Category: Tyendinaga

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MBQ releases statement on Trudeau press conference

Following Trudeau’s press conference yesterday the MBQ expresses puzzlement and concern in open statement February 21, 2020 – In light of recent statements made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Tyendinaga Mohawk Council is...

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Joint Mohawk – Wet’suwet’en Press Release

PRESS RELEASE February 21, 2020 TYENDINAGA – Today, the Mohawk people and Wet’suwet’en people stood in solidarity at the Mohawk Council House in Tyendinaga to affirm that they will not stand by and watch...

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Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs sign Mohawk plow, visit front lines

The Hereditary Chiefs came to the front lines to personally thank the Mohawk people who have refused to allow trains through their land due to the RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en territory.

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Aug 20, 1891 – The Mohawks’ letter to Prince Arthur on the Silver Covenant Chain

The following document is a copy of a letter sent by Tortoise Totem, Joseph J. Brant De-ka-ri ho-ken and 4 others to Prince Andrew on the topic of the silver covenant chain relationship between the Mohawks and the British Crown.

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VIDEO – Two Row Teachings on the Track

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...

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VIDEO – Injunction served and burnt at Tyendinaga rail blockade as numbers grow

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.

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VIDEO – Tyendinaga Mohawks say no trains will pass through their lands until the RCMP gets out of Wet’suwet’en territory

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – When the RCMP invaded Wet’suwet’en territory on February 6th 2020, solidarity actions in support of the Wet’suwet’en sprung up across Canada. The port of Vancouver was shut down, Indigenous youth...

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The colonial framework of the “Cannabis Control Act”

The following is an overview of the Cannabis Control Law that the MBQ claims has been in effect since March of 2019.

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Why the MBQ has no right to create or enforce a “Cannabis Control Law” on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

For the MBQ to claim in its proposed “Cannabis Control Act” that it, as an Indian Act Band Council and creature of the Federal Government, is a “First Nation” and that it exists as “part of the Mohawk Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy” and that thereby it has “the existing and inherent right of self-determination, which includes the inherent jurisdiction over their lands, people and territory” is a blatant falsehood and an act of economic and political appropriation.

Tyendinaga Thunderbirds

Tyendinaga Thunderbirds

This page brings together Real People’s Media coveragae of the Tyendinaga Thunderbirds.