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'Traditional' law creates waves across Turtle Island
The situation of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) asking 26 non-Natives to leave the community based on so-called "traditional" law has been making waves of discussion, debate, and dialogue for and against this measure across Turtle Island. Our three Mohawk communities (Kahnawake, Kanasatake, and Akwesasne where I'm from) are fairly close together so this is an issue that has particularly hit home for me -- amongst other members of our closely-knit communities.
Oka Crisis
The Oka Crisis was a standoff between the Mohawk Nation of Kanesatake and Canadian security forces that began on July 11, 1990, after the Mohawk Warrior society reclaimed a burial ground from developers in the town of Oka, Quebec.
Now we sit and wait
While the rest of Canada (well, apparently less than half of us) had their sights set in October on who to choose for our next prime minister, many of us in the Native community were waiting for another big announcement to happen.
Sharon McIvor, a descendant of the Lower Nicola Valley band, first launched her case in 1989, hoping to win Indian Status for her own children. Shortly before her case reached the courts in 2006, the federal government agreed to restore status to McIvor's children.