‘More Mohawk Discrimination…’

{This violation of human rights is happening within the borders of Canada — thanks to Race Based Law…}

The demonstrators made it clear that they wouldn’t stop there.

“We have a lot of (non-native) people that have moved in and we’ve been compiling a whole list of names”, one protester told the local newspaper, ‘The Eastern Door’.

“According to an executive summary of the ‘Kahnawake Membership Law’,

“any Mohawk of Kahnawake, male or female who married, cohabitated or lived in a common-law relationship with a non-Indian, was deprived of benefits and privileges that derive from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory.”

“In 2010, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake sent eviction letters to 30 non-natives residing in the community, Several people moved away, while others, like Horn-Miller, stayed.

“Every time this happens, the wounds open, the cracks form”, she said. “It’s so toxic for everybody. That’s what I’m mad about. I feel like we need to sit down and speak of some inclusive, community-building solutions. I DON’T LIKE BULLIES.”

“A former co-captain of Canada’s national water polo team, Horn-Miller met her partner, Olympian Keith Morgan, at the Sydney Games in 2000. They have lived together in Kahnawake on-and-off for the last 12 years and have a 1-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.

“When she was notified of a petition calling for her family’s eviction, she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant.

“Horn-Miller said her family is second on the list of names to be expelled from the community for violating the moratorium.

“Forever the issue has been you ‘marry out, you get out’ ”, she said, “For a lot of generations, it’s been a devastating statement because you’re told you have to choose between your heart and community.”

“Despite the past, Horn-Miller still has “a lot of love” for her community, she said.

“The MCK hasn’t sent any eviction notices so far this year, but they are considering sending letters to remind certain locals of the law, the council’s ‘political press attaché’ Joe Delaronde said. He pointed out that the majority of MCK chiefs support the membership law, and so does 60% of Kahnawake’s population, according to the last survey conducted in 2010.

{The majority of southern U.S. politicians and citizens supported the laws against inter-racial marriage — and were not only publicly labeled ‘bigots’, but were forced to change their laws. How is this any different?}

“He noted that the law doesn’t exclude those who have married out from returning to Kahnawake as often as they want.

{Just don’t stay too long…}

“Supporters of the moratorium say it’s necessary for preserving Mohawk identity on the parcel of land they have left.

“We’re stuck on a postage stamp”, Delaronde said. “If Canadian people want to move to another part of Canada, they can go to Vancouver, to Yellowknife, or St. John, N.B.”, he continued. “But Kahnawake is Kahnawake. That’s it. There’s no other place to go for us, people have to understand that.” {???}

–“Kahnawake eviction controversy flares up”, Geoffrey Vendeville, Montreal Gazette, August 10, 2014 {CAPS added}

http://cached.newslookup.com/cached.php?ref_id=125&siteid=2117&id=7622329&t=1407543666

From 2010:
“The traditional idea of relationship, of all of us being connected to each other, seems to have been shrugged off in the Mohawk peoples quest for sovereignty on their home territory.

“They say it’s all about the preservation of identity. They say it’s about Mohawks protecting their own and allowing their land to be occupied by those whose bloodline is fully Mohawk. This, despite a long history of cultural intermarriage, of that same bloodline becoming diluted and shared with the blood of other nations, other peoples.

“There are names on the band list that reflect a long French and English heritage. The history of Kahnawake is the history of Canada, of disparate peoples coming together to form community, of histories melded into one, of a country, a nation state whose heartbeat is the collective rhythm of many hearts.

“It’s confusing. There’s no such thing as a pure culture anymore. History asks every culture to surrender a part of itself to be included in the process of moving forward together through time.

“As native people, we’ve surrendered toboggans and snowshoes for pick-up trucks and snowmobiles. We’ve moved from nomadic migrations to college degrees, computers and a seat in the board room, the corporation and an urban community. Time treats everyone the same and the measure of a peoples’ maturity is how well, how fairly, they negotiate the changes. 

“But what’s really confusing about it all is the shirking of traditional responsibility.

“As ‘First Nations’, as the original inhabitants of this country, our role is that of stewards and guardians. Our role was, and is today, to help newcomers learn how to live in harmony with the land, to honor it, to share it and in turn become stewards themselves.

“Along with the mantle of stewardship comes the idea of belonging, of responsibility, sharing and engaging in the collective forward motion of time, Earth and community.

“Evicting people because they’re not Mohawk is colonialism in reverse. It’s racism, a total disregard for integrity, for the shared light of Creation that shines in every single one of us and again, we all know how that feels.

