The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River
The Mohawk tribe has sent notices to 25 non-Beringians – mostly Whites involved in mixed marriages – giving them 10 days to vacate the Kahnawake reservation, in accordance to a law upheld in Canadian courts banning interracial marriage there.
“They are people with no native ancestry at all,” said Joe Delaronde, press attaché for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake.
The notices were sent out on February 3rd.
According to Mohawk law, non-aboriginals have no residency rights. About 7,500 Mohawks live on the reserve.
Band council chiefs began hand-delivering the strongly worded letter on Monday and continued yesterday.
“There have been numerous complaints regarding individuals contravening Mohawk law by residing in the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake without a right to do so. You were identified in these complaints,” the letter says.
The eviction letter tells non-natives they have 10 days to leave the reserve.
“We trust that you understand the seriousness of this letter and that you will govern yourselves accordingly.”
If the non-natives can’t move by the deadline, they must contact the band council to make other arrangements, Delaronde said.
“We are not heartless,” he added. “We know that not everyone has a brother or a parent in Châteauguay they can stay with.”
In a press release on the band council’s website, Grand Chief Michael Delisle said: “Every single Kahnawake Mohawk knows the law. It is unfortunate that some people have chosen to disregard the community’s wishes.”
In 1981, the community announced a moratorium on mixed marriages, which meant that non-natives who married Mohawks after that year would no longer have the right to live on the reserve. Any non-native who had married a Mohawk before the moratorium is still permitted to live on the reserve.
In the 1980s, some Mohawks contested the policy before the human rights tribunal, but lost. The courts have ruled that Mohawks can make any membership policy they deem necessary for their survival as a people.
“We’re very concerned about protecting our identity because at a certain point, the Canadian government will look at us and say: ‘You are not even Indians,’ ” Delaronde said.
“We are very proud of our heritage and protective about it. We don’t have a whole hell of a lot of it left. This is part of revitalizing the community.”
The band council decided to act after receiving complaints from Indians who feel that too many non-natives are living on the reserve.
“We are responding to what the community wants,” Delaronde said.
Although Mohawk law says that non-natives can’t live on the reserve, they are allowed to visit and stay overnight, he explained.
“Sleeping over or staying for a week is a whole different situation,” he said.
Delaronde said he hopes the non-natives accept the wishes of the community and leave peacefully.
If they refuse to move, their names will be “published locally,” he said.
“I know that’s not a nice thing, but if people refuse, names will be published and then it becomes a peer pressure thing.”
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Aren't there any Solutrean-Canadians who have the balls to tell these Beringian invaders to go to hell?
The Beringins are right. We should kick their red asses back to Siberia.
Bigots.
It's unbelievable. When Whitey is against miscegenation he/she is called a racist but non-whites can do and say whatever they want. As per Yahweh's Word the Tail is indeed wagging the Dog in these last days. And this is just the beginning. Wait and see what's still to come.
More like the preservation of the victim society.
So much for the "enlightened", "tolerant", "wise", "downtrodden", "repressed" redskins that the Liberals keep telling us about.
Ron-
The reality of the Red Skin is that when Europeans came here they weren’t as accepting to us immigrants as we’re to the Mexicans coming today. Everything was not all Thanksgivey and friendly. The Indians who originally come from Siberia could be considered Native considering they may have been the first ones here, however, Europeans in North America date back over 1,000 years ago when Vikings established settlements.
Most Indians were nomads, divided into various tribes. So, when we first came over here we encountered people not only warlike and very racist against us, but also against other tribes. The image we have that the Indian has a peaceful healer, friendly to the European until we started abusing them is false.
Anyway, the Indian has a right to stay Indian. But other people have a right to keep their communities together. The right to racial self-determination.