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Elected Chief Bill Montour sits with County of Brant Mayor Ron Eddy (centre) and Brantford Mayor Chris Friel at a joint council’s meeting held last Thursday at the Six Nations Community Hall. They came to a trilateral resolution that they will join together in a campaign designed to pres-sure the federal and provincial governments to deal with Six Nations land claims in a fair and timely fashion. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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By Jim WindleOHSWEKEN

At last Thursday’s meet-ing of the joint elected coun-cils of Brant, Brantford and Six Nations, hosted at the Six Nations Community Hall, a trilateral alliance was loosely forged that would see a united campaign di-rected towards Queens Park and Ottawa to bring the is-sue of the long outstanding Six Nations land grievances to the front burner.

Brantford Mayor Chris Friel said the ultimate goal of this alliance would be to get the attention of both Pre-mier Dalton McGuinty and Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He also suggested a jointly prepared media cam-paign directed at bringing the Chambers of Commerce and other related organiza-tion on board as well.

Building and develop-ment have been serious-ly curtailed, especially in Brant, Brantford and Hal-dimand, since the reclama-tion of the former Douglas Creek Estates in Caledonia in 2006. At that time, direct action came from a growing impatience among rank and file Six Nations residents over land under claim be-ing sold and developed out from under them while Ot-tawa and Queens Park turns a blind eye.

In fact, it was Ontario Pre-mier Dalton McGuinty who unilaterally imposed the Places to Grow Act that di-rected development specifi-cally to the Haldimand Tract lands along the Grand River in and around Brantford.

Despite several rulings of Canada’s Supreme Court, no consultation or accommoda-tion with Six Nations ever took place before the Act was implemented.

That left no recourse for Six Nations activists but to demonstrate and physically oppose the sale and develop-ment of land still under un-resolved claim.

It was suggested by Brant Mayor Ron Eddy, that Hal-dimand Mayor Ken Hewitt and Norfolk’s Mayor Den-nis Travale be asked to join the coalition of Grand Riv-er municipalities as well, to widen their sphere of influ-ence.

“We’ve got to sell the gos-pel of land claims settlement in our time,” said Mayor Eddy.

Six Nations Elected Chief Bill Montour said Canada has to be reminded of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which Canada has agreed to uphold.

Lisa VanEvery, a Six Na-tions woman now living on the Johnson Settlement Tract in east Brantford, brought the rubber to the road when she challenged the tri-coun-cils to deal with the 7,000 acre elephant in the room that has been avoided for more than 150 years.

Although the Johnson Tract has been one of the largest and best documented land claims of the 28 claims currently registered with the federal government, and has been on record for decades, nothing has been done to bring finality to the issue. Meanwhile, Brantford and the County of Brant have been in a tug-of-war over this prime farmland they both have eyes on for resi-dential development.

But VanEvery is look-ing for some answers soon-er rather than later and has asked that the Johnson Set-tlement issue be placed on the next tri-council’s agenda for discussion.

“The way that this issue affects me personally is that I have recently moved onto the land known as the John-son Tract,” she told the gath-ering of politicians. “It is well known and document-ed and has been under land claim for over 25 years.”

References to the Johnson Settlement land dispute goes back to the mid 1800’s. It is

specifically mentioned in several documents includ-ing the so-called 1841 “sur-render” and other proposed land deals from that era.

According to Six Nations lands researchers, “By Or-der-in-Council of October 4, 1843, the Crown acknowl-edged that the lands which comprised the Johnson’s Settlement tract, some 7,000 acres and other lands were reserved out of the lands purportedly to be surren-dered for disposition to the Crown under the January 18, 1841 document. Six Nations had indicated their consent that these lands would be let on short leases. Never-theless, the Crown subse-quently sold these lands and all of the proceeds from the sales were not paid to Six Nations. Six Nations have never consented to an abso-lute surrender of these lands.

Six Nations has main-tained that there is no lawful surrender from Six Nations to the Crown for the sale of any portion of the lands re-

served for Six Nations.Six Nations was deprived

of continual rental revenues by the Crown’s sale of the lands in the Johnson Settle-ment and did not receive full and fair compensation for the lands sold.

“That piece of land is personal to me because my grandfather’s grandfather was born on it,” said VanEv-ery. “Now, generations later, I now live on that land.”

She is looking for some-one to answer her questions of why she is being ordered to pay municipal taxes on land that still belongs to Six Nations.

“When I moved there last fall, I began to receive mu-nicipal tax bills from the city of Brantford,” she said. “When I called the City of Brantford tax department in December and spoke with a very nice man that works there, he assured me that he could only do his job, which was to continually send me these pieces of paper. That is all he knew how to do.

“I respected that, but I have been dealing with that issue since November of last year. I feel that I have gone through the right channels. I am trying to handle this issue politically and with goodwill, because I do not want to live in a zone like Caledonia was. I don’t think anybody wants that to hap-pen again or for it to get that far and that out of hand.

“I think the only way we can deal with this issue for our people who are living on our own land that we have never surrendered, is for people from such as you around this table to deal with it now with an open and fair mind and with a good mind. All I am ask-ing for is for this issue to be dealt with and dealt with fairly. It’s been going on for months now and the bills keep coming.”

She asked that the taxa-tion issue be on the next agenda of the tri-councils meeting.

“This is a great opportu-

nity I think for for you to tackle something that will probably change the way we deal with each other in the future,” she challenged.

Six Nations Councillor Carl Hill agreed to put the the issue forward of Six Na-tions people paying munici-pal taxes on un-ceded, Six Nations land not only along the Johnson tract, but in the County of Brant and other parts of the City of Brant-ford as well.

Ruby Montour then spoke and pleaded with the joint councils that this ini-tiative not be only a charade with a lot of talk and a lot of good intentions but no action.

“We’ve had enough of that,” she said.

There has not been a date or location set at this point for what will be the fourth joint council’s meeting.

In the meantime, Lisa VanEvery will continue to put her tax bills in a basket until the issue of the John-son Tract is dealt with.

Councils form trilateral alliance to pressure government to settle land claims

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Members of the elected Councils of Brant, Brantford and Six Nations met at the Community Hall Thursday to discuss ways and means of working more closely together on mutually beneficial projects. (Photo by Jim Windle)


By Jim WindleBRANTFORD

A panel representing the provincial correctional servic-es was put in the hot seat last week at the Brantford Police Station’s conference room by a room full of judges con-sisting of Crown attorneys, defence lawyers, OPP, Brant-ford, and Six Nations police, various jail services workers and not the least, Brantford’s Mayor Chris Friel.

Friel was blindsided by the unilateral decision of the province’s correctional ser-vices Minister to close down the Brantford jail, without consultation with those di-rectly affected, and he was not shy in letting the panel from the province know it.

He was particularly upset that he only learned about the closure after a newspaper re-porter told him.

Six Nations grown Justice Gethin Edwards, who orga-nized the “Lunch and Learn” meeting, was also caught by surprise when he heard the news on the radio.

“The Brantford jail has been in existence for the past 150 years, yet one morning last spring, I woke up to a CKPC radio news reporter to hear news of the closure of the Brantford jail,” he said in his opening comments. “It obvi-ously caught a number of the Justice partners by surprise and caused us to want to have a discussion on the issue and its impact on the community.”

Edwards called the Minis-try of Corrections and asked that they send some people that may be able to offer de-tails of their arbitrary deci-sion.

David Hatt, west regional director of correctional ser-vices, fielded the majority of the questions and listened to the complaints of others.

Mayor Friel moderated the meeting, but took the oppor-tunity to inject his own com-ments along the way as well.

“As a politician, one of the things we dislike the most is finding out important in-formation like this through a reporter,” he began. “That is one of the reasons I was quick to agree to moderate this meeting.”

He said that in his research leading up to last week’s meeting, he has discovered things that make him even more concerned than he has ever been before about the impact the closure will have on his community and that of the Six Nations as well.

“I am concerned about those within this community that do not have the means to work through the judicial sys-tem,” he said. “It just sounds like, in some cases, they will be buffeted around more than

they should.”Friel asked the panel how

it happened that there was no consultation with City Hall or anyone else before the deci-sion was made that will affect his community.

The closure of an institu-tion when it comes in the form of a budget is one that is somewhat unusual,” re-sponded David Hatt. “There is no consultation in those cases because the budget is a protected document.”

He said that the closure is part of the provincial govern-ment’s modernization plan to improve correctional services across the province.

He explained that, to that end, the Ministry looked at nine ageing facilities across Ontario of which Brantford was one.

Once the Brantford jail is decommissioned, Brantford prisoners will be shipped off to the new Toronto South su-per-jail which is presently un-der construction in Milton.

Costs of transporting pris-oners for remands and court appearances was an issue brought up by many inside workers who know the logis-tical nightmare that can be.

Hatt suggested that video remands will be increased in those cases.

