Indigenous minister says 'modest' progress made after day-long meeting with Mohawk Nation

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said that “modest progress” had been made in discussions surrounding a railway blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk territory which has shut down rail services across eastern Canada.  Miller was speaking in a scrum outside the Belleville community centre where he had met with representatives of the Mohawk Nation all day Saturday. Members of the Nation have been taking part in railway blockades in support of the hereditary chiefs of the Wet&rsquo