Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 20, 2024

Mohawk Mothers at Supreme Court: The Power to Protect Children: Their Graves and Those Yet Born


Kahentinetha at Supreme Court of Canada. Film screenshot by Censored News

Mohawk Mothers at Supreme Court: The Power to Protect the Children, Their Graves  and Those Yet Born

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 2O24

OTTAWA -- "We wish we had seen our children who were taken from us, we wanted to see them grow up among us, but we couldn't, because we never saw them again," Kahentinetha said in front of Canada's Supreme Court.

Mohawk Mothers, Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistenserafiled a motion at the Supreme Court of Canada on Oct. 15, requesting a panel of experts to oversee and protect the graves at McGill University in Montreal.