A Voice from the Eastern Door
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PRESS RELEASE - The Akwesasne Mohawk Leadership Task Force traveled to Ottawa Monday to meet with representatives of the CBSA. During the middle of the discussion on seizures CBSA officials objected to the presence of MCA’s lawyer at the negotiation table despite the presence of their own legal representative. CBSA officials challenged the role of the MCA lawyer and attempted to force all the lawyers to leave the meeting. When the Akwesasne Mohawk Leadership would not agree to the removal, the CBSA ended the meeting and walked out. The C...
Twin Leaf Express opened last month in Fort Covington and found itself immediately amid controversy. The Mohawk-owned store is situated in the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s land claims area known as the Mile Square in Fort Covington. Store owner Kim Terrance plans on selling tobacco and fuel at reservation prices and this week they received their tribal license to do so. Along with criticism from the Fort Covington Town Board, the store is also being targeted by the Akwesasne Convenience Store Association, formerly the Akwesasne Petroleum Co-op, w...
Strong Wind Records is pleased to announce that Native Folk Singer-Songwriter Atsiaktonkie (ah-jeeak-doon-gee-ay) and his current CD Four Wolves Prophecy was the winning recipient of a NAMMY Award for Best Folk Recording at the 11th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) held Saturday, October 3 at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, NY. “This is such a great honor,” said Atsiaktonkie about winning a NAMMY Award. “I would like to thank everybody who has supported me along...
Mohawk fishing enthusiast PJ Burns was the most successful sportsman this weekend at the 15th Annual Noah Thompson Memorial Fishing Derby. The longtime competitor broke the state’s 2-day bass record when he weighed in six fish for a combined weight of 34.6 lbs. The state record was 33 lbs. By breaking the record, Burns won $10,000 – just a week after welcoming a new baby daughter. The Thompson family has hosted the bass tournament in memory of their late father and it has become an event loo...
Cecilia A. Trombley, age 65, of Hogansburg, NY, and formerly of Malone, NY, died unexpectedly, Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at her home. Born in Ogdensburg, NY, October 22, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Angus and Anna Bero Mussel; she graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy in Malone and from college in Plattsburgh, NY. On July 8, 1967, she was united in marriage to Arlington J. Trombley, Sr. at St. Joseph’s Church in Malone. The marriage ended in divorce. Cecilia was employed by the Mal...
AKWESASNE - Mrs. Glenda M. Benedict, age 69, of 28 St. Regis Road, peacefully passed away early Saturday morning, October 3, 2009 at her home under the loving care of her family and Hospice of the North Country. Glenda was born July 27, 1940 in Akwesasne, the daughter of Walter A. and Louise Cook Herne. She attended schools in Bombay. On September 19, 1959, she married Walter A. Benedict at St. Regis Catholic Church with Rev. Michael Jacobs, SJ, officiating. She was a homemaker, raising her 5...
AKWESASNE - Mrs. Margaret Konwakeri Francis, age 71, 378 State Route 37, Sunrise Acres, peacefully passed away on Monday October 5, 2009 at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, where she had been a patient since September 21, 2009. She was born March 18, 1938 in Cornwall, the daughter of Emma King Francis. She attended grammar schools in Cornwall and graduated from High School in Cornwall. She graduated from Onondaga Community College with a degree in Business Administration. She married...
Thank You Thank you to the tribe and chiefs for cleaning up the Hathaway property. We would also like to give a special thank you to Ma’s Excavation for their work. The crew went above and beyond their excavation bid. We are grateful for their compassion and consideration in a most difficult time. They have renewed our faith in the Mohawk Culture. Sincerely, The Hathaway family...
Dear Editor and Fellow Mohawks, October 2009 will become a historic date. This week the Tribal government took the logical step to further Mohawk jurisdiction over lands previously considered by most people as “land claim territory”. That is a weird sort of term that makes me feel like, “yea it’s our land, but, we can’t use it.” Well, that certainly is not the case. On Monday, October 5, 2009 the Tribal Chiefs signed the last of three business licenses for Twin Leaf Express convenience store and gas station to be operated at 2369 Chateaugay...
To our Dad who would have been 45 years old on October 6th. You are in our hearts & thoughts forever. Sadly missed by your children, Tiara, Corey, Carlee, Sydney, Theresa & Grandkids, Gavin, Garin&Gracelyn....
Letter to the Editor October 4, 2009 PEOPLE PILLAGED AGAIN WE NEED TO UNIFY! Nearly fifty people were in attendance at the Tribe’s monthly meeting held Saturday, October 3 rd. Following a discussion on the action items, no minutes were read for tribal and community present. Frustrations grew as noted with the proposed tribal council purchase of the “fading fast” Burning Sky operation on Route 37; whose present owners are the Benedicts. IPP and DSS Director Jeff Whelan made his pitch to the audience, but it was not accepted by the major...
Letter to the community Submitted by Barbara Barnes A number of Mohawk residents are concerned about the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino flying the Haudenosaunee Flag. I would like you to read this article so that you can understand why the Haudenosaunee Flag is no longer flying at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino. The Haudenosaunee Grand Council issues a statement on Casinos HAUDENOSAUNEE STATEMENT ON HIGH STAKES GAMBLING April 2005 PROLOGUE In 1799 the member nations of the Haudenosaunee were in serious state of disarray. We had just endured a raging conf...