“Displacement is displacement and allowing it because we can is just not Indian, and ‘turn about is fair play’ or ‘payback is tough’ were never among our principles. We share a planet, we share a home, that’s just the simple, unalterable truth of it.”

–‘Kahnawake eviction notices show disregard for ‘First Nation’ traditions’, Richard Wagamese, Kenora Daily Miner and News, June 25, 2010

http://www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com/2010/06/25/kahnawake-eviction-notices-show-disregard-for-first-nation-traditions  
Also from 2010:
“It sounds like something from a distant, darker time. Acting on anonymous calls to a snitch line, authorities single out people on the basis of their race and order them to leave town.

“We trust that you understand the seriousness of this letter and will govern yourself accordingly”, the eviction letters conclude.

“But it was just this week that the letters were delivered by Mohawk chiefs to non-natives residing in Kahnawake, a reserve southwest of Montreal. The recipients’ offence was moving in with a Mohawk lover, and they were given 10 days to pack up. As news of the band council’s action emerged, its political press attaché, Joe Delaronde, was on the defensive.

“We sound like a bunch of Nazis here”, he said this week, “but really, they shouldn’t be here based on any law, Canadian or Kahnawake.”

“Kahnawake law is clear that racial inter-mingling is forbidden on the reserve. Since 1981, a moratorium on mixed marriages has said that any Kahnawake Mohawk who marries a non-native will lose the right to live on the reserve. The principle was reinforced in a 2004 ‘Membership Law’, which was aimed at “fulfilling our responsibility to defend our community and our Nation from external threat.” The federal Indian Act allows ‘First Nations’ to establish rules for band membership, and a Department of Indian Affairs spokeswoman told La Presse this week that the eviction controversy is an internal Kahnawake matter.

{Because, of course, it’s Race Based Law and human rights don’t apply…}

“The argument against mixed marriages is sometimes framed in terms of dwindling space. There is a housing shortage on the reserve at the foot of one of the main bridges onto Montreal Island. But what really seems to be driving the latest evictions is a preoccupation with preserving Mohawk bloodlines and culture.
“Grand Chief Mike Delisle said in an interview that Kahnawake takes a harder line on these issues than most other native communities.

“There are other ‘First Nations’ where, in my opinion, maybe it’s ‘too late’”, he said. “They have been ‘overrun’ by outside marriage, and a lot of the community members as well as the leadership don’t possess the type of lineage that Kahnawake demands.” {???} 

“There are fears in Kahnawake of “complete integration” into Canadian society if nothing is done, he said.

{Sacre bleu, imagine that — “complete integration”! What a nightmare…}

“Jeremiah Johnson, a 31-year-old small business owner in Kahnawake, this week started a Facebook page called “Non-natives out of Kahnawake?” He supports the band’s initiative to expel non-natives.

“We don’t want to stay 300 years in the past, but we don’t want to be assimilated into the mainstream world, either. {So he compromised…and went on Facebook???} It’s not our way and it’s not how we think”, he said. He understands that outsiders might say, ” ‘Oh my God those racist Indians,’ but when you’re here and you see it from our point of view, what we have left and what we’re fighting to hold onto, it really is an invasion.”

“Comments on the page so far tilt heavily in favour of the evictions.

“I know there might be a few people in here who would object and say that love is love, no matter what race”, one woman wrote. “Don’t date white people and you won’t fall in love with them.” {Nice — racist dating advice…} 

“Others have questioned why the band council has limited it to the roughly 25 people sent letters this week.

“There are a lot more than 25 people”, one woman wrote.

“The debate is unsettling to the editor of ‘The Eastern Door’, Kahnawake’s weekly newspaper. In an editorial yesterday, Steve Bonspiel said relying on anonymous complaints to identify evictees “reeks of an old-fashioned, gruesome witch-hunt.” (The band council said it received about 100 complaints over the past 18 months.)

“So, now that meddling in our neighbours’ love lives is applauded as protecting the Nation, what will come next?” Mr. Bonspiel asked.

“The editorial was printed beneath a cartoon showing a mob with torches.

“In an interview, Mr. Bonspiel said he finds the band council’s approach hard to swallow. The names of those facing eviction have been kept confidential so far, but they are said to include long-time community volunteers and people who are caring for disabled or seriously-ill partners.

“I know non-natives who live here, who are married and have kids here, and they’re contributing to the community. They’re giving back”, Mr. Bonspiel said. “They’re not taking anything from the community, yet they will be targeted in the future if the Mohawk council continues along these lines.”

