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The 44th annual Easter Egg Hunt put on by Six Nations of the Grand on Friday March 29 was another unqualified success. Hun-dreds of children and their parents show up for the hunt, which was over within minutes of starting. The weather, while blustery, was otherwise spring-like. Those lucky children who had managed to scoop up some specially marked bags of candy received more Easter goodies in the way of pre-packed gift bags. The children took to the stage at the Community Hall to allow their families to get photo-graphs of their good fortune. (Photographs by Stephanie Dearing).

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By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS

She wasn't a rebel, but she was an activist. Nina Burn-ham never stopped working to create a better life for Six Nations members, and never stopped giving of herself to the Anglican Church. Now Nina has begun what Rever-end Norm Casey (St. Peter's Church, Six Nations) calls a new walk, a new journey.

Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald fondly described Nina as “one of those people who made you feel like a hot property.” She had a strict manner, but “to know she was there, that she was sup-porting you” meant a lot, said the Bishop. The first Angli-can Native National Bishop, MacDonald said he had to deal with some hard days as Bishop, but Nina's unwaver-ing support helped him wade through.

Bishop MacDonald said he had known Nina for approxi-mately 10 years. “She meant a lot to me.” Reverend Casey said the feeling was mutual, that Nina was devoted to the Bishop.

She never married, never had children, but Nina's years as a dental hygienist influ-enced at least a generation of children, not just in Six Na-tions, but throughout Ontar-io's First Nations. She started her career in 1962 here at the Six Nations dental clinic, but travelled the province provid-ing preventative dental care to every First Nation.

“She used to give us heck for not brushing our teeth,” recalled OPP Aboriginal Li-aison, Mark Hill, recalling his visits to the Six Nations clinic. “That was thirty or forty years ago.”

It might look from the out-side that Nina's life was un-complicated. But the times and issues she witnessed and had to confront throughout her life, particularly as a Six Na-tions Elected Councillor were complicated and turbulent.

During the 19 years Nina

served as a Six Nations Elected Councillor (rep-resenting District Three from 1984 to 2003), Nina was witness to some troubling moments in the fabric of Six Na-tions' history, not least the long-standing dis-pute between Confeder-acy and Elected Council that culminated in a dual lockout of the old Coun-cil House in 1970. At the time, according to Andrea Lucille Cata-pano, who briefly wrote about the incident in her book, The Rising of the Ongwehonwe, Nina counseled patience, urg-ing people to go home. People listened, and the OPP, who had been on hand with a few RCMP officers, did not have to intervene.

Nina was a tireless advocate for her people, and never more so when it came to her faith. She qui-etly guided the Anglican Church to learn more about Indigenous peoples and their issues, and never seemed to miss any opportunity to pro-vide information.

But that didn't mean Nina didn't have her own personal issues to wrestle with. When lawsuits filed by former resi-dential school students near-ly threatened to bankrupt the church, Nina was pushed into a conflict between her faith and her people, something she openly admitted to the Hamil-ton Spectator. Nina chose to stay with her faith, and stayed her course, working to create change.

“She really called the church to truth, to honesty about it's past. And she called it to be better towards Aboriginal peo-ples” said Bishop MacDonald. He said Nina was able to “get people to go to places they wouldn't otherwise go.”

“She had a reputation,” said Bishop MacDonald. “She was one of the few elders from all across Turtle Island who was listened to.”

A testament to the pull Nina had on others came in 2006 when Nina organized a heal-ing prayer following the 2006 reclamation of Kanonhstaton (the lands formerly known as Douglas Creek Estates). A gaping wound clearly exist-ed between Six Nations and Caledonia, and Nina stepped in to the breach.

As a result of her efforts, 200 to 300 people, including Six Nations traditionalists as well as members and clergy from the Anglican and Unit-ed Churches, gathered on the banks of the Grand River at

Chiefswood Park to pray for peace.

“Her rector tells me that she is probably the only person on the reserve who could have ar-ranged this. She's a person of spiritual authority,” said Pro-fessor Alan Hayes about Nina when he wrote about the event for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in 2006.

“She had this kind of integ-rity that was very much a part of who she was. She gently, yet powerfully, used that to get people to respond,” said Bish-op MacDonald. “The church is a different place because of

her. We owe her a lot.”

Nina's career as a dental hygienist led her to spend five years working on the medical ship, C.D. Howe, visiting Inuit settlements in the eastern Arctic.

Coming from a family of veterans, which included her three brothers and a sister, Nina was a strong supporter of the Six Nations Veteran's Associa-tion for many years. She travelled to the Netherlands in 1990 to celebrate the 45th Liberation event.

Nina also served on the Ontario Board of Parole and the Ontario Trillium Founda-tion. But when her work wasn't devot-

ed to Six Nations, her energies were focused on the Anglican Church, where Nina was a member of the Huron Dio-cese and the Six Nations Par-ish. She participated in the Red Hat society as well as the Women's Auxiliary. Nina was a mainstay volunteer at the an-nual Six Nations Bread and Cheese event for many years until ill health forced her to step back.

Through the Anglican Church, Nina served on a number of national commit-

tees, as well as Chair of the Anglican Council of Native Ministries; and was a mem-ber of the Senior Fellows for Renison College.

Nina's quiet and steely ded-ication to make her world a better place did not go unno-ticed. She received the Order of Huron for her outstand-ing and selfless work; was awarded the Anglican Award of Merit in 1991 for her out-standing service; and in May of 2010, she was conferred the Doctor of Divinity Degree (honoris causa) by the Huron University College. She was also recognized by Six Na-tions Elected Council as a Community Treasure in 2006. She was honoured too by be-ing given the Wilma General Award.

Bishop MacDonald de-scribed Nina as “a very strong person. While being very sup-portive, she gave you some of her steel too.” His relation-ship with Nina was deep and rewarding. “I felt she was not only a support for me, but a challenge to me, to stand up for what is right and for the people.”

A Mohawk Oneida, Nina Burnham had a life-long at-tachment to St. Peter's Church in Six Nations, but she also enjoyed being one of the Mo-hawk Singers. A brief video of Nina singing 'Amazing Grace' in Mohawk at the Sa-cred Circle in Pinawa, Man-itoba in 2005 is available to watch on You Tube.

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Six Nations elder Nina Burham passes away

Community stalwart and seemingly tireless activist Nina Burnham (above) was photographed at a healing prayer she had organized in 2006 follow-ing the reclamation of Kanonhstaton. (Photograph by Marites N. Sison/Anglican Journal).


By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

How health care is deliv-ered to patients is changing in Ontario. The focus is moving away from the medical sys-tem and shifting to the patient, with the goal of improving the health of the population, and just as importantly, patient satisfaction.

Representatives from the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN (Local Health Integrated Network) spent time at Six Nations in March, bringing that message of change, and holding a special think tank to gather the input of patients, health and social services providers on how to improve Aboriginal Health.

“We're really trying to pro-vide an Aboriginal perspec-tive to the LHIN Strategic Plan,” LHIN Advisor Julie Darnay said. The think tank is the latest step in a process that has been underway for several years. The Aborigi-nal Health Network, which includes representatives from Six Nations and New Credit, identified three priority areas for Aboriginal populations within the network area:

• Reduce youth sui-cide, and strengthen servic-es to support youth's mental health;

• Reduce the Aborigi-nal rate of diabetes and other chronic conditions;

• Reduce domestic vi-olence; support strong, stable, responsible families.

Donna Cripps, Chief Ex-ecutive Officer of the local LHIN, explained the strate-gic plan to Elected Council's

Committee of the Whole on March 18. the strategic plan will be in effect from April 2013 to March 2016.

