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showed the French did not trust the locals. In the mid-1720s, the community evicted the Desaulnier sisters, traders who were garnering profits formerly earned by members of Kahnawake. In 1771, twenty-two Mohawk pressed British officials to help them prevent two local families from bringing French families to settle "on lands reserved for their common use". In 1812, many were opposed to specific types of "mixed" marriages. In 1822, Nicolas Doucet, an
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system is intended for use before any arrest of an affected party under the Canadian system. It has procedures to be used by the victim and offender, and their supporters. With assistance by trained facilitators to resolve issues, the process is intended to restore peace and harmony, rather than to be an adversarial process. In contrast to the Canadian system of adversarial justice it,
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relationship to the river have had profound effects on Kahnawake. The people had been sited there for hundreds of years, and their identities were related to a profound knowledge of the river, from the time they were children through adulthood. One effect of the losses was to make the community determined not to suffer more encroachment. They drew together and became stronger.
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reserve for 10 years or more and contributed to the community. The council said they were responding to complaints from residents about limited housing and land being occupied by non-Natives. The eviction resolution, endorsed by all 12 chiefs of the MCK, caused an uproar within and beyond the community, attracting national press attention.
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full-blood Mohawk should be allowed to own so much land. The Mohawk Council asked members of the Giasson, Deblois, Meloche, Lafleur, Plante and de Lorimier families to leave, as all were of partial European ancestry. Some, like the de Lorimier brothers, gradually sold their properties and pursued their lives elsewhere. Others, such as
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Under the Walbank Survey, the national government surveyed and subdivided the land of the reserve, allotting some plots individually to each head of household eligible to live in Kahnawake. The violence stopped as the new form of privatisation of land was instituted, but antagonism toward some community members did not.
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reported that the community was growing frustrated by marriages in which white husbands acquired rights over the lives and properties of their Mohawk wives according to British Canadian laws. This was in opposition to Iroquois culture, which had a matrilineal kinship system, with descent and property
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Kahnawake was settled by a variety of historic indigenous peoples, although the Mohawk became by far the majority. They and other tribes had a practice of adopting captives into the tribe, often to replace people lost to illness or warfare. They generally chose to adopt young women and children taken
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The bridge blockade affected the commute of many locals throughout the summer, leading to rioting and the burning of effigies, and to the "Whiskey Trench" episode. On August 28, 1990 a convoy of 50 to 75 cars, bearing mostly women, children and elders, left Kahnawake in fear of a possible advance by
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The initiative has challenges, for instance, gaining the support of Peacekeepers and community members who may not be familiar with these traditional cultural principles. But, it is an important means of re-education into principles that offer an alternative to the current Canadian system, and helps
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Abuse of alcohol was a continuing problem. In 1828, the village expelled white traders who were "poisoning" the Iroquois "with rum and spirituous liquors". Tensions rose at the time of the 1837-38 Lower Canada Rebellion. The Mohawk had suffered incursions on their land, including non-Natives' taking
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Historic sources document the sometimes strained relations between Mohawk and ethnic Europeans at Kahnawake, usually over property and competition for limited resources. In 1722, community residents objected to the garrison of French soldiers because they feared it would cause "horrible discord" and
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During the 17th and early 18th centuries, the English and French were competing in North America and in Europe. Together with allied First Nations or Native American tribes, they conducted raids along the undefined border between the territories of New France and New England. Captives were sometimes
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to the community and control behaviour that threatened it. The system was based on the four principles of reason, persuasion, satisfaction and compensation, with both wrongdoer and victim as part of the process. It was intended to achieve "ue compensation and condolence, and a promise of agreement"
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for the tribe. Social unrest increased, with young men attacking houses, barns and farm animals of people they resented. In May 1878 an arson fire killed Osias Meloche, the husband of Charlotte-Louise Giasson (daughter of Charles Gédéon Giasson, noted above), and their home and barn were destroyed.
