#akwesasne — Public Fediverse posts

The Kanienʼkehá:ka nation of Ahkwesáhsne worries USA’s ICE agents to come at their doorsteps after one of the counties that’s on their land authorized the latter access.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/akwesasne-mohawk-territory-immigration-ice-fears-9.7105852
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La nation Kanienʼkehá:ka d’Ahkwesáhsne est préoccupée que les agents d’ICE des ÉUA viendront à leurs portes après qu’un des comtés qui se trouve sur leur territoire a autorisé à ces derniers l’accès

// Article en anglais //

#Akwesasne #Kanienkehàka #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Indigenous

The Kanienʼkehá:ka nation of Ahkwesáhsne worries USA’s ICE agents to come at their doorsteps after one of the counties that’s on their land authorized the latter access.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/akwesasne-mohawk-territory-immigration-ice-fears-9.7105852
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La nation Kanienʼkehá:ka d’Ahkwesáhsne est préoccupée que les agents d’ICE des ÉUA viendront à leurs portes après qu’un des comtés qui se trouve sur leur territoire a autorisé à ces derniers l’accès

// Article en anglais //

#Akwesasne #Kanienkehàka #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Indigenous

The Kanienʼkehá:ka nation of Ahkwesáhsne worries USA’s ICE agents to come at their doorsteps after one of the counties that’s on their land authorized the latter access.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/akwesasne-mohawk-territory-immigration-ice-fears-9.7105852
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La nation Kanienʼkehá:ka d’Ahkwesáhsne est préoccupée que les agents d’ICE des ÉUA viendront à leurs portes après qu’un des comtés qui se trouve sur leur territoire a autorisé à ces derniers l’accès

// Article en anglais //

#Akwesasne #Kanienkehàka #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Indigenous

The Kanienʼkehá:ka nation of Ahkwesáhsne worries USA’s ICE agents to come at their doorsteps after one of the counties that’s on their land authorized the latter access.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/akwesasne-mohawk-territory-immigration-ice-fears-9.7105852
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La nation Kanienʼkehá:ka d’Ahkwesáhsne est préoccupée que les agents d’ICE des ÉUA viendront à leurs portes après qu’un des comtés qui se trouve sur leur territoire a autorisé à ces derniers l’accès

// Article en anglais //

#Akwesasne #Kanienkehàka #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Indigenous

The Kanienʼkehá:ka nation of Ahkwesáhsne worries USA’s ICE agents to come at their doorsteps after one of the counties that’s on their land authorized the latter access.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/akwesasne-mohawk-territory-immigration-ice-fears-9.7105852
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La nation Kanienʼkehá:ka d’Ahkwesáhsne est préoccupée que les agents d’ICE des ÉUA viendront à leurs portes après qu’un des comtés qui se trouve sur leur territoire a autorisé à ces derniers l’accès

// Article en anglais //

#Akwesasne #Kanienkehàka #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Indigenous

Outbreak: "Respiratory Outbreak" (Unspecified Pathogen)

Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-09

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Outbreak: "Respiratory Outbreak" (Unspecified Pathogen)

Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-09

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Outbreak: "Respiratory Outbreak" (Unspecified Pathogen)

Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-09

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Outbreak: "Respiratory Outbreak" (Unspecified Pathogen)

Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-09

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Outbreak: "Respiratory Outbreak" (Unspecified Pathogen)

Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-09

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Outbreak: #COVID-19

Facility: Tsiionkwanonhso:te
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-02

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Outbreak: #COVID-19

Facility: Tsiionkwanonhso:te
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-02

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: #COVID-19

Facility: Tsiionkwanonhso:te
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-02

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: #COVID-19

Facility: Tsiionkwanonhso:te
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-02

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: #COVID-19

Facility: Tsiionkwanonhso:te
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050

Date: 2026-02-02

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

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Tribal councils in Akwesasne oppose nuclear plant nearby https://www.byteseu.com/1736765/ #akwesasne #Albany #ClimateChange #environment #Health #Hochul #mohawks #Native #Nuclear

Outbreak: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (#MRSA)
Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Date: 2025-12-12

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (#MRSA)
Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Date: 2025-12-12

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (#MRSA)
Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Date: 2025-12-12

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (#MRSA)
Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Date: 2025-12-12