The emphasis of the plan is to “improve a person's ex-perience; we want the same quality health care for a pa-tient no matter where they are treated,” said Cripps. “And we want the healthcare system to be there into the future.”

“The work you do here should be modelled through-out the LHIN,” Cripps told the councillors. “You have some amazing health care programs. We want to build on that. People come from across the country to see what you have here. You have the best in the province,” she said, naming the birthing center, the dialysis unit and the fam-ily health team.

The LHIN provides fund-ing to Six Nations, Cripps re-minded the Committee. For example, $183.000 a year goes to the outreach team, while other funding is ear-marked for mental health and addictions. The supportive housing program will have a case manager thanks to LHIN funding.

But many Native patients have reported feeling as if they are not understood by non-Native health care practi-tioners. Cripps said the orga-nization is working on cultural training, and 250 health care providers have been receiv-ing training through March. “I think that's really exciting. We want to build on it,” she said, noting more people need to receive training. “But it's a start.”

Cripps said the Six Nations

dialysis center will soon have another six chairs activated, allowing 12 people to receive the life-saving treatment.

Facilitator Amber Skye told the approximately 60 people who gathered at Six Nations Polytechnic for the

brainstorming session on March 19, “Today is a win-dow of opportunity ... for us as a community and a people to contribute” to health care. Skye said she hoped the in-formation that came out of the one-day consultation would help improve the Aboriginal patient experience.

According to statistics pro-vided by LHIN, Aboriginal people smoke three times more than non-Native peo-ple, and have twice the rate of heavy drinking. With lower incomes, lower life expectan-

cies and higher rates of illness than non-Native people, the LHIN began a “collaboration to wellness” in 2006.

The think tank probed into the current patient experienc-es of Six Nations members, using eight different chronic illnesses as a focus. In the af-ternoon, people mapped out what they would like to see in place for future Aboriginal health care.

Darnay said she expected a formal report on the think tank would be available in the near future.

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Improving Aboriginal Health a national priority

Today, we witness the passing of a great leader. Our community is stronger for the life-long work and commitment of Nina Burn-ham in both politics and health care. She tirelessly gave of her time, home and in many cases financial resources to help our community through good times as well as tough times.

Many community members may remember when Nina used to board the ship that carried health care to the northern com-munities of present day Nunavut. Nina served as a dental therapist on this boat for a number of sum-mers and then came home to pro-vide the same care to our people

in the dental clinic in Ohswek-en. Although Nina had no bio-logical children, she often talked about her thousand children that she both loved and encouraged. Some received lessons in health care and the importance of edu-cation but all received maternal advice on how to live a good and caring life.

Personally, I served with Nina on the Six Nations Council in 1976-1977. One of the accom-plishments that Nina spear head-ed was pari-mutual horse racing. I remember her impassioned speeches to the provincial offi-cials who deemed that we were breaking the law by having ‘bet-

ting on the reserve’. Nina nev-er shied away from a good fight. She took on most of her male colleagues, including me, on that Council. She always saw the big-ger picture that sometimes we ei-ther could not see or refused to acknowledge.

Nina Burnham represented Dis-trict 3 during 2terms that I served as Chief from 1985 to 1989. As a Councilor she still was very sup-portive of the community as she was in 1976-77. She supported the community without question during the school crisis when the community agreed to ‘go on strike’ against the department of Indian Affairs over the dilapi-

dated condition of our schools. I remember well the last meet-ing with the Minister of Indian Affairs, Pierre Cadieaux, when Nina and community members who were in the meeting ‘tore strips off ‘Minister Cadieaux and convinced him that the better part of valour on his part was to give Six Nations 3 new schools.

In 1987 we had the good for-tune to be invited to England to present a headdress to a British warship; Brave. Nina was re-splendent in her traditional dress standing on the deck of this war-ship as a guest of the British Roy-al Navy. After the ceremony we were the guests of the Captain in

a very formal dinner aboard ship. Nina kept everyone of the ship’s company enthralled with her sto-ries and anecdotes of life at Six Nations.

I have lost a very good friend and supporter in Nina Burnham, but as she would expect and de-mand that there is still a future to create for this wonderful com-munity. So as Nina is committed into God’s loving care, I ask that we give thanks for this wonder-ful, wise, strong and determined Six Nations woman, who always seen the big picture.

Chief Councillor Bill Montour

In Memory of Ms. Nina Burnham



Elected Chief William Montour is leading the way to find a permanent home for the Six Nations Community Food Bank. The organization, which provides food to com-munity members in need, was located behind Iroquois Plaza, but quickly outgrew the small building it was housed in.

Food bank Co-ordinator Sadie Buck is dreaming of a permanent home. “We're trying to get a regular build-ing so we don't have to keep moving,” she told council on March 19. The food bank, which outgrew the little shed behind Iroquois Lodge, is now located on Fourth Line, past Stoneridge, and Buck said it is not an accessible location, particularly for the seniors who live in Ohsweken and who do not drive.

“We can't keep moving,” Buck said. “One of the thing we're looking into is getting a building.” The organiza-tion has funds earmarked for a building, she said.

In January of this year, 209 people accessed the food bank, Buck said. She said the total number of people helped was approximately 1,000. “I'm es-timating that we'll have more people this year than we did last year. I think people are just now starting to realize that the food bank can help them.” Buck said more people were requesting application forms for the food bank, and the food bank has received more applications for help this year than last.

People who are accessing the food bank are asked to pay $5.00. Buck said there was a little bit of concern from some people about the fee, but most people did not

say anything. She said if any-one is “really, really hard up, we don't charge them the five bucks if we know their story is true.” Buck said they were charging $5.00 per visit to the food bank because com-munity members who are not in need have been accessing the services offered. People can visit the food bank once a week, but Buck said the food bank is just a supplement for people, and is not intended to provide food for every single meal.

The food bank has no se-cure source of funding, and instead relies on donations from community members, Six Nations Elected Coun-cil and the Dream Catchers Foundation and other organi-zations. Lacking computers until recently, all the records were kept by hand. Buck told council statistics are now be-ing generated, and she took

advantage of the opportunity to remind the elected body, “We're just learning the food bank business.”

Six Nations community members took over the food bank in early 2012 when a lo-cal church congregation de-cided the time had come for them to take a new direction, and they stopped offering emergency food assistance. The Community Food Bank now has a board of directors, which includes Six Nations Police Chief Glenn Lickers. Mary Montour is the chair of the board.

Buck networks with other food banks in the area, and said sometimes there are trades between the different organizations. The Six Na-tions Community Food Bank is “trying to do programming for how to can tomatoes, how to can beans, how to dehy-drate food, coupons, so they

can learn how to help them-selves better,” said Buck. She said many of the people us-ing the food bank “are in dire need.” The organization also has money to help clients be-come more self-sufficient.

“People have to have some other source of helping them-selves,” said Buck, “because we're only a supplement.”

“I certainly appreciate them doing this,” said Dis-trict Three Elected Council-lor Roger Jonathan. “Lower income people are struggling, fixed income elders are com-ing in to use it,” he said, say-ing council would continue to support the food bank.

Elected Chief Montour said he knows someone who is willing to donate a building for a permanent food bank. Council is exploring the avail-ability of land to see if is pos-sible to bring the food bank back into Ohsweken.

