The Spirit of All Nations.
One would think that Six Nations bundled together would signify unity and a shared vision.
And yet there are deep rifts within our community. Our staff had a wide ranging conversation this week about the benefits and dangers of bringing diverse and, in some instances, opposing groups together to try and clarify the issues that divide our community.
Is it happenstance that the photograph on the cover of last Wednesday’s Two Row Times features a vivid shawl woven by another corn-growing people fighting for their traditional lands . . . albeit 12,000 kilometres away?
Whilst I am not one of the concerned people, I recognize the shawl as from Nagaland, a region found on a world map in the triangle between Bangladesh, Burma, and China.
Okay, I admit it. Last year when our special month of November rolled around, National Native American Heritage Month, I purposely kept quiet about it until December. I sat silently all month long and sure enough – nothing. So on December 2 I wrote, “November was what? Our month? Really? Who knew?”
When I was a child, there was nothing as lovely as waking up at my grandparents cottage. Imagine a little log cabin, with a little dock nestled on the water’s edge between two clear lakes.
The beds were always warm and clean. More often than not I woke up to the call of loons out on the bay. There is nothing more gentle and calming than that.
Cody Jamieson and Craig Point were at the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre this week to hand out free lacrosse sticks to indigenous youth.
The sticks were donated by Arrow Express Sports (AES) as a part of ‘Walk With Me’; a new initiative looking to connect dis-engaged First Nations youth with their sporting culture.
SYRACUSE – The federal criminal case against William D. Humphries has now begun in Syracuse, New York.
The South Carolina tobacco farmer is accused of money-laundering on the Akwesasne Territory at the tribal class 2 Mohawk Bingo Palace, from 2006 to 2009. He has also been accused of conspiring to manufacture tobacco products without a license, as well as conspiring to commit wire fraud to avoid Canadian taxes. Humphries could face 30 years in federal prison if convicted of the charges.
On October 29th, 2013, Darlene Necan, an elected spokesperson of the off-reserve members of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen no. 258, was issued a stop work order by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for building a house on land where her family grew up, on Saugeen territory.
A trailer fire at 1500 Fourth Line Road sent a column of black smoke into the sky over Six Nations Monday. The trailer was located…
MONTREAL – Noam Chomsky, the celebrated 85-year old American linguist, peace activist and social critic who is the author of more than one hundred books and the world’s most frequently quoted intellectual, was in Montréal on October 26 to help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the magazine Canadian Dimension.
During his visit, Chomsky delivered a lecture at the Université de Montréal in which he analyzed the decline of American power.
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign expresses solidarity with the Mi’q Maq people who are defending their part of Turtle Island from the destructive fracking…
THE HAGUE – On a slow rhythm a procession of Moluccans moves towards the Tree of Peace in Wijkpark Transvaal in The Hague. They participate…
Rexton, New Brunswick – Since the RCMP's vicious pre-dawn raid of the anti-shale gas encampment in Rexton on October 17th, there has been a certain…
Musician Lou Reed, who was seen as a pioneer with the group “The Velvet Underground” in the late 60’s and early 70’s and who had a long solo career, passed away on Sunday at the age of 71. Social media lit up with posts from artists talking about the influence Lou Reed had on them, while fans and celebrities shared posts about how his music broke open musical boundaries and provided a voice for those on the margins.
In the latest edition of “Settler Panic,” Councillors this week in Richmond, B.C. talked openly about their fears of potential changes to the Federal Reserve…
On Halloween this Thursday children will dress as little ghosts and goblins and travel from home to home with the threat of a trick being…
