BRANTFORD – Joseph Brant has been accused of selling off land for his own enrichment, usually by people who have no historical anchor to attach…
Great acts of heroism by First Nations soldiers over 200 years ago helped paved the way to Canadian Confederation in 1867. Without their sacrifices during…
“If it wasn’t for your people Canada would not be a nation today,” said the late-Sylvannus General (d.2004) to younger members of the indigenous rights…
The 1932 hanging of Six Nations’ Joe Bomberry was described by the late John Maracle as an act to control Six Nations people. Maracle, a…
By Jim Windle with notes BURTCH – The tract of land known as the Burtch Tract was part of the Haldimand Tract made manifest by…
By Thohahoken In 1913 Arthur the Duke of Connaught travelled to Ohsweken. At the now “old” council house on the Six Nations territory, the Duke…
The use of Six Nations’ trust funds links to a federal debt owed to the Six Nations of the Grand River for funding other higher…
By Jim Windle with notes from Paul Williams SIX NATIONS – Did the Haudenosaunee give away a huge chunk of land in 1701? There is…
Following the American Revolution the remnants of the Five Nations Rotinohsyonni Confederacy took refuge in the Grand River Valley, 70 miles south of Toronto, Canada.…
SIX NATIONS – Anyone who has any knowledge of the political history of Six Nations will have heard when the RCMP invaded Six Nations and…
Excerpts from a personal letter written April 2, 1803, between Samuel Peters, friend, United Empire Loyalist and grandfather of Samuel Peters Jarvis, who would eventually…