Six Nations Rebels took time prior to their practice Thursday night to give some goodwill and $$$ back to the Six Nations community. Rebels President, Scott Maracle presents Six Nations Food Bank Assistant Coordinator, Nicole Bomberry with a cheque of $ 585.50, to go along with the 300 lbs. of non-perishable food donated at the Rebels Annual Inter-Squad Game on Sunday, March 24th at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. (Photo by Wray Maracle)

SIX NATIONS AWARDS BANQUETfeaturing the

WILMA GENERALMEMORIAL AWARD

The Six Nations Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the Wilma General Memorial Award.You are encouraged to submit a nomination if you know anyone who:• Is a community member • Possess a strong background in volunteer activities • Promotes unity and strength both within the family and the community • Demonstrates ability to create change • Liaises to bridge the gap between Native and Non-native • Possess interpersonal skills and is always willing to sacrifice their personal time.

WILMA GENERAL MEMORIAL AWARDNomination Form 2013 can be picked up at Six Nations

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SN Food Bank seeks a permanent home

Sadie Buck (seated, front) provided Elected Council with a verbal update on the Six Nations Community Food Bank on March 19. The organization had to relocate out of Ohsweken, but would like to find a permanent home within the village for the services offered. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


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Harper is First Nations and the environment’s worst nightmare

It has come to light that the United Nations Special Advisor on the Rights of In-digenous Peoples, James Anaya, has been knocking on Stephan Harper’s door for 13 months now trying to obtain a protocol invitation into Canada on the request of several First Nations across the country.

So far, Harper has not responded to the UN request. Although Anaya has recently played down the situations in the media by splitting hairs between what is an outright rejection and a politically slow response, the fact remains that Harper’s government does not seem to want the UN nosing around its dealings with the Indigenous people living within Canada.

Anaya has been invited into several other countries in recent months throughout Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States, but has yet to receive the long requested invita-tion from Harper.

“Under the relevant procedures and rules of the United Nations and its member States, I am required to have the consent of the government of a country in order to enter it for an official visit in my capacity as UN Special Rapporteur,” he explained in a media release, adding that he has received several requests from First Nations in Canada to visit the country.

“In February of 2012 I formally communicated to the Government of Canada my desire to conduct an official visit to and requested its cooperation for the visit. I have since reiterated that request to the Government. Canada has what is known as a “stand-ing invitation” for Special Rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council to visit Cana-da, and hence my request for the visit made reference to that standing invitation. I have not yet received a response to my request, but I have been told informally that it is being considered.”

Earlier this year, Anaya offered Harper some “advice” regarding the Idle No More protests that spread around the world, but were centred in this country.

In an official statement, he urged the Canadian Government to establish a meaningful dialogue with the country’s aboriginal leaders.

“Both the Government of Canada and First Nations representatives must take full advantage of this opportunity to rebuild relationships in a true spirit of good faith and partnership,” he further advised.

Anaya also stressed that the dialogue between the Government and First Nations should proceed in accordance with standards expressed in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration states that indigenous peoples have the right to maintain their distinct identities and cultures as a basis of their development and place in the world, to pursue their own destinies under conditions of equality, and to have secure rights over lands and resources, with due regard for their traditional pat-terns of use and occupancy.

Anaya began speaking out against Canada’s treatment of its indigenous people much earlier, and says he is monitoring the situation very closely and should he not get an invitation soon, he could find other means to engage with the Indigenous people of Canada.

OIL SANDS A SLIPPERY SLOPEMeanwhile, as you read several stories from the national wire services published in

this issue of the Tekawennake, a clear and present danger is becoming more evident re-garding the extraction and shipment of “dirty” oil from the Alberta Oil Sands, Harper’s love child conceived with the big oil companies.

This is just another reason why the people — indigenous and non — not only should, but must stand up to the arrogance of this present Tory government. Nothing seems to matter with this man and his regime except money, and lots of it, all at the expense of the environment and the people who live anywhere near the oil sands themselves or the thousands of miles of pipelines proposed to move it.

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OUR KIDS ARE ALRIGHT Just, wanted to write a few words, from my perspective, as an older adult, that tries to

help out in Six Nations Territory. First, of all I try to work with the youth of any ages, when ever, where ever I can. As, past president of 6 years with The Six Nations Native Pageant, I had the privalage of working with many “yute”. Since, then I have been asked to help out with different programs, pertaining to working with the young ones.

One, program I wanted to get going on Six Nations was, an Arts After School Kids Pro-gram. This , would introduce our kids grades 6-8 to the arts, ie. Music singing, instruments, theatre and arts ie clay, painting etc, before they get on into high school unfortunately, our committee could not get er going, so we put it on hold, for now.

My, latest, go around with our youth. I, was contacted by New Directions and asked if I, would consider being a go between with about 15 teenagers, working on an anti-smoking program. The ultimate goal would be to do an anti-smoking campaign at the lil nhl held in Missaguia. I, did not have to think to long and said, yep.

Our, program consisted of two weekends of getting ideas into focus and putting them on paper and then finally testing them out to see if they would work. Making posters up, we even had some Six Nations Cheerleaders, that made up some cheers for this event we were going to.

I, must say getting to know these teens was very rewarding, we, had discussions on how to treat everyone. The, way we would like to be treated, ie respectfully, no name calling, having discussions about different opinions, coming to a happy medium. All of this sure paid off.

We, went to Missaguaia for three days to present our program. I, must say the kids were awesome. In our discussions we had talked about, when any one leaves Six Nations Territory, they will be watched, an to consider themselves as Ambassadors of Six Nations. All, went so well, we got many comments on the good behavior of everybody, even me!

So, I could not rest until I, wrote this short piece. O’ a side note the team leaders said that, where ever the lil nhl is done they recruit kids

from the nearest reserve to do this program. They, commented that they usually get maybe 7 kids out, and were amazed at our turn out and how well behaved everyone was, ya even me! And, would put in that it should be done here, again ASAP. Thankx for your time, an have a good day,

Cam Staats

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Barricades are up at the of-fice of a northern B.C. First Nation as a simmering dis-agreement reaches the boil-ing point in Burns Lake.

Members of a group call-ing itself the Burns Lake El-ders Collective Committee have nailed boards across the doors of the band office, about 200 kilometres west of Prince George.

The committee accuses Chief Coun. Albert Gerow and Coun. Dan George of fi-nancial mismanagement and failing to consult with mem-bers before inking deals with large companies.

The group has opposed Gerow and other council-

lors for more than a year and spokesman Ryan Tib-betts says frustrated band members are demanding new elections.

Gerow says he is saddened because the protest is backed by only a small minority within the band, but it dis-rupts services to the 80 per

cent of members who sup-port his leadership.

Both sides are now talking to lawyers as they consider their next steps.

By Anthony Hall Decoding the Encounter

between Professor Tom Fla-nagan and Idle No More at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada.

Professor Tom Flanagan was instrumental in mentor-ing, grooming and handling Stephen Harper during the most formative stages of the meteoric political career of Canada’s current prime min-ister.

Professor Flanagan is a US-trained political scientist who was hired by a transplanted Pentagon intelligence expert to help make Calgary safe for Houston and Dallas-based oil companies in Texas North. Professor Flanagan was po-litically disowned recently by many of his former students and associates, including by Stephen Harper, for character-izing the consumption of child pornography as a victimless crime that should be met with counseling rather than incar-ceration.

Professor Flanagan made the comments in response to questions from Levi Little Mustache and Aboriginal sup-porters of the Idle No More movement who look at the denigration entailed in child pornography through the lens of many of their their people’s harsh experiences as victims of the child sexual exploita-tion in Canada’s federally-funded system of Christian residential schools for Ab-original youths.

