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By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

Tekawennake has learned that a discussion about the troubled construction of a Six Nations' Stoneridge Day Care that took place during Elect-ed Council's Committee of the Whole on April 8 may have been in violation of a non-disclosure agreement.

The discussion should have taken place in camera, but did not, something Senior Admin-

istrative Officer Dayle Bomb-erry advised of at the regular council meeting on April 9. While most of the council-lors said they were in favour of continuing the discussion in public, Councillors Rog-er Jonathan (District Three) and Melba Thomas (District Six) disagreed with their col-leagues.

Councillor Helen Miller (District Four) said said there was no reason to move to in camera as it had been openly

discussed at the Committee of the Whole on April 8.

During the discussion about moving the matter to in cam-era, Bomberry said he had been caught off guard at the Committee meeting because there had been no information provided about the matter be-fore the Committee meeting. A former subcontractor had appeared at the Committee meeting, and Councillor Hel-en Miller had added him to the agenda.

“It should have been put in camera,” Bomberry told council.

Bomberry did not con-

firm or deny the existence of the possible non-disclosure agreement when asked by Tekawennake just before the

meeting of Elected Council on April 16. Bomberry did say the matter would be discussed in camera.

By Stephanie Dearing

Police forces across Can-ada are determined to catch a bank robber who has been nicknamed “the Vaulter” af-ter the way he jumps over bank counters. Six Nations Police are assisting by let-ting the public know about the search for the man, who is alleged to have robbed 17 banks across Canada.

“Some of the videos and images are very clear,” said York Regional Police De-tective Sergeant Mike Fleis-chaker in a press release. “And we know there are people who can identify this man. By utilizing all of the tools available to share vid-eo and images of this serial bank robber's face, we hope someone will come forward with information that will help us identify this suspect.”

The police have taken their quest for information to so-cial media to nab the man described as Canada's most

notorious bank robber. The York Regional Police have joined forces with the Cal-gary Police, Ottawa Police, Peel Regional Police and Hamilton Police in an effort to catch the man.

The Vaulter is described as

being around 50 years of age, 5'8” to 5'10” in height, 170 to 190 pounds with an athletic build. He has grey hair and has either shaved his head or is balding.

The Vaulter typically en-ters a bank and shows the teller a handgun, either by pulling up his shirt or by pulling the gun out. Some-times he just indicates that he has a gun. He usually leaves the bank on foot

The Canadian Bankers Association is offering a $20,000 reward being of-fered for information leading to the arrest of the Vaulter.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the York Regional Police Hold-Up Unit at 1-866-876-5423, ex-tension 6630; Crime Stop-pers at 1-800-222-tips; or leave an anonymous tip on-line at www.1800222tips.com. You can also text your tip to CRIMES (274637) starting with the word YORK.

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By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

The sight of a Wessuc bio-sludge truck at the end of Painter Road on Monday drew the attention of land protectors Floyd and Ruby Montour and a few others who went over to the site to investigate the situ-ation.

The farm owner, Hetty Bootsma assured the Mon-tours that it was not bio-sol-id sludge at all. But rather, it was normal animal manure that was being delivered to her farm under the oversight and order of the Ministry of the Environment.

According to Ms. Bootsma and Wessuc manager Rich Vanveen, there was a problem at a farm on Greenfield Road where their concrete holding pit for manure had given way, so to protect the environment the MOE looked up Wessuc, who have the trucks and equip-ment to suck up the manure and transport it.

As it so happens, Ms. Boots-ma had an empty manure pit

close by at the end of Painter Road and the MOE contract-ed Wessuc to transport the Greenfield Road manure to the Bootsma farm.

“We used to raise pigs and used the pit to store manure which I used to spread on the fields every spring,” she said. “We stopped raising pigs and so the pit was empty. We will spread it this spring when the ground is dry.”

The Bootsma family has owned and operated the farm since 1962.

“We have spills experience and tankers to haul it away with,” said Vanveen “We’re just trying to keep it from go-ing into the creek. That’s all we are trying to do.”

Wessuc is this regions num-ber one producer and distrib-uter of what is now called bio-solids to be used as fertil-izers for certain crops. There is controversy over the use of processed human waste for food production, although the MOE has given approval for its use. A Six Nation Band Council Resolution outlawed

its use on Six Nations reserve land several years ago.

Wessuc has been stopped from spreading the heavy black sludge many times by a num-ber of Six Nations land pro-tectors when they have been working close to Six Nations. The Montours want to see the practice banned throughout the entire Haldimand Tract.

Soon MOE officials and the police were on hand, but Floyd Montour still insisted that he have a sample to prove if, in fact, it was animal manure and not human waste. Vanveen re-fused

“They (Six Nations land protecters) took a small sam-ple before and supposedly found all kinds of nasty stuff in it,” said Vanveen. “Anyone can put whatever they want in it once it l;eaves here. If a lab technician or the City or the MOE want a sample, I’d say sure, but I’m not about to hand out samples to just anyone.”

In time the Montours left still not completely convinced, but convinced enough to let it go, this time.

There was a bio-solid sludge scare at the end of Painter Road Monday. When Floyd and Ruby Montour happened to spot a Wessuc bio-solids tanker at the farm of Hetty Bootsma, they went over and insisted they stop immediately. It was later discovered that there was no bio-solids contained in the tanker. But rather it was a spill cleanup operation from a farm on Greenfield road whose manure pit let go. Wessuc was contacted to help with the cleanup. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Bio-solid scare on Painter road

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“We're moving forward,” said Julie Jamieson, Acting Supervisor at Six Nations Community Living (Ronatahs-kats). She spoke to Tekawen-nake during the second “come on over for coffee” event host-ed by Community Living.

Jamieson said the cof-fee events were intended to all “any friend” to come and visit. She said it was her idea “to open the doors to the com-munity, whoever wanted to come.”

The changes have come af-ter a tumultuous year for the organization. In February of 2012, community members barricaded the doors to Com-munity Living, alleging mis-management of the center and inappropriate care of program

participants. They demanded action be taken to protect the vulnerable clients.

Six Nations Elected Council responded to the requests for intervention by announcing it was installing an interim board of directors after meeting with the Ontario Ministry of Com-munity and Social Services. An independent review of the Six Nations Community Liv-ing was undertaken. That re-port, recently released, stated the review “did not find ongo-ing grounds for concern about the welfare of CLSN clients.”

Still, the Board of Directors decided to implement chang-es based on recommendations that resulted from the review. “The Board is embracing the recommendations,” said a memo issued in March 2013 from the Board of Directors. The organization is working

with the support of the Minis-try of Community and Social Services, and the coffee events are part of the new approach the agency is implementing.

There weren't many, but there were some visitors, Ja-mieson said. “Some unexpect-ed visitors, we really like to see them. Everybody is talk-ing about good old times and having a good laugh.”

One of the staffers on hand for the event said they are now making life plans with partic-ipants “for a year to find out what they want to do, what they want to accomplish.” One participant, she said, has wanted to travel to Memphis to visit Graceland for years, and he is finally going this year.

The staffer said that most day-to-day activities that peo-ple take for granted are very

important events for pro-gram participants. “It might not seem like much,” said the staffer, but those who partici-pate in the day programming enjoy getting out to places like the pool hall or the race track

or the movies.Jamieson would like to

have the coffee events more than once a month. Visitors are welcome, but “they're a busy group, they're out and about a lot,” she said of pro-

gram participants. “Drop-by visitors might not find people here. We wouldn't want them to miss out on the chance to catch up.”

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A second set of WRAP stu-dents celebrated their gradua-tion last week at Grand River Employment and Training (GREAT).

WRAP (Work Ready Ab-original People) is an 18 week program that is offered through a partnership between GREAT and the AFL-CIO (American Federation of La-bour and Congress of Indus-trial Organizations). Students between the ages of 18 – 30 years who have their Grade 12 or GED are exposed to careers in carpentry, heavy equip-ment operation, ironwork, sheet metal, welding, electri-

cal, millwright, plumbing and construction work. In the pro-cess, they upgrade their math and physics and obtain safety certifications needed to be-come an apprentice.

Students are also taught theory and get just enough hands-on training in the dif-ferent careers to to allow them to know if they have an af-finity for the work. Those students who decide to pur-sue an apprenticeship also re-ceive support for writing their trades entrance exams.

