Jim Windle

Organizers Nicole Lebrasseur, Charlotte Jacobs and Donna Powless are inviting those from Six Nations and New Credit to come to Ottawa, this Saturday, May 10th. The bus trip to Ottawa is for a family oriented March and Picnic Rally, being billed as the “Defend our Climate, Defend our Communities Rally” and will be leaving the Iroquois Village Plaza in downtown Ohsweken, Saturday morning at 6 am. It will arrive in Ottawa for 1 pm, leave Ottawa at 8 pm, and arrive home at about 2 am. The Rally is intended to bring attention to a wide range of issues facing Onkwehon:we people across Canada, and to call for a system of direct democracy, where the people actually get to set the agenda. To reserve a seat on the bus, contact Jackie House at 905-869-0778, or Charlotte Jacobs at 905-765-3715. Bring your own food. (Photo by Jim Windle)

KANONHSTATON – Eight years ago, Six Nations land protectors led by a group of women including Janie Jamieson and Dawn Smith reclaimed 40 hectares of land earmarked for a 600 home housing development. The development was made without consultation with Six Nations and without the authority to do so, since the land was never legally surrendered for sale.

SIX NATIONS – Tehennei’kwe:tarons, aka David R. Maracle, is a multi-talented Mohawk artist/musician/poet/chef/activist, and Native youth worker from Tyendinaga that most people likely would have heard before knowing who he was or even what instruments he creates with.

SIX NATIONS – The revolutionary and controversial Kearns disintegrator actually works. That was the determination made by a committee struck by the Elected Band Council to observe and oversee the test running of a garbage disposal system that promises to clean up Six Nations’ critical waste management problem.

The City of Brantford is sniffing around the Glebe Farm lands again for the completion of the decades old Brantford Southern Access Route (BSAR), which Six Nations protesters and local citizens jointly succeeded in stopping in the 1990’s.