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Protest at Edwards Landfill in Cayuga
Word has just come in that dump trucks have begun to arrive at the Edwards landfill just outside of Cayuga, Ontario. Currently (as of 9:40am EDT) there are about 15 non-native supporters at the site, but more people are urgently needed. Police have reportedly threatened to arrest anyone who tries to block the trucks. OCTOBER 8 [...]
Six Nations concerns over Edwards landfill
As pressure continues to mount against the North Simcoe Landfill, an irresponsible waste dump that “was set up with a 1950s mindset,” a delegation from the Hoskanigetah (Six Nations Men’s Fire of the Grand River) warns about the possible re-opening of another dump site: the Edwards landfill, just outside of Cayuga, Ontario. According to the CUPE [...]
19 years later: On the Fraudulent theft of Mohawk Land
While the “Oka Crisis” has been long buried by most Canadians, the Fraudulent theft of land that led to it remains completely unresolved, as Ellen Gabriel from the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake illustrates in this press release. Issued to mark the “Oka Crisis”— which began exactly 19 years ago today, on July 11, 1990–Garbiel outlines a [...]
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance
On July 11, 1990, the Mohawk Peoples of Kanehsatà:ke stood up against a legacy of fraudulent theft when the Municipality of Oka, in collusion with the Federal and provincial governments, tried to make way for the expansion of a 9-hole golf course and a new condominium project. In the weeks and months that followed, Canada’s glowing [...]
UN asked to stop guns at Akwesasne border
Mohawk Nation News sends the following news and call for action surrounding the upcoming peaceful demonstration in Akwesasne. See the full story (and a full list of contacts) below… UPDATE: there is also a petition you can sign here. Skarohreh Doug Anderson of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy presented a request to the Secretary of the UN Security [...]
On “the League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations”
In 1993, Kenarahdiyoh “Good Leaf” and Dacajeweiah “Splitting the Sky” sat down with Harold Channer, for a one-hour discussion on “the League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere” (LISN) — a confederation that was founded on May 27, 1991, “in recognition of the need for a concerted course of action to achieve our [...]
Canada Post Blocks Health Canada Advisory to Indigenous Community
November 28: The following article has had a significant update. For details, see the section “Response from Canada Post” A Canada Post employee has apparently refused to allow the distribution of a Health Canada advisory that warns of serious health concerns regarding the “Build All” open pit asphalt plant located near the Mohawk Territory of Tyendinaga. According [...]
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