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Mohawk Workers spokesperson Bill Squire and his special assistant Jason Bowman addressed the Brantford City Council Monday night demanding inclusion in the decision making process when it comes to lands within the Haldimand Tract. The Workers have occupied the former Kanata Village Museum on Mohawk Street for five years during which time the city has been maintaining the utility bills. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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Mohawks argue but utilities at Kanata to be shut offBy Jim WindleBRANTFORD

It would appear the lights are going out at Kanata Vil-lage along with the heat, sewer and water services.

Monday night, the Brant-ford Council voted to stop paying for the utilities at 440 Mohawk Street, the site of the former Kanata Village Muse-um.

Given the opportunity to re-view all the information rela-tive to a motion tabled last week to shut off the utilities to the former Kanata Village, Brantford’s City Council vot-ed Monday to refuse a deferral on that decision. The deferral was brought forth last week by Councillor David Neumann.

Although no new infor-mation was exchanged or considered since last week, Councillor Richard Carpen-ter’s motion not to follow the recommendation of the city’s own operations and adminis-tration committee and imme-diately stop paying the bills was accepted by half of the councillors present.

Councillors Vince Bucci, Debi Dignan-Rumble, Da-vid Neumann, Larry Kings and Mayor Chris Friel vot-ed to defer the stop payment of utilities motion until next week so that more information could be gathered on the im-plications of such a move and the city’s legal and monetary position on the matter. Factor-ing in the maintenance on the building, the lawn care, the se-curity for the building and rep-lica Iroquois Longhouse and palisade, which has all been maintained by the Mohawks to date, plus the added danger of shutting off water in case of fire, it may be cheaper for the city to just leave well enough alone.

Councillor Richard Car-penter, a leftover from the adversarial Hancock coun-cil, was the prime proponent to stop payment. Last week he brought figures that show the city had paid just shy of $50,000 in phone and utilities over the five years of occupa-tion. The phone was shut off last Christmas.

Councillors Dave Wrobel, Marguerite Ceschi-Smith, Richard Carpenter, Dan Mc-Creary and John Utley voted not to defer the decision and to agree to stop payment on utili-ties to Kanata immediately.

Absent was Councillor Jan Vanderstelt who, along with Neumann and Bucci, seemed to be the only ones at city hall willing to give the Mohawks due consideration and could have made a difference with his vote.

Councillors Neumann and

Bucci made a case for allow-ing more information to be considered before the strong-arm tactic was employed, both referring to the attitudes of last council under Mayor Mike Hancock as not the way this council should go.

Neumann explained why he brought the motion to de-fer before council last week.

“I put forth the motion to defer because I believe im-portant decisions should have all the available information,” he said. “The occupation (of Kanata) occurred during the last administration and I be-lieve there were decisions made by the council or groups of councillors related to how to deal with this. I was not on that council and I believe that all councillors should be brought up to date regarding how all this started and decisions that were made — were they made in in-camera sessions or in open sessions — and that is why I put forward that mo-tion to defer so we could have our staff report on this so we have a fully informed council before we make this decision.”

Bucci and Carpenter openly disagreed on the choices made by last council about how to handle the delicate issues which includes the underly-ing land claim.

“I will support the deferral because Councillor Neumann is correct,” said Bucci. “There was a committee of council-lors that basically authorized themselves the power that they decided if and when council would be informed of their ac-tions, and I think it’s time that whatever those decisions were need to be brought forward to this council.”

Carpenter was on that com-mittee and it was also he who went on record during the last administration telling a Rog-ers television audience, “If you are out of work, you can thank Six Nations for that.”

But before the vote was tak-en, Mohawk Workers spokes-person Bill Squire and his assistant Jason Bowman ad-dressed the council to explain the Mohawk Workers’ view of the situation regarding the continued parcelling off of what they consider to be Mo-hawk land without consulting the Mohawks themselves.

After thanking council for allowing the delegation to make its presentation, Squire opened with a brief descrip-tion of the meaning and intent of the Two Row Wampum.

“It seems people are be-coming more aware of what the Two Row stands for,” said Squire. “Under our constitu-tion, not only does the Two Row apply to foreign nations but also to internal nations. In

saying that, the Mohawk Na-tion has never given the Six Nations Band Council nor the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council the right or permis-sion to surrender, lease or dis-pose of any land holdings of the Mohawk people.”

It has been the Mohawk Workers’ stance for genera-tions that the Haldimand Deed is primarily a Mohawk document which also includes “such others” of the Six Na-tions who wish to follow them to the Grand River.

He then turned the rest of his allotted 10 minutes over to his assistant, Bowman.

“I sent a letter this morning to Laurie Wolfe the clerk of the Brantford Council,” Bow-man began. “It is dated Octo-ber 22, and it is in respect to unauthorized acts and refusal to reply to requests for budget (information) from the Corpo-ration of the City of Brantford in accounting for invoice num-ber RW 1914011.”

That was in reference to an invoice for hundreds of bil-lions of dollars in back lease and sales payments, plus in-terest, delivered to city hall by the Mohawks several weeks ago.

“I want to draw everyone’s attention to a letter dated Oc-tober 27th, 1972, the Crown of England recognized Edwin Ted Squire Hill as the newly appointed Chief of the Mo-hawk Wolf Clan,” said Bow-man. “The same letter advised that the notice of that appoint-ment was forwarded to the De-partment of Indian Affairs in order that it be ‘properly reg-istered‘.

He then referred to the dec-laration of Frank Oliver, Min-

ister of the Interior which in the early 1900‘s oversaw In-dian Affairs. In that declara-tion, which was given in the Canadian Parliament and re-stated by others through the following years, he states the government of Canada’s po-sition on the status of the Six Nations as being “on a differ-

ent footing” from any other In-dian Nation in Canada because of its special relationship with the Crown of Britain as allies, and not subjects.

Since that time, subsequent Canadian governments have illegally assumed authority and lordship over the sover-eign Haudenosaunee people.

Then Bowman turn the fo-cus on Brantford itself.

“The Mohawk position in regards to the City of Brant-ford is such that we need some questions answered and to make sure this council un-derstands that the Mohawks

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Brantford city councillor, Richard Carpenter (centre) has been at the forefront of a motion to stop paying the utility bills at the Kanata site. Fellow councillors Vince Bucci and David Neumann argued that the matter be deferred until all pertinent information can be gathered before the drastic move Carpenter was championing. In the end the vote was tied 5-5, but according to some councillors, under municipal rules, that meant the motion to defer was defeated. (Photo by Jim Windle)


MTO wants to improve safety on Highway Six, Haldimand wants to work on water supplyBy Stephanie DearingNEW CREDIT/SIX NATIONS

New Credit members came out to a public information meeting held by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) on October 16 at Lloyd S. King Elementary School. The four hour event was organized to allow people an oppor-tunity to look at options for proposed improvements to Highway Six at First Line. The MTO wants to improve

the safety of the intersection, which has been the scene of too many vehicular collisions.

The input provided by people at the meeting will be incorporated into a Transpor-tation Environmental Study Report, which will come back to the public for a review in the future.

The Ministry has no funds dedicated to the intersection improvement, but MTO em-ployee Cathy Giesbrecht said she didn’t think the proroga-tion of the Ontario legislature

would affect the study, saying the work would continue.

Proposed improvements to the intersection are need-ed because of the amount of vehicles accessing that cor-ner on a daily basis. Suggest-ed improvements include a roundabout, signal lights, widening the intersection or doing nothing.

In the meanwhile, Hal-dimand County is also look-

ing at doing work on water mains that run along Highway Six, wanting to take Cayuga and Caledonia off the Hamil-ton water supply.

Six Nations Public Works Director Mike Montour brought the information to Elected Council’s Physical and Economic Development Committee meeting on Octo-ber 19. “I have no recommen-dation,” said Montour. “I’m

bringing it for discussion.”He told the Committee,

Haldimand “wanted to look at our concerns.” Currently, Haldimand County draws wa-ter from Hamilton to serve Caledonia and Cayuga, but due to the cost, “they want to stop,” said Montour. “Dayle [Bomberry, Senior Adminis-trative Officer] said it would be highly political.”

Councillor Dave Hill (Dis-

trict One) suggested Six Na-tions land claims experts should be part of the discus-sions because Highway Six is under a land claim.

