Canal system built Brantford on Six Nations back

SIX NATIONS – The story of Brantford, its growth and the importance of the Grand River Navigation Company in establishing it and a number of…

Logan Staats takes home a NAMA

Commonly compared to James Bay, Six Nations’ own soulful Singer and Artist Geordon Logan Staats has triumphantly secured two coveted awards with his album Goodbye…

Six Nations Confederacy on the global stage in 1942

SIX NATIONS – In both Canada and the United States, there is an assumption that the American Indian population is something they can put all…

New series at Woodland Cultural Centre

BRANTFORD – Woodland Cultural Centre is hosting new tours this coming November and December to make sure visitors can still learn about the Mohawk Institute…

More than $3.5 million invested directly into Six Nations community

OHSWEKEN ­– September 16, 2016 – The newly formed Six Nations of the Grand River Economic Development Trust (EDT) will invest more than $3.5 million…

Sharing stories one Canadian at a time

BRANTFORD ­­– The past four years for Cody Groat have been filled with hundreds of hours writing, interviewing and transcribing his many encounters with newsworthy…

FRO suspends lawyer’s drivers licence

SIX NATIONS – Haudenosaunee Development Institute legal adviser Aaron Detlor has had his driver’s licence suspended as of September 13 when Family Responsibility Ontario (FRO) ordered…

Is Six Nations still at war with Germany?

SIX NATIONS ­– For Iroquois Nations, getting themselves embroiled in wars not of their making didn’t necessarily mean these foreign conflicts were not of their…

Mush Hole Project brings in a crowd

BRANTFORD – The much anticipated launch of the three-day exhibition of the Mush Hole Project took place over the past weekend from September 16 to…

Friend questions police investigation after missing woman found dead in B.C.

A family friend of a Saskatchewan woman found dead in a forested area of British Columbia hopes a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous…

RCMP charge First Nation co manager with defrauding federal program of $1.2M

THUNDER BAY, Ont. — RCMP say a Thunder Bay, Ont., man is facing charges after more than $1.2 million was fraudulently obtained for a remote…

Notification after the fact is the new public consultation

Doug Whitlow Sometime ago, the Canadian government declared that all Aboriginal communities/First Nations had to be properly consulted prior to any development occurring on or…

Wampum to follow

An Editorial by Jonathan Garlow In centuries and millennium past, our people developed a system of honour and an international agreement of the sacred. It…

The horn of the serpent

Tad McCallum A unique political institution developed in colonial North America. The Covenant Chain was an alliance or federation between British America, then principally New…

Akwesasne Mohawks expelled from the Mushhole and other bad memories

By Doug George-Kanentiio I was a student at the Mohawk Institute (a.k.a. the “Mushhole” for its unique brand of watery porridge) in Brantford, Ont. from…