Please spread this latest egregious actions against the recovery of indigenous and medically experimented bodies in unmarked graves at McGill University. Please read this report from APTN news and help the Mohawk Mothers beat back the aggressors. 

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Video Shows Security Guard Confronting Mohawk Mothers at University Site in Montreal
By Emelia Fournier

Jul 27, 2023

An archeological dig for unmarked graves has been halted after a group known as the Mohawk Mothers complained about how a security guard treated them at the site.  

APTN News obtained a video that shows one security guard demanding that a group known as Mohawk Mothers leave the grounds of the old Royal Victoria Hospital, where digs are underway to verify claims that victims of botched psychiatric experiments from decades past including Indigenous people, are buried there.

The video, taken at 3:30 p.m. on July 25, shows three security guards from the Commissaires, a private security firm hired by Quebec’s infrastructure society (SQI).

The video shows a young man at the front of the frame, a veiled woman, and a blonde woman. The blonde security guard tells the Mohawk Mothers, a group of women from Kahnawake and their cultural monitors that “The police are on their way… Bye bye.”

As the group walked away she can be heard shouting, “Go and get a life because I don’t think you have a life,” and “go back to your kids if you have any, I don’t think you have any.”

The Mohawk Mothers were onsite monitoring the archeological work underway to determine whether there are unmarked graves on the site – as mandated in their agreement with McGill and SQI outlining how archeological digs would proceed.

“I felt like a protector, not just of the grounds, but there’s a 79-year-old, there’s an 83-year-old, they’re older people. And also, some of our cultural observers are not geared to deal with violence,” said Kwetiio, one of the Mohawk Mothers, in a phone interview with APTN.

“They’re just doing their cultural job and they weren’t prepared for that. So I kind of felt protective of all of them.”

According to Philippe Blouin, an academic who works with the Mohawk Mothers, the mothers and their cultural monitors were packing up for the day at 3:30 p.m., but they typically leave around 4 p.m.

A security guard motioned for Kahentinetha to come speak with them and she was told they had to leave and that the police were on their way.

The blonde female security guard became upset when she noticed she was being filmed.

According to Kwetiio and Blouin, the phone was seized and the video was deleted.

Kwetiio said she tried to de-escalate the situation after the security guard became upset that she was being filmed.

“She goes, ‘Unless you show me a court order… you can’t be here, you got to show me,’ said Kwetiio. 

An archeological dig for unmarked graves has been halted after a group known as the Mohawk Mothers complained about how a security guard treated them at the site... continued

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MNN. July 27, 2023. Work to uncover human remains has stopped. Search dogs detected human remains on June 9th in front of the Hersey Pavilion of the old Royal Victoria Hospital RVH in Montreal. On July 25th 2023 Indigenous elders and cultural monitors were aggressed by security guards.

At approximately 15:30 the Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) and Indigenous cultural monitors were preparing to leave work. The cultural monitors observe work being done to uncover human remains at the RVH, as provided by a Settlement Agreement between the Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) and a slew of Defendants, including the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) and McGill University.

The video, available here shows some of the outrageous insults that the SQI security used against the Indigenous elders and cultural monitors as they were leaving the site, to avoid being subjected to violence. 

An injunction was obtained on October 2022 to halt excavation work for the New Vic project to search for unmarked graves of children killed by medical experiments in the 1950’s and 1960’s.... continued