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Former Band Councillor and longtime teacher and educator Claudine VanEvery-Albert was denied access to the building as part of a delegation invited to speak with ministry officials about the school supply issue. It appears VanEvery was told she could not be a part of the delegation. Many believe it is because she knows a little too much about Six Nations school funding to be snowed by statements made by AANDC Minister John Dun-can. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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By Stephanie DearingQUEENSTON HEIGHTS

The real Battle of Queen-ston Heights, which took place 200 years ago on Oc-tober 13, was never staged, and certainly never narrat-ed. That battle did not have thousands of spectators ring-ing the battle grounds ooh-ing over the cannon fire and thrilling to the simultaneous shooting of dozens of mus-kets.

The real battle was the first major battle of the War of 1812, and it was fought in deadly earnest. It is believed 300 men died as the battle raged off and on over a 12 hour period. It was re-enact-ed on Saturday on the very same ground where blood had been shed all those years ago, thrilling the approxi-mately 15,000 people who had gathered for the event.

Only the very young be-lieved those they saw fall onto the field Saturday un-der a barrage of gunfire had really been injured. As the smoke from the hundreds of guns and dozen cannons fogged the air of the battle-ground, one girl, about four years of age, was overheard asking her grandmother why the people were fight-ing. “I don't know,” admitted Grandmother candidly.

But the woman narrating the re-enactment made sure people knew why the men were fighting, and how the battle had turned from over-whelming defeat for the Brit-ish to an unequivocal win, thanks to the efforts of ap-proximately 80 Six Nations

warriors. Those warriors, said the narrator, led by John Brant and John Norton, kept the Americans forces, which numbered well over 1,000 men, under steady fire, pre-venting them from fortifying their position.

The battle had unfolded after General Isaac Brock learned the Americans had taken Queenston Heights early in the morning on Oc-tober 13, 2012. It was cold and wet, altogether misera-ble weather. Brock marched his men, about 200 all told, up the escarpment with the intention of sweeping the Americans from the flats atop Queenston Heights, but he died leading the raid. The fighting force retreated.

Brock's aide-de-camp, John MacDonell, arrived shortly after, bringing with him more fighting men. MacDonell unfortunately at-tempted the same strategy – marching up the escarpment, and he too was killed. Again the British retreated.

In the third attack of the Americans, approximately 80 Six Nations and Delaware warriors, led by John Brant and John Norton, arrived and flanked the Americans from one side, holding them in po-sition with a steady barrage of fire power. This allowed the British, led by General Sheaffe, to attack the Amer-icans successfully. Approx-imately 1,000 Americans were taken prisoner, and it is thought over 300 men from both sides lost their lives in the battle.

One Parks Canada em-ployee said ghost walks on

the battleground of Queen-ston Heights are popular events. The former battle-ground, now a park hous-ing a memorial to Brock, is believed to be haunted. Oc-casionally, said the Parks Canada employee, the re-mains of someone who died in that famous battle 200 years ago are uncovered when a tree blows over.

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Photograph Norton and Brant: Non-Native re-enactors portrayed John Brant (red face paint) and John Norton (feathered headwear) during the bicentennial re-enactment of the Battle of Queenston Heights. The mock battle, which took place exactly 200 years after the original, paid tribute to Six Nations and Delaware warriors who were instrumental in turning the battle to the favour of the British. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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By Scott Smith

A local couple who were helped through a very dif-ficult time in their lives by what really amounts to the kindnesses of strangers will be giving back to that same cause this weekend as a gesture of gratitude and ap-preciation for the help they received.

Scott Hill and his wife Tammy Point, owners of Townline Variety on Indian Line, will be hosting a show and shine at their store this Saturday to help benefit the Coping Centre of Cam-bridge. COPING stands for Caring for Other People in Grief, a non-profit charita-ble organization dedicated to helping families who’ve ex-perienced the loss of a child due to illness.

Just over two years ago the Hill’s baby daughter Keely was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, which was causing her to grow weaker each day. But the truly devastating news lie still ahead: Her particu-lar version of the disease was both incurable and terminal.

The family was able to treasure another year with

their youngest member but Keely did eventually suc-cumb to her illness. The young family was devas-tated.

“My grandmother dying was up until then what I had imagined as the worst possi-ble scenario for us,” explains Tammy, composed but con-tained when talking about the trauma her family had endured during that time. “But when we lost Keely it wasn’t even comparable.”

“Our lives came to a screeching halt.”

Despite the support of family and friends, there was a hole and a void that seemed to be theirs alone to bear, and it was getting the best of them. Even the chil-dren were affected.

The couple had heard about the Coping Centre through the hospital and en-rolled in a ten week course designed to help give cou-ples the tools to come to terms with their loss. Scott remembers, “One of our first groups was on Mondays and I’ll tell ya, Mondays couldn’t come soon enough.”

At the centre the family began the long process of acknowledging their grief in healthy ways and, perhaps

more importantly, meet-ing and sharing stories with other people who were going through the same thing.

“It’s still raw but the peo-ple and parents we’ve met have made a huge differ-ence. It’s only those who’ve

gone through what we’ve gone through who really know what we feel,” says Tammy.

While parents attend group therapy sessions, the

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By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

When making a presenta-tion on an idea that would allegedly help Six Nations tobacco manufacturers and retailers get around govern-ment squeezes, a Six Nations member ought to know there are some words that generate resistance for Six Nations.

But words like taxation, contraband, illegal and or-ganized crime peppered the presentation given to Elect-ed Council's Committee of the Whole meeting Monday morning. The presentation was made by the Institute On Governance (IOG) by two women. Along for sup-port was IOG Vice-President and Six Nations member, Ju-dith Moses.

Marcia Nickerson and Marion Lefebvre set up a powerpoint presentation to the Committee, telling the Elected Councillors in at-tendance they had found “avenues to move forward to create a new regime,” pro-posing Six Nations establish its own governance of tobac-co manufacturing and sales.

But almost immediately, Elected Councillors were put off by the language con-tained in the presentation.

“Contraband tobacco pres-ents a significant challenge to public health, fiscal poli-cy, economic equity and First Nations relations,” was the summation of the key find-ings after nearly two years of consultation with a number of First Nations, government representatives, health orga-nizations, and economists, said Nickerson.

“I just want you to know, as far as Six Nations goes, there is no such thing as con-traband tobacco,” declared Elected Councillor Helen Miller (District Four). “It's not illegal to us.”

“And that's exactly the point we're trying to get at,” said Nickerson. She said they defined contraband tobacco as “any product that does not comply with all of the con-ditions and applicable stat-utes.” She said contraband tobacco threatens First Na-tions health, policy, econom-ic equity and First Nations relations.

“Also, as you know, in many First Nations tobacco often represents a very large stream of income ... at times, communities are dependent upon tobacco. It's estimated

there are 51 manufacturers currently operating on re-serves and supplying 315 retailers,” said Nickerson, giving a nod to the impor-tance of tobacco to First Na-tion economies.

She went on with her presentation, outlining the “scope of the issue.” Nick-erson said there is an “es-timated 9 billion cigarettes manufactured illegally each year,” and “95% of these originating from reserves.”

District One Councillor Lewis Staats was upset the presentation mentioned First Nations and contraband to-bacco, but did not mention the contraband activities un-dertaken by companies such as Imperial Tobacco. Con-traband “is huge, and it's not just First Nations,” said Staats. “I want to make that clear.”

Nickerson said “that's the language that's out there” in the public policy sphere. But that explanation did not appease any of the Elected Councillors. She said the presentation was focused only on reserves, and not the overall market. “And not to say that's all contraband ei-ther,” she said hastily.

“Isn't that a bit discrimi-natory,” asked Councillor Staats.

“What we've talked about in terms of the governance regime is just for on-re-serve,” said Nickerson, “to try to address those issues that First Nations commu-nities are having with the provincial and the federal governments.”

It turned out most of the statistics the IOG had cited originated with the RCMP in 2009.

“You shouldn't even be here,” said District Three Councillor Ross Johnson in his usual blunt fashion. “You're not telling me some-thing that I don't already know.”

“The thing is,” said Coun-cillor Ross Johnson, “We've taken back something that was already ours.” He said the tobacco industry has brought Six Nations “mil-lions and millions of dollars .... [and] employs hundreds of people.”

“I agree with my col-league,” said District Five Councillor Darryl Hill. “I think the government has created this problem by dis-criminating against First Na-tions territories and put in a

quota system for tobacco, so this created an underground economy. And now the un-derground economy specific to trade has created employ-ment and sustainability for some of the reserves... I don't see an end to it myself.”

“If the province and the feds were more interested in dealing with what they al-ready owe and what they're obligated to do in terms of land and the resources we are deprived of now, if they raise that profile I could see that we might be more interest-ed in wanting to be helpful,” said Councillor Bob Johnson (District Five). “I'd rather see the bigger picture, the land claim profile to be higher.”

Judith Moses explained the IOG “is an independent think tank and we sometimes take on an issue because we think it's incredibly impor-tant to the country. We decid-ed to take on this issue.” She said the IOG wasn't report-ing to any government body, saying, “we're just trying to be helpful.” She said Six Na-tions could take the informa-tion provided and do what it wanted.

“We do think that this is an issue that deserves attention in this country for all of the reasons that you have men-tioned,” said Moses. “We do think that it is important somehow, that all the parties come together around a set of ideas ... and try to break the logjam so there is a win-win situation for everyone here.”

The IOG representatives were encouraged to hur-ry up with their presenta-tion, and Nickerson went quickly through her remain-ing slides, but not quickly enough. When Nickerson said a regulatory regime would reduce any crimi-nal organizations operating within the reserve, District Three Councillor Carl Hill objected.

“I find that is an insult,” Councillor Carl Hill told the women. “I would assume you've got documentation

on that, correct?”“We got that from the

RCMP,” said Lefebvre. She said the report talks about the number of criminal or-ganizations found on reserve “but what's interesting about that is it doesn't doesn't de-termine if the criminal orga-nization is First Nation or not, it does not break that down in any way.”

“We're not crooks,” said Councillor Staats with pas-sion in his voice. “We're do-ing this legally. And I take offence to when you come

and say such things.”“This is not our opinion,”

said Nickerson. “These are the documents that are out there in the public sphere.”

The IOG website states the organization was creat-ed in 1990 and has a mission of advancing better gover-nance.