Despite the earlier surprise of the closure announcement, Hatt promised that there would be dialogue with OPP, Brantford and Six Nations po-lice services as the transition gets closer.

Lawyer Sarah Dover, whose clients are primarily from Six Nations, was par-ticularly passionate in her opposition to the closure and the added impact such a move

will make of Six Nations peo-ple in particular.

“I work, not exclusively, but primarily with people from Six Nations,” she told Hatt and the panel.

Her concerns were many including what specific cul-tural services will be lost to Six Nations prisoners with the change but also how much harder it is going to be for her and other lawyers to properly serve their clients when they are so far away.

She called it “absolutely unacceptable” that budget would be the determining factor over the fair delivery of justice.

Dover called for judges and law enforcement specialists to be directly involved with planning this new “modern-ization” process since, it ap-pears to her, that not much on the ground reality went into this political decision.

She voiced concerns as well over the lack of youth facilities due to other related closures likely to come on the heels of the jail closure.

Hatt was unable to directly answer her questions saying that there would be a panel struck to deal with specific local issues.

Friel also informed the panel that in his conversa-tions with other mayors that will be affected by the “mod-ernization” of the correctional services, he discovered that Brantford is still being treat-ed like a small rural commu-nity rather that a city of more than 100,000 plus surround-ing communities, including Brant and Six Nations and New Credit.

He said the decision to close the jail seemed to him to expose a serious lack of cultural understanding by the provincial government.

Hatt admitted the transition would be difficult, but it is a decision he has no say in, only to help implement.

Other questions from the floor included a concern over the availability of legal aid and an informed prediction by jail workers themselves that this move will create backlogs that will dwarf the current sit-uation when one considers all the on the ground facts of life within the correctional sys-tem.

Edwards posed specific questions to some in atten-dance. Crown Attorney Larry Brock was asked by Edwards how the closure will affect his day to day operations of the court.

“It will have a tremendous negative impact,” he said out-lining specific problems he will now face in doing his job.

Defence lawyer Howard Staats also weighed in on the negative impact this move will create for him and his cli-

ents which will mafe the cli-ent’s right to access to justice that much harder.

He also predicted a nega-

tive impact on legal aid avail-ability if his clients are now in Toronto.

I don’t know how many defence counsellors are go-ing to be willing, probably on their own time, to travel from Brantford to Maplehu-rst, taking up the better part of an afternoon or evening or weekend.

“I just see this making a tre-mendous impact on the ability of defence counsels to prop-erly prepare, and therefor the counsel for the accused will not be able to prepare a proper defence,” said Staats.

He also considers that le-gal aid already pays a mini-mal rate, and now the added travel costs will become a factor in how many legal aid practitioners will be available to clients without sufficient fi-nancial means.

OPP, city and Six Nations police also reported that their policing budgets are already maxed out and will require more travel mileage and time.

But after all was said and done, as is usual in politics, Hatt could only promise he would take their concerns

back to Queens Park. In the end however, nothing will be done to address these and oth-er important issues.

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Defence lawyer Sarah Do-ver was passionate in her questioning of the Ministry of Correctional Services de-cision to close the Brantford jail, and the specific impact that closure will have on her many Six Nations clients. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Defence lawyer Howard Sta-ats also anticipated the clo-sure would further erode his client’s right to a proper de-fence due to the added travel time counsellors will have in order to meet with their cli-ents in Toronto, rather than Brantford. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Justice Gethin Edwards of Six Nations organized the meeting with representatives from the provincial correc-tional services. He too was very concerned over the neg-ative effect the Ministry’s ar-bitrary decision would have on Brantford’s justice system. (Photo by Jim Windle)


By Jim WindleEAGLES NEST

Bill Squire and the Mo-hawk Workers of Kanata have joined an alliance of more than nine social, politi-cal and environmental groups to help save Tutela Heights, the Johnson Tract and other prime farmland from devel-opers, with their sights clear-ly set on the off-shore land bankers operating under the name of Walton Corp., which has bought up thousands of acres of farmland within rural Brant County.

To date the alliance consists of: the Brant Tutela Heights - Phelps Road Residents As-sociation; Brant Green Party; Barry Pridham of Sydenham United Church in Brantford; The Farmers Union of Brant, Hamilton, and Halton; Sus-tainable Brant; Zero Waste Brant Preserving Agricultur-al Lands Society; TRUE: Two Row Understanding through Education; Langford Conser-vancy; and St. George Citi-zens Association, and that number is growing.

According to the Mohawk Workers’ new website at mo-hawkworkers.wordpress.com, those groups involved with the coalition have united to call for a list of standards to be considered and observed before any development takes place that would subdivide off valuable farmland for housing developments.

Their joint statement reads:We support the preserva-

tion of rural heritage and prime farmland throughout Brant County.

We call upon our elected officials to work with citi-zens to:

• Encourage, foster and support the preservation of food lands create and devel-op zero waste initiatives for Brant County,

• develop public transit be-tween and within cities and towns rather than another highway,

• create a joint vision of a primarily agricultural com-munity which respects the boundaries of ecologically sustainable and fiscally re-sponsible growth in our more urban communities with our own resources, protects food-land throughout Brant Coun-ty, and causes no harm to the environment or any resident within the County.

We do not support:• the paving over of food-

land,• the creation and/or expan-

sion of gravel pits,• rendering plants in resi-

dential areas, especially when they are near ecologically sensitive areas such as open streams that give access to the aquifer.

• the proposed Hwy. 424 or Niagara Greater Toronto Area (NGTA) highways or the expansion of Hwy 407 to our region,

• another interchange along Hwy 403 in the Langford area,

• the incineration of munic-ipal waste (waste to energy),

• the type of residential housing development planned by companies such as Walton for areas like Tutela Heights and other areas throughout

the county,• the creation of an indus-

trial corridor along Highway 2/53 between Ancaster and Brantford, or

• the allowing offshore in-vestors with no accountability to dictate the future commu-nity.

We call upon Brant Coun-ty Council to do whatever is necessary to:

• preserve foodland throughout Brant County for generations to come,

• immediately implement a moratorium on pending and future applications for rezon-ing of foodland to aggregate, agricultural-industrial or in-dustrial,

• preserve and protect our wells and municipal water supply,

• work with citizens to ex-tend the Provincial Greenbelt to protect the foodlands of Brant County to ensure food

sovereignty and food secu-rity, and

• stop the race to the bottom – stop the plunder of Brant County.

We call upon Brant County Council to:

• work with the Province of Ontario to create aggregate recycling initiatives including aggressive recycled content requirements and environ-mentally friendly recycling techniques. The current sys-tem for gravel pit applications places an unfair burden on the taxpayers of Brant County and must be addressed prior to any further aggregate op-erations being implemented or expanded.

• Request a study of the cumulative affects of aggre-gate operations on the envi-ronment.

• Protect our water. The Source Water Protection Plan is “ineffective” in the words of the committee who made it due to restrictions placed on them by the provincial gov-ernment. We ask our Council to fight for the lifting of these restrictions.

• vigorously promote a “zero waste” policy for Brant County to reduce the amount of waste being generated,

rather than opening new land-fill sites or expanding exist-ing ones,

• recognize the vital role of the “natural capital” in Brant County and ecosystem goods and services that it provides,

• treasure and protect the historic buildings of our farm-ing and rural communities.

We echo the call of First Nations communities to pre-serve, protect and honor the rich resources of Brant Coun-ty as a rural and farming area.

We question the objectiv-ity of the Walton Langford visioning session. It does not represent a true opportunity for residents of the Coun-ty to formulate their visions for 3,000 acres of Farmland between Ancaster and Brant due to

• a narrow selection of par-ticipants,

• the setting of rules by Walton, and then the break-ing of these rules by its agent (e.g. filming),

• the “missing voices” of neighbours who will live ad-jacent to or who will be sur-rounded by development, some of whom were turned away at the visioning session, and

• the setting of the agenda and facilitation of the vision-ing sessions by the develop-er’s agents. Why were some residents outside of the study area given hand delivered in-vitations to the visioning ses-sion, while other residents inside of the study area (e.g. Blossom Avenue) were not?

We question the timing of Brant County’s visioning ses-sions which:

• take place immediately after Walton’s visioning ses-sions,

• do not have public meet-ings in core communities such as Burford and St. George, and

• which limit participation to a hand selected group of participants for a final private

visioning meeting before the plan is presented to council.

We request that the Prov-ince:

• recognize “leapfrog de-velopment” pressure in Brant County , by excluding it from the Ontario Greenbelt,

• follow the example of the town of Okotoks http://www.toolsofchange.com/en/case-studies/detail/149 and set “limits to growth” for Brant County,

• reduce the growth num-bers in Brant County to help curb “leapfrog development” on prime farmland,

• enable Brantford to grow up, not out,

• help fund the develop-ment of brownfields, and

• together with Brantford and Brant county respect the “permanent agriculture” rib-bon that all these parties le-gally created in 1980 (Bill 120).

