Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River

The Flint and Feather Licence

Version 1.0 · 13 November 2026 · Draft for the Secretary-General’s approval; not yet entered in the Gazette

Grant	Who	What it covers
Open Grant	Anyone, any purpose, with credit	Every set not marked “the Nation’s own”
Nation Grant	The Nation, its residents, its businesses	The sets marked “the Nation’s own”
Contributor’s Grant	Whoever makes a contribution	The open sets, without credit, with the source drawings
Held back	The Secretariat, or by written leave	The belts, the emblems, the Tract map

1. What this is

Flint and Feather is the icon library of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River: its marks, each drawn in flint (solid) and in feather (line), the two fonts that carry them, the kit and the pages that show them.

The copyright in Flint and Feather is held for the Nation by Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River, the Nation’s imprint. This licence is how Mohawk’s Printer lets others use it. Nothing here passes ownership of any mark to anyone.

There are three grants, and one group of marks held back from all three. Which grant a mark falls under is shown in the gallery: a set marked “the Nation’s own” is under the Nation Grant; every other set is under the Open Grant.

2. The Open Grant — anyone, with credit

Anyone, anywhere, may use the marks of the open sets, in flint and in feather, at no charge and for any lawful purpose, a business purpose included. You may:

show, print and publish them, in any size and any one colour;
set them in websites, applications, documents, signs, packaging and goods;
carry the fonts and the kit inside your own work so that it runs;
pass on the fonts and the kit whole and unchanged, with this licence beside them.

On these conditions:

Credit. Give the credit set out in section 6 once, where a reader can find it.
Not the Nation’s voice. Do not use a mark so as to suggest that the Nation, the Secretariat or the Register issued, approved or stands behind you, your goods or your words.
Not your mark. Do not register any mark, or anything close to it, as a trade mark or design, and do not make one the logo of a business or body.
Not for resale as marks. Do not sell or sublicense the marks, the fonts or the kit by themselves, or as part of another icon library or font.
Changes. You may resize, recolour and crop. If you redraw a mark, say that it has been changed, and do not pass the changed drawing off as the Nation’s.
No harm. Do not use the marks to deceive, or to demean the Nation, its people or any people.

3. The Nation Grant — the Nation, its residents and its businesses

The sets marked “the Nation’s own” — at this version Flint, The Nation's own, The Nation's life, The land, The people's dress, Ceremony and Grand River Dollar — belong to the Nation’s own life. They may be used freely, with no credit asked, by:

the Secretariat and the offices of the Nation;
a resident entered in the Nation’s Register;
a business or body entered in the Nation’s directory.

A business uses them as marks of the Nation’s life, not as the Nation’s seal on its goods: its labels stay its own, and must not lead a buyer to think the goods are issued by the Nation.

Anyone else may show these marks only to teach, to report, to review or to study, whole and unaltered, with the credit of section 6. They may not set them on goods, in advertising or in a product, without the written leave of Mohawk’s Printer.

4. The Contributor’s Grant — for a contribution

A person or body who makes a contribution to the Nation, as the Treasury’s schedule sets it, receives the Contributor’s Grant for the term the schedule names. It adds to the Open Grant:

use of the open sets without the credit line;
the source drawings of the open sets, mark by mark, for print and for design work;
new marks as they are drawn, ahead of the public release;
the right to ask for a mark to be drawn, which the Nation may draw or decline.

A grant may cover one domain, two to five domains, print, or domains and print together. For print — books, signs, packaging, posters — it is entered under the holder’s name and the Record Code of the contribution, and covers what the holder prints during the term. What is printed during the term may stay in use, and be sold, after it; a new printing after the term needs a grant in force, or carries the credit.

For a website the grant is entered against the holder’s domain: the address of the website it is for, with every address beneath it. The Register keeps the Contributors’ List of those domains, and the list is open — anyone may ask the Register whether a domain holds the grant. From a listed domain the Register serves the fonts, the kit and the source drawings directly; the grant runs from the day the domain is entered to the day the entry names.

To contribute, go to https://mohawkuniversity.org/Register/flint-and-feather/contribute/ — it opens the Nation’s Shop on the grant, where the contribution is made as any order is, online or by the officer’s letter. A body the contribution as set does not suit may ask there for an arrangement of its own.

The Contributor’s Grant is personal to whoever holds it and may not be passed on. It does not reach the Nation’s own sets or the marks held back, and every other condition of section 2 stands.

Draft note: the four things the Contributor’s Grant adds, and the Treasury’s schedule itself, are proposals awaiting the Secretary-General’s word. No amount is named in this licence.

5. Held back from every grant

These stand for the Nation itself and are not licensed under any grant above:

the wampum belts, every one of them;
the Nation’s emblems: the Seal, the flag, the lock-up and main mark, the Mark of Honour, and the Order of the Grand River with the Nation’s other honours;
the map of the Tract and the mark of the Grand River.

They are used by the Secretariat, and by others only with the written leave of Mohawk’s Printer. Anyone may show them to teach, to report or to study — whole, unaltered and credited. A belt is never used as decoration, and none of these is ever set on goods or taken as another’s mark.

6. The credit

In full, where there is room (a colophon, an “about” page, a credits screen):

Flint and Feather, the icon library of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River. Copyright Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River. Used under the Flint and Feather Licence 1.0.

In short, where there is not:

Flint and Feather · Mohawk Nation of Grand River

On a website the credit should link to https://mohawkuniversity.org/Register/flint-and-feather/licence/

A holder of a grant for print need not give the credit. They may cite the grant in its place — “Flint and Feather marks used under Contributor’s Grant” and the Record Code of the contribution — and anyone may ask the Register whether that Record Code holds a grant in force.

7. What is not the Nation’s to grant

A mark that shows a kind of thing made by others — a machine, a game, a device — is the Nation’s drawing only. The names and designs of those things stay their makers’, and this licence gives no right in them.

8. As they are

The marks, the fonts and the kit are given as they are, with no promise that they are free of fault or fit for a given use. The Nation and Mohawk’s Printer are not answerable for loss arising from their use.

9. Ending and change

A grant ends at once for anyone who breaks its conditions, and returns when the breach is mended and Mohawk’s Printer agrees.
Mohawk’s Printer may publish a later version of this licence. Work already made under an earlier version may go on under that version.
Mohawk’s Printer may give any person a wider written leave than this licence gives.

10. Whose word

This licence is given under the authority of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River and is read by the Nation’s law. Questions, and requests for leave, go to Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River through the Register.

Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River · Grand River Territory, Ohsweken