Formal attestation of Benjamin Doolittle UE as Secretary-General of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat.
The instrument
Gazette No. 3 — Attestation: Secretary-General
28 March 2026
Gazette No.: GZT001-260101-000003
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000003
Tracking Code: RG1205-050000-000003 Status: Perfected / Entered / Fully Effected / Registered and Published
Category / Class: Category 01 — Executive Government · Class 01 — Attestation
INSTRUMENT OF ATTESTATION
Office of the Secretary-General
Be it known to all whom it may concern:
That the office of Secretary-General of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat is duly constituted and presently held.
The Secretary-General is hereby attested as the principal executive officer of the Secretariat, authorized to act in that capacity in all matters within the Secretariat’s jurisdiction. The office has been in continuous operation since 2007. Arnold R. Douglas held the office from 2007 to 2014 on a temporal and provisional basis. Benjamin Doolittle UE was appointed by commission in 2014 and continues in office on a temporal and provisional basis until the Mohawk Nation of Grand River has held its first elections. The institution this Register formalizes has been in continuous institutional operation since 2007.
This authority includes, without limitation:
(i) The receipt and dispatch of official correspondence on behalf of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River, including correspondence addressed directly to the Crown;
(ii) The execution of instruments, notices, and official communications issued under the authority of the Secretariat;
(iii) The direction of officers of the Secretariat in the performance of their functions;
(iv) The issuance of directives constituting operational programs of the Secretariat;
(v) The representation of the Secretariat in its relations with external parties, governments, and institutions.
The Secretary-General, Benjamin Doolittle UE, is the sixth great-grandson of Colonel Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) UEL, one of the primary Mohawk leaders who maintained the covenant with the British Crown and led the Canajoharie Mohawk — one of the three villages named as principal beneficiaries in the Haldimand Pledge of 1779. The UE designation is the Mark of Honour established by Dorchester’s Order-in-Council of 1789 to discriminate the loyalist Mohawk posterity from future settlers. The Secretary-General’s UE designation constitutes direct personal evidentiary evidence of his lineage connection to the Haldimand beneficiaries and of his standing to assert the rights recognized in the Haldimand instruments.
This lineage connection is not merely biographical. It establishes the Secretary-General’s personal standing in the claim of right framework and constitutes the most direct documented personal connection to the named beneficiaries of the 1779 Pledge in the institutional record of the Secretariat. Combined with the UELAC certification framework established in the Birth and Heritage Registrar Directive, the Secretary-General’s own status is the clearest possible demonstration of the validity of that framework.
The authority hereby attested continues in full force until formally varied or revoked by instrument of the Secretariat duly entered in the Register.
EXECUTION
Executed under the authority of the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River.
Secretary-General
Date
CERTIFICATION OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL
I certify that this instrument has been duly received, examined, and entered in the Register of the Nation of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat.
Gazette No.: GZT001-260101-000003
Register Entry No.: REG001-050300-000003
Registrar General
Date of Registration
This instrument forms part of the permanent record of the Secretariat.
Mohawk Nation of Grand River · Grand River Territory
