Non-Haudenosaunee lawyers at front lines of Haudenosaunee treaty rights while real Haudenosaunee people being exiled

Two Row Times received a joint statement from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council and the Haudenosaunee Development Institute on Thursday. The statement was emailed to…

HCCC Chief draws a blank on-air, former HDI member says money goes to HCCC Secretary

Last week, the CBC Radio’s Metro Morning made space on their platform to bring forward the story of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council opposing the…

HDI damaging the political and legal outcomes for all indigenous people

This week TRT obtained video of HDI lawyer and director Aaron Detlor, ramming his vehicle into a construction fence at a Metrolinx property. Anyone else…

Ontario is enabling Haudenosaunee Development Institute to discriminate against Six Nations people

This week, the Haudenosaunee Development Institute hopped on another bandwagon — taking a Toronto transit company to court, losing, and then filing a second kick…

5 expert tips to protect yourself from online misinformation

By Jaigris Hodson, The spread of misinformation is a major problem impacting many areas of society from public health, to science and even democracy itself.…

White people throughout history given “indian names”, adopted into Confederacy

A photo of a Six Nations man bestowing an ‘Indian Name’ on Johnny Cash got some conversations going on indigenous media sources online last week.…

HCCC launches paid social media campaign spreading misinformation about hereditary chiefs removal in 1924

he Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council has been long criticized for their lack of transparency and accountability with the Six Nations people. Now, they are being…

Mohawks and ‘such others’: the ancient multi-national village of Onaquaga

Of the 1843 people who settled at Grand River after the American Revolution, there were two people groups who arrived here in 1784 who identified…

Six Nations Warriors fought as loyalists in Rebellion as Family Compact stole Six Nations trust dollars

One of the less talked about wars that Six Nations warriors at Grand River participated in was the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837-38. During that…

I can’t believe I ran a marathon

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022 was the culmination of two years of running. When the pandemic officially began in March 2020, I quit my 20-year-old, pack-a-day…

Protecting the diversity among us keeps the Great Tree of Peace ever-growing

There is a beautiful tradition among the people of the Confederacy and those who follow the Great Law of Peace that has been the inspiration…

Did Indian Cookies originate from the Gaelic New Years’ Soul Cake?

There was a lot of culture sharing when settlers came to these lands. In particular with the Iroquois people. Dutch, German, Scots, and English peoples…

The descendants of Canojaharie, Tikondarago, and Aughugo matter

Throughout the indigenous world there is a saying — “we belong to the land”. It is a multi-faceted expression with many interpretations, one of them…

Six Nations based HCCC/HDI are not the government of the Haudenosaunee

Across Ontario, Quebec and the United States there are a total of 15 communities occupied by the Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga and Tuscarora people…

Indigenous people pay taxes: Demythologizing the Indian Act tax exemption

By Bradley Bryan There is a common misconception among Canadians that Indigenous people do not pay any taxes. It perpetuates harmful stereotypes and hinders non-Indigenous…