Offices of the Nation

Principal executive officer of the Secretariat: correspondence on behalf of the Nation, including to the Crown; executes instruments; directs the officers of the Secretariat; issues the directives constituting its programmes; represents the Secretariat in its external relations.

Deputy to the Secretary-General.

Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General.

Principal oversight officer. Reports directly to the Secretary-General and is subordinate to no department or directorate. Reviews and audits the instruments, entries and processes of the whole Secretariat without exception; investigates matters referred by the Secretary-General; reports on institutional integrity; oversees the Records and FOI Officer on access to and integrity of the Register; has access to all records.

Sole authority for entries in the Register of the Nation and custodian of the Register; certifies entries; assigns the Nation's numbering; issues certified copies; administers the Birth and Heritage Registry, the Membership and Lineage Registry (the Manor Roll) and identity and credential actions.

Deputy to the Registrar General.

Administers land title entries within the Land Registry.

Commissioner of Records.

Administers oaths and notarial acts.

Principal legal and jurisdictional officer: asserts and defends the Nation's jurisdiction; advises the Secretariat; prepares and approves legal instruments; conducts proceedings on the Nation's behalf; oversees the Director of Jurisdiction and other legal officers. No legal instrument issues without the Attorney General's knowledge and concurrence, save urgent necessity directed by the Secretary-General.

Solicitor General.

Director of Jurisdiction, under the oversight of the Attorney General.

Internal advisory function, strictly separated from the Attorney General's public jurisdictional function.

Peer of the Attorney General; reports directly to the Secretary-General. Manages and documents all correspondence and representations with the Crown and the record of the covenant relationship; prepares representations to the Crown; monitors Crown actions; administers the Diplomatic Fund with the Treasurer General; coordinates relations with federal and provincial authorities; oversees the Director of External Relations and the Intergovernmental Affairs Officer.

Director of External Relations.

Intergovernmental Affairs Officer.

Principal survey officer: surveys of the Grand River Territory and the official survey record; administers the Grand River Location Determination Rules and issues Location and Jurisdiction Determination Certificates; documents alienation and encroachment; certifies survey evidence. No land registry entry is made without the Surveyor General's certified description.

Deputy to the Surveyor General.

Administers the Land Registry (the continuation of the Kanyen'kehaka Land Registry System); coordinates survey, title and lands instruments among the Surveyor General, the Registrar General and the Attorney General; oversees the Mohawk Nation Housing Initiative and coordinates with the Housing Authority; oversees the Directors of Land Use and Planning, Environmental Stewardship, and Riparian and Water Rights. Works in close coordination with the Surveyor General.

Director of Land Use and Planning.

Will oversee the Mohawk Environmental Protection and Sustainability Initiative (MEPSI).

The Nation's riparian rights to the Grand River and Lake Erie.

Housing Authority, coordinated by the Director of Lands and Territory under the Mohawk Nation Housing Initiative.

Principal financial officer: the National Treasury Account, the Haldimand Lands Trust Account and the Diplomatic Fund (with the Director of Crown Relations); the Secretariat's financial records; oversees the Directors of Trust and Fiduciary Affairs, Revenue, and Finance and Accounts; the bank's Board answers to the Treasurer General. No financial instrument is made without the Treasurer General's knowledge and concurrence, save urgent necessity directed by the Secretary-General.

Deputy to the Treasurer General.

Administers the Trust Register.

Director of Revenue.

Director of Finance and Accounts.

Governs the Nation's bank (Nation accounts and loans); answers to the Treasurer General, with the Secretary-General kept informed of its reports, appointments and major decisions. Its own structure is set out under Bank offices.

Runs the programme against money laundering and terrorist financing: knowing the bank’s customers, screening against sanctions, watching transactions, deciding each case and every suspicious transaction report. Reports to the Secretary-General — not to the Treasurer General — so that no one whose business is examined can direct it.

Record deposits from real receipts, pay out approved withdrawals, and count the cash, always with a second officer.

Take loan applications, offer terms from the loan fund — two officers above the Nation’s threshold — and arrange help for borrowers in hardship.

Heads the Nation's enforcement capacity; reports directly to the Secretary-General.

Deputy to the Chief of Police.

Director of Public Safety.

Enforcement Officers.

The uniformed service: patrol, response and traffic, on the Tract and at the Nation’s places. Commands the officers of Operations Command, the Special Constables and the Dispatchers.

Directs the investigative branch: its divisions and its field offices along the Tract.

Directs the gathering and analysis of information and the assessment of threats to the Nation, its people, its records and its land.

Directs forensics, digital evidence, identification and the records of the Service.

Recruitment, training and certification of the Service’s officers and staff; its standards of conduct and practice.

General investigations: offences against residents, property and the Nation.

Attacks on the Register and its systems; forged Edge Marks and credentials; fraud and identity theft against residents.

Fraud and financial crime; supports the bank’s Chief Compliance Officer, who alone decides the bank’s own reports.

Trespass, dumping, environmental harm and harm to the waters of the Tract; works with the Surveyor General and the Director of Lands and Territory.

Investigates the conduct of the Service’s own officers and staff, and inspects its work. Reports to the Inspector General — not to the Chief of Police — so that it is independent of those it examines.

Each leads a field office of the Service in a district of the Tract, from the river’s source to Lake Erie.

The Service’s plain-clothes investigators: an Investigator works cases; a Senior Investigator leads them; a Supervisory Investigator leads a squad.

The uniformed ranks: a Constable patrols and reports; a Sergeant supervises and approves reports; a Staff Sergeant runs a shift; an Inspector a district; a Superintendent a command.

Part-time and community officers of Operations Command, at events and the Nation’s places.

Take calls and send officers; keep the record of each call.

Analyse information for the Intelligence Branch and for investigations.

Trace money and examine accounts for the Financial Crimes Division.

Examine phones, computers and the Register’s own logs for evidence.

Collect, keep and account for evidence: each item with its own Record Code, each hand-over marked and on the Ledger.

Keep the Service’s records and answer lawful requests for them.

Support people harmed: information, accompaniment, and help through the Court of the Nation.

The Secretariat's official communications; oversees the Two Row Times as the press of record; maintains the record of official publications; oversees the Press Secretary and the Records and FOI Officer.

Runs the Nation’s newsletter, under the Director of Communications: its editorial line, the approval and sending of each issue, the editorial calendar and readers’ news. Officers write for it; the Editor in Chief decides what goes out.

Press Secretary.

Records and freedom of information; overseen by the Inspector General in matters of access to and integrity of the Register.

Director of Infrastructure.

The Mohawk National Transportation and Safety Initiative (MNTSI) awaits this officer.

Director of Utilities and Energy.

Director of Public Works.

The Mohawk Nation Housing Initiative (MNHI).

Director of Health and Social Services.

Director of Education.

Director of Cultural Affairs.

Director of Economic Development.

Director of Trade and Commerce.

Director of Business Relations.

Administers the registration of patents and of the territorial intellectual property of the Nation; reports directly to the Secretary-General (Amendment to the Order of Offices).

Presides over the Court of the Nation. Independent in judicial decisions: no officer of the Secretariat may direct a decision. Appointed by the Secretary-General by gazetted instrument; holds office during good behaviour; removable only for cause, after an inquiry by the Inspector General, by gazetted instrument with reasons.

Hear the matters of the Court as assigned by the Chief Magistrate; receive declarations and ascertainments on oath. Appointed, protected and removable as the Chief Magistrate.

Keeps the Court's docket, filings and records; accepts or returns filings; schedules hearings. The Secretariat provides premises and support.

Advises the Secretary-General.

Advise the Secretary-General.