WHAT LIES BENEATH THE TITLE: The Grand River, Notice, and the Duty to Act
For many people living and working along the Grand River, land-title questions only surface when something feels wrong. A development stalls without explanation. A lender…
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THE LOST INSTITUTE: How the Mohawk Hereditary Right Was Replaced by a Manufactured ‘Six Nations’ Narrative
The modern story of the Haldimand Tract rests on a misunderstanding large enough to reshape an entire region’s legal and political identity, even citizenships. Most…
THE LOST INSTITUTE: How the Mohawk Hereditary Right Was Replaced by a Manufactured ‘Six Nations’ Narrative
The modern story of the Haldimand Tract rests on a misunderstanding large enough to reshape an entire region’s legal and political identity, even citizenships. Most…
THE HALDIMAND RESURRECTION: A Chronicle from the Future of Law and Memory
It is the year 2040, and the Crown has remembered its own handwriting. After two and a half centuries of delay, the Supreme Court of…
A Call to Uphold: Championing Mohawk Posterity and the Haldimand Proclamation Through Legal Challenge
Last week Two Row Times published a letter from Benjamin Doolittle UE, explaining his approach to his objection and challenge to the Ontario courts over…
Toronto-based Mohawk singer sets EP launch to June
Semiah Smith (@semiah.smith on Instagram) is a Mohawk Turtle clan Toronto-based indie-electropop artist and producer from Six Nations. Semiah grew up touring the world with…
What Ontario Land Registry?
BRANTFORD – Not very many people living in Ontario are aware that there is no such thing as the Ontario land registry, which registers and…
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…
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
There is little question that what the white man found when he washed up on our shores was a free and fearless people. But rather than learn our ways and study how a people could live without kings, queens, courts and prisons or slavery, discrimination and class warfare, the church – the very thing that created many of these institutions and practices – was relied upon to spread all of it to a free world.
Wahta Men’s Fire shuts down Band Council Office
WAHTA MOHAWK TERRITORY – Members of the Wahta Men’s Fire alongside community members and elders initiated a protest in front of the Administration Office on the morning of Tuesday May 6th, 2014 to voice their displeasure with the decisions of the recently elected Council. As a result, there is no access to the Wahta Mohawk Administration Office and it has been shut down indefinitely.
OPP end Tyendinaga blockade
TYENDINAGA – Saturday morning the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) rushed demonstrators within Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory boundaries. Because the OPP does not have jurisdiction on First Nations territories it had many residents scratching their heads wondering how the OPP were able to arrest Shawn Brant, Marc Baille, Matthew Doreen and John Fox.
John Kane is Recipient of Community Leader Media Award from the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York
(WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 2, 2014) – John Kane, Mohawk activist and national expert commentator on Native issues, will receive a Community Leader Media Award from the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York.
The happiest kids on Sour Springs Road
Every year down on Six at New Years you will hear folks greeting each other with a festive “Nu-yah! Nu-yah!”. For some it is just another rez term. Nobody knows where it originated from. Nor do they know why you have to say it twice: that’s just how it is and how it always was.
A good old fashioned Indian Donut recipe
‘Nu-Yah’ is fast approaching and is synonymous with Indian Donuts here on Six. This is one I am settled on although I have been known to add raisins much to my family’s dismay. This is the most basic recipe I’ve found. Give it a try!
Not Guilty verdict reached in Three Feathers Casino federal trial
ALBANY – A verdict of Not Guilty on all counts was returned by a 12 person jury in the federal case involving the Three Feathers Casino. The