Kahnawake Grand Chief lauds council presence at AFN

By  Marc Lalonde, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Newly elected Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Grand Chief Cody Diabo lauded his council’s presence at last week’s Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Annual General Assembly in downtown Montreal. “We definitely made our presence felt,” Diabo said. “We got a lot of good feedback from some of the community members who were there in other capacities. We really left our mark.” Over the two-day general assembly at Palais des Congres, Diabo got the opportunity to press federal leaders’ feet to the flames on different topics – not the least of which was the anniversary of July 11, 1990, which marked the day Kahnawake community members blocked access to Mercier Bridge in support of Kanehsatake, after the SQ raided that community over a golf course…

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