Mohawk Nation News 'ONONKWA' (Medicine)

 

‘ONONKWA’ [Medicine]

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Kan1enkehaka

MNN. ONONKWA [MEDICINE] MONTREAL. Oct. 23, 2025. 

Our kaianerekowa great peace provides that you don’t fight until you die. You fight until you win. This is the conversation we have been having about drug abuse and suicide rising up in indigenous and mainstream communities. In our case tobacco and now  vape and cannabis dispensaries are being set up in our communities because the colony of Canada has made a law, the Indian Act, and now to sell drugs. Colonial law which forbids the development of self-sustaining indigenous economies on our unceded land to care for ourselves. The people and the land are being polluted. The tobacco trade made a few rich. Now other drugs are coming into our ccommunities. It is disrupting our children, babies, people, causing break-ins, crime, violence, suicides, children being removed, and no jobs. We are surprised how big the addictions are throughout our land. 

Testimony by Indigenous Women at the United Nations Ignored by Media, Yields No Response at U.N.

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By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 23, 2025

If you weren't able to listen to the testimony of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations the past two years, you may have missed these powerful statements by young Indigenous women.

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