The Spirit of All Nations.
Thunder Bay, ON — Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy is calling on the public for donations to support the Omushkegowuk Walkers who are trekking from their home communities to Ottawa to raise awareness of First Nation issues and are pressing the federal government to respect and honour the treaty relationship.
The Two Row Times was fortunate enough to have an exclusive telephone interview with Bruce Cockburn from his home in San Francisco.
The Ontario Provincial Police, Cayuga Detachment has issued a statement saying that they will not be pursuing charges against Six Nations people who were responsible in the shutting down of a section of Highway 6 last October.
OHSWEKEN – Inventor John Kearns and his corporate affairs and compliance manager Trudy Nguyen, were at Council chambers Monday and received the go ahead to bring in specialized help from Nova Scotia to complete the first phase of the agreement that would eventually bring a new 20 ton capacity waste disintegrator unit to Six Nations to replace the 10 ton, demonstrator model that has been at the Six Nations landfill site since November.
SIX NATIONS – The new $41 million water treatment plant was declared up and ready back in November just in time to give then Chief Bill Montour something to run up on the flag pole just before the elections.
BRANTFORD – The first annual Graduate Student’s Conference in Indigenous Research was held at Wilfrid Laurier University – Brantford campus, this past weekend.
Suspended Senator Patrick Brazeau along with retired Senator Mac Harb, have been formally charged by the RCMP today for their alleged roles in the ‘Senate expenses scandal.’
Brantford Police issued a statement Monday morning stating the violent sexual assault of a woman reported on Jan 31st, did not occur.
Indigenous people, their friends and heck, anyone who thinks racism is a bad thing will take to social media during today’s Superbowl game urging the NFL to change the name of the Washington Redskins.
Brantford City Police are looking for tips after a 20 year old woman was violently sexually assaulted in Brantford last night.
Ronatahskats, the Community Living Gift Shop on Chiefswood Road has been renovated, and is moving forward in a new adventure, building a social enterprise where community members and clients with intellectual disabilities can interact.
The Florida High School who performed a racially prejudiced impression of a Pow-Wow has issued a public apology this month.
The statistics are shocking. There are 7 billion people on this planet. Half of them are women. One third of these women will be raped or beaten in their lifetime. And according to the One Billion Rising website, on February 14, “over one billion people will rise, release, and dance to demand justice for all survivors of gender violence, and call for an end to the rampant impunity that prevails globally.”
SAN FRANCISCO – UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya, along with board member for the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) and National Native American Prisoners Rights Coalition (NNAPRC), Leonard Foster, visited imprisoned indigenous activist Leonard Peltier on Januray 24th.
This month and year marks the 14th anniversary of the freezing deaths of three Indigenous men, two of whose lifeless bodies were found on the outskirts of Saskatoon. One man, Darrell Night, was also dropped off, but lived to tell the story of how he was picked up by police after leaving a party.
