New Building and an Open House for the Everlasting Tree School

SIX NATIONS – Skaronhese’ko:wa Tsyohterakentko:wa, The Everlasting Tree School hosted a Harvest Festival and Open House this weekend. The school was bustling with vendors, craft…

New community group expresses COURAGE

A new community group – “Courage Offering Understanding Raising Aspirations Gaining Empowerment” or COURAGE for short – has been formed in Six Nations. The group…

Birkett Lane development sets Mohawks against Mohawks

BRANTFORD — For the eighth time in recent years, construction on Erie Ave at Birkett Lane was halted this Monday. But this time, rather than…

Scientific evidence and native oral history tells us the same story

Hundreds of years ago when Onkwe:honwe (Indigenous) people had complete domain over this continent they commonly did one thing from the Atlantic to the Pacific…

MOHAWK NATION AT KAHNAWÀ:KE STAND IN SUPPORT OF MI’KMAQ PROTEST AGAINST HYDRO-FRACKING

Kenténha (October) 17, 2013 – The Mohawk Nation at Kahnawà:ke – People of the Longhouse – is horrified by the recent RCMP attack of indigenous protesters…

Obediah Wins

As reported last week, Six Nations’ woman boxer Cher Obediah-Blasdell is now in Saskatchewan for the Canadian Amateur Boxing Championships representing Team Ontario.

Akwesasne reacts to New Brunswick Mi’kmaq encampment attack by RCMP

AKWESASNE – Word of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raid on an Onkwehon:we encampment in Rexton, New Brunswick reached Akwesasne this past week and…

Southgate rezoning for ‘sludge’ plant at headwaters of the Grand

Since February 2013 Lystek International has been shipping Toronto’s sewage waste – what’s generally known as “sludge” – to Dundalk, Ontario, to be processed into…

Six Nations Novice Reps come back to tie

OHSWEKEN — The Six Nations Novice Reps came from behind to take a point in a thrilling 2-2 final with Hagersville, at the Gaylord Powless…

Inventor John Kearns on Six Nations’ new disintegrator

SIX NATIONS – “The world has a problem with waste and I have a solution. It’s as simple as that,” says John Kearns, a pleasant, down…

Caledonia outlasts Buffalo goalie’s hot night

OHSWEKEN — Buffalo goaltender Adam Dentico was nothing short of spectacular at the Gaylord Powless Arena on Saturday night in the Caledonia Corvairs’ 3-1 win, which kept…

Sunday afternoon at the Gaylord Powless Arena

The Six Nations Pee Wee Reps won a close 1-0 game against Hagersville in Minor Hockey action. Scoring for Six Nations in the second period was #9…

Out of order: Indigenous protest and the rule of law

Sometimes it helps to put things in order, in precedence and priority, in order to see them clearly.  This is one of those times. With…

LAND CLAIMS AND THE POWER OF PEACE AND WAR

What is a land claim and who makes a land claim? Land claims are a legal declaration of desired control over areas of property including…

RCMP Mum on Amount of Police Deployed in Elsipogtog Raid

Many questions remain, but what is clear is that on the morning October 17th the RCMP moved in on a peaceful protest against SWN -…