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Ojibway man walks from Victoria to Ottawa to call attention to indigenous violence VICTORIA – On Saturday, March 28th, an Ojibway man from the Curve Lake First Nation started a five-month long walk from Victoria, B.C. to Ottawa spreading a message of non-violence.

David James Taylor, 42, did a similar walk last year to honour residential school survivors.

This time, Taylor wants to bring attention to the violence indigenous men and women are subjected to.

According to a 2009 federal survey, indigenous people are two times more likely than non-natives to experience being victims of a violent crime.

Taylor, a part-time First Nations education assistant for School District 63 in Victoria, said the idea to walk across the country came to him in a dream last year in which his grandfather visited him.

During that walk, Taylor received a lot of support from indigenous communities across the

country. He said several people approached him and suggested something needed to be done about violence in their communities.

Taylor and two of his friends plan to walk around 30 kilometres a day for about five months, stopping in many of the same communities that received him last year and staging events to discuss violence and traditional teachings.

Anyone who wants to help fund Taylor on his walk can donate at www. gofundme.com/walktoendviolence.

2016 Indspire nominations open

Indspire, an Indigenous-led registered charity that is the largest funder of Indigenous education outside the federal government, is calling on people from across Canada to nominate outstanding First Nation, Inuit, and Métis achievers and bring Indigenous accomplishments to national attention. Nominations for the 2016 Indspire Awards are open until June 26, 2015.

Celebrating 23 years, the 2016 Indspire Awards will recognize First Na-

tion, Inuit, and Métis achievers in the following categories: Arts; Business & Commerce; Culture, Heritage & Spirituality; Education; Environment & Natural Resources; Health; Law & Justice; Politics; Public Service; Sports; Youth - First Nation; Youth - Inuit; Youth - Métis; and Lifetime Achievement.

"By honouring these individuals and sharing their transformative stories of hard work, talent, determination, and resilience, we hope to inspire Indigenous youth to fully achieve their own unique potential," said Roberta Jamieson, President and CEO of Indspire, and Executive Producer of the Indspire Awards. "The Indspire Awards promote the outstanding contributions of Indigenous people to the diversity, vitality, and success of Canada.

These stories need to be shared with all Canadians."

Visit indspireawards. ca for more information and to read biographies of past Indspire Awards laureates.

April 8th, 2015

Fishing boats forced to leave traditional Heiltsuk waters

BELLA BELLA, B.C. – The commercial herring roe fishery near Bella Bella, B.C., which was reopened last month despite fierce First Nations opposition, is closing.

Last week, Heiltsuk First Nation protestors, including a chief councillor, locked themselves in the Department of Fishery and Oceans office on Denny Island, to protest the decision to re-open the fishery.

“It is confirmed. All commercial gill-netters are exiting Heiltsuk waters... They will be escorted by Heiltsuk patrol boats and we will continue to occupy DFO until they have exited our waters,” Heiltsuk First Nation councillor Jess Housty wrote on his Facebook account Apr. 2.

DFO’s senior B.C. manager Sue Farlinger said she still needed to check with Ottawa whether the plant would close or not, but members of the Heiltsuk First Nation were celebrating nevertheless.

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The DFO claimed its science was updated in 2015 and that a sustainable catch was possible, reported the Vancouver Observer.

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs to hire own child and family advocate

MANITOBA – Manitoba’s Family Service Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross recently confirmed that the province will stop housing youth in hotels, after a teenage girl in Manitoba Child and Family Services’ care living in a downtown hotel was attacked. She remained in critical care over the weekend, reported the CBC. This has raised serious questions about the CFS system and the safety of the more than 10,000 children in its care, most of whom are indigenous, according to officials.

The Assembly of

Manitoba’s Grand Chief Derek Nepinak said they are therefore hiring their own child and family advocate in order to help the assembly work with families and help reform the CFS system. The province already has a child and family advocate, but Nepinak said having a separate indigenous advocate will encourage involvement from the indigenous community and help CFS to provide better care for children and their families.

He added that the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the Southern Chiefs’ Organization will launch a class-action lawsuit against the CFS, which he called a $500-million industry of child apprehension, on behalf of affected children and families, reported the CBC.

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Dinner and social to welcome Venezuelan Ambassador at Mohawk Longhouse

By TRT Staff OHSWEKEN – The newly appointed Venezuelan ambassador to Canada, Wilmer Barrientos will be visiting Six Nations on Wednesday evening.

He will arriving as part of a delegation seeking to learn more about Indigenous issues and to build solidarity between Indigenous peoples in North America and the “Bolivarian” social movements in Latin America.

Due to diplomatic wrangling between Canada and Venezuela, it has been four years since the countries have accepted each other’s ambassadors. According to Santiago Escobar, one of the organizers who is helping to plan the Venezuelan delegation’s visit, “Ambassador Barrientos is making it a priority to get to know social movements, labour movements, and indigenous movements in Canada.”