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Despite repeated complaints by the Mohawk, many government agents continued to allow non-Native encroachment, and mismanaged the lands and rents. Surveyors were found to have modified some old maps at the expense of the Kahnawake people. From the late 1880s until the 1950s, the Mohawk were required
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While the media has had a field day with this story and some have used the word 'racist,' we will, once again, state the issue isn't about anyone's feelings towards non-natives, it is simply an issue of residency and our right to determine who can and cannot live on the 13,000 acres we call home,"
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When the national government decided to pass the Saint Lawrence Seaway canal cut through the village, the people and buildings of Kahnawake were permanently separated from the natural river shore. The loss of land and access to the river, the demolition of houses, and the change in the community's
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of 1884, which prohibited traditional chiefs and required Canadian-style elections, split the community and added to tensions. Some young Mohawk men wanted a chance to advance independently to being chiefs; other people wanted to keep the traditional, hereditary seven life chiefs selected from the
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there (who formed liaisons with local women and had children by them). Shopkeepers also formed families, and through the 18th century, many marriages occurred between European men and Indian women. Multiracial children born to Mohawk mothers were readily assimilated into the mother's family, clan,
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In February 2010, the issue was renewed when the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake elected to evict 35 non-Natives from the reserve. While the action was legal according to the membership laws, critics believed the council was acting specifically against some individuals. These persons had lived on the
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The policy is based on a 1981 community moratorium on non-Native residency, which Kahnawake enacted into law in 1984. All couples who had a non-Mohawk partner were sent eviction notices regardless of how long they had lived on the reserve. The only exemption was for those of such couples who had
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those Mohawk who marry outside of the nation lose the right to live in the homeland. The MCK said that its policy was to preserve the people's cultural identity. In the 21st century, they did not want non-Natives living at the reserve, even if a person had adopted the Mohawk language or culture.
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With continuing late 20th-century conflicts over who could reside at the reserve, the elected chiefs of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) passed laws regulating membership or eligibility for residence at Kahnawake. In 1981 they passed a law that non-natives could not reside in the community;
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process, as developed by the First Nation, or "reintroduced" according to its principles. The Justice Committee of the MCK and representatives of the Longhouse jointly presented the initiative to the community. Based on wrongdoing that has taken place within the geographic area of Kahnawke, the
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Some residents who received eviction notices agreed to leave; others proved they spend only limited time in the community, so were permitted as visitors. The council said it would send second notices to people who did not respond, and then would publish their names. The governing band council
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The inequalities in landownership among Kahnawake residents led to resentment of the wealthy. For instance, in 1884, the multiracial sons of the late George de Lorimier were the largest and wealthiest landowners in the community. Some Kahnawake residents questioned whether people who were not
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and taken to Canada. Adopted by Mohawk families in Kahnawake, the boys became assimilated: they were baptized as Catholic and renamed, learned the Mohawk ways and were also given Mohawk names, married women who were daughters of chiefs, reared children with them, and became chiefs themselves.
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located within the territory, hosts and manages many Internet gambling websites, and provides high-tech employment to its people. MIT is the closest and fastest source for "legally hosted" gambling websites for North American players. Established in 1998, MIT by 2006 had become a "remarkably
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would allow the parties to personalize the process of addressing wrongdoing and in so doing provides the parties with a "new and different choice" to resolve disputes based on traditional principles that the parties can initiate on their own without the involvement of the criminal justice
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in raids, as these were believed to be more amenable to assimilation. Individual families adopted such captives, and made them full members of their clan and tribe. The practice preceded European encounter, but later some European captives were also assimilated as Mohawk. The Mohawk had a
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The Mohawk success on major high-rise construction projects inspired the legend that Native American men had no fear of working at heights. Numerous Kahnawake men continued as iron and steelworkers in Canada. Thirty-three Kahnawake (Mohawk) died in the collapse of the
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It is important for people to realize that whether I like the decisions or not, these are decisions made by First Nations people on their own land (...) It is not for me to make those decisions, or the Government, and we are not going to be making those
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Many Kahnawake ironworkers went to New York City to work during the first half of the 20th century. Its building boom stimulated construction of notable skyscrapers and bridges. For more than a generation, many Kahnawake men participated in building the
737:- portion claimed by the Indians. Also, with the words "Vraie ligne de la seigneurie Sauvage" - true boundary of the Indian Seigneury, the surveyor highlights that the original boundary of the Iroquois seigneury is situated in the Seigneury of LaPrairie. 913:, largely over the issue of preserving their land and expressing their collective identity. Before and after the Rebellions, the community was fiercely divided regarding the rights of mixed-race residents, such as Antoine-George de Lorimier (the son of 568:
residents originally spoke the Mohawk language, and some learned French when trading with and allied with French colonists. Together with most of four Iroquois nations, including the Mohawk, they allied with the British government during the
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flew the Kahnawake Mohawk flag. The Kahnawake Mohawk nation is the only indigenous American sovereign nation to have deep-sea foreign-going vessels flying its flag. Since December 2007, the Sea Shepherd vessels have been registered in the
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is held every summer on the second weekend of July at the Kateri Tekakwitha Island. It is a social event open to everyone to share the Native American culture such as traditional foods, hand made crafts, singing and traditional dancing.