The Committee voted in favour of accepting the pre-sentation as information and the IOG representatives quickly packed up their ma-terials and left the council chamber.

Tobacco governance proposal not welcomed at Six Nations

Three women from the Institute On Governance attended Elected Council’s Committee of the Whole Monday morning. Marcia Nickerson (left) made the bulk of the presentation, which ostensibly argued for a First Nation-run tobacco regulatory body as a way to fight contra-band tobacco, organized crime on-reserve as well as to help reduce smoking while allowing First Nations a way to deal with federal and provincial governments. Their presentation was not well-received. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


By Jim WindleTORONTO

It may be that no one will ever know what would have been had parents and home and school supporters not protested at the federal Ab-original Affairs and Northern Development Canada office in Brantford, or the much larger rally in front of the re-gional AABDC office on St. Clair St. in Toronto, but the long awaited textbooks and school supplies have arrived at Six Nations schools, albeit seven or eight weeks too late for the beginning of the cur-rent school year.

A group of around 20 Six Nations residents, augment-ed by approximately 40 non-Native allies, gathered with signs and chants of “stop the lies - bring the supplies” in front of the regional office in downtown Toronto last Thursday demanding an-swers from the ministry as to why, even after two weeks of direct promises, there was still no delivery of the much needed workbooks, text-books, office supplies, and other tools to educate Six Nations children had not ar-rived.

After speeches by sever-al Six Nations parents, for-mer teachers, politicians, and trade unionists in support of the Six Nations children, a delegation of four were cho-sen to seek a face to face with the powers that be up in the St. Clair office building.

But following a very in-sightful and authoritative speech by Claudine VanEv-ery, a former teacher who has been involved in the manage-ment of Six Nations educa-tion for several years, the ministry removed her name from the list of people they

would talk with.“It’s quite simple isn’t

it,” said one protester about VanEvery’s exclusion. “She knows too much and they don’t want to talk to anyone that knows their game and can see through their lies.”

VanEvery headed up the Six Nations Education Com-mission that has been looking at taking over Six Nations ed-ucation as almost every other reserve in Canada has already done.

“I was a teacher at Six Na-tions and am still very much involved with the education of Six Nations,” VanEvery told the crowd by way of in-troduction. “I’d like to call out the regional director gen-eral who is in this building, I believe. We would like to get some answers from her. I’d like to talk about under-funding, or in this case, no funding.”

She went on to explain ex-actly why Six Nations has not taken the responsibility for Six Nations elementary education.

“Several years ago I worked with the Six Na-tions Education commission and we were looking at tak-ing over the education of our children,” VanEvery said. “We are the last of the two reserves in Ontario that have not taken on that responsibili-ty. And the reason why, is that Indian Affairs wanted to give us significantly less funding than any local schools off re-serve.”

This statement flies in the face of statements made by Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan, that Native children are allotted the same or even more per capita funding than off reserve mainstream Cana-dian children.

“I also sat for three terms

— nine years — on the Grand Erie School Board so I know exactly how much money is received, per student, in lo-cal district school boards,” VanEvery told the crowd. “In fact, if you look in the Min-istry of Education website, you will find a small French school board in Northern On-tario who had approximately the same number of elemen-tary school children and the same number of secondary school students. They re-ceive more than twice what we are being offered to take over our own education. At

our immersion language school, we get half of the tu-ition fees that are paid to the Grand Erie District School Board for the students from Six Nations who attend their high school. And I know that for a fact as well because I sat on the Kawenni:io school board as well.”

Chronic underfunding to Band Council controlled schools across Canada was the topic of an AFN gener-al assembly held only weeks ago in Ottawa.

Steve Watson, retired na-tional education director for

the Canadian Auto Work-ers Union, said, “We don’t care about the education of Aboriginal children? Is that the message we want to send Indigenous children in this country? Shame on this gov-ernment. We want answers. We were in Brantford twice already about this, and last week we were told we would get answers from the direc-tor of education Peter Jones. We still have not heard any-thing. No answers yet. And nobody responsible has come out to give us any credible information. Don’t send out

somebody with some press release. Give us some real in-formation about when those supplies are going to arrive.”

Six Nations’ Wes Elliott added, “It’s all part of the ra-cial discrimination that is be-ing done against Six Nations. Not only in these school sup-plies, but in education fund-ing in general.”

The three that were granted an audience attempted to get some answers but came back down disappointed.

Cheyenne Williams report-

Six Nations’ school protesters in Toronto

Viney Sharma, CAW’s regional Human Rights director, joined the protest along with other CAW unionists. Members of CUPE local 3903 were also among the protesters standing with Six Nations parents.(Photo by Jim Windle)



Letter to edArnold Douglas’s dispute with Band Council over the ownership of the former Old No.1

School on the 3rd Line interests me as a follower of local legal history. The issue of whether or not ownership of the land was transferred from the Iroquois Confederacy to Band Council is well-publicized: news reports, including a September 24 letter from Hazel Hill of the HDI, states that there is no evidence that this happened. Neither Hill nor Douglas could to date, ac-cess the actual Confederacy minutes from the time that the original owner donated the land for the school a century ago. (The Band Council has them.) Thus, Douglas’s protests rely upon elders’ verbal understanding that this school land, and that of 11 other such sites, were to revert to the previous owner when such schools closed.

Douglas is in the unhappy situation of seeing Band Council decreeing that land that he be-lieves is part of a family tract that he bought in 1969 be used for an internet tower to which he does not consent to. Douglas and others question how Band Council got this authority to administrate these lands after 1924. Especially since Douglas has the certificate of proces-sion for the property.

What puzzles me are two documents from the Indian Lands Registry System concerning this disputed land. One is a copy of a “parcel abstract report” that states that ownership of this property can only belong to members of designated bands, of which Douglas, a Mohawk, qualifies. The other Indian Lands Registry document, Registration Date January 17, 2012, authorizes a “communication permit” to Silo Wireless --- with the grantor being CROWN CANADA (their caps)!!

The Haldimand Treaty decrees that all of the lands 10 kilometres (six miles)on both sides of the Grand River, from mouth to source, belong to the “Mohawk Nation and such other of Six Nations …to take possession of and settle on.” Does this mean that somehow, the school land was quietly removed from the Haldimand Treaty to the Crown, with Band Council as its administrators? Does this explain why the Band Council did not notify surrounding prop-erty owners about the location of this tower? How does this deal affect the “allodial title” to the land which the elders once spoke of, in which the people own the land with no strings at-tached to outside authorities.

That is why the historical documentation about this issue interests me. This is in addition to the reality that wireless towers, like cell phone towers, Wifi and smart meters, pose envi-ronmental effects on human beings and animals, and that not everyone wants that tower, in spite of the benefits of the internet.

Diane Baltaz

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Well, that was embarrassingIs it going to take another Kanonhstaton to cause the people of Six Nations to focus

on anything long enough to really make a difference?

Even with a day off school, two weeks of front page coverage in both papers, and the rental of two highway coaches for the trip, only about a dozen people bothered to take advantage of the opportunity to go to the regional office of AANDC on 25 St. Clair St. in the Big Smoke to let Six Nations voices be heard about the delayed school supply situation at Six Nations’ schools. Granted, it was very much a last minute call to duty, but 11 people? Some did come on their own, but not many.

But there was a reason for the poor turnout as discussed at council Tuesday night. Fearing reprisal from AANDC, teachers and principals did not allow the invitation fli-ers to be distributed among the students to be taken home to their parents.

It was reported that in response to the protests over supplies, a senior AANDC em-ployee distributed a letter reminding the teachers and principals of where their loyalty should be, in response top the protests.

Fortunately, they were met in Toronto by around 40 non-Native allies ready to call their government on the carpet for its lack of concern for Six Nations students, teach-ers, and treaty rights concerning education, so it was not a complete bust.

In the past, we have heard some from here criticize the involvement of a growing number of non-Native, Canadian supporter allies pressuring their government from their side of the Two Row Wampum to treat the people of Six Nations fairly and honestly. But as far as we can see, incidents like Thursday’s Toronto protest should be a wake-up call to this community that the support of non-Natives will actually be essential in the forward motion of the Haudenosaunee people.

These people are not speaking for you or standing for you. They are there to stand with you and add their voice to yours. But if you don’t seem to care, why should they. But still they stand, with or without you, because the issue is about the Canadian gov-ernment not upholding its responsibilities to treaties and promises made in the name of all Canadians. These ignorant and damaging acts of this government regarding how it treats those which the Crown of Britain has pledged to protect, is also a blemish on the Crown itself.

They stand for Native issues, because it is also a Canadian issue that successive Ca-nadian governments have been perpetuating and exacerbating for hundreds of years.

Unless Six Nations is willing to stand for itself, it will become increasingly harder to find those willing to stand with you. Like it or not, the Canadian government only listens to its own, not because it’s their democratic responsibility to do so, that in it-self would be something to cheer about, no, it’s only because they represent votes and the government knows the majority of Natives do not generally participate in another government’s elections.

Correction: Last week we held our paper long enough to get in two references to this bus trip protest. Last second information we got from a third party source said that Band Council had given its employees the day off to attend the rally. We are now advised that this was inaccurate information. According to Karen Best, communica-tions director for the Band Council, schools were given a holiday so that parents and students could attend. As said earlier, only around 10-12 actually went.


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UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

We Are All Immigrantsby Xavier Kataquapit

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I don’t understand why so many people get upset about immigrants coming to this country. Of course you have to remember I have a special view consid-ering my people are the original inhabitants of this land so everybody else who came after us I view as immigrants.

The Europeans were the first big wave of immigrants to land on the shores of the Americas for all the same old reasons such as the quest for wealth, resources and domination. Considering all of the terrible things that happened to the Native people of the Americas you would think we Aboriginals would be very upset. After all these new immigrants stepped in uninvited and took over our lands, sent in their missionaries to destroy our culture, traditions and spirituality, moved us from our nomadic hunting and gathering lands to small reserves and more or less did their best to try to eliminate us. Still, somehow we do not hold a huge grudge with these first immigrants and as survivors we are doing our best to deal with their on going quest for riches.

So, you can imagine how confused I get when I hear some English, Polish, Russian, Italian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swiss, Swedish, Ger-man or other European people complain about any new immigrants coming to this land. I just find that really weird. Don’t they know where they came from and why they came here? Don’t they remember they were immigrants either coming to Canada to seek their riches, better their lives or escape terrible conditions in their own countries? They all seem to be suffering from amnesia when it comes to this question of immigration. They seem to be a little slow also because they keep falling for right wing governments fanning the flames of racism and bigotry by bringing the immigration issue to the surface again and again.

