A Voice from the Eastern Door
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By Kaniehtonkie. Akwesasronon Cecelia King and Doug George – Kanentiio have been working with Marvel Studios on 'What If...?' featuring Marvel's newest superhero "Kahhori.' King worked with the Marvel crew as a Kanien'kehá language expert and George as historian, to ensure cultural authenticity. King stated, "For the past two years I've been working closely with Marvel Studios and Ryan Little to help with the language for Kahhori, a brand-new Mohawk superhero, in an upcoming episode of the Ma...
By Kaniehtonkie. The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, will conduct an official visit to Canada from 1 to 10 March 2023. Tzay, who is Mayan Kaqchikel from Guatemala, was appointed to the role in 2020. Tzay's trip began in Ottawa on March 1 and includes visits to Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver before returning to Ottawa. The UN expert will examine a diverse range of issues affecting Indigenous Peoples, including the implementation of...
by Kaniehtonkie After almost two hundred years in a museum's possession, a medicine mask and a turtle rattle have been returned the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. A delegation from the Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, last week to retrieve a medicine mask and turtle rattle from the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève (MEG). "It was like the mask was sleeping for 200 years and the mask is now coming back awake," said Kenneth Deer, Kanien'kehá:ka, Ka...
By Kaniehtonkie. The planting of the Tree of Peace by the Executive Council of the City of Geneva and a delegation from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy is one of a series of events commemorating the centenary of the arrival of the Iroquois Chief Deskaheh. On February 9, 2023, the Executive Council of the City of Geneva and a delegation from the Six Iroquois Nations Confederacy (Haudenosaunee Confederacy) planted a Tree of Peace. This ceremony is part of a series of events to commemorate the...
By Kaniehtonkie. On January 24, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued for public comment “Action Levels for Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children: Draft Guidance for Industry.” As the FDA outlined in their ‘Closer to Zero’report, they expect over time for this guidance, together with other activities, to result in the baby food industry to progressively reduce levels of lead in foods to as low as possible. The draft guidance supports the FDA’s goal of reducing dietary exposure to lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury,...
By Kaniehtonkie. In last week's paper, Indian Time included a story on Iakwa'shatste' Ties to the Land Project. Iakwa'shatste' worked closely with Ian Clute – Two House Designs to make snowshoes. Indian Time had the opportunity to talk to Clute and take a close look at his work and the process behind his creations. The name Two House Designs mirrors Clute's Kaniekeha – Mohawk name Tehanonhsake, meaning "he has two houses." For much of Clute's work, he's self-taught. For making the snowshoes, he...
By Kaniehtonkie AKWESASNE – The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Clerk notifed its membership on Monday that no written comments were received on the proposed amendment to permit consumption lounges under the Tribe’s Adult Use Cannabis Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). In accordance with the SRMT 2013 Tribal Procedures Act, the amendment has been formally adopted through Tribal Council Resolution 2023-05 that was signed by Tribal Council during their regular Work Session held on Tsiothohrkó:wa/January 25, 2023. On Tsiothóhrha/December 20, 2022, notificat...
By Kaniehtonkie. The National Gathering on Unmarked Burials: Affirming Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Community Control over Knowledge and Information conference was held in Vancouver, B. C. from January 16 to January 18. Kimberly R. Murray, Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools presided over the two and half days of presentations, active participant dialogue and sharing. Acknowledgment and thanks...
By Kaniehtonkie. National Ribbon Skirt Day comes from the story of Isabella Kulak, a young girl shamed by a staff member at her Saskatchewan elementary school for wearing a ribbon skirt to a formal event at the school in 2020. When Kulak returned to school after the holidays on Jan. 4, 2021, a crowd of women wearing ribbon skirts led her to class, along with chiefs from surrounding the First Nations, as a show of support. That's why Jan. 4, 2023, was chosen as National Ribbon Skirt Day. The...
By Kaniehtonkie WINNIPEG – Police in the city of Winnipeg, Alberta is under increasing pressure to search for the bodies of murdered Indigenous women in a city landfill. Bodies of three of four women killed earlier this year by an alleged serial killer, Jeremy Skibicki of Winnipeg, Alberta. Skibicki was arrested in May for the death of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation in the province of Manitoba. Ms. Cantois' remains were discovered on May 16 in the B...
By Kaniehtonkie. Richard Oakes was shot at close range in the chest on September 20, 1973. The man who shot Oakes, Michael Morgan was charged with voluntary manslaughter and later acquitted by an all-white jury. Morgan claims he shot Oakes in self-defense. Oakes was 30 years old at the time of his death. During the trial, and according to testimony given a month later by Frank Owen Greer, a San Francisco visitor to the camp, Morgan allegedly said Oakes was a "troublemaker" who was "half-crazy...
By Kaniehtonkie. Just a day after two men attacked and killed 10 people on James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling for an investigation into a video posted on TikTok for spreading hate speech. “If you won’t say it I will, long live Gerald Stanley,” the man in the video said. “Shoot, shovel, shut up.” As of Wednesday, the video by user, ‘NRZIGS’, had more than 800 likes and 200 comments at the time of this posting. Gerald Stanley is the Saskatchewan man who killed Colten Boushi...
By Kaniehtonkie. On Thursday, July 28, Kenneth Deer was interviewed by Global News (GN). Deer told GN, “Its good the Pope came. He came here to address Indigenous peoples and that’s always significant… He still hasn’t taken responsibility for the whole church. He keeps blaming individuals or groups and really, it’s the institution of the church that contributed to residential school abuse and they haven’t acknowledged that. So, we were disappointed with that. He continued, “We are certainly not stopping here.” “Our delegation, Haude...
