The Register of the Nation is the permanent, authoritative, and continuous official record of the Secretariat.
The Register of the Nation is the permanent, authoritative, and continuous official record of the Secretariat of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River. It is the record in which instruments, notices, appointments, attestations, certificates, orders, and other official acts of the Secretariat are entered, preserved, and verified. The Register is held and maintained by the Registrar General, whose office is the sole authority for entries and certifications within it.
No instrument of the Secretariat is of official effect unless entered, or directed to be entered, in the Register. In this way, the Register is not merely an archive. It is the formal institutional record through which the Secretariat maintains continuity, gives authoritative record to its acts, and preserves the integrity of its administrative and constitutional instruments. Once entered, the record remains continuous and unbroken, and may only be altered by subsequent instrument duly entered and cross-referenced.
The Gazette is related to the Register, but it is not the same thing. The Gazette is the publication stream through which instruments, notices, declarations, attestations, and other public acts may be issued in numbered form. The Register is the authoritative record in which those acts are formally entered, preserved, and verified. A Gazette notice may therefore serve as the public expression of an act, while the Register remains the permanent institutional record against which that act is to be read and confirmed.
Two Row Times serves as the official external publication and public information outlet of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River for news, announcements, and public-facing communications. Official instruments, notices, and records of legal and institutional effect remain governed by the Register of the Nation and the Gazette of the Secretariat.
Through the Register, the Secretariat records founding instruments, gazette notices, office attestations, governing and territorial declarations, certificates, extracts, and such other matters as are directed to be entered according to the Nation’s laws and institutions. The Gazette gives publication and notice; the Register gives permanence, continuity, and official record. Together, they form the public and institutional record system of the Secretariat.