I have been to some third world countries so I understand very well why people want to come to our beautiful country to enjoy the opportunity to work and have a better life. This reminds me of why the Europeans came here actually. If we as first world countries did a better job of making things more fair and eq-uitable on this planet then people would have no need to immigrate as life would be as good for them in their own country as it is here in Canada. The problem is that most of our interest in third world countries has to do with trying to grab their resources, topple their governments so that we can put someone in place that will do our bidding and more or less keep people down.

Until we really see that we are all just one big family on this tiny, lucky little planet Earth then we will keep taking advantage of others and they will arrive at our doors in the same way the Europeans were looking for a new and better place to call home. I really think the average person is good enough and aware to the point where they understand that if we don’t want to flood our country with new immigrants then we have to work very hard to make life better for the less fortunate in this world. We also have to realize that most of us came to this country as immigrants.

I love reading anything I can get my hands on regarding the history of this world. One of my favourite quotes is that ‘the only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn anything from history’. However, one thing is for sure if you study human beings and their historical actions it soon becomes clear that patterns of war, greed and domination prevail. What has to happen for us to real-ize there are better ways? It could start with simply not being sucked in by nasty people in power trying to keep us all fighting with each other and believing it is OK to hate others. It could start there


By Jim WindleBRANTFORD

After two years of prepa-ration and legal wrangling, the Ontario Municipal Board hearing the appeal of Sifton Homes began Monday. Sif-ton Properties Inc. alleges that the City of Brantford has dragged its heels in giving fi-nal approval to their housing development, to force them to

comply with the newer Wa-terfront Master Plan recom-mendations.

Sifton applied for, and thought they had received, approval from City Hall for their development in the Har-dy Road area. But, with new revelations about the sen-sitivity of the area, coupled with the pending Waterfront Master Plan, final approval never came. After several at-tempts to get the final OK and

begin their housing project, they eventually appealed to the OMB.

Preliminary housekeeping was done Monday in the first day of what will be several weeks, and could be months, of intensive testimony before the OMB.

Brantford City Council chambers was strewn with boxes upon boxes of doc-uments, reports and files

brought in by lawyers repre-senting both Sifton Properties Inc., Grandview Ravines Inc., and the City of Brantford.

A new wrinkle was put into the system Tuesday af-ternoon, when Bill Mon-ture led a delegation to the hearings and presented their perspective of the situation, which hinges on the lack of consultation and the ignoring of treaties and treaty rights in the process.

Sifton lawyers politely ob-jected to Monture’s group's sudden appearance onto the scene, saying they did not go through the proper channels to be officially recognized at the hearing.

But Monture countered with a passage from the Unit-ed Nation Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People which points out that any proceedings must be done according to what is under-stood by Indigenous peoples and not necessarily what is common to non-Native un-derstanding.

In essence, recognized pro-tocol in such matters should not preclude the involvement of Indigenous people repre-senting themselves in a man-ner accustomed to them.

The decision was to allow the Monture delegation the right to make its own pre-sentation before the board, despite not following normal protocol. A date will be set for that to happen.

Later this week, Professor Gary Warrick of Laurier Uni-versity, Brantford Campus, will be one of the defence witnesses called by the City of Brantford in its defence of the OMB appeal which was initiated by Sifton Properties Inc., Grandview Ravines, and other smaller developers over the proposed development of lands once the location of the joint Mohawk/Missis-sauga village of Davisville, in Northwest Brantford.

Warrick knows the area well. He has been studying and digging in the Hardy Road area since Davisville’s exact location was discovered in the late 1990’s by retired archaeologist Ilsa Kraemer. Warrick also authored a book

and produced a DVD on his Davisville research entitled, “Written in the Earth.”

He will also be drawing from a report by the archaeo-logical firm Timmins-Martel which conducted an intensive archaeological survey of the affected lands involved in the

proposed Hardy Road sub-development.

Through Warrick’s ex-pert and fascinating written report, the OMB and Sifton lawyers heard of the signifi-cant historical and archaeo-logically rich region being threatened by Sifton’s and

Grandview Homes proposed sub-developments.

Archaeology is only one of the many reason residents of the Hardy Road area and oth-ers stand in opposition of the Sifton project.

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First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Studyto be conducted on Six Nations

Six Nations in partnership with the Assembly of First Nations, the Université de Montréal and the University of Northern British Columbia has launched a new study to assess the chemical safety of traditional foods. This study called the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study, will take place this fall.

Community Research Assistants are being hired by the First Nation to conduct questionnaires with 250 randomly selected households. If selected, you may be asked to answer questions on traditional and market food consumption, to submit a small hair sample to test for mercury and some households will be asked to collect a tap water sample for analysis. Your participation is each of the components is completely voluntary and all information collected is kept strictly confidential. The First Nation is considered to be the owner of all data collected.

All Six Nations members are also invited to submit samples of traditional foods which will be tested for contaminants. These may include fish, plants, tree foods, mammals or other foods you might consider to be traditional. Up to five different samples each of 30 different types of foods will be collected.

The community research assistance are planned to begin their random survey selections on Thursday November 1, 2012.

For more information, please contact the Community Health Representative at New Directions Group (519)445-2947 or visit the study’s website: www.fnfnes.ca.

Davisville OMB hearings begin in Brantford

A delegation led by Six Nations activist Bill Monture and environmental expert Ken Hill sat in on Tuesday’s Ontario Municipal Board hearing at Brantford’s City Hall to weigh in on the proposed development of the hard Road, Davisville, area by Sifton Homes and Grand-view Homes, among others. The OMB appeal was launched against Brantford whom the developers say reneged on giving final approval when Brantford planners became aware of the sensitive nature of the lands in question. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Six Nations environmental expert, Ken Hill talks with Brantford Mayor Chris Friel during a recess in the OMB hearings at Brantford’s City Hall. (Photo by Jim Windle)

OMB Chairperson Chris Conti lays the ground rules for what is expected to be a long and involved appeal launched by Sif-ton Properties Inc. and Grandview Ravines Inc. against the City of Brantford.(Photo by Jim Windle)



By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS

News of the decision by the Ministry of the Environ-ment to approve Lystek's Dundalk plant spread quick-ly to Six Nations, where the controversy over the facility remains just as strong as it does in Dundalk.

One Six Nations employ-ee, Director of Lands and Resources Lonny Bomberry, endorsed the plant, saying it posed no threat to the water-shed. “You can see there's no danger to the environment,” he said of his site visit to the facility in late September.

“There is no wetland near there. There's no chance of anything going into the river. It's completely a safe opera-tion.” The township, he not-ed, has four sewage lagoons situated close to where Lys-tek is building. “That's the only wetland near there.” He said the wetlands are “may-be a mile away, or something like that.”

But one Six Nations activ-ist who has lent her support to Dundalk opponents of the plant for most of this year, is certain the facility spells catastrophe for downstream communities. “They're go-ing to kill the land with that stuff,” said Ruby Montour. “The water is going to be de-stroyed,” she predicted.

“Dundalk people are won-derful people. They are hon-est and decent folks, and they have a beautiful little town. And those kids are not far from Lystek's plant,” said Ruby Montour. She said there are people living not

far from the facility “that's going to be directly affected by this plant,” and said the plant is not viable. She called on Six Nations members to support the Dundalk area op-ponents of Lystek's plant.

Dundalk “is a higher el-evation ... so it all drains down into those little trib-utaries, down to the Grand River,” said Ruby Montour. She believes people are al-ready eating food grown in sewage sludge fertilizer, and said Lystek's fertiliz-er will go through the food chain. “We're like little sit-ting ducks waiting for a di-saster ... how do they know it's safe?”

Ruby's husband, Floyd, who has also thrown his sup-port behind the Dundalk op-ponents, readily admitted he and Ruby live downstream from the Six Nations sew-age lagoon, which overflows “once in a while” when there is heavy rain, the untreated sewage polluting the creek that runs in front of their house, and agreed some-thing has to be done about the sewage.

“That fertilizer part is good,” Floyd said. But he is concerned about the heavy metals he said are present in the fertilizer product Lys-tek will generate, along with residues of pharmaceutical drugs and other contami-nants. ... “that's the danger part.”

Neither Ruby nor Floyd would confirm they are fil-ing the appeal against the Ministry decision to approve the facility, although one of the leaders of the Dundalk

opposition, James Cooke, has told Better Farming Six Nations members are “lead-ing the appeal.” Another Six Nations member who has ac-tively supported the Dundalk opposition, Wes Elliott, re-fused to comment on the MOE approval.

Anna-Marie Fosbrooke said in an email her group, SPIRG is “currently review-ing our options to best pro-tect area residents as well as all those impacted by the environmental implications throughout the Grand River watershed and beyond."

Hazel Hill, acting Execu-tive Director of the Haude-nosaunee Development Institute (HDI), was aware of the approval given to the Dundalk facility, but said HDI had only just received further information clarify-ing Lystek's plans for the facility and has not had a chance to review the mate-rial.

Hazel Hill said she expect-ed the HDI board would re-view the information this week, and would provide HCCC a report in November.

“HDI requested informa-tion from Lystek more spe-cific to a couple of concerns that we had with respect to their project,” said Hill.

Those concerns included neighbouring wetlands, pathogens and the exact lo-cation of the plant from the Grand River.

Six Nations Elected Coun-cil has not yet committed to a position on the plant. To round out the statements and information presented to Elected Council, Six Na-tions administration has re-tained retired engineer Barry Hill to conduct an indepen-dent peer review of Lystek's Dundalk facility. Lystek, said Bomberry, will be pay-ing for the review, and Hill will be compensated for his time.

Although Hill has already carried out one review of the company's process for the Haudenosaunee Con-federacy Chiefs Council (HCCC), Bomberry called that a preliminary assess-ment and said there was no reason why Hill should not conduct a more thorough review for Elected Council. “He's fully qualified, he's one of our own people. He's coming there independent-ly, unbiased and he looked at it. That's the thing, people have to actually look at these things. It's no good just to read reports.”

Bomberry said it wouldn't

be practical for Six Nations to ship its sewage waste to the Dundalk plant, and didn't see that as an option for the

community. “We've commit-ted to talk further with Lys-tek on these things, so we'll see what comes from there.”

