Tensions on rise between Akwesasne, Canada’s border agency
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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.
Akwesasne council blasts Public Safety Minister Toews over "John Wayne attitude"
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.
Mohawks join Idle No More
The Idle No More movement is sweeping across Canada but until Friday Quebec First Nations, including the Mohawk, have remained mostly silent.
Meet the Mohawks who raised New York City's skyline
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.
UN Indigenous rights declaration feted in Kanesatake
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples turned five on Thursday.
The Mohawks who built, and then sifted through WTC rubble
For some time to come, people will talk about where they were on Sept. 11, 2001.
Meet the man who helped build the CN Tower, World Trade Centre
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Mohawks investigate whether bone fragment dug up near residential school is from child
Mohawks from the Six Nations territory in Ontario are digging up the dirt on what they believe is a dirty residential school secret.
