working in Canada/US and steelworkers

reginah@sociology.lan.mcgill.ca
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:55:35 EST5EDT

Since the two topics came up here at the same time, I thought I'd
mention that the reason that the US upholds its end of the Jay Treaty
by allowing natives of Canadian origin to work in the US is that back
in the 1920s a Mohawk steelworker from Kahnawake was arrested for
working illegally in the States. The steelworker, whose name I think
was Paul Diabo, successfully argued his case, funds provided by the
Confederacy. So the US upholds the Jay Treaty. You can find out
more about this in Seven Generations, by David Blanchard, a book
called Kahnawake: a Mohawk look at Canada, by Johnny Beauvais, or also
I think in the Mohawk section of the Smithsonian Handbook, Northeast
volume. The first two books might be hard to find outside of Canada
or even Ganiakeh though.

Regina Harrison
Dept of Anthropology
McGill University

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