Controversy over Lystek facility reverberates in Six Nations

By Stephanie DearingTORONTO

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) gave Lystek the go-ahead to pro-ceed with its Dundalk plant, but has set out over 60 con-ditions to be fulfilled by the company. Lystek may still face some sort of penalty for having proceeded to construct some elements of the plant long before approval was is-sued by the MOE.

While Kevin Litwiller, Lys-tek's Director of Business De-velopment, told Tekawennake the Ministry took over a year to issue its decision, cred-iting the agency for being thorough, what he didn't re-veal about the long review pe-riod was that Lystek’s initial application was incomplete, and the MOE had to ask for, then await submission of the

missing information.The application was open

for public comment for 90 days in 2011, and the MOE said it received 270 comments on the waste processing facil-ity. Those comments ranged from concerns about the zon-ing of the land, odour, truck traffic, a believed lack of eco-nomic benefits for Dundalk, the safety of the final fertilizer product, along with a myri-ad of other issues. Of inter-est to Six Nations readers, not one comment brought up concerns about downstream communities, nor Six Nations rights.

All comments, along with the decisions, are available on the MOE's Environmen-tal Registry website.

While the MOE does not deal with municipal zoning, because there were so many comments received about the

zoning of the Dundalk indus-trial park, the MOE decided to review the application under Guideline D-6, Com-patibility between Industrial Facilities and Sensitive Land Uses.

“This Guideline suggests that a Class 2 industrial use, which is the category that the proposed Lystek facility was assumed to fall into, would have a theoretical potential influence area of 300 meters and would require a mini-mum 70 meter setback from sensitive uses,” explains the MOE online.

The elementary school and the daycare centre are approx-imately 360 meters from the Lystek operation, while the residential neighbourhood is approximately 380 meters away, meaning all lie “out-side of the theoretical zone of potential influence, and

should theoretical (sic) not experience negative impacts. There are also residences lo-cated 475 m to the southwest of the proposed facility,” said the MOE.

Concerns about the water were raised, and were ad-dressed by the Ministry of the Environment. “The min-istry's Source Water Protec-tion Branch was consulted with respect to the proposed facility and possible impacts on the drinking water supply. The SWPB confirmed that the proposed facility is not sited within a head protection area or an intake protection zone.”

The report goes on to say, “The site is located within a significant groundwater re-charge area and may there-fore be identified as a "low" or "moderate" drinking wa-ter threat in future. However, this level of threat was not

deemed sufficient to refuse the application. The SWPB only assess (sic) risk to mu-nicipal drinking water sup-plies. Private wells are not within the scope of their man-date.”

Lystek will have to moni-tor the groundwater for leak-age of its liquid fertilizer from the storage lagoons, and is re-quired to report annually on the plant's activities to the Ministry. That report is to in-clude the levels of groundwa-ter beneath the lagoon liners and the amount of groundwa-ter pumped out, among other details specified by the MOE. Lystek is to develop a contin-gency plan that would out-line responses to unexpected events, such as flooding or power outages.

In response to concerns about hazards the plant could potentially pose to adjacent

wetlands, the MOE noted the Grand River Conserva-tion Authority (GRCA) ap-proved the plant in December of 2011. GRCA said there is only one wetland in the area, and that wetland is within 120 meters from the indus-trial park. “The Lystek de-velopment is not within 30 metres of a wetland, therefore no additional studies were re-quired,” wrote the MOE in its explanation.

While some of the com-ments received by the MOE in 2011 raised concerns about potential contamination of the watershed by the Lystek facility, not one mentioned concerns about the impact to downstream communities; and not one mentioned Six Nations of the Grand.

The MOE will receive ap-peals of its decision until Oc-tober 26, 2012.

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kids are encouraged to take part in scrapbook making, song writing, and other ac-tivities to help them cope. Food also plays a big role in the get-togethers, laughs Tammy and Scott.

Slowly but surely the Cop-ing Centre was able to assist the pair — and the whole family, really — in piecing their lives back together. And for that invaluable gift they’ll always be grateful. “It feels like the weight of the world is lifted off you,” Tammy sums up.

Began in 1990 fol-lowing the death of their own daughter to leukemia, Glenn and Roslyn Crichton founded the Bereavement Support Groups of Ontario in their own home in Blair, just outside of Cambridge. There are now seven sister centres in Ontario and two in Alberta.

“We don’t see our-selves as experts,” explains Ros. “We see ourselves as companions walking along-side those who’ve experi-enced loss, helping them to discover for themselves how to mourn.”

The centres do not charge participants and re-ceive no government fund-ing, relying instead on private and foundational do-nations, and raffles like the Corvette draw being promot-ed at Townline Variety this weekend. Tickets are $10 each or 15 for $100. Ros and Glen say the Corvette draws offer a predictable level of return for their fundraising efforts and the chance to tell the public about the service.

As Scott Hill puts it; “Without this place I don’t know where we would’ve turned.”

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Family hosting fundraising event ‘giving back’

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Who Can Attend:• All women with no family physician, who have not had a Pap test in the last year, with a valid health card.

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Call: 519-445-2251 for an appointment

Women’s Wellness DayNovember 5, 2012

Gane Yohs Health Centrewith Dr. Andrea East

Attention Women of Six Nations!!!

Awakening ghosts

Elected Chief William Montour was surrounded by people wishing to speak to him following a special ceremony held on October 13 at Queenston Heights to commemorate the memory of War of 1812 hero Sir Isaac Brock. Caroline McCormick introduced herself to Elected Chief Montour, telling him she is a descendent of Laura Secord, a heroine of the War of 1812. She invited the Chief to participate in a walk being held next summer to retrace the journey Se-cord took to warn the British about what the Americans were planning to do. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

A direct relative of General Sheaffe, who is credited with winning the Battle of Queenston Heights after Native warriors pinned down the Americans long enough for British soldiers to regroup, was on hand after being flown in from his home in Australia. (Photo by Stepha-nie Dearing)

Six Nations historian Keith Jamieson shows Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, David Onley a replica of the covenant Chain Wampum commemorating the allied relationship between the Haudenosaunee and the British Crown.


By Stephanie DearingBRANTFORD

First Nations are the key to stopping tar sands devel-opments, said four young woman who came to Brant-ford on October 5 to speak about the Tar Sands Cam-paign, an initiative launched by the Indigenous Environ-ment Network. Indigenous women across Canada are speaking out about the tar sands development in a cam-paign called “She Speaks.”

Six Nations member Missy Elliott joined Crystal Lame-man from Beaver Lake First Nation and Vanessa Gray from Aamjiwnaang First Na-tion in a session moderated by Heather Milton-Lighten-ing from Pasqua First Nation on Friday night.

With every major oil cor-poration investing in Al-berta's oil sands, the area constitutes “the biggest hu-man development project on earth right now,” said Milton-Lightening.

“We have a relationship with the Canadian govern-ment that nobody else has. And because of our treaty rights and Aboriginal in-herent rights ... we can stop development, we can stop the tar sands whereas other people can't,” said Milton-Lightening. “We're saying we're using our rights as In-digenous people to stop this.”

The Beaver Lake Cree First Nation is the first and only First Nation to file a lawsuit against Canada over the tar sands development. “The case is winnable,” said Crystal Lameman. Her uncle, Chief Al Lameman helped file the legal action in 2008.

A judge recently granted a trial for the case. “We have what nobody else has, those constitutionally protected rights.” The Canadian gov-ernment is breaking the law it made, Crystal said.

Crystal showed photo-graphs, satellite images and graphics to give people an idea of the number of in-fringements made on their traditional territory by oil sands development. The area caribou population, which her people normally rely on, “has dropped 70 percent since the industry took over our traditional hunting terri-tory.” She characterized the tar sands development as “genocide, that's what this is.”

Vanessa Gray spoke about growing up surrounded by Sarnia's “chemical alley,” an area hosting 63 refineries. “I've been to more funerals than probably all of you com-bined,” said Gray. “We live in a pretty polluted place.”

After fighting a planned in-crease in production by Sun-cor, the pollution is slowly being cleaned up, and there is now an air monitoring pro-gram in place for the First Nation. But the community is still struggling with a higher-than-normal incidence rate of diseases such as asthma and skin conditions; while report-ing headaches, higher rates of miscarriages, higher rates of hyperactivity, learning prob-lems and behavioural prob-lems.

The closest to the refin-eries of the three area First Nations, members of Aam-jiwnaang First Nation are also the most affected by the refineries. As a result of the high rates of illness, the First Nation established an envi-ronment committee which receives reports from people, follows up on clean-up ini-tiatives and works with the provincial government on the air monitoring program. The problems have been well documented by the environ-mental group, EcoJustice.

The women of Aamjiw-naang have been leading the fight against the pollu-tion, but the community still stands as a symbol of envi-ronmental inequality. Two community members, with the help of EcoJustice, are fighting Ontario's decision to allow Suncor Energy Prod-ucts to increase its produc-tion by 25 percent, which Aamjiwnaang members say will also increase the amount of pollutants released during production. Suncor tried to have the lawsuit dismissed.

“The tar sands isn't just in Alberta,” said Elliott, point-ing out pipelines to transport the product are being built across North America. “It's coming this way too,” she said, pointing to Enbridge's Line Nine, which crossed Six Nations territory just south of Cambridge.

The pipeline has been in place for over 30 years, and has been used to transport oil products from Montreal to Sarnia. Enbridge recently received approval from the National Energy Board to re-verse the flow of the pipeline

to take product from Sarnia to Westover, Ontario.

Elliott said Line Nine pos-es a threat to downstream communities, particularly for Six Nations, which draws its drinking water from the Grand River, and that Six Na-tions' rights were trampled by the decision to allow the re-versal of the flow.

“There was no consulta-tion with our people. This is going through our land and it has a huge potential for poisoning our waters,” said Elliott.

“We can't be silent about this,” urged Elliott. “We're the only hope for stopping this in this area, we really are. We have our treaties behind us, we have our strength. We have our warriors and we have our women, we have that strength that power to stop this from happening. That's what I'm hoping that we can do together.”

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The Six Nations Legacy Consortium is pleased to announce the launch of the “War of 1812 Commemorative Medallion”, a bronze medallion featuring the artwork of Richard Hill Sr. of the Six Nations.