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As a result, Kahnawake today has only 13,000 acres (5,300 ha). In the late 20th century, the Mohawk Nation was pursuing land claims with the Canadian government to regain lost land. The modern claim touches the municipalities of
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held for ransom, and European families and communities worked to buy them back. In some cases, families of the indigenous communities kept captives for adoption. For instance, more than 100 captives were taken during the 1704
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The election of council chiefs began in 1889, but the influence of Kahnawake's shadow government of traditional clan chiefs persisted. This lasted into the 1920s, when the traditional seven-clan system became absorbed in the
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Because the Indian Department did not provide adequate support to the reserve, the community continued to struggle financially. At one point, the Kahnawake chiefs suggested selling the reserve to raise money for
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In September 2014, the council revived the issue of non-Native residents, announcing community meetings for discussion and plans to issue a new regulation. It barred non-Kahnawake residents from the meeting.
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in 1907, one of the worst construction failures of all time. The small community was devastated by the loss of so many men. They erected crosses of steel girders at both ends of the reserve to honour them.
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is explored. Deer lived the crisis as a child and show it through the eyes of a preteen girl named Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed "Beans"). Beans’ perspective on life is radically changed by these events.
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In the 1870s and 1880s, land and resource pressures renewed local concern about ethnic Europeans living at Kahnawake. In addition, the national government's passage of legislation, from
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D. McDonald, "All bets are off: A tsunami hit the online gambling industry this month and it washed right up to the doors of a building on Highway 138 on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve"
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to administer to local Mohawk and other First Nations. This was also a base for those missionary priests who were sent to the west. Jesuit records give a settlement date of 1719.
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descendants of European trappers and indigenous women, gradually developed what has become a separate, recognized ethnic group, based on a distinct hunting and trading culture.
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As a result of this history, many Kahnawake people have been of mixed ancestry but identify as Mohawk. Backgrounds may include ancestry of other Iroquois tribes, such as the
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Kahnawake's territory totals an area of 48.05 km (18.55 sq mi). Its resident population numbers slightly above 8,000, with a significant number living off
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in what is today central New York. When converted Catholic Mohawk moved to the Montréal area, they named the new settlement after their former one. The proximity of the
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by the government to make numerous land cessions to enable construction of railway, hydro-electric, and telephone company industrial projects along the river.
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While working to strengthen their culture and language, the people of Kahnawake have generally not had the political turmoil of the nearby, smaller
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Martin Patriquin, "Inside the Kahnawake Evictions: Editor of Kahnawake newspaper explains the Mohawk Council decision to evict non-natives"
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Gerald F. Reid, "It is Our Custom - The Persistence of Kahnawake’s Council of Chiefs in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"
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Sault-Saint-Louis seigneury, 1829. The surveyor (McCarty) identifies the portion of land that is claimed by the people of Kahnawake as
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in present-day New York, where they protected other parts of the confederacy to the west against invasion by tribes from present-day
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married before the 1981 moratorium. Although some concerned Mohawk citizens contested the racially exclusive membership policy, the
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Kahnawake is one of several self-governing Kanien’kehá:ka territories of the Mohawk Nation within the borders of Canada, including
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to Montreal, which had an access road through their reserve. The Kanesatake reserve had been blockaded and isolated by the
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ruled that the Mohawk Kahnawake government may adopt policies it deems necessary to ensure the survival of its people.
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Confederacy) and are known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door". They controlled territory on both sides of the
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After some time, Kahnawake negotiated separately with the armed forces to remove the blockade to the bridge.
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Many at Kahnawake and other First Nations communities believe their people are not being well served by the
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of the Sault, and permitted French and other European colonists to settle there and collected their rents.