Montour said Six Nations needs to meet with New Credit representatives to start negotiations on hooking some Six Nations members into the water line that services New Credit members.

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New Credit Counsellor Clynt King was one of a number of people who came out to Lloyd S. King Elementary School to check out Ministry of Transportation recommendations on how to improve the safety of the intersection at Line One and Highway Six and to give feedback. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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Excellent turn-out for Six Nations Remembrance CeremoniesBy Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

“There will always be war,” said Zig Misiak, a lo-cal historian. Misiak was in Ohsweken to help Six Na-tions mark the annual re-membrance services. “I love this ceremony, the peace, the healing, the remembrance.”

Misiak was one of ap-proximately 300 to 350 peo-ple who attended Sunday’s Remembrance Ceremonies to honour the lives of those Six Nations members who voluntarily laid down their lives while fighting in con-flicts around the world.

Four World War II bomb-ers flew directly over Veter-an’s Park three times during the ceremony, while near the end of the ceremony, two shots were fired from the big gun brought for the occasion by the 56th Field Regiment, based in Brantford.

With sunny mild weather prevailing throughout the ceremony, several hundred people gathered in Veteran’s Park, some from visiting reg-iments, others from Six Na-tions.

“Today is fair, tomorrow may be overcast,” District Five Councillor Bob John-son, who was Master of Cer-emonies, reminded those in attendance.

This year being the first year of the bicentennial com-memorations of the War of 1812, the War had a special place at this year’s Remem-brance ceremony. Andrew Martin, who has been re-en-acting the role of John Brant over the past few months, walked in the parade ahead of the Six Nations Veteran’s Association, bearing the Six Nations Eagle Staff. Martin remained standing beside the

Eagle Staff throughout the entire ceremony.

“I was never so uplifted by the number of people that remarked on the contri-butions Six Nations people have made to this great coun-try of Canada,” said Elected Chief Montour, referring to his attendance at the Battle of Queenston Heights com-memoration ceremonies held on October 13.

“The people of this land are looking to understand, and I think we have a duty, each and every one of us, to ensure that our children, our grandchildren never forget the sacrifices that their people made,” said the Chief Councillor. “We never stopped giving.”

Elected Chief Montour named Howard Thomas and Keith Jamieson as two peo-ple he holds in high regard. “Mr. Howard Thomas” had gone to Elected Council in “1985 – 1986 and said to us we need to fix up Veter-an’s Park.” In response, “the council was able to grant a sum of money to the Veter-an’s Association of the day to create what you see today.”

“You could always find Howard Thomas at 6:30 in the morning, weeding the flower plots, picking up the garbage. I would ven-ture to guess Howard treat-ed this lawn better than his own,” said Chief Montour. “He was just that dedicated ... With that I want to give thanks to his memory and his effort, and finally to all those who have gone before us who have laid down their lives that we might enjoy freedom today.”

Elected Chief Montour touched on the contributions made by Keith Jamieson “to ensure that the monument

to the warriors who fell in the War of 1812 is being re-built,” as well as Jamieson’s efforts to have a monument to Six Nations warriors built at Queenston Heights.

“We have worked very diligently to ensure that Canadians and Americans appreciate what the Six Na-tions have contributed to the founding of these two coun-tries,” said Jamieson when he took his turn at the micro-phone. “Our participation in the War of 1812 was pivotal to that period of events.”

Jamieson announced the launch of the Six Na-tions Legacy Consortium’s Peace Medallion, which is now available for sale at the Six Nations Post Of-fice, Library and Tourism, and spoke briefly about the Peace Monument the Legacy Consortium hopes to erect in Veteran’s Park.

“I believe this is our leg-acy. We inherited what we have from our ancestors. It is our responsibility and our obligation to pass it on, and that’s why I’m undertaking what I’m undertaking,” said Jamieson.

Absent from the ceremony were Member of Parliament Phil McColeman and Mem-ber of Provincial Parliament Dave Levac. Representative for Levac, Bob Yuhasz, con-veyed the regrets of Levac, who as Speaker of the House is required to attend at legis-lature where the body of for-mer Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Lincoln Alexander was lying in state.

Honorary Colonel Edward Pancoe brought a brief mes-sage for Phil McColeman, who just recently became a new grandfather, as well as greetings from the 56th Field Regiment. “Thank you for

your service,” he said, con-cluding his brief message.

Some special guests were noticeable at this year’s cer-emony. Approximately 20 students in the Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year (ALOY) program, offered by the Royal Military College of Canada, attended, accom-panied by their Elder and an

officer.The Honour Roll Call was

read by John Bradley Jr., after which more wreathes were ceremonially laid. Public grief, as epitomized through the sounds of the “lonely echoing bugle,” as Bob Johnson said, playing Last Post, Taps, Silent La-ment and Reveille were fol-

lowed by a benediction and a reminder of Six Nations loy-alty to the Queen of England.

Vietnam veteran Les Car-penter; John Bradley Senior, who survived WWII and Korean war veteran Lenny Lickers were saluted by the departing colours as they headed back to the commu-nity hall for a lunch.

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Veterans salute the fallen during Sunday’s Remembrance Day ceremonies held in Six Na-tions’ Veteran’s Park. The hour-long ceremony was well attended, and was marked by a big gun salute and a fly-over by the Delhi Harbour Aircraft, who flew four World War II bomb-ers directly over Veteran’s Park during the ceremony. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

Students participating the in the ALOY (Aborigi-nal Leadership Opportuni-ty Year) program attended Six Nations's Remembrance Ceremonies this year. One of those students is 19 year old Six Nations member Sarah General.

“Today was a pretty proud moment for me, representing Six Nations together with the Armed Forces,” said Gener-

al. “I would like to see more Six Nations people get into the forces. It's a good expe-rience and an opportunity to do something totally different and have fun doing it.”

General is loving her brush with the military, which start-ed when her mother found out about the RAVEN program, which offers Aboriginal youth six weeks at Canadi-an Forces Base Esquimalt in British Columbia. The pro-gram introduces youth to mil-itary training. “I recommend

it to anybody,” General said, her eyes sparkling with en-thusiasm. “I got paid for ev-erything, travel, everything.”

When she first went, Gen-eral was open-minded, but she did not anticipate she would love her experience. “It was absolutely amazing,” she said. After she graduated, she went on to the Reserves, but when she found out about ALOY, she transferred from the Reserves to the program.

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By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

A researcher who is over-seeing a pilot project that aims to improve the out-comes for pregnant women who have diabetes, said there are “severe inequalities of pregnancy care between on-reserve First Nations women with diabetes and non-First Nations women in Ontario.” The pilot project, ‘Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies’ was officially launched Monday morning at the Six Nations Community Hall.

While Six Nations Elected Chief William Montour ven-tured diabetes affects “over one-tenth” of the Six Nations population, Western Univer-sity researcher Dr. Stewart Harris described diabetes as a devastating disease with dis-turbing unique features when it comes to First Nation pop-ulations.

The scourge of diabe-tes continues to grow, with three million Canadians cur-rently living “with some form of the disease,” said Harris. But when it comes to First Nations, the incidence of di-abetes is three to five times higher than non-Natives, making Aboriginal peoples “Canada’s highest risk pop-ulation.”

Diabetes affects First Na-tions women more than men, a fact Harris said was “very disturbing ... Women at a young age are at a greater risk of developing diabetes in pregnancy (gestational dia-betes) ... and women who de-velop diabetes in pregnancy are at a higher risk of devel-oping Type II diabetes by the end of their pregnancy..”

The risk of developing dia-betes later, said Harris, is 40 percent higher for non-Na-tive women, but for Aborigi-nal women, the risk spikes up to 70 percent. “They have a higher risk of developing per-manent diabetes,” he added. First Nations need strategies

“to take hold of this devas-tating disease that seeming-ly has come out of nowhere over the last generation or so and is now ravaging commu-nities across Canada.”

Harris said the project is focused on pregnant wom-en because of the issues pre-sented by the illness when women give birth. Diabetic women have higher rates of Cesarian deliveries due to the increased size of their babies and their infants are more likely to need neonatal inten-sive care and suffer trauma during the birth, along with other medical issues, such as an increased tendency to de-velop diabetes.