Program Coordinator Brandi Jonathan has also in-troduced a cultural element, explaining during the gradu-ation ceremony, “when you know who you are, you can

go anywhere and do any-thing.” As part of the grad-uation ceremony, students received a hawk feather and wampum.

“The success of this pro-gram is actually overwhelm-ing,” said Jonathan. A number of students had to miss their graduation because they are working. Five of the students are registered as apprentices in the building trades, she said.

Team member Alexander Lolua, who represents the IBEW Construction Council of Ontario, told the students, “don't be afraid to go out and grab that ring and be the best trades person that you can be.”

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Photograph: Only a few students were able to attend their WRAP graduation on Wednesday. While a few were ill, five of the students were employed and couldn’t attend. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS

One stretch of river road in Six Nations was shut down Thursday afternoon after days of rain raised the water levels in the Grand River. Fourth Line was closed between Bateman's Line and Mohawk Road because the river had encroached on the road.

“It's higher than we've seen in a few years,” said Dave Schultz, who spoke for the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA). “Not as high as we've been in the past. We've had three floods between April of 2008 and February of 2009.”

Schultz said last week's water flows, as recorded by a gauge at Brantford, “peaked at about 600 cubic meters per second and the normal sum-mer flow through there would be about 20. But if you go back to those floods in 2008 and '09, in 2008 it was 850, the one in December, 2008 was 1,000 [mm] and the one in February, 2009 was 825 [mm] ... those were some of the bigger ones in the past couple of decades.”

Six Nations was not the only community to experience overflowing riverbanks. The City of Brantford shut down Gilkinson Street; and feeder rivers in the Grand River wa-tershed, the Nith, Conestogo and the Speed, were also af-fected. Schultz said that over a seven day period (ending Sunday April 14), 60 to 70 mm of rain fell in the water-shed. The Authority had an-ticipated as much as much as 100 mm of rain could fall.

But Six Nations did not have to contend with just an incredibly swollen river – the heavy rains meant partially treated sewage from commu-nities upstream from Six Na-tions had been released into the river. “We had some treat-ment issues, like we always do,” said Steve Lickers, who manages the Six Nations Wa-ter Treatment plant. “But we got through it okay.”

The release of partially treated sewage during last week's rain “is not unusual,” Lickers said. “We shut down for a bit here and there, just for those purposes.” Lickers said the release of sewage dur-ing heavy rain “is pretty com-mon.”

Six Nations is notified any time there is a spill of haz-ardous material that might affect the Grand River, as does Brantford, Brant Coun-ty and the Grand River Con-servation Authority (and any affected downstream commu-nity). Normally the Ontario Spills Action Centre calls with an advisory, although sometimes the warnings can go through the Health Unit. “Everybody's pretty much on board with it,” said Lickers.

The heavy rains “really stirred everything up,” Lick-ers said. “When we're expect-ing heavy rains or any kind of weather conditions, if we get an early heads-up, we'll start filling everything before hand so we're ready to go.”

Things have dried up a bit, and water levels in the river have been receding, but Schul-tz said the GRCA is k e e p i n g an eye on upcoming w e a t h e r. A n o t h e r storm sys-tem bear-ing heavy rain is ex-pected to reach the watershed later this week, and could cause high river levels again.

Lickers and his crew are preparing for the upcoming weather. “We keep close track of everything,” he said.

Six Nations weathered the freezing rain nicely, although that part of the storm affected a large portion of southwest-ern Ontario Thursday and Fri-day, causing downed power

lines thousands of power out-ages. Only a few Six Nations residences were affected by a power outage.

The same storm sys-tem that set-tled in over the south-ern portions of Ontario also affect-ed parts of Saskatch-ewan and parts of Q u e b e c and creat-ed havoc in the United States be-fore slowly

moving on to affect the Mar-times.

The GRCA uses reservoirs to help moderate climate ef-fects on the Grand River. “In the spring, we're walk-ing a very narrow tightrope,” Shultz said, explaining the Authority saves spring wa-ter in the reservoirs for re-lease over the dryer summer months. “Last summer half the water, maybe a bit more than that in the river was com-ing from those reservoirs as it flows past the reserve there. If you go further upstream, past Kitchener, 100 percent of the water was coming from those reservoirs.”

“We try to manage the [river] flows to minimize the impacts,” Schultz said. “We know what flows will flood out certain communities, so we try to keep the reservoirs

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Flooding affects Six Nations after days of rain

Fourth Line was closed between Bateman’s and Mohawk Roads (shown above) Thursday afternoon as the Grand River flooded. River levels were still high Friday morning, and were expected to stay high all weekend long. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).



Provincial Liberal MPP for Brant, Dave Levac, crashed the party at Six Nations Poly-technic Saturday with words of encouragement from his government and himself, and an announcement of a $450,000 Trillium grant over 24 months to help preserve and promote traditional lan-guage throughout Ontario.

“Mr. Levac has always been a strong supporter of Six Nations and especially language preservation,” said Six Nations Polytechnic President and CEO Rebecca Jamieson.

“We were so pleased he could come.”

The money will be divid-ed between the Woodland Cultural Centre’s language program and that of the Six Nations Language Commis-sion.

In the first year, it will be used to Create digital archive and business plan for sustain-ability, funds for cataloguing in both Mohawk and Onon-daga languages, and record-ing and transcribing stories and cultural documents into Mohawk and Onondaga.

The Woodland Cultural Centre focuses more on the Cayuga language.

The second year will in-clude a digital archival plan as well as the creation of digital recordings of lan-guage speakers to help teach the traditional languages for generations to come.

Six Nations Polytech will supervise project personnel and make the Deyohaha:ge (Indigenous Knowledge Centre)’s linguistic and cul-tural resources and archives available to the project.

They will provide meeting and research space, provide a home for the project, a lan-guage resource room, which

will permanently host the project. They will also be the source of student volunteers from the language program and engage with its language stakeholders.

Language and the culture are inextricably linked to one another and there is nowhere that this is more true that at Six Nations, with six lan-guages and cultures linked

so closely together.Six Nations Polytech-

nic hosted a Six Nations Language Conference over three days this past weekend which brought together many language instructors and ed-ucators from throughout the Haudenosaunee region to share their successes and to encourage one another with best practices experiences.

Rebecca Jamieson was ex-cited about the large turnout and enthusiasm the partici-pants showed throughout the weekend.

“Part of what we do at

Polytech is language revital-ization which is one of our primary objectives,” she said during a break in the pro-gram. “We have made a sin-cere effort over the last two or three years to develop col-laborative partnerships with community agencies. Last year we held an aboriginal language day. We invited all the community programs to showcase and we provided a breakfast. Since then, we’ve worked at developing more partnerships with the Wood-land Cultural Centre, and the language commission.”

This was by far the most ambitious program to date drawing participants from several Iroquoian commu-nities including Akwesasne and Kahnawake.

Frank Miller, a respected Mohawk language educator and speaker, fully supports the program and any others that preserve this important piece the of Mohawk culture.

“Over the past 20 years since I got involved with it, I have seen more and more people every year and the encouraging thing about it now is that we are seeing younger people,” said Mill-er. “Before, we had a bunch of people who had lost their language through the resi-dential schools, and they were the ones coming to the programs to try and rejuve-nate their language. Now, these young people are going to be the parents of the future and hopefully they will pass it on to their children.”

But once someone learns the language there are cur-rently not many opportunities in a social setting to speak or hear the language. This is a problem Miller would like to see fixed somehow.

“For the Mohawk lan-guage, the only thing we have is the Mohawk Long-house,” he says. “We need

to be looking at other pos-sible opportunities as well to help build and retain what is learned. Small groups do get together sometimes but is not enough.”

Onondaga Chief Arnold General was also encour-aged by the return to the tra-ditional culture and language he has noticed over the past few years.

“When I was in my ear-ly teens, there wasn’t much speaking of the language,” he recalls. “I think at that time it was the school system pushing English language all the time and not many of us young fellas got to hear it. I leaned my language from the elders. I was always at the longhouse and was con-stantly talking with elders.”

Getting on in years now, it does his heart good to see the recent resurgence of the Haudenosaunee traditional languages.

