[news] Kahnawake: an election-free zone: Mohawks interested in the vote but consider it a foreign event

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

JEFF HEINRICH | The Gazette | January 15, 2006

Welcome to Mohawk country, an election-free zone. Unlike most other Canadian native communities, the 9,300 Mohawks of Kahnawake, along with their 10,000 brethren of Akwesasne, which straddles the Canada- U.S. border near Cornwall, Ont., boycott federal and provincial elections.

Voting in "alien nation" elections "places us in submission to foreign governments and as a result alienates us from our own," according to the lead editorial this week in The Eastern Door, Kahnawake's community paper. "You can't stand with one foot in two canoes."

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