Last Thursday students at Kana:takon School took part in a North American-wide fitness challenge, the School Days Stomp. Schools across Canada and the U.S. took the challenge put forward by the FitnessFinders.net website and their challenge series. The website gives schools and other organizations monthly fitness challenges to complete with a theme. September’s challenge was the School Days Stomp and the students (grades 7, 8, K-4 and K-5) were required to take part in a 1-kilometer course of e...
I am just back from the Menominee College in Menominee, Wisconsin where Richard David and I delivered Ash Conservation training. The training was delivered betwixt our local seed collection effort this year, making for a very busy month. The Menominee workshop was the third training event for this year, having provided training to the Tuscarora Nation and to the Robert Moses State Park Nature Center where what we had to share was very well received and appreciated. We offer our sincere thanks...
CKON was begun in the spring of 1982 when a group of Akwesasronon decided the time had come for the Mohawk people to exercise their right to control our airwaves by operating our own radio station licensed not by any external agency but by the Mohawk Nation Council. The organizing group which formed the Akwesasne Communications Society decided that radio was the ideal medium for the transmitting of news and entertainment from a distinctly aboriginal perspective. It would give our non-Native neighbours an opportunity to enhance their knowledge...
Ahnawate Marina has added a new layer to its enterprise. Earlier this spring, proprietor Skahentati Thompson opened a sales, service, repair, parts and accessories shop for area boaters called Thompson Marine, located in Raquette Point. Thompson Marine is a certified Mercury dealership but Thompson and employees profess the knowledge to repair and service virtually any outboard motor as well as many inboards. Thompson, his father, Loran, and brother, Eric, decided to expand the family-owned and...
Jan Michael Looking Wolf for Artist of the Year, Joanne Shenandoah & Michael Bucher’s Bitter Tears Sacred Ground for Best Compilation, Jana’s rendition of A Change Is Gonna Come for Song/Single of the Year, Kevin Locke’s Earth Gift for Record of the Year, and American Idol Semi-finalist Charly Lowry for Best Video Among Those Honored Niagara Falls, NY – On Saturday October 3, 2009 the Eleventh Annual Native American Music Awards (N.A.M.A.) was held at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls in front of a packed house that feature...
In the month of October we celebrate Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon week is traditionally celebrated the last full week of October. This celebration started after the death of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985. Camarena had gone undercover in Mexico. In this time he led to the discovery of a multimillion dollar narcotics manufacturing operation. After this narcotics operation among others was taken down, Agent Camarena was kidnapped, never to be seen alive again. When Camarena was found and his hom...
Let’s Get Healthy Program has been doing everything they can to promote healthy lifestyles and preventative measures within the community. A large contribution to their cause would be the construction of a $6.8 million diabetes building to better serve Akwesasne. Through various fundraisers and community efforts the Let’s Get Healthy Program has been able to raise an astonishing $1,259,000.00 towards the new facility. Community efforts such as the 3rd annual 7 miles for 7 generations bik...
If you answered Mali Africa than you were one of the few who could among those at the Trivia Night Benefit held at Cedar View Golf Course on Oct. 2. The benefit was held for Charlene Cole, a lifetime resident of Akwesasne and cancer patient who received gracious support from the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in Burlington, VT. Ms. Cole was diagnosed with multiple myeloma after experiencing pain under her rib cage. She was being treated in Burlington and stayed at the Hope Lodge facility....
By Kanietahawi Sharrow on behalf of the Wholistic Health and Wellness Program Explaining to children about death is not easy. Some children are left completely out of the mourning process for various reasons. Perhaps adults simply do not know how to explain and answer their questions appropriately. Some adults feel the children do not need to be burdened by what is going on and fail to explain why a loved one is gone. The truth is children can deal with death and children can understand and handle the facts about death. Here are a few facts in...
Bear’s Den Trading Post has been a trusted business in Akwesasne for over 50 years thanks to their loyal customers, and this past Oct. 3 they showed their appreciation by holding a carnival themed Customer Appreciation Day. The event also helped to celebrate Cubby‘s, Bear’s Den mascot, birthday. The main event took place under the large tent at the Bear’s Den parking lot. There were carnival themed games, an indoor obstacle course, bouncy house, face painting, pumpkin decorating, painted...
On Thursday, October 1st the Tsi Snaihne School was busy with students, teachers, parents and grandparents enjoying a fall harvest celebration. The visitors enjoyed a meal with their student(s) and attended a social. The opening and announcement of dances was done by students in the Mohawk Immersion class. Kanien’keha Ratirennenha:wi led the students in songs and dances. It was a fun celebration, and a break from all the school work. The teachers and staff worked so hard to make this a great c...
“As Natives, our nationality has the highest number of preventable disabilities,” said key note speaker Jim Warne from San Diego State University who spoke about Vocational Rehabilitation Services at Akwesasne’s Annual Disability Awareness Day Sept. 30. “We need to know about prevention strategies and get back to our traditional ways that have worked for us.” Akwesasne’s 7th Annual Disability Awareness Day was held at the Hogansburg Akwesasne Volunteer Fire Department Station 1 in Hogansburg...
One of Canada’s most respected aboriginal leaders reached deep within himself to find hope and healing after traumatic abuse then led his people on a similar journey. He’ll tell his story at the thirteenth annual general meeting of the Children’s Treatment Centre on October 14th. Guest speaker will be Phil Fontaine who served three distinguished terms as the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, the country’s most influential aboriginal organization. A member of the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, the 64-year-old native leader...