“I am glad to see it revi-talizing itself,” says Chief General. “It’s coming back together and my grandkids, even the little ones, under-stand the language now. I talk to them as much as I can in the language — just con-versational language. That’s

when we have to teach them, right from the time they are born.”

Miller explains how the richness of the traditional languages has been lost in translation into English.

“As part of the program here this weekend, I did a story board yesterday and I found that it took a lot longer to do it in Mohawk, because when I was translating into English I was just hitting the high spots but wasn’t getting into the details,” he says. “In Mohawk you get a lot more detail and a lot more infor-mation. It is really more co-

lourful than English. Each syllable is a message in it-self.”

Chief General agrees.“You say it’s a nice day

in English and that’s it,” he says. “But in the dialect, it describes what you see in front of you and that’s what gets lost in translation. Sometimes when you trans-late something into English it’s really quite funny.”

There are plans for more similar programs in the fu-ture as well as making the language conference itself an annual or semi-annual affair.

Six Nations Council is offering Matrimonial Real Property [MRP] Mediation training to interested and qualified community members. Training will require a commitment of 14 full work days, to be offered as follows: May 13-17, June 4-7, and June 17-21.

Qualifications for Six Nations MRP Mediators

• Post-secondary education or high school diploma with extensive work experience in the human services sector, preferably with First Nations people;

• High aptitude for reading, writing and ability to perform arithmetic, including complex word problems;

• Willing to take mediator training from a mainstream and traditional Haudenosaunee perspective and engage in annual training;

• Must be recognized in the community as being of good moral character, sound mental health and demonstrate a reasonable, non-judgmental demeanour

• Must have a strong understanding of the Six Nations community’s culture, general social mores and values, and display a willingness to conduct themselves in a way that respects each other’s similarities as well as our differences.

To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter indicating band name and number, and photocopies of educational diplomas/transcripts. You must also submit a WRITING SAMPLE that clearly displays that you meet the basic qualifications for analytical and writing skills. Applications will be accepted until Friday, April 26, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.

For more information, or to submit your application, please contact:

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Language program gets $450,000 in Trillium grants

MPP Dave Levac brings $450,00 from the Trillium Foundation for language preservation at Six Nations. He is a strong supporter of language preservation.

Six Nations Polytechnic President and CEO Rebecca Jamie-son. (Photo by Jim Windle)


A gift from our neighbours upstreamWell it appears Brantford and Six Nations got a smelly little gift from a number of

Grand River communities upstream following the unnaturally high water in the river which caused significant flooding in rural areas and forced treatment plants to release untreated or semi-treated sewage directly in the mighty Grand.

Isn’t that nice? The communities of New Hamburg, Elmira, Elora and Cambridge all dumped raw and semi-treated sewage into the river to protect the treatment systems themselves from flooding.

Apparently the MOE has sat on its hands over the past several years as pollution, due to treatment plant bypasses have increased, some say due to the combination of global warming and outdated equipment and standards.

It’s not the first time we have heard of a government institution looking the other way rather than putting a priority sticker on a situation any right thinking person would see as needing attention right away.

Seems they have to be prodded with an Abrams Tank before any kind of motion is detectable.

Oh, but the MOE is right on the situation now. Heck, they have said they would send a letter to the offending communities to suggest they update their water treatment facili-ties. Oh my God! Not That! Not a letter!

In the meantime, these little packages of crap from our upstream neighbours goes on without resolution or political will to stop it. I don’t know about you, but when we flush the toilet, it’s easy to feel like it just goes away and disappears, right?

But no. It just flows downstream to someone else’s community. And when a commu-nity’s waste and sewage water is flushed directly into the same river hundreds of thou-sands of people drink from, nobody with the power to do something about it does much more than tell the media what a tragedy it is, and then it’s back to more important issues.

But what if the high water is not a result of heavy rains at all. Maybe it was because too many people upstream flushed their toilets at the same time. It might be easier to regulate when people flush their toilets than to stop communities from sending its poopy waste to us.

We are concerned and upset that we could not get any answers out of anybody con-cerning the condition of the still under construction Six Nations treatment plant lower pumping station after it was completely flooded out by the surging Grand. All we want-ed to know was if there was any damage done and if it would slow down completion. That’s all.

It’s not the first time Band Council or its staffers have clammed up on issues im-portant to the community. Lately it seems that pretty well every department we have attempted to get any kind of information out of, zips up the pie hole tighter than a Scotsman’s wallet.

The gag orders and the phony in camera session are getting out of control in our es-timation. One thing we have found is that whenever an agency or a government speaks of transparency, you can bet they are hiding something and have no intention of telling you what it is they are hiding. Sorry but that is not the Great Law, and it is not the not-so-great Canadian law either in a democratic society which Canada used to be and the traditional Haudenosaunee people invented and practiced long before Europeans came to this side of the pond.

Here’s an idea. How about stopping all the talk about transparency and just start do-ing it.

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A new First Nation music production has been launched by Midnight Shine, which features an old friend of mine and Attawapiskat resident Adrian Sutherland. A lot of great music has come from James Bay over the past few decades and Midnight Shine represents a new crop of Aboriginal performers to add to this tradition. Midnight Shine which is also the album title is the first release by this group of First Nation musicians.

Laughter and music has been two of the great tools of survival of First Nations. All my life, I was surrounded by friends and family members who could sing, play the fiddle and step dance. The Scottish, Irish, French and English fur traders had a big impact on our people when they introduced us to the fiddle. Of course, the drum always had a place in our music from the days of my ancestors and now happily it is being featured more and more with traditional drum groups all over the country.

Adrian and his younger brother Andrew have been part of several traditional drum-ming and singing groups for many years. Their family has always had a strong connection to Aboriginal culture and traditional activities. I know that Adrian has always loved music.

One of the main stays of music in Aboriginal communities has always been country. I recall listening to so many country records, cassettes and then to CDs over so many years. Those great country artists like George Jones, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Hank Snow will forever be part of my experience as a child growing up in Attawapis-kat. This type of music has influenced our communities on the James Bay coast over many decades and it was a starting point for many music performers in the north. We had our own local musicians too with the Nakogee brothers that have entertained us for decades at community events and dances. One of the lead singers, George Nakogee is now better

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First Nations University Announces Wiseman Mathematics Contest Winners

First Nations University of Canada continues to multiply its success in building the future

of Aboriginal education with a program that adds up to better math skills among First Nations youth across Canada.

At a ceremony today at Lloyd S. King Elementary School in Hagersville, Ontario, FNUniv Board member Dr. Thomas Dignan presented awards to eight outstanding students. As well the school received the 2012 Elder Ken Goodwill Memorial Award which honours schools whose students have achieved the highest scores in the contest.

There is no minimizing the importance of a solid math foundation. These young people rep-resent the future of Canada’s First Nations. I’m confident that, from among the ranks of these bright young minds, we will one day see the accountants, the engineers, the doctors, nurses,

scientists and entrepreneurs who will help our First Nations community become stronger and more prosperous,” said Dignan.

Founded by FNUniv faculty member Dr. Arzu Sardarli in 2008, the Wiseman Mathematics Contest is aimed at motivating grade 4 and 5 students at First Nations schools to learn math-ematics in a competitive environment. This is the first mathematics contest in North America developed specifically for Aboriginal students.

While many other math contests exist across North America, First Nations students face a number of barriers to participation, including registration fees. The Wiseman Mathematics contest has no registration fees. The program has grown to the point that hundreds of students from across Canada participate in the contest every year.

“This is one of our greatest success stories in fostering education in First Nations communi-ties. Just like young people everywhere, First Nations students have a natural love of learning. This program is a testament to the results that can be achieved by taking down barriers and making learning fun,” said Dignan.

known for working as a show host for Wawatay Radio on the James Bay coast. There have also been other music artists to come out of James Bay such as Lawrence Martin, Vern Cheechoo, Archie Cheechoo and Ron Kataquapit.

Adrian and his band which includes members George Gillies on drums, guitarist Zach Tomatuck and Stan Louttit on bass and guitar, have produced a wonderful production. Some of the songs featured include my favourites ‘James Bay’ and ‘Indian In Disguise’. They describe the modern world my Aboriginal generation currently lives in, where we have one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Adrian did most of the writing for the songs on the album and his sister Iris Sutherland also contributed with her writing tal-ent in the song ‘Small Town Girl’. You can check out the band and their music at: www.midnightshineonline.com

I am so happy for Adrian that he is making his dreams come true. He has a great voice

and the band is very tight musically. They recorded their album at Noble Street Studios in Toronto and it was mastered by George Seara. The album was produced by well known music promoter Douglas Romanow.

