FW: [NativeNews] Mohawks ask non-natives to leave reserve

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Subject: [NativeNews] Mohawks ask non-natives to leave
> reserve
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> From: "JJ Bear" <jjbear@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Friday, September 22, 2000
>
<http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2000/09/22/pCanada.html#132.raw>Back
> The Halifax Herald Limited
>
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> Mohawks urge non-natives to leave reserve
>
> MONTREAL (CP) - The Mohawk band council of Kahnawake is
> urging non-aboriginals living on the reserve to pack up
> and leave.
>
> The council sent a two-page notice to all homes on the
> reserve over the last few days, saying non-Indians
> married to or living with a Mohawk should "respect the
> wishes of the community at large and vacate our territory
> immediately."
>
> Non-natives have "no entitlement to membership or
> residency rights," the notice said.
>
> The council has prohibited mixed marriages on the reserve
> since May 1981. But it had been powerless to enforce the
> rule because many Mohawks resisted it.
>
> Others felt the council didn't legitimize the strict
> membership rules.
>
> Now, bolstered by a new membership code that leaders say
> has widespread support, the council is showing
> non-Indians the door.
>
> About 50 people are to receive written eviction notices.
>
> Mohawk chiefs refused to answer questions about the
> evictions. But Gerald Alfred, a Kahnawake Mohawk who
> drafted the new rules, said the move is far from
> draconian.
>
> Alfred, who teaches political science at the University
> of Victoria, said the aboriginals-only policy is a
> necessary measure to strengthen the Mohawk culture, which
> has been under siege for centuries.
>
> "Our people know that intermarriage is an indicator of
> assimilation and they want it to stop," he said.
>
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