Men’s Fire warm hearts at SN food bank
OHSWEKEN – Eight pick-up truckloads and a trailer pulled up in front of the Six Nations Food Bank full of canned goods and food to help refill the rapidly emptying shelves.
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Six Nations Chief Ava Hill talks about FNEA
Ava Hill’s first actions as the new Elected Six Nations Band Council chief are already underway. “The first order of business is already kind of started, right now we are doing a lot of work with other First Nations on fighting this First Nations Education Act (FENA).” says Hill.
On to Ottawa for Onkwehon:we rights
On Tuesday, Nov. 26, five members of Scarborough’s West Hill United Church – Minister Gretta Vosper, Ruth Gill, Dorothy Hirlehey, Steve Watson, and Morlan Rees – set out on a caravan for Ottawa to deliver a petition calling upon the federal government to end the disparities between the Onhkwehonh:we and non-Onhkwehonh:we people of Canada.
Two Row Times reporter arrested in Elsipogtog
The circumstances of my arrest on November 26th while covering the Elsipogtog story for the Two Row Times and the Halifax Media Coop is in my opinion, a wrongful enforcement of an injunction that I do not believe the RCMP of New Brunswick understand.
Al-Jazeera covers “Let’s Talk Native”
BUFFALO – On Sunday, Nov. 17, the “Let’s Talk Native… with John Kane” live radio show had some very special guests. In addition to the regular show participants, host John Kane and ESPN – AM1520 in Buffalo, welcomed a network television producer from the Al-Jazeera Arabic Channel.
Protests against the proposed First Nations Education Act to be held Wednesday
First Nations people and ally supporters will rally around Indian Affairs offices across the province tomorrow to say no to the conservative governments proposed takeover of education on all First Nations territories across the country.
Toronto activists lock down to equipment at Enbridge Line 9 river crossing
(Toronto, ON) Members of Rising Tide Toronto have locked down to equipment at an Enbridge Line 9 river crossing, effectively halting construction. This construction is taking place before the NEB has approved this pipeline reversal project.
Mohawk land deal topic of important meeting at Kanata
BRANTFORD – Saturday’s “Mohawks and such others”, meeting at Kanata Village was well attended with representation from other Haudenosaunee territories present after responding to the invitation wampum strings which runners from the Mohawk Workers sent out earlier.
Akwesasne War Chief Skaghenhate’ goes bigger after sign is vandalized
AKWESASNE – Akwesasne War Chief, Skaghenhate’, drove up to his Urban Thrift retail tobacco business on Nov 17, and saw something different. A vinyl sign he had put up had been defaced with black spray paint sometime during the night.
New York communities organize against the I-81 pipeline
In May 2013, the Millennium Pipeline Company announced a proposal to construct a 60 mile-long, high-pressure pipeline that will be at least 24” in diameter and supported by at least one compressor station. Since then, community members in the Central New York region have been organizing to oppose the initiative through community presentations from the Southern Tier to Onondaga
Cliffs Cancels “Ring of Fire” Open Pit Mine
OTTAWA – Tony Clement, Conservative minister and Treasury Board President, is claiming the Ring of Fire could be the next Oil Sands.
New Gladue Court to open in January
SIX NATIONS – The Six Nations Polytechnic main hall was packed out on Friday as Judges, lawyers, Crown Attorneys, defence lawyers, parole officers, and others within the Canadian Courts System gathered for a very special meeting.
Ongwehowe people reject the First Nations Education Act
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawa:ke issued a statement Monday condemning the Harper Government’s proposed First Nations Education Act.
Community meeting opposed to new development
CALEDONIA – Band Council Lawyer Lonny Bomberry chaired a community meeting at the Six Nations Community Hall last week and got an earful from around 30 people who were clearly not in favour of a proposed new housing development planned for 107 acres located almost across the highway from Kanonhstaton, the land Six Nations people reclaimed in 2006.
An Evening of Truth-telling at Burning Books
Illuminating conversations were sparked Thursday at Mohawk activist John Kane’s first guest lecture at Burning Books, a radical bookstore on the West Side of Buffalo. Kane’s two-hour long talk, sharing the same name as his radio show, “Let’s Talk Native,” was long-awaited and much-anticipated by Buffalonians and bookstore patrons.