Adrian is a hard worker and he has first hand experience to know what it is to be an Anishinabe person in our modern world. He understands very well where he has come from and where he is going. The music world and life in the big city is uncompromising and there are lots of cracks and holes on the pathway to success. Alcohol and drugs are a big part of the music scene and Adrian will have to draw on his knowledge as a traditional person and his experience in the world of addictions to keep strong in his path.

It is great to see some positive news come out of Attawapiskat. Like many First Na-tions, my community has had to deal with so many issues over the past few decades. Adri-an is proof that strong connections to our traditions and culture produce positive results.

Look for good things from Adrian Sutherland and Midnight Shine and support and encourage their efforts. We need more role models like Adrian and his band members.

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By Jim WindleOHSWEKEN

The future Six Nations business community was on display at GREAT this week.

The atrium of the GREAT building was the site of sev-

eral enterprising entrepre-neurs who came to show their business ideas and to be judged.

It was all part of the Ab-original Small Business Management course offered through Mohawk College in cooperation with GREAT.

There were demonstration tables set up for 11 promis-ing new businesses covering a wide range of ideas from solar energy distribution to Caribbean cuisine.

“The tables in front of them are to be considered their store front window,” explained instructor Cathy Smith. “They are the cus-tomer service representa-tive promoting their new business. This is their fi-

nal exam, and they are be-ing judged by people others than myself.”

David Moses, from CKRZ and the DAM multimedia Studio, a Mohawk College representative, a young stu-dent, and a GREAT repre-sentative did the judging.

To complete their course, students had to do their own advertising and promotion, setups, and presentations for their business ideas.

Beatrice Matieroene is a Six Nations woman married to a man from the Caribbean who turned her on to Carib-bean foods and taught her how to prepare and cook it properly.

“My husband is from Trinidad,” she said. “His mother owned a restaurant there and he taught me how to cook these dishes. He is a very good cook.”

Judging from the reaction of people sampling some of her dishes, Bea has leaned well. Earlier this month she received a bursary from Mo-

hawk College to pursue her dream of opening a mobile Caribbean Food business.

“I want to start with a food truck parked at my own residence at 34 Henry Street in Brantford, so I won’t have to deal with rent or anything like that,” she says.

But her ultimate dream is to own and operate her own restaurant dedicated to Ca-ribbean cuisine.

Smith was very impressed with this year’s students and expects to see some, if not all, of these small businesses seeds take root and flourish.

“We’ve had many good success stories from this

course,” said Smith. One of her grads now runs

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ness while Kim Henry’s Bush Card Greetings is also up and running. King Con-crete is another success sto-ry from the program with its office and facility located on Fourth Line Road.

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Beatrice Matieroene is married to a man from Trinidad who has caused her to fall in love with Caribbean food and taught her how to cook it. Through the Mohawk College Aboriginal Small Business program, she has earned a bursary from the college to pursue her ambition to open Bea’s Caribbean Cuisine. Several other business ideas were on show at the GREAT building last week as the final exam in their course. Their presentations were judged by Six Nations community members and a Mohawk College representative with he results making up a good part of their final marks.

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Six Nations youth killed in collision

The community is in mourning once again follow-ing the tragic death of 18 year old Dwight Preston George Staats on Sunday afternoon. Dwight died after he lost con-trol of his vehicle, which po-lice say was west bound on

River Range Road. Dwight was driving a white Chevro-let Impala, which left the road and struck a tree, impacting the driver's side, said Six Na-tions Police in a statement. Responding Six Nations fire fighters used the “jaws of life” to get Dwight out of the ve-hicle, but the young man was pronounced dead at the West Haldimand General Hospital.

Police did not say if there was anyone else in the vehi-cle at the time, only that the collision is still under inves-tigation.

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The under-used horse rac-ing track found in the heart of Ohsweken might well once again be used for horse har-ness racing.

Those Six Nations Elected Councillors who sit on the Physical and Economic De-velopment Committee are very interested in pursuing the idea of starting up horse harness racing at Six Nations as soon as possible, but not without exploring the feasi-bility of the idea first.

The news that Flambor-ough Downs would not be hosting any horse harness races at all from May to Sep-tember got some councillors champing at the bit to move

on filling the need.Ontario had been helping

horse harness racing by giv-ing $345 million a year from slots to race tracks for purses. But in an effort to fight the growing provincial deficit, Ontario cut that funding late last year. The horse racing industry has been in turmoil ever since.

Six Nations Elected Coun-cil sees the development as an opportunity to generate rev-enue by filling the gap left by the province. Council is exploring the possibilities of opening up not just a major track, but a side-line gam-ing operation, with a view towards building a hotel as well.

Horse harness racing in Ontario has been propped up

with funds from gaming, but last year the province cut all subsidies to horse tracks in Ontario. Some tracks, like Flamborough Downs, will re-ceive transitional funds from the province for a year.

Darryl Hill, a Six Nations horse harness racer, agreed to look into the feasibility of opening up the old race track once again.

While the existing track is far too small to accommodate more than four to six horse teams at a time, the track has some advantages: it exists, there is spectator seating, and there is a tower for judges and an announcer.

Horse racer Hill said he es-timated it would cost at least $50,000 to put on one day of racing, which he said would

include eight races and purs-es. He said costs “depends on how far you want to go,” including regulations that would be followed and the size of the purses for winners.

If the feasibility study is promising, Six Nations would most likely start horse harness racing at the existing track while continuing to develop plans for a larger track.

Councillor Ava Hill (Dis-trict Two) said since news of the idea of developing a horse racing track in Six Nations got out to the public, “people in the community are excited about it.”

If the feasibility study looks promising, the committee will push towards developing a sound proposal to present to Elected Council for approval.

Six Nations exploring possibility of re-opening old horse racing track

Darryl Hill (front) and Butch Hill are two Six Nations horse harness racers. They attended the April meeting of Elected Council’s Physical and Economic Development Committee at the request of Elected Chief Montour. Darryl Hill will be developing a feasibility study looking into re-opening the Six Nations horse racing track in Ohsweken. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS

Payments on a deal poten-tially worth over $8.7 million from NextEra Energy to Six Nations could start as early as this year – if Six Nations members approve the deal.

Community Planner Amy Lickers has started her out-reach to the community on

the potential deal, and said she is working to implement the lessons she learned from the last community engagement session on Samsung's Grand Renewable Energy Park. She has planned four community meetings to take place in April and May, and said the results of the consultation will be pre-sented to Elected Council in June.

The Six Nations CAP team, short for Consultation and Ac-commodation, which is com-prised of staff from the Lands and Resources and Econom-ic Development departments had worked out the potential deal with NextEra Energy for the Summerhaven Wind proj-ect, which is currently under construction.

The wind farm, which was

contested by Six Nations member Bill Monture, is ex-pected to be online this sum-mer. Ironing out the revenue sharing agreement was a late development, Lickers con-ceded during a telephone in-terview.

Lickers said if Six Nations members support the deal, Six Nations would receive $8.7 million in royalty pay-

ments over a 20 year period. Another $15,000 is earmarked for scholarships, again over a 20 year period; and Six Na-tions got NextEra to agree to commit $50,000 for a deer and eagle monitoring pro-gram. The royalty payments would amount to $435,000 a year, and would be paid out through a community trust.

While the province has stip-

ulated NextEra is to conduct monitoring of the 56 turbines for detrimental effects on birds and bats for two years after start-up of the turbines, Lickers said they asked for an additional commitment be-cause of concerns raised by community members about the presumed detrimental im-pacts of the turbines on wild-

No community vote on potential NextEra Energy deal

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By Stephanie Dearing

Mapping project receives funding

Councillor Clynt King ad-vised his colleagues at New Credit Council during the regular general council meet-ing, held on April 15, that the Dreamcatchers Geomatic project had received $200,000 in research funding.

“I'm really happy about that,” said King. “I think we'll really break through now, be-cause we've been developing all the time ... Now we'll be able to really sink our teeth into it. The next steps include transcription and the entering of information into the sys-tem, then the system will be ready to use.