During the one year trial project, data will be collect-ed from 60 women from three different First Nation com-munities: Six Nations, Tyen-dinaga and Walpole Island. Participants wear a glucose monitor, described as small and non-invasive, for the en-tire year. The monitor gives the women constant readings on their blood glucose levels, and the researchers want to know if use of the monitors is feasible and appropriate, and if the monitors can help improve blood glucose levels and delivery outcomes when the women give birth. A ma-jor component of the research focuses on promoting healthy eating and exercise.

“Communities have said we need a healthy lifestyle program,” Harris said. As a result of accommodating that need, he said “a good por-tion of the funding” for the research program seeks to answer if mitigation is pos-sible through education and awareness. Harris anticipates he will have the final report prepared by the latter half of 2013.

However, Bay of Quinte midwife Dorothy Green read aloud what one project par-ticipant had written about her experience during the press conference. The woman did

not have diabetes while preg-nant, but said she had higher-than-desired glucose levels that were still deemed within the normal range.

The glucose monitor, wrote the participant, helped her identify what foods made her blood glucose levels shoot up and allowed her to immediately see the benefi-cial effects exercise had on reducing her blood glucose levels.

“The numbers helped me to see I was not helping my-self or my baby,” the par-ticipant wrote. “I thought I understood diabetes, but now I see I was only scratching the surface.”

Diet, particularly the

change from a traditional diet to processed foods, has played a role in the preva-lence of diabetes among First Nations. When welcom-ing his guests, Elected Chief Montour spoke about the need to educate young moth-ers, noting, “It’s dishearten-ing to see babies being given soft drinks in bottles.”

After the press conference, Harris said there is a proven link between health and so-cioeconomic status. Those living with less income ex-perience higher rates of dia-betes and other diseases, he said. But another factor af-fecting those less well off is the fact that “diabetes is a very expensive disease.”

In southern Ontario, the reality is “it’s cheaper for a family of four to eat at Mc-Donalds” than it is for them to make a healthy meal at home,” said Harris. But he advocated that awareness and understanding of how to pre-pare food will help individu-als fight that sort of economic pressure . Learning how to prepare food is a part of the research project.

“Education is empow-erment,” said Harris. “We have to build on what we’ve learned.” He said the infor-mation gathered during the project will be used to devel-op future strategies for First Nations women.

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Coordinator and Aboriginal Midwife Stephanie Mac-Donald welcomed the pilot project, saying the research would help mitigate the risks posed by diabetes.

The project has been un-derway in Six Nations since January of this year, and is also being carried out in Wal-pole Island and Tyendinaga. Results are expected to be published by late 2013.

The key partners in the ‘Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies’ are the Juvenile Di-abetes Research Foundation Canadian Clinical Trial Net-work, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University, and the federal government.

Dr. Stewart Harris is leading a pilot project called ‘Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies’. The year-long project seeks to mitigate the effects of diabetes on pregnant women and their infants through a unique approach of continuous blood glucose moni-toring and making lifestyle changes. The pilot is running in Six Nations, Tyendinaga and Walpole Island, and results are expected to be available by late 2013. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

Diabetes a devastating disease for First Nations


Re: “well, that was embarrassing” (editorial in Tekawennake WednesdayOctober 17, 2012)

It is sad that a greater number of six nations people were unable to be mobilized for the school supply protest in Toronto, however I do feel there are important factors to consider.

First it is a question that looms in my mind about the schools decision to withhold distribu-tion of the protest announcement to parents given the legacy of school protest to unsafe con-ditions in the old school buildings in the late eighties. That era of protest resulted in schools such as IL Thomas, Emily C General and OM Smith being built. We now have safe school facilities for our children because of this collective action by teachers and parents. I am curi-ous to know where the schools administration and teachers unions stand on this school sup-ply issue and why they are not upholding this strong legacy of standing up for our children’s rights the way the previous generation did?

Another factor that needs to be considered is that this protest was on very short notice and there was a lack of communication between schools and parents. There has never been a mass mobilization of Six Nations people in a matter of two days (referring to the length of time the announcement of the protest was given) even if the issue was discussed in the media two weeks prior. Kanonhstaton did not occur spontaneously, there were numerous small actions that led up to the large numbers that eventually participated. I would not go as far as calling our turnout “embarrassing”, rather I would acknowledge the systemic oppression issues that we currently face as onkwehonwe peoples on grand river territory.

The number of parents facing poverty or the struggle of single parent homes is a factor to consider, how many parents of children were able to drop the day from work, find childcare for small children or access transportation to Ohsweken to be able to attend on such short notice?

Were they even aware of the protest as notice was given such a short time frame? Is there no ability to have another protest after having a community meeting or other form of community awareness building initiative? Are we acknowledging the that protest culture on Six Nations has consisted of only a few dozen people over the past few years and that social/political divi-sions fester in the intergenerational struggle we have had with colonization?

Speaking of colonization, is it appropriate for a white person with white power and privi-lege to ask a community of indigenous peoples to give non-native supporters accolades based on a large number of those supporters also having white power and privilege? I am referring

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Well it’s good that we can still laugh We know it’s American politics and all, but the Mitt Romney / Barack Obama de-

bates are turning out to be the best comedy series of the year, in our estimation. It is very funny at times and quite sad at others, but it is always entertaining watching these two go at it. Both have a sarcastic sense of humour which, when unleashed sometimes, even causes the other to openly laugh out loud.

This week’s episode, the third debate between the Republican leader and the Demo-crat president, afforded the comeback of the year so far.

When Romney attacked Obama’s commitment to America’s naval defence during Monday’s televised debate, telling the television audience that the American Navy had less warships at sea today than it had in the first world war, Obama, quick on his feet this time around, sank Romney’s battleship by quickly retorting, “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. ... We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear subma-rines, and so the question is not a game of battleship, where we’re counting ships.”

At a dinner and roast attended by both men last week, Romney said from the podium, “I am pleased that the President is here. We were chatting pleasantly this evening as if Tuesday night (the second debate) never happened. I only wish he brought Joe Biden along, ‘cause he’ll laugh at anything.”

For his part, Obama poked fun at himself saying, “This is the third time Governor Romney and I have met recently, and as some of you may have noticed, I had a lot more energy for our second debate. I was really well rested after the nice long nap I had in the first debate. I did learn a lot of things from that experience, for example, I learned that there are worse things that can happen to you on your anniversary than forget to buy a gift.”

Romney, a Morman and devout teetotaller, revealed his secret of preparing for the debates, saying, “Well first of all, I refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the debate.”

These guys are polar opposites in their political views but are, at the same time, able to go stride for stride with each other with their humour and ease in front of a crowd, and that is what makes this presidential debate much more entertaining that the last one.

Naturally, it is highly unlikely either man writes his own stuff, but both deliver well and in that category, I’d give them even marks.

What Romney would be as president should he defeat Obama is anybody’s guess. But judging from his party platform, if he and Harper were both in power at the same time, we could all be getting dizzy soon as Turtle Island begins swimming in circles in a clockwise motion from having only the right fin in the water.

Anyhow, as long as you don’t think too much about things like that, the presidential race is still much better comedy and drama than any reality show on TV and most sit-coms, and certainly more so than any Canadian election. It’s like American Idol versus Ingersol’s got talent. Not even in the same league.

On this side of the border, Liberal Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister would be a whip-lash from the machine-like personality deficient Harper. Politically, it really doesn’t matter. Both are corporately owned, so we may as well have a few laughs along the way. Right?

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Brantford stop paying the bills

Jeeze, when did they

start?


The Caledonia Fairgrounds is the site of Caledonia’s old Drill Hall. Built in 1866, the hall originally sat on Glasgow Square and was known as ‘Glasgow Hall’. It was moved onto Edinburgh Square in 1873 where it was used as the exhibition hall for the first Caledonia Fair. It was moved in 1879 onto the current fairgrounds.

Legend has it that one of the older members of the rifle group that used the hall spent every waking hour at the old drill hall. He became known by the townspeople as the ‘Caledonia Creeper’, as he was always seen creeping around the grounds.

One Halloween Night, some costumed hooligans played a nasty trick on the ‘Creeper’, he was so frightened that he fell into the Grand River, where high waters swept him away. He was never seen again.

The hall was demolished in 1924, and the story forgotten. That is, until a Halloween haunted house was held on the site of the old ‘Glasgow Hall’.

The ‘Creeper’ has been seen lurking

around the old arena during the Creepy Caledonia Halloween Festival, still looking to find the costumed hooligans who were responsible for his untimely death.

