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They control the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, which is a 7,362.5 ha (18,193-acre) [1] Mohawk Indian reserve on the Bay of Quinte in southeastern Ontario, Canada, east of Belleville and immediately to the west of Deseronto. [2] They also share Glebe Farm 40B and the Six Nations of the Grand River reserves with other First Nations.
By 1971, negotiations were complete at Tyendinaga Territory for the Mohawk to found and construct a centralized elementary school building on York Road, to replace the overcrowded Quinte Mohawk Indian Day School. It would be large enough also to replace the three single-room schoolhouses: Eastern, Western, and Central Indian day schools.
Given increased activism for land claims, a rise in tribal revenues due to establishment of gaming on certain reserves or reservations, competing leadership, traditional government jurisdiction, issues of taxation, and the Canadian Indian Act, Mohawk communities have been dealing with considerable internal conflict since the late 20th century.
On June 7, 2009, Brant helped organize a blockade of the Skyway bridge which connects Tyendinaga with Prince Edward County. [12] He was imprisoned for almost three years. [13] On November 1, 2013, Brant announced he was running for elected chief of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. [14] He was unsuccessful in his attempt, coming in second to Donald ...
Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years' War), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via ...
About 200 Mohawk, primarily from the Lower Castle, settled with Deseronto at what is now called the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario. Deseronto was personally granted a lump sum payment of about £800 for his losses, 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ) of land, and an annual pension of £45.
Clifford Maracle was born in 1944 on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory Indian Reserve, Ontario, Canada. [2] Maracle came from a large family of 10 children but his father left the family when the children were young.
Beth E. Brant, Degonwadonti, [1] or Kaieneke'hak [2] (1941–2015) was a Mohawk writer, essayist, and poet of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] She was also a lecturer, editor, and speaker.