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Outbreak: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (#MRSA)
Facility: Iakhihsohtha Lodge
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Akwesasne
Date: 2025-12-12

Public Health Unit: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Department of Health & Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0050
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

Canadian-American citizen arrested in relation to human smuggling deaths #Canada #Crime #US News #Akwesasne #Human Smuggling #justice department #St Lawrence River

https://globalnews.ca/news/11269009/us-justice-man-detained-human-smuggling//612

[Short film] #Tentsítewahkwe

Katsitsionni Fox (#Mohawk) with Xochitl Fox (#Mexica / #Azteca)

"As a young girl, Jessica Shenandoah (Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) learned about harvesting medicine and food plants alongside her mother and grandmother. Contemporary Native People are often separated many generations from their traditional knowledge due to the effects of colonial realities such as boarding school, forced religion, and land theft.

"In the latest Native women-centered film by Mohawk filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox (Ohero:kon - Under the Husk, Without a Whisper - Konnon:kwe), Shenandoah goes on a journey across four seasons and multiple Native territories to connect with other knowledge keepers reviving the land-based knowledge of their ancestral grandmothers in order to return to time-honored practices of pottery making, mat weaving, hide tanning, medicine making, food gathering, and more. Jessica embodies the Mohawk concept of Tentsítewahkwe as she picks up knowledge of the old ways, these slow methods of creating and connecting in reciprocity with the Earth.

"This film is at once a thank you to the Native women who imbued their descendents with blood memory of these practices and a promise to future generations of Native people that these practices will stay alive for generations to come."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tentsitewahkwe

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousReclamation #Reciprocity #MotherEarth #Akwesasne #MohawkNation #TraditionalMedicine #LandBasedKnowledge #WomenCenteredFilms

[Short film] #Tentsítewahkwe

Katsitsionni Fox (#Mohawk) with Xochitl Fox (#Mexica / #Azteca)

"As a young girl, Jessica Shenandoah (Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) learned about harvesting medicine and food plants alongside her mother and grandmother. Contemporary Native People are often separated many generations from their traditional knowledge due to the effects of colonial realities such as boarding school, forced religion, and land theft.

"In the latest Native women-centered film by Mohawk filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox (Ohero:kon - Under the Husk, Without a Whisper - Konnon:kwe), Shenandoah goes on a journey across four seasons and multiple Native territories to connect with other knowledge keepers reviving the land-based knowledge of their ancestral grandmothers in order to return to time-honored practices of pottery making, mat weaving, hide tanning, medicine making, food gathering, and more. Jessica embodies the Mohawk concept of Tentsítewahkwe as she picks up knowledge of the old ways, these slow methods of creating and connecting in reciprocity with the Earth.

"This film is at once a thank you to the Native women who imbued their descendents with blood memory of these practices and a promise to future generations of Native people that these practices will stay alive for generations to come."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tentsitewahkwe

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousReclamation #Reciprocity #MotherEarth #Akwesasne #MohawkNation #TraditionalMedicine #LandBasedKnowledge #WomenCenteredFilms

[Short film] #Tentsítewahkwe

Katsitsionni Fox (#Mohawk) with Xochitl Fox (#Mexica / #Azteca)

"As a young girl, Jessica Shenandoah (Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) learned about harvesting medicine and food plants alongside her mother and grandmother. Contemporary Native People are often separated many generations from their traditional knowledge due to the effects of colonial realities such as boarding school, forced religion, and land theft.

"In the latest Native women-centered film by Mohawk filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox (Ohero:kon - Under the Husk, Without a Whisper - Konnon:kwe), Shenandoah goes on a journey across four seasons and multiple Native territories to connect with other knowledge keepers reviving the land-based knowledge of their ancestral grandmothers in order to return to time-honored practices of pottery making, mat weaving, hide tanning, medicine making, food gathering, and more. Jessica embodies the Mohawk concept of Tentsítewahkwe as she picks up knowledge of the old ways, these slow methods of creating and connecting in reciprocity with the Earth.