Celebrate Halloween at the Caledonia Fairgrounds this Saturday (October 27th) from 2-8pm! Brave souls can walk through our Maze of Mayhem, Tunnel of Terror, or our Wastelands Haunted House. New this year: Which Witch is Which, can you decide? For the not-so-brave, visit the CYPRES Active Living Centre children’s craft and activity area, or go on a Big Creek Stables horse and pony ride.

There’s something for all ages to enjoy. See the Cool and Classic Car Show between 1pm and 5pm, watch live family entertainment all day long. Visit the Murderous Merchants selling a variety of crafts, handy-works, and fall food.

Admission to all events is $5, children under 3 are free.

For a full schedule of events see www.creepycaledonia.org or call Ian Thompson at (905) 765-2718.

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specifically to the access and ability of these supporters to attend a protest in their own back-yard and to do so with little reprocussion to their own personal lives and struggles. To have the ability to walk into our struggles and then go home afterwards, when we LIVE in our struggles and our issues exist for us in our day to day lives. Do we need to be thankful that canadians are holding their government accountable when their ability to have power in this society is a direct benefit gained from the legacy of colonization and genocide?

Support in the form of solidarity is not an exclusively benevolent and selfless act (ask the droves of latin american communities who have faced similar issues to indigenous peoples of north america in working with non-indigenous supporters). White activists benefit in their own circles by gaining power over those with less power and privilege, commonly racialized peoples, those facing poverty and women. They gain access to employment, the publication of their voices and power over decision making within their own communities that is often male and white dominated. There are numerous essays and books published referring to the abuses that happen within movements regarding racism, patriarchy, gender abuse etc. and often written by people of color and indigenous peoples (especially women).

Framing our non-native supporters as “only” having a benevolent role and also chastising us in comparison to their righteousness is in poor taste. Is it not appropriate to acknowledge their support as helpful rather then “essential”? More importantly, ARE WE NOT WORTH

THE VALUE OF BEING GIVEN THE CREDIT OF MOVING OURSELVES FORWARD WHEN WE HAVE SURVIVED THIS LONG ALREADY?

I respectfully ask that we give each other the benefit of the doubt and recognize that on this river of the “Two Row” the canoe we are travelling in is having its path impinged upon by the boat and we as onkwehonwe are the source of our own power. We are essential to our struggle in this community and reminding each other of this will gain far greater benefit then giving that credit to canadians who travel in that boat.

Recognize what we have accomplished.

Ganonhsanohwe Lindsay Bomberry

Nya weha Ska nonh!

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The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is urging the federal Department of Justice to work with Aboriginal communities to plan a national inquiry into the underlying issues surround-ing murdered and missing Aboriginal women.

“Under the rule of law all Canadians – including Aboriginal women – are guaranteed equal benefit of the law and equal protection under the law,” says Aimée Craft, chair of the CBA’s National Aboriginal Law Section. “It is our hope that a national inquiry will focus on practi-cal solutions that will help break the intergenerational cycles of violence that are so destruc-tive to Aboriginal women.”

“We are calling on the government to implement specific measures that would address the persistent violence, inequality and human rights violations endured by Aboriginal women,” adds Aimée Craft. In a letter to federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, the CBA explains its reasons for a national inquiry:

Aboriginal women have disproportionately suffered the impact of violence and are over-represented among missing and murdered women in Canada;

There is a long history of discriminatory application of the law to Aboriginal people (See the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples);

Canada is not meeting its international obligations to protect Aboriginal women;Inaction and the lack of sufficient government resources to address violence against Ab-

original women compounds the detrimental effects left by the legacy of residential schools and the over-incarceration of Aboriginal people.

The letter is available on the CBA website.The Canadian Bar Association is dedicated to support for the rule of law, and improvement

in the law and the administration of justice. Some 37,000 lawyers, law teachers, and law stu-dents from across Canada are members.

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City lawyer urges consequences for Six Nations protestersBy Stephanie DearingBRANTFORD

A Brantford Superior Court Judge began hearing arguments in the morning of October 16 over the costs as-sociated with an interlocutory injunction granted to the City of Brantford in 2010, prevent-ing Six Nations members from protesting development on va-cant lands within the city.

Brantford wants the costs for the case to be paid by the defendants: Ruby and Floyd Montour, Clive Garlow, Char-lie Green, Mary Green, David Martin, Hazel Hill, Aaron De-tlor and the Haudenosaunee Development Institute for the costs of the legal action, which City lawyers had calculated to be more than $875,000.

Of all the defendants, only Floyd Montour attended the hearing, which had six law-yers in attendance: two for the city, two for the Haudeno-saunee Development Institute (HDI), one for unrepresented defendants and one for the Crown of Ontario.

The morning started with arguments from the City’s two lawyers. Tracey Pratt said Brantford’s costs were “reasonable under the cir-cumstances,” and were trans-parent, but she said she was willing to reduce some of the costs after reviewing the argu-

ments written by HDI’s law-yers.

Jessica Orkin and Louis Sokolov, the legal counsel for HDI, had submitted a docu-ment claiming the costs set out by Brantford were excessive.

“Brantford’s claimed costs are based upon 1,427.6 hours in fees and about $62,000 in disbursements,” said Orkin and Sokolov in their rebuttal document. “Both the hourly rates and amount of time spent by the City’s counsel on this matter are excessive.”

Orkin and Sokolov also argued in their submitted document that “Brantford is seeking more than 3.5 hours of costs for each hour of the court ordered process.”

While Pratt showed a will-ingness to negotiate some of the costs, that was not the case for the other legal counsel for Brantford. Neil Smitheman was far more forceful, telling Justice J. Arnell, “I’m ask-ing for a message of sorts to be sent [that] if you want to engage in self-help methods to seek your own relief, there will be consequences.”

Smitheman said the defence counsel was claiming the case was one of public interest liti-gation, and thus the parties should not have to pay the costs of the legal proceedings. But HDI and the protesters did not demonstrate “respect for

the law,” he said, calling them “contemptuous. They engaged in illegal, sometimes violent action and extortion. These things needed to be dealt with. One does not declare war and say there will be blood in the street and ask for leniency. That’s the wrong message.”

He reminded Justice Arnell of some of the implied vio-lence, found by Arnell to be fact; quoting Ruby Montour, who had told Police Constable Coombe in September 2008, “these arrests are going to start a war, there will be blood spilled before this is over.”

Justice Arnell had also found “it was the intention of HDI to require all developers of undeveloped land to apply to it for a permit, pay the req-uisite fee and ultimately com-ply with all HDI requirements, all without any legal authority to do so. If they did not their projects would be shut down.”

The protesters needed to be accountable, Smitheman ar-gued. He compared the pro-tests that took place in 2007 and 2008 to what “Elected Council of the Six Nations has done ... The Elected Council of Six Nations has commenced an action against the City of Brantford on the duty to con-sult. The Elected Council has operated within the confines of the law and that’s how one goes about public interest liti-

gation.”“If this is public interest

litigation, the floodgates have been opened to any disgrun-tled splinter group to shut down the City with impunity,”

said Smitheman, hammering home his point.

According to Smitheman and Pratt, Brantford began legal proceedings against the named defendants after devel-

opment projects on privately owned land in Brantford were being shut down “and devel-opers were being threatened

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Floyd Montour attended the Ontario Superior Court in Brantford Tuesday for a hearing about who should pay the costs after Brantford got an injunction against Six Nations mem-bers and the Haudenosaunee Development Institute after they shut down a number of de-velopments in 2007 and 2008. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


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It features an Onondaga Chief brandishing the Covenant Chain “Friendship Belt”, our alliance to the Crown in England and after the American Revolution to the American President and US Congress. On the opposite side it features the 1815 William Claus Belt known as the “Pledge Belt”, recently repatriated from the Smithsonian Institution marking the pledges of the Crown to the Six Nations and their allies.

They are available at the following locations; Six Nations Public Library, Six Nations Tourism, Woodland Cultural Centre, Bank of Montreal, (Ohsweken Branch), Red Indian Convenience.

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War of 1812 exhibit opens MondayBy Jim WindleEAGLES NEST, BRANTFORD

1812 was a brutal time to be sure, but it was also a de-fining moment in the history of Canada, the United States and the Haudenosaunee Na-tions.