“Sandra Schurman, 44, has a distinct perspective on the debate. Her mother is Mohawk and her father white. She is allowed to live in Kahnawake but is not recognized as a member of the band, meaning she cannot vote in band elections. When she dies, she will not be allowed to be buried in the Kahnawake cemetery.
“A few years ago, after the latest membership law was passed, she appeared before a council of elders seeking to be listed as a Kahnawake member. Her application was denied because she did not have the requisite four Mohawk great-grandparents; one of her great-grandmothers on her mother’s side was half-Mohawk.

“They even had my family tree displayed on the overhead projector”, she recalls of the hearing before the elders. “My great-grandmother grew up here, spoke Mohawk and raised her children here, but they wouldn’t accept her [as Mohawk.]”

“She finds it hypocritical, considering how common intermarriage was in the past.

“There are many people on this reserve who claim full native ancestry who are running around with red hair or blond hair, so I’m not the only one”, she said.

“I can totally understand them wanting to protect, because the elders are scared how this place is going to be in 50 years. There are going to be hardly any Mohawks left, things will be lost and it will be mostly white people in this town. I can understand that too, but at the same time it’s like, c’mon, this town is half-white anyway.”

“Julius Grey, a Montreal lawyer who specializes in Charter of Rights cases, questions whether a policy like Kahnawake’s could withstand a constitutional challenge.

“I think it’s time to challenge that whole nation that they can remove people on the basis of percentage of Indian blood or whatever”, he said.

“If people identify themselves as Mohawk and follow certain cultural practices, that should be enough, he said.

“The argument that drastic measures are required for survival does not wash.

“I don’t believe groups have a ‘right to survive’,” Mr. Grey said. “I think individuals have a right to belong to groups. There is freedom of individual association. If they wish to make it survive, then they will survive. If some other people who do not qualify by blood wish to join, that will in fact improve their chances for survival.”

–‘Natives only, please: A look into the eviction of non-natives from the Kahnawake reserve’, Graham Hughes, National Post, February 5, 2010

http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/updates/100205np.html 
Again, from 2010:
“In Kahnawake, some people live in a constant state of fear.

“I have friends who don’t sleep at night”, said Tracy Deer, a publisher of Kahnawake’s local newspaper, ‘The Eastern Door’. “They fell in love with non-natives and now spend their time wondering if one night they’ll get a knock at their door and there’s gonna be a mob outside with clubs to pull them out of their homes. That’s no way to live, that’s no way to form a community.”

“Alvin Delisle served on the Kahnawake’s Mohawk band council from 1987 to 1991. He personally handed out eviction notices in 1988.

“The only way they’ll enforce the evictions is if they start forcing people out of their homes”, said Delisle. “Nobody really moved away in 1988. And most of those that did ended up back on the reserve shortly after.”

“Since his time on the band council, Delisle has regretted his role in the eviction notices.

“Ten years ago, Delisle met and fell in love with Colleen Labelle, a non-native. On February 2, Labelle was handed an eviction notice when she entered Delisle’s home in Kahnawake. Labelle lives in Lasalle but stayed with Delisle over the winter as he prepared for and recovered from heart surgery.

“’They want to take my rights as a native away because my girlfriend is ‘white’”, said Delisle. “[But] we’re not going anywhere.”

–‘Kahnawake residents face racially motivated evictions’, Christopher Curtis, The Link (Concordia U.), April 2010

http://thelinknewspaper.ca/pdf/thelink_vol30_iss29.pdf More 2010:
“Ten years ago, Waneek Horn-Miller was the pride of her native Kahnawake when she co-captained Canada’s Olympic water polo team in Sydney. Today, however, because she is engaged to marry a white man, she has become the target of hate mail and a petition aimed at chasing her family from the Mohawk reserve.

“Even this Mohawk role model is not immune from the nasty, simmering debate over the presence of non-natives in Kahnawake. As the band council threatens evictions of any non-natives living on the reserve with Mohawk partners, Ms. Horn-Miller is appealing for a change to a policy that is tearing families apart.

“For a few generations now, people being told ‘marry out, you get out’ and being forced to leave, it hasn’t contributed to a healthier society”, she said in her first interview with outside media since she was targeted. “That is not the solution to solving our social problems and saving our language and culture.”