The project is a collabora-tion between the University of Waterloo, the Mississau-gas of New Credit, the Centre for Community Mapping and the Fort Albany First Nation. When finished, the web-based

system would enhance land use consultations, as well as empower community cultural mapping and planning. The project, which incorporates traditional knowledge, would also enable sustainable com-munity development.

Highway Six/First Line Intersection

A meeting was held between the Ministry of Transporta-tion and New Credit mem-bers to review the preferred options for the Highway Six and First Line Intersection. The busy intersection will be upgraded by next year in an effort to decrease the number of collisions that take place there. New Credit members favoured a stop light, which Councillor Erma Ferrell pointed out would take a few months to install and would involve some traffic disrup-tion.

However, the Ministry of Transportation appears to be leaning towards the installa-tion of a traffic round-about,

which would take longer to in-stall and would require having traffic detours, Ferrell said. Ferrell added she is not con-fident a round-about would actually be safer. She also ex-pressed concern that the New Credit gas station and Country Style shop would lose busi-ness if a round-about was put in. The Ministry did not pro-vide her with an answer on how much money they could lose on lost business.

Ferrell said the traffic lights would cost $1.1 million to install, and the round-about would cost $2.61 million. The Ministry will be meeting with New Credit members one more time before seeing what Council would like to support, Ferrell said. She said she anticipated a lot of discus-sion would take place because the Ministry still has to con-sult with Haldimand County.

Thefts a continuing source of concern

While most of New Credit's police call for service catego-ries have declined over time, that has not been the case for theft, including vehicle thefts as well as other prop-erty thefts, Inspector Carter told the April meeting of New Credit Council. Two inoper-able vehicles were stolen in March, and Carter said the po-lice “are thinking they are tak-ing them for scrap.” He said the cars would have had to have been towed away, lead-ing to the theory the cars were taken for their scrap metal.

Other thefts were mainly at the gas station, he said, with people filling up and driv-ing off without paying. “We track them down ... most per-sons come back to pay,” said Carter.

As a result of the thefts, the OPP are patrolling more in the area.

School Expansion

Work on the plans for a future school expansion are going well, reported Coun-cillor Stace LaForme. The committee has been meet-ing regularly, and consulta-

tion is underway with staff of the daycare and school on what is needed for the future. Some New Credit administra-tive departments, such as the Human Services also needs more space. “There's a lot of work ahead,” said LaForme. He said the committee hopes to have plans and a proposed

budget prepared “within one year,” warning that costs would be higher than he had initially thought because of external factors, such as the parking lot. “That's why we've got a Tech Services representative” on the com-mittee, he said.

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Six Nations Mental Health Team is still accepting applications for The Sogyo hogye7 (I’m Coming Home)Addiction Recovery Supportive Housing Program

There is a limited number of geared to income housing units for clients experiencing complex addiction issues and/or concurrent disorder, are

homeless or at risk of being homeless.

Their purpose is to enhance client’s quality of life by supporting them through their transition into a healthy lifestyle.

Due to the high demand for these units, the SOGYOHOGYE7 (I’m Coming Home) Supportive Housing for Addiction Recovery Program runs for 1 year

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New Credit council briefs

FORT QU'APPELLE, Sask. _ Nearly a dozen First Na-tions in Saskatchewan have declared a state of emergency as the threat of spring flood-ing looms.

Eleven bands _ members of the File Hills Qu'Appelle Trib-al Council _ made the declara-tion Monday.

The bands are also lobbying Ottawa for disaster aid, saying Saskatchewan's disaster assis-tance program is too slow and cumbersome.

Ed Bellegarde, chairman of the tribal council, says the bands' cash flow is depleted and many of them are still waiting for assistance after flooding three years ago.

Bellegarde says many re-serves are grappling with

mould problems and will be unable to deal with damage from additional flooding.

He also says the tribal coun-cil plans to meet this week with federal Aboriginal Af-fairs Minister Bernard Val-court.

An email from the minis-ter's press secretary says Otta-wa has provided more than $2 million to over 60 Saskatch-ewan First Nations to prepare for potential flooding this year.

Andrea Richer also says the minister has agreed to anoth-er meeting with Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations representatives later this week to discuss flood planning and response.

(CJLR, The Canadian Press)

High water threat has several Saskatchewan First Nations eyeing Ottawa for aid


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After barely making it into the Canadian Lacrosse League playoffs, the Iroquois Ironmen shocked last year’s Creator’s Cup winners, the Ohsweken Demons, by eliminating them in the quarter-final game with a 15-14 last second thriller at the ILA Sunday afternoon.

The Ironmen now move on to face the top seed Niagara Lock Monsters in the semi-fi-nal game to be played this Sat-urday, April 20, at 1 pm, at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. At 4 pm the same day, the Toronto Shooting Stars and the Dur-ham Turfdogs do battle also at the ILA to determine the fi-nal Creator’s Cup matchup for the next day, Sunday, April 21, at the ILA at 2 pm.

The Ironmen laid down the gauntlet right from the open-ing face-off. Dwayne Porter, who led the Iroquois attack with four goals and an assist, notched his first of the game at 1:40 when he drilled one into the top corner past Demon’s starter Jeff Powless, assisted by Chris Attwood and Travis Hill.

Jesse Johnson tied it up with a powerplay goal from Cory Bomberry and Ian Martin at 2:43, but the Ironmen ex-ploded with a string of five unanswered goals before the quarter would end 6-1 in the Ironmen’s favour.

Powless was replaced in the Demon’s net by Jake Hen-

hawk after the Ironmen scored their third of the game, on five shots on goal.

Porter scored his second of the game at 3:40 followed by Travis Hill, Josh Johnson and two — the tying goal and the go ahead marker — both scored by Chris Attwood.

The shoe was on the oth-er foot in the second quarter as the Demons came back to erase the Iroquois’ five goal bulge and take the lead 8-7 at the half.

Demons goals were scored by Tom Montour, Holden Vyse with two, Joe Haodais Mara-cle, Cory Bomberry, with a long range missile that nearly tore the netting behind Hen-hawk, Chris Courtney and Jes-se Johnson.

Porter accounted for the lone Ironmen goal of the quar-ter.

Delby Powless made it 8-6 for the Demons with an extra attacker on the floor at 1:58, assisted by Bomberry and Wayne VanEvery.

But the Iroquois came back to life and retook the lead. Porter scored his fourth of the game at 4:34 when Henhawk lost the ball at his feet and in-advertently knocked it in with his own stick.

Mike Longboat evened the score for the Iroquois at 6:59 with a great flying goal as he dove through the crease. A minute later, Torrey VanEv-ery restored the Ironmen lead, 10-9 and Elijah Printup added a cushion goal under the nar-

row lead to make it 11-9 at 12:21.

Clay Hill took that cushion away at 13:40 but Jesse John-son got it back with 2 seconds remaining on the clock and an extra man on the floor, capping off a beautiful passing display to run the clock down.

The defending Champions were down two goals heading into the final 15 minutes and came out to save face against a team that only made it into the playoffs by the skin of their teeth.

Cory Bomberry led the De-mon’s fourth quarter charge at the 59 second mark on a pow-erplay after Elijah Printup was charged with a delay of game penalty at 36 seconds.

Holden Vyse made it a new game at 12-12 at 1:47, but the Iroquois still smelled victory and Elijah Johns answered to retake the lead at 2:15 from Porter.

Kyle Isaacs tied it up again for the Demons at 3:07 and Maracle gave the lead back to the Demons at 4:03.

Printup came through for the Ironmen at the 10 minute mark from Chris Attwood and Josh Johnson. There was a lull in the rapid scoring sequence for most of the rest of the pe-riod as both Jake Lazore in the Ironmen net and Jake Hen-hawk at the other end kept the score tied at 14-14.

Then, with 1:02 remaining in the last quarter, the Demons got over anxious on a line change and were called for a

too many men bench minor. That gave the Ironmen a man advantage and possession of the ball. The penalty proved to be the downfall of the De-mons as Chris Attwood gave the Cinderella Ironmen a ticket to the semi-finals from Printup and Blue Hill with one second remaining in regulation time.

With the Demons gone, the Ironmen will begin the next hurdle in what could be their miracle year when they face the first place Niagara Lock Monsters this Saturday after-noon at 1 pm.

