A Voice from the Eastern Door
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The annual Akwesasne Freedom School Survival Race and Quilt Auction took place over the weekend, on August 24 and 25. This year’s race saw 13 teams competing in five legs of the race: swimming, canoeing, biking, backpacking, and running. The race is conducted relay style with each participant needing to tag off with their teammate before they can start the next leg of the race. The race was won by Team Rez X, with a time of 2 hours and 48 minutes. Coming in second place was Team La Migra, with a...
The Human Rights Tribunal of Fallan Davis V. CBSA continued this week. Debbie Zion, a Canada Border Service Agency operations director, testified that it took many attempts to locate important video footage of an alleged harassment incident involving Davis in 2005. Zion told the tribunal she finally discovered a package containing footage material, in all places a “personal locker.” The evidence was found in December 2009, four years after Fallan Davis was interrogated by Cornwall port of entry CBSA agents on Nov. 18, 2005. Zion came up wit...
The Caughnawaga Indians won a pair of games Tuesday to move to 3-0 and sit atop the standings at the Presidents Cup national Senior B championship tournament being held in Kahnawake, Quebec. Seth Oakes led the Iroquois Lacrosse Association champions to a 16-12 win over the Capital Region Axemen in the first game of the day with 5 goals and 2 assists. Mitch Nanticoke and Jeremy Thompson each contributed 3 goals while Jerome Thompson had a goal and 5 assists. Jordan Joncas had 4 goals and an assist, who reached the tournament as the runners up...
Eight local girls won a chance to compete at the international level after winning the Ontario Aboriginal Summer Games volleyball tournament on Sunday, August 25. They will travel to Regina, Saskatchewan in late July of next year to represent Ontario in the North American Indigenous Games. An estimated 6,000 athletes will compete in the games. About 30 athletes competed in best-of-three series for the chance at the games, with the contests bringing close competition, especially in the 19-under...
The summer GED program, held at the Akwesasne Boys and Girls Club, held a graduation ceremony on Friday, August 23, 2013. The ceremony, which included 13 graduates out of the 35 who completed the program, recognized the students achievements and marks the opening of a door. Speakers for the event included Jessica Cree-Jock, who during her speech addressed the students, encouraging them to follow their dreams and continue their education if that’s their wish. Cree-Jock wrapped up her speech by t...
MALONE- Jessica M. O’Rourke, age 50, of 386 West Main St., Malone, NY, passed away Thursday, August 22, 2013 at the Alice Hyde Medical Center, where she had been a patient for more than a week. Jessica was born January 18, 1963 in Staten Island, NY, the daughter of the late Joyce Sharrow. She enjoyed the outdoors, and taking walks, and also liked cooking and watching movies; and she loved her pet cats. She is survived by her daughter, Danielle Bowles of Akwesasne; and her sons Joseph O’Rourke at home; and Mathew Silva of New Jersey; her sis...
Chief Stuart E. Patterson, of the Tuscarora Nation, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2013, at his home under the care of his family and Niagara Hospice. He was a member of the Beaver Clan, born in Lockport, NY, on April 25, 1934, the son of the late Percy and Eleanor [Chew] Patterson, Sr. Chief Patterson graduated Niagara Falls High School and from Trott Vocational High School. He served with the US ARMY, 969th Engineer Battallion. Chief Patterson was an electrician, with Labor Local # 237,...
August 22, 2013 Dear Editor, Hello. I have been sitting here this week thinking about the illegal substance criminal convictions that has come to light from the recent guilty pleas that have been written in the Indian Time newspaper, and announced on several radio stations. There is a connection to an elected official in office in Akwesasne that has been close to this proliferation of drug monies over the years. She is married to one of the convicted drug dealers. My thoughts go toward the facts that over the past few years in Akwesasne, we hav...
Thanks to the nice weather on Saturday August 10th the Brasshorse Grille was able to have our fourth annual BIKERS VS. CANCER event. A huge thank you to the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino for their donation which they do every year. Their donations help out with the prizes for the motorcycles in the event. The bikers do a bike run in the morning and then come back to the Brasshorse where the bikers set up their bikes for voting. We had vendors that set up their products to sells kids games, bounce house, concession stand, tattoo parlor and a DJ that p...
CKON Radio is ready to kick off Labor Day weekend with a Loyal Listener’s Appreciation Day to be held at the Hogansburg-Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department on Route 37 in Akwesasne on Saturday, August 31. The festivities are scheduled to begin at noon and run through 4 p.m. beginning with a live performance by Oshier Country at noon followed by the Haudenosaunee Youth Cultural Group Fancy & Hoop Dancers at 1 p.m. The afternoon continues with live performances by Bobby Herne and the Country Rollers, Crosswinds (John Francis) and the River M...
Every composer or performer makes a choice as to the style and type of music by which they will be defined. For aboriginal artists it can be a difficult one as they balance culture and commercialism. What sells? And how to reach a market which is widely ignorant of indigenous musical styles and content? Some do make the deliberate choice to use contemporary technologies to compose songs which seek to put into music their experiences as Native artists and to become politically charged. As we know music is often the best, most powerful means of...
