A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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Akwesasne – At Saturday’s October 1, 2011 Tribal meeting, Michelle Mitchell, General Counsel, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, announced that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs had issued a letter to the Tribe indicating they were taking into trust a 39-acre parcel of property that includes the Tribe’s Transfer Station. The 39-acre parcel was purchased by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe back in 1999 for $6,500 as part of a Franklin County property tax sale. The Tribe then eventually set aside ten acres from the parcel for its Transfe...
On June 16, 2011, a hearing was held before Federal Magistrate George Lowe on whether New York State motions to dismiss the Mohawk Land Claim should be granted. At the heart of the matter is whether the rulings in the City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation, Cayuga Indian Nation v. Pataki, and Oneida Indian Nation v. county of Oneida apply to the Mohawk land claim. These court rulings set bad precedents for Indian Land Claims across the United States. They basically said that because land claims are inherently disruptive to the White people...
The Peacemaker In the coming of the Peacemaker and the creation of the Haudenosaunee (Confederacy, Water plays an important role as well. The story begins on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. From here, the( Peacemaker constructed a canoe of stone ( travel the many lakes and rivers to stop the shedding of blood among human beings among people who would become the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, am Seneca Nations. Later in the story, the Peacemaker climbs to the top of a tall tree by the waterfalls that the Mohawks then cut down over a...
It is another that our Creator made the rivers and the streams and the rains and the oceans. And in the beginning of time, beyond the memory of you and I, our Creator spoke to the rivers and our Creator made the rivers, not just an H2O, but he made the rivers a living entity. And our Creator spoke to the rivers and said the Mississippi will be the great-grandpa and the St. Lawrence will be the uncle and the other small streams will be the cousins. And altogether, those rivers of Mother Earth and lakes will be the blood veins of our Mother, our...