Once again, the Creators Cup final game is set to go Sunday, April 21 at the ILA at 2 pm.

Ironmen outlast the Demons to win semi-final berth

Chris Attwood, Iroquois Ironmen #77, slips between Demons’ Tom Montour #9 and Logan Kane #99 in Sunday’s quarter-final playoff game at the ILA. The Ironmen, who got into the playoffs only barely after a poor regular season of 14 losses and four regular season wins, shocked the defending Creators Cup Ohsweken Demons with a game winning goal by Attwood with one second remaining. Attwood also scored the tying goal. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Kraig Maracle #82, keeps close tabs on Ohsweken Demons’ Ian Martin #1 in Sunday’s quarter-final game at the ILA. The Iroquois Ironmen will now face the league leading Niagara Lock Monsters at the ILA this Saturday afternoon at 1 pm. The other semi-final game between the Toronto Shooting Stars and the Durham Turf Dogs will follow at 4 pm. with the Creators cut game set for Sunday afternoon at 2 pm at the ILA. (Photo by Jim Windle)


Goaltender Matt Vinc is hav-ing a historic season in 2013. The Rochester goaltender has already set new team records and is on the verge of setting a new National Lacrosse League record.

The 30-year-old netminder from St. Catharines, Ontario currently leads the league with 636 saves and is nine shy of breaking the NLL’s record for saves in a single season. Rob Blasdell established the cur-rent record of 644 saves with the Albany Attack in 2002.

Vinc is averaging 42 saves per game in 2013, and will set a new league-high against the Buffalo Bandits on April 20th in the regular season finale. Vinc is also on pace to join Dallas Eliuk as the only other goalie to lead the NLL in saves four times.

In Rochester’s loss to Ed-monton on April 14th, Vinc

surpassed Knighthawks’ Hall of Fame goaltender Pat O’Toole, setting a new fran-chise record for saves in a sin-gle season. Not only did Vinc break O’Toole’s record of 598, but he became the first Roch-ester goaltender to record 600 saves in a single season. Vinc recently passed Steve Dietrich for second all-time in saves as a Knighthawk. He now has 1,804 saves since coming to Rochester.

Entering Week #16 with a .806 save percentage, the two-time All-Pro could set a new franchise single-season record for save percentage. O’Toole holds the current record at .798. His best month of the 2013 campaign was Febru-ary, where Vinc did not allow more than 10 goals in a game and had a save percentage over .800 in all five games. Vinc has backstopped the Knighthawks

to a league-low 10.40 goals against per game, despite giv-ing up over 53 shots per game.

If Vinc earns the NLL’s Goaltender of the Year Award, he would become the only net-minder to win the award three times in his career. He won back-to-back Goaltender of the Year Awards in 2010 with Or-lando and 2011 with Rochester.

Vinc and the Knighthawks

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It’s the end of the Six Na-tions Minor Hockey season and league convener Dwayne Laforme hosted a gala awards presentation and a good meal at the Six Nations Communi-

ty Hall Sunday afternoon to honour this years crop of fu-ture stars.

The hall was full as proud parents and friends as Six Nations’ young hockey talent came together for the annual event.

All and all, it was another

successful season for several teams at several, different lev-els of the game and a mile-stone for individual players in their development.

There were far too many awards presented to list them all here but we will be posting several photos of award win-

ners on our free e-edition later this week at www.tekanews.com. If we got someone’s name wrong, we apologize but if you send us an email we

will correct the picture cap-tions immediately.

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Six Nations young hockey talent honoured at awards banquet

It was time to hand out the hardware at the Six Nations Community Hall Sunday afternoon as the Six Nations Minor Hockey Association honoured its young players for the 20012-2013 hockey season. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Three Championship banners proudly adorned the wall at Six Nations Community Hall as the Six Nations Minor Hockey Association honoured its own. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Rochester goalie can set NLL single-season saves record


Six Nations Rebels Pre-Season Statistics to date after 2 tournaments:

Six Nations Rebels Spring Showcase (March 30, 2013) at Iroquois Lacrosse ArenaSix Nations Rebels 10 Guelph Regals 7Windsor Clippers 11 Wallaceburg Red Devils 6Six Nations Rebels 8 Wallaceburg Red Devils 4Guelph Regals 6 Windsor Clippers 5Guelph Regals 9 Wallaceburg Red Devils 6Six Nations Rebels 13 Windsor Clippers 3

Clarington Green Gaels Pre-Season Classic (April 13,2013) at Garnet Rickard Rec Complex

Clarington Green Gaels 8 Newmarket Saints 2

Six Nations Rebels 5 Akwesasne Indians 4Akwesasne Indians 14 Newmarket Saints 1Six Nations Rebels 9 Clarington Green Gaels 4Clarington Green Gaels 7 Akwesasne Indians 5Six Nations Rebels 10 Newmarket Saints 4

Rebels travel to Oakville on April 27, 2013 for the final Pre-season tournament before hosting Windsor Clippers for the Regular Season Opener on Sunday, May 5th @ 7:00 PM (Iroquois Lacrosse Arena)

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The end of the Creators Cup road came to last year’s cup winners the Ohsweken De-mons of the CLax league, this past weekend but it won’t be the end of the road for several of its players.

They will simply change jerseys for this Sunday night’s inaugeral home opener for the brand new Sr. B Ohsweken

Rivermen, coached by De-mons coach Stew Monture. Monture who coached the Jr. B Rebels to multiple na-tional titles, chose to resign his post behind that bench to help launch the Sr. B River-men and shoot for a Presidents Cup, national Sr. B title.

The Rivermen will not be playing at the ILA but have chosen to stay on the hard sur-face of the Gaylord Powless Arena instead. Game time is 7

pm, Sunday April 21st.The executive of the Riv-

ermen believe they will be competitive right off the hop with a roster that includes so many players from the CLax and other graduating Rebels. But as the new season contin-ues, more strength is expected from the Ironmen roster after Sunday afternoon’s CLax championship is decided.

The new Rivermen will join the existing OLA Sr. B

franchises, the Brooklin Mer-chants, Norwood James Gang, Oakville Titans, Owen Sound North Stars, Sarnia Beavers, and the St. Catharines Saints.

The Huntsville Hawks from last season folded and a dis-persal draft was held. Halton Hills also requested an ex-pansion team this year, but its bid was voted down.Team President Cap Bomberry and general manager Marty Sta-ats along with Tom Johnson,

Claude Sault and Monture have been working hard be-hind the scenes to bring the new franchise to the Six Na-tions community. They are hoping fans of the CLax will come over to support them after the CLax championship is decided, also this Sun-day at 2 pm at the ILA.The Riverhawks next game will be Friday, May 3, when the Brooklin Merchants invade the Gaylord Powless Arena.

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The hair was flying at the Iroquois Lodge last Thurs-day, but it all for a good cause. The Cuts for Cancer program saw residents, staff and family volunteer to give up some of their coveted locks to be woven into hair replacements for for cancer

victims and at the same time, to raise funds for the “Miles to Go” campaign for diabe-tes.

Teresa Mt Pleasant and her staff watched and laughed as several donators gave money as well as hair. In total, on this their first Cuts for Cancer attempt, they raised $189.50 for the Miles to Go, and 114

inches of good healthy hair for cancer victims who usu-ally loose it during chemo-therapy cancer treatment.

Local hairstylist Gloria Skye donated her time, tal-ent and clippers to the cause. Gloria ran her own shop in downtown Ohsweken for years and is now working at Smoothe Essentials on Fourth Line Road.

First in the chair was Lana Miller to sacrificed several

inches of hair from her waste long locks. She was followed by Joanne Young and others but the big donation of the day came from Carl Miller who went right down to the mahogany in the name of his great-aunt Margret Miller who is a resident of the lodge.

“Actually, she is my great-

great aunt,” he said. “But I re-fer to her as my terrific aunt.”

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Hair-razing time at the Iroquois Lodge for good cause

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The global land rush has come to Brant County, and Ella Haley wants to put the brakes on before it is too late.

Haley represents Sustain-able Brant, and together with the local branch of the Na-tional Farmers Union, and the Langford Conservancy, they organized a lunch time discussion about the causes of global hunger, poverty and ecological degradation. The event was hosted by the Com-munity Health Centre on Fri-day, April 12.

