A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The 2011 Presidents Cup Tournament is being hosted this year by the Snake Island Muskies at the A’nowara’ko:wa Arena between August 29 until the Championship Game on Sunday, September 4. The last time that Akwesasne has played host to the Presidents Cup was in 1996 when the Akwesasne Thunder faced off against the eventual Presidents Cup Champions the Ohsweken Wolves. This year’s tournament includes the two local teams along with the Newtown Golden Eagles (Can-Am Senior B Lacrosse League), Kahna...
The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne has been working for the past two years on a claim against the Canada Border Services Agency within the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The CHRC is an independent body established by Parliament in 1977 that first tries to get the parties to mediate a solution, and if that fails, determine whether a complaint once filed has merit to be reviewed by Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The MCA has filed two specific complaints to the CHRC in the past year. The first complaint deals with the duty to report when...
The Akwesasne community has been in debate the past week talking about the incident that occurred at the General Motors-Powertrain site last Thursday. For those who have yet to hear about what took place at the 12-acre landfill, Akwesasne community member Larry Thompson drove an excavator through the fence surrounding the capped landfill and proceeded to dig it up. For two-hours Thompson dug into the landfill and dropped the contaminated soil into a rail car nearby in preparation to have it...
Rock Out The Bus was held on Friday July 29th in the Brasshorse Grille/Truck Stop #9 area and was organized by Carrie Thompson, Sky Timmons, Tekarataneken Horn-David and “Kwekon” Mitchell. The event itself was a daylong carnival like event with different activities for children throughout the day and concerts for adults at night. The goal of the event was to raise extracurricular activity funds for different organizations in the territory of Akwesasne and also as a collection site for don...
The Native North American Traveling College hosted the 2011 Friendship Days over the weekend in a first-ever two-day event on the Ronathahonni grounds. Staff of the NNATC along with students who worked for them this summer organized this event. Their name was officially changed back to the NNATC after the board passed a resolution a few months ago, and they will be keeping the name Ronathahonni for the grounds that they are located on. “We tried something a little different this year by h...
The Akwesasne Library hosted their annual Summer Reading Program in three different sessions throughout this past summer. Three different teachers worked with the different age groups as part of New York State’s summer reading program. The teachers were responsible for choosing a different book each day and coming up with an age appropriate craft for the kids to complete. Once each craft activity was done, the Akwesasne Library provided kids with a light snack. “We typically go to the St. Reg...
Florence Patterson the volunteer CEO of Pamoja International Cultural Exchange Inc. (PICEI) is inviting the Akwesasne community to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony of the PICEI Annex Office. This office is being dedicated in memory of an Akwesasronon Jean Tewatenniheh Herne. The event is scheduled to take place on August 26, 2011 at 3:30pm in Brasher Falls, NY. “When Jean passed away we began trying to think of ways that we can remember her and the contributions she made to the community and this organization.” said Patterson. “I remember how m...
The third annual Akwesasne Duathlon was held last Thursday night at Generations Field and was organized by Northern Tribs Swimming. 32 participants signed up from Akwesasne, Potsdam, Madrid, Massena, Norwood, Norfolk, North Lawrence, West Stockholm, Burke and Lisbon. EAS was a major sponsor of this event, donating their products of energy bars and sports drinks to the participants. Northern Tribs Swimming is a group that works with the youth to teach them how to swim right up to competitive...
The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne began advertising for a series of discussion meetings to be held in the Tsi Snaihne District in the coming weeks with one topic in mind: development of a Diagnostic & Wellness Center. These meetings are the initial interview with the community to answer the basic questions of ‘Is there a need for a clinic in Tsi Snaihne?’ and if so, ‘What services should that clinic offer?’ The structure of these meetings includes a casual dialogue between the community members within the age groups and the surveyors who are loo...
In just three short weeks different groups from around the territory of Akwesasne stepped up to the challenge to organize a workshop for the youth of Akwesasne that took place this past Wednesday at the Office for the Aging Center. With representation from both the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department and the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service this first-ever “Kids for Fishing” workshop was a great opportunity for kids to learn about fishing. “We started the day talking about Boating Safet...
The Akwesasne Freedom School’s first online quilt auction closed on bidding this past Monday with the successful bid going to Cindy Lazore for $400. The AFS Parent Committee had chosen the quilt during an organizing meeting for the Annual Dinner, which is being held on August 27 and 28. The quilt that was auctioned off was one of three that remained unpaid from last-years fundraiser. With 47 users registered and 30 active bidders vying for the quilt, the online auction took place over a o...
The Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Passport that had been seized at the Cornwall Port of Entry on June 18, 2011 was returned to the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs last Thursday morning. This occurred after the Mohawk Nation had sent a letter requesting the return of the document, along with any others that might have also been seized at the Port. The CBSA Aboriginal Liaison James D. Marchand had been sent a letter from Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs dated July 7, 2011; a letter that once again claims...
