A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s Animal Control Officer Derek Comins assisted in the capture of what officials believe is a wolf-dog hybrid that was roaming in the Tarbell Road area of Akwesasne. The animal is currently being held in captivity and blood and fur samples have been sent away to determine its DNA makeup. Residents of Tarbell Road had reported seeing the animal in recent weeks and had been feeding it. Wolves are generally not fearful of humans and this apparent hybrid showed signs of f...
An Akwesasne man was arrested last Thursday in connection with a gun and robbery incident that took place in the district of Tsi Snaihne (Snye) on Monday, March 23, 2009. Daylin Darnell Todd Lee Oakes, 22 years of age of Wade LaFrance Memorial Road, Tsi Snaihne, Quebec has been charged with 1 count of Pointing A Firearm, 1 count of Mischief Over $5000.00, and 1 count of Breaking, Entering, and Committing, all contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada. According to the Akwesasne Mohawk Police, Oakes and another man, both masked, attended a Tsi...
Mohawk Council of Akwesasne’s Executive Director Sheree Bonaparte announced this morning that Jerry Swamp will serve as the new Chief of Police for the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service. Bonaparte was joined by members of Mohawk Council and the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Commission in making the announcement to a small gathering at the police station in Kanatakon. “After a long search and months of interviews, I’m proud to announce that Swamp has accepted his new position,” stated Bonaparte. She not...
The following list of commonly used techniques will be helpful in “burglar-proofing” your reserves, and your rights. GAIN THE INDIANS CO-OPERATION - It is much easier to steal someone’s human rights if you can do it with his OWN co-operation. So… Make him a non-person. Human rights are for people. Convince Indians their ancestors were savages, that they were pagan, that Indians were drunkards. Make them wards of the government. Make a legal distinction, as in the Indian Act, between Indians and persons. Write history books that tell half th...
To the Editor: I feel compelled to write this letter as a result of the nomination and upcoming 2009 induction of Bill Plant to the Salmon River Sports Hall of Fame. First, I understand the rules to be that in order to be nominated the athlete must have graduated or left the school for some minimal time. I believe Bill Plant has not retired from Salmon River Central School, consequently not eligible. Second, he is a board member (President) of the SR Hall of Fame. I realize his mom and some other person nominated him, however definitely a...
Darrin Cook-Grignon is asking for help in reaching his goal to raise more than $350 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser. He is the son of Stephanie Cook. CKON is accepting money on his behalf as he is currently living in Calgary, Alberta, or those interested can go to Stephanie Cook’s Facebook page and click the appropriate link to donate money. Darrin’s deadline is this Friday, April 3, 2009....
I see your empty bottles of booze and cans alongside the roads of Akwesasne. Are you trying to remember your way home? Or are you just not thinking? A few days ago a very young child was taking a walk with his parents on one of our first warm spring days. He was happily hopping along and singing when he tripped and landed face first on one of those tossed from the vehicle bottles. It was a broken bottle - YOUR BOTTLE! YOU MADE THAT LITTLE BOY CRY - YOU HURT HIM! A friend of mine likes to take her dog for walks on his leash. Her dog was a...
To our family members at Akwesasne, We write this letter in memory of our wife and mother Shirley Wheeler Lazore. A family is so important and we wanted people to know how much we appreciated them and all they did for us. In 2005 Shirley Wheeler Lazore was diagnosed with lung cancer. Over the course of the next couple of years she did pretty well with a low dosage chemo pill and remained fairly stable. In 2007 she began to receive more aggressive chemo treatments and they did not work as well as we hoped. It was Shirley’s wish to go to the r...
From Hunter’s Hope, A Special Thank You to the community members that participated in the silent auction. The Senior Center, Tribal community building and staff, Akwesasne Clinic staff, Akwesasne Women’s singing society, Westside Ridez, J&J Insurance, Bear’s Den, TreeTop, Phillip & Mary Gray, Margie Beaubien, Van & Debbie Martin, Becky, Niio, & Elizabeth Perkins, Kim Brown, Henry Arquette, Betty Swamp, Sheryl Conners, Kathy Francis, Dianne & Ronnie Garrow, Barry & Cece Thomas, Bennett White, Missy Morales, Minerva and Sheila White, Gail White...
(South Glengarry, Ontario -Wednesday, April 1st, 2009) – A 20 year old female resident from St. Regis, Quebec and a 30 year old male resident from Akwesasne, Ontario both face a charge for possession of a tobacco product not properly stamped under authority of the Excise Act 2001 after they were stopped by the RCMP. On March 31st, 2009, RCMP officers from the Cornwall Detachment followed a 2003 Hummer from Akwesasne, Ontario and stopped the vehicle on Highway 401 eastbound in South Glengarry, Ontario. RCMP officers observed cardboard box...
(South Glengarry, Ontario - Monday, March 30th, 2009) –Residents from Montreal, Quebec, Akwesasne, Ontario and Cornwall, Ontario all face charges for possession of a tobacco product not properly stamped after the Ontario Provincial Police stopped two vehicles on Highway 401 eastbound in South Glengarry, Ontario. On March 27th, 2009, an officer from the OPP stopped a 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo on Highway 401 eastbound in South Glengarry, Ontario after he observed cardboard boxes of contraband cigarettes inside the vehicle. The officer then obs...
