Words carry power
We deserve to be here. We fought to survive. The survivors of cultural genocide, let’s call them “indigenous” people (although that term doesn’t fully describe…
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Does Six Nations exist?
Look for Six Nations on any Canadian map and you’ll notice that we are a blank spot, a big empty area according to official resources.…
Canada’s Unique Situation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) took drastic measures this Monday, November 30th when it disabled comments for indigenous related stories on its website. Earlier this…
Male entitlement runs wild
If Disney's animated interpretation of the story of Pocahontas has taught us anything it is that indigenous women are restless and unsatisfied, readily available and…
Editorial: Barbaric “Christian” Practices
Depending how seriously you take the Two Row Wampum covenant of 1688 you may or may not have voted. Honouring the Two Row means that…
The Illusion of Democracy
The Corporation of Canada is registered in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as CANADA CIK#: 0000230098 and you can see their filings online at…
300 years of bad zoning
In the 1990’s there was a video game called SimCity. The premise of this game put the player as the mayor of an undeveloped patch…
Who Made Who?
“Who made who? Ain’t nobody told you. Who made who, who made you? Who pick up the bill and who made who?” – AC/DC Who…
20,000 years of Arts
Thousands of years before Nike released the NC7 shoe specifically designed for the Native American foot, our people had already designed the moccasin. In his…
When Good Minds Fail
The League of Five Nations, also known as the Six Nations Confederacy of Grand River is an ancient and authentic government installed by the Great…
The “Little” People
If you want to start a nice fight on Six Nations you can ask people when the Peacemaker brought unity to the Haudenosaunee people. Our…
Reconciling History
As it is with Christianity many Onkwehonwe indigenous people are distrustful of science because of the historic relationship with the academy and the institutional systems…
Dolezal Politics
Rachel Dolezal, a Washington State woman of Czechoslovakian and German descent became the president of the Spokane Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement…
Reviving Article Three
After World War II the United Nations attempted to pass a ban on “Cultural Genocide” at a convention in 1948. The UN was defining genocide…
The European Problem
The Jews called it Shoah which means “Calamity”. The Germans called it the “Final Solution”. Most people know it as the Holocaust. But when the…