Mohawks

Bitter Sweet or Toxic? Indigenous people, diabetes and the burden of pollution
Note: this is a revised version of my article, "Bitter Sweet or Toxic?" featured in this month's issue of the Dominion, February 2010. Bitter Sweet or Toxic? Indigenous people,...

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...

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...

Akwesasne Alert — blockade established by police
June 2, 2009 - A great deal has happened since the initial post of this article. Most critically, the police blockade was lifted and the bridge has been re-opened...

Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009
In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ;...

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......

You Are on Indian Land 
You Are on Indian Land was one of the first films in Canada to give voice to the concerns of Indigenous People. Produced in 1969, the film documents a...

Tell CN Rail to drop the lawsuit! against Tyendinaga Mohawks
The Tyendinaga Support Committee is putting together a month-long campaign to pressure Canadian National Railway (CNR) to drop their recently announced lawsuit against members of the Mohawk Community of...

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...

Tyendinaga Mohawks Charged for Protesting
More than a dozen Tyendinaga Mohawks in southern Ontario are facing arrest for opposing an expensive new police station, paid for in part by the Federal Government of Canada,...

First Nations Strategic Bulletin August 2008
After a bit of a break, the First Nations Strategic Policy Counsel has resumed its monthly publication, the First Nations Strategic Bulletin. Issues in this month's bulletin include: an...

18 years after Oka, what’s changed?
With July 11 marking the 18th anniversary of Oka, we really have to ask ourselves: does Canada want history to repeat itself? Looking at recent events in Caledonia, Deseronto,...