The new War of 1812 ex-hibit, called “War Clubs and Wampum Belts”, is be-ing hosted at the Woodland Cultural Centre and is spon-sored in part by the Smithso-nian National Museum of the North American Indian, be-tween October 29th and De-cember 24th and curated by Six Nations historian, Rick Hill

Monday afternoon, Hill of-fered a glimpse of what to ex-pect when the exhibit opens.

“War clubs are really fas-cinating no matter how you believe in war and peace,” he said holding a priceless or-nate war club in white gloved hands. “They are ingenious-

ly engineered, carved from a knot, usually in a root or a tree knot carved out of one piece. Some have ornate faces or animal faces, some would have lizards or panthers.”

The one he held has a hu-man face on the attacking ball end being held in a beautiful-ly carved human hand.

“Imagine being an Amer-ican soldier coming over Queenston Heights thinking you’re victorious and the first thing you see is this face com-ing at you,” Hill envisioned.

Judging by the anatomical-ly correct and elaborate carv-ing of the hand holding the face, Hill believes the maker of this club had in mind that the features on the face at the business end of the club look like a dead man, rather than a somewhat childish impres-sion of a human face.

Although this club is fair-ly short handled, usually the handle of other war clubs is a little longer, it is quite heavy, possibly being carved out

of Ironwood or some other dense hardwood.

“It is very hard to tell what approximate year this was made,” he says.

Sometimes these clubs were passed down through families. He points out that a long time ago a war club was made especially for a specific warrior and when he would pass away, the club would be buried with the warrior or it would be burned because it also carried a spiritual and powerful “medicine” with it.

“It was a power thing,” ex-plains Hill. “The more you use it the more power it is and the more powerful it is, the better you can use it. Kind of like a wooden lacrosse stick in that regard.”

Hill suspects the club in his hand may have been produced for an exhibition around the turn of the last century judging by its rela-tive pristine condition.

“I know that at the Pan-American Exposition, (held in 1901 in Buffalo New York), there was a bunch of fellows from here that went down there.”

He assumes that this club may have been a replica made for that occasion, however, he admits it is hard to put an ac-tual date on it.

The name of the exhibition “War Clubs and Wampum” reflect both the instruments of war, in the war club but also instruments of peace as in the Wampum belts to be displayed and explained to the viewer from a Haudeno-saunee perspective.

Just last week a uniform of British General Sheaffe, who is credited with win-ning the Battle of Queenston Heights after Sir Isaac Brock had fallen very early in the battle, was returned by fam-ily members of the General. It was in the possession of the Sheaffe family for genera-tions in Australia where the family eventually relocated. This too will be a part of the exhibition when it opens.

Many other important ar-tifacts from the 1812-14 war were sold off to private col-

lectors or museums over the years or accidentally thrown out by later generations not knowing their significance.

“In the 1930’s collectors came through this area, it was like a vacuum and scooped up everything that they could and took it off to their collec-tions in Washington and New York,” says Hill.

“When the Wampum belts disappeared, you would be amazed how intensely Indi-an Affairs was trying to help recover them or anything else Six Nations said was of value,” Hill says. “But at the same time Indian Affairs has this agenda to remove the cul-ture from the people so, on one hand they were saying let’s substitute a baseball bat for a lacrosse stick and let’s

not do those dances anymore. They were even jailing people out west for their traditional dances. But I think because of the Crown’s special rela-tionship with us, they saw us differently, even though they write about us as pagans in the late 1800’s. Back then there was a clear distinction whether you were a Christian or not and the word pagan only implied that you were not a Christian. Pagan didn’t necessarily have a derogatory meaning as it did later.”

“We wrestled with the pre-sentation of a war club,” said Hill. “Is it going to perpetuate a stereotype about ourselves? But this is about the real story of the War of 1812 and these are the kind of weapons our warriors would use.”

Also on display is a huge blowup photo of three 1812 veteran Six Nations warriors, including Sakayengwraton (Chief John Smoke Johnson), born in 1792.

“He was one of about 50 warriors from here who fought the entire duration of the war,” said Hill. “This photograph was taken in the late 1800’s. He was quite old when he passed away.”

The other two in the photo are 1812 veterans Young War-ner, born in 1792, and John Tutela, born in in 1797. Story has it, that these are the two warriors that led Laura Se-cord to the British encamp-ment at Beaver Dam.

When Six Nations warriors from the Grand River invaded

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Exhibit Curator and historian Rick Hill carefully displays a war club and a tomahawk which will be part of the War of 1812 exhibit, ‘War Clubs and Wampum Belts’ which officially opens at 7 pm, October 29th, at the Woodland Cultural Centre. The exhibit runs to December 24th. (Photo by Jim Windle)


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Buffalo in December of 1813, it was John Smoke Johnson who, it is said, set the first fire that burned most of the build-ings in Buffalo down.

“But he was also a Chris-tian and he advocated against scalping or mutilating the body,” says Hill. “He’d say, ‘we are above that now’. He didn’t necessarily say it was a bad practice, only that he felt as a people they were above that and they didn’t need to do that anymore.”

“A lot of our warriors were Christians as well and that is one reason why they were al-lies to the Crown of Britain,” he explains. “They had this affiliation with them. When you think about John Brant and John Norton helping to translate the Bible into Mo-hawk, the covenant chain be-comes much more complex.”

“The Six Nations warriors were venerated for many years by the loyalist govern-ment and they would host a gathering every year to cel-ebrate our warriors with the militia.”

It was actually the forerun-ner to the Bread and Cheese celebration started by Queen

Victoria. “The Americans, the Brit-

ish and Canadians have since become great partners,” he says. “Now we would like that same kind of respect in 2012.”

He also displayed a tom-ahawk which will also be a part of the exhibit.

These were usually made in Europe as trade items,” he said. “These were very popular and thousands were brought over from Europe during the War of 1812.”

He differentiated between a tomahawk and a hatchet as being that a tomahawk was also a peace pipe with a to-bacco bowl in the back of the axe-head and had a smoke channel running down the length of the wooden handle. A hatchet is only a small, hand-held axe.

Hill believes that the idea was that, in negotiations, the leaders would offer either peace or war, using the same instrument, and leave it up to the other to decide which one it would be.

The exhibit will also in-clude a 200 year old woollen British flag believed to have been presented to Tecumseh,

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War of 1812 exhibit opens MondayContinued from page 10

Rick Hill displays a tomahawk from the War of 1812 exhibit.


By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

The young Caledonia Cor-vairs have been struggling so far this year but are still in the middle of the Midwest-ern Conference pack with six teams sitting within a spread of 5 points of each other.

Returning to the line-up for Caledonia was veteran Matt Quilty, who began the season in British Columbia with the Powell River Kings. Last year with the Brantford Golden Eagles, Quilty aver-aged a point a game, scor-ing some very timely goals along the way.

After being defeated 4-2 in Stratford Friday night, the Corvairs rebounded with an impressive 4-0 shut-out win at the Gaylord Powless Are-na Saturday night in front of a small crowd of a reported 130 people.

Zach Easved and his de-fence earned the shutout for the Pro-Fit Corvairs with solid saves and effective clearing in front of the net.

Tyler Norrie scored the only goal of the first period from Matt Quilty and Bran-don Montour on a powerplay with Listowel’s Mac Nich-ols serving time for check-ing from behind, a call OHL referees are watching closely for this year.

Caledonia’s Nathan Ferris was called for the same in-fraction at 5:06 which comes with an automatic two min-utes plus a game miscon-duct.

Connor Murphy and Matt Quilty delivered the Cor-vairs’ goals in the second period with Greg Christ-mas, Norrie, Jeff Swift and Murphy collecting assists. Caledonia dominated the second, out-shooting Lis-towel 25-17.

Fabrizio Ricci added Cale-donia’s fourth goal at 4:27 of the third period assisted by Steven Comegna and Brier Jonathan.

It was a different result in Stratford Friday night as the Corvairs ran into a red-hot Stratford goaltender in Nick Caldwell who turned aside all but two of the 41 shots Caledonia sent his way.

Caledonia goaltender Jus-tis Husak took the loss.

The Cullitons opened up a 1-0 lead at 3:54 in front of 1,524 fans at the Allman Arena, then added another at 13:17 to end the first peri-od with Stratford ahead 2-0. Stratford goals were scored by Jared Culliton and Trevor MacDonald.

