Public Safety committee  Probably close to 10 years ago, the Mohawk communities in Canada set up the Mohawk–Canada Roundtable, and we pledged that we would find a peaceful solution to any future problems that would exist between our peoples. We would create tables where we would identify problems and sol

Public Safety committee  Three steps? In the Iroquois Nation that we belong to, there is a law called the great law of peace, and that law of peace is thousands of years old for us. It established us, the five and then six nations, to have some kind of unified governance. It means as much to us now, to

Public Safety committee  Very brief. In the 1970s, fuel was low in the United States, so fuel was going the other way through our territory, into the United States--truckloads. In the 1980s, it was alcohol. It's the commodity of the day. That fuel didn't stop until the Mohawks came forward and met with C

Public Safety committee  [Witness speaks in Mohawk] My name is Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell. I come from Akwesasne. From 1982 to 2006, for the majority of those years, I served as grand chief and district chief for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. So I have a little bit of experience with those border