It features an Onondaga Chief brandishing the Covenant Chain “Friendship Belt”, our alliance to the Crown in England and after the American Revolution to the American President and US Congress. On the opposite side it features the 1815 William Claus Belt known as the “Pledge Belt”, recently repatriated from the Smithsonian Institution marking the pledges of the Crown to the Six Nations and their allies.

They will be available for purchase at the new Community Hall in Ohsweken on October 21, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 4:00PM concurrent with the Six Nations Veterans Remembrance Day Ceremony.

Available as follows:

;medallion- $39.95;medallion in a black velvet bag/lanyard- $44.95;medallion in a red velvet presentation box- $49.95

(debit/credit machine will be available on site)

This is a fund raising event of the Six Nations Legacy Consortium, a registered non-profit charitable organization, and proceeds of the sale of the medallion will contribute to the War of 1812 Monument to be erected in SN Veterans Park, and to support the educational programs of the SNLC regarding the Six Nations Legacy in contributing to the formation of Canada and the United States.

Women call on First Nations to fight the tar sands development

Six Nations member Missy Elliott (centre, seated at the table), joined Crystal Lame-man from Beaver Lake First Nation (seated, far right) and Vanessa Gray from Aamjiw-naang First Nation (seated, far left) for a discussion on Friday October 5 titled “She Speaks.” The women have been travelling to different communities in southwest-ern Ontario, speaking out against the Alberta tar sands development and associated pipelines. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).


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Dancing In Our Grandparent’s Footsteps!

Engaging Our Grandparents in the Community’s Heartbeat.

Promoting Communication between Grandparents and Youth.

Workshops will be held on the following dates aTimes: Saturdays: November 3, 10 and 24, 2012

10 am to 3 pm (lunch provided) Location: Six Nations Tourism Building

You will learn about: -‐ Haudenosaunee Social Songs and Dances -‐ Basic Language Lessons -‐ Moccasin Making -‐ Stories and Lessons from Our Grandparents -‐ Cultural Identity -‐ Orating Skills -‐ Hospitality and Tourism Training Programs

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ed that when she asked the ministry for a written prom-ise for a delivery date, at first they agreed but then never followed through. Williams was not given an answer as to why so long of a delay this year when in past years the supplies arrived on time, only to say they are “looking into it so it doesn’t happen again.”

“As parents we need to know what delayed our kid’s schoolwork,” said Williams. “The whole situation is so

frustrating.” According to Elected

Councillor Wray Maracle, it was the same old, same old when it comes to dealing with Indian Affairs. When asked why the delay, “its just the process they go through,” was the nondescript answer he got. However, he was told the orders were placed last week, making it seven weeks into the school year before the supplies were even ordered.

After several hours on the street, the small Six Nations delegation boarded the bus

and returned home, hoping their presence made a differ-ence.

As of Tuesday afternoon the supplies at OMSK in particular, had not arrived. Other principals expressed earlier they would not be in a position to talk with the media and referred instead to AANDC’s media director who last week was telling media inquiries that the sup-plies had been delivered, or that they were “looking into the situation,” and that was all.

Toronto police contain the protesters to an area directly in front of the Arthur Meighen building at 25 St Clair Street in Toronto, which houses the federal Aboriginal Affairs and North-ern Development regional office. Access to the building was also restricted by police. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Wes Elliott and Rhonda Martin stand in front of the AANDC regional office in Toronto to demand Six Nations schools get the supplies they need, now seven weeks into the new school year. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Six Nations’ school protesters in Toronto



Hamilton, ON, October 16, 2012 – This fall, Theatre Aquarius is thrilled to pres-ent Kevin Loring’s Where the Blood Mixes, a Gover-nor General’s Award-winning story of family, loss, redemp-tion and healing. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residen-tial School still live deep in-side the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. Floyd and Mooch must con-front their past when Floyd’s daughter returns home to dis-cover her past, her family and her people. A co-production of Theatre Aquarius, Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops) and Theatre Network (Ed-monton) Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People.

“This is an incredible opportunity to bring the works of three wonderful and diverse arts organiza-tions together,” says Theatre Aquarius Artistic Director Ron Ulrich. “And more than that, it is the kind of won-derful gift that we have as a regional theatre. We reach a wide and growing audience with our work every year, and the strength of that loy-al base gives us the power to tell important stories like this, and have them be heard. To do more good than simply preaching to the choir. This is not a story that is always easy to hear, but that makes its telling all the more impor-tant. This is a wonderful play, beautifully directed and fea-turing a truly powerful cast. I am so proud to have Where

the Blood Mixes as a part of our 40th Season”.

Where the Blood Mixes is directed by Bradley Moss and stars Robert Benz, Lorne Cardinal, Craig Lauzon, Se-ra-Lys McArthur and Mi-chaela Washburn. The design team is comprised of Cory Sincennes (Sets and Light-ing), Jeff Chief (Costumes), and Dave Clark (Sound). Barbara McLean Wright is the Stage Manager and Isa-

belle Ly is the Assistant Stage Manager.

Where the Blood Mixes will run until from Novem-ber 7 - 24, 2012. There will be a Pay What You Can pre-view performance on Nov 6, made possible by Arts Ac-cessibility Sponsor Sun Life Financial. Opening Night is Nov 9, 2012 at 8pm. Tick-ets may be ordered online at www.theatreaquarius.org or by calling the box office

at 905.522.7529 (toll free 1.800.465.7529), or in per-son at the Dofasco Centre for the Arts, 190 King William Street, Hamilton.

Theatre Aquarius is cel-ebrating 40 seasons of developing the skills of pro-fessional artists, investing in youth and families and con-tributing to the quality of life in this region. We house two performing spaces and offer 9 plays every season. Theatre

Aquarius acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Coun-cil for the Arts, The City of Hamilton, ArcelorMit-tal Dofasco Inc. (Founding Partner), and Ron and Don-na Patterson (40th Season Sponsors).

Media Contact/Informa-tion: Gregg Taylor, Marketing and Development Manager 905-522-7815 ext 235 [email protected]

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40th Season Sponsors: “Mr. Ron” & Donna Patterson

ByKevin LoringNovember 07 - 24, 2012

F o u n d i n g P a r t n e r : A r c e l o r M i t t a l D o f a s c oCo-produced with Western Canada Theatre & Theatre Network

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Winner of the 2009 Governor General’s Award, Where the Blood Mixes is a beautiful story about family, loss, redemption and healing. Floyd and Mooch, raised in residential schools, must confront their past when Floyd’s daughter

Christine returns home, to discover her past and her family.

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By Jim WindleCALEDONIA

After a disastrous three loss-es in three nights last week,the Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs re-bounded with a pair of 4-2 wins in Guelph, Saturday, and Lis-towel, Friday.

The sudden turnaround pulled the Corvairs out of a dive and moved them into a third place tie with Listowel, how-ever, Caledonia has one game in hand over Listowel so they offi-cially possess third place. They are now 6-4-1 for 13 points.

In Guelph, Caledonia out-shot the Hurricanes 43-20. The Corvairs jumped into a 1-0 lead on a powerplay scored by Mitch Brown, assisted by goalie Justis Husak at 3:11.

Matt Nightingale tied the score at 5:18, but Brown struck again at 15:27, from Jeff Swift and Nate Mitton.

Mitton scored the only goal of the second period to make it 3-1, 30 seconds into the frame, with Brown providing the as-sist.

Matt Lippa, opened the third period for Listowel very early, at 24 seconds, with a powerplay goal on Dalton Riley’s kneeing penalty that straddled the sec-ond and third periods.

Mitton returned the favour with a Caledonia powerplay marker at 10:19 to produce the

4-2 final.Friday night in Listowel, the

Cyclones struck first with a powerplay goal at 9:28, before Jeff Swift answered at 11:36, from Brown and Simon Blythe, and Connor Murphy added an-other at 13:08 with an extra man advantage.

Brown made it 3-1 at 3:36 of the second from Mitton and Brandon Montour.. Listowel’s Patrick Bell made good on a powerplay at 10:49, but Fab-rizio Ricci converted a Mon-tour set-up at 15:34 to restore the three goal edge at 4-1.

The Corvairs remain on the road Friday night with a visit to Stratford. Saturday they will be back home, and that is literal. The Caledonia Corvairs will be playing at 7:30 at the Gaylord Powless Arena in downtown Ohsweken for their Six Na-tions fans.

Brier Jonathan, Brendan Bomberry, and Brandon Mon-tour will play in front of their friends and family in a game intended to encourage Six Na-tions hockey fans to make the trip down Highway 6 to Cale-donia for the rest of the new season. They have also played a home game in Cayuga this sea-son with the same intent, and will do it again in two weeks when the Guelph Hurricanes are the visitors Oct. 24th, at 8 pm.

Captain Mitch Brown, #26, and Nate Mitton have been connecting regularly on the same line with the Caledonia Cor-vairs. The small stature of Brown has been more than made up for by his 6’8” heart. Brown is not shy about going into the corners with players significantly bigger, and he even spends time in front of the net where he is surprisingly hard to move. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Corvairs right the ship with pair of wins


By Jim WindleOHSWEKEN

Six Nations volunteer fire-fighters hosted a skills com-petition at the Iroquois Plaza

over the weekend, togeth-er with the Onondaga and Cainsville volunteers.

It was all part of the Fire Prevention Week activities. Teams competed against the clock in a very demanding se-ries of exercises reflective of the work they do.

For the Cainsville team, it was their first time compet-ing at Six Nations and they had a ball, according to Wade Cummerson, of Brantford who works out of Station 4, County of Brant.

“A couple of us have done the fire-fit challenge but this is different,” he said. “It’s not as fast but it is a lot more detailed and technical. It’s good.”

The kinship between fire-fighters is instant and high-ly respectful, and although in a friendly competition, it wasn’t unusual to see fire-fighters from the other teams cheering on their competition.

“It doesn’t matter if you're a volunteer or full-time, it’s like a fraternity. The relation-ship is always respectful,” Cummerson said. “There are a lot of times on a big call where we work together and we have a common ground

once we get out there and everyone knows what needs to be done and everyone just does it. We watch each oth-ers backs and everyone goes home at the end of the shift.”

The event was also an op-portunity for Six Nations’ civilian firefighter support group to recruit helpers and to fund-raise towards equip-ment, on site meals and even a new fire hall.

Theda Brant is president

of the Friends of Six Nations Firefighters.