The provincially legislat-ed “standstill/no-build” rib-bon around Brantford is our “Greenbelt”.

We call upon the Coun-cil of Brant County to think outside the box and develop an effective, fair, and trans-parent mechanism with the Brantford City Council to cooperate meaningfully and productively in the realiza-tion of a joint strategy which capitalizes on the strengths of the urban and rural areas in an interdependent and mutually beneficial manner while both preserving, and enhancing the urban and rural parts of our community.

Farmland, natural habitat, and watershed are non-re-newable, and their intrinsic and economic values will only grow over time. We call upon the Council of Brant County to be a leader among municipalities in the protec-tion and preservation of this natural heritage for future generations.

Mohawk Workers spokesperson Bill Squire and researcher Jason Bowman pictured here at Kanata, have joined nine other non-Native groups in challenging the developers of a controversial housing development on Tutela Heights. (File Photo)

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By Stephanie DearingTORONTO

The Six Nations Haudeno-saunee Development Insti-tute (HDI) has been granted intervenor status at an On-tario Energy Board hearing into a planned $40 million hydro line upgrade planned by Hydro One.

The status is significant. Lawyer for HDI, Aaron Del-tor explained when reached by telephone late Tuesday. “It means that we've got stand-ing and that the Confederacy Chiefs have been recognized as holding the treaty rights in this particular area.”

“The Confederacy Chiefs have been struggling for some time with the imposition of a colonial government and this simply helps to undo some of that,” said Detlor.

The Chippewas of the Thames were also given in-tervenor status at the hearing for Hydro One's plans to up-

grade a 70 km long transmis-sion line between Lambton and Longwood.

When HDI became aware of Hydro One's application in late August, the organiza-tion wrote to the Ontario En-ergy Board (OEB) and asked to be included in what OEB calls “interrogatories,” ac-cording to OEB Procedural Order No. 4.

HDI said it should have been given notice of the ap-plication from Hydro One. According to the OEB, Hydro One said “even though there is only a minute likelihood that the project will adverse-ly impact any pending treaty or Aboriginal rights claimed by HDI, and notwithstanding its position was that it has no duty to consult the Haudeno-saunee Confederation Chiefs Council (“HCCC”) it was prepared to share information and meet with the HCCC and HDI if requested.”

Upon review, the Board has

decided “HDI should have been served noticed of the application,” and has given the agency intervenor status.

Hydro One maintains there is no need for the corporation to consult with Aboriginals, saying in a letter to the OEB the duty to consult and ac-commodate “corresponds with the potential adverse impacts of a project on an Aboriginal or treaty claim or right. The project is for reconductoring of an exist-ing line. The required work will have extremely minimal short term impacts on the ter-rain surrounding the existing line and will result in negli-gible perceptible changes to the existing line.”

Hydro One wants to re-place the existing trans-mission line, as well as the conductors, insulators and hardware, making what it calls “minor adjustments to three towers” in the process.

Energy Board says HDI should have been notified of London area hydro upgrade

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By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

The Haudenosaunee De-velopment Institute has is-sued a statement pledging support and cooperation for Arnold Douglas’ claim that Band Council has no busi-ness in authorizing a tele-communications tower on land donated to the Confed-eracy in the early 1900’s for use as one of 12 numbered schools.

Arnold Douglas has been fighting the building of the tower since he discovered workers pouring footings for the tower on land he be-lieves he has held the certif-icate of possession to since 1965.

In a letter to Douglas, under file # 030-117, Hazel Hill, on behalf of the HDI, acknowledges Douglas’ ap-pearance at the HDI office seeking information on the history of the land in ques-tion, from a Confederacy viewpoint.

As expected, Douglas was told that his assessment of the situation is sustained by the Confederacy.

“This is to advise you that our research to date shows no evidence of a transfer from Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy to the Band Council and/or Indian Af-fairs Canada for the prop-erty described as the North East Corner of Lot #30, Con. 3, Tuscarora Town-ship,” the letter states.

It goes on to say that al-though the HDI has not been able to access the Minutes of Confederacy meeting of that specific time frame as of yet, Hill confirms that “it has been stated by a number of individuals and descen-dants that the property(s)

were to be set aside for the purpose of a school, and it has been the understanding of our people for genera-tions, that the moment the land is no longer used for the purpose of a school, that the property would revert back to the previous own-er.”

Hill adds that she will be providing HDI’s corre-spondence with Douglas as part of her HDI report to the next Confederacy

Chiefs Council, scheduled for Oct. 6, 2012, for further direction.

Douglas noticed some trucks at the old school site early Thursday morning at around 7:30 a.m. and went to investigate.

“I backed in and sat be-side the cement footings where they want to put up that Silo tower and I start-ed calling people,” he re-calls. “But before I could text very many, a group of Band Councillors arrived with the Elected Chief. I backed up a little further when that fencing compa-ny came and started putting up a fence, but first he (the fencing worker) came up to me and asked if the situa-tion was all settled.”

Douglas answered, “No, it’s no different from what it was before.”

Days earlier, he had put up a “No Trespassing” sign on the property, but some-one pulled it out and dis-posed of it.

According to Douglas, he spoke with Elected Coun-cillor Ross Johnson, whose family is in a similar situa-tion as Douglas, in that the land once used as School # 5 belonged to his family, who have always expected the land to be returned to

the family after the school ceased to operate.

Councillor Johnson has not confirmed this informa-tion as of press time.

Later Janice Longboat ar-rived. She too has land her family donated to be used as a school and expected it to be returned to the family.

In all, there were 12 school lots spread around the community, many of which no longer have schools on them.

The Elected Council has given Douglas all its evi-dence regarding the land in question, but Douglas says, it is not in question whether the land was donated to the Confederacy or not, but the controversy is over whether that land was to be returned and how Band Council got the authority from the Con-federacy to administrate those lands after 1924.

Douglas asked the Elect-ed Chief when he arrived Thursday morning, what new documents he had that would give his council the right to make arbitrary de-cisions on the land Doug-las contends be purchased the certificate of possession to in 1965 from the Martin family, who donated a piece of their farm to the Confed-eracy for use as a school a century ago.

When the stand-off with the Elected Council began a few weeks ago, the Six


Arnold Douglas is back home after being arrested and de-tained for several hours at the Six Nations Police Station for what he believes is defending his land against questionable Band Council authority. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Resident Lisa VanEvery discusses the situation at the Old #1 School site with some Elected Councillors and Band Council staffers, asking them under what authority they are assuming title to Six Nations land donated 100 years ago to the Confederacy’s school committee for on-reserve elementary schools. There is no known record of that land being transferred into the hands of the Elected Council which was not in existence until 1924. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Despite the protest of residents, the fence around the proposed location of a Silo Wireless telecommunications tower goes up to ensure the project is completed by Sept 30, the deadline for funding. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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My friends get fed up with me when I am sharing a home with them. Not that I am hard to get along with and as a matter of fact they say the opposite but when it comes to keeping the house warm I think I go overboard. I like the heat turned up when I am indoors and in particular if it is fall, winter or early spring. I can think of few things more pleasurable than staring through a frosty window at a blizzard outside with snow blowing all over the place and the temperature freezing while I sit on the couch sipping tea in a very well heated home.

Often my friends comment that they feel like they are in a sauna when I am around and tinkering with the thermostat. I have to admit I crave the heat when I am indoors. I even start wearing long john underwear in September and I donít give them up until May. It does have something to do with the Cree culture and my experiences growing up on the James Bay coast.

I love a warm fire and heat for a reason. As a matter of fact I can recall many elders back up north in Attawapiskat that kept their homes extremely warm in the colder months. They also wore heavy clothing even in the summer as they just didnít ever seem to get enough warmth.

I recall so many freezing days out on the land in our prospector tent when I was a boy. Al-though the weather was cold and the wind blowing off of the bay so fierce our family was always so, so warm in the tent. As a child I remember wondering how my elders could stand being so hot all the time but after many years of experiencing harsh weather while hunting and gathering I picked up this craving for heat.

You have to realize that most of the elders from up the coast never had the luxuries we en-joy down south until just very recently. In the 1990s we finally got running water so we could just turn on a tap and not have to head down to the river no matter what the weather was like to fetch some H2O. With the running water of course we also ended up with real toilets so we did not have to take the regular trek to the outhouse. That was a big deal because finally the elderly people had a little more of a comfortable life and could experience some of what many in Canada had been enjoying for about a hundred years.

I donít think many of us can imagine how hard life was for the elders and my ancestors up the coast. Lots of people have terrible arthritis and other problems because of spending so much time in freezing and wet weather out on the land. Sixty years ago most of my people were living in shacks, cabins, prospector tents and the Askikan (a traditional Cree house made of logs covered in frozen moss). Those were hard days when people had little work, hardly any money and the cost of food and provisions at the local store were outrageous. People were sick and many died in those conditions.