On March 13, I devoted a

three-hour university class to looking at the media cover-age, political fallout, histori-cal background, and future implications of Tom Flana-gan’s controversial presenta-tion two weeks earlier. I did so as a long-serving member of the Arts and Science Fac-ulty at the University of Leth-bridge where, on February 27, Professor Flanagan delivered his talk, including the now-notorious comment display-ing his libertarian extremism on the subject of child pornog-raphy and the law.

Over the years Profes-sor Flanagan and I have exchanged opposing interpre-tations on Aboriginal matters in a number of venues, both academic and journalistic. In August of 2000 I reviewed a book by Tom Flanagan’s in The Globe and Mail. In the late 1990s I debated him for an hour on the airwaves of CBC Radio.

During this period I invit-ed my colleague from the Po-litical Science Department at the University of Calgary to lecture my students, many of them Aboriginal, in the

Department of Native American Studies at the Uni-versity of Lethbridge. This ac-ademic unit was the first of its kind to be established in west-ern Canada.

Professor Flanagan accept-ed my invitation to help my students gain access to a per-spective on Aboriginal mat-ters very different from my own.

Those governed by the In-dian Act were deemed to be

insufficiently civilized to be afforded the rights and re-sponsibilities of citizenship. As such they were denied the capacity to vote or gain public office in federal or provincial elections. They could not sign binding contracts. They could not hold positions involving exchanges of signatures and contractual obligations.

They were thus precluded, for instance, from becoming lawyers or bankers. As hu-man beings placed outside the domain of legal “person-hood” they could not defend their rights and titles through civil litigation in court. At the same time corporations like the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, whose expanding frontiers were mirrored by the imploding frontiers of Indian Country, were extended the status of “natural persons.”

During the decade when I hosted Professor Flanagan as a visiting lecturer in my class-es and throughout the follow-ing decade my adversarial colleague acted as Stephen Harper’s mentor, co-author, campaign manager, politi-cal adviser, and behind-the-scenes fixer in the process of creating the conditions that would bring to power a Con-servative Party majority gov-ernment in 2011.

This shift from the indige-nous conservatism of Canada to the imported conservatism of the United States has huge implications for all Canadians but especially for Aboriginal peoples. In the era of conflict culminating in the War of 1812 the Red Tory tradition

of Canada was founded in the negotiation of an expanding Covenant Chain of Crown-Aboriginal treaties.

In their most classical forms of expression these agreements signified friend-ship, commercial cooperation, military alliance, and resource sharing between distinct peo-ples. Until the end of the War of 1812 in the East and the building of the Canadian Pa-cific Railway in the West this British imperial policy of trea-ty alliances with Indigenous peoples provided the basis of Crown claims to what was then referred to most often as British North America. In the War of 1812 Canada was saved from annexation by the United States by the fighting prowess of about 12,000 Ab-original soldiers serving Te-cumseh’s Indian Confederacy.

But the assault by the Harper-Flanagan juggernaut on the generally friendly ori-entation of Canadian con-servatism towards the state, towards Indigenous peoples, and towards the institutions of Crown sovereignty helped clear aside obstacles to the im-portation from United States of the Republican Party’s ji-had on managed capitalism. Flanagan and Harper took charge of the Canadian ver-sion of the Reagan Revolu-tion aimed at transforming the social welfare state into the stock market state.

As is now coming to light, a big part of this assault on the indigenous conservatism of Canada is the push to oblit-erate the constitutional force

of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 as well as its outgrowths in the still-expanding domain of Crown-Aboriginal treaties whose constitutional charac-ter is recognized and affirmed in Canadian law.

As I have tried to outline in my historical works, King George III came up with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 based on the advice of Sir William Johnson, a top of-ficial of the British Imperial Indian Department based in New York colony.

Following the defeat of the French imperial forces in North America Johnson coun-seled the British imperial gov-ernment to hold out an olive branch to the Indigenous peo-ples of Canada and the Missis-sippi Valley.

Johnson advised his Tory colleagues in the imperial government to entice Indi-ans to join the British Empire based on promises that the Crown would protect the Ab-original and treaty rights of its Aboriginal allies.

Canada’s commitment to recognize and affirm the exis-tence of Aboriginal and treaty rights was renewed with the patriation of the Canadian constitution from Great Brit-ain in 1982.

To understand the career of Professor Flanagan is to un-derstand the political agenda of huge commercial interests inside and outside of Canada that seek to terminate Aborigi-nal and treaty rights as major impediments to the corporate

exploitation of northern North America’s so-called natural resources.

To understand the upsurge of Idle No More is to under-stand the deep consternation of decent men and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds who refuse to remain pas-sive and silent as the Stephen Harper government system-atically violates the best in-heritances of Canadian social democracy. The Idle No More movement begins in Canada but extends to condemnations of the systematic abuses of In-digenous peoples around the world.

The original seed from which the Idle No More movement grew starts with an unwillingness to accept the Harper government’s vi-olations of domestic and in-ternational law by opting to implement Tom Flanagan’s agenda for Canada rather than adhering to Canada’s consti-tutional recognition and af-firmation of Aboriginal and treaty rights.

What would Canada look like if Aboriginal and treaty rights were to be genuine-ly recognized and affirmed rather than denied and negat-ed as is currently happening through the Harper govern-ment’s zeal to push through a large package of statutes in-corporating Professor Flana-gan’s favoured policies?

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Protesters barricade Burns Lake band office


By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

When the new Six Nations water treatment plant is up and running by the end of September as promised, it will not be adding fluoride to the water supply, accord-ing to Mike Montour, Six Nations director of Public Works.

That is good news for many who have become aware of the potential neg-ative effects of the practice and the sketchy evidence that it reduces tooth decay.

A wave of information is circulating about the practice of mass-medicating the pub-lic which raises a lot of red flags. Even if science proves that the use of fluoride is ef-fective as a cavity preventa-tive for our teeth — which is a matter increasingly under suspicion — the practice of medicating a population is itself one that many are now saying we should be keeping a close eye on.

The City of Brantford was the first municipality in North America to begin the practice back in 1945. It was an experiment that the peo-ple of Brantford knew noth-

ing about for at least three months after they had been drinking it. At that time, ex-tensive follow up research was to have been done to check the longterm affects, if any, on the users. Appar-ently, this was never done, or if it was, never made public.

But there is a lot more on this subject to consider than a few conspiracy theorists blogging rants.

According to a research article published by the Ca-nadian Awareness Network and substantiated elsewhere, Dr. W.L. Hutton, the father of fluoridation, was the head medical officer of health in the first Canadian city to flu-oridate its water supply — Brantford, Ontario.

Brantford began fluorida-tion of its water in 1945, un-der the heavy influence of Dr. Hutton. Hutton was the pres-ident of the Eugenics Society of Canada before taking the job as the head medical of-ficer with the City of Brant-ford. Many other noted city personalities, like Alexander Graham Bell, also belonged to, and held prominent posi-tions of influence within the Eugenics Movement and were openly excited when

Germany joined the move-ment prior to WWII.

Eugenics, a pseudo-science advocating the improvement of human he-redity traits through the

promotion of higher repro-duction of those deemed to possess more desired traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits.

During the War, Nazi sci-entists used fluoride and other chemicals to experi-

ment on imprisoned Jews as a possible means of control-ling mass populations. They found the addition of fluo-ride in their water supplies caused prisoners to become

more docile and easier to manipulate.

USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity com-mittees of Congress in the 1950’s that in his post as U.S.Soviet liaison officer, the Soviets openly admit-

ted to… “Using the fluo-ride in the water supplies in their gulags (concentration camps), to make the prison-ers stupid, docile, and sub-servient.”