“We started this year in 2012 and we have family members who are volunteer firefighters and they need

support,” said Brant. “Just simple things like bringing sandwiches out when they are on a big call and are working all day.”

They also get involved in bridging the gap between chronic underfunding and

firefighters' needs by raising money and awareness.

This spring they hosted a golf tournament that raised $10,000, some of which went towards the new fire-

house fund, the rest to going towards a civilian rehab unit that will respond when there are big fires, bringing food and water with them.

“The group is also starting a firefighter’s bereavement fund,” said Brant. “Being

volunteers, if someone pass-es away or are injured, there is no support for their families.”

The group meets the last Sunday of the month at 10 am, at Station 1 in Ohsweken and they are looking for more volunteer members.

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Fun and friendship at Saturday’s firefighter’s challenge held at the Iroquois Plaza, also has a serious side. It is designed to keep the volunteer firefighters in physical as well as mental shape. Three teams representing Cainsville, Oneida and Six Nations volunteers competed. (Photo by Jim Windle)


By Jim WindleBRANTFORD

It would appear the clock has started running out on the Mohawks who began the occupation of Kanata Village five years ago, at least in the eyes of some city council-lors.

In a motion put forth by Councillor Richard Carpen-ter, Monday night in council, it was proposed to shut off the heat, hydro, water and any other service to the for-mer museum.

According to Carpen-ter, over those five years, the Union Gas bill equals $13,300. As well, until the Bell telephone service was cancelled last Christmas, Carpenter reported to coun-cil that the phone bill was $10,575, and the water and hydro electric bill for the for-mer museum building tallies $25,537.47.

“That’s a total of just shy of $50,000 in expenditures for the city for a property that has been occupied by individuals that are using these services for free,” said Carpenter. “And they don’t seem to be using them very responsibly either when you look at the gas bills and es-pecially the telephone bills which were around $2,000

a month before we cut that off.”

Carpenter indicated that he is not opposed to saying to the groups that have oc-cupied the site that if they are willing to pay for those services, the city can keep them on.

“But certainly, the taxpay-er shouldn’t be subsidizing these individuals,” he said. “And understand that we are going to have comment from some of our staff to say why we must continue to pay these bills, and I am certainly going to challenge that when it comes forward.”

He called the proposed ac-tion “long overdue.”

“The property has been oc-cupied illegally, we haven’t done anything to evict the il-legal occupiers, and we’ve been paying all their bills. How ridiculous is that?” concluded Carpenter.

Councillor Wrobel sug-gested they send notices requesting payment for the utilities.

Ruby and Floyd Montour were at Council and tried to interject their dissatisfac-tion with the proposal, but were not allowed to address council.

Mayor Friel firmly told Ruby, “You have no position on this. Sit down please.”

All councillors agreed to a referral of two weeks before making the final decision on shutting off the services.

Councillor Larry Kings as well preferred a slower approach than Carpenter seemed to be pushing for and supported the referral to gather more specific infor-mation, observing, “When you have a hammer, ev-erything starts looking like nails.”

He also suggested May-or Friel speak with Elected Chief Montour to try and work out some form accom-modation.

“We are dancing around the issue,” said Councillor Dan McCreary. “It is not about turning off the hydro really. It’s about us starting to deal with the question of who owns this building and who has legal right to oc-cupy the building. “Does this group have the blessing of the Six Nations Elected Council, or the Confeder-acy? We don’t know that. What are they using the building for? Is it for some kind of interpretive facility and making some cultural use for it, or simply a place to crash? If there is a inter-pretive use, perhaps they would entertain the thought of leasing the building from

us.”He too agreed to the two

week referral. Marguerite Ceschi-Smith

gave a history of the build-ing pointing out it was built through the now defunct Pine Tree Centre, which brings up the question of whether the building belongs to the city at all. But the utili-ties are another issue.

Mayor Friel’s impatience with the situation was clear.

“I think it’s time this mat-ter be dealt with. The sums of money that have been racked up over the last five years and across two councils is to the point of ridiculous. The fact that it is literally a hand full of individuals oversee-ing this property. There are a lot of questions about how this would be perceived on Six Nations and that is a question we can clearly ask of the Chief or the Confed-eracy,” he said. “I know that there is no relationship be-tween this group that is in Kanata, the Elected Coun-cil, or the Confederacy.“We are dealing with a particular issue that has cost our com-munity almost $50,000 over the last number of years,” Friel concluded.

Carpenter said he was asked by Chief Montour why the city allows the Mohawks

to stay there. He said Mon-tour indicated it didn’t mat-ter to him if they cut off the utilities.

What will the Mohawks do? That is yet to be seen, but the threat to shut down the services came as no sur-prise to anyone at Kanata the next morning.

“The reaction, I suppose

is, no reaction,” said Jason Bowman speaking as Bill Squire’s assistant.

The group hopes to open dialogue with city hall to dis-cuss this and other related matters further in hopes of reaching an agreement that takes into account the Mo-hawk’s claim to the land the building sits on.

Brantford applies pressure to Kanata Mohawks

Kanata Village has been used by the Mohawk Workers who occupied the former Museum five years ago, for traditional teachings, guest speakers, summer kids camps, yard sales, meals, and a myriad of other educational and social events. Now, Brantford City Hall appears to be posturing to pressure the Mohawks out and board up the building and allow the historical 17th century longhouse and palisade to fall into disrepair by shutting off the heat, hydro, and electricity to the site. The motion was brought forward by Councillor Richard Carpenter Monday night in Brantford’s city council meeting, but was given a two week reprieve while city staff consider the wisdom of such a move. (File Photo)


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By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

A generational exchange program called 'Dancing in our Grandparents Footsteps' has been bringing together el-ders and youth in a program hosted at the Six Nations Tourism building.

Every Saturday, several grandparents and elders in-vest their life lessons and culture into a new genera-tion of young people, and the program is working quite well, according to coordina-

tor Beverly Gibson.“The goal is to bring our

grandparents or elders and youth together,” she said during a lunch break. “In the first two sessions we learned how to make moccasins. To-day, Norma General is here to teach the young people about the water drum, and then ev-eryone will make one.”

Teaching traditional songs and dances is also a part of the program.

“In the mornings we usual-ly have dancing with instruc-tors Gerry Burning and Frank

MacNaughton,” said Gibson. “They explain the history be-hind the Iroquois social danc-es and even how to say them in their tongue.”

The program continues this coming Saturday, Oct. 20th. There will be a break after that but will pick up again in November to complete the eight week program.

There is also opportunity for elders and grandparents to teach core values to youth like responsibility, good work ethics and the importance of staying in school.

Dancing in our Grandparents Footsteps

Elder Norma General shares her knowledge of the traditional water drum with young Six people at the Tourism Building last Saturday. The program is designed to provide oppor-tunity for Six Nations youth to glean wisdom and knowledge from the community’s elders. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

Six Nations Elected Coun-cillor Wray Maracle (District Four) provided an update on the school supply issue to his colleagues at Tuesday's coun-cil meeting.

“Only about 15 people from Six Nations actually at-tended the protest,” said Ma-racle, who had gone on the trip to Toronto as Council's representative. “There were parents and some children, but most of the support came that day from unions ... they were more than willing to help us to try to get the mes-sage across.”

Councillor Maracle said he had been informed by District Two Councillor Carl Hill “there are still 11 orders out-standing of the 44 that were ordered in May.”

While in Toronto, Coun-cillor Maracle said he had met with Aboriginal Affairs employee, Joanne Wilkin-son. “One of the disappoint-ing comments I heard from Joanne Wilkinson ... was that some of the stuff didn't get or-dered until October the fifth, the previous week. It's kind of disheartening. It's supposed to be ordered in May. I don't know where it went wrong,” said Maracle. “Somebody was not doing their due dili-

gence.”“So the ordering being

delinquent was on the fed's side,” asked District Five Councillor Bob Johnson.

“Yup,” responded Ma-racle. He explained all the schools hand in their requisi-tions for supplies every May each year. And “every year it happens they don't get all the stuff right up front. Accord-ing to Joanne Wilkinson, the schools that went out and purchased supplies to get the schools started, they're not going to get reimbursed.”

Calling the failure to pro-vide the supplies in a timely fashion “abuse to our chil-dren, not only academic

abuse but neglect,” Council-lor Melba Thomas (District One) said, “I think it's a situ-ation where they're attempt-ing to make things so difficult that we're going to say, like we have been saying, we're going to take over education, we can do a better job. But we can't do a better job with the amount of funding that they're offering us right now.”

Councillor Dave Hill (Dis-trict One) agreed with Thom-as, saying “it's only going to go on until we take educa-tion over ... It's going to get worse.”

Councillor Bob Johnson said he had learned of a “letter circulating to the employees

of Aboriginal Affairs, teach-ers under Joanne Wilkinson, reminding them of their loyal-ty and not to step out of line.”

Councillor Maracle said Wilkinson had informed him Aboriginal Affairs “didn't hold any of their employees back, they could have protest-ed if they wanted.” He add-ed the schools did not allow parents to distribute the fliers with the information about the trip to Toronto to protest the lack of supplies.

While council was unhap-py with Aboriginal Affairs, some councillors expressed their disappointment over the failure of community mem-bers to show up for the pro-

test.District Three Councillor

Roger Jonathan was one, say-ing he remembered the del-egation that came to Elected Council on October 9 “de-manding that we send two buses, but now we find out that only 15 people from our territory took the opportunity ... It was kind of disappointing to me, they were demanding that council do these things and yet they didn't even fill one bus.”

Councillor Maracle said Six Nations members are becoming “very good Cana-dians, being indifferent on major issues... I'm very dis-appointed.”

Elected Council Update on School Supplies

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Métis Nation of Ontar-io (MNO) President Gary Lipinski reacted today to the announcement late yes-terday that the Right Hon-ourable Dalton McGuinty is stepping down as Premier of Ontario. "Premier McGuinty

has dedicated 22 years of his life to the service of the peo-ple of Ontario," stated Presi-dent Lipinski, "on behalf of the MNO I want to thank him for that service."

"I have had the opportunity to meet with, and work close-ly with, Premier McGuinty over the last several years," explained President Lipinski,

"and the Métis people of On-tario saw significant advanc-es during his tenure."

President Lipinski cited the signing of the MNO-Ontar-io Framework Agreement in 2008 as pivotal in building the positive relationship be-tween Ontario and the Métis. "The Framework Agreement set the tone for our work with

Ontario under Premier Mc-Guinty and led to numerous similar agreements with gov-ernment ministries, agencies and postsecondary institu-tions," said President Lipin-ski.