The evening’s events are being framed as an informal “friendship gathering” and will begin with a dinner at 7pm at the Mohawk Longhouse at 3098 5th Line. After the dinner, Ambassador Barrientos will say a few words, and there will be an opportunity for some discussion and dialogue between the Latin Amer-

Venezuelan ambassador Wilmer Barrientos will be visiting Six Nations on Wednesday evening. ican representatives and Onkwehonwe people. A short film will also be screened. The evening will conclude with a traditional social dance beginning at 9pm.

Escobar says that the purpose of the visit is so that people can “get to know and learn from each other in a two way conversation.” Escobar adds “Ambassador Barrientos wants to talk about the economic warfare and sanctions being placed against Venezuela by the

United States and to ask for solidarity. But he also wants to understand the nature of indigenous issues and struggles in Canada.” Approximately 25 people are expected to come as part of the Venezuelan delegation which will include members of other Latino and indigenous communities in Latin America.

Donna Powless is one of the local Six Nations organizers of the event. Last year, she and Escobar were involved in co-ordi-

SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR: 1) Six Nations of the Grand River Economic Development ADVISORY COMMITTEE 2) Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation BOARD OF DIRECTORS 3) Six Nations of the Grand River Economic Development Trust TRUSTEE

Application Process The firm deadline for interested applicants to submit an application, resume and cover letter stating their qualifications is April 17, 2015 at 4pm. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

For the application package or to submit a sealed application, resume and cover letter, please contact: Board Secretary—Nicole Kohoko 2498 Chiefswood Road (Six Nations Tourism) 519-753-1950 nkohoko@sixnations.ca

nating a delegation from Venezuela which visited Six Nations to talk about the ALBA trade initiative in South America and which sought to connect the indigenous struggles taking place in both areas.

“I’m nervous, excited and looking forward to this visit” said Powless.

“I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to help co-ordinate and set things up.” Powless says she is reaching out to invite Clan Mothers,

Confederacy Chiefs and Faithkeepers to the event, despite having less than 48 hours notice of the planned visit.

Ambassador Barrientos has had a long and successful career with the Bolivarian Army, achieving the rank of major general after 30 years of service. He was a close associate of former President Hugo Chavez, and supported Chavez in an attempted military uprising in 1992. When Chavez was elected to office in 1999, Barrientos played an important role in his government and when he retired from the military in 2013, he was the operational strategic commander of the Venezuelan armed forces.

The event is open to Six Nations community members. All are encouraged to bring some food and beverages to contribute to the potluck dinner at the Mohawk Longhouse 3098 5th Line.

For more information about the event contact Donna Powless at 519445-1745.

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Form 2 Expropriations Act

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO EXPROPRIATE LAND IN THE MATTER OF an application by the Minister of Transportation for approval to expropriate land being in the: Town:

Caledonia

County:

Haldimand

Province:

Ontario

for the purpose of: Property is required to accommodate the replacement of the Argyle Street Bridge over the Grand River at Caledonia in Haldimand County. Property is also required to accommodate a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and to provide a work area.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application has been made for approval to expropriate the land described in the schedule attached hereto.

Any owner of lands in respect of which notice is given, who desires an inquiry into whether the taking of such land is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority, shall so notify the approving authority in writing, a)

in the case of a registered owner, served personally or by registered mail, within thirty days after the registered owner is served with the notice, or, when the registered owner is served by publication, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice;

b)

in the case of an owner who is not a registered owner, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice.

The approving authority is the Minister of Transportation Parliament Buildings Toronto, ON M7A 1Z8

Minister of Transportation c/o Karen Crawford Conveyancing Supervisor 659 Exeter Road London, ON N6E 1L3 SCHEDULE

1.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38162-0052 (R), being Part of Lots 10 and 11, South Side of Caithness Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 1 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

2.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38162-0054 (LT), being Part of Lots 11 and 12, South Side of Caithness Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 2 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

4.

All right, title and interest in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38174-0029 (LT), being Part of Grand River Navigation Co. Land (South of Lot “A”, East Side of Argyle Street North) Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 12 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

5.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38174-0029 (LT), being Part of Grand River Navigation Co. Land (South of Lot “A”, East Side of Argyle Street North) Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 13 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

6.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38174-0338 (R), being Part of Moray Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PARTS 9 and 10 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

All right, title and interest in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38174-0338 (R), being Part of Moray Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 11 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

8.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38162-0052 (R), being Part of Lot 10, South Side of Caithness Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 17 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Registry Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260, subject to an easement in favour of Union Gas Company, as in Instrument No. HC304921.

3.

7.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38163-0142 (LT), being Part of Lot “A”, West Side of Argyle Street South, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 2 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2464-0076, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7261.

9.