So, when times got a little better and more of my people got an education life became easier. There was some housing construction but never enough, so too many people ended up crammed into homes. Still even with all the technology available we were still getting power from a diesel generator for the entire community of Attawapiskat as recently as 10 years ago. Most people up the coast still heat their homes with wood and for the elderly that is a huge task and also dangerous. In regards to housing most First Nations still have third world conditions as obvious with the news reports on the crisis in Attawapiskat recently.

You might understand why I crave a very warm home with all my experience living in freez-ing conditions out on the land and even in the community at times. I come by this addiction to heat honestly. The strange thing is that although myself and most Cree people I know up the coast love a hot home we donít really like hot weather. I think twice about travelling to Cuba or Florida in the winter because I know how terribly hot the weather is going to be. We Cree actually prefer cooler weather and when it is more than 21 or 22 degrees Celsius watch out because we are going to be crabby, uncomfortable and just to too hot. Most Crees prefer fall, spring and winter to summer.

I guess our craving for a hot home has more to do with just having to put up with so much freezing damp conditions in our lives and we make up for it these days when it is as easy as turning up a thermostat. For many of us it is still a luxury to be able to be warm or toasty hot in our home without having to constantly struggle to keep the fire burning.

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Finding the best of all worlds It’s never as simple as all that when it comes to the inner politics of Six Nations. Cease

and Desist orders are being thrown around like playing cards these days towards anyone who has the audacity of actually doing something.

The Confederacy is demanding the Band Council stop making deals on community owned lands without anyone’s input. The Band Council is not waiting for the Confed-eracy’s monthly meetings to get answers or make presentations that might, or might not include them. And the Mohawks are telling both to stand aside since they are the true title holders for the Haldimand Tract.

The result is, nothing is moving the chains forward and the frustration that this cease and desist epidemic is creating is causing more and more Six Nations residents to unplug from any political initiative because they don’t really trust any of them.

Unfortunately, that is when democracy suffers most, when people lose their voice or even worse, their willingness to engage even if they had a voice.

That is exactly what seems to be going on around here. In our opinion, the only thing that will create a more stable world for the next generation is for all competing entities to try and empty themselves of themselves and look towards the future with a pragmatic and clear vision of where things came from, where they are, and where the community wants to be 10 years from now.

And who is going to be that “Peacemaker” in our time? Unfortunately we see no one on the horizon that would qualify for that job.

The Confederacy must find a way to make itself relevant to the people they say they are speaking for. The Elected Council really should work harder in creating a safe and honouring relationship with the traditional government most on council would concede is the real deal. But are they ready to lead anything? In our opinion, no. And that is sad.

And what of those pesky Mohawk Workers. We would be very interested in being a fly on the wall if ever a meeting between those three entities could be arranged.

The people of Six Nations need a shared, factual history since each of the three have their own version. But would any of them have the guts to push it all into the pot for the sake of finding unity? We doubt it, since everyone talks about the need for it, but what that really means is, come over to our side and we will have unity.

As much as we can understand all three parties’ points of view, that doesn’t mean we can just let everyone have their way. No, a complete renaissance of the mind would have to be accomplished to allow the breaking down of the many walls that divide us.

We have been accused by some of having Band Council leanings, or Mohawk leanings or Confederacy leanings. The truth is, we can see virtue in all three and we lean the way of the one that happens to make the most sense at that time.

One week it might be the Confederacy, the next it might be Band Council and then the Mohawks’ point of view becomes more sensible than the other two the next week.

Maybe that’s a pattern that would allow for the best of all worlds if we began consider-ing what is being said before we consider who is saying it.

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By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

The Mohawks of Kanata maintain that the Haldimand Deed (or Haldimand Procla-mation) was intended to put six miles on either side of the Grand River from source to mouth, into the hands of the Joseph Brant Mohawks who gave up their traditional homeland in the United States following the American Rev-olution, and through them, to such others who chose to give up their holdings in the new United States of America and retire to Canada.

Following the war, the Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, and Cayuga Nations accepted a treaty that would put them under the authority of the new American government. Mohawks under Brant’s leadership did not sign that treaty, but instead, opted to accept the British promise of the Haldimand Tract as rec-ompense for their lost lands, as well as in recognition of their loyalty to their wartime allies, Great Britain.

The Grand River Mohawk Workers have held to that be-lief for generations and have in their possession what they say is the original Haldimand Deed, as carried by Joseph Brant until his death in 1807.

They also point to the lesser known “Haldimand Pledge” or “Haldimand Promise” which was the 1779 precursor to the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784.

According to Squire, it clearly spells out the intent of King George lll, and spe-cifically declares those of the Mohawk Nation which aligned itself with Britain as the intended recipients of the nearly 1 million acres of land along the Grand River.

“On the 7th day of April 1779, a registered document was delivered to the Mo-hawks called the Haldimand Pledge promising Mohawks (land) for our steady attach-ment to the King’s service and for loss of our tradi-tional lands during the war. Haldimand wrote ‘the same should be restored at the ex-pense of the government to the state they were in before these war’s broke out,’” says Squire. “Then in 1784 the Haldimand patent was mani-fested which bears the Crown Seal of England.”

It appears the Mohawk Workers are continuing their fight for recognition as the

rightful holders of the Hal-dimand Deed from a slight-ly different angle these days. They have launched a new in-formation filled website, and have engaged a couple of ex-perienced researchers to help with their cause.

Bill Squire, spokesman for the M o h a w k W o r k e r s at Kanata, has served papers on a number of entities including the City of Brantford, the County of Brant, the Haude-n o s a u n e e Confeder-acy Chiefs Council, the HDI, and the Elected Band Coun-cil in the form of an invoice for more than $250 billion. That number comes from an estimate of what is potentially owing Six Na-tions, as published in the Brantford Expositor in the early 1990’s under the may-orship of Bob Taylor.

“As far as the Corporation of the City of Brantford and Brant Country, those mayors, the HDI, the Confederacy, Band Council, the provin-cial and federal governments, they are all within their little

comfort zone, and to be hon-est they are within the frame-work of “the law” in getting rid of land and buying land off of Six Nations - and they are right in a way because the federal government has neglected their obligations as being successors of Great

Britain interests here in Cana-da,” says Squire. “The federal government issued land pat-ents of the Haldimand Tract and I think they should have been more clear on it.

Then it got into second third and fourth party hands and it makes it very difficult.”

On reserve, the Mohawk Workers are also finding re-sistance, even from fellow Mohawks, but that is noth-ing new to them.

“There still seems to be

the big denial about the Mo-hawks,” says Squire. “We are kind of the mythical Mo-hawks in their eyes. They think, ‘yes maybe they used to be the head of the Confed-eracy, but not anymore’. That is always there. We’re kinda like Mythical Mohawks. But

whether there are 100 or 10 of us or just me, that real-ly doesn’t matter. The truth stays the same. The only thing I can do is to make sure

we are still here.”When asked why the Mo-

hawk Workers do not partici-pate in the monthly meetings at the Onondaga Longhouse to work with the Confedera-cy, he bristles at the thought.

“Why should I go to the Confederacy when they are a

part of prob-lem we are facing,” he says. “Dur-ing the ne-got ia t ions there were four par-ties in there. Band Coun-cil, the Con-f e d e r a c y, Ontario and Canada. But the remark-able thing about that is that none of them have treaties with each other. What are they negoti-

ating if they don’t have any treaties with each other? It can’t be done without the Mohawks.”

And about those present-

ly sitting on the Mohawk bench, he calls into ques-tion their legitimacy.

“Allen has no clan, and has no one standing behind him,” accuses Squire. “Joe Skye’s title is under dispute and Howard Thompson is certainly under dispute be-cause that is a duplicate ti-tle he carries. That is what makes it so bad, is that we don’t have our titles func-tioning here. But neverthe-less as a people we still have a voice.”

His philosophy is not to try and convince anyone of who he is as a Mohawk Worker, but rather just be what that means.

“It does get discourag-ing,” he admits. “But the most discouraging thing is to see the infighting amongst ourselves.”

Underlying title, that is the crux of the entire thing, ac-cording to Squire who firm-ly believes it is the Mohawk Nations, and specifically, the Grand River Mohawks who hold that title, not what is to-day known as Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confeder-acy and most certainly, not the Elected Band Council.

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By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

A decades-long love of art, antiques and fine crafts-manship saw Jan Longboat gradually build up a collec-tion of belongings. “I’ve been collecting antiques and art for about 40 years,” she said. Now she is selling some of her collection after opening a store at the Iro-quois Plaza in Six Nations.

Jan said she is fulfilling an old dream to one day open up a shop. She said she participated in the planning of the Iroquois Plaza back in the 80s, fully intending to lease the little shop she helped design to sell herbs.

