The Spirit of All Nations.
Owner and founder of G&M Sportswear, Marilyn Frank (nee VanEvery) first opened her doors in October of 1995. Located at 583 Mohawk Road, between First and Second Line, G&M Sportswear has anything you need: from work wear, work boots, to team shirts, team shorts and embroidery and digitizing items. Digitizing items include various logos, which can be put on such products as memory sticks.
TORONTO – Tensions were high last week as members of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River (MNGR), formerly known as the Mohawk Workers, were at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto asserting their sovereignty to not only the federal court but the federal government as well.
Six Nations – The trial has finally begun for the third person charged in the murder of 2 year old Marissa Whalen, whose remains were found on Six Nations territory on October 16, 2011. Her remains were positively identified in January of 2012. Investigators determined however, that she hadn’t been seen since the previous July.
SIX NATIONS – Six Nations Economic Development (SNED) was before Band Council once again last week to give an update on the two wind turbine projects that Six Nations Elected Council is planning to sign agreements with.
NEWFOUNDLAND – Newfoundland and Labrador joined the Nova Scotia Provincial government in demanding Prime Minister Steven Harper call a national inquiry into murdered and missing Aboriginal women, Friday.
The mayors of Nunavut’s Qikiqtani (Baffin) region passed a motion opposing offshore oil and gas exploration at the 2014 Baffin Mayors’ Forum held in early March in Iqaluit. The motion was passed unanimously, with all thirteen mayors of the region voting in favour.
It appears that a “perfect storm” is brewing over the PM’s office on Parliament Hill as Haudenosaunee and Anishinabek organizations are pushing back against Bill C-10.
This past weekend the Woodland Cultural Centre hosted a workshop on preparing corn for bread and soup at the Ohsweken community hall.
Although I cannot embrace the rape of the planet and obscene support for the rich lords of capitalism that seems bound to Republican DNA, there is no question that some of the worst actions and most aggressive policies our people have seen toward our trade and commerce has come from a Democrat as Governor of New York State and a Democrat as President of the United States.
At the Anishnabek Educational Institute on Muncey Delaware Territory I met up with a Hawiian woman named Waimakalani Iona. She described a scenario all too familiar to Onkwehon:we people: the encroachment of her lands, a disregard for environmental issues and an ethnocentric and dismissive attitude towards her cultural beliefs.
Two years ago my husband and our kids moved in with family. In one of those moments that can only be described as “divine intervention” a month later I was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ‘DCIS’. The move had to have been the Creator helping me out from above.
January 27, 2014, West Hill United got an answer from the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development to its Petition (see Two Row Times, Sept. 4, 2013, P. 5). While analysing it, we took time to delve into the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act announced February 7th, 2014, in Calgary.
AKWESASNE – Many visitors to this historic Onkwehon:we community are just passing through an international transit point, either heading north or south.
KITIGAN ZIBI FIRST NATION – On September 6, 2008, two young women went missing from Maniwaki, Quebec, which is located in close proximity to the Kitigan Zibi First Nation about an hour and a half’s drive north of Ottawa. On Friday, September 5, Maisy Odjick spent the night at Shannon Alexander’s place. On Saturday morning, Shannon walked her dad Brian, to the bus station which would be the last time he seen or heard from his daughter again.
BRANTFORD – A strong third period ended a seesaw battle at the Brantford and District Civic Centre, Friday night in Game 6 of the Allan Cup Hockey league semi-finals.