British MP Zac Goldsmith is only one of many who are beginning to question the reason for and results of the use of fluoride in water.

Although post war propo-nents have claimed that the addition of fluoride to water supplies has significantly re-duced the incidents of tooth decay, statistics prove oth-erwise.

One study of fluorinated and non-fluorinated coun-tries shows tooth decay rates are unequivocally in decline equally well in fluoridated countries as in non fluori-dated countries.

The practice has been stopped in several countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Ger-many and Portugal, and others are considering the move. Many cities within

the USA and elsewhere have also banned the practice.

John Colquhoun, a high level municipal council-lor in Auckland, New Zea-land, trained in dentistry and served as that city’s Princi-pal Dental Officer and was once a proponent of the use of fluoride. He is now an out-spoken critic. He has done a world wide research proj-ect visiting several coun-tries and collecting data. He found that tooth decay is in fact on the decline, but no more in fluoridated countries as non-fluoridated ones.

So, if is makes no differ-ence to ones dental health, but may produce unwanted side effects like fluorosis and learning disabilities, one must ask, why add it to mu-nicipal or community water supplies in the first place?

As stated earlier, Six Na-tions made its choice years ago not to fluoridate its water supply for many of the above reasons and will continue in that direction.

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Although last year’s cham-pions, the Ohsweken Demons have been on a slide late in this year’s regular season, but they have accumulated enough points to assure themselves a playoff berth.

It’s quite a different story for the Iroquois Ironmen who have two games remaining. They are currently hanging onto a thread of hope to see the post season after making it to the Champi-onship game last year against the Demons, which the De-mon’s won.

Even after the 15-14 loss to the Demons Friday night at the ILA, the Ironmen still have a mathematical shot at making post season play if they can crawl out of the basement tie with the Barrie Blizzard. They have two chances to do that this coming weekend in the last week of the 2013 regular season. This coming Friday, the Ironmen face the Brampton Inferno in Brampton and they close out the regular season on the road against the Turfdogs, Saturday night.

Friday night at the ILA the Demons laid down the gauntlet early in the match, burying the Ironmen in the first 15 minutes.

Mike Attwood scored first at 3:37 with a short handed goal to give the Ironmen their only lead in the game, albeit short lived.

Marty Hill answered on the same powerplay at 3:39 before the Demons Wayne VanEvery scored his first and second goals of his 6 goal, 9 point game, at 4:15 and 6:41 respec-tively.

James Mt. Pleasant got in on the feeding frenzy at 6:55 to make it 4-1 for the Demons and VanEvery scored his third at 9:09 to increase that lead to 5-1.

The Ironment scored their second goal of the period at 9:25 with Elijah Johns’ mark-er at 9:25, but Clay Hill kept the Demons attack going with a pair of quick back-to-back goals at 11:45 and 11:54 to make it 7-2.

Blue Hill scored for the Iron-men at 13:57 as the first quarter ended with the Demons ahead 7-3.

Cody Johnson started the second quarter by converting a Tom Montour and Cory Bomb-erry setup to make it 9-3, 24 seconds in.

Blue Hill scored his second on a powerplay to get that one back for the Ironmen, 28 sec-onds later from Josh Johnson and Jerome Thompson. Kraig Maracle followed with another Ironmen goal 12 seconds after that.

Ian Martin put the Demons back in the drivers seat at the 7 minute mark which VanEv-ery added to at 9:39 from Tom Montour who then scored at 11:23 from VanEvery and Mar-

ty Hill to make it 11-5 for the Demons.

But once again, the Iron-men would not give up as Josh Johnson and Lloyd Chrysler cut the Demons lead to 11-7 at the half.

Wenster Green brought the Ironmen even closer at 1:05 of the third quarter, but Martin and VanEvery poked two more holes in the Ironmen’s canoe in response.

Jerome Johnson and Josh Johnson battled back to plug those holes at 7:53 and at 11:21, on a powerplay.

VanEvery closed out the third quarter with his sixth goal of the game scored at 14:51 from Logan Kane and Chancy Johnson.

The Demons led 14-10 when the final quarter began and by 9:28, the Ironmen had capital-ized on three powerplay oppor-tunities to draw within one.

Delby Powless restored the two goal lead at 10:45. Chris Attwood gave the Ironmen rea-son to hope when he scored to bring it back to a one goal game at 11:55, but the Ironmen could not find the equalizer.

Jerome Thompson led the Ironmen attack with three goals and a pair of assists while Wayne VanEvery recorded a nine point night for the De-mons.

The Barrie Blizzard lost their weekend games, 14-9 against the Turfdogs and 21-9 against the Niagara Lock Monsters.

Demons’ Clay Hill scores on of his two goals, scored 9 seconds apart in the first period of Friday night’s professional Canadian Lacrosse League game at the ILA. The Demons now await their playoff opponents while the Ironmen will need some good luck and at least one win this coming weekend. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Demons are in — Ironmen hold out hope

Ohsweken Demons #6 Marty Hill slips by Iroquois Ironmen’s Blue Hill in Friday night’s 15-14 Demons win at the ILA. (Photo by Jim Windle)


By Jim WindleBRANTFORD

The Brantford Midget A 99‘ers players found them-selves facing elimination in the Championship round against Sarnia, down 7 points to 3 in the eight point se-ries, heading into Thursday night’s game at the Wayne Gretzky Arena in Brantford.

The 99‘ers, with Six Na-tions’ forward Larry Hill and goaltender Austin Hill (not related), were down 7-1 be-fore defeating Sarnia, in Sar-nia the night before to stay alive.

“We started down in Sarnia last night (Wednesday) with nine skaters and two goal-ies,” said coach Tom Jackson. “Then we lost a guy who got hurt. It was seven points to one and everyone had written us off, but these guys haven’t quit all year. They’ve got a great work ethic and we have just a hell of a good team.”

Thursday night, the 99‘ers not only stayed alive, they put a little fear into the Sarnia dressing room when they de-feated the visitors 3-2 to cut the Sarnia series lead to 7-5.

“We had a slow start to-night but we got going with a couple of great saves and big hits and now we are right back in it,” said Jackson. “And Hillie (Larry) got that big goal to get us started.”

The two teams met again Saturday night in Sarnia but the 99‘ers lost in a close 6-4 game and the series. Sarnia’s

last goal was into an empty net.

In Brantford, Sarnia scored the first goal of the game Thursday night when the puck took a bad bounce at the side of the 99‘ers net and ended up on a Sarnia stick close in with lots of time to find an opening.

Sarnia then took a 2-0 lead when the 99’er defense ig-nored a Sarnia shooter stand-ing alone in front of goalie Austin Hill, and one-timed a cross-crease pass to put the 99‘ers behind the 8 ball.

Larry Hill got Brantford going in the second period when he retrieved his own re-bound at the side of the Sar-nia net and put it in to make it a 2-1 game.

Hill’s goal seemed to throw Sarnia into chaos the rest of the period as Brantford con-tinued to press, and not long after Hill’s goal, the 99‘ers made it a new game by scor-ing the tying goal in a goal-mouth scramble in front of the Sarnia net.

Sarnia came out for the third period determined to win the series on the road and poured the pressure of the 99‘ers. But Hill was out-standing, stopping several great scoring chances all pe-riod to keep his team’s hopes alive.

“We’ve got a hell of a goaltender here in Austin, and he’s been in for the last couple of wins and he’s been standing on his head,” said Jackson following the game.

Late in the period, Sarnia ran into a rash of frustration penalties. The 99‘ers almost took the lead when the Sarnia goalie made a stellar glove save on a hard shot that was labeled for the top corner of the net. But Brantford kept the heat on and were reward-ed with the game winner on a deflection from a point shot.

