The Spirit of All Nations.
Each adoptees story is unique yet has horrific similarities: being taken away from their parents as young children and placed into non-Native foster homes where they suffered: sexual, physical and emotional abuse, beatings, and had absolutely no contact with their Native ways of life.
AKWESASNE –Cornwall Island (Kawehnoke) may one day have a different political governance structure if one local political activist has her way.
he Ontario Court of Justice’s new ‘Aboriginal’ Persons’ Court (also known as Gladue Court), got off to a slow start last Thursday.
AKWESASNE – Timothy Benedict-Leaf, 19, was last seen at his mother’s house on Cornwall Island almost one year ago and no one has seen or heard from him since.
The Rural Ontario Institute will host a forum on February 11 in Brantford, which will explore the challenges and solutions to overcome rural youth unemployment.
SIX NATIONS – It’s the end of training camp for all Canadian Lacrosse League (Clax) teams, and last Friday night and Saturday’s Saturday’s showcase series of games at the ILA solidified the rosters of all Canadian Lacrosse League franchise teams.
Tuscarora Reservation: A young couple is dead following a single vehicle accident on December 30, 2013. Danyle White and Brandon Rickard leave behind 6 young children: James Huggins III, Sean Huggins, Brandon Rickard Jr., Jacob Rickard, Kobe Rickard and Janmarie Rickard
CALEDONIA – Saturday night in Fort Erie, the 35-1-1 first place Corvairs capitalized on the strength of their special teams for the second leg of a chippy home-and-home series with the Meteors, and came out with a convincing 7-2 route of the seventh place-holders in the Golden Horseshoe conference of the Jr. B, GOJHL.
SIX NATIONS – Arrows Express Sports and the Two Row Times have joined forces to help indigenous children rediscover their heritage through the game of lacrosse.
The Haldimand Rivercats PeeWee Girls hockey team won their divisional Championship at the Western Northumberland Winter Classic Tournament this past Sunday, Jan.19th.
When someone who inspired foundational change in the community leaves us, it is very important to take the time to acknowledge such a loss. Such is the case for Six Nations this week as we say goodbye to Dick Hill.
It’s not a prison sentence. It just feels like one. And I’m sure it feels the same to many others. It’s the cost for gaining “recognition” by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. And $33 million is what it cost the Shinnecock people. However, as exorbitant – and unbelievable – as this sounds they are actually the lucky ones.
On Saturday January 18, 2014, in the morning after Friday’s Neil Young Honour the Treaties concert in Regina, a pumping station leak south of the city resulted in an estimated 20,000 litres of ‘heavy oil’ leaking.
Not even a full day after Neil Young’s incredibly successful “Honour the Treaties” Tour, which raised more than half a million dollars to help the Athabasca Chipewyan challenge further tar sands encroachment within their traditional homelands, a noted group of Canadian authors, musicians, and climate scientists released a letter of support to the campaign, noting “the time has come for Canada to decide if we want a future where First Nations rights and title are honoured, agreements with other countries to protect the climate are honoured, and our laws are not written by powerful oil companies.”
The man I will always think of as the last true Mohawk Warrior, has finally found peace. Dick Hill died early Tuesday morning.
