[IPSM] Media Release: Mohawk grandmother remains in hiding, defying arrest warrant

[Jaggi Singh]

http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/mohawk-grandmother-remains-in-hiding.html
-----

To all News Editors
For immediate release

-- Mohawk grandmother remains in hiding, defying arrest warrant

-- "Katenies" challenges US-Canada border jurisdiction

Akwesasne/Kahnawake, Mohawk Territory; March 5, 2007 -- A Mohawk woman
from the Akwesasne Community remains in hiding, defying an arrest
warrant from the Superior Court of Ontario in Cornwall.

"Katenies" (whose Mohawk name means "she changes things around")
refused to appear in court on customs and border violations this past
January 18, 2007. Instead, she served her own "Motion to Dismiss,"
questioning the jurisdiction of the courts and border officials over
sovereign Mohawk peoples and their land.

Katenies is a mother and grandmother -- her third grandchild was born
just 5 days ago on February 28 -- and a researcher with Mohawk Nation
News.

She and her family -- including her daughter and grandchildren -- have
been harassed by border officials, in various incidents that date back
to 2003. To visit her daughter, Katenies needs to make a simple
2-minute drive, but that drive takes her through two provinces, one
state, and two countries.

If captured by the police, Katenies faces possible pre-trial detention
until her court date in August 2007.

Katenies vows to continue to defy the courts until the jurisdiction
question is answered; in her words: "It's the Crown, the courts and
the police that are the frauds, and it's they who are in violation of
the law."

Katenies remains out of sight, somewhere on Turtle Island.


MEDIA CONTACT: Kahentinetha of Mohawk Nation News (MNN) at
450-635-9345 or kahentinetha2 at yahoo.com

For background information to Katenies' case, including her Motion to
Dismiss and a 28-minute audio interview, please consult:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/background-katenies-defies-colonial-us.html


-30-