Two of those groups, the National Farmers Union and the Langford Conservancy oppose the purchase of large areas of land in Brant County, saying they want to preserve prime farmland and the area's rural heritage. The activists call the purchase of lands, which will either become quarries or housing develop-ments, a land grab.

During the luncheon dis-cussion, guest speakers Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Di-

rector of Food First and Dr. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, a pro-fessor of International Devel-opment at Trent University, spoke about the global land rush and how it impacts on food sovereignty.

Food sovereignty, said Gimenez, is a phrase first coined by Via Campensina in the late 1990s. It means peo-ple have the right to decide what to eat, and the right to ensure the food in their com-munity is not only healthy, but is also available to everyone.

Food First works to end the injustices that cause hunger, poverty and environmental degradation globally. “We be-lieve a world free of hunger is possible if farmers and com-munities take back control of the food systems presently dominated by transnational agri-foods industries,” says the mission statement for the organization. “We are com-mitted to dismantling racism in the food system and believe in people’s right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through eco-logically sound and sustain-

able methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems—at home and abroad.”

The financialization of land, said Gimenez, creates “pools of investors who in-vest in farmland in the United

States ... not to grow food, but to make money on the value of the land.”

Haley pointed to Walton In-ternational Inc. as one of those companies in Brant County that has bought land in or-der to provide a profit to its mainly off-shore sharehold-ers. Walton currently owns over 4,000 acres of land in the county, which the company

wants to develop into housing.Lodhi agreed that financial

speculation “is the motivation behind Brant County devel-opment. Thousands of acres are bought up so financial speculators can make a quick buck,” he said.

Lodhi also said the 2012 federal omnibus budget bill brought in changes, “par-ticularly [for] lands under the Indian Act, and the way farm designations could be changed.” The omnibus bill “sets the stage for exploitation of resources on First Nation lands without consultation,” he said.

Gimenez suggested territo-rial defence of land as a way to counteract land grabs and to stand up for people's food rights. “We should be able to determine what happens to our land,” he said. Territorial defence is when local com-munities occupy and enclose their land and water and de-velop alternative livelihoods. It's described as a life-and-death struggle in the literature Gimenez brought with him.

Ella Haley, who heads up Sustainable Brant, said resi-dents in Brant County are creating local solutions to the land grab. Sustainable

Brant is lobbying Ontario to include Brant County in the Green Belt. Operation Ma-ple is one such solution. An information video about the Brant land grab is available to watch on You Tube through this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HJZDNF9l0e8#!.

Some members of Six Na-tions, such as Lester Green, who was at the lunch talk rep-resenting the Men's Fire, also oppose the development of lands on the Haldimand Tract.

Six Nations Elected Coun-cil announced late last year it has been negotiating “a histor-ic business partnership” with Walton International. No de-tails on that partnership have yet been made available.

Also at the discussion Fri-day was a Mohawk Worker representative. The Mohawk Workers blocked archeologi-cal work from proceeding on Walton's Tutela Heights prop-erty in 2012. Walton was suc-cessful in obtaining a court injunction against the Mo-hawk Workers.

Haley took the guest speak-ers on a tour of the disputed lands in Brant County after the discussion.

life. “We're trying to make sure the environment is being taken care of,” she said.

Lickers said the CAP team was also motivated to ask for the funding for a deer and ea-gle study from NextEra af-ter the corporation cut down a tree holding a bald eagle nest in January this year near Fisherville, with the permis-sion of the Minister of the Environment. A Summer-haven wind turbine was later vandalized, prompting police to investigate a possible link with the removal of the ea-gle's nest.

Knowing that Bill Monture challenged the permit Nex-tEra received to build the Summerhaven wind farm, Lickers said she is preparing for opposition to the pro-posed deal with the company. But despite concerns some community members had expressed about the process undertaken with community members on the Samsung agreement, Lickers said the deal would not go to a vote.

“The problem with voting in the community is it's hard to get people to participate,” said Lickers. “My only wish for the community is for peo-ple to get engaged,” she said. “It's not my job to tell people what to think.”

Information about the deal worked out with Nex-

tEra will be made available on the Six Nations website, www.sixnationsfuture.com starting on April 15. The first of four community meetings

will take place on April 25 at the Community Hall from 6:30 to 9 pm. For more in-formation, contact Lickers at 519-753-1950. GRAND RIVER EMPLOYMENT

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No community voteContinued from page 9

Eric Gimenez (center) was passionate about the erosion of food rights and sovereignty by what is being called the global land rush. Six Nations members are just as concerned about the large-scale purchase of lands in Brant County by devel-opers and real estate speculators as some Brant County resi-dents. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

Land speculation said to erode food rights


By Tyler HarbottleTHE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER _ The start gate opened for the two main parties in British Columbia's election campaign Tuesday, but the New Democrat Party was immediately tripped up over Internet postings by one of its candidates.

In the hour before the of-ficial election call Tues-day, the Liberal party sent out a news release calling for the resignation of the Kelowna-Mission NDP can-didate over several racial-ly-charged Internet postings involving compensation for First Nations.

New Democratic leader Adrian Dix quickly accept-ed the resignation of Day-leen Van Ryswyk just hours into the campaign, saying the comments were ``unaccept-able.''

The issue dogged Dix at his first official campaign event outside the Museum of Anthropology and then later at his own Kingsway cam-paign office.

Dix said he only learned of the comments Tuesday morning and immediately asked for her resignation.

``It's unfortunate. Of course candidates are vetted


Six Nations members “hardly had time to settle in” to their new home on the Grand River following the American Civil War before they provided support to their British allies in 1812, histo-rian and Legacy Consortium Director Keith Jamieson said, responding to a comment made by the Elected Chief.

Jamieson was presenting a report to Six Nations Elected Council's Committee of the Whole on April 8 on the ac-tivities of the Consortium. “We were only 19 years away from Mohawk Valley” before becoming involved in the War of 1812, the Elected Chief had noted.

Canada is now into its sec-ond year of commemorations of the War of 1812, and one of the first events that will be marked this year is the Battle of Stoney Creek. The com-memoration begins on May 31, and continues into early June with a recreation of the historic battle.

The community has com-

memorated the battle ev-ery year with a parade, said Jamieson. This year's commemoration will ac-knowledge the role played by Native allies. Part of the commemoration includes the installation of new public art by the City of Hamilton, as well as the opening of a new contemplative garden near the existing monument.

The next event will be the commemoration of the Bat-tle of Beaver Dams, and Ja-mieson said he and colleague Rick Hill are working with the city on their public art installation. “There's noth-ing at Beaver Dams that says anything about us,” said Ja-mieson.

The Beaver Dams com-memoration will begin on June 22 with the Laura Se-cord Commemorative Walk, but the rest of the weekend will focus on a recreation of the battle, which the City of Thorold says was the “only battle of the war fought al-most entirely by First Na-tions warriors, primarily the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) from the Six Nations and

around Montreal.”The Legacy Consortium

is creating a commemora-tive program for the Battle of Stoney Creek. Jamieson said, “Each nation was asked

to give a perspective on the Battle of Stoney Creek.” He said the Consortium would likely publish a statement made by Roy Buck on the battle to represent the Six Nations perspective. “It's the best thing to publish at this time. It gives a very good ac-

count of our involvement,” he said.

Jamieson showed council artwork created by Raymond Skye that will grace the Six Nations Peace Monument. There will be six pieces of art on the monument, Jamie-son said. Art was also created

by Arnold Jacobs. The monu-ment will be unveiled on July 15, 2014.

Even though there is a new focus on the role of First Na-tions in the War of 1812, Ja-mieson told the Committee, “We're still a second thought.”

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Bicentenary of Battle of Stoney Creek approaches

Six Nations Historian showed Elected Council this piece of artwork created by Raymond Skye depicting the role of Haude-nosaunee women during the War of 1812. The artwork will eventually grace the planned Six Nations Peace Memorial that will be installed in Veteran’s Park next year. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

NDP candidate resigns over online comments about First Nations compensation

Continued on page 17


and this was missed, and it's unfortunate. We expect people to do better,'' Dix told report-ers in a question and answer session that was dominated by the issue.

`Ì consider these remarks particularly serious and I dis-agree with them strongly and took immediate action,'' Dix said.

On the 2009 forum, a user named Dayleen wrote in a thread entitled ``Strip Them of the Status Card.''

