The foundational instrument of the Secretariat. Establishes the Register of the Nation as the permanent and authoritative official record of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River.
The instrument
Gazette No. 1 — Establishment of the Register of the Nation
28 March 2026
Gazette No.: GZT001-260106-000001
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000001
Tracking Code: RG1214-050000-000001 Status: Perfected / Entered / Fully Effected / Registered and Published
Category / Class: Category 01 — Executive Government · Class 06 — Establishment
INSTRUMENT OF ESTABLISHMENT
Register of the Nation
Be it known to all whom it may concern:
That the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River, in the exercise of its governing authority over the Grand River Territory, hereby establishes the Register of the Nation as the permanent, authoritative, and continuous official record of the Secretariat.
The Register of the Nation shall:
(i) Be held and maintained by the Registrar General of the Secretariat, whose office is the sole authority for entries in the Register;
(ii) Constitute the permanent and authoritative record of all instruments, appointments, notices, warrants, orders, and such other matters as are directed to be entered by the Secretariat or any officer thereof;
(iii) Be the record against which all instruments of the Secretariat are to be verified — no instrument is of official effect unless entered, or directed to be entered, in the Register;
(iv) Be continuous and unbroken — no entry, once made, shall be removed, altered, or expunged except by a subsequent instrument duly entered and cross-referenced in the Register;
(v) Be accessible to officers of the Secretariat in the exercise of their functions, and, where directed by the Registrar General, to such other persons as have lawful interest in its contents;
(vi) Be maintained in such form or forms as the Registrar General may from time to time direct, provided that the authoritative record is always held in physical form bearing original signatures.
This instrument is self-registering. It is entered in the Register by the act of its execution and constitutes the founding moment of the Register’s continuity.
All instruments of the Secretariat issued on or after this date shall be assigned Three-Block Record Codes and entered accordingly. Instruments issued prior to the establishment of the Register may be retrospectively entered at the direction of the Registrar General under Rule 11 of the Rules of the Register, with the date of original issue noted. The Register has received numerous such retrospective entries, beginning with instruments issued as early as January 2024, as the Secretariat’s institutional activities predate the formal opening of this Register. The office of the Secretary-General has been in continuous operation since 2007 under both its first and second holders. The institution this Register formalizes is nineteen years old at the date of this entry.
The authority of the Register derives from the governing authority of the Secretariat itself, which in turn derives from the unextinguished sovereignty of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River and its covenant relationship with the Crown.
EXECUTION
Executed under the authority of the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River.
Secretary-General
Date
SELF-REGISTRATION — REGISTRAR GENERAL
I, the Registrar General of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, hereby enter this Instrument of Establishment in the Register of the Nation as the first entry.
This entry is self-registering. The Register exists from the moment of its establishment. The authority of every subsequent entry derives from this first act.
Gazette No.: GZT001-260106-000001
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000001
Nature of Entry: Self-Registering — Founding Instrument
Registrar General
Date of Registration
This instrument forms part of the permanent record of the Secretariat.
Mohawk Nation of Grand River · Grand River Territory