The Hill boys are play-ing in Brantford this season to compete at a higher level of the game than they could achieve at Six Nations as they look towards the Jr. drafts.

With Brantford announc-ing a new Jr. B team for next season, and with the Caledo-nia Corvairs being so close to home, they are both hoping to catch the attention of the Jr. B general managers or even the Jr. A scouts.

But it has also been a re-warding season playing on this team of guys, and both Hill’s are thankful to be part of such a fine club.

“It’s been good playing with the 99‘ers this year,” said Larry Hill. “It’s such a great bunch of guys.”

Austin chips in, “Every-one loves one another in that dressing room. We’re more like a family than a team. We’ve got guys from Cam-bridge, Burford, Six Nations, Brantford, and everyone has come together and we’ve formed this team. We have this never-say-die attitude even though we’ve had some injuries and suspensions this season.”

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Never-say-die Midget A 99‘ers give Sarnia a scare

Six Nations’ Larry Hill, power forward for the Brantford 99‘ers, cuts in on the Sarnia goal in the Midget A final’s played at the Wayne Gretzky Arena last Thursday night. Down 2-0 in a must win game, Hill scored the first goal to begin the 99‘ers comeback. They won the game, 3-2. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Brantford Midget A 99‘ers goalie Austin Hill of Six Nations closes the door on a Sarnia rush in the third period of Thursday night’s 3-2 win over Sarnia. Hill was sensational in the Brantford goal after falling behind 2-0 in the first period. (Photo by Jim Windle)


New head coach of the defending Founders Cup Six Nations Rebels, Murray Porter had a good chance to see this season’s hopefuls this past Saturday at the ILA during the 6th Annual Jr.B Spring Showcase.

The purpose of the annual event is to let all participat-ing teams do the same in a game type situation rather than just training camp drills or intersquad games.

For Porter and general

manager Wray Maracle, they have a big problem now — but it’s the kind of problem any other team might wish they had as well. Here at Six Nations where world class lacrosse talent is in the genes, the Rebels have too many players worthy of a spot on their roster, and that’s just counting the rookies up from the Six Nations minor lacrosse association or trying out from other organizations.

Several returning Rebels were asked to sit out so Mar-acle, Porter and his coaching staff could get a good look

at the new faces. There are others who are presently try-ing out for a spot on the Jr. A Arrows squad some of whom will be returning to the Reb-els fold as well.

The Showcase treated fans and team brass of four other OLA Jr. B franchises an op-portunity under game condi-tions to assess and evaluate potential roster players for the upcoming 2013 season. The OLA Jr B league has pushing the start date of the regular season back 2 weeks to May 1st this year.

The Rebels will partici-

pate in two more tourna-ments (Clarington Green Gaels – April 13th and Oakville Buzz – April 27th) before their home opener on Sunday, May 5th vs Wind-sor Clippers at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena for a 7:00 P.M. start.

To date, the Rebels have signed 13 players and still have 30 at camp, which be-gan with 75 hopefuls.

In Game#1 of the Show-case, the Rebels defeated the Guelph Regals 10-7. Scoring for Six Nations were: Bro-die Tansley (2G, 4A), Dan-

ton Miller (2G, 3A), Austin Staats (2G, 2A), Tyler Long-boat (1G, 2A), Layne Smith (1G, 1A), Isaiah Mt. Pleasant (1G, 1A), Dalton VanEvery (2A), Dallas John (1G), John Monture (1A), Goalie Doug Jamieson (1A) and Goalie Mitch Henhawk (1A).

In Game #3, the Rebels put down the Wallaceburg Red Devils 8-4. Six Nations scor-ers were: Mitch Green (3G, 3A), Ian Martin (1G, 4A), Austin Staats (1G, 2A), Bro-die Tansley (1G, 1A), Tyler Longboat (2A), Brayden Hill (1G), Marcus Elvin (1G) and

Isaiah Mt. Pleasant (1A).In the final game of the

day, the Rebels clipped the Windsor Clippers 13-3. Scor-ing for Six Nations were: Austin Staats (1G, 7A), Ian Martin (2G, 2A), Dallas John (2G, 1A), Mitch Green (2G, 1A), Danton Miller (1G, 2A), Daniel Bo Henhawk (3A), Brodie Tansley (1G), Gary Dylan Johnson (1G), John Monture (1G), Kessler Doolittle (1G), Timmy John-son (1G), Dalton VanEvery (1A), Tyson Bomberry (1A), Brayden Hill (1A) and Goal-ie Chase Martin (1A).

Rebels looking good ... almost too good



The Six Nations Youth Lodge, Tsi Tionkwatention A'no:wara Rason:ne) is the site of a brand new alterna-tive learning classroom, al-though manager of residential services, Alana McDonald, is already working towards mak-ing the program a permanent feature.

An upstairs loft-style room in the youth lodge is the set-ting for the new classroom, which started on March 3. The school will go year-round, and can accommodate a total of eight students. It is intend-ed to give students a chance to gather themselves so they can manage their academic lives better, said McDonald. Ulti-mately “we want to integrate students back into mainstream education.”

The classroom blends cul-ture with modern reality. A smart board and eight com-puters have been installed to

facilitate the learning expe-rience. Students don't have to be staying at the Lodge to participate in the program, but must be clients of Ganoh-kwasra. The curriculum meets the provincial standards, but is based upon Six Nations cul-ture and tradition said teacher Mike Skye.

Skye said his mentor, high school teacher and program designer at Kawenni:io/Gaweni:yo, Jessica Bomb-erry, designed the curricu-lum for the new alternative school. The Youth Lodge and Kawenni:io are partners in the alternative learning program.

McDonald said the pro-gram, which is in the pilot project phase at present, was created after Ganohkwasra spent three years extensively researching the impact of fam-ily violence on education for youth. “All the suspensions, expulsions, lack of initiative in school were all a direct im-pact of family violence in the home,” she said. “So that's

how this classroom came to be.”

The program was designed to encourage youth to take ownership of their education. McDonald said the idea is to get them “to focus on their goals and wants in life.” They are taught Reality Therapy Choice Theory, a framework that allows young people to make their own decisions.

“It takes the 'do it because' out of the classroom,” said McDonald.

The program presently has three students, and their first week of class was spent learning about the Great Law of Peace. Skye said the Great Law encourages people to make choices to benefit them-selves, their families and their community.

Students earn four high school credits per semester, and Skye said he provides students with an integrated curriculum, where two or more subjects are combined together to give students a more holistic and engaging experience.

Those students who are

ready to move back to the mainstream can choose from a number of alternative pro-grams available, including the Turning Point program, offered at Six Nations Poly-tech by the Grand Erie School Board, GELA or regular high school classes.

Youth who live in a violent home environment often fall behind on their studies, end up missing a lot of classes, or get suspended or even expelled. A lack of sleep means they lose “focus and function in the classroom,” said McDon-ald. “They already have bar-riers. What are wee going to do about the education of our children?”

The pilot project was funded

by the Community Develop-ment Trust Fund, but McDon-ald said she is still looking for funding that would allow her to hire a child and youth work-er for the education program. Skye said they would accept money and school supplies. “Every program we have is tied in to our culture,” he said.

“G,” a student participating in the pilot whose name was withheld to protect his privacy, said the program is working for him. “I think it's a great lot better than regular school. It's not like we're having to do everything all at once. We talk to each other. Mike makes the class really fun.”

