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The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has sent an open letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, casting Parliament’s push to amend the Indian Act’s registration rules as a violation of Canada’s human rights obligations.

At the Siege of Kanehsatake commemoration event in Tiohtià:ke last year, this saying was shared: “You can break one arrow very easily, but if you take a bunch of arrows, you cannot break them.”

After months of consultations at Senate standing committees, senators have voted 10-1 to pass amendments that would end second-generation cut-off within the Indian Act.

A new bill that would amend the Indian Act could see thousands of individuals become entitled to status that weren’t before, a situation that Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Jeremiah Johnson said could be problematic.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has announced the appointment of a new complaints officer, Martha Montour, by the Justice Services Division of the MCK.

Federal Court documents obtained by The Eastern Door have shed more light on the notice of application for judicial review filed against the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and the Kahnawake Cannabis Control Board (KCCB) by a community member.

Fees for filing eviction requests have now been waived in an attempt to encourage more people to apply to oust those they believe to be in violation of the residency law from the community. Initially, eviction requests came at a cost of $30.

After pushback from the community on the recently passed Kanesatake Law-Making Process (KLMP), Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs Brant Etienne and Serge Otsi Simon hosted a community meeting online and on Reviving Kanehsatà:ke Radio (RKR)

The Office of the Kahnawake Kanien’kehá:ka Registry (OKKR) has launched an education and outreach campaign with the goal of making sure the community is aware of the process regarding complaints regarding residency and eviction.

Kahnawake now has a residency compliance officer. That is, someone who’ll take on the role of filing eviction orders to the Court of the Kahnawake.  The community has already had an eviction law in place since last year, but up until now it’s been unenforceable.