OHSWEKEN – A selection of artfully-prepared local appetizers, a silent auction, and a featured workshop on Seed Renewables will wrap up the second instalment of…
Integrating indigenous medicine and western medicine has become a goal of the greater medical community. In the last year, many health organizations have recognized the…
The “Iroquois Lodge Knit Gang” spent the winter making an afghan and a crib quilt that they are planning to donate to the Iroquois Lodge…
The Southern Aboriginal Diabetes Inititative (SOADI) is holding a golf tournament this summer in hopes to gather men together in a fun and entertaining way…
OHSWEKEN – Six Nations Health Services has been a labor of love for so many care providers in the Six Nations community. From it’s humble…
OHSWEKEN – Corn, beans and squash are commonly known in our traditions as the Three Sisters. It is said that these three food gifts were given…
OHSWEKEN – In the early months of 2015, the Six Nations community watched as four individuals publicly committed to a traditional, Indigenous foods-only diet. Kathy…
It is the time of year that woodticks take over our territory. Although finding a tick on you or your children is a common thing…
The Screen For Life Mobile Unit, a full screening clinic that travels the province will be on Six Nations this month during Community Awareness Week,…
A new health food and nutrition store has opened on Six Nations territory offering holistic nutritional supplements, organic and indigenous foods and self-care products. Life…
The Good Mind, or Ganigonhi:oh, is a well-known concept in Haudenosaunee tradition that calls on the use of kind, loving and compassionate thoughts as a…
Once again the maple trees have followed their original instructions by providing that sweet water after a long, cold winter. When the temperature hovers above…
Twelve weeks on a traditional foods diet. Though it sounds challenging it’s exactly what four Haudenosaune participants – three of them from Six Nations –…
I had the privilege of attending the International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health this past weekend in Ottawa. It is good to know that so…
A mobile cancer screening detection unit will be coming to Six Nations this May. The Screen For Life Coach is a 45 foot bus which…