“Ms. Horn-Miller, 34, is one of the best-known residents of Kahnawake, located just across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal. She was 14 in the summer of 1990 when her mother, native-rights activist Kahn-Tineta Horn, brought her and her younger sister to join the defence of land outside Oka…

“She then threw herself into sport, inspired by Kahnawake’s Alwyn Morris, a kayaker who won Olympic gold in 1984. In 2000, she became Kahnawake’s second Olympian, and she has travelled the continent promoting fitness in aboriginal communities…

“But to some back in Kahnawake, her long-term relationship with a non-native man and their decision to build a house in Kahnawake outweighs the good she has accomplished.

“Emotions over the issue of non-native residency in Kahnawake had been mounting since February, when the band council, acting on anonymous complaints, delivered eviction notices to 26 people deemed to be in violation of the band’s membership law.

“That law, aimed at “fulfilling our responsibility to defend our community and our Nation from external threat,” forbids racial intermingling on the reserve {Much like 1930s Germany — and for similar reasons…}. (Mixed marriages pre-dating a 1981 moratorium are tolerated.) Among those who received eviction notices, five agreed to leave, three received the notices in error, 11 are pleading their cases with the band council and seven ignored the letters.

“In April, with her new home under construction and the arrival of her first child a month away, Ms. Horn-Miller learned a petition had been submitted to the band council demanding a stop to building. About 50 people had signed the petition, complaining that Ms. Horn-Miller’s fiancé, Keith Morgan, had no right to live in the house. The contractor arrived at the work site one morning to find a note directed at Mr. Morgan telling him to leave.
“Days before she gave birth to her daughter, Konwaskennenhawi, Ms. Horn-Miller received an anonymous letter saying her half-Mohawk child was unwelcome on the reserve.

“I tried very hard to galvanize myself against emotionally reacting to that, but I couldn’t”, she said. “It was a hard time, really hard for me because I guess in a way I felt that no matter what I did, no matter what I accomplished, no matter how I tried to contribute, I was still being defined just as a baby-maker. That’s all that matters, our genetics, not who you are and what you contributed.”

“In fact, the people behind the petition were mistaken in thinking Mr. Morgan, a Calgary-born judoka who represented Canada at four Olympic Games, was preparing to move in. He is completing his first year of medical school at a U.S. university in Dominica, a program that will take six years, Ms. Horn-Miller said.

“The Band council issued a statement clarifying that Ms. Horn-Miller was within her rights to live in the house with her child and appealing for respectful dialogue. The council noted, however, that if Mr. Morgan were to move in with his family, the council “would have no choice but to take action against him.”

“Tracey Deer, publisher of Kahnawake’s weekly newspaper, the ‘Eastern Door’, became friends with Ms. Horn-Miller while making the 2008 documentary, “Club Native”, about inter-racial relationships in Kahnawake. She was shocked by the treatment given to a “national role model” like Ms. Horn-Miller, eight months pregnant. She blames the band council’s approach to the issue, inviting anonymous calls to a snitch line, for poisoning the atmosphere in Kahnawake.

“The environment now in Kahnawake is definitely unpleasant”, she said. “It’s much more difficult to be a non-native person living here, because I think the action that the band council has taken has given people permission to be hostile, racist, openly. It’s given the stamp of approval that we can now behave this way, because we’ve got our own government encouraging it.”

“She said her film was aimed at getting her community to rethink its “fundamentalist” attitudes.

“I really don’t think we have a future if we stay on this blood notion for survival”, she said. “People are defined by their community, togetherness, unity. None of that is strong right now. Our language is endangered. Our culture is endangered. We are a very divided, fractured community, so I would love for us to switch our emphasis on these things that make us strong instead of being blood-based.”

“The switch will not be easy. Even Ms. Horn-Miller, raised to believe she should never marry a non-native, felt torn when she began dating Mr. Morgan eight years ago. She initially informed him they could never marry or have children because of his race. Over time, her resolve softened.

“One of the great things about meeting Keith was it brought me back to understanding how to look at someone not by the colour of their skin but for their humanity, for who they were as a human being”, she said. “That’s what I needed.”

“Mr. Morgan, 36, said he realized Ms. Horn-Miller’s decision to build would be controversial.

“I understand the community’s desire to protect their culture; in fact, I support their effort. I’m just not sure that throwing out a few non-natives (who have ties to the community) is the best way to go about it,”

he said in an email exchange with the ‘National Post’. He said he is prepared to learn the language and culture and pay for any services provided by the band if he is allowed to live in Kahnawake after he graduates.

“I feel that I have much to contribute to the community, and would love to do so if given the chance. However, I will not do so at any expense”, he said. “If we have done all that we can to make positive change and are still not wanted or accepted by the community for who we are, then we will go somewhere else.”