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Although people of European descent traditionally refer to the residents of Kahnawake as Mohawk, their
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and took over their territory east of the Mississippi River in New France. The new British governor,
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Susan Haslip, "The (Re)Introduction of Restorative Justice in Kahnawake: 'Beyond Indigenization'"
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Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors: Kahnawake Mohawk Politics and the Rise of Native Nationalism
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To Right Certain Wrongs: A Report on Research into Lands Known as the Seigneury of Sault St-Louis
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Travels through the United-States and Upper and Lower Canada during the years 1795, 1796, 1797
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Sea Shepherd – Sea Shepherd Receives the Flag of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy
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Fifty men from Kahnawake volunteered to fight with the United States armed forces during the
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The Jesuits managed the seigneury until April 1762, after the British defeated France in the
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land because of its proximity to the Saint Lawrence River. The reserve is criss-crossed by
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in the Mohawk Valley of New York). There are 17 European spelling variations of the Mohawk
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Karihwanoron Mohawk Immersion School, elementary school with Mohawk-language immersion
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Reaghan Tarbell, a native of Kahnawake, wrote and directed a one-hour documentary,
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Kahnawake high steel workers in New York were the subject of the 1966 documentary
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The (Re)Introduction of Restorative Justice in Kahnawake: "Beyond Indigenization"
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valuable firewood. The Kahnawake cooperated with the British Crown against the
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There was some European settlement after the reserve land was "donated" by the
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Kahnawake: Factionalism, Traditionalism, And Nationalism In A Mohawk Community
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Chief Electoral Officer of Québec - 40th General Election Results: CHÂTEAUGUAY
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narrows. The territory is described in the native language as "on, or by the
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Historically, the federal and Quebec governments have often located large
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said there was nothing illegal about the band's eviction of non-members:
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on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River northwest of Montreal;
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defended its right to ask non-Natives to leave the small community:
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Vol. 9 No. 1 (March 2002), Murdoch University, accessed 3 June 2011
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The Kahnawake Iroquois and the Lower-Canadian Rebellions, 1837-1838
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Graeme Hamilton, "Mohawk evictions legal: Indian Affairs Minister"
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build a future especially for the young people of the community.
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Kahnawake Learning Center, general education centre, high school
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Mohawk skywalkers constructing Rockefeller Center, 1928, photo
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Mariages de Saint-François-Xavier du Sault St-Louis, 1735-1972
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Rosenburg, Dan, 1999: "Land claims issue dragging its heels",
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FNRAEC (First Nations Adult Education Center), Adult Education
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in a conflict over use of lands the Mohawk considered sacred.
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Step By Step Child and Family Center, early learning/nursery
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that year resulted in the council reversing their decision.
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Steve Bonspiel, publisher and editor of Kahnawake newspaper
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Riding history for Châteauguay–Saint-Constant, Quebec
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
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Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (13 March 2007).
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in the mid-17th century. The French government stationed
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of the mother and deriving their status from her family.
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projects benefiting the southern Quebec economy through
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Dir. Alanis Obomsawin. National Film Board, 2000. Film.
