Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, grand chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, 41, has made history as the first woman and the first LGBTQ2S person to be elected grand chief of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke, according to CBC Radio Canada.
Sky-Deer, who was elected with 573 votes, served as council chief for 12 years. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke is the organization that provides governmental, administrative, and operational services to the community of Kahnawà:ke, located in Quebec, Canada, just outside of Montreal.
Sky-Deer succeeds Grand Chief Joseph Norton, who died last August. Sky-Deer has said on her Facebook page that she wants to be a leader who would “restore trust in our institutions by decolonizing them