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Last Updated: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | 9:07 AM ET CBC News
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is ordering non-native people on the reserve to find
another home.
Band council members went door-to-door Monday, issuing 26 eviction notices to those they
say have no right living in the community according to Mohawk law.
Grand Chief Michael Delisle said the non-native residents have become a growing concern in
the community just south of Montreal on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.
The council had no choice but to issue the evictions, the chief said.
"It's been a longstanding custom that the community of Kahnawake is for the members of
Kahnawake, and according to Mohawk custom code, tradition and Mohawk law reinstituted
again in 2004, people of anything other than Mohawk unless they've transferred into our
membership files can't live in Kahnawake," Delisle said.
Delisle said each aboriginal reserve or territory in Canada has the right to decide who
lives there.
He doesn't expect the evicted people to go quietly.
"I'm sure there will be some resistance, if you want to call it that, but obviously other
external issues involving anywhere from human rights to individual rights versus the
collective."
Delisle said everyone in the community is strongly encouraged to marry a Mohawk or at
least someone with native blood, otherwise their partners could be evicted from the
reserve.
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