`Ìt's not the status cards, it's the fact that we have been paying out of the nose for gen-erations for something that isn't our doing. If their ances-tors sold out too cheaply, it's not my fault and I shouldn't have to be paying for any mis-take or whatever you want to call it from MY hard-earned money.''

Another one of the posts compares the benefits af-forded to aboriginal people

with claims other persecuted groups could be making.

`Ì don't think anyone is saying that wrongs didn't hap-pen (incredible wrongs). You could have almost any race, group or ethnic people tell you horrible haunting stories of what happened to them. If someone did me wrong, it's my right to sue ... as it is ev-eryone else's.

`Àgain, how many Jewish, Polish, Russian, Dutch, etc. walked into a gas chamber, were gunned down, raped, tortured and starved to death. . . tell me how many Germans do you know that are handing over a (portion) of their pay-check EVERY month for what happened NOT very long ago. . . ''

Dix said a new NDP can-didate for Kelowna-Mission will be announced soon.

``Things happen. There are 85 candidates,'' Dix said matter-of-factly. Ì expect the vetting process to be tight. In this case we're going to find an

outstanding new candidate in Kelowna-Mission and we're going to run hard there.''

When asked about the issue, Premier Christy Clark said she had heard about the com-ments, but hadn't read them.

``From what I understand, it's really disgraceful that someone would offer those kinds of comments publicly and then think that they should run for public office. I think it is unacceptable.''

The riding is held by For-ests Minister Steve Thomson,

who won handily in 2009.

Dix's first campaign event was held in Clark's home rid-ing of Vancouver Point Grey where in 2011 the premier narrowly defeated NDP can-didate David Eby in a by-election.

Flanked by Eby on his left and a small contingent of supporters behind him, Dix seemed nervous delivering his first campaign speech of the election.

``We will be presenting

a platform that we are very proud of day-by-day in the first week of the campaign so that we can highlight the key challenges facing British Co-lumbians,'' Dix said.

As Dix was speaking, Clark went to visit the lieutenant governor to ask for the cur-rent government to end and the election campaign to be-gin.

She launched her campaign with a rally in Victoria, calling the vote the ``most important election in modern history.''

She said voters have a choice between controlling spending and lowering debt or higher taxes and bigger debt and government.

Clark said business own-ers in B.C. will also have to decide if the NDP is right for them.

``When you look at the new taxes that the NDP is propos-ing for natural gas, given that the market is pretty vola-tile, it's highly questionable whether that business case would still work.''

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It is with broken hearts that the family announce the sudden passing of Dwight Preston George Staats on Sunday April 14, 2013 at the age of 18 years. Lov-ing son of Maureen Tur-key and Gary Silversmith, and George Staats. Dear grandson of Eldeen Staats. Special grandson of Rob-ert VanEvery. Much loved brother of Shawn, Amy, Darrel, Prescilla, Emma, Dakota, and Grace. Also will be greatly missed by many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Pre-deceased by grandmother Frances (Beaver) VanEv-ery; grandfather, Frank Turkey; uncle, Guy Beaver; nephew, Shawn Thomas II; and cousins, Sidney Blaire Jamieson, Jewel Monture, and Lacey Dawn Atkins. Resting at his grandfather’s home (Robert VanEvery) 3018 6th. Line Road after 2 p.m. Tuesday where Fu-neral Service will be held on Wednesday April 17, 2013 at 3 p.m. Interment Medina Baptist Cemetery. www.rhbanderson.com

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London Rikki Lyn AndersonOn Saturday, April 20, 2013

Love and Kisses, Grandpa Rick, Grandma Sharron and Uncle Desmond

Also Happy Birthday to Uncle Tom and Cousin Scott

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The Six Nations Tyke Senior team would like to thank the following sponsors for helping with tournament entry fees, our year-end pizza party and our banquet awards. Thank you to: Lil Mikey’s Snack Shack, Hill’s Snack Bar, Mac and Sons, Grand River Parkway Plaza, Oa-sis Gas Bar, Riverside Bait and Tackle, Curt Styres, Leslie Skye, Brian Vanev-ery, Eathon Barany, Roger Hill, Demon, Nancy and the Dreamcatcher Fund. We had a really great year and were finalists in the Lil NHL Hockey Tournament!!!! Thank you all so much for the support!!!!

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The Six Nations Novice Rep Hockey Team would like to thank Scott and Kathy Smith for their do-nation for the 2012-2013 hockey year. We would also like to thank Kris Hill-Route 54 for the Raffle prize dona-tion as well as The Dream Catcher Foundation for as-sisting with accommoda-tion for Little NHL.

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You’re invited to the Spring Bazaar at 2961 1st Line, New Credit Unit-ed Church, Saturday, April 20th 10-4. Many vendors, breakfast sandwiches, pulled pork or roast beef on a bun. FREE ADMISSION.

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Community PrayerEveryone Welcome

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for: Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse, Suicides. Our: Chil-dren, Families, Leadership, Nation / Reserve. And for any other concerns we may have. Place: 2319 Third Line Rd. Ross / Joanne Johnson. Fourth Mon. of every month. Mon. April 22nd, 2013. Time: 6:00pm to ?

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Sat. May 4, 2013. Break-fast: 9 AM – Noon. Bazaar 9 AM – 3 PM. Community Hall, Ohsweken. Vendor info: Diane Nanticoke 905-765-0131, Judi Henhawk Sault 905-768-1680. Come out and shop for Mother’s Day, enjoy some Pageant’s Maple Syrup.

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present Indian Tacos, served on Fresh Fried Bread, Hot Sauce & Pep-pers available. And Kenien-kaha Milk Cake topped with Strawberries & Whipped Cream. And a drink. Adults $10.00 – Kids 10 and Under $6.00. Sunday, April 21st, Noon til 7 P.M. or until we run out. Eat-In, Take-Out or On Rez Delivery only. 543 Sour Springs Road 519-445-0583.

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Residential School Artwork Project

Did you complete art-work, while attending Oli-ver M. Smith School, last May 2012? Your artwork was displayed at our Com-munity event last sum-mer August 24 & 25, 2012, at the Community Hall in Ohsweken. We want to in-clude your artwork in the project to commemorate the generations, of children, who attended Residential School. Your involvement will assist others to gain in-sight, awareness and infor-mation about the impacts of Residential schools on Native people, our fami-lies and our community. We want to include every-one who had their artwork displayed. Please call for more information. Thank You, Ida Martin 519-445-4336, Melba Thomas 905-765-6278.

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46. Los Angeles team mem-ber 47. Native of Bangkok 48. One point E of due N 50. The self 52. Humiliated 54. Disposed to take risks 57. Atomic number 13 58. Foot digit 60. Three-toed-sloth 61. Chopped beef and po-tatoes 64. Spanish appetizers 66. Crust-like healing sur-face 68. Mild yellow Dutch cheese 69. Slides without control 70. Add alcohol beverages 71. Showing 72. Medieval merchant guild 73. Current units CLUES DOWN 1. Applied over 2. Gettysburg Union Gen. 3. Inches per minute (abbr.) 4. The bill in a restaurant 5. Draw on 6. Currency exchange fee 7. 19th C. Polish composer 8. A festival or feast 9. Affirmative 10. UC Berkeley 11. Rapid bustling move-ment 12. Dining, coffee or game 13. Region surrounding an-cient Troy

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GEMINI - MAy 22/JUN 21Gemini, there will be a few moments this

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CANCER - JUN 22/JUl 22Surprising events are in store as you

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lEO - JUl 23/AUG 23Leo, your energy level is so revved up

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VIRGO - AUG 24/SEpT 22Virgo, others find it difficult to change

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lIBRA - SEpT 23/OCT 23Libra, you may be feeling a little home-

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SCORpIO - OCT 24/NOV 22Scorpio, if it seems like nothing is going

your way, keep in mind there is a mas-ter plan in the works. You may not be able to see the resolution, but just be patient.

SAGITTARIUS - NOV 23/DEC 21Sagittarius, there are a few puzzle pieces

that you need to get into place and then you’ll have everything worked out. Re-ward yourself with a night out.

CApRICORN - DEC 22/JAN 20Capricorn, lay low for awhile rather than

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AQUARIUS - JAN 21/FEB 18Aquarius, although you have a few proj-

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