Canada Prevents Mohawks from Returning from Bolivia with Haudenosaunee Passports

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Ten day trip turned into 29 days

Kahnawakenews
By Greg Horn • Tue, Jun 01, 2010

When a delegation from Kahnawake travelled to Bolivia last month to take part in an environmental conference they had no idea that it would turn into an exercise in self-determination and a fight for Indigenous rights. For Kanen’tokon Hemlock, Tyler Hemlock and Kahnawiio Dione a ten-day trip to the South American country turned into 29 days – most of which were spent in San Salvador, El Salvador trying to get home.

The three Kahnawa’kehró:non travelled to Bolivia as the Mohawk Delegation for the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The Kahnawake Delegation was appointed by the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake and travelled on the Haudenosaunee Passport. Prior to their trip, the delegation went to the Bolivian Embassy in Ottawa to get visas to be able travel to Bolivia on their passports.