A trailer fire at Fourth Line
A trailer fire at 1500 Fourth Line Road sent a column of black smoke into the sky over Six Nations Monday. The trailer was located…
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Noam Chomsky: Indigenous people “are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us”
MONTREAL – Noam Chomsky, the celebrated 85-year old American linguist, peace activist and social critic who is the author of more than one hundred books and the world’s most frequently quoted intellectual, was in Montréal on October 26 to help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the magazine Canadian Dimension.
During his visit, Chomsky delivered a lecture at the Université de Montréal in which he analyzed the decline of American power.
Netherlands celebrate ties with Iroquois
THE HAGUE – On a slow rhythm a procession of Moluccans moves towards the Tree of Peace in Wijkpark Transvaal in The Hague. They participate…
Mi’kmaq arrestees denied bail, facing large array of charges
Rexton, New Brunswick – Since the RCMP's vicious pre-dawn raid of the anti-shale gas encampment in Rexton on October 17th, there has been a certain…
Day of the Dead – How Halloween is celebrated elsewhere
On Halloween this Thursday children will dress as little ghosts and goblins and travel from home to home with the threat of a trick being…
Akwesasne land disputes result in criminal charge dismissal
AKWESASNE–Amanda Herne of Akwesasne was charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) in September 2012. She had been involved in an accident on St. Regis Road…
First Nations Education Act ‘colonial’, says Madahbee
After decades of under-funding to First Nations schools – with high dropout rates and an epidemic of youth suicide that can’t be disassociated with the…
Ontario’s shale-gas: The next ‘fracking’ frontier?
With the consciousness of people in Canada taken up a notch on the issue of “fracking” by the Mi’kmaq-led resistance in New Brunswick, it’s only a matter of time before people’s sights and struggles shift to the next major shale-gas frontier: Ontario. The US Energy Information Administration estimated in 2013 that there were 573 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas in Canada.
Haudenosaunee history front and centre in Germany
BERLIN, GERMANY – Germany’s fascination with the Haudenosaunee people, and all North American Indigenous cultures, was once again made evident as the Federal Republic of Germany opened an exhibit of Iroquoian art, historical artifacts and information called, “On the Trails of the Iroquois.” The exhibit will run for the month of November and is expected to draw tens of thousands of museum visitors.
Gina Thomas conducted a one-woman protest at Oneida Business Park
Gina Thomas conducted a one-woman protest at Oneida Business Park on Fourth Line Rd, against her former employer, NPAABM Niagara Peninsula, Area Aboriginal Management Board.…
SN students participate in Halloween for Hunger
SIX NATIONS – Students at all Six Nations schools will be participating in “Halloween for Hunger” this year. Halloween for Hunger is a program begun…
Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq Nation brings thanks to Six Nations
SIX NATIONS – John Simon and Paul Milliea, members of the Elsipogtog Mi'kmaq Nation of New Brunswick, were in Six Nations last Saturday to thank…
National Indigenous Writers Working Group Formed
VANCOUVER – Who better to define and lead a national indigenous writers union than indigenous writers themselves? Its hard to believe, with the number of…
Are GMO’s infecting Six Nations crops?
While Sagoyehsahta was tending his cornfields this year he noticed something grotesque. His white corn crops were coming in deformed. The gnarly cobs have been…
Make a difference, Recycle
SIX NATIONS — Last Monday, A.W. First Nations Recycling began pick ups of household trash for recycling from Six Nations resident in what owners Mark…