Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell

Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell, usually called Mike Mitchell, is a Canadian Mohawk politician, film director and leading figure in First Nations lacrosse. Born into a lacrosse family, he played in the St. Regis, Cornwall Island and Cornwall Minor Lacrosse systems of eastern Ontario and western Quebec. He later revived the Akwesasne Minor Lacrosse Association so that local Mohawk teams could again compete in the Ontario Minor Lacrosse Association, formed the Iroquois Lacrosse Association, and in 1993 was appointed to the board of the Canadian Lacrosse Association. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a Special Contributor in 2003 and received the association's Lester B. Pearson Award in June 2014. Outside the game he served as Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne from 1984 and directed National Film Board documentaries, including You Are on Indian Land (1969).