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KANESATAKE — Rail disruptions in Tyendinaga and Kahnawake may only be the beginning of a broader campaign of Mohawk resistance against the state.

That was the message Monday as protesters in Kahnawake and Kanesatake made a strong show of solidarity to their “brothers and sisters” arrested during an Ontario Provincial Police raid of the railroad protest at Tyendinaga.

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In Kanesatake, residents sealed off the community from the outside world. The Mohawks used snow plows, pickup trucks and minivans to block Route 344 and every other road that passes through town.

“What the OPP did this morning was brutal, sneaky and it violates our right to self-determination,” said Mohawk activist Ellen Gabriel, standing near the barricades at Route 344. “This is a solidarity blockade. We could take it down tonight and have it right back up tomorrow.”

On Montreal’s South Shore, access to the Mercier Bridge in the direction of Montreal was slowed in the morning by a convoy of vehicles bedecked with flags from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.