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The U11A Mohawks are riding a four-game playoff winning streak, with three of those games having been decided by one goal.

The U11A Kahnawake Mohawks won their first playoff game, by way of the shootout, taking down the MRO Diables 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Brooklyn Leblanc hunkered down with many other people to stand up for Kanien’kehá:ka sovereignty in what became known as the Oka Crisis.

It’s been one year since community members Derek White and Hunter Montour were granted a permanent stay of criminal procedures in a historic tobacco case.

Last month, Derek White and Hunter Montour made history, being granted a permanent stay of criminal proceedings in one of the most high-profile tobacco trade cases to date, after a Quebec Superior Court judge gave recognition to historic treaty rights including the Covenant Chain.

The White and Montour tobacco case is a major victory for Kahnawa’kehró:non and a big set-back for the federal government’s unilateral self-government policy.

In the end, barring federal appeal, of course, Derek White beat both Quebec and Canada at their own game, in their own courtrooms, and made history in the process.

After a gruelling, more than seven-year legal battle, Derek White and Hunter Montour were granted a permanent stay of criminal procedures this week by a Quebec Superior Court judge, who recognized the role of traditional law, including the Covenant Chain, in the tobacco trade across Turtle Island.

Derek White hasn’t been allowed to leave Canada since March 2016, when he and 60 others were arrested as part of Project Mygale on suspicion of evading taxes in cross-border tobacco trading.