"This film is at once a thank you to the Native women who imbued their descendents with blood memory of these practices and a promise to future generations of Native people that these practices will stay alive for generations to come."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tentsitewahkwe

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousReclamation #Reciprocity #MotherEarth #Akwesasne #MohawkNation #TraditionalMedicine #LandBasedKnowledge #WomenCenteredFilms

[Short film] #Tentsítewahkwe

Katsitsionni Fox (#Mohawk) with Xochitl Fox (#Mexica / #Azteca)

"As a young girl, Jessica Shenandoah (Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) learned about harvesting medicine and food plants alongside her mother and grandmother. Contemporary Native People are often separated many generations from their traditional knowledge due to the effects of colonial realities such as boarding school, forced religion, and land theft.

"In the latest Native women-centered film by Mohawk filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox (Ohero:kon - Under the Husk, Without a Whisper - Konnon:kwe), Shenandoah goes on a journey across four seasons and multiple Native territories to connect with other knowledge keepers reviving the land-based knowledge of their ancestral grandmothers in order to return to time-honored practices of pottery making, mat weaving, hide tanning, medicine making, food gathering, and more. Jessica embodies the Mohawk concept of Tentsítewahkwe as she picks up knowledge of the old ways, these slow methods of creating and connecting in reciprocity with the Earth.

"This film is at once a thank you to the Native women who imbued their descendents with blood memory of these practices and a promise to future generations of Native people that these practices will stay alive for generations to come."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tentsitewahkwe

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousReclamation #Reciprocity #MotherEarth #Akwesasne #MohawkNation #TraditionalMedicine #LandBasedKnowledge #WomenCenteredFilms

[Short film] #Tentsítewahkwe

Katsitsionni Fox (#Mohawk) with Xochitl Fox (#Mexica / #Azteca)

"As a young girl, Jessica Shenandoah (Wolf Clan from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) learned about harvesting medicine and food plants alongside her mother and grandmother. Contemporary Native People are often separated many generations from their traditional knowledge due to the effects of colonial realities such as boarding school, forced religion, and land theft.

"In the latest Native women-centered film by Mohawk filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox (Ohero:kon - Under the Husk, Without a Whisper - Konnon:kwe), Shenandoah goes on a journey across four seasons and multiple Native territories to connect with other knowledge keepers reviving the land-based knowledge of their ancestral grandmothers in order to return to time-honored practices of pottery making, mat weaving, hide tanning, medicine making, food gathering, and more. Jessica embodies the Mohawk concept of Tentsítewahkwe as she picks up knowledge of the old ways, these slow methods of creating and connecting in reciprocity with the Earth.

"This film is at once a thank you to the Native women who imbued their descendents with blood memory of these practices and a promise to future generations of Native people that these practices will stay alive for generations to come."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tentsitewahkwe

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousReclamation #Reciprocity #MotherEarth #Akwesasne #MohawkNation #TraditionalMedicine #LandBasedKnowledge #WomenCenteredFilms

On this average Monday, when a lot of people have the day off, I'd like to give thanks to "One Nation, indivisible… The #FirstNations.

Thank you to Kahnawá:ke and the Mohawk Nation of #Akwesasne for allowing me to be raised in "The Land with the Partridge Drums". Better yet, let me rephrase that…
Niá:wen kowa tsi wahsekshnié:non

Oh, and Chris? 🖕🏼

Alt text:
Image is the Mohawk Warrior Flag. Designed in 1974 by Karoniaktajeh Louis Hall, it was originally known as the "unity flag". Karoniaktajeh was a writer, activist, and artist from Kahnawake.

#Kahnawá:ke #Mohawk #Indigenous #landback #native #ColumbusDay Pffft!!

On this average Monday, when a lot of people have the day off, I'd like to give thanks to "One Nation, indivisible… The #FirstNations.

Thank you to Kahnawá:ke and the Mohawk Nation of #Akwesasne for allowing me to be raised in "The Land with the Partridge Drums". Better yet, let me rephrase that…
Niá:wen kowa tsi wahsekshnié:non

Oh, and Chris? 🖕🏼

Alt text:
Image is the Mohawk Warrior Flag. Designed in 1974 by Karoniaktajeh Louis Hall, it was originally known as the "unity flag". Karoniaktajeh was a writer, activist, and artist from Kahnawake.

#Kahnawá:ke #Mohawk #Indigenous #landback #native #ColumbusDay Pffft!!