A steady stream of job seekers trickled in to the Sports Den at the Six Nations Community Hall Tuesday morning. Capital Power was on hand to accept resumes of people interested in working on the Port Dover and Nanticoke Wind Project. The construction partner, a company called 'Graham,' was on hand as well. Kimberly Pigott, senior project coordina-tor with Graham, told potential employees they will be hiring for work that will start in late spring out near Jarvis. “Right now, we're looking mostly for iron workers,” she told an ap-plicant. “But we will be look-ing for other skills later.” She said that anyone who missed the recruiting sessions can apply through Grand River Employment and Training. Pictured above are Barry Lohan, from Capital Power (front). Behind him are Sara Beasley (Capital Power) and Kimberly Pigott. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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Alana MacDonald and Mike Skye are heading up an al-ternative learning pilot for students who have experienced violence in their lives. The program, based on traditional culture, gives the students a chance to get back on their feet emotionally without losing any academic time. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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Reta Monture, who turned 91 years old on Friday March 29, spent part of her birthday at Iroquois Lodge with family and friends for the Easter Egg Hunt. Reta’s great-grandaughter, Haylee, was one of the prize winners. Seen in the photograph are Reta (standing, rear), Haylee, who is held by her grand-mother, and Jessie Carpenter (seated), who was giving out the prizes on behalf of Iroquois Lodge Residents. A party was held for Reta on Saturday at the Hagersville Legion. (Photo-graph by Stephanie Dearing).

Iroquois Lodge residents were ready for an invasion of chil-dren and their parents for the Easter Egg Hunt held on Fri-day March 29. They had decorated a doorway in an Easter theme, and hid plastic eggs around the Lodge (inside and outside). Each egg contained a number inside, and the child or adult who had accumulated the most points was awarded a prize basket. At the end of the hunt, 13 baskets had been given away. The tempting window display had to be protected from the younger egg hunters, who were eager to get gath-ering. Pictured above is 2 ½ year old Martin, who later was awarded a prize basket. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

Before the egg hunt got underway, visitors and residents en-gaged in a little egg decoration and conversation. Iroquois Lodge resident Jessie Carpenter decorated eggs with her fami-ly, which included her granddaughter and great-granddaugh-ters (pictured above). (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


TIMMINS, ON: Northern College is proud to announce a new partnership with the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University in Kingston, On-tario. This agreement initiates collaboration between the two institutions and aims at estab-lishing an accredited Mining Engineering Degree program offered at Northern’s Porcu-pine Campus.

Queen’s Faculty of Engi-neering and Applied Science has a national reputation as a leader in innovative edu-cational initiatives. Through its internationally renowned programs in geological sci-ences, geological engineering, civil and mining engineering, Queen’s University is known for its commitment to the re-source sector. The Robert M. Buchan Department of Min-ing is one of the largest and most respected mining de-partments in North America. The Queen’s mining engineer-ing program has a reputation for excellence and its alum-ni have shaped the Canadian mineral sector for nearly 120 years.

“The Faculty of Engineer-ing and Applied Science is excited about the opportunity to work closely with Northern College to develop what we believe will be an unique min-ing engineering degree,” said Kimberly Woodhouse, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. “It will allow us to use innovative pro-gramming and technology to provide expanded educational opportunities where there is a pressing need for engineers.”

Through its world-re-nowned Haileybury School of Mines, Northern College has been the preeminent min-ing education provider in northeastern Ontario for over one hundred years. Maintain-ing close industry relation-ships has led to cutting-edge programming and hands-on learning opportunities, en-suring graduates are well pre-pared to enter this in-demand field.

“There is strong demand for mining engineers in north-ern Ontario, and this trend is likely to continue as the de-mand for highly skilled trades and technology personnel is expected to soar over the next few decades” said Fred

Gibbons, President of North-ern College. “Collaborating to combine our expertise in mining will allow us to offer this degree-granting program

in northern Ontario where the need is greatest and it is a much anticipated addition to post-secondary education in northern Ontario.”

Developing collaborative agreements between postsec-ondary institutions is con-sistent with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Uni-

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It is with great sadness the family announces the passing of Cory Q. in his 40th year on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Loving father of Walker Thomas-Hill. Son of Sid Bomberry and the late Anne Thomas. Brother of Tara Williams. Uncle to Keelee, and Aaden. He will be sadly missed by several aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Rested at 2930 5th Line after 7 pm. Wednesday. Funeral Service and Burial was held at Seneca Longhouse on Friday March 29, 2013 at 11 a.m. www.rhbanderson.com

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Thank you to the Dream-catcher Fund for support-ing Holly, Brett and Jacob LaForme’s 2012-2013 hockey season.

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Date: March 23 and April 6. Time: 11am till 4pm. Place: Community Hall. Costs: $100.00 all Divisions. Presi-dent Mike Davey 519-445-2076.

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The Six Nations Polytechnic Board

is calling a “Special Mem-bers Meeting” as required in our Board Policies. This meeting is to inform all voting members of the By-Law revisions that are be-ing brought forward and to inform members of a name change for our institution both of which must be vot-ed upon.This “Special Members Meeting” will be on Thurs-day, April 11 @ 6:00 pm in the Oneida/Tuscarora Room.

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MARTIN: BRIAN ARTHUR

Suddenly at home on Sunday March 31, 2013 at the age of 56 years. Beloved husband of Karen. Loving father of Kyle, Melissa, Eric, Michael (Mike), Katie, Scott, and Brian Jr. Loving step-father of Brandi, Jeffrey, Scott, and Randy. Dear grandfather of several grandchildren. Son of the late Angus and Florence (Lickers) Martin. Brother of Diane, Walter and Joanne, Sharon, Mary and Karin, Pete, Ralph, and the late Alvin. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held at his home on Thursday April 4, 2013 from 12-6 p.m. No funeral ser-vice will be held. Cremation to follow on Friday. www.rhbanderson.com

BURNHAM: NINA KATHLEENJanuary 24, 1927 - April 1, 2013. 86 years of ageDaughter of the late Edward and Mina (Martin) Burnham. Loving sister to Lillian and the late Cecil Montour, Sister-in-law to Joyce and the late William Burnham. Sister to the late Walter Burnham and Edith Martin, Ellwood Burn-ham, John and Angeline Burnham, Rosalie and Armand Parent, and Ethel and Romona Burnham. Also will be lov-ingly remembered by many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Nina was a devoted community member serving 19 years on the Six Nations Council, sat on several boards and was committed to volunteer work. Her church was very important to her serving in many capacities within the Anglican Huron Diocese and her local church St. Pe-ter’s Anglican in Ohsweken. She was also involved with the Red Hat Society, Women’s Auxiliary, Six Nations Vet-erans Association to name a few. She was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Award in 2012, Wilma General Award, Community Treasure Award and received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree Huron College, Western Uni-versity in 2010. Nina was also a dedicated Dental Hygien-ist traveling to many First Nations as well as serving her own community. She will be deeply missed by her com-munity, church family and friends. The family will honour her life with visitation at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Ohsweken on Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Evening Ser-vice 7 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral Service will be held at the church on Thursday April 4, 2013 at 2 p.m. Interment in the adjoining cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Ohsweken. www.rhbanderson.com

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90thCleveland General

I wish to thank all of those, past and present, who have made my life full and en-joyable. I am lucky to have family, friends and neigh-bours, many of whom were kind enough to help me cel-ebrate my birthday with a Hawaiian Lu’au on March 16th with lots of laughs. Many nya:wehs to Virginia General – Family Traditions for providing the Lu’au feast and to others who brought potluck dishes. To Wyndot who thought-fully decorated Polytech. To my friend Brenda who took lots of pictures. And to my children Richard (Rada) and Laurie (Rob) for bring-ing Hawaii to me – I thought it was Elvis . The Polyne-sian Dream Dancers really put on a good show.Nya:wehHooyo

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Art (Jr) WrightOn your retirement fromIronworkers Local 736I am so very proud of

you!!!!Love, Sandra

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In loving memory of a Special Grandson, who passed away April 8th, 2006.

