…
cg,
My recollection is that, in an earlier era, most of the high-rise ironworkers in New York were Native Americans, but Navajo rather than Mohawk. And the connection was to the terrain that they inhabited in the southwest US.
Are the “boys” working on these hi-rise projects still of primarily American Indian heritage? My Croatian-American uncle used to do this work, and he said that the most able and, shall we say, daring of his co-workers were mainly from the Mohawk tribe. Something about a connection to native coming-of-age rites…
cg,
My recollection is that, in an earlier era, most of the high-rise ironworkers in New York were Native Americans, but Navajo rather than Mohawk. And the connection was to the terrain that they inhabited in the southwest US.
This article mentions both Navajo and Mohawk, with the Mohawk getting credit for much in New York.
The indians in new york were mohawk not navajo since we mohawks only lived 6 hours away, unlike the navajo who live much further away