MONTREAL — There was a heated community meeting in Kahnawake Tuesday night over the question of mixed marriages, namely those between members of the Mohawk nation and their non-native spouses.
About 50 community members gathered to hash out the controversial eviction policy first created in 1981.
The policy bans First Nations members married to non-natives from living on the Mohawk territory.
Former Olympic athlete Waneek Horn-Miller is married to a white man and the mother of two young children is one of the residents in question currently facing eviction.
She attended the meeting on Tuesday and said she is trying to approach the exchange with love.
“The meeting was very well attended, it was very passionate,” Horn-Miller said.
“A lot of emotion, a lot of passion. It was a doozy, that is the only way I can say it. Pretty hard core.”
The Kahnawake membership council will host a series of discussions to allow opponents to propose other solutions.
The meeting will be held on September 30th.
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