A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38163-0141 (LT), being Part of Lot “A”, West Side of Argyle Street South, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 1 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2464-0076, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7261.

10. A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto, in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38162-0058 (LT), being Part of Moray Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 3 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2797-0019, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7260.

11. A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38162-0009 (LT), being Part of Forfar Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 3 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2464-0076, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7261.

12. A limited interest for a period of time up to and including December 31, 2020, in the nature of a free right and easement for the purpose of accommodating a temporary detour of Argyle Street traffic and providing a work area and other works related thereto in the lands described as follows: In Haldimand County, in the Province of Ontario, being Part of PIN 38174-0263 (LT), being Part of Forfar Street, Plan of Town of Caledonia, designated as PART 6 on a plan filed with the Ministry of Transportation as P-2464-0076, being a Reference Plan deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Plan 18R-7261.

THIS NOTICE FIRST PUBLISHED THE 8TH DAY OF APRIL, 2015.

Pour obtenir ces renseignements en français, veuillez communiquer avec le ministère à l’adresse ci-dessus.

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Letters to the Editors Walking to end violence Hello sibling, Interpersonal violence is an everyday, systemic reality for colonized people in so-called Canada. While we support the thousands of struggles for accountability for missing and murdered indigenous women; for reparations for centuries of genocidal government policies that continue to this day; against the ongoing and historic theft of indigenous lands and waters; and against a massive state repression and incarceration apparatus that haunts indigenous lives, our communities are scarred by violence

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against one another and ourselves, which can’t be separated in its origins from all the above.

Giibwanisi (RedTailed Hawk, Richard Peters) is an Anishinabek land defender and prankster that is marching across the country to bring attention to the epidemic of interpersonal violence that plagues both Native and non-Native lives. Giibwanisi has lived through and been shaped by brutal violence on a personal level, and is walking from Victoria to Ottawa, stopping at many communities along the way, to bring attention to this epidemic. As a decolonizing person, he wants to stir up awareness and think through solutions

through an Anishnaabek spiritual lens, and hopes to share his ideas with and hear from others from every nation along his path.

Giibwanisi is part of a larger vision, inspired by Anishinabek man James Taylor. Giibwanisi and his partner Janine Caster need to raise money to support themselves on this difficult journey.

They need funds to support themselves with shoes, camping equipment, food, medicine, and other supplies. This will help them visit as many communities as possible, sharing wisdom and prophecy, and generating dialogue on an issue that affects everyone. Money left over will go towards

other Anishinabek initiatives such as future walks, ceremonies, and land-based skills workshops. He urgently needs your support to make this walk as powerful as it can be.

Please give what you can through his GoFundMe campaign page: http://w w w.gofundme. com/giibwanisiwalk2015 Miigwetch and solidarity, The 2015 Walk to End Violence

Makayla still sparkles Dear editors, On Wednesday April 22, Earth Day, Lloyd S. King Elementary School will be celebrating the life of Makayla Sault by host-

ing a Walk-a-thon from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The theme for the Walka-thon is “Bling-Bling for Makayla!” So come out on April 22nd wearing your bling and your sparkles and donate if you can.

All proceeds will be donated to “Miles to Go Cancer Support group”.

“Miles to Go” is a nonprofit cancer support group located on the Six Nations Reserve. They are dedicated to increasing knowledge, building strength and will-power in order to challenge and go forward in dealing with various issues and problems related to Cancer. “Miles to Go” services both Six Nations, New Credit and off- reserve communities to support

families affected by this terrible disease.

“Miles to Go” representatives will be here on the day of the Walk-athon. They will have pamphlets and information to share.

The community is invited to come and participate. Pledge forms will be available at Lloyd S. King and other departments.

The community is invited to come and walk during their break, their lunch or whenever they are available.

Sincerely, Carla F. Miller

EDITORIAL: Burtch transfer redraws divisional lines The Burtch lands promised by former Premier David Peterson during the Caledonia crisis may soon be coming back to Six Nations after years of environmental remediation and political wrangling.

But to whom will the land be transferred and under what conditions? It is being reported that the Province has agreed to do the deal through the Confederacy, but we are not sure if that is, in fact, the case.

Last Wednesday, Ontario’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister announced that the $3 million remediation of the 360 acre former Burtch Correctional

facility land is now complete.

But there is a snag.

Zimmer wants to return the land to a corporation, which will hold the land “in trust” for Six Nations. The word “trust” is one that Six Nations has learned to mistrust when it comes to the white government.

As far back as the late 1700’s Joseph Brant began questioning the British Crown about the whereabouts of what is now hundreds of millions of dollars of “Trust Funds” being administered on Six Nations’ behalf.

Several other requests for an accounting of the money and land

held “in trust” were made over the next 100 years with no answers.

