What present-day region was the historic base of these Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people who believed in the small, winged sprite of Native American mythology?
Awes-kon-wa: Awes-kon-wa is a Native American mythological figure of the Iroquois Mohawk people. Awes-kon-wa:  It is described as a small, winged sprite. Mohawk people:  They are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America. Mohawk people:  The Mohawk were historically based in the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York west of the Hudson River; their territory ranged north to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario; south to greater New Jersey and into Pennsylvania; eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont; and westward to the border with the Iroquoian Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory.
upstate New York