Akwesasne – The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe hosted its 7th annual Diabetes Center of Excellence Golf Tournament on August 9, 2013. This year’s event marked the first year of being held at Cedar View Golf Course as in previous years, it was at the Malone Country Club. Each year, a committee consisting of various Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe employees embarks on an event aimed to earn as much money to fund the opening of the Diabetes Center of Excellence. This building will be one of a kind, not only for the community of Akwesasne but for New York Sta...
Akwesasne - The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department has received a welcomed addition to the station with the installation of an 8’ chain link fence. The installation has been completed by St. Lawrence Fence Company and took approximately one week to set up. The scope of work consisted of installing over 700 feet of commercial chain link fencing. With the new fencing, came an electric gate opener, infrared safety photo-eye switches and remote gate openers. According to SRMT Police Chief Andy Thomas, the fence is deemed as m...
Indian Time visited Kawisohkwas Sharrow and Steve King recently. We took a look at their beautiful vegetable gardens. This is their first year growing a garden and it is doing great! We love that people are working toward food sustainability with a vegetable garden. Thank you for showing us around!...
It’s been so many years that Valerie Garrow can’t even remember how many book sales the Akwesasne Library has held. But it comes once a year, usually for two weeks at the end of summer. Many of the books are donated to the library but some are from the library shelves. The book sale is in the garage in back of the library. Prices are $1 for hardcovers, 50 cents for paperback, and the best deal of all, $5 for a bag of books. And did you know you can donate books to the library anytime? But librar...
Submitted by Katsitsionni Fox This summer we pooled resources to create a two-week summer film program for students. Katsitsionni Fox, SRC Title VII Program, Rebecca Smoke, Director of the J.O.M. program, Jason Hall and Jeff Beekhoo from SRMT Broadband, and Sue Herne from the Akwesasne Cultural Center, began planning for this exciting program this past spring. There were 10 students from Akwesasne that participated in this program, which took place at Katsitsionni’s high-tech classroom at Salmon...
As an MCA summer student, graduate Ross Lafrance spent about 3 months with ACFS, from the beginning of June to almost the end of August. He spent his summer between the ACFS offices and the ACFS Summer Program at the Snye Recreation. His title was Youth Prevention Worker/Program Presenter. Ross spent the first month at ACFS offices planning what he would present to the kids at the Summer Program. He decided to use his experience to create a 5 week theatre course for the kids. Ross has been a...
She:kon Monica, I’m looking for endangered language infographics and have not found any that will work for my projects. Do you have any suggestions to help me find good infographics online or how to create my own? O:nen ki:wahi, Infographic Fan She:kon Infographic Fan, One of my favorite online infographics that provides details about the world’s endangered languages is found at http://visual.ly/endangered-languages?view=true. You can also create and share your own free infographics at this website using your own data. I suggest you also con...
Six women sat at a table beading with the intensity of skilled surgeons. As serious and focused as they were, there was a sense of calm and serenity about them. Many of the students mentioned how beading is relaxing and how you often find yourself beading for hours without being aware of how much time passes by. Johanne Jackson of the Elder’s Quilt Club wrote for and received funding by the Akwesasne Community Fund to hold a series of craft classes at the St. Regis Recreation Center in K...
After two weeks of my kids telling me that they do not want to play soccer, I had one tell me that he did want to. Of course he told me on the last day to register...and when I only had about fifteen minutes to get to Fort Covington. I quickly headed to my car and started the drive. Only thing was I forgot about Wade Lafrance road being closed. After a very nervous ten point turn I managed to get going back the direction I came from. I probably wouldn’t have wasted a whole two minutes turning around on the road if I was so scared of the deep d...
Name: Kymani Hank Cook-Jackson Born: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 at 5:50pm Weight: 8lbs. 14oz Parents: Miraya C. Oakes & Anthony A. Jackson Maternal Grandparents: Miranda Cook & the Late Eric Oakes Paternal Grandparents: Lynette White & the Late Matthew Jackson Paternal Great Grandparents: Mildred White & the Late Richard White...
Reprinted from NorthCountryNow.com CANTON -- An increase in confirmed rabies cases has prompted a $45,000 St. Lawrence County Public Health Department budget increase to purchase human and animal vaccination supplies. The St. Lawrence County Legislature approved the fund transfer recently after public health officials announced a rise in vaccine costs and usage. The county typically budgets $100,000 for human and animal rabies vaccine, but public health has already exceeded that cost. Rabies On the Rise Public Health Director Susan Hathaway...
Akwesasne – The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe is proud to note the achievements of Rachel Jacobs, Community Health Representative at Indian Health Service (IHS). For the better portion of the last eight months, she has been working with Margo Gold and Heidi Dishman from the North Country Healthy Heart Network, Inc. to better her counseling skills for smoking cessation. The previous program utilized with IHS was not computerized or digital, so most cases were immediately referred to the North C...
By Craig Arquette, Environmental Specialist Reprinted with Permission from Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Kawennì:ios. I am an Environmental Specialist for the SRMT¹s Environment Division. One of my job duties is to provide oversite for the community regarding the cleanup of the GM property. Basically, I keep an eye on the GM site to make sure their remediation activities are not impacting our community. The property is currently owned by Revitalizing Automotive Communities Environmental Response (RACER) Trust. There are several areas on the GM s...
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