But when the construction got underway, “I was build-ing my house. I couldn’t do both,” she said.

“This is one of my dreams, I’m now fulfill-ing my dreams in my old age,” said Jan. She has now set up her shop in the little boutique area she helped to design twenty-five years ago. “Ever since I began to collect antiques I thought I’d like to have an antique store ... I think it’s going to be fun.”

Calling her shop The Old Turtle, Jan said she will be open for business Thurs-days, Fridays and Satur-days (and sometimes on holidays) between 10 am

and 4 pm. She has a wide variety of goods which she has made available for sale, including antique furni-ture, baskets, paintings and prints, cobalt blue bottles and crocks. Jan said “each piece has a story.”

“I’ve accumulated so much stuff,” said Jan. “It needs to go to a good home where people can enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed it.”

Once Jan has dealt with her burgeoning collection, the store will close. “I’ve al-ways wanted to paint,” said Jan. “I want to get back into that. That’s next after this.”

Jan said she also plans on writing “a series of books.”

New store in Iroquois Plaza offers art and antiques

Jan Longboat has just opened a new store, The Old Turtle, which is already generating a lot of interest. She is selling some of her large collection of art and antiques over the next six months in order to fulfill an old dream of running a little shop, as well as clearing her decks for more creative endeavours. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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Students eager to earn their Silver Award in the Duke of Edinburgh program were dropped off at Chiefswood Park for a three day canoe trip. The students, who are earning their awards through the Nya:weh Cathedral High School Program, will paddle from Paris to Long Point. Next year, the students will participate in an activity to earn their Gold Awards. Aboriginal Youth Advisor Melissa Button (wearing the ball cap) said “we want to do dog-sledding” for the Gold Award. Canoe trip participants were, in no particular order, Nicole Jones; John Barber-Stock; Misty Kelly; Destiny Bill; Tara Mia Santarelli; Courtney Cowe; Jeremy Barber-Stock; Luke Clitheroe and Dylan Campbell. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

Like the Chippewas of the Thames, HDI claims the hydro line currently infring-es on Aboriginal and Treaty rights, and has the potential to cause new and further ad-verse impacts on those rights; and interferes with existing Aboriginal harvesting rights. The Chippewas also say they

should receive a share of the revenue generated by the hydro line.

Detlor said revenue shar-ing is “one of the options” being explored during the process. “We've also got the option of participating in the construction as well, or of moving to own part of the line.”

The upgrades to the line were announced by Hydro One several years ago in it's long-term energy plan. Hydro One only just ap-plied to do the work earlier this year. Detlor said the up-grades are being undertaken to accommodate green en-ergy inputs, including Sam-sung.

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Six Nations recording art-ists, The Joel Johnson Band, and Kitchener solo artist Brendan J. Stephens have advanced to represent The Grand River Blues Society’s ‘Road To Memphis’ Compe-tition at Bobby O’Brien’s in Kitchener, Ontario, Sunday afternoon.

Joel Johnson, the 2011 Nominee for the Best Blues Recording at the Native American Music Awards, and, in a separate Solo cat-egory, 18 year old Stephens impressed the panel of inde-pendent judges. Both blues acts competed against five other superb acts all from the Grand River region.

Also appearing from Six Nations blues community was Rufus Crabhawk, front-ed by Randell Hill, who im-pressed a lot of people in their first appearance in Kitchener and have been invited to ap-pear in the next Kitchener Blues Festival next summer.

They will now represent the Grand River Blues Soci-ety at the 29th International

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Local driver charged with speeding violation

A Six Nations Police of-ficer observed a vehicle “to be clearly in excess of the posted speed limit” on Tuesday September 25, said Constable Derrick Ander-son in a brief. The driver was not named by police, but Anderson said after the vehicle was stopped, one adult female was charged with speeding. The woman was driving a silver Honda Civic at the time, eastbound on Fourth Line Road, enter-ing the village of Ohsweken, where the posted speed lim-it is 50km/h. The police ve-hicle was westbound on the same road. “Police would like to remind the public that drivers travelling at 50 km or more over the posted speed can result in a charge of “stunt driving” and their vehicle would be seized for an impoundment period of 10 days,” said Anderson.

Charges pending following motor vehicle collision

A two vehicle vehicular collision resulted in a power outage for businesses and res-idents in the Sixth Line area west of Oneida Road on Sat-urday. Attending police offi-cers found a black 2010 Ford Ranger pickup truck against a snapped hydro pole. The driver, a resident of Ohswek-en, was able get out of the ve-hicle. However, a passenger in the second vehicle, a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am, was tak-en to hospital with non life-threatening injuries. The four passengers in the Grand Am, which included a child, were from Hamilton. Constable Derrick Anderson said both vehicles had been travelling west, and at the time of the accident, the lead vehicle was making a left turn into a business while the follow-ing vehicle attempted to pass the vehicle. According to An-derson, charges were not laid Saturday, but are pending.

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By Jim WindleCALEDONIA

With coach Mike Bull-ard serving the first of a two game suspension and a lineup weakened by suspensions to Nathan Ferris, Simon Blythe, and Fabrizio Ricci from Fri-day night’s fight filled official home opener in Caledonia, the Jr. B Caledonia Corvairs limped into Waterloo to face the 4-2 Siskins Sunday after-noon and were handed a 6-4 loss, their second loss of the young season.

Waterloo struck with goals by Jacob Ariss and James Soper before Nate Mitton an-swered at 14:46 from captain Mitch Brown.

Caledonia came on in the second period to wipe out the Siskins’ lead with a pow-erplay marker from Dalton Ridley, assisted by Brown and Ryan Blunt. Then at 7:01 the Corvairs took the 3-2 lead when Jeff Swift capped off a play started by Connor Mur-phy and Nick McMullen.

Waterloo’s Adam Cam-pagnolo delivered on a pow-erplay opportunity to tie the game again, at 3-3, but Tyler Norrie closed the period with the go-ahead tally at 14:41 from Brier Jonathan to make it 4-3 for Caledonia heading into the final 20 minutes.

The third period was owned by the Siskins who

scored two goals on 11 shots on Justis Husak in the Cor-vairs’ net, and an empty nett-er to make the final score 6-4.

Caledonia Corvairs 8Brampton Bombers 2The Corvairs took advan-

tage of the struggling Bramp-ton Bombers Friday night in Caledonia with an 8-2 win in what began as a hockey game but ended up as an all out war on skates.

By the time the fur stopped flying a total of 203 minutes in penalties were assessed to both teams, 119 to Brampton and 84 to Caledonia on a to-tal of 59 infractions, most of them fight related.

The last time these teams met was in Brampton last week when the Corvairs shot down the Bombers 11-2.

It was the official home opener, however they did lose to Cambridge 3-2 in their first home game of the season last week.

Once all the opening cer-emonies were over, the young and retooled Corvairs settled down to work, methodically building up a 3-0 lead after the first 20 minutes of play.

Matthew Henderson got things going at 8:54 when he cruised in close to the Bramp-ton crease and flipped a back-hander over starter Bryan Raymond’s glove to make it 1-0 with assists going to

Brandon Montour and Con-ner Murphy.

Ryan Moran and Murphy made good on powerplay op-portunities, drawing assists from Murphy, Jeff Swift and Montour.

Brendan Bomberry scored at 3:56 of the second from Scott Dorian and Tyler Norrie and at 5:10, Murphy scored his second powerplay goal of the game, from Swift and Henderson.

Brampton’s first goal was also a powerplay marker,

scored at 6:44, with Bomb-erry in the box for hooking.

Ill feelings were simmer-ing throughout the first two periods but escalated into a full boil in the third.

With the score 5-1 for Caledonia, the third period quickly degenerated into a UFC show with several players squaring off and oth-er nasty issues referees Dar-ryl Wolfe and Steve Stasluk, and linesmen Trevor Atkin-son and Cory Hooper had to deal with beginning at the 22

second mark.Not a minute later another

battle broke out at 1:12 in-volving several players, and then again at 6:36, 15:53 and 19:55 when the two coaches got into the fray with some verbal hand grenade tossing.

An array of bad behav-iour penalties were added to several fighting calls and misconducts, including: gross misconducts to Bomb-ers coach Steve Hodson and Corvairs’ coach Mike Bul-lard, as well as to Corvairs

player Simon Blythe, for “trash talking.” Other assort-ed calls included: failure to go to the bench; aggressor; instigator; inciting an oppo-nent; unsportsmanlike con-duct; head contact; checking from behind; roughing after the whistle, and butt ending.

After the league reviewed the situation, a raft of suspen-sions were assessed includ-ing 2 games each for coaches Mike Bullard (Caledonia)

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But back to the game. Corvairs goalie Zach Eas-vet recorded the win while Murphy registered a six point game on three goals and three assists.

The next outing for the Corvairs is a back-to-back series with the Stratford Cullitons this coming Fri-day night, in Stratford, and Saturday night at 8 pm, at the Caledonia Arena.

