A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
Sorted by date Results 151 - 155 of 155
Eighty years ago the Haudenosaunee, and particularly the Mohawks, were confronted with a serious threat to our ability to secure a living by practicing the skill of ironworking in the US. The US Immigration authorities were determined to arrest, confine and deport those Iroquois who resided in Canada but worked south of the border. The Americans may have been upset with the Haudenosaunee for its rejection of US citizenship after Congress had enacted the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. The Haudenosaunee leadership realized that by accepting...
The February 22 decision by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to place 13,000 acres of land in central New York in“trust” for the Oneida Nation is not a cause for celebration but alarm. If there is one undeniable truth in Iroquois-US relations it is this: the Americans will do what they can to eradicate the Haudenosaunee as a distinct people. Whether this means eclipsing our humanity by portraying us as sub-human savages, forcibly removing us from our ancestral lands or destroying our culture by imposing alien values on our children the process of o...
The past few months have not been good ones for Canada’s relationship with aboriginal people. First, the Conservatives who are in power in Ottawa rejected the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights despite the approval of over 140 other nations. If Canada had endorsed the Declaration it would have pressured the country to respect aboriginal territory and culture while undermining the “doctrine of discovery” as the basis for its current legal relationship with the first nations. Tens of millions of hectares of land stolen Native peopl...
The decision by the US Department of the Interior to reject the St. Regis Tribal Council’s plans for a Monticello casino has provided Akwesasne with an opportunity to reflect on commercial gambling in general and the Tribe’s goals specifically. We should take this time to inquire about Empire Resorts and its financial and administrative status. The company took a huge blow when the Monticello deal was turned down. It was already on shakey fiscal ground which has to call into question whether it was the right partner for the Tribe. Empire did...
For those Akwesasnorons lucky enough to have come of age during the late 1960’s and 70’s our home was the center of aboriginal political action across the continent. The touring group White Roots of Peace and the newspaper Akwesasne Notes inspired thousands of people, Native and non, to get involved in preserving their heritage and promoting indigenous self determination. The Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs was the guiding entity for both Notes and the Roots. From the Nation came powerful speakers, great singers and highly effective com...
