With his CBSA helmet and raingear, honorary firekeeper “Harry” watches over the Akwesasne People’s Fire on Kahwenoke (‘Cornwall Island’). The fire has been burning at the main crossroads since May 1, 2009 and now, nearly six months later, a building constructed by community members so that elders and others may stay warm over the winter [...]
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October 20, 2009
Protest goes indoors – Cornwall Standard-Freeholder
akwesasne building shelter to weather the elements: With winter on the way native elders still want to be able to gather
By Michael Peeling
Volunteers from Akwesasne put up a building to help the community get through the coming winter on Cornwall Island as they continue to protest the arming of border services officers.
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CORNWALL — With winter [...]
August 10, 2009
Iakohakowa: Ole Man Pete Never Quits Trying to Flood out Indigenous
Border, Seaway, St. Lawrence, gas pipeline & industrial pollution run through Mohawk territory in Akwesasne. Photo: Sandra Cuffe
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Ole Man Pete Never Quits Trying to Flood out Indigenous
by Iakohakowa
July 22, 2009
Ole Man Pete aka F. Pierre Gingras never seems to quit. One of the head technical and economic engineers behind the James Bay Hydro Projects in [...]
July 8, 2009
MNN: WE HOLD THE ROCK [ALCATRAZ], SAID RICHARD OAKES OF AKWESASNE IN 1969
MNN. July 5, 2009. No Canadian or US government officials are talking to us. The guards and workers in the two checkpoints in Akwesasne have abandoned their posts since June 1, 2009. We can come and go off the island to the north. We can go off to the south but can’t come back. Our [...]
July 3, 2009
Anti-Canada Day Solidarity Statement with Akwesasne
7/1/09
July 1, 2009 – Montreal
To the members of the community of Akwesasne –
To all members of the Haudenosaunee –
We write to publicly express our respect, solidarity and support with the continued struggles for sovereignty and self-determination by Haudonausanee peoples.
In particular, we highlight our admiration for the courageous and ongoing community resistance to armed border agents [...]
June 27, 2009
Mohawk Nation News: Militias Formed to Attack Mohawks
MILITIAS FORMED TO ATTACK MOHAWKS
MNN. June 25, 2009. The neo-nazi Caledonia Militia was formed in Cayuga Ontario on June 23rd with insignias on their uniforms such as Northern Alliance and Rahowa [Racial Holy War]. Another was formed in Picton. Civilians carrying out military actions against a designated race is a criminal offence.
Akwesasne has been isolated [...]
June 27, 2009
CBC: U.S. launches another drone plane to patrol Canadian border [right over Akwesasne]
[note: I have now read this story in half a dozen Canadian and US newspapers. NONE of them ever even mention the current situation in Akwesasne... the link to the article below = http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/06/22/drone-great-lakes022.html]
Focus is Great Lakes area in search for drugs, migrants
Last Updated: Monday, June 22, 2009 | 2:42 PM ET [...]
June 20, 2009
“EVERYBODY HAS A VOICE”: Images from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne
by Sandra Cuffe
The Dominion – http://www.dominionpaper.ca
KAHWENOKE, AKWESASNE, MOHAWK TERRITORY–As part of a national border security plan slated for 2016, the Canadian government is arming all Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) agents.
The Canada-US border runs through the Mohawk community of Akwesasne. Like many other communities, the Mohawks have never given up their rights to the [...]
June 20, 2009
Tues, June 23rd, 6pm, Cayuga, ON: peaceful rally against anti-native “militia” in Caledonia
*please forward widely*
A call for a peaceful protest against the formation of an anti-native
“militia” in Caledonia – Tuesday, June 23rd at 6pm Outside the Lion’s
Club in Cayuga, Ontario.
Dear Friends,
As you may have heard in the mainstream media already, things are
escalating again in Caledonia. Doug Fleming (an associate of anti-native
sovereignty activist Gary McHale) who was recently [...]
