Kanien'kehá:ka

alternative Ontario Kanyen'kehá:ka

1. Synonym of Mohawk (people)

   Last week, police reported that eight bodies – including an infant and two-year-old child – were found in the St. Lawrence River near the Kanien’kehá:ka community of Akwesasne..

   2023 April 3, Christina Clark-Kazak, “The deaths in the St. Lawrence River show that border ‘control’ is a fallacy”, in The Globe and Mail

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   The determination and resilience we showed in the summer of 1990 is something we are admired for. Our community has forgotten that. We are respected for these qualities. As we now turn that ferocity on our own people, we not only fracture and weaken the Mohawk Nation but all the Kanien’kehá:ka communities will also feel the reverberation.

   2014 November 3, Waneek Horn-Miller, Kahente Horn-Miller, “Kahnawake First Nation attacking the human rights of its citizens”, in CBC News

   Within the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of hearing activist Ellen Gabriel speak on numerous occasions, including at Tuesday’s Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly in Montreal. I am grateful that she shares her firsthand accounts and perspectives as a Kanien’kehá:ka woman.

   2015 July 10, Jessica Deer, “Opinion: Looking back at the Oka Crisis and ahead to the future”, in The Montreal Gazette

   Synonyms: Mohawk