Kahnawake band council meddles in people’s love lives, critics charge: Mohawk bloodline is at stake, spokesperson says (The Gazette)

09 Feb Kahnawake band council meddles in people’s love lives, critics charge: Mohawk bloodline is at stake, spokesperson says (The Gazette)

Love is a victim of the initiative by Kahnawake authorities to expel some non-natives from the Montreal-area reserve, say critics of the move within the local Mohawk community who call it heartless and misguided.  “The real crux of the issue is whether a Mohawk can fall in love with a non-Indian in peace and whether they should be allowed to live in the house that is theirs in peace,” said Ellen Gabriel, president of Quebec Native Women, a group that promotes equality rights and better living standards for native women in the province… go to article