#Akwesasne is part of the #Mohawk Nation, one of the six nations of the #Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Its residents’ #AncestralTerritory, which includes Barnhart Island, extends across the #Canada - #USA border, and includes parts of #Ontario, #Quebec and #NewYork state. For decades, factories surrounding the reserve dumped now-banned chemicals into the #StLawrenceRiver, #contaminating the land and water. But Barnhart Island is upstream of the contamination — the breeze is still sweet and the water is clear. And soon, Akswesasne #TribalGovernment may sign a settlement agreement with the State of New York, ceding its title to the island forever.

For the #LandDefenders who were arrested, reclaiming #BarnhartIsland goes hand-in-hand with protecting what’s left of their territory that is still healthy enough for them to gather medicine, hunt, fish, conduct ceremonies and heal. They aren’t willing to sell their homeland — not for any price.

Freelance #journalist Brandi Morin and #photojournalist Ian Willms spent five days on the territory in June to document the fight for clean land.
https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island

#Indigenous #NativeLand #Unceded #Environmental #Pollution #Ecocide #ToxicWaste #TurtleIsland #CDNpoli

#Akwesasne is part of the #Mohawk Nation, one of the six nations of the #Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Its residents’ #AncestralTerritory, which includes Barnhart Island, extends across the #Canada - #USA border, and includes parts of #Ontario, #Quebec and #NewYork state. For decades, factories surrounding the reserve dumped now-banned chemicals into the #StLawrenceRiver, #contaminating the land and water. But Barnhart Island is upstream of the contamination — the breeze is still sweet and the water is clear. And soon, Akswesasne #TribalGovernment may sign a settlement agreement with the State of New York, ceding its title to the island forever.

For the #LandDefenders who were arrested, reclaiming #BarnhartIsland goes hand-in-hand with protecting what’s left of their territory that is still healthy enough for them to gather medicine, hunt, fish, conduct ceremonies and heal. They aren’t willing to sell their homeland — not for any price.

Freelance #journalist Brandi Morin and #photojournalist Ian Willms spent five days on the territory in June to document the fight for clean land.
https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island

#Indigenous #NativeLand #Unceded #Environmental #Pollution #Ecocide #ToxicWaste #TurtleIsland #CDNpoli

#Akwesasne is part of the #Mohawk Nation, one of the six nations of the #Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Its residents’ #AncestralTerritory, which includes Barnhart Island, extends across the #Canada - #USA border, and includes parts of #Ontario, #Quebec and #NewYork state. For decades, factories surrounding the reserve dumped now-banned chemicals into the #StLawrenceRiver, #contaminating the land and water. But Barnhart Island is upstream of the contamination — the breeze is still sweet and the water is clear. And soon, Akswesasne #TribalGovernment may sign a settlement agreement with the State of New York, ceding its title to the island forever.

For the #LandDefenders who were arrested, reclaiming #BarnhartIsland goes hand-in-hand with protecting what’s left of their territory that is still healthy enough for them to gather medicine, hunt, fish, conduct ceremonies and heal. They aren’t willing to sell their homeland — not for any price.

Freelance #journalist Brandi Morin and #photojournalist Ian Willms spent five days on the territory in June to document the fight for clean land.
https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island

#Indigenous #NativeLand #Unceded #Environmental #Pollution #Ecocide #ToxicWaste #TurtleIsland #CDNpoli

#Akwesasne is part of the #Mohawk Nation, one of the six nations of the #Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Its residents’ #AncestralTerritory, which includes Barnhart Island, extends across the #Canada - #USA border, and includes parts of #Ontario, #Quebec and #NewYork state. For decades, factories surrounding the reserve dumped now-banned chemicals into the #StLawrenceRiver, #contaminating the land and water. But Barnhart Island is upstream of the contamination — the breeze is still sweet and the water is clear. And soon, Akswesasne #TribalGovernment may sign a settlement agreement with the State of New York, ceding its title to the island forever.

For the #LandDefenders who were arrested, reclaiming #BarnhartIsland goes hand-in-hand with protecting what’s left of their territory that is still healthy enough for them to gather medicine, hunt, fish, conduct ceremonies and heal. They aren’t willing to sell their homeland — not for any price.