“…Joe Delaronde, Kahnawake’s political press attaché, said Ms. Horn-Miller’s and Mr. Morgan’s accomplishments are irrelevant to the debate over their status on the reserve.

“It’s not about the personalities. It’s about ‘the law’”, he said. “What is your alternative, do we just let everybody bring in whoever they want, and then how long will it be until we just don’t exist?”

“Ms. Horn-Miller said she is optimistic Kahnawake’s strong-willed Mohawks will reach a compromise.

“We’re a tough, tough people and that is something that has helped us survive on the edge of Montreal, but it’s also harder to resolve internal conflict”, she said.

“She suggests non-natives in relationships with Mohawks could be allowed to live in Kahnawake on the condition they learn the language and culture and contribute to the community.

“She hopes her two-month-old daughter, whose name means “she brings the peace,” will be welcomed as a Mohawk woman, but she realizes the path will not always be smooth.

“We’re going to have to raise her to be strong”, Ms. Horn-Miller said. “She’s got a judo Dad and a water polo Mom, so I think she’s going to be a pretty good fighter.”

{She can always be a Canadian…}

–‘Former Olympian faces eviction from reserve over non-native fiancé’, Graeme Hamilton, National Post, July 16, 2010

http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/updates/100716np.html
Note how this law journal dances around the evictions and the subject of Race Based Law:

“At first blush, the expulsion of non-natives from a Quebec reserve appears an  obvious affront to human rights. Controversy, in fact, has  been swirling ever since the band council in Kahnawake moved to evict  non-natives living on the reserve southeast of Montreal. The evictions,  officials there argue, are about preserving Mohawk identity by limiting the  presence of outsiders.

“The key targets of the evictions are non-natives  in relationships with band members. The council, then, is essentially taking a  shot at mixed marriages.

“The band does, of course, have points to make.  Fighting against assimilation is a legitimate goal. {?} At the same time, under  federal law, ‘First Nations’ have the right to decide who is eligible for band  membership, a key element of self-government. As a result, federal officials  have so far kept their distance from the issue.

“Nevertheless, the  evictions are disturbing. Mixed marriages are a reality in our society, which  makes any effort to fight against them a fruitless task. The Kahnawake council  could, of course, argue that rather than battling against that tide, it’s simply  exercising its right to decide who gets band membership, but of course the  effect of the evictions is to punish those who marry outside native  bloodlines.

“At the same time, it’s questionable whether those efforts are  the best way to preserve Mohawk culture anyway. The mere presence of non-natives  doesn’t necessarily imperil Mohawk identity. Obviously, we live in a pluralistic  society where culture is about more than bloodlines and ancestry. There are  other less disturbing ways to promote it than reverting to race-based  policies.

“The legal issues are trickier, however. The evictions have  raised the prospect of a constitutional challenge given their clearly  discriminatory nature. But governments typically take a hands-off approach to  these issues given the sensitivity around native sovereignty and  self-government, both of which band councils have a legitimate interest in  protecting.

“Nevertheless, the Kahnawake move is yet another example of  the continuing clouds that linger over those very issues. On the one hand, it  raises questions about the ways in which the Constitution applies to native  reserves while on the other hand evoking concerns over sovereignty and cultural  rights.

 “Of course, the whole area of native rights has been a murky one  for some time, especially since politicians veered away from dealing with  constitutional issues following the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accord battles  of the 1990s. Once again, we’re left with few answers.

“It would be nice  to think cases such as the Kahnawake evictions will prompt a search for clarity  in that area. But, given other examples of similarly tricky disputes — Caledonia  comes to mind {What’s “tricky” about the criminal activity in Caledonia?} — it seems likely we’ll be waiting a long time for that. Still,  that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t hope things were different.”

–‘Editorial:  Kahnawake evictions: sovereignty v. Constitution’, Glenn Kauth, Law Times, 21 February 2010

http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201002222438/commentary/editorial-kahnawake-evictions-sovereignty-v-constitution 
“The issue goes back to 1973 when the longhouse started to evict non-native families that lived here with no ties to anyone in the community.

“Then it gained steam and community members, not affiliated with the longhouse, started going after people who had ties here (a spouse or children) and angry mobs visited houses to pressure people to leave. It worked and many left. 

“These days, things are different but the Mohawk Council is using these letters, and the promise of publishing the names of people who don’t heed their warning, as a way to again call on the community to put ‘peer pressure’ on these non-natives so they move. It is setting a dangerous precedent.

