A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The Akwesasne Garden Club, a small group of flower-loving women, have been gardening together for several years now and every summer one member of the club is chosen to host the annual garden party. This year, Shirley Therrien happily hosted the club members and all of the guests they also invite to the party. The host usually spends extra hours preparing her gardens and landscape to create a beautiful floral setting for all the party attendees to enjoy while they mingle and eat delicious food....
Twenty-five Akwesasne youth are spending two weeks this summer receiving interactive, in-depth lessons on the history of the Mohawk people and the cultures and traditions of both the past and present. Tsionni Fox, Bear Fox, and Margaret LaFrance, along with students staff and Akwesasne Museum personnel, are working with the youth this week and next, helping them to learn more about themselves and their culture. The program has been held for several years and it provides a fun way for children...
A fire at Cornwall’s St. Hubert BBQ Restaurant Tuesday evening closed the eatery for the night but it was business as usual by Wednesday. The fire was reportedly in the Brookdale Avenue restaurant’s roof and sign steeple and was called into 911 at around 6 p.m. Cornwall firefighters took roughly three hours to completely extinguish the blaze. All customers and employees were evacuated and no injuries were reported. The restaurant said Wednesday that the inside of the building was not damaged and they remain open for business. The cause of the...
George Thorogood and the Destroyers will be performing at the Akwesasne Concert Grounds this Saturday, July 31, but the popular, mainstream rock band will have to share some fan attention with a few local artists who will also take the stage and perform in front of their largest crowd yet. Jacobs Tobacco Company, host and sponsor of the concert, invited three local acts to show the Akwesasne and surrounding areas what talent they have. The Rez Rydaz rap group, solo teen artist Brandon Gambill, a...
Nearly a hundred ironworkers competed at the 8th Annual Ironworkers Festival held Saturday at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino and even more attended as spectators. The ironworkers compete against fellow men of steel in a number of events related to the skills they’re required to perform regularly on the job. The event attracts hundreds of spectators and ironworkers of the past, present and future as participants compete in one of three classifications: Apprentice, Ironworker or Retiree. “It wen...
The Iroquois Nationals didn’t make it to England. The lacrosse team was forced to abandon their spot at the FIL World Lacrosse Championships when England refused to accept the team’s Haudenosaunee passports. The team received worldwide support and while the United States had initially said they wouldn’t honor the passports either, they granted a “one-time waiver” to allow the team to go to England, but England refused to budge on their own position. The Iroquois Nationals teams is comprised...
Beginning on Aug. 15, 2010, New York State will require that any person convicted of Driving While Intoxicated have a Breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock Device installed on any vehicle in their name. The device tests the driver’s breath and if alcohol is detected the vehicle can’t be started or will go into alarm mode to notify authorities. The intention is to prevent drivers from continuing to get behind the wheel after drinking. St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Judge Peter J. Herne said that while the program will definitely reduce DWI rates acr...
This summer 44 children are learning the ropes of golfing through the Snye Recreation’s Junior Golf Program. Every Tuesday the children are dropped off at Cedar View Golf Course for two and a half hours of instruction and play by local golf enthusiasts. They spend time practicing their swing, receiving pointers on putting, and learning first-hand what’s expected of players on the course. “There are a lot of rules and etiquette, sportsmanship, patience…” said Program Coordinator Shelby Bero, an...
The 2010 Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team, featuring players from Akwesasne, Onondaga, Six Nations and other Haudenosaunee communities, has been stuck in New York City awaiting clearance to fly to England for the 2010 FIL World Lacrosse Championships. Although the sport was invented by the team’s ancestors, the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee players may not make it to the tournament and as of Indian Time’s press time Wednesday night, the team remained in New York City. The group is insisting that they b...
Several Akwesasne community members and business owners received a letter from the Bank of Montreal last week stating that their accounts are being closed as of July 19, 2010. Recipients of the letters received one by regular mail and another by registered mail in the first week of July, leaving them with two weeks to close all accounts and tie loose ends. Both the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and Mohawk Council of Akwesasne are investigating the BMO actions and have been conducting meetings this week in an attempt to uncover what motivated the sudde...
Spa Day will officially open for business this Saturday, ready to handle the pampering needs of the Akwesasne community. Owned by Reannon Day, the day spa is proud to provide both men and women with a place to go for all their routine spa needs, from manicures and pedicures to facials and massages as well as haircuts and styles. “My idea going into opening was that I know whenever I wanted these services I was always looking for a place that had everything,” Day said. Spa Day is located at the...
In a phone interview Wednesday, George Thorogood said he is looking forward to bringing his tour to Akwesasne on July 31 and hopes to see some of the Mohawk culture and purchase some souvenirs during the short time he’ll be in the area. The rock artist – known best for his 1980s hit “Bad to the Bone” – will perform at the Akwesasne Concert Grounds at Jacobs Tobacco Company. VIP tickets to the event have been sold out for months. Thorogood said that he hopes the Mohawks of Akwesasne and music...
The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne’s Conservation Department is without a boat after their 19-foot hydro yacht was stolen over the weekend from King’s Marina on the Snye Channel on June 27 or June 28. The boat is kept there for the officers to have quick and easy access to the river; the person(s) who stole the boat also broke off the metal lock that was meant to secure it. Conservation officer Mike Francis said he and the Akwesasne Mohawk Police have been searching up and down the river wit...
