Ohsweken Baptist Church raises money for SNCFS
Ohsweken Baptist Church hosted its first Community Unity fundraising event last weekend in support of Six Nations Child and Family Services’ Christmas Toy Giveaway. Church…
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Group wants memorial designation of Ohsweken arena rescinded, restored to former name
OHSWEKEN — It was a very emotional meeting at Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting, after a collective put in a request to have the…
Monthly drop-in launches for Six Nations LGBTQ2SI community
SIX NATIONS – Being accepted and loved for who we are is fundamentally important to all people. For many lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirited…
Reconciliation always worth taking about
BRANTFORD – These days there can never be too many conversations about reconciling the relationship between Indigenous people and settler Canadians, it’s far too important…
Who represents me, asks Mohawk man
BRANTFORD – A member of the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk Nation), living within the city of Brantford has begun a neighbourhood association. On its agenda is clearing…
The beautiful soul of Makayla
I’ll never forget the first time I ever met Makayla Sault. She was just about five years old. It was my first time going inside…
First Annual Zombie Race to raise funds for local family
A dedicated group of community volunteers came together this week to organize the ‘First Annual Six Nations Zombie 3k Race/Walk’. Post by Six Nations Zombie…
Stop globalization, decolonize!
Dear Editor, Never in our wildest dreams did we think that we would be fighting to keep our country and this Earth intact due to…
Wahta Community Fire vacates protest site
WAHTA – In a statement posted to their website and Facebook page, the Wahta Community Fire announced that as of Monday, September 22, 2014 they…
Six Nations farmers provide community with pick your own white corn
If you drive down 6th line following the curves of the Grand River you will come across two of the three sites where the Six…
Corn Smut
An elder who gifted us with white corn seeds set the intention “I hope you get some smut on the corn you’ll grow.” Two weeks ago when walking through the rows of corn at the Edge of the Woods farm, much to my delight I saw this intention come to fruition. Corn smut was indeed growing on a number of the corn stalks.
Unity and the future of our community
The Six Nations community is a divided community. No matter what the subject is, there’s always 1000 different opinions and views. There’s people who are way too old school and then there’s people who are culturally assimilated. Then there’s a whole wack of people that fall somewhere in between the two.
Community members shut Kearns machine down
OHSWEKEN – About 50 community members gathered at the Six Nations Landfill Site yesterday morning to let John Kearns of Kearns International know that his system for disposing of the community’s waste was no longer welcome on the territory.
Benefit concert draws big crowd
SIX NATIONS: As the night went on, Yogi’s Barn saw more and more community members come out in support of the warriors in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, led by Shawn Brant, who blocked a portion of Shannonville Road in response to the federal government’s lack of concern for the growing numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada.
Akwesasne Plans on Recovering CBSA Customs House
AKWESASNE – In May of 2009 massive community opposition to the presence of armed border guards forced the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) to abandon the customs house in the Kanienkehaka territory of Akwesasne. Since then the building has been sitting empty and unused. A group of grassroots activists organized by Stacey Boots of Akwesasne are planning to change that later this month.