“It’s important to note that there are hundreds of non-natives living here, not just these 26. Some have been adopted in and have little or no Mohawk blood, but they have become a part of the community. Others married into the community, have children and/or great grandchildren and they will not be targeted, according to the MCK, because they can no longer procreate. I’m not even making that part up. A number of chiefs have said that…

“Why do you think the MCK wants to use ‘peer pressure’ to get people out? Because how would they do it otherwise? Mobs, like in the ’70s? The Peacekeepers (Kahnawake’s police force)? They could try those options but I don’t think it would look too good for their image and they just might find out that those non-native people living here, with or without ties, have quite a bit of support behind them…”

–‘Inside the Kahnawake evictions’, Martin Patriquin, Macleans, February 10, 2010

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/inside-the-kahnawake-evictions/ 
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COMMENTS: “This is racial discrimination, pure and simple.  It should be crushed.  I hope the aboriginals on the reservation have the stones and the principle to stand up to the Mohawk Council on this and protect their neighbors.  If not, I recommend eliminating all legal authority for the Mohawk Council, since they are essentially abusing their authority to promote racial persecution.

“As an aside, the ‘whites’ are not generally “non-natives”.  They are Canadian-born, which makes them no less “native”, by the very definition of the term, than the aboriginals.”
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“And you know what?  As ridiculous as this example is, it is NOT the most appalling aspect of the race-based genealogical apartheid we practice in this country.”
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“Who do you Blame? … If you ask me, the Truth of it all in many ‘First Nations’: there have been a lot of Drug Dealings in the communities across the country, not just Kahnawake — not to mention, the reality of some leaders involved in the Drug Trade, by buying votes with drugs come Election Time. Some leaders even have a name for this practice, called “Election Addiction” — giving out free Drugs to our young People, to buy Votes.

“It’s sad for the kids & the Elders. Some communities you have non-Natives with the highest paying jobs in the community. Many of our People get discriminated against if they speak up for any wrongs, & get blacklisted by the Band Councils’ Leadership if they fight against Illegal Activities & The Vote Buying with Drugs…”
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“Seems to me that the way to stop the drug dealing, smuggling, illicit tobacco “industry” and gun running that goes on in the “smuggler’s paradise” of border reserves is to enforce the law, independent of race…

“If the government decided to suspend and refuse to enforce the rule of law in Niagara on the Lake, even this quaint little tourist town would soon turn into another “Kahnawake” as organized crime gangs took over.

“Kicking “non-native” criminals off reserves would only serve one purpose…saving the ongoing criminal activities for criminal natives to profit from.

“Until something changes to eliminate the environment that created and fosters illegal smuggling, drug and gun running through reserves…the root problem will remain, regardless of what race the perpetrator happens to be.”
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“According to “Littlebear”, the abuse and misfortunes on Reserves are being forced upon them by “Whites” that ply their illegal activities on Reserves with unobstructed, wholesale access to all the illegal activities that occur on Reserves.

“I grew up 5 minutes from a Reserve. I know that if I were to open a boozecan, or afterhours bar on the Reserve close to my home, I would have been beaten to a bloody pulp every night, if not dragged out to the bush to be fed to the bears, and have my house burned to the ground. Natives aren’t  too big on sharing on-Reserve business opportunities with non-Natives, whether the business is legal or not. Typical, though. A lot of Natives always seem to find it easier to point the finger at the “Whiteman” than accept responsibility and be held accountable for their own woes.”
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“I wonder how this would go over if “Whites” were trying to evict Natives off of their street or out of their community. There would be total uproar by Natives and treehuggers alike. We would be called every name in the book, from the most obvious — racist and discriminatory — to hatemongers and Nazis and ethnic cleansers. This would never be allowed if it weren’t taking place on a Reserve, where our spineless politicians lack of political will is made even more apparent. Natives would be blockading highways, railways, city centers, government buildings and just about anywhere else they figured they could get their face on the front page.”
“In the  1980s, some Mohawks contested the policy before the human rights  tribunal, but lost. The courts have ruled that Mohawks can make any  membership policy they deem necessary for their survival as a people.”

http://www.therightperspective.org/2010/02/07/mohawks-ban-mixed-marriages-evict-non-beringians/
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See also:
‘MOHAWKS USING RACE BASED LAW TO SHELTER ORGANIZED CRIME’ {Apr. 8, 2016}: https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/mohawks-using-race-based-law-to-shelter-organized-crime/
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