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Letters
AvatarBenjamin Doolittle UE

The Two Row Wampum and the Rules of Law

An agreement between the Mohawk Workers and Guswenta Holdings Incorporated (a Canadian Holdings Company) has the Kanienke:haka and the Haudenosaunee community-at-large conflicted with the recent signing of that agreement.

The two row wampum can be used as a mechanism that will break down the logic, the positions and identities of our “subject” in the paramount question, “who is who?”, and “where they are coming from?” Once we know who is who, and where each stand, the law of each and the conflicts that exist may become clear.

Before the who, lets define the where, lets “discover” the foundations of the two possibilities, this and that, here and there, our rule of law and their rule of law.

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Local News
AvatarJim Windle

Long Awaited Water Treatment Plant Opens

SIX NATIONS — After years of empty promises from various levels of government, unforeseen delays, protests, controversy over a protected species of fish, and damage done by a flooding Grand River, the new $41 million Six Nations Water Treatment Plant is now finished and ready to bring enough potable drinking water to take the community into the 21st century. And they did it all on budget, according to Chief Bill Montour and economic development director Matt Jamieson.

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Local News
AvatarNahnda Garlow

Haldimand Quilters Guild were on hand to showcase the beautiful handcrafted quilt

Members of the Haldimand Quilters Guild were on hand to showcase the beautiful handcrafted quilt they are donating to the West Haldimand Hospital Foundation Auction.

The “Baltimore Bliss” appliqué quilt measures 94 X 80 inches in heritage hues of blue, gold and wine colours. In the above photos from left to right are: Audrey Mitchell, Shirley Kellar, Debbie Allan, and Betty Carpenter.

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National
AvatarJen MtPleasant

Patrick Brazeau and violence against Indigenous women

Senator Patrick Brazeau, 38, who is being investigated by the RCMP over allegations of breach of trust over his housing and expense claims, and faces additional legal troubles including assault and sexual assault, is now making allegations that his “political downfall” with the Prime Minister’s Office started a year ago when he began to question the government as to why it hadn’t called a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, according to CBC News.

This comment made by suspended Senator Brazeau has been unsettling to certain members of the First Nations community, especially those who have been fighting for the rights of Indigenous women and who have been advocating for a National Inquiry for years.

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National
AvatarMiles Howe

New Brunswick opposition to fracking continues

Despite the vicious RCMP-led raid which culminated in the arrests of 40 people – four of whom have still not been released since October 17th – on-the-ground opposition to seismic testing in Kent County, New Brunswick, continues.

On Monday, November 5th, an event marketed as a march for ‘Unity and Solidarity’ took place in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where activists have erected a longhouse and continue to keep a sacred fire lit opposite the provincial Legislature House.

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Opinion
AvatarLetter to the Editor

Haudenosaunee Grand Council Reiterates Position on Elected Councils

Greetings from the Chiefs, Clanmothers, Faithkeepers, and people of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy, People of the Longhouse.

The Grand Council of Chiefs would like to take this time to remind its citizens of the Haudenosaunee position on imposed elected Band and Tribal councils and our proposed remedy to standardize governance within the domain of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

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Opinion
AvatarThohahoken

The Honour of the Crown in decline

History is funny sometimes, how things that go around come around. Like many people attending Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country I turned my back on the federal politician to support Canadian soldiers as Canada closes Veterans Affairs centres across the country. It reminded me of how the Crown turned its back on our People.

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Lets Talk Native
AvatarJohn Kane

It’s Not What You Say, It’s What You Do

Almost a year ago federal agents invaded the Kaniekeha community of Akwesasne, breaking into the Three Feathers Casino which had been closed for more than three months and charging members of the Men’s Council from the Kaianerehkowa Kanonhsesne (Longhouse). Rarahkwisere and Kaneratiio, duly appointed members of that Council, were arrested and taken into custody. Sakoietha, a third member of that Council, was charged but refused to be arraigned, opting to remain free and at-large so he could, at least covertly, tend to his child who has been battling cancer for several years.

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Opinion
AvatarLetter to the Editor

Understanding the Duty to Consult

In 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada set out the legal framework for the Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate in the Haida and Taku River cases. The duty flows from the “Honour of the Crown” and s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and requires governments to consult with Aboriginal peoples.

The duty to consult arises when the Crown knows, or should know of the potential existence of Aboriginal rights that may be infringed upon through Crown actions.

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Local News
AvatarNahnda Garlow

Remembering an Ongwehowe Soldier – Lloyd Clifford Curley

When Tesha Emarthale’s aunt handed her a bundle of her great-grandfathers belongings, she only had a small picture of who he was. “For me prior to receiving this collection my grandfather was only a name.” she shared. “I knew his name and I knew that he served in World War I. I knew that he died young and that my grandfather didn’t get a chance to know him.”

Her Great Grandfather, Lloyd Clifford Curley, a soldier with the 107th Battalion, fell in battle during the First World War on August 15, 1917 on Hill 70 in the Battle for Vimy Ridge. His Battalion brought 600 men to that battle; 21 lost their lives and 130 were wounded.

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Sports
AvatarJim Windle

20-0 Corvairs still fine-tuning

CALEDONIA – A perfect 20-0 record as the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League approaches the halfway point of the 2013-2014 regular season has become a magnet for the cream of the Jr. B crop and an already powerful roster seems to get even stronger with every new acquisition. Even so, players are still being looked at by general manager Brian Rizzetto and probably will be until trade deadline as he fine-tunes the club for another serious run at the Sutherland Cup.

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Regional
AvatarLetter to the Editor

Two Row Wampum unites NYS opposition to fracking

As early as 2007, the Onondaga Nation began understanding the repercussions of hydrofracking, a method of extracting methane gas from deep shale formations and warned allies about the risks of the industry.

In 2009, the Haudenosaunee issued a statement which called on New York State to ban the permitting of high volume hydraulic fracturing and encouraged allies to live up to our agreements to protect shared resources.

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