Mohawks march across bridge protest border

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Mohawks march across bridge protest border
By Cheryl Brink, Cornwall Standard Freeholder
Friday, May 17, 2013 1:06:02 EDT PM

CORNWALL - Mohawk chiefs marched across both spans of the Seaway
International Bridge on Friday to hand-deliver a request for a meeting
with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The rally of an estimated 400 people shut down traffic on the bridge
between Cornwall and the U.S. for three hours, as residents protested
the border that splits their territority.

“These are your divisions,” said one of the chiefs, while speaking to
Mayor Bob Kilger in the centre of the traffic circle. “...We should
have the right to travel back and forth without imediments.”

The Mohawk leaders also met with a representative from the Canadian
Border Services Agency, offering a letter that outlined their concerns
with the port-of-entry. They asked that the missive be passed along to
Harper, as a first step towards a meeting to revisit treaties between
the government and First Nations peoples.

“We didn’t come here to make trouble,” said Tadodaho, a chief from
Onondago. “The Prime Minister and our leaders should sit down and
rehash this. We’re still here and we’re not going anywhere.”

More to come.

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/2013/05/17/mohawks-march-across-
bridge-protest-border
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