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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing that the mayor in Cornwall now is suffering from having bullets fired at his house and on his property and being threatened and all that stuff," he said.

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The third-Inter-American Indigenous Congress on the Environment and Economic development opened on Sept. 15 at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre to a small audience.

The purpose of the conference, said Ambassador Arthur Campeau, the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations for Environment and Sustainable Development, was to address those issues omitted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janiero.

Other outstanding issues of concern to Indigenous peoples in North, South and Central America were also to be discussed.