The Corvairs are playing .500 hockey so far this sea-son with 2 wins and 2 losses placing them fifth in the 9 team division with 4 points.

Tyler Norrie, creates havoc in front of the Brampton net. (Photo by Jim Windle)

On ice officials earned their money Friday night at the Caledonia Arena as a Jr. B hockey game between the former Brantford Eagles, now the Caledonia Corvairs and the Brampton Bombers went completely off the rails in the third period. A series of fights and bad behaviour by both teams resulted in league suspensions to Corvairs coach Mike Bullard and Brampton coach Steve Hodson and several players on each team. A total of 193 minutes in penalties and a total of 13 game suspensions were handed out. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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He's 40 years old, nick-named 'Bear,' and he is an elite athlete. A member of the Cowichan Tribes in Brit-ish Columbia, Richard Peter has been a wheelchair basket-ball player since he was 15, and Peter was the only Native person who played in the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

In a wheelchair following a vehicle accident when he was four years old, Peter has a mot-to, “You're not always here for a long time so make it a good time.” He has striven for ex-cellence and has been reaping honours and accolades since 2000, when he won the Tom Longboat National Award for Aboriginal Male Athlete of the Year. He's been a staple mem-ber of the Team Canada Men's Wheelchair Basketball team since 1994.

On September 8, Peter, who played on the Canadian Men's Wheelchair Basketball team, swept the gold medal game against Australia, capping off

an eight-game competition that saw Team Canada trounc-ing every team along the way.

Peter was selected as one of the recipients of the 2012 National Aboriginal Achieve-ment Award (now called Ind-spire).

At the end of an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) media teleconference held on Friday,

National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo said he wanted “to recognize Richard Peter,” and congratulated Peter on this year's gold medal, the fourth won by Team Canada in the Paralympic Games since 2000.

“Our people are capable of incredible things, of com-ing out from underneath this [colonial] legacy and doing

what Richard did, I think it's four Olympic medals he fin-ishes with, he turned 40,” said Atleo. “I know the man, he's an incredible inspiration to me and to so many, so many young people. I wanted ... to pay tribute to Richard Pe-ter and his accomplishments and to offer congratulations to him.”

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Students from New Credit's Lloyd S. King school joined Six Nations elementary students for the Junior Three Pitch baseball tournament. “Last year Jamieson went undefeated in the tournament,” said Oliver M. Smith's coach for this year's games, Mrs. Gowland. OMSK students won the honours this year . “They're all great ball players,” she said of the team, which was made up of students from grades four to six. The tournament happens so early in the school year, there is no time to prepare for it with after-school practices, said Gowland. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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The news of impending federal cuts to First Nations has been travelling like wild-fire ever since the federal par-liament resumed business on September 10 following a lengthy summer break. In ad-dition to the cuts announced this month, according to a few rare news reports issued in August,Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.(CMHC) is cutting funding for on re-serve social housing repairs and new construction by 30 percent, effective next year.

Elected Chief William Montour and Elected Coun-cillor David Hill (District One) recently spent two days in Ottawa lobbying Ab-original Affairs and CMHC for more money for housing. Elected Chief Montour told the September 18 meeting of Elected Council it is possible there will be more federal cuts to First Nation funding coming.

Citing an article he had read in the Globe and Mail, Elected Chief Montour spoke about a new Conservative omnibus bill. “The Aborig-inal portion is going to talk about the Aboriginal Urban Strategy, which I don't know anything about; but [they are ] also talking about First Na-tions cuts and First Nations social programs. They call it re-evaluating First Nations social programming. To me, that sounded like another cut.”

Lobbying for money is frustrating, said Montour. “Dealing with these people who have got this idea that they know what's best for us and we better like it. For me, it was hard to stay polite. It gets under your skin after a while, you just want to blow up.”

“I am completely tired of talking to unelected bu-reaucrats who are telling us we can't do this, we can't do that because there's no money. They don't even in-

tend to help us, ” said the Elected Chief.

“ W h e n the govern-ment people are telling us there's no more mon-ey, I don't know where we go for more mon-ey,” Elected Chief Wil-liam Montour said.

Elected Councillor Dave Hill, who travelled to Otta-wa with Elected Chief Wil-liam Montour said he also found the lobbying trip diffi-cult. “I had a hard time with these guys ... They start off, they want to work together with us, but then they won't give out any money and they change all these policies and all the funding is gone.”

“It's hard to deal with them, I don't know how we're go-ing to get by them,” said Hill,

telling his col-leagues, “they won't give us no more [fund-ing].”

The purpose of the lobbying trip, Councillor Hill said, was to secure a fund-ing increase for RRAP [Resi-dential Re-h a b i l i t a t i o n Assistance Pro-gram]. “It's been

over 10 years since it was in-creased,” said Hill.

The construction of new housing for First Nations is lagging far behind the de-mand said Elected Chief William Montour. He said CMHC is helping finance the construction of six new housing projects in Northern Ontario communities, which will see 35 new houses built. “The representatives from NAN [Nishnawbe Aski Na-tion] says they need 4,000 houses. So how in the devil

are we ever going to catch up here and provide people with decent housing? It's just getting worse and worse and worse.”

Elected Chief Montour suggested Six Nations ar-range a meeting with Minis-ter of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Can-ada, John Duncan. “He wants to talk about a new relation-ship but he's taking a quarter of a million dollars out of our

public works budget. We get no more advisory services, so I think we've got to take this to a political level and raise hell.”

Six Nations was recently advised in a letter from John Duncan it will lose funding for advisory services, which Elected Chief Montour said was worth about $250,000.

Six Nations does not rely completely on federal funds,


By Stephanie DearingOTTAWA

Shawn A-in-chut Atleo showed a more aggressive side during a media telecon-ference hosted by the Assem-bly of First Nations (AFN) recently, promising to take action against Canada over funding cuts if needed.

Apparently still stinging from accusations leveled during the recent election for National Chief that he was working with the gov-erning Conservative govern-ment, Atleo said “My job is to push for access to the govern-ment,” which he said should “not be misinterpreted as po-litical coziness. My job is to open doors and kick them down, and I'll continue to do that in the manner in which I've been instructed.

Atleo held the teleconfer-ence to give an update of his activities since his July reelection. He said his new mandate will see the Assem-bly of First Nations working to raise political awareness of First Nation issues, “and standing up for the challenges that we face in our communi-ties, be it the deep poverty; the challenges in education; in justice and child welfare; of safety and security, the is-sue of murdered and missing Aboriginal women and girls.”

Education and working

to have the government up-hold treaties remain priori-ties for Atleo and the AFN. Speaking of the funding cuts announced recently by Min-ister John Duncan, Atleo said “we refer back to the com-mitments that were made by the federal government to arrive at new fiscal rela-tions in a joint fashion with First Nations. We continue to call on government to ad-dress this as well as the idea of an equitable share of the revenues from our territories while eliminating barriers to government, addressing our economies and addressing the needs to achieve progress in supporting the education in-terests in our communities.”

“It's about First Nations driving the change, said Atleo. “We will stand togeth-er particularly for our young people and the generations to come.” Recognizing Aborigi-nal rights would create a win-win situation, said the leader.

When asked how First Na-tions can drive the change when they are scrambling to cope with funding cuts, Atleo said “a unilateral decision on the part of government ... is part of the challenge” that First Nations face, which Atleo said stems from the In-dian Act. “The entire system is one that challenges the abil-ity for First Nations to drive their own change.”

Atleo said some nations, such as “Six Nations of the Grand River and the Iroquois Caucus ... [are] talking about the important work of nation building and talking about and implementing their own laws within their respective nations.” Atleo noted some of the government's “legis-lative efforts ... are overstep-ping their bounds, and they are not honouring our rights and title or treaty rights.”

“First Nations, our people are amongst the most mar-ginalized, certainly among the most vulnerable groups in Canada, and we contin-ue to undertake our role and responsibility to advocate strongly that these,or other [funding] reductions, that they not cause harm to our citizens or negatively impact direct level community ser-vices.”

Addressing Canada's defi-cit “should not happen on the backs of the most marginal-ized and the most vulnerable in the country,” said Atleo.

The AFN Executive contin-ues to push Canada “for our fair share,” said Atleo. “This links back to the push to the federal government and the commitment that they made last January that we arrive at a new jointly agreed to, sus-tainable, predictable and fair fiscal transfer arrangement that would respond to the fact that First Nations have been under a two percent arbitrary cap since 1996. We've been able to demonstrate the deep gap in funding in areas like education unequivocally, in water and housing across the full spectrum of the challeng-es that First Nations face.”

Atleo said there is “a group of allies emerging in Canada

that recognize that nations like Six Nations and all the nations, we have rights and there should be a share of the wealth of the resources of our respective territories, as well as a new fiscal transfer arrangement with the federal government addressing the fact that Canada's negotia-tion policy is based on an at-tempt to deny and extinguish, that there's hundreds of law-yers in the Department of Justice lined up to fight First Nations.”

