Peltier stays in prison while insurrectionist pardoned
Once again with the change in the White House, there comes another opportunity for amnesty for Lenard Peltier, Indian Rights activist and founder of the…
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The Life, Death and Burial of John Smoke Johnson
Mohawk Chief Smoke Johnson “Sa-kay-en-qu-doh” was one of the most famous, and even infamous, of the Confederacy Chiefs of the late 1700th and early 1800th…
What led up to the 1924 raid on Six Nations
November of 1924 marks a date which all Six Nations and allied nations need to remember as when Canada, with the support of Britain, assumed…
Chronicling the move of the Mississaugas to its present-day location
The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation have moved around a lot throughout Ontario over the centuries. And learning about their journey from the Credit…
Early Six Nations census data says Black and Mixed families lived on reserve
SIX NATIONS — Looking back at the history of residency on the Six Nations territory is complicated. It’s a common misconception that only Indigenous people,…
Death, economic ruin and depopulation during the Sullivan-Clinton genocide against the Haudenosaunee
The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign against the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1779 was a devastating genocidal attack against the Haudenosaunee people — the ends of which…
Canada’s $2.8 billion settlement with Indigenous Day Scholars is a long time coming
By Jackson Pind Eleven years. That's how long it took the federal government to agree with 325 First Nations over the collective loss of language…
Food for thought: expecting consensus will only divide us
On the local Six Nations political battlefield there is a hundred years long war that is still waging: elected leadership vs hereditary leadership. Some see…
Treaties Recognition Week: Haldimand Proclamation granted new homeland for pro-loyalist war losses
Treaties Recognition Week: Haldimand Proclamation granted new homeland for pro-loyalist war losses The Haldimand Proclamation was not made for all Haudenosaunee. It was the decree…
The Haldimand Proclamation – marking 238 years of the Promise, the Pledge and the Proclamation.
THE STORY Although the Iroquois nations had officially declared neutrality during the Seven Years War between Britain, France and Spain — and the war concluded…
More Dr. Reports warn of health issues at residential schools
OTTAWA — On November 27th, 1920, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs received a field report from traveling Doctor, F.A. Corbett in which several serious health…
Chiefswood: love letters of Chief Johnson and Emily Howells on display
OHSWEKEN — It’s a romance story for the ages, the kind that makes your hairs stand on end — two people from different worlds —…
Surprise visit exposes deficiencies at Mohawk Institute
BRANTFORD – A memorandum dated March 26th, 1918, and addressed to Minister of Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott informs of a lawsuit filed by two…
TB, tainted milk and residential schools
MOHAWK VILLAGE, SIX NATIONS – It seems the abuse of indigenous children at the infamous Indian residential schools knew no bounds at all. This time,…
Six Nations mothers opposed participation in WW1
OTTAWA – At the advent of WW1, there were many Six Nations young men who signed up for service in the Canadian Military which made…