New charges were brought against Jennifer Jackson-Laughing and her husband, Frank Laughing regarding a second document police say was forged. Laughing-Jackson and Laughing were initially arrested in May of this year when a police investigation uncovered that they had allegedly lied about their 4-year-old daughter having colon cancer and had benefited from the lie by collecting donations of money over a 4-5 month period. Police have statements from the child’s doctor’s office stating that he performed a colonoscopy on the girl in March and found...
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe will welcome two new faces to Tribal Council this week as Chief-elect Randy Hart and Sub-Chief-elect Shelley Jacobs will officially be sworn into their 3-year terms on Thursday, June 1. Hart and Jacobs were elected by tribal members on June 5. Hart and Jacobs will join the existing members on Council Chief Monica Jacobs, Chief Mark Garrow, Sub-Chief Stacy Adams and Sub-Chief Pam Brown. Hart defeated the SRMT’s longest serving chief James Ransom in this year’s election. Ransom served seven consecutive years in off...
The Akwesasne Eagle Watch anti-drug/anti-oxy group recruited some help from real birds last week to help them spread the message that drugs, particularly Oxycontin, can have devastating effects. The group, formerly called the Akwesasne Oxycontin Task Force, invited Jonathan Wood of The Raptor Project to bring his birds of prey to the St. Regis Mohawk School. The event, held Saturday with two showtimes, was open to the community for free and Wood incorporated an anti-drug message into his bird...
A food presentation and entertainment by a Johnny Cash tribute band at the Brass Horse Banquet Hall helped to raise money for Akwesasne’s Hospice volunteers. With an office at the St. Regis Mohawk Senior’s Center - Tsi Tetewatatkens, the Hospice of the North Country has a group of 12 volunteers who serve Akwesasne patients. Hospice is a form of care that patients receive at the end of their life. It includes home visits from nurses who can provide basic medical attention, pain relief and gui...
On Friday, members of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne visited the Lac Saint-Francois National Wildlife Area in Dundee, Quebec to view and experience what the site has to offer and to formerly acknowledge both organization’s desire to share ideas and resources in the development of a cultural enviro-adventure tour. The wetlands area and facilities are managed by the ““Les Amis de la réserve nationale de la faune du Lac Saint-François” or friends of the centre. The non-profit facility is commit...
A 5.0 earthquake centered about 70 miles (115 km) northwest of Akwesasne was felt by millions as it shook Ontario, Quebec and New York and parts of Massachusetts, Vermont and Ohio at 1:41 p.m. Wednesday, June 23. People in the cities of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany were among many who felt the rumbling. Online networking websites like Twitter and Facebook were abuzz with earthquake news and many people reported that they at first thought the trembling was their washing machine. “It was really dramatic, everyone w...
New evidence in the case against Frank Laughing and Jennifer Jackson-Laughing came to light this week when court documents revealed several inaccuracies in details the couple told Indian Time last week regarding accusations that they faked their 4-year-old daughter’s colon cancer. Court records also identified a new charge against the couple that is unrelated to their daughter’s alleged cancer, but questions Jackson-Laughing’s pregnancy. The couple was arrested initially in May after police investigated a call from the daughter’s Headsta...
On Monday, the New York State Legislature passed an emergency extension bill that will add an extra $1.60 in tax to every pack of cigarettes sold in the state. The bill also called for the state to begin enforcing an earlier law that was never enforced but which requires stores on Indian reservations to charge tax on tobacco products sold to non-Native customers. The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, along with other New York State tribes, believes tribes have the sovereign right to sell any goods tax free, regardless to whom they are selling. The new...
The Salmon River Board of Education was scrutinized last week for a controversial vote in which the school board’s president, Robert Durant, voted in favor of his son, Jeff Durant, for the assistant principal position. Durant’s vote, though not required of him as the president, was the deciding vote in giving the younger Durant the position. However, any celebration was short-lived as the school board came under fire with accusations of narcissism and it was quickly learned that the vote did not meet state guidelines anyway. There were fou...
St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police and the Franklin County District Attorney announced this week that Richard “Dickie” Oakes, 39 of Akwesasne, Quebec has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the 2008 killing of Thomas Hathaway. Oakes was expected to go to trial this month and his decision to plea was unexpected by many involved in the case. The admission brings the case to a close, as Oakes’ girlfriend, Rhonda Amber Dufoe, 25, previously plead guilty to manslaughter as well. Both Oakes...
More than a thousand tribal members headed to the polls Saturday to take part in one of the most talked about elections at the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in years. With several candidates vying for both Tribal Council positions up for election this year the campaign period showed great effort put forth. Randy Hart, a longtime tribal political/community enthusiast, surprised many community members when he accepted his nomination for chief after declining the nomination in previous years. Hart, who...
The “Eagle Watch” anti-oxy group, part of the recently formed Oxycontin Community Task Force, organized a last minute march along Route 37 Saturday. Nearly 75 community members came out with their painted shirts and signs with the common goal to spread awareness about the Oxycontin abuse epidemic that has escalated in Akwesasne. “I’m here to support the community against prescription drug abuse because nobody really knows about it,” said Neil George. “It’s always behind closed doors. It’s a...