Alcohol is the drug most frequently used by high school seniors, and its use is increasing. Boys usually try alcohol for the first time at just 11 years old, while the average age for girls’ first drink is 13. Underage drinking is a factor in nearly half of all teen automobile crashes and contributes to youth suicides, homicides and fatal injuries. Additionally, alcohol abuse is linked to as many as two-thirds of all sexual assaults and date rapes of teens and college students and is a major factor in unprotected sex among youth, increasing the...
Cornwall, Ontario, April 1st, 2009 – April 1st 2009 marks a healthy change for Cornwall Community Hospital as it becomes a 100% smoke-free environment. The McConnell Avenue site has been smoke-free for one (1) year and as of April the smoke free policy will extend to the Second Street site as well. Smoking is not permitted on hospital property including buildings, parking areas, parked vehicles and site sidewalks. The Eastern Ontario Health Unit will continue to monitor and enforce the Ontario by-law, which prohibits smoking within 9 meters o...
Teenagers at Kana:takon School learned valuable tools and procedures last week that might one day enable them to save someone’s life. Representatives from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (Cornwall branch) were spent hours with seventh and eighth grade students at Kana:takon School educating them on CPR and teaching them how to perform the emergency technique. The HSF defines CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) as “an emergency procedure involving chest compressions (pressing down on...
At Tsi Snaihne School where the Mohawk language is seen and heard commonly, Tuesday was a day to stop and celebrate how much progress has been made in Akwesasne in recent years to revive a dying language. March 31 was Aboriginal Language Day and for the past few years the Mohawk immersion students at Tsi Snaihne School have been the leaders of a day-long celebration to showcase what they’ve learned and invite any other students or community members to show what they’ve learned as well. Beg...
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Residents of northern Franklin County should avoid burning brush during early spring when environmental conditions create an increased likelihood of causing a wildfire, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers today advised. Every spring forest rangers and firefighters respond to hundreds of wildfires caused by debris burning. In fact, debris burning is the most common preventable cause of wildfires in New York State. The lack of green vegetation, plenty of available fuels such as dry grass and leaves, warm...
New York, NY – March 31, 2009 -- In an innovative example of a private corporation and a public entity partnering to retain jobs during the economic downturn, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Alcoa, the N.Y.-based aluminum company, today announced they have reached an agreement that will save hundreds of jobs at Alcoa’s smelters in Massena, New York in the near-term and preserve hundreds more under its planned long-term modernization project at the plant. Alcoa operates two smelters in Massena with a combined production output of 255...
This is to inform the community that the following persons have applied for Membership under the Akwesasne Membership Code: Kahentineson Skidders, age 17, daughter of Ralph Skidders (Akwesasne) and Stacy Huff (Moravians of the Thames); Christine Ashley Sunday, age 17, daughter of Peter Sunday (Akwesasne) and Nancy Blanchet Sunday, a non-native; Chelsey Elizabeth Thompson, age 17, daughter of Mary Thompson (Akwesasne) and Eric Stiles, a non-native; Samantha Lynn Thompson, age 19, daughter of Elaine Thompson (Akwesasne) and Patrick Burelle, a...
North Country dogs and cats were excited, terrified or furious last week to be taken by their owners to the Hogansburg-Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department for a free rabies vaccination clinic. The parking lot of the fire hall was swarming with dogs in all shapes and sizes, from Mastiffs to miniatures. A Rottweiller pulled his owner on a leash through the parking lot as they made their way to the long line of dogs and owners. “It’s his first time on a leash,” the man said. Jenny the Black Lab s...
The Akwesasne Boys & Girls Club brought the kids out to the visit the Sugar Shack, in Hogansburg last week. This was a trip for their cultural class that is held weekly, for each age group. The group was able to see how they tap the trees to get the sap, along with the long heating process as well as how much work it requires to make just one gallon of maple syrup. They also learned that the sap from the maple tree is used as a cleansing medicine for our people. They were able see the different...
Vagabond Theatre presents “KINGFISHER DAYS” a true story, written by Canadian Playwright SUSAN COYNE (co-creator and co-star of Slings and Arrows) to celebrate VAGABOND’S 25th season of community theatre. The play is about a self-absorbed fairy played by NIKAIATAA SKIDDERS, who is banished from her home in Peru for a thousand years, because people said she was too proud. The narrator NANCY MUNROE relives her memories of a five year old at her family’s cottage at Lake of the Woods and the old stone fireplace she discovers. Her father JEAN LE...
Below are names of SUNY Potsdam students in your area who recently have been recognized for their achievements at our College, either by being named to the Dean’s List or President’s List or awarded a degree and indicating honors, if any. To achieve the honor of being on the President’s List, each student must have satisfactorily completed 12 numerically graded semester hours that semester with a minimum grade point average of 3.5. To achieve the honor of being on the Dean’s List, each student mush have satisfactorily completed 12 numerically g...
Stephen C. Tarbell II of Silver Lake, New York the son of Steve and Pam Tarbell has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester of 2008 at the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Stephen is in his second year of graduate school pursuing a degree in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. He is a 2005 graduate of Letchworth Central School, Gainesville, New York. Stephen is the grandson of Charles Tarbell of Rochester, New York and great-nephew of Roy and Carol...
As I drove along St. Regis road and State Route 37 this past week I noticed that some of the trees are beginning to show some color on their branches. This is a very welcome site. It tells me that warmer weather is on its way. The colors are a very pale yellow to green and red because the buds are just beginning to swell. Trees are not only aesthetically beautiful, they are extremely environmentally important to all living things. Trees alter the environment in which we live. They moderate o...
