Many Haudenosaunee men are ironworkers. It is dangerous work. The ironworker must feel confident about walking on narrow beams high up in the air, have strength to move steel beams and good coordination to connect one beam to another. In the 1880’s, Mohawk men had jobs building bridges near Montreal, Canada.  Their expertise and their fearlessness became legendary and Haudenosaunee men started to get jobs in major cities most particularly in New York City.  They would form “gangs”, meaning that a certain number of men did a particular job and did it together so that they had a rhythm and working style that assured the job was done with speed and accuracy. This “gang” would travel to the worksite early Monday morning and Friday return to their reservation, which could be seven hours away.