Garrett James made it 3-0 at 7:56 of the middle frame before Tyler Norrie finally got Caledonia on the score-

sheet at 16:48 from Ryan Blunt and team captain Mitch Brown.

The Corvairs had a great chance to get back in the game in the second period when the Cullitons found themselves with a two man disadvantage for more than a minute, but Caledonia could not capitalize.

Stratford’s Jake Pieon and Corvairs’ Dalton Riley squared off late in the second period and were ejected from the game.

Matt Quilty gave his team some reason for hope at the 54 second mark of the third period to draw within one of the leaders, but Caldwell closed the door for the rest

of the period.With Husak on the bench

for the extra attacker, Ryan Watson delivered the deci-sive blow at 19:23, finding the open Caledonia net at 19:23.

This week’s games in-clude a Wednesday nighter at the Haldimand Arena in Caledonia against the last

place Guelph Hurricanes beginning at 8 pm. Then, on Friday night, they will host the second place Waterloo Siskins for a 7:20 start.

The big challenge of the week comes Saturday night when the Corvairs take on the division leading Cam-bridge Winterhawks in Cam-bridge at 7 pm.

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Corvairs split weekend games

Some people have been asking for a long time now why the former Brantford Golden Eagles never moved back to Six Na-tions. That question was graphically answered Saturday night at the Gaylord Powless Arena when the Six Nations owned Caledonia Corvairs took on the Listowel Cyclones in front of 130 people. The franchise left Brantford between seasons for lack of support as well as an unsatisfactory experience with the new Wayne Gretzky Arena. They are having more success at the turnstiles in Caledonia and have added home games in Cayuga and Six Nations to try and bolster their fan base. The Corvairs won the game 4-0. (photo by Jim Windle)


Dinner & Ring Ceremony kick off opening weekend of Training CampDefending champs hit the turf on November 24th at TSE

Rochester

The 2012 National La-crosse League Champion Rochester Knighthawks will “ring” in the upcoming sea-son on Friday, November 23rd with a kickoff Dinner and Ring Ceremony. The Players, coaches, ownership and staff will receive their 2012 World Championship

rings the evening before the team holds its opening week-end of Training Camp.

The event will take place

in the grand ballroom of the Radisson Riverside Hotel. Doors open at 7:30 with din-ner scheduled for 8:00 p.m., followed by the ring cere-mony at 9:00 p.m. Rochester defeated the Edmonton Rush 9-6 on May 19th to capture the franchise’s third champi-onship.

Fans can attend the Din-ner and Ring Ceremony, meet the players and have their pictures taken with the Champion’s Cup at the event. Admission is just $25 with the net proceeds going to the Knighthawks Charita-ble Foundation, Inc. A lim-

ited amount of tickets can be purchased at the Knight-hawks office by calling (585) 454-4295 or online at www.knighthawks.com until Fri-day, November 9th. Formal attire is requested.

The following day, Sat-urday, November 24th, the Knighthawks will open Training Camp at Total Sports Experience in Gates. The team will undergo fit-ness testing from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. with practice slat-ed for 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The second day of camp is set for Sunday, November 25th from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. All the practices are free and open to the public.

Rochester will begin its title defense on the road to open the 2013 season. The

World Champions will open their 19th season against the Washington Stealth at 10:00 p.m. (EST) on Saturday, January 5th. The Knight-

hawks will play their home opener on Saturday, January 19th against the rival Buf-falo Bandits at 7:30 p.m. at The Blue Cross Arena. Sea-

son tickets are currently on sale at the Knighthawks Of-fice and can be purchased by calling (585) 454-HAWK (4295).

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SNEC – Economic Development requires responsible individuals or snow removal companies to clear laneways and parking lots for the 2012-13 winter season.

The official property list, qualifications and specifications may be picked up at the Six Nations Housing Authority Office located at 67 Bicentennial Trail.Please call 519-445-2235 for more information.

Deadline to submit quote is Friday November 2, 2012 at 4 PM.

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Current Back-to-Back and 5-time Founders Cup Cham-pions, Six Nations Rebels held their Annual General Meeting for the Six Nations Community and Lacrosse Fans at the Six Nations Tour-ism Building Sunday after-noon. Rebels goal for 2013 is to 3-Peat the Founders Cup which will be held in Winni-peg, Manitoba from August 19th to 25th.

2013 Open Tryouts are scheduled to begin on Fri-day, January 18, 2013. Elec-tions were held for President,

2nd VP, GM & Secretary (All 2-year terms). All other posi-tions are 1-year terms. 2013 Six Nations Rebels Executive

President - Scott Mara-cle 1st VP - Cam Bomberry 2nd VP - Tom Johnson 3rd VP - Lynn Hartrick Gen-eral Manager - Wray Mara-cle Treasurer - Jennifer Hill Secretary - Tammy Hill Fun-draiser - Erin Monture Volun-teer Coordinator - Anita Hill Golf Coordinator - Stephanie Williams Bingo Coordinator - Michelle Bomberry Videog-rapher - Artie Martin Photog-rapher - Amanda White Be Part of the Excitement!!!!

Six Nations U16 Field Lacrosse Team we went undefeated at the Skull and Bones Classic in Rochester, NY on Sunday we beat Webster 13-2, Lionheart 12-3, Northern Lacrosse 7-3, and beat Onondaga in the championship 13-2 we also won it last year too in the picture from left to right BR-Logan Hill, Larson Sundown, Billy Brooks, Chance Gates, RJ Jamie-son, Rob Williams, Seth Ferguson. Front Row- Frank Wolf, Chauncey Hill, Garret Vyse-Square, Evan Printup, Bailey Skye. (Submitted Photo)

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By Stephanie DearingOTTAWA

Private member's bills ta-bled in Canada's House of Commons do not normally ever pass to become law. But it looks like Bill C-428, the Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act, has a good chance of becoming legislation. The bill just passed its second reading in the House – and Prime Minister Stephen Harper has thrown his support be-hind the proposed legisla-tion.

In a press release issued on October 18, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Devel-opment Minister John Dun-can said, "Our Government recognizes that the Indian Act is an impediment to the success of Canada's First Nations.

“Bill C-428 is consistent with our Government's ap-proach of taking concrete, but incremental, steps to create the conditions for healthier, more self-suffi-cient First Nation communi-ties, and we look forward to studying the bill in commit-tee, hearing from witnesses and, as always, exploring opportunities to improve it,” said Duncan.

The Bill was tabled by a Conservative member of Parliament who also hap-pens to be of First Nation descent. Rob Clarke, who represents the riding of Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, called the Indian Act an “outdated, racist, colonial statute.”

“I hope one day the amendments proposed in my private member's bill

will help lead us to build a more modern, respectful relationship between fed-eral government and First Nations, and finally kick-start this larger process to repeal and replace the en-tire Indian Act,” said Clarke on Thursday in the House. “These amendments to the Indian Act can be an impor-tant stepping stone on the path of achieving self-suf-ficiency and prosperity in First Nation communities. The acronym for this path would be ARRC: amend, re-peal, replace, and most im-portantly, consult.”He said the bill, if passed, would “amend the bylaw section of the act; repeal and replace several outdated, unused and patronizing sections of the act; and create a pro-cess that would enable col-laborative consultation with First Nations. The goal is to replace the Indian Act with laws which would both de-scribe and enshrine a more respectful and modern rela-tionship between First Na-tions and the Crown.”

But Assembly of First Nations National Chief Atleo did not give the pro-posed legislation a ringing endorsement. “We all agree we need to move away from the Indian Act,” Atleo said in a written statement, “but any efforts must be led by First Nations and done with First Nations, not for First Nations. Moving beyond the Indian Act is about end-ing unilateral approaches by government and supporting and empowering First Na-tion governments to drive solutions in ways that re-spect and implement their

rights, responsibilities and decision-making. This work must be done on First Na-tions’ terms.”

Atleo further said the “proposed legislation con-tains a number of piecemeal amendments to the current Indian Act. Tinkering with the existing Act continues the ways of the past whereas First Nations want to move forward based on their rights and responsibilities.”

At the Crown-First Na-tions gathering, Prime Min-ister Harper said “To be sure, our Government has no grand scheme to repeal or to unilaterally re-write the Indian Act: After 136 years, that tree has deep roots, blowing up the stump would just leave a big hole. However, there are ways, creative ways, collabora-tive ways, ways that involve consultation between our Government, the provinc-es, and First Nations leader-ship and communities, ways that provide options within the Act, or outside of it, for

practical, incremental and real change.”