"The Premier also played a major role in 2010 being de-clared the Year of the Métis. It was a historic and proud

moment for the Métis to be recognized on the floor of the Legislature and this was indicative of the respect the Premier has always shown the Métis."

In 2009, the McGuinty government established the Chair for Métis Studies at the University of Ottawa and in 2011 it signed an agreement

to provide $30 million dol-lars of funding over ten years to the Métis Voyageur Devel-opment Fund (MVDF). "The kinds of agreements reached with the Ontario government under Premier McGuinty," stated President Lipinski, "will improve the lives of Métis people in Ontario for many years to come."

MNO thanks Premier McGuinty for his Dedicated Service

By Stephanie DearingQUEENSTON HEIGHTS

Two hundred years ago, Six Nations warriors turned an American rout into a Brit-ish win – and last Saturday there were several moments during an event dedicated to commemorating that battle, one of the key battles of the War of 1812.

“It's time” Six Nations re-ceived recognition for their contributions to the War of 1812, said re-enactor Kim Lundberg. From London, Ontario, Lundberg has been a re-enactor for the past 12 years, choosing to portray a fictional Mohawk warrior from 1812.

“I think the people are be-ginning to think it's time to talk about these things,” said Lundberg. “People should know what happened to the Indigenous peoples, really.” He said the changes came af-ter the War of 1812 when the government encouraged set-

tlement of traditional lands. “The government bought up reservations and put First Nations on them,” said Lun-dberg. “They had to get per-mission to leave. It's time people know this happened, that's why I do this.”

Ostensibly Saturday Octo-ber 13 was intended to pay tribute to Sir Isaac Brock, the general who died while lead-ing the first attack against the Americans on that fateful day 200 years ago, and the cere-monies took place at the base of the monument dedicated to Brock's memory.

The first ceremony took place on Saturday morning. Elected Chief William Mon-tour joined Canada's Attor-ney General, Rob Nicholson; Richard Alway, the Chairman and Ontario representative of the Historic Sites and Mon-uments Board; Niagara-on-the-Lake Mayor David Eke; Janet Malcomson from the Friends of Fort George, and Dr. Larry Estola from Parks

Canada, to unveil a bronze plaque dedicated to Brock's heroics.

Every October will now be dedicated to Brock's memory, and Brock has been added as a Person of National Signifi-cance. Elected Chief William Montour spoke briefly dur-ing the ceremony about how the day had special meaning to him because “my grandfa-ther John Brant was here 200 years ago. I'm here today.”

Montour noted that Six Nations enjoyed a special relationship with Sir Isaac Brock “as allies to the British Crown,” and said Brock act-ed on the Crown's commit-ments. “He had a complete appreciation and respect for the prowess of our warriors in battle, and recognized that without them he could not re-pel the American advance at this site on this day 200 years ago. He courted the Six Na-tions leadership in the per-sons of Captain John Brant and Captain John Norton to

lead a force of almost entire-ly Six Nations men. And had they not met that challenge, this country would probably not exist as we know it to-day.”

After the ceremony, Elect-ed Chief Montour was po-litely mobbed by several dozen people who took time to express their thanks to Six Nations; share their fam-ily connection to the Battle of Queenston Heights, get the Chief's autograph and to ask to have their photograph taken with him. Pleasant-ly surprised, Elected Chief Montour professed he had not anticipated such a warm reception.

The second ceremony, held Saturday afternoon to honour the memory of all the people who died in the Battle of Queenston Heights, Six Nations historians repre-senting the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council received a standing ovation from what appeared to be at

least several thousand people.Participants in the after-

noon ceremony included Six Nations members Rick Hill and Keith Jamieson; Ontar-io's Lieutenant-Governor, David Onley; Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Tourism and Culture; Attorney Gen-eral of Canada Rob Nichol-son; a descendent of General Sheaffe, who helped win the battle against the Americans, Niagara Falls MPP Kim Crai-tor; Parks Canada CEO Alan Latourelle; historian Wilma Morrison and Niagara Parks Commission Chair Janice Thomson.

Rick Hill and Keith Ja-mieson brought along two original wampum belts, the Silver Covenant Chain and the Claus Belt. Wampum belts represent business con-ducted between nations, ex-plained Rick Hill. He held carefully unwrapped the Covenant Chain, “what we call the Friendship Belt,” he said. “This was the first treaty

made between Great Britain and Six Nations.”

The original Friendship belt “was made in 1677,” Hill said. “Our relationship with Great Britain is older than the United States, older than Canada, and we have this wampum belt to show it.” The belt he showed the au-dience was given to Six Na-tions in 1754 by the British in Pennsylvania. “It's the first time it's been shown publicly in a long time.”

Hill talked about the di-vision the War of 1812 cre-ated for Six Nations people, speaking about how his fa-ther's family fought his moth-er's family. “People were torn right in the middle [in terms of loyalty] and it was a very difficult time for us. But those who believe very much in the Covenant Chain relationship decided to defend the inter-ests of the Crown, but they also fought to protect our land [from the Americans].”

Proud moments for Six Nations during battle of Queenston Heights commemoration



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Ohsweken man charged with impaired

Devrin Pattrick Hill is fac-ing two criminal charges of Impaired Driving and Fail/Refuse to Provide a Breath Sample when arrested by police on October 12. A statement issued by the Six Nations Police said police stationary in a parking lot on Fourth Line saw a red Chev-rolet car that seemed to be travelling at a high rate of speed, headed west on Fourth Line towards Chiefswood Road. When the officer(s) prepared to conduct a traffic stop of the vehicle, they saw the car cross the yellow cen-tre line. The driver pulled into a parking lot on Fourth Line Road, where he was arrested.

Stolen Vehicle recovered in Six Nations

A Cadillac Escalade, re-ported stolen to the Brant-

ford Police, was recovered on October 9 on Onondaga Road. Six Nations Police say the beige-coloured 2004 car was found in a bush lot, stripped of its parts. They did not say if an investigation is underway, or if any suspects responsible for the theft were arrested.

Opening for 2 part-time student employees

The Six Nations Police have announced they have two Community Service As-sistant positions open, and are encouraging students to apply for the part-time jobs. The six-month long jobs are awarded to qualified Six Na-tions high school students fol-lowing an open competition. Qualifications for the job, du-ties and information on how to apply are all available on the police website, www.snpolice.ca. The jobs pay $10.70 an hour. The deadline to apply is October 26, 2012.

Six Nations Police Briefs

(Winnipeg Free Press)TEHRAN, Iran

Two former Manitoba First Nation chiefs have gone on state-run television in Iran to blast Canada's treatment of Aboriginal Canadians.

Terry Nelson and Dennis Pashe were involved Mon-day in a round of media in-terviews in Tehran.

News clips show Dennis Pashe saying Canada is intent on exterminating aboriginals.

They also show Terry Nel-son decrying soaring rates of unemployment, mouldy re-

serve houses and the disap-pearance and slayings of 600 Aboriginal women.

Nelson told the Winnipeg Free Press after the inter-views that a show of Aborig-inal chiefs making common ground with OPEC members over oil ownership would send a message about ignor-ing treaty rights.

A spokesman for Aborig-inal Affairs Minister John Duncan says the department is disappointed Nelson has al-lowed himself to be used as a pawn by the Iranian regime to distract from its own record.

Former First Nation chiefs use meeting with OPEC member to bolster treaty rights


“We're still suffering from this,” Hill said. Keith Jamie-son helped Hill show the Claus Belt, given to Six Na-tions in Burlington after the War of 1812 had concluded. “It's a very old fragile belt and it represents the pledge of the Crown at the end of the war to the Six Nations people,” Hill explained, to applause.

“At the end of the war we were still recognized as al-

lies of the Crown,” said Hill. “What we believe, as our Chiefs said in 1812, that it's important to not only look at the sacrifices of the past and the pledges made for the future, but we have to find a new way in which these blood rights and privileges that we have can be shared again, because we hold our rights as dearly as anybody does. And our warriors who fought here throughout the war have earned us a place on this stage, so today we

stand together, 200 years af-ter the war began.”

“We have to look to the fu-ture. If we can condole each other for the things that have happened since the War of 1812, if we can forgive each other for the transgressions that have taken place, and commit to a new and honest exchange then we can be-come true partners in build-ing a lasting peace, and that way the hopes and dreams of the people who came here and died here will live, not

only in that memory but in the way that we treat each other, and that we will find out is that what they sacri-ficed is to give us the chance and the chance for the future

generations to come to live in peace.”

Keith Jamieson present-ed the Six Nations Legacy Consortium's Peace Me-dallion to David Onley “to

commemorate this particu-lar event and to commem-orate our relationship with the Crown and its represen-tatives in Canada.”

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What is the project about?Environmental changes are impacting the health and lifestyles of First Nations. For example:

• The conservation of traditional lifestyle and diet• Increasing contaminant levels in traditional food from pollution• Reduction and quality of traditional food resources altered by environmental concerns• Increasing chronic disease such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease • Economic, political and social issues that affect traditional lifestyles and access to traditional harvesting

areas

The FNFNES requires eight short-term research assistants to conduct written interviews and collect food, water and hair samples between October and December 2012.

FNFNES is conducted in full partnership between the Assembly of First Nations, Health Canada, the University of Northern British Columbia and University of Montreal.Qualifications:This job requires applicants that are comfortable phoning /talking with people in the community that they may not know.

The applicants will also need to have the following skills:• Self-motivatedandEnthusiastic• Attention to detail• Well organized• Reliable• Legible hand writing and basic math skills• Good oral and written communication skills• Can set and keep appointments• Abletomaintainconfidentiality• Can keep documentation current and secure • Can meet regularly with Nutritional Research Coordinator and the Key Community Contact • Access to reliable communications i.e. phone, text or email• Access to reliable transportation or ability to travel around the community is an important asset.• Previous experience with dietary surveys is an important asset.

A 3-day training workshop will be provided by a nutritionist who will be available to support and answer any questions throughout data collection in the community. Selected research assistants will be paid to attend training.

