The Spirit of All Nations.
BUCKTOWN – Mentors and role models from a wide range of sports and the arts brought their personal stories of triumph over adversity, as well as their accumulative celebrity to around 200 youth at Moraviantown First Nation this past weekend.
TORONTO – On May 21, 2014 demonstrators in over a dozen countries held actions and rallies to denounce Chevron’s disastrous environmental record, marking the first International Anti-Chevron Day.
OTTAWA – Bill C-10 passed a third reading in Parliament last Friday. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice Bob Dechert presented the bill saying “organized crime” was central to “contraband” cigarettes.
OHSWEKEN – About 50 community members gathered at the Six Nations Landfill Site yesterday morning to let John Kearns of Kearns International know that his system for disposing of the community’s waste was no longer welcome on the territory.
Since 2010 Unist’ot’en clan members have been maintaining a permanent presence on their traditional territory in so-called Northern British Columbia. The reason for doing so is to assert sovereignty over lands which were never ceded to the Canadian government and to begin a process of decolonization and return to the land. The Camp also stands as the enforcement of a clan decision to ban all of the proposed Fracked Gas and Tar Sands pipelines intending to cross over their territory.
There was a time when everybody came together in the spring and shared with one another at harvest time. Those are the values the Men’s Fire would like to see again for the people of Six Nations. And that is why they are putting in a Community Garden on Chiefswood Road for the benefit of the people of Six Nations.
BURLINGTON – Non-native residents of the Burlington area blocked an access road to an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline with intentions of holding that position for…
A delegation from the Six Nations Language Commission (SNLC) was before Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) last week to discuss their budget needs for the 2014-2015 school year. The SNLC funds programs in the Mohawk, Cayuga and Onondaga languages.
The Red Hill Valley Archaeological Project is being displayed at the GREAT Atrium from now until June 27. In partnership with the Red Hill Valley Joint Stewardship board – comprised of three members each from the City of Hamilton and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Chiefs Council – the showcase displays a selection of archaeological artifacts from the Red Hill Valley area and is free to the public.
This past Saturday the Central Wellington district high school (C.W.D.H.S) Aboriginal Club of Fergus, in union with other groups and businesses from the surrounding area, hosted the landmark event Truth and Reconciliation: What’s law got to do with it?
Tuscarora Reservation – It has been almost five months since a fatal car accident took the lives of a young Tuscarora couple, Danyle White, 29 and Brandon Rickard, 32. Now, White’s brother is trying to get custody of his sister’s two youngest children, ages 3 and 4 in a battle that is turning out to be not just a fight with the Child Protection Services but which is causing a rift among members of the Tuscarora community as well.
This is a statement of support for Makayla Sault, her family, and the community that surrounds
her. It is of great concern to the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University to learn
that Makayla’s decision to self-determine the course of her treatment is being not only
dismissed because of her age, but also devalued by health care professionals because it is rooted
in Indigenous Knowledge. We are deeply troubled to hear that Makayla’s parents have faced
intimidation and threats of intervention for their choice to respect the agency of their child, and
that these choices have become criminalized. Makayla’s choice to seek out traditional medicine
is protected through the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(UNDRIP), and should be supported and honoured. It is entirely inappropriate that her decision
has been dismissed, devalued, and characterized as irrelevant and unimportant.
BRANTFORD – This coming Saturday people in over 50 countries will hold actions and rallies to voice their opposition to the giant multinational company Monsanto and their efforts to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMO) into food systems throughout the world.
OTTAWA — After the sudden resignation of AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo over his support of the controversial Bill C-33, the Harper Conservatives’ unilateral imposition of what the federal government is calling the “First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act”, the deal Harper thought was struck has hit a stone wall of resistance.
OTTAWA – Concerned Onkwehon:we people from communities and nations across the part of Turtle Island known as Canada, delivered a powerful message to Prime Minister…