However, Harper imme-diately put First Nations people on notice at the Gath-ering about how his govern-ment would deal with the Indian Act. The approach, he said, would be “to re-place elements of the Indian Act with more modern leg-islation and procedures, in partnership with provinces and First Nations.”

According to Clarke, his legislation would allow First Nations to fully and completely create and enact their own by-laws, without having to go to Aboriginal Affairs for permission; re-peal the prohibition against the sale of alcohol on re-serves and allow each nation to determine how they want to deal with alcohol; allow First Nations people to ad-minister their own wills and estates; and remove impedi-ments to trade; and would require AANDC's minister to report annually on the progress made towards re-

pealing and replacing the Indian Act.

“It should be clear to all that the substance of the bill provides no cause for alarm among First Nations people,” said Clarke in the House of Commons last Thursday. “Nor is there any cause for false alarms to be raised by First Nation lead-ers.” Clarke said he had cre-ated the legislation through consultation with First Na-tions people, but that asser-tion was challenged by the New Democratic Party of Canada.

The federal government announced Friday its omni-bus budget bill will intro-duce more changes to the Indian Act, specifically “to the land designation provi-sions of the Indian Act, as part of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012,” said AANDC in a statement.

According to the release, “Land designation is a le-gal instrument that permits a First Nation to lease a portion of reserve land to a third party, while retain-ing its interests in and rights to the land. The proposed amendments will speed up the process to designate re-serve lands, allowing First Nations the flexibility they require to take advantage of economic opportunities as they present themselves.”

"In Economic Action Plan 2012, our Government committed to taking further steps to create the condi-tions for First Nation com-

munities to participate more fully in Canada's economy," Duncan said in the state-ment. "Amending the land designation provisions of the Indian Act is a practi-cal approach to increasing opportunities for First Na-tions to tap economic de-velopment opportunities, reduce red tape, and allow First Nations to operate at the speed of business."

The amendments, if ap-proved by parliament, would reduce the voting threshold for a First Nation community when approving a land designation. Instead of the majority of votes cast in a ballot involving a ma-jority of eligible voters, the threshold would be lowered to a majority of votes cast.

The other amendment would allow the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs to give authorization to the land designation set out by a band. The AANDC statement said the changes would reduce the amount of time it takes to administer the land designation pro-cess, allowing First Nations to respond faster to business opportunities.

The Indian Act came into effect in 1876, and was last amended in 2011 with Bill C-3, the McIvor legislation allowing descendants of women who lost their status when they married non-Na-tives to register with a band, as long as one of their par-ents are registered..

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New legislation to amend Indian Act closer to reality

By Stephanie DearingOTTAWA

The Liberal Party of Can-ada has decided to wade in on the idea of repealing the Indian Act. Just days after a private member's bill tabled by a Conservative Member of Parliament to amend cer-tain portions of the Indian Act passed its second read-ing, Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae announced he will be tabling a motion to repeal the Indian Act altogether.

“First Nations have been very clear – we must shed the colonial institutions and frameworks that have char-acterized the Crown-First

Nations relationship to date if we want to work together towards a new process,” said Rae in a prepared statement released Monday morning. “This motion compels the federal government to work in partnership with First Na-tions to finally resolve the countless long-standing eco-nomic and social inequities that affect them.”

Rae said the motion, titled M-386, “calls on the govern-ment to establish a formal nation-to-nation process” to replace the Indian Act with new agreements – ensuring the Crown fulfils its obli-gations to First Nations as established under treaties,

promises and existing stan-dards, such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

“As First Nations leaders across the country have stat-ed, the Indian Act remains the most significant obstacle to progress for First Nations communities across Canada,” Rae said in the statement. “While the Conservative government has so far re-fused to engage in any sub-stantive discussions on the issue, I hope they will take the opportunity that my mo-tion provides to do so.”

Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, the National Leader of the As-sembly of First Nations, has

already indicated disapproval over the Conservative private member's bill C-428, intro-duced by Native MP Rob Clarke, saying any changes to the Indian Act would have to be made after full consulta-tion with First Nations.

Rae's motion received its first hour of debate in the House of Commons on Mon-day.

According to a Parliamen-tary procedure guide, there is a difference between a mo-tion and a bill. If passed, a bill will become legislation, but a motion has a short po-litical shelf-life, its business done after it is debated and voted upon.

Bob Rae introduces motion to repeal Indian Act

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have never ceded any rights to the territory to anybody,” said Bowman.

“We wish to formally ad-dress our objection to this council and the City of Brant-ford’s habitual dealings per-taining to the Mohawks of the Grand River Territory,” he continued. “Further, this council’s objectionable poli-cy to willingly and knowingly excluding known Chiefs (Mo-hawk Chief Ted Squire) and the Mohawk Workers from ne-gotiations, decisions and other such relevant matters, and this must cease.”

“We believe the time has come to set aside matters of di-vision and difference and unite over matters of common inter-

est, purpose and intent and it is clear to us that there is an op-portunity for certain govern-ment bodies to play a central role in achieving this goal.

“To be clear, we do not see this as solely a Mohawk struggle, but one that all Onkwehon:we share, each from our unique perspective.”

In closing, Bowman re-minded those present that the Two Row agreement is a cov-enant of peace and it involves an understanding and accep-tance of responsibility.

“Nobody ever gave permis-sion for these covenants to be subverted or ignored,” con-cluded Bowman. “I encour-age everybody to do a little bit of history. We have laid it out on our website as clearly as we can and understand that

although government bodies have enacted legislation and laws under which they oper-ate, our overlaying and su-preme laws and treaties are in place which absolutely must be adhered to.”

Following the presentation, Carpenter chided Bowman and Squire with argumenta-tive questions about not pay-ing their bills, to which Squire responded, “That is what we are here for, to pay our bills, if Brantford pays theirs.”

To another question from

Carpenter, Bowman respond-ed, “Are you totally ignorant of the fact ...” But Friel only heard, “Are you totally ig-norant” and assumed he was attacking Carpenter on a per-sonal level and shut his mic off.

Bowman later reworded his question to say, “are you not aware...”

Following some more ban-tering among councillors, Friel declared an end to the questions and called for the vote.

Although the decision to stop payment falls short of an eviction, without utilities, members of the Mohawk Workers who have occupied the former museum for five years, will find this winter a cold one should they decide to stay.

Their decision did not come as a surprise to Squire who has no intention of leaving Kana-ta, heat or no heat.

“I wasn’t surprised at all of the denial that we even ex-ist,” said Squire outside of

chambers following the vote. “I think it was very important that we came here tonight to make these people aware that we are still around here and we still have a long ways to go to improve our relation-ship, which we would like to do, because that is what we are about.”

And so, it would appear that by no longer paying for utili-ties, the power and other ser-vices are going off at Kanata, but that will be up to the ser-vice providers to decide.


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Akwesasne and Canada finalize second major land claimBy Stephanie DearingCORNWALL ISLAND

Last week, a long outstand-ing land claim settlement reached the last hurdle as the Mohawk Council of Akwe-sasne (MCA) and the gov-ernment of Canada signed a settlement agreement for the land on Cornwall Island known as Kawehnoike/East-erbrook.

“We are pleased that a past wrong to our people has now been corrected,” said Ak-wesasne Grand Chief Mike Mitchell in a joint statement issued with Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC).

“Throughout the negotia-tions, it was important that we worked together to resolve this claim fairly, expeditiously and in the context of respect and goodwill that now serves

as a foundation for our future relationship,” said Mitchell. “We look forward to working together in resolving larger land claims that involve Ak-wesasne.”

AANDC Minister John Duncan said, “This historic agreement shows that nego-tiations deliver results when there is a firm resolve on both sides to find a solution. We look forward to building on

our strong relationship with Akwesasne as we continue to work together on shared pri-orities, such as economic de-velopment and creating the conditions for healthier, more self-sufficient First Nation communities.”

MCA members had vot-ed earlier this year to accept an offer of $4,448,932 from Canada for the loss of use of nearly 200 acres of land on Cornwall Island for a peri-

od of 118 years. Canada also gave Awkesasne an additional $567,098 to cover the negotia-tion costs for the claim.