Blackfire, a traditional Native American Punk Rock and “Alter-native” music group stopped in Akwesasne this week as they make their way from New Mexico to Waswanipi in Northern Quebec for a concert on August 6. The group planned the impromptu stop in Akwesasne a few days before reaching this area and set up meetings at the Akwesasne Museum and Cultural Center and the Akwesasne Freedom School to learn about Akwesasne history and culture. A concert was set up in front of Native Creations Gift Sho...
From individual crisis to community-wide issues the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Emergency Measures Officer is available to help on a wide-range of issues. “Emergency management developed from the Healthy and Safety Act,” explained Emergency Measures Officer Regina Jacobs. “Even if an emergency is on a small scale one-family basis the community turns out to help and hold benefits for them. On a larger scale if another community is going through an emergency people here are quick to donate goods and the next thing you know a truck is leaving load...
With the soft opening of the Three Feathers Casino over the weekend the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe issued a press release clearly outlying the distinction between the NYS licensed Akwesasne Mohawk Casino and this new operation. “There are only two legitimate gaming properties in Akwesasne,” said Tribal Chief Mark Garrow. “Those are the Mohawk Bingo Palace and the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino. The unlicensed gaming facility cannot compare to our legal casinos in terms of safety, gaming integrity and regulatory oversight.” The Three Feathers Casino...
The Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) is holding their first ever online quilt auction weeks before their major fundraiser of the year the Annual Dinner & Quilt Auction. The AFS is a full Mohawk Language Immersion school for children in grades Pre-k through grade 8. Funding for the school is completely through private donations, grants and the hardworking effort of the parents and families of children who attend the school. “We really want to appeal to those who can’t make it the weekend of the...
The Hogansburg-Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department and MCA Ambulance Unit along with the Franklin County Hazmat team responded to a cleaning chemical incident at the Communications Building in Kana:takon this past Sunday evening. Two CKON Radio staff and one Indian Time Newspaper staff member were inside the building during the incident. All were closely monitored to ensure that their vitals were ok and were released from observation that same evening. The Franklin County Hazmat team remained onsite to monitor the air quality levels in the...
“I was very happy with the turnout of the clinic,” said Mike Thompson, well known goalie for the Buffalo Bandits. “I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while and it was the perfect timing right before provincials this weekend.” The Akwesasne Storm lacrosse teams will be traveling to provincials on Friday for all groups ranging from Tykes to Midgets. In preparation for the tournament this weekend Mike Thompson organized a special two-day lacrosse clinic focusing on goalie skill developme...
Reports have been circling the community of Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service Officers pulling over vehicles who fail to stop at the red light located on the southern span of the Three Nations Bridge Crossing. These reports have been verified by Chief Jerry Swamp who indicated that over a dozen tickets have been issued to date over the driving violations associated with the portable red light. “We have seen a lot of dangerous driving, of people passing cars who have legitimately stopped at the light,” said Police Chief Swamp. “We’ve stepped...
The Akwesasne Area Management Board began their summer program last week with the help of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Ontario Power Generation, MCA’s Community Support Program, AMBE and Iohahi:io. This summer program focuses on teaching 40 high school students from age 14-18 a host of skills including soft skills, creative writing, website design, modern debate and various teambuilding activities within a 6-week period. The 40 participants were selected from the pool of Summer SEED a...
The weather was perfect as the Soaring Eagles beach volleyball organizers Kayla Skidders, Kuylynn Chaussi and Tommilee Thomas opened their weekly league this past Tuesday night. These organizers have been hired through the Akwesasne Area Management Board summer programming to oversee the construction of a beach volleyball court and to setup a summer league. A callout was made to anyone interested in submitting a team to this program and the response was enough to start a regular league. Four...
The Saint Regis Mohawk Health Services, in collaboration with the University of Albany, has been conducting a research project to study the impact of environmental contaminants and how they affect the reproductive health of Akwesasne Women. Recently changes have been made to the age guidelines of the project, increasing the scope from 21-35 years old to 21-38. Participants can reside anywhere in the territory of Akwesasne, but must have lived there for most of their lives. Women in this age range who are not currently taking hormonal birth...
The trial run of the Green Food Box program from the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Community Health Nurses saw 169 participants purchase 246 bags of produce for $10 a bag. The distribution day was held yesterday at the St. Regis Recreation pavilion, with a large crowd lined up waiting well before 2:00pm. Organizers packed reusable bags with mushrooms, radishes, potatoes, two types of onions, cucumbers, nectarines, broccoli, lettuce, raspberries and bananas. Any leftovers from July’s d...
Owners and their faithful four-legged friends committed to six-weeks of training to open up communication to help smooth out home life. Dogs of all sizes learned from positive reinforcement methods how to think about what their owners are asking them, and that it is fun to do the action being asked of them. The training program used for the 6-week course was developed by the owner of K9 Connect, Andrea Dugan, who did not like the traditional methods of training by physically forcing a dog with...
“This project has been one of our greatest bright ideas yet,” said Akwesasne Housing Authority Executive Director Retha Herne. “This has been a full circle project that started as a planned project for the future and has developed into a really beautiful neighborhood.” The Akwesasne Housing Authority (AHA) invited the community to witness the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony of the Sunrise Acres Expansion Project that was held last Thursday morning. The Sunrise Acres Expansion project...
