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How do I join the Register?

1. Read The Path to the Register to see what the Register asks for.
2. Apply through the Register of Residents with your evidence of descent from the three villages, or of adoption.
3. Attest before the Registrar General or a Commissioner of the Nation — in Ohsweken, before a commissioner where you live, or by recorded video.
4. File your Claim of Right; once it is determined and published you are a Valid Resident and on the Manor Roll.

How do I get my National Card?

Once you are on the Register after attestation, the Registrar General issues it. If it is posted to you, activate it on your own record when it arrives — until then it shows as not yet activated. You can carry it on your phone from your record's Wallet page.

How do I get a driver credential?

Enrol in the Driver Education Programme, study the Driver's Handbook, pass the written exam online (40 questions, 45 minutes, three attempts), complete your lessons and pass the road test. The credential is printed with your certificate the same day.

How do I check someone's card or a document?

Enter its code at Verify a record, or scan the QR code with the Verifier app, which works without a signal.

I have lost my card

Tell the Register at once. The card is revoked so no one else can use it, and a replacement is issued after a short declaration. A 30-day temporary credential can be issued while it is made.

I have moved or changed my name

Ask from your own record, or write to the Secretariat. A change of name is recorded as an event with its own certificate; your identity code stays the same.

I live abroad

You can attest before a commissioner where you live or by recorded video call. Your card is posted to you by tracked mail and activated when it arrives. If you are stranded without a travel document, the Secretary-General can issue an emergency travel letter.

How do I prove my descent from a Loyalist Mohawk?

1. Open My line of descent from your private record link.
2. Choose your Loyalist ancestor from the Roll of Known Loyalists, or propose one with where they are recorded.
3. Add your line one generation at a time, from your parent upward, with what shows each person and their parents: baptisms, census returns naming the household, marriages, burials, wills, land petitions. A photo of a page is enough to start.
4. When every link has a document and the line reaches your Loyalist, make your declaration.
5. The Secretariat prepares your file, and you swear your oath of descent before a magistrate. The Registrar General then determines it, and the Loyalist Mohawk Certification can issue.

The Register keeps every document safely and shares ancestors between relatives: if a cousin has already proved part of your line, you will find those people already entered with their documents.

How do I get a number for my book?

Residents with a business on the Business Registry can become publishers of Mohawk Publication Numbers: apply from My Register → Publishing on your private record link, receive your own block of numbers, then number each title and each format yourself and print the barcode on the cover. Every number is listed in the register of publications. Mohawk Publication Numbers are not ISBNs; for sale through ordinary bookstores, get an ISBN as well and print both.

Is my land within the Haldimand Tract?

Use Is this parcel in the Tract? with the parcel's PIN or address. For a formal answer, ask for a Location Determination Certificate under G51.

I run a business on the Territory

See Businesses of the Nation for vendor, food-handling and contractor permits. If you need to check customers' standing — that they are residents, or over 18 — ask the Secretariat for a verifier key.

How do I reach the Secretariat?

Write to the Secretariat at Grand River Territory, Ohsweken, or use Tell the Register.