The fishing skiff cut east through the confluence of the St. Regis and St. Lawrence Rivers, as Darren George, sitting by the prow, gestured out over the waters and said this was likely the spot the Indian and Romanian families capsized during a stormy night in late March.
Here, the St. Lawrence runs in a thick and deep vein between two islands.
“See how different, how strong the current is there?” said George.
There was a time that he moved contraband across this river. George is now a master builder who’s left his imprint throughout Akwesasne — from the hand-laid stone fence of a