“The proposed omnibus bill causes the Executive con-cern,” and Atleo, referring to media reports the Conserva-tive government will soon introduce a new omnibus budget bill. The AFN, which has lost about 50 percent of its core funding over the years, is trying to find out “to confirm that there isn't some-thing hidden in the incoming omnibus bill.”

Funding cuts “does make for challenging times, and in my view it's the wrong direc-tion in view of the apology,” said Atleo.

Despite the legacy created by the Indian Act and residen-tial schools, combined with the legal systems, economy and belief systems imported by European settlers, “what I'm always amazed by is ... the incredible resilience and the leadership that I witness

at every level, citizens, young people, First Nations leaders, Chiefs and Councils under the most incredibly arduous conditions, finding ways for-ward in their respective ter-ritories,” said Atleo.

Atleo said he believes the way forward is for First Na-tions to work together and to “reach out to Canadians,” in-cluding what Atleo calls 'cor-porate Canada'. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives is one such corporate entity, which earlier this year said First Nations should be full partners in natural resource and energy developments.

If Canada will not redress the funding inequalities, “we will take the Canadian gov-ernment on at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which we have on child wel-fare,” said Atleo. “We will do so in education. We'll go to the Committee for the Elimi-nation of Racial Discrimina-tion at the United Nations; we'll go to the Organization of American States. We'll tell this story to Canadians and the world.”

Next week Chiefs, educa-tors and students will con-vene in Quebec for a special AFN assembly on education. The purpose of the assembly is to develop “a national strat-egy for moving forward on First Nations control of First Nations education.”

National Chief of AFN promises action on funding cuts

AFN National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo

Pressure is on Six Nations to become financially independent

Elected Chief Bill Montour


By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS/BRANTFORD

“My father's family fought against my mother's family in the War of 1812 and in the Revolutionary War as well,” said Six Nations His-torian Rick Hill. “Apparent-ly they made up long enough to make five kids,” he said, generating laughter. But the point was made – deciding to fight in wars between oppos-ing European forces meant the Haudenosaunee people wound up fighting family members.

Hill said, “It turns out some of my relatives were living here, my mother's relatives were in the War of 1812, kind of sided with their fam-ily over there [in the U.S.A.], and there was a whole lot of intrigue going on, which side were you going to support. So imagine that choice before you. Are you going to defend this phantom King ... or were you going to defend your neighbours who you grew up with and possibly even mar-ried into. It must have been a heck of a choice.”

Hill spoke at the Brant Mu-seum last Wednesday, his his-toric lecture ushering in the 10th Doors Open Brant. Ap-proximately 40 people gath-ered at the Brant Museum for the lecture. This year the theme for the region's Doors Open was the commemora-tion of the War of 1812.

Calling the war a whirl-wind, Hill said the war turned everything upside down. The whirlwind “is a very impor-tant metaphor because our people became so confused.” For the Haudenosaunee and their legacy of peace, “it must have been a very traumatic choice to be made.”

That wasn't the only choice the Haudenosaunee were caught between. Along with the war came technological

changes, where traditional war clubs met new toma-hawks. “Our people were caught in the middle of these two worlds ... between Can-ada and the United States,” said Hill.

Curator of the Chiefswood National Historic Site, Kar-en Dearlove, said she could understand why the Brit-ish would want the Haude-nosaunee involved the war, pointing out on a map the strategic position that was filled by Six Nations of the Grand. The museum has put together a War of 1812 ex-hibit which opened last Fri-day, and will be available for viewing until October 7.

“By 1812 there was ap-proximately 2,000 Six Na-tions people living in the Six Nations territory,” said Dear-love. “Whereas for example, what became Brantford had about 100 people.” It's been estimated that about 500 of those Six Nations members were warriors.

Hill said the Haudeno-saunee initially turned down the British when asked to fight in the war. One Haude-nosaunee Chief in the Unit-ed States sent word to Grand River Chiefs asking for neu-trality, “but the young wanted to fight.”

One of those young men was John Smoke Johnson, more famously known as the grandfather of Pauline John-son, Six Nations poet and author. The Chiefswood Na-tional Historic Site is featur-ing a War of 1812 exhibit.

The Chiefswood exhibit offers museum goers a more personal entrance into the ex-periences of Six Nations peo-ple in the War of 1812, said Dearlove.

Johnson was in his early twenties when he participated in the war, but he lived into his 90s. Dearlove said mem-oirs written by Emily John-son, Pauline's sister, revealed

their grandfather “used to tell stories about the war ... he used to tell his grandchildren stories of what it was like in the war.” Johnson “fought in many of the major battles. He was in Queenston, Lundy's Land and at Fort George.”

Dearlove said Johnson, a Mohawk who later became a Pinetree Chief, “claimed that he was the one who canoed across the Niagara River in December 1813 and set fire to Buffalo. He claims to be personally responsible for setting the fire in December 1813 ... Of course, we can't validate it, but there's noth-ing to invalidate it either. I don't know why he would lie about that.”

The Johnson family has another tie with the War of 1812. When the war ended, William Claus presented Six Nations with a wampum belt “in April 1815 at Burlington Heights,” said Dearlove.

Dearlove explained the belt is said to represent a promise by the British to the Six Nations people. While the exhibit features several photographs taken in the late 1800s showing Chief John Smoke Johnson with the Claus Belt, Dearlove said the wampum belts were cared for by the Wampum Belt Keeper, John Buck Sr.

The exhibit also features a photograph of Pauline John-son posing with the Claus Wampum Belt. “The more interesting story is what hap-pened to it after it was taken,” said Dearlove. John Buck

Sr. died “and shortly after his death his children, unbe-knownst to the rest of the Six Nations community, began to sell some of the Wampum Belts, which of course they didn't have a right to do.”

Pauline Johnson purchased several of those belts, which she used to wear as part of her stage costumes. “What we know of that time is that in 1905, Pauline was raising funds to go back to England,” said Dearlove. Pauline sold the Claus belt to American collector George Heye, who founded the Museum of the American Indian, which later became part of the Smithso-nian. Pauline realized $500 from the sale.

The belt disappeared for 100 years after Heye's collec-tion was moved to a muse-um in Philadelphia. Dearlove said the Claus Belt turned up in 1996 at the Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology, and was returned to the Na-tional Museum of the Amer-ican Indian. The belt was repatriated to Six Nations earlier this year.

The war changed the area drastically, said Dearlove. To deter future American incur-sions, the British encouraged white settlement in south-western Ontario “to act as a bulwark against the Ameri-cans.”

Photographs supplied by the Chiefswood National Histor-ic Site.

Doors Open Brant commemorates War of 1812

Pressure on Six Nations

and has actively engaged in generating its own sources of revenue for the community for years. With members op-posed to generating revenue through initiatives similar to taxation, and with increasing internal pressure for Elected Council to take over the man-agement of services like on-reserve education, it might appear the community is

caught between a rock and a hard place.

While it is difficult to get anyone from Six Nations ad-ministration to discuss eco-nomic development plans, it is known that Six Nations Elected Council is currently exploring the establishment of a Free Trade Agreement for members of the Iroquois Caucus as well as the poten-tial for business relationships with the Chinese.


Pauline Johnson with Claus wampum

Queenston Heights 100th anniversary souvenir


Nations police had indicat-ed that they would not get involved with the political controversy until they were convinced of the ownership of the land in question to determine if in fact any laws have been broken.

Although no new evi-dence to support Band Council’s claim has come forward, Thursday morn-ing, the Six Nations Police in fact did get involved by arresting Douglas for Mis-chief, and kept other resi-dents off the land while the fence was build around both the tower location and the old school land itself.

Time has become a fac-tor in the issue as Council and Silo have until Sept

30, to see to it the tower is built and fully operational. If not, government subsi-dy funding would be with-drawn, putting the project in jeopardy. In the mean-time, 24 hour security and spotlights have been con-tracted by Band Council to ensure no one goes on the site.

Six Nations Police In-spector Darren Montour, arrived with other officers and told Douglas he would have to move his vehicle of be arrested.

He refused and was placed under arrest and tak-en to the Six Nations Police Station where he spent a few hours behind bars until he was released at 2:30 pm

under condition that he not go onto the property and be of good behaviour. He is to return at 10 am, Oct. 24th, for fingerprinting and ap-pear Nov. 16, in Brantford at the Darling and Queen Street Court House.

Douglas wonders where the school property is, considering that, when re-searched by himself in Ottawa, Indian Affairs in-formed him that according to their records, there has

never been a transfer of that school land from the origi-nal Martin farm.

“According to my maps, it belongs to me,” Douglas says.

The only option left to him, now that the tower will soon be up, is to fight the is-sue in Canadian court.

