White pine of peace removed — Mohawk group says McGill is to blame
A group of Mohawk women and their supporters gathered at McGill on Sunday to plant a white pine sapling in a call for peace. By Monday morning, that tree was gone.
The group, who call themselves Onkwehón:we Konón:kwe, says McGill is likely to blame.
The ceremony was an unsanctioned commemoration of the pro-Palestine encampment that once stood on McGill’s lower field, and a call for peace both in Gaza and on the ancestral territories of the Haudenosaunee, where McGill now stands.
The university did not grant CKUT an interview nor confirm that it was their workers who uprooted the sapling. In an email to CKUT they say their “commitment to the spirit of reconciliation is enduring,” but they “retain the right to determine how University property is used.”
