Photos by January Rogers NIAGARA FALLS – Soaring temperatures and spurts of rain didn’t stop Haudenosaunee from practicing Indigenous rights to free passage across the invisible US-Canada border. The annual Jay Treaty celebration Saturday ( July 20th) marks the hard work of generations of Indian Defence League of America (IDLA) supporters who have been drawing attention to and protecting Indigenous border crossing rights with the march since 1927. The event sees Indigenous people walk across the international Rainbow Bridge from one country to the other to mark invisible barriers created when both Canada and the U.S. formed a border with the imposition of the Jay Treaty in 1794. The move, without Indigenous involvement, resulted in dividing not just Indigenous territories but families from each other. For the Haudenosaunee and Ongwehonwe…
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