The current blockades across the land known as Canada, done in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people, whose land is currently occupied by the RCMP, are a long-overdue reckoning. The purpose of the blockades is...
Your Majesty,
I trust that this message finds you and the Royal Family in good health and good spirits.
We, the Sha’tekarihwate family of the Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan are writing to you out of care and concern for one of our allies, namely, the Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia. As we know you are aware, our people have had an allied relationship for 300 plus years, which is called the Orehkwasa or Silver Covenant Chain and the Tenkeni Tyohate or Two Row Wampum. It was our ancestors that made this agreement and we have been vested with the responsibility to follow through with our obligations as outlined in this treaty. It is this treaty that establishes our allied relationship to each other and has allowed your family some ability to exercise limited sovereignty within our shared territory.
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller met with Kanenhariyo and other Mohawks at the Tyendinaga Rail Stoppage on February 15 2020 before being welcomed onto the Territory for longer talks For the first time in...
Marc Miller is a 46-year-old Canadian Liberal politician, elected as an MP in 2015 and re-elected in 2019. He is currently a member of cabinet, appointed Minister of Indigenous Services in November 2019. He...
MEDIA RELEASE Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory—Today the Mohawk Nation have been holding a “People’s Meeting” for Mohawks from Territories in Ontario, Quebec, and New York State to discuss the ongoing solidarity actions taken by Tyendinaga...
TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY– The powerful logistics corporation, Canadian National Railway, facilitates the movement of resources stolen from Indigenous lands on behalf of many of the world’s most powerful corporations in pursuit of profit through...
Tyendinaga Mohawks Seek Peaceful Resolution TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police invaded Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia on February 5th, 2020 to enforce a court injunction to remove the Wet’suwet’en from...
OPP officers came to negotiate for an end to the closure of Mohawk lands to Canadian trains. Instead, they got a lesson about the Two Row Wampum and an offer to polish the Silver...
TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – The OPP have told the Mohawks occupying the rail crossing on Wyman Rd that they will be enforcing the injunction but not when. They are asking for supporters to gather...
A large contingent of OPP and CN Rail personnel arrived with the understanding that they had more papers to serve, however the injunction was burned on the tracks in full view of media and police. After the injunction was burned in front of them the OPP and CN Rail got back in their vehicles and left quickly without serving additional papers.
