ALJAZEERA: “MEET THE INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TAKING QUEBEC TO COURT”
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MNN. Thahoketoteh, Mohawk Nation News court reporter: This is a republication of the Aljazeera article on the kahnistensera, Mohawk Mothers, May 31, 2022. https://www.ajplus.net/stories/article-meet-the-indigenous-activists-taking-quebec-to-court
MEET THE INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TAKING QUEBEC TO COURT
Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. [Lydia Yakonowsky/National Trust for Canada]
In recent years, more North American colleges have begun to perform land acknowledgements, which recognize the Indigenous people on whose unceded land their campuses were built centuries ago. But recent events show that talk is cheap.
A group of Mohawk women from the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation outside Montreal has taken legal action to prevent the expansion of two McGill University buildings on historically Mohawk land. This is also the site where the CIA’s MK-Ultra psychological experiments took place, in which unwilling test subjects were used in dystopian brainwashing and mind control experiments. The Mohawk group claims that the unmarked graves of children – victims of these experiments – lie beneath both the Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial Institute.
The Kanien’kehá:ka kahnistensera, or Mohawk Mothers, presented their case to the Quebec Superior Court on May 30. They’re demanding a thorough investigation of the sites to collect evidence of unmarked graves. We spoke with Mother, activist and Mohawk Nation News founder kahentinetha about McGill’s refusal to return stolen Iroquois funds and why Canada’s “whole system will fall” when the Mothers’ case is heard in court.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
WHO ARE THE MOHAWK MOTHERS?
