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    My thoughts on the pending OPG agreement

    ©By Doug George-Kanentiio
    News From Indian Country

    I have had the honour, and duty, of serving the Mohawk Nation Council as one of its land claims negotiators from 1984 to 1991.

    I took a firm, unyielding stance against the United States-New York State offer to exchange (meaning extinguish) sections of our Aboriginal territory at Akwesasne for a few million dollars and a few thousand acres of forest astride the St. Regis River.

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