SNEC General Council Briefs: Dry Dance, Survivors Conference

OHSWEKEN — Big Joe Sharrow approached Six Nations Elected Council to ask to waive the rental fee at Six Nations Community Hall for a Halloween Dry Dance on October 26.

Sharrow, a local musician who has taken action to overcome addictions to drugs and alcohol in his own life, has been organizing a number of dry dance events for adults in the community. Six Nations Elected Council voted to waive the cost for the hall.

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Two Six Nations residential school survivors are travelling to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to sit on a panel at the Maamiikwendan: Remembering Residential Schools & Cemeteries as Indigenous Sites of Conscience on the Long Plain First Nation.

Two survivors requested just over $3023 in funding for additional survivors to travel with them to the two-day event. Elected Council voted unanimously in favour of granting the funds to come from OFNLP funding.

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