Freelance #journalist Brandi Morin and #photojournalist Ian Willms spent five days on the territory in June to document the fight for clean land.
https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island

#Indigenous #NativeLand #Unceded #Environmental #Pollution #Ecocide #ToxicWaste #TurtleIsland #CDNpoli

#Akwesasne is part of the #Mohawk Nation, one of the six nations of the #Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Its residents’ #AncestralTerritory, which includes Barnhart Island, extends across the #Canada - #USA border, and includes parts of #Ontario, #Quebec and #NewYork state. For decades, factories surrounding the reserve dumped now-banned chemicals into the #StLawrenceRiver, #contaminating the land and water. But Barnhart Island is upstream of the contamination — the breeze is still sweet and the water is clear. And soon, Akswesasne #TribalGovernment may sign a settlement agreement with the State of New York, ceding its title to the island forever.

For the #LandDefenders who were arrested, reclaiming #BarnhartIsland goes hand-in-hand with protecting what’s left of their territory that is still healthy enough for them to gather medicine, hunt, fish, conduct ceremonies and heal. They aren’t willing to sell their homeland — not for any price.

Freelance #journalist Brandi Morin and #photojournalist Ian Willms spent five days on the territory in June to document the fight for clean land.
https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island

#Indigenous #NativeLand #Unceded #Environmental #Pollution #Ecocide #ToxicWaste #TurtleIsland #CDNpoli

Akwesasne 8. https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/28/emancipation-is-here-on-this-island/

#firstNations #Akwesasne #Mohawk
#emancipation #directaction

#LandBack at #Barnhart:
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

By Jennifer Lee
June 25, 2024

"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

"For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

Read more:

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285

#EnvironmentalRacism #Ecocide

#LandBack at #Barnhart:
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

By Jennifer Lee
June 25, 2024

"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

"For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

Read more:

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285

#EnvironmentalRacism #Ecocide

#LandBack at #Barnhart:
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

By Jennifer Lee
June 25, 2024

"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

"For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

Read more:

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285

#EnvironmentalRacism #Ecocide

#LandBack at #Barnhart:
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

By Jennifer Lee
June 25, 2024

"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

"For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

Read more:

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285

#EnvironmentalRacism #Ecocide

#LandBack at #Barnhart:
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

By Jennifer Lee
June 25, 2024

"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

"For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

Read more:

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285

#EnvironmentalRacism #Ecocide

Akwesasne Mohawks pleased with Marvel's newest superhero https://www.wwnytv.com/2024/01/03/akwesasne-mohawks-pleased-with-marvels-newest-superhero/

#Superhero
#WhatIf
#Marvel
#NativeAmerican
#Mowhawk
#Akwesasne

How these twins are empowering youth in Akwesasne with wrestling - CBC News https://bit.ly/3uFdlWm #Wrestling #IndigenousYouth #Akwesasne #Sports #Indigenous #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

How these twins are empowering youth in Akwesasne with wrestling - CBC News https://bit.ly/3uFdlWm #Wrestling #IndigenousYouth #Akwesasne #Sports #Indigenous #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

Kanien'kehá:ka artist paints cultural details into pet portraits. #BruceBoots incorporates a family's clan, #Beadwork, #Quillwork, and #RibbonShirts. #Indigenousartist #Akwesasne, Kanien'kehá:ka (#Mohawk territory) #Quebec, #Ontario #NewYorkState, #PetPortraits in 2020. #IndigenousArt #Indigenous #Artist #Painting #Art
#Culture #FirstNation #KaniehtiioHorn #Kahnawake #Haudenosaunee #Iroquoian #HaudenosauneeCulture

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/pet-portraits-bruce-boots-1.6809660

Kanien'kehá:ka artist paints cultural details into pet portraits. #BruceBoots incorporates a family's clan, #Beadwork, #Quillwork, and #RibbonShirts. #Indigenousartist #Akwesasne, Kanien'kehá:ka (#Mohawk territory) #Quebec, #Ontario #NewYorkState, #PetPortraits in 2020. #IndigenousArt #Indigenous #Artist #Painting #Art
#Culture #FirstNation #KaniehtiioHorn #Kahnawake #Haudenosaunee #Iroquoian #HaudenosauneeCulture

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/pet-portraits-bruce-boots-1.6809660