RCMP pressured Canada Revenue Agency to not license Mohawk tobacco firms: court docs
The federal tax agency has faced pressure from the RCMP to stop licensing Kahnawake Mohawk cigarette manufacturers, court documents show.
The federal tax agency has faced pressure from the RCMP to stop licensing Kahnawake Mohawk cigarette manufacturers, court documents show.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has taken on a “John Wayne attitude towards First Nation people” through his government’s plan to create a 50 RCMP officer task force and introduce tougher penalties to fight the underground tobacco trade, according to the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne.
The Idle No More movement is sweeping across Canada but until Friday Quebec First Nations, including the Mohawk, have remained mostly silent.
In the second part of Raising Steel, APTN National News reporter Tom Fennario explores how generations of Mohawk men built New York City and how some of these men are continuing the tradition by working on the tallest skyscraper in the city, The World Trade Freedom Tower.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples turned five on Thursday.
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Mohawks from the Six Nations territory in Ontario are digging up the dirt on what they believe is a dirty residential school secret.
APTN National News The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has been meeting with representatives from the…