By Kaniehtonkie Imagine meeting someone who left such an indelible mark on your life that you never, ever forgot them. Years passed, which turned into decades which turned into three-quarters of a century. A lifetime. Even when decades had separated one WWII veteran from another, they never forgot each other. They even tried to meet at various times throughout the years, but it always fell through. It has been long enough for one World War II veteran to say, "I don't know why I waited so long...
By Kaniehtonkie. Today, the province of Quebec announced the commitment of $6.2 million to the Akwesasne Mohawk Police (AMPS) in an asserted and joint effort to curb international firearms trafficking. Three Quebec officials jointly made the announcement with Chief of Police Shawn Dulude: Public Safety Minister Geneviève Guilbault, Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenière, and the NMA for Huntingdon, Claire Isabelle. AMPS has made several arrests and seizures working collaboratively with t...
by Kaniehtonkie Pope Francis plans to visit Canada this summer so he can apologize in person for abuse suffered by Indigenous people at the hands of the Catholic church. The Vatican announced that Pope Francis will travel to Canada on July 24 and visit Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit, a small town in that Canada’s far north. About half the population of Iqaluit is Inuit. The pope leaves for the Vatican on July 29. In April, Pope Francis made a ‘historic apology’ to Indigenous delegates for abuses in Canada’s church-run residential schools...
By Kaniehtonkie. The Archbishop of Canterbury says he will guarantee that all residential school records held by the Anglican Church in England are published. The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justin Welby, who was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013. The church is facing calls from residential school survivors who attended the former M...
By Kaniehtonkie. MCA, led by Grand Chief Abram Benedict and Anne Scotton, Director General of Indigenous Services Canada recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Akwesasne Representative and Advocacy Program, at 55 Water Street, Cornwall – with the purpose to assist Mohawk families who are involved with Children's Aid Societies (CAS). They opened their doors on April 25 and the event was attended by a small group of dignitaries. The Akwesasne Representative and Advocacy Program (ARAP) o...
by Kaniehtonkie The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe's Council and members of the Cannabis Control Board were present for the official ribbon cutting – grand opening of tribally licensed cannabis retail stores. On Friday, April 15th, King Canna, located at 8 Raquette Point Road and owned by Donald Delormier opened at 11am. King Canna offered a free lunch to the first one-hundred customers. At noon, the ribbon was cut to officially open Weedway, located at 935 State Route 37 and owned by Rick Hamelin. On...
by Kaniehtonkie After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, paddlers of all ages and athletic ability joined in the Raisin Region Conservation Authority's (RRCA) 49th annual Raisin River Canoe Race. The cold weather on Sunday, April 10th didn't dampen anyone's spirits. Paddlers, supporters and viewers met at St. Andrews West elementary school grounds and from there a flotilla of 244 canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddleboards set out downstream to Williamstown. With the recent rains, many particip...
By Kaniehtonkie. Almost two weeks have passed since Pope Francis delivered his apology to a Métis, First Nations and Inuit delegation at the Vatican. The Pope is expected to travel to North America this summer to possibly deliver an apology, on our soil. Every single word spoken by the Pope to the visiting delegation has been considered, studied, scrutinized, and questioned. Out of respect for the delegation, it must have been an extremely emotional affair; once again a somber moment to reflect on the atrocities inflected on our relatives....
by Kaniehtonkie For the past 14 years community members in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory have had to haul all their water to their homes one jug at a time. Our Mohawk neighbors to the west have lifted five long-term water advisories on March 28 as they expanded connections to a new water treatment plant. The advisories had been in place since 2008. Home to 2,525 community members, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation (MBQ) has extended its water distribution system with funding from...
Iehiá:tons: Kaniehtónkie Kwáh ísi nón:we niiothó:re Okaristiiáhne o'karahshnéha nikahá:wi ne Tekahson'karó:rons Ahkwesáhshne Rontahshnié:nons Otsiénha Rotinónhsote (HAVFD) – Iokwèn:rare 3 wahonwarihwakwénienhste karì:wes shihaià:tare ne raoná:wen iotékha rotinonhsote. Iokwèn:rare 3 Ron'shwáhtha tehonatonhontsió:ni ahatiién:tere'ne tsi na'tehonatakiénhton ronakiohkowá:nen tho iehati'terón:tahkwe tsi ionteweienstáhkhwa sahotikè:tohte wahonte'nikonhrahkwísron tsi tkanónhsote ne tsi ionteweienst...
By Kaniehtonkie. Last weekend, several Akwesasronon went in search of Tree 103 in the Adirondacks. The small group of Akwesasronon hiked through deep snow in one of the coldest winters in years to find Tree 103 and pay homage to it. Tree 103 was considered one of the tallest trees in New York State. The white pine stood among thirty to forty other large pines, all between 110-160 ft. tall on about eight acres of land called Elders Grove near Paul Smiths in the Adriondacks. According to Dr....
By Kaniehtonkie On a freezing Thursday evening, the Hogansburg Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department (HAVFD) – Station 3, honored a long-standing member of their fire department. Station 3 firefighters want to acknowledge the struggles many residential school survivors endured at institutions and long after they returned home. And to honor those that never made it home. William 'Billy' Sunday was sent to Spanish Residential School on the north shore of Lake Huron and west of Sudbury. It was one o...