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Mohawk Radio, an Internet-based radio station (Defunct)
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kinship system, with children considered born into the
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Kahnawake is located on the southwest shore where the
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Effects of construction projects in/through community
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Quebec populated places on the Saint Lawrence River
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Caughnawaga Mission / Mission of St-François-Xavier
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Before European contact, the Iroquois Confederacy (
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In support of Kanesatake during its 1014:hundreds of feet above the water and ground. 2019:Darren Bonaparte, "The History of Akwesasne" 1856:. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 84. 1803:"Statistics Canada: 2006 Community Profiles" 1262:Mohawk Internet Technologies (MIT), a local 867:Charles-Gédéon Giasson & Agathe McComber 2194: 2040: 2038: 1969: 1967: 1393: 1283:in 1990, people from Kahnawake blocked the 799: 3239: 3225: 2992: 2978: 2834: 2820: 2513:"Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back" 2131: 2125: 2072: 1837:Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999 1622:89.9 FM known as 89.9 KiC Country Montreal 1486:, quilter, beadwork artist, textile artist 2802:Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back 2692:"mohawk immersion karihwanoron kahnawake" 2180: 2178: 2176: 2174: 1840: 1700:Karonhianonhnha School, elementary school 631:across the Saint Lawrence River; and the 2710:"Welcome to Kahnawà:ke Education Center" 2388: 2243:"Evicting 26 non-natives splits reserve" 2206:"Evicting 26 non-natives splits reserve" 2035: 2009:, Volume 2. New York: Augustus M. Kelley 1985: 1983: 1964: 1436:-winning filmmaker, for her documentary 1361:Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back 1333: 1039: 1016: 1010:. Kahnawake men worked as bridgemen and 931: 885: 862: 728: 724: 673: 3009:Roussillon Regional County Municipality 2510: 2240: 2203: 1935:, Kahnawake: Kahnawake Seigneury Office 1090:Membership and residency on the reserve 713:(later Montreal) and placed a military 666:also influenced their naming decision. 18:First Nations reserve in Quebec, Canada 3729: 2638:"Step By Step Child and Family Center" 2553: 2431: 2315:"Kahnawake issues 2nd eviction notice" 2241:Brennan, Richard (February 21, 2010). 2171: 2120:To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey 1846: 1755: 1712:Kahnawake Survival School, high school 1365:A Mohawk Journey: To Brooklyn and Back 1179: 1029: 900:agent of the British Indian Department 709:as part of a southwestern defence for 489: 43:Kahnawake First Nations Reserve No. 14 3220: 2973: 2815: 2533: 2527: 2515:. 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Indiana University Press. pp.  2067:Kahnawake Branch of the Mohawk Nation 1980: 1877: 1794: 1615:Kahnawake has several media outlets: 1317:In 2007, two vessels operated by the 1165:said Mohawk Chief Michael Delisle Jr. 893:(Major de Lorimier), sketch, c. 1810. 678:Historic photo of Kahnawake, ca. 1860 318:50.41 km (19.46 sq mi) 2849: 2674:"Karonhianonhnha School - Kahnawake" 2642:Step By Step Child and Family Center 2498:Canadian Register of Historic Places 2480:Canadian Register of Historic Places 2462:Canadian Register of Historic Places 1973:Faribault-Beauregard, Marthe, 1993: 1703:Indian Way School, elementary school 915:Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier 891:Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier 3717:Does not belong to the Montreal CMA 2504: 2352:, 28 Oct 2006, accessed 16 Feb 2010 1675: 1628:103.7 FM branded as K1037 Kahnawake 1313:International use of Kahnawake flag 13: 3108:Regional County Municipalities in 2305:, 9 Feb 2010, accessed 21 Feb 2010 2098:(Indiana University Press (2001), 1948:, Toronto: Oxford University Press 1890:ICIHRP Roots of Resilience Project 1821:"Indigenous communities in Quebec" 1738:Jesuit missionary to the Kahnawake 1242: 735:"Morceau réclamé par les Sauvages" 14: 3773: 2760: 2286:, Indian Country TMN, 19 May 2011 1996:, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 1731:List of Indian reserves in Quebec 1635:Mohawk TV/Loud Spirit Productions 1348:National Historic Sites of Canada 1338:Kahnawake, Presbytery (1719) and 1329: 1319:Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 115: 82: 3272:Urban agglomeration of Longueuil 3001: 2941: 2920: 2912: 2895: 2874: 2765: 1697:Kateri School, elementary school 1442:(2008). She also made the short 446: 437: 428: 114: 107: 81: 74: 57: 48: 3757:Catholic missions of New France 3265:Urban agglomeration of Montreal 2738: 2720: 2702: 2684: 2666: 2648: 2630: 2616: 2602: 2591: 2572: 2486: 2468: 2450: 2425: 2407: 2393:. 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First Nations reserve

Location of Kahnawake, outside of Roussillon RCM.
Kahnawake is located in Southern Quebec
Kahnawake is located in Quebec
45°25′N 73°41′W / 45.417°N 73.683°W / 45.417; -73.683
Province
Quebec
Region
Montérégie
RCM
Roussillon
Federal
La-Prairie
Provincial
Châteauguay
MP
Alain Therrien
BQ
MNA
Pierre Moreau
PLQ
Demonym
Time zone
UTC−05:00
EST
DST
UTC−04:00
Postal code(s)
J0L1B0

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