The Spirit of All Nations.
On March 6th, the National Energy Board (NEB) approved the Enbridge Line 9 reversal project, allowing tar sands bitumen and Bakken shale oil to flow within 50 km of over 9.1 million people, and 18 First Nation communities, including directly through the Haldimand Tract, just south of Wrigley and Beke Roads.
TYENDINAGA – Saturday morning the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) rushed demonstrators within Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory boundaries. Because the OPP does not have jurisdiction on First Nations territories it had many residents scratching their heads wondering how the OPP were able to arrest Shawn Brant, Marc Baille, Matthew Doreen and John Fox.
It’s International Women’s Day 2014, and Conservatives have rejected a call for an inquiry into murdered and missing Aboriginal women in Canada. And why should anyone care? Well, because these women could have been anyone’s daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, aunty or niece.
Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, the Honourable Brad Duguid visited Six Nations last Thursday to drop in on Grand River Employment and Training during their March Open House.
An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Trafficking in Contraband Tobacco), Bill C-10, is a direct attack on the economy of Six Nations. The traditional practice and trade of tobacco and tobacco-related products has evolved into a commercial commodity that supports many Six Nations families.
BRANTFORD – The Brantford Blast stand one win away from the ACH Championship and a berth in the Alan Cup Championships after a 3-2 overtime win over the Whitby Dunlops, Saturday night, in Whitby.
SIX NATIONS – In CLax professional lacrosse action at the ILA Friday night, the Niagara Lock Monsters used a strong forth quarter to pull away from the Southwest Cyclops, 11-7.
The robins were singing outside the office Monday morning, they know that change is coming. Spring is unleashing the wonders of rebirth inherent in moving forward in this life. Everyone needs to be able to let off steam, relax after a long and tiring week, kick back and chill. We have to be able to let go. Even as we prepare for another winter blizzard.
CALEDONIA – A very important Art Show opened at the Edinburgh Square in downtown Caledonia last week. You will not find any Monets, or Picassos, or Renoirs, but you will see creative and expressive works done by Six Nations, New Credit, Caledonia, Brantford and surrounding area elementary school students.
Some are calling it ‘Sex and the City’- Mohawk Style. ‘Mohawk Girls is a half hour series set on the Kahnawake Reserve in Quebec. The series has been commissioned for two seasons and will air this fall in English/Mandarin on OMNI television, and English/Mohawk on APTN.
St Catharines – Niagara residents are organizing a peaceful awareness rally for this Saturday, March 15th at nNoon at the Gazebo at Montebello Park on 64 Ontario Street in St Catharines.
OHSWEKEN – A parent, reported to have been drinking, turned a minor hockey game into a near brawl at the Gaylord Powless Arena Saturday afternoon. Parents and fans of the visiting Glanbrook Bantams were loud but generally well behaved until a series of penalties were called on Glanbrook players. At that point tempers began to flare and one visiting fan was ejected from the arena by the referee.
This is something we need you to understand about oil tanker traffic on the west coast.
SIX NATIONS: The Community Education Meeting was well attended last Wednesday night as the Cayuga Room at Six Nations Polytech was packed shoulder to shoulder. Facilitated by Richard Powless, the meeting opened up with an update on the First Nations Education Act.
Ganohkwasra held their long anticipated One Billion Rising event last Friday to help raise awareness about violence against women worldwide. The statistics are shocking: according to the One Billion Rising website, there are 7 billion people on this planet.