The settlement agreement was formally signed in a cere-mony on Wednesday, October 17. Canada now has 45 days in which to deliver the proceeds to Akwesasne.

MCA has established a trust fund for the money, and promised community mem-bers in a newsletter they will be kept “privy, informed and involved” in the Trust.

Grand Chief Mike Mitch-ell welcomed Minister of Ab-original Affairs and Northern Development Canada John Duncan to Cornwall Island.

The agreement was ceremo-niously signed at the Kaweh-noke Community Centre.

Originally the disputed land, known to the MCA as Kawehnoke, situated on Corn-wall Island, had been leased to Indian Agent Solomon Ches-ley. When he died, the lease was sold to the Easterbrook family who ultimately occu-pied the land for 118 years, in violation of two Federal Court judgements and the In-dian Act.

The illegal settlement of Kawehnoke by the Easter-brook family meant the is-land was divided nearly in half from shore to shore. The Easterbrook family vacated

the land in 1934.Filed in 1995, the claim was

only accepted by Canada for negotiations in 2004. Negotia-tions got underway in 2008, and by January of 2012, a fi-nal settlement agreement had been proposed and accepted by the MCA.

A spring referendum saw members support the settle-ment.

The settlement is the sec-ond for the Mohawk Coun-cil of Akwesasne. In 2008 the community settled a dispute with Ontario Power Genera-tion over the R.H. Saunders power dam, accepting $46 million from the agency.

According to the MCA, Ak-

wesasne is working on a num-ber of outstanding land claims. The community recently achieved success on one Unit-ed States claim, known as the Hogansburgh Triangle, when a New York State judge accept-ed the claim, which will now go on to negotiations.

AANDC said the MCA and Canada recently renewed what it calls “an important political protocol,” which is “a key milestone in their on-going self-government ne-gotiations.” That protocol, according to AANDC, “sets out how the parties will con-tinue to work together in part-nership on key issues for the benefit of the community.”

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Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Mitchell(Photo by the Cornwall Free Press)

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with ongoing work stoppag-es unless they submitted to the demands of the Haude-nosaunee Development In-stitute.”

As a result of the hearing, “The Court found that con-duct of HDI and its supporters was unlawful, that any duty to consult had been satisfied and that, among other things, the City’s economy, employment opportunities, reputation and tax base was at risk.”

The City also enacted two bylaws to prevent interfer-ence with construction on the specific sites and prohibiting any unauthorized group from

demanding fees or other pay-ments from developers.

In turn, Hazel Hill said that the lands being developed are Haudenosaunee lands, given to the Haudenosaunee in 1784 through the Haldimand Trea-ty, and the Haudenosaunee are entitled “to govern not only the lands but the people with-in those lands.”

Asked if he wanted to make a statement on Tuesday morn-ing, Floyd Montour spoke to Justice Arnell about the Hal-dimand Deed, treaties and the money “Brantford owes us.”

Justice Arnell is now con-sidering the arguments. It is not known when he will hand down a decision.

City lawyer urges consequencesContinued from page 8


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TAURUS - ApR 21/MAy 21Taurus, your plan to modify a project

this week will meet with great results. You may become interested in an or-ganization that showcases your skills.

GEMINI - MAy 22/JUN 21Gemini, the time has come to reevaluate

a certain situation, but you are up for the challenge. It may be hard to com-municate your goals to others, but your persistence will pay off.

CANCER - JUN 22/JUl 22Cancer, things you say have a greater im-

pact on others than you may realize. Therefore, think through what you say to make sure your words come across as intended.

lEO - JUl 23/AUG 23Leo, now is the time focus so that your

dreams and plans can become a real-ity. Put all of your efforts into realizing your goals, and you won’t be sorry for having done so.

VIRGO - AUG 24/SEpT 22Virgo, pay particular attention to your

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2007 pont. Montana Van, 141 K, $6595.00; 2006 Dodge Grand Car-avan, Stow & Go, 151 K, $6295.90; 2005 pont. Montana Van, red, 153 K, $5395.00; 2005 Chev Up-lander, 145 K, $5595.00; 2005 Ford Escape, 4x4, black, 116 K, $7195.00; 2005 G.M.C. Jimmy 4x4, white, 116 K, $6595.00; 2003 Ford Focus, s.wagon, 4 cyl, 142 K, $4995.00; 2004 pont. Grand A.M., blk, 111 K, Call for Price; 2002 pont. Sunfire, 4 cyl, 146 K, $3495.00; 2002 Ford Taurus, s.wagon, S.E., comfort, 151 K; House Trailer 32ft $700.00.

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coming evenTs

Chicken SupperAt St. lukes Church

Smoothtown (1246 Onon-daga Rd. Near 3rd Line), Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. 4:00pm – 7:00pm. Adults - $12.00; Children (6-12) - $6.00; Preschoolers Free. Takeouts Available.

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You are cordially invited to attend the celebration in honour of the

Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary

OfRoger & Betty porter

This will take place in the Grand River Room at Six Nations Polytechnic, 2160 Fourth Line, Ohsweken, Ontario, Saturday, Novem-ber 10, 2012 from 2-5 PM. Best Wishes Only.

WanTed

Quotas purchased. 3681 Second Line

sTorage space WanTed

Wanted: Dry & Secure Storage Space required for furniture & larger house-hold items. The Larger The Better. Text Jimmy 905-746-5969.

yard sales

Indoor yard Sale

SN Tourism, Sat. Oct. 27, 8:30 am – 2:00 pm. Hal-loween costumes, clothes, toys, scone dogs and more.

services

6 Napresidentiallimo.com [email protected] Ohsweken, ON (905) 765-9928 or 519-865-6546. Let 6Na Tour you around.

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Dancing In Our Grandparent’s Footsteps!

Engaging Our Grandparents in the Community’s Heartbeat.

Promoting Communication between Grandparents and Youth.

Workshops will be held on the following dates aTimes: Saturdays: November 3, 10 and 24, 2012

10 am to 3 pm (lunch provided) Location: Six Nations Tourism Building

You will learn about: -‐ Haudenosaunee Social Songs and Dances -‐ Basic Language Lessons -‐ Moccasin Making -‐ Stories and Lessons from Our Grandparents -‐ Cultural Identity -‐ Orating Skills -‐ Hospitality and Tourism Training Programs

To register please call

Or text 289-440-7399. Seats are limited so please register

by Oct. 30, 2012.

Grandparents & youth are welcome welcome!

You don’t have to be a grandparent to attend.

AGE

12+

The ALOY program runs for one calendar year, and attendees take classes that prepare them for university. General said she is studying pre-calculus, chemistry, Eng-lish and Native History right now. “What's different about the Royal Military College is they teach military stuff,” she said. “Every Wednesday we have weapons training and room inspection.” The cadets are learning about C-7 rifles right now, but in the next se-mester will learn about 9 mm rifles.

The program has “Aborigi-nal aspects,” said General. “We have our own elder,” who guides the students on a daily basis, providing smudg-es, sweat lodges, building teepees and other cultural traditions. The students also travel to “pow wows all over, and memorial ceremonies like here at Six Nations.”

She's trying to figure out her next steps, but General is considering being either a Naval Combat Engineer or a MARS (Maritime Surface And Sub Surface) Officer.

Sarah General, a Six Nations member, stands in front of the Haldimand Proclamation me-morial outside of the Six Nations Community Hall Sunday with fellow student Fred Morin. The two, who are studying at the Royal Military College through the ALOY program, at-tended the Six Nations Remembrance Ceremonies with the other students in the program, their Warrant Officer and their Aboriginal Elder. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


Six Nations member discovers a love of the military

Six Nations Police BriefsStaff

Ohsweken man charged with Assault

A domestic call for help placed by a woman to the po-lice on Saturday October 20 resulted in the arrest of an unidentified man for Assault Level 1 and Bodily Harm Overcoming Resistance to Commit Offence.

Police responding to a call for assistance from a woman caller who said she was be-ing choked found a distressed woman who reported she had been involved in an argument with someone who assaulted her by grabbing her face and pushing her head against the wall. When she attempted to call the police, her assailant threw her onto a bed, got on top of her and began to stran-gle her with his hands around her throat. The assailant was arrested following an inspec-tion by police officers. The as-sault of the victim was visible, said the police, but the woman refused medical treatment.

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