Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory is now, officially, getting some land back.
From left, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte Chief Don Maracle, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller and councillor Stacia Loft finalize a partial settlement agreement to return land to Tyendinaga in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on Monday.At a ceremonial signing on Monday morning, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller agreed to hand over a 120-hectare plot of land to the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte band council, along with roughly $31 million in compensation.
Miller was also unable to offer a firm timeline when the rest of the claim might be settled, or when the community will take control of the 120 hectares. It must be put through the additions-to-reserve program that Miller called "morbid" and "broken" and sometimes takes years."We've been working with communities to make sure that we're not within the strict parameters of the Indian Act, because it is a racist document.
"I'm from this community. All these suits and dressed-up people in here, none of them were in that quarry. Not one of them," he said.The land dispute dates to 1837 when the Crown illegally granted 370 hectares of unsurrendered Mohawk territory to John Culbertson, grandson of community founder John Deserontyon.
In what Brant would describe as a "rotational economic disruption campaign," activists began re-occupying territory and blockading infrastructure beginning in 2006 and winding down in 2008. Along with a quarry now being returned, a housing development was occupied and stopped, while train tracks and Highway 401 were intermittently blocked.
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