Gone is the face we loved so dearSilent is the voice we loved to hear.Too far away for sight or speech,But not to far for thought to reachSweet to remember him who once was here.And who though absent is just as dear.

Forever in our hearts and sadly missed.Grandma and Grampa Bomberry

Bomberry – Allan Wayne

In loving memory of a dear son, who passed awayApril 6th, 1992.

It’s not what we write or even what we say, it’s whatwe feel within our hearts. As we think of you each day,as time goes on without you, as days turn into years,they hold a million memories and a thousand tears.

Forever in our hearts and sadly missed.Mom & Dad

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An appreciationfor your help

Miigwetch, Nya weh and Thank You to Dreamcatch-er for contributing to the purchase of new goalie equipment for Jordan La-Forme for the 2012-2013 hockey season. Jordan played for Hagersville Tim’s Tire PeeWee division. Jordan played an awesome season. The team came first in their season, and won their Playdowns to be “PeeWee A Champs”. Jor-dan’s aspiration is the NHL and with the accomplish-ments he’s had in the past year, it could be a reality.Jordan is a team player, on the ice and off. Jordan has provided his time as a sec-ond goalie to the Hagers-ville PeeWee Rep team and Hagersville Atom Rep team for their practices. Jordan has offered his time to On Ice Goaltending School as a shooter for the Six Nations Minor Hockey goalie clin-ics. Jordan even stood in for a goalie for the Hagers-ville Women’s Recreational League. He spends hours shooting on net practicing his shots even though he is a goalie. Jordan is a mentor to his niece and best friend Drailyn.

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Buffalo Regional Allstars will compete in the Annu-al Bowman Cup Showcase, hosted by the Buffalo Sa-bres, April 15th, 2013 at the First Niagara Centre, Buffa-lo. Among chosen Defence is Ty Carpenter Gallagher, son of Jamie Carpenter & John Gallagher and grand-son of Leslie & Jean Car-penter. WAY TO GO TY CONGRATULATIONS from All the Family at Six Na-tions.

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22. Japanese sash 25. Flower stalk 26. Bosnian ethnic group 28. Longest division of geo-logical time 29. Hoover’s organization 32. Thigh of a hog 33. Fabric woven from flax 35. Upper limb 36. Basics 37. Satisfies to excess 39. The cry made by sheep 40. Go quickly 41. Allied headquarters in

WWII 43. Paradoxical sleep 44. Point midway between N and NE 45. Refers to a female 46. Tears down (archaic sp.) 48. Increases motor speed 49. Nocturnal winged mam-mal 50. Integrated courses of studies 54. Goat and camel hair fabric 57. Papuan monetary unit 58. Extreme or immoderate 62. Free from danger 64. Musician Clapton 65. French young women 66. Auricles 67. Foot (Latin) 68. Prefix for external 69. Allegheny plum CLUES DOWN 1. Founder of Babism 2. “A Death in the Family” author 3. One who feels regret 4. Maine’s Queen City 5. Research workplace 6. A division of geological time 7. Paid media promos 8. Abdominal cavity linings 9. Apportion cards 10. Ranking above a vis-count 11. Not idle 14. Former SW German state

15. Constrictor snake 21. Pica printing unit 23. Where wine ferments (abbr.) 24. Egyptian goddess 25. Boils vigorously 26. Oral polio vaccine de-veloper 27. Master of ceremonies 29. Fr. entomologist Jean Henri 30. Scottish hillsides 31. Islamic leader 32. Bakker’s downfall Jes-sica 34. TV show and state capital 38. A citizen of Belgrade 42. Supervises flying 45. Sebaceous gland secre-tion 47. Conditions of balance 48. Ancient Egyptian sun god 50. Part of a stairway 51. Time long past 52. Hawaiian wreaths 53. Resin-like shellac ingre-dient 55. Semitic fertility god 56. 60’s hairstyle 59. Honey Boo Boo’s net-work 60. Soak flax 61. Volcanic mountain in Japan 63. Point midway between E and SE

ARIES - MAR 21/ApR 20Aries, some conflicting signals from a

friend this week might seem like trou-ble is ahead. But it’s more likely that your perception of the situation is a little off.

TAURUS - ApR 21/MAy 21Taurus, your imagination has a life of its

own this week. You may be thinking of living on the edge a little bit in the next few days but don’t overdo it.

GEMINI - MAy 22/JUN 21Gemini, avoid a deep discussion about

your feelings with someone at work this week. Now is not the time or the place to share anything personal, so keep it pro-fessional.

CANCER - JUN 22/JUl 22Cancer, don’t get sidetracked this week be-

cause coworkers are expecting your full attention and effort at the office. You may need to juggle a few responsibilities for the time being.

lEO - JUl 23/AUG 23Leo, make sure you comments are not mis-

interpreted this week. Someone might take something the wrong way, so choose your words carefully.

VIRGO - AUG 24/SEpT 22Virgo, you may be feeling great physically,

but there is a nagging problem that you simply cannot identify. Give it time and it will come to the surface.

lIBRA - SEpT 23/OCT 23Libra, you know what you want and do not

need anyone’s approval, but you can’t help checking in with a family member this week to get a second opinion.

SCORpIO - OCT 24/NOV 22Scorpio, channel your romantic feelings

into action this week. Act sooner rath-er than later and make the most of your emotions while they’re strong.

SAGITTARIUS - NOV 23/DEC 21Sagittarius, learn from the past but do not

allow letdowns from the past to dictate your future. There is no guarantee that things will be repeated.

CApRICORN - DEC 22/JAN 20Capricorn, write things down this week

before you say them to be sure you have everything correct. This will help you when you need to make an important announcement.

AQUARIUS - JAN 21/FEB 18Aquarius, you may feel like escaping to a

fantasy world, but that does not mean the pressing matters will simply disappear. A vacation may recharge your batteries.

pISCES - FEB 19/MAR 20You are in much better shape than you

think you are, Pisces. So don’t be too hard on yourself this week. It is alright to put your feet up.

Tekawennake's Seven Day Forecast

Sun/Moon Chart This Week

Peak Fishing/Hunting Times This WeekDetailed Forecast

Weather Trivia

Today we will see partly cloudy skies with a high temperature of 2º. Southwest wind 18 km/h. Expect mostly cloudy skies tonight with an overnight low of -2º. West wind 8 km/h. Thursday, skies will be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 8º.

Tekawennake News Weather Summary

Wednesday Partly Cloudy

2 / -2

Thursday Partly Cloudy

8 / 1

Friday Sunny8 / -1

Saturday Partly Cloudy

7 / 5

Sunday Cloudy13 / 4

Monday Mostly Cloudy

8 / 5

Tuesday Partly Cloudy

1 / -4

Peak TimesDay AM PMWed 5:18-7:18 5:48-7:48Thu 6:13-8:13 6:43-8:43Fri 7:06-9:06 7:36-9:36Sat 7:56-9:56 8:26-10:26

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Moonrise2:47 a.m.3:31 a.m.4:08 a.m.4:41 a.m.5:12 a.m.5:41 a.m.6:10 a.m.

Moonset12:50 p.m.1:59 p.m.3:07 p.m.4:15 p.m.5:21 p.m.6:26 p.m.7:31 p.m.

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