Wages:$50 per completed interview & mileage compensation

Please forward your letter of interest and resume to: New Directions Group1769 Chiefswood Rd, Ohsweken, Ontario N0A1M0Attn: Community Research Assistant Position

Deadline: Monday October 22, 2012 @ 4:00pm Research Study is approved by

JOB POSTINGNEEDED:8RESEARCHASSISTANTS

FirstNationsFood,NutritionandEnvironmentStudy(FNFNES)

Six Nations historians Rick Hill and Keith Jamieson represented the Haudenosaunee Con-federacy at a special ceremony held Saturday afternoon in Queenston Heights to remember those who died in the historic Battle of Queenston Heights, which took place October 13, 1812. They brought two wampum belts with them and explained the special relationship Six Nations has had with Great Britain, receiving a standing ovation. (Photograph by Stepha-nie Dearing).

Elected Chief William Montour participated in a morning ceremony that revealed a bronze plaque commemorating Sir Isaac Brock and his heroism in 1812. The ceremony was held at the foot of an existing monument to Brock at Queenston Heights on Saturday October 13, 200 years after Brock died after being shot on the same ground by the Americans.

Proud moments for Six NationsContinued from page 18


Since initially approving the site, the city planners have become aware of the highly sensitive geological, hydro-logical, environmental and historically significant area which they now believe must be protected.

Throughout the five months set aside for the OMB hearing, all of the evidence on both sides, and other expert testimonies will address the many reasons not to build in that area at all.

According to Warrick’s re-port, Davisville was a thriv-ing Indian village along the banks of the Grand River, established by a Method-ist Mohawk Chief, Thomas Davis, around 1800. He and a group of fellow Mohawks disapproved of the Anglican teachings of the Joseph Brant Mohawks at the original Mo-hawk Village and, what Chief Davis considered to be, the negative moral conditions the village had fallen into since being established in 1785. Davis led a group of discon-tented Mohawks to establish a new village upstream in what is now the Hardy Road region of Brantford’s North-

west. Peter Jones, son of pioneer

surveyor Augustus Jones, like his father before him, mar-ried a Mississauga woman. He converted to the Method-ist faith in 1823, and became good friends with Chief Da-vis, visiting Davis’ Hamlet, as it was also referred to, often.

Jones eventually invited several Mississaugas of the Credit River near present day Toronto, to join Davis‘ com-munity, which many did, and lived separate from, yet joint-ly with, the Mohawks at Da-visville.

After several years, the Mississaugas pulled out and moved back to their tradition-al home on the Credit River, until resettling on a corner of the Six Nations reservation which was given them by the Six Nations Confederacy.

After that, due to upriver clear-cutting by settlers in the establishment of Kitchener and Guelph, the river began flooding its banks down-stream by 1833, and washing out the cabins of Davisville. The site was abandoned and the Davis Mohawks resettled in Sour Springs and else-where, but not many returned

to the Mohawk Village.In around the early 2000’s,

further excavations revealed the size and extent of the village as being bigger and wider ranging than original-ly thought. Most of this area has been the subject of War-rick digs and Timmins-Martel surveys with eight identified sites strung out along the banks of the river. But there could also be more sites yet to be discovered, because along with the Davisville

remains of the 19th century, there were also artifacts prov-ing habitation in this gentle bend in the river may go back as much as 12,000 or 13,000 years as well as evidence of other habitations over the centuries since.

Warrick recommends in his written “Summary of Evidence” that certain areas within the Sifton plan could disturb the historical and ar-chaeological significance of

this very special and impor-tant site.

“A combination of archae-ological and natural features form a significant cultural heritage

landscape would preclude development of the properties in question,” he writes.

The area is so rich in ar-chaeology that Warrick and Timmins-Martel together have catalogued 80,000 ar-tifacts in an area of 1200 square meters.

Where people lived, they also died, creating highly sen-sitive ancient burial grounds throughout the region from all inhabitants over the past 12,000 years.

“The accumulation of ar-chaeological evidence in-dicates 10,000 radiocarbon years (12,000 calendar years) of Aboriginal use and oc-cupation of this portion of Brantford, and holds tremen-dous value for the Mississau-gas of the New Credit and Six Nations of the Grand River,” writes Warrick. “In the Davis-ville area, the density of ar-chaeological sites rivals that found in the Mississippi Riv-er valley of the central United

States, one of the richest ar-chaeological areas in North America.”

The hearings continue at the Brantford City Hall from Monday to Thursday every week until the end of No-vember. They will break for the month of December and get back at it in January, until the Spring of 2013.

Aside from the historical and archaeological arguments being brought forth by wit-nesses in Brantford’s defence, is as much evidence of unique and rare geological elements such as Tufa mounds.

Tufa is a rare rock formed by highly mineralized wa-ter, rich in calcium carbon-ate, bubbling to the surface and congealing into a porous, light grey stone which early settlers of this region used as foundation stones for barns and outbuildings, some of which are still evident today.

There are water geysers, nearly extinct plant life in the area, as well as endangered species which call the Davis-ville area home.

The hearings are open to the public beginning at 9:30 am.

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Davisville OMB hearings begin in Brantford

It will be hard to find much floor space in the Brantford Coun-cil Chambers for the next several months as lawyers from Brantford, Sifton Properties Inc., Grandview Ravines Inc. and others duke it out over the proposed development of the 1830’s joint Mohawk/Mississauga village site of Davisville. (Photo by Jim Windle)



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GENERAl: Doris Emily

Surrounded by her lov-ing family at the West Haldimand Hospital, Hag-ersville on Sunday October 14, 2012 at the age of 72 years. Wife of the late James Green. Loving mother of Leslie, Farley (Helene), Tanya, Jamesina (Rob), Robert, and the late Delo-res. Dear grandmother of Samantha (Charlie), Briar, Sean, Jay, Amanda, Sarah, and several great grand-children. Daughter of the late Oliver and Ethel (Wil-liams) General. Sister of Keith, Myrna, Nancy, Judy (Manfred), Sam (Rose), Vivian, Kevin (Marlys), and the late Eva. Also sur-vived by many nieces and nephews. Doris was an avid bingo player and loved to travel. Resting at her home 2151 3rd. Line Road after 6 p.m. Monday. Funeral Service and Burial will be held at the Sour Springs Longhouse, Six Nations on Wednesday October 17, 2012 at 11 a.m. www.rh-banderson.com

obituary

AllISON: WINONA MARIE

At the West Haldimand Hospital, Hagersville on Wednesday October 10, 2012 at the age of 71 years. Beloved wife of Roland Alli-son and the late Bob Lewis. Mother of the late Philip Jef-fery Lewis. Dear grandma of Amanda Sault. Dear great grandma of Trixie. Daugh-ter of the late Nelson and Lillian (Poodry) Hess. Sis-ter of Shirley Henhawk, Barbara Johnson, Linda (Darlene) VanEvery, and the late Donald Hess, Hel-en Frank, Roberta Price, Hazel Wells, Kenneth Hess, Mary Hill, Patricia General, and Wayne Hess. Also sur-vived by nieces and neph-ews. Resting at the Garlow Line Baptist Church after 2 p.m. Friday with an Eve-ning Service 7 p.m. Friday. Funeral Service will be held at the church on Saturday October 13, 2012 at 11 a.m. Interment in the adjoining cemetery. www.rhbander-son.com

thank you

Thank you to the Dream-catcher Fund for the finan-cial assistance that gave me the opportunity to partici-pate on Hagersville Second-ary School’s Field Lacrosse Team!Luke Froman

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Dinner, Movie & Crafts. Place: 2319# 3rd Line Rd. Date: October 19th, 2012. Time: 5PM – 8PM. Bring a Friend. For more info call Ross/Joanne (905) 768-8566. If not home leave a message.

Coming events

Turkey Shoot

Saturday, October 20, 2012 at the home of Gerald (Gunn) Loft. 118 First Line, R.R. #6, Hagersville, Ontar-io. 12:00 Noon to 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by Six Nations Health Foundation Inc.

Coming events

The Six Nations Veterans Annual Remembrance Day parade and Service will take place on Sun-day, October 21, 2012 in Ohsweken. Family Wreath laying will begin at 12:30 p.m. Sharp at Veterans Park. The parade will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the Com-munity Centre and proceed to Veterans Park for service at 1:00 p.m. Any families who wish to lay a wreath, please call Vera Monture @ 905-768-1406 by Thurs. Oct. 18, 2012.

Coming events

Open JamNov. 17 2PM till ???????At Chiefswood Fellowship, 506 4th Line, 7Km West of Ohsweken, Six Nations. Country, Gospel, Bluegrass, Karaoke, etc. We have a live band for backup. Bring a friend and enjoy the finest in local talent. Door priz-es, 50/50 Draw, Refresh-ments. Info. Phil Sault 905 768 5442.www.chiefswoodchristianfellowship.com

Coming events

Onondaga longhouseFall Fundraiser EventNovember 10, 2012

Raffle Draw Tickets $5.00 each. Supper and Social to follow. Donations of water and pop greatly appreciat-ed. Donations of prizes to the raffle draw greatly ap-preciated. Please contact Laurie at 519.802.0646 or 445.2012 Or Amy at 289.439.8344. Tickets are on sale in the GREAT atri-um 11 – 2 every Friday, individuals also selling tickets!!

Coming events

Benefit Spaghetti DinnerFor

Bailey SkyeFriday, October 19, 2012, 4-7 pm at Two Arrows Res-taurant, 700 Chiefswood Road. Eat-In, Take-Out or Delivery. $10 for spaghet-ti and meatball sauce, din-ner roll, dessert and drink. Contact 519-770-2726 for delivery. All proceeds assist with living and medical ex-penses for upcoming heart transplant for a 15-year-old boy.

yard sale

Multi-family yard SaleSaturday, Oct. 2 – 9am to 2pm. 279 Ojibway Rd. Come out and browse lots of stuff.

yard sale

Fall yard SaleSat. & Sun. Oct. 20 – 21st, 9 – 3, 7365 Townline Rd. near Mohawk Rd. (Back of house). Too much stuff to store, Need Help. Good Junque - Books – CDs – Old VHS Movies – Clothing – Some furniture – House-hold items – Cheap – Cheap – Cheap. RAIN OR SHINE!

help wanted

Townline Variety & Gas - Country Style is looking for full time counter help at our Country Style. Hours are 6am - 2pm Monday to Friday and some weekends. We are seeking a mature, reliable honest individual. Experience is an asset but we will train the right per-son. Resumes & 3 work-related references will be accepted until Oct 28th at store closing (10 pm)

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