If you’re like me and words like “injunction” of matters outside of the Kayanerekowa may not make as much sense as it does within the Canadian legal system. To some Kanyenkehaka, the Injunction is simply manipulating the Indian act and utilized to continue the land grabs. Developers, Acting on the presumption that Onkwehonwe Land will be surrendered anyway, have…
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Catching up with Broderick Rene: A fighting Mohawk
With only a few short weeks leading up to his first professional MMA fight, We sat down with Broderick Rene and talked shop. How did you become interested in MMA? My dad and older brother always watched MMA as a father-son bonding thing, and I was playing video games, but I wanted in on their…
New xplornet Towers hitting the streets
Mohawk road & 3rd line May 19/2021 Federal Indian Reserve 40 – is raising some new iron in the form of internet towers. Xplornet will be the official internet provider. It has not yet been determined if an office will be located on reserve or if the Mt Pleasant location be the closest. Do you…
Onkwehonweneha: A new gardener’s guide to survival?
Onkwehonwe neha is in the way we garden and how we put seeds into the ground so that we… To ensure that every intention you have when placing the seeds into the soil is focused on feeding not only your own family but those that may stop by when they are hungry. Remember that the…
Protecting Our Pines: Elder Abuse
The issue of abuse takes on an entirely new face when it turns to our oldest and most substantial trees, specifically our Great Pines. Abuse can take many forms; withholding the necessities of life is an umbrella category. Abuse can include financial abuse, Withholding food, love, Not providing a safe environment or making shelter choices that…
POt Shots or POT Shops?
Federal Reserve No. 40 – May 13/2021 An Onkwehonwe grassroots group of community members appear to be engaging in the very profitable hot marijuana market while facing the 3rd incident involving police in just the first half of May. It is unknown if the cannabis products or any other samples obtained have violated any Canadian…
Flash article: Fire Flies or Fire’s in their Eyes?
You don’t need to know that Firefly fossils that are over 100 million years have been found to appreciates the magnificent stories of survival that these amazing little creatures have endured. Despite the concern raised by changing populations from one year being higher while other years having lower populations, countless scholarly articles agree that they are…
Official Statement on Behalf of Mohawk Workers
Disclaimer: Yakowennahskats does not endorse this statement but sharing as part of the ongoing battles against colonial interference. Please contact the group directly for any information.
Why GRASSROOTS Journalist CAN not hate cops: A perspective from an Unbroken Onkwehonwe matrilineal line to this land
Professionally we cannot hate them as individuals but can only speak to the organization level and the catastrophic impacts that they have within our communities. According to the OPP Honour Page, A member of their detachment died in this horrible accident on a hot July nite in 1970. Another victim was the gentleman who resided…
GRAND BACK: A Haudenosaunee Moratorium supporter
STATEMENT OF UNITY ON GRAND RIVER AKA HALDIMAND TRACT Grand Back, (officially Grand River United Front) is a collective of concerned Grand River residents, from Haudenosaunee supporters and land defenders to the many brave-hearted people of Brantford and beyond that have been fiercely resisting the almost total devastation of our Haldimand Tract heartlands. To name…