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Mohawk Nation News 'Mohawk v Canada War of 1990'

MOHAWK V. CANADA WAR OF 1990
Posted on July 21, 2025 by Kan1enkehaka

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/07/21/mohawk-v-canada-war-of-1990/

MNN. July 21, 2025. There is a statue in the East River of NYC commemorating the gesture of the indigenous toward those refugees who found their way here. The Statue of Liberty, officially named “Lady Liberty,” shines a light for any oppressed people coming from the eastern Atlantic shore.

We all have our stories of war and violence being waged on us by Canada. Stated kahentinetha of kahnawake, “On September 28, 1990, my two 14 and 4 year old daughters and myself were attacked by M-16 bayoneted soldiers. She was protecting her little sister and other little children when she was bayoneted by an order follower in a Canadian uniform. Another soldier put a bayonet to my chest and told me to “back off, lady” for trying to help them. When I looked into his eyes I saw a deep void. There was no one home and the light was very dim. The Human Rights Commission of Canada said there was no evidence of the attack despite films, photos and hundreds of witnesses. All for a golf course.”

Nature never lets us turtle islanders give up. In 1990 when Canada sent in the army to attack us our call for help was heard throughout the world. Our duty has always been to care for our mother earth and that Creation does not allow us to surrender. We have never lost a war as our differences are to be settled through dialogue where we search for an understanding. Courts are privately owned to enhance the Admiralty Laws of the Seas of foreign elites. We reminded these oppressors of our duty to carry out the will of creation so nobody wins or loses. When the white people left their homeland, they came here uninvited to our land and destroyed the tree of peace and declared themselves the Republic of War on our land. These war mongers have no place on onowarekeh turtle island without a binding agreement based on the teiohateh two row agreement and the kaianerekowa the great peace constitution.

On July 11, 1990, Canada sent their entire military to attack their so-called “Mohawk” citizens” for stopping the cutting down of the great white pines of kanehsatake to extend the private Oka golf course. All ports across Canada were shut down by native people. Nations around the world stood with the Mohawks, when the refugees threatened the people of a once peaceful pristine land, with death, destruction and genocide. The kaianerekowa great peace always stands with turtle island. Some day everybody will stand with creation to help our mother earth and all life.

The indigenous are skilled at fighting to bring about the great peace. We have no fear because of what we are standing up and protecting for peace, equality, freedom and what is right as the great peace instructs us do. We must help assert self-determination and sovereignty of every person on earth. We are not criminals for carrying out the great peace.

In 1990 we had to let the world know our responsibility to the environment. The indigenous stood with us. There was a 78-day standoff in many communities. We let the world know how serious we are about taking care of our mother. We are like all life from the earth. Our unborn babies are the owners. We learned how to balance our relationships with all life through understanding natural law to work together and to be warlike when necessary. All the natural world will fight to the death to protect and secure their safety from any harm. The process is based on studying animals, plants, waters, earth, sky and the cosmos. We saw that we are all equal and are to respect and survive together.

We are a people. There is no win or lose. There is balance. Extending a golf course and destroying graves of our ancestors is not equal to sending 5,000 heavily armed troops and their deadly weaponry to show us that “might makes right” and to drag us into their foreign courts and subject us to their foreign laws. Or that they need to play golf! It was not and will not be tolerated.Their problem is that we are not afraid of them. The issue was small. They could not let the original people assert themselves. We don’t know fear. That is why our men are steel workers, one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. They feared such bravery could spread across the continent. So the guilty who deliberately injured us or caused our deaths were never punished.

We did not want a blood bath in kanehsatake. Canada wanted to destroy the spirit of the warrior society, to make us afraid to do what is right by attacking the people of three Mohawk kanienkehaka communities, Kanehsatake, Kahnawake and Akwesasne. They wanted to create indigenous communities with no teeth and no claws to defend ourselves and leave us high and dry. They promised us money which never got to the people. All the land, money and resources they exploit belong to the indigenous. Our young people have their whole lives ahead of them. They don’t want to be entertainers and menial workers. They refuse to be brainwashed.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called in the military as a last resort because Canada could not sit down and talk with the true resisters. To help them conquer us they brought in traitors to advise them how to conquer us. They helped write the narrative, for the soldiers to put bayonets on their M-16s to kill the unarmed men, women and children as we were leaving the Treatment Centre.

A lot of T-shirts were sold. Band and tribal councils got some money for trying to make fools out of us. Some got jobs for which they were not qualified.

We are still here and we will persevere.

Listen to Magik Squirrel’s “Mohawk War Song” about 1990:

Watch at MNN: https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/07/21/mohawk-v-canada-war-of-1990/