The Spirit of All Nations.
Ganohkwasra held their long anticipated One Billion Rising event last Friday to help raise awareness about violence against women worldwide. The statistics are shocking: according to the One Billion Rising website, there are 7 billion people on this planet.
NAPANEE,ON – Ontario Provincial Police released a statement this afternoon listing the charges laid following arrests at Tyendinaga Saturday.
Ministry of Environment officials say the air quality over Six Nations and New Credit has been monitored following the fire at Rosa Flora Greenhouses in Dunnville this morning.
A chemical odour filled the air over Six Nations this morning after a raging blaze destroyed the Rosa Flora greenhouse in Dunnville.
SIX NATIONS – The Haudenosaunee Development Institute delivered its March 1st report to the Confederacy Chiefs and Clan Mothers this past Saturday at the Onondaga Longhouse, at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. There were several items to report, beginning with an update on the Samsung wind energy project.
SIX NATIONS – Four representatives from the Turtle Island Trade and Commerce (TITAC) organization at Six Nations, requested a position paper from the Chiefs Council on taxation of Haudenosaunee people and their economy through Bill C-10 and other legislation.
AKWESASNE – Yet another one of the vaunted 1000 Islands on the St. Lawrence River has been offered for sale. According to published reports, Sheep Island is now available on the Canadian real estate market. The United States government has claimed some of the islands “on behalf of the Mohawk people”. Akwesasne residents assert that ownership of the islands has never been ceded.
TYENDENAGA – By about 2:30 on Monday afternoon, there were far more police in the area than there were protesters. The Mohawks made good on Shawn Brant’s promise to engage in direct action if the Harper government doesn’t commit to a national inquiry into the more than 800 cases of murdered and missing Native women across the country over the past few decades.
SIX NATIONS – Peter Jamieson of Cattaraugus was at the Onondaga Longhouse Saturday to ask on behalf of organizers of a “Treaty Exhibition” at the Indigenous Peoples Museum in Washington D.C., and New York, for the loan of two delicate and historically important Wampum Belts held in trust at Six Nations.
TYENDINAGA – The OPP, the Canadian Military and the RCMP have surrounded Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in response to a series of protests. On Friday, February 28th, Wyman Rd was closed by police when members of Tyendinaga lit a fire to request a response to Shawn Brant’s letter to the Prime Minister asking for a National Inquiry into the more than 825 missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada.
Another one of our girls has been found dead. The disappearance of Loretta Saunders, 26, has now shifted into a homicide investigation. The body of Saunders, who is Inuk from Labrador and was almost three months pregnant, was found Wednesday afternoon along the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick.
HALIFAX – Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuk Student at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, will not be soon forgotten. She was writing her University thesis on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women across Canada last week when she herself became another number to add to the more than 800 names already on the statistic sheet.
AKWESASNE – A low-flying Canadian military aircraft was spotted on Feb. 28, 2014 by Akwesasne community members living on Cornwall Island (Kawehnoke).
About 80-100 men gathered to erect a blockade at on Tyendinaga territory Sunday night at about 8:30 p.m. Sources told the Two Row Times that two large fires are going across the street and vehicles are parked, blocking Shannonville Road.
Portland, Oregon – Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a group of Native parents from across the country are protesting the nomination of 'The Lone Ranger' for…
