Canada to Pay Billions in Foster Care Settlement: the Money Belongs to Kidnapped...
by Doug George-Kanentiio | Columnist
On February 10 the US news station WWNY reported that Canada has agreed to pay $2,000,000,000 (billion) to settle a case involving the kidnapping and placing of Native children in...
Marking the Iroquois New Year by by Doug George-Kanentiio
There are many different religious entities on each Iroquois territory with Catholics and various other Christian denominations ranging from Baptists to Mormons, all of whom follow the Gregorian calendar as set by Pope Gregory...
Why I did not go to meet the Pope: a Mohawk Perspective
By Doug George-Kanentiio | Columnist
Our group, the Akwesasronon Shonatatakeronon, were not involved in the planning of the visit by Pope Francis. I was concerned that our concerns would be ignored or filtered through others...
Column: ‘When the Serpents Devour Themselves’
By Doug George-Kanentiio | Columnist
Six years ago I wrote a column in response to the plans by an oil pipeline company to build across the sacred territory of the Lakota people at Standing Rock....
Haudenosaunee Iroquois: We Don’t Want an Apology; We Want Justice
By Doug George-Kanentiio
Native American children sitting outside the steps of the Mohawk Institute. (Photo submitted by Doug George Kanentiio).
There is a reason why the Six Nations-Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) were not invited to Rome to meet...
Natives Have the Highest Rate of Death by Cops
by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne Mohawk
I, along with millions of others, watched the trial of Derek Chauvin, 45, charged in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the killing of George Floyd, 46, on May 25, 2020. Numerous...
Bering Strait “Theory” A Myth
Bering Strait “Theory” A Myth
©by Doug George-Kanentiio
Imagine you are part of a small group of nomadic hunters, compelled for some unknown reason to leave your territory and drift to the northeast.
Your journey may take...
My Friend Was Killed Running from a Canadian Residential School by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne...
My Friend Was Killed Running from a Canadian Residential School
by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne Mohawk
On a clear September evening at 5:14 pm in the west end of Toronto my friend, 13 year old Joey Commanda,...
Why Wear Orange?
by Doug George-Kanentiio
Akwesasne Mohawk Mohawk Institute Survivor No. 4-8-2-738
People ask why the residential-boarding school survivors, their respective families and supporters wear orange. This began in 2013 when Phyllis Jack-Webstad of the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem...
The Mohawk People Have Spoken
by Doug George-Kanentiio
On July 1 the Akwesasne community demonstrated in the most powerful way its desire to address the terrible effects residential schools have had on the people and to support those who survived...