After Douglas was re-moved, others took up his cause and began sometimes heated conversations with some of the councillors who

came to the site en force, to underscore their objective of stopping anyone from slowing down or stopping the building of the tower.

The Six Nations workers putting up the fencing were also approached and en-couraged to stop what they were doing, but the fence went up anyway.

From Douglas’ vantage point, the fencers, Silo workers and Band Coun-cillors were trespassing on

his land and not the other way around.

Douglas maintains that the papers delivered him last week by Band Coun-cil, dated Feb. 23, 1912 and July 13, 1913, do not resolve the title discrepan-cy since there are no signa-tures on it to make it legal. There are also no receipts for payment for the land on record and no record of severance from the original Martin farm.

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For the sixth year in a row, several Six Nations organi-zations participated in Doors Open Brant. This year the theme was the commemora-tion of the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

“It's good to think out of the box to get things to work out,” said organizer Cam Sta-ats as he reflected on the bit of quick juggling that had to be done as a result of the rain that early Saturday morning.

Staats was providing visi-tors with information about the Six Nations Haldimand Proclamation Memorial as well as other open doors in Six Nations. He had original-ly planned to be stationed at Veteran's Park but moved to the Community Hall instead.

While the Chiefswood Na-tional Historic Site featured a special exhibit on the War of 1812, the Mohawk Cha-pel opened its historic doors to allow visitors a chance to see the spectacular stained-glass windows that depict the

Six Nations history. Joseph Brant's grave is outside of the Chapel.

The Six Nations Geneal-ogy Society provided infor-mation about Six Nations families from Ancestral Voices. The organization, which found a new lease on life in 2003-2004, has some amazing resources, including a number of family trees, a book of Haudenosaunee Family Names; Mohawk Names of Tuscarora Town-ship; Six Nations Veterans of World War II, obituaries and information on clans.

The family trees are based on matrilineal lines, said Renee Thomas-Hill, who is heavily involved in the or-ganization. The extensive re-search that has been done has had “a healing aspect,” said Renee. “We're still healing physically, mentally, emo-tionally and spiritually.”

The Society meets the first Sunday of each month at Ancestral Voices, and the organization has a library of information available to people seeking to trace their family roots. “We ask people to leave copies of their fam-ily trees,” said Renee.

Once the new library and archives facility is built, in-formation kept by the So-ciety will be stored in the

archives.Staats said he appreciated

the volunteers who helped with Doors Open. “We're trying to build bridges be-tween Six Nations and the surrounding communities,” he said. “We like to edu-cate them about our history. Their history and ours come

together at some point ... we like to make them feel wel-come because we're all in this together.”

Other venues offering free entrance for Doors Open Brant included the Lions Park in Oakland, where the Norfolk Militia re-enact-ed the Battle of Malcolm's

Mills; Brant Museum and Archives; Burford Pioneer Cemetery and Walking Tour; the Canadian Military Heri-tage Museum; D'Aubigny Creek Park where re-enac-tors set up camp for the day; the Mount Pleasant Cem-etery and Veteran's Park in Six Nations.

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Cam Staats is one of the key Six Nations members involved in Doors Open Brant. Several Six Nations venues participated in this year’s event. Behind Cam, a volunteer provides visi-tors with information about the event. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

The Draper/Macdonnell family has been involved in re-en-acting aspects of 1812 for years. Brandon Showers, Patrick Macdonnell and Everett Lefebvre (wearing the red coats of the British) practised drills while Sue Draper, who is a ‘camp follower,’ sewed a tunic while surrounded with the sort of goods that might have been brought along by a camp fol-lower during the war. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

Renee Thomas-Hill holds a plaque depicting the family tree of Joseph Brant. Renee said the Six Nations Genealogy Society “went different ways” in the past, but she kept hearing from people who wanted information on their families, so she and other Six Nations members restarted the Society about nine years ago. The group has compiled an impressive amount of information about Six Nations members, and is still gathering more. They meet the first Sunday of each month at Ancestral Voices. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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The Miles To Go Cancer Support Group would like to send out a Thank You to all the people that donated food, money, prizes and/or time and to all the people that collected pledges to make our “Night of Caring & Sharing” a huge success.Thank You to the follow-ing people that donated money, prizes and/or food: Alisha Anderson, Cayuga Convenience, Karen Bomb-erry (Housing),Dwight Gar-low (Traditional Treats), Health Promotions, Birth-ing Centre, Healthy Babies Healthy Children, Scott Ma-racle (Rebels), Lynda Pow-less (Turtle Island News), Nick Wyman, Village Pizza, Gunner & Dianne Hill, The Bomberry Family (Special Donation in Memory of La-vonne Bomberry). A Special Thank You goes out to Gun-ner Hill and Jason Miller for all the help in getting tents set up and taken down for us, Lynda Powless who do-nated her 50/50 winnings back to the Group, Kim Hill & Carla Smith for cooking the great breakfast, Com-munity Planning/Tourism for use of the projector, Andrea & Kim Hill for use of the laptop, supply of movies & popcorn and Stan Jonathan for coming to the rescue and supply-ing us with the dining tent and tables at the last min-ute. Many Thanks to all the Group Members and all the Volunteers that work hard to make the “Walk” come together year after year. Many Thanks to any-one we may have missed - just know that we appre-ciate all that the Communi-ty has done and we would not exist without your support. 50/50 Winner - Lynda Powless ($182.50). Highest Pledges ($325.00 each) - Stacy Hill & Bai-ley Hill (Medieval Times & Darien Lake Tickets). Total Amount Raised for the 6th Annual “Night of Caring & Sharing” - $3,402.95

The Six Nations Health Foundation Inc. would like to thank Melba Thomas for the donation of a pink clock and two ducks for a free draw. Lois Porter donated Rice Krispie squares and to everyone who bought 50/50 tickets. The winners of the pink clock was June Hill and the winner of the ducks was Michelle Shep-pard. The winner of the 50/50 draw was Terra Hill.

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Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association, Truth and Reconciliation Com-mission, Residential Sur-vivors and Community Members would like to thank the following for their valuable contribu-tions to the Strengthen-ing Survivors Connections, Community Event held on August 24 & 25, 2012 At the Six Nations Communi-ty Hall. Generous Financial Support – Little Mickey’s Snack Shack, Amanda and Orrin Kennedy, Audrey and Rod Hill. We apologize for this omission that oc-curred.

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Although the Mohawks of Kanata are coming at the sale and development of land with-in the Haldimand Tract from a very different perspective, they find an alliance with principals of the farmland and environmental protection groups a very good fit, with a common goal. That is, to stop or slow down the destruction of food producing farmland at a time when scientists and futurists are warning that a food and potable shortage is a very real threat to the next generation.

“These are our core values too,” says Squire. “The Tute-la Heights people came to us. We seem to be making a little headway by reaching out to others and the new website certainly has been a big help to us already.”

Members of the Mohawk Workers have filed and hand delivered a notice and cease and desist order to execu-tives representing the Wal-ton Group.

Although Walton can point to their Calgary home office as “proof” they are not an off-shore entity, one does not have to look very deep at all to find their connection to off-shore Asian interests.

According to Jason Bow-man, a well known and somewhat controversial non-Native human rights activist who has joined the Kanata Mohawks’ fight for recogni-tion, his research has found that in the Tutela Heights area in particular, after the large parcels of prime farmland were bought up by Walton, that title to lots on that land were quickly registered un-der Asian and Arabic sound-ing names. He is currently researching the whereabouts of these people and whether they are even living in Can-ada at all.

At a public meeting held a few weeks ago where Walton representatives were given a rough ride by Tutela Heights residents and the Mohawks, the following letter was read aloud and delivered, which reads:

This is notice to you from the Kanienkahagen people of the Mohawk Nation of the Ouse / Grand River, who are the ‘head’ and leaders of the league of Five Nations Con-federacy and trustees and protectors of the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784 which states the outright ownership to the Mohawk Nation and those others who wish to fol-low; of the lands ‘six miles deep from the mouth to the source of the Grand (Ouse) River”, or, it goes on to say: “We the Kanienkahagen peo-ple of the Mohawk Nation of the Ouse / Grand River ceded neither land entitlements, nor title rights to any portions of land under our stewardship to you. As such, your unau-thorized actions have caused we, the Kanienkahagen peo-ple of the Mohawk Nation of the Ouse / Grand River, to put you (Walton Development president, John Plastiras ) on notice ...” that, he is to appear before the Mohawk Workers for questioning about their operations along the Tract within 72 hours, which he has ignored.

Secondly, it calls for Plasti-ras to cease and desist from “any and all acts which direct-ly pertain to matters in respect to any land situated within the Haldimand Tract,” under treat of international legal action.

This was followed up a few days later with a visit to an archaeological survey site on Tutela Heights where pre-development archaeological work was shut down by a group representing the Mo-hawks.

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