In the 1920’s, Cayuga Chief Levi “Deskaheh” General caused an international stir when he began a campaign to seek an answer to that same question. In retaliation for the embarrassment his efforts was causing Canada, then Prime Minister MacKenzie King, revoked the Jay Treaty to prevent General from re-entering Canada.

With Deskaheh out of the country, King then launched a political coup that unilaterally replaced the traditional government with an imposed British styled elected

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system. It is this elected system, under Federal Canadian control, that Zimmer wants to set up this “trust” corporation to receive the land. This is like taking it out of one pocket and putting it into another.

From the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council’s vantage point, it needs to come back through the Haudenosaunee Development Institute and not the Elected Band Council, since they were not even in existence in 1784 or 1793 (Simcoe Patent) for that matter.

But then there is the Mohawk claim that the Haldimand “Proclamation”, also referred to in

Canada’s own government papers as a “deed” or “treaty”, was initially issued to the Mohawk Nation exclusively, but extended, under Brant’s insistence, to bring “such others of the Six Nations” under the same agreement.

From their perspective, the return of the Burtch lands needs to be done through the Mohawk Nation under the Haldimand Deed rather than be registered through the Ontario Realty Corp. or the HDI. Although a Cayuga, Deskaheh was also a member of the Mohawk Workers organization who helped fund his ef-

forts in Europe.

Today’s Mohawk Workers question the authority of the HCCC, considering the Workers do not accept the legitimacy of sitting Mohawk Chiefs.

It is complicated to say the very least.

The transfer of the Burtch lands is reopening very deep wounds and polarizing the people of Six Nations even further.

We don’t think Peterson was aware of the internal storm this transfer would create, but now that the land has been cleared for transfer, the bunker building has once again begun in earnest.

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COLUMN: LUV, RESPECT & DEFIANCE

Let us celebrate our family, culture and health

There are definitely some people with professional titles in dire need of some sensitivity training when it comes to dealing with Onkwehon:we people involved in the Children’s Aid Society court system of suppression. Especially if they’re going to be infiltrating our Six Nations territory.

I once had the pleasure of being involved in a circus fiasco and emotional rollercoaster ride all at once.

It’s ok, I can handle it. It’s my job as a Kaniakehaka Wakataioni Rotiskenna to do security and warfare, just as it is the bear and turtle clans’ job for diplomacy and medicinal cures.

I was threatened by some Toronto person of African descent to sign some paper that I had no idea

what I was signing away.

She came across as a nice woman – until I started questioning her sincerity since this case has been going on forever.

She tried to tell me we had no say in these matters, and Six Nations is no different than Peel Region or the ‘hood she was raised in. I said, “Where is the Native services branch?” She said, “Brantford.” I asked, “Why isn’t it in Ohsweken?” She replied, “Because we were asked to leave.” I said, “Exactly. What if someone asked the CAS to leave Hamilton or Toronto, would you?”

She said “No.” I said, “Exactly, you were kicked off Six Nations because it isn’t Canada. Canada is psychological and in your mind.

Show me the date the Iroquois Conferederacy/Yayak nio hon tsake in our own language has surrendered and I’ll gladly sign your document.”

She didn’t like that, nor could she provide me with an answer. So she escalated the situation into a threat to make my kids crown wards in an orphanage.

I clarified my position.

“The Six Nations Haudenosaunee are free, distinct and sovereign,” I said. “Why don’t you try it and see what happens. I’m sure that if the sheriff that read us that injunction at Kanonstaton in 2006 that ordered us off our own land – and then couldn’t enforce it with 500 police officers – then we’re not too worried about you.”

The whole meeting at-

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titude of the person stunk.

They were downright ignorant, and culturally insensitive to where they are working and what they are doing. This is the whole policy maker’s plan. They sit back and watch two Indigenous people bicker and argue and then laugh at us both.

One completely happy with getting kicked around, and one sovereign Mohawk trying to be free of mind, because freedom is a state of being tempered with respect and love for all of creation. That’s the ultimate goal.

It’s up to the enslaver/ oppressor to try take away our peace that is why we must have a strong good mind with seven spans’ thick skin for these kind

of coercive techniques. If the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River are set to take over our at-risk children’s destiny, we must make sure we don’t go from bad to worse.

Because if you follow the money for the new Six Nations Children’s Aid agency it leads to Ottawa, and what good ever come from there when it comes to our wellbeing? They still use words like “apprehension” and “invasive.” We should always take heed when Ottawa does things for our protection. Just like this new Bill C-51 on terror is one more step in the 1,000-year-old plan of world domination and absolute control over every living being in the world.

We are going to have to go

live in the bush as clans very soon.

And as we all know, child protection agency is a pretty little ribbon on an old word – genocide.

Apprehension and care means to take your kids back to the mush hole and finish you irritating Mohawks off. Once and for all.

If we were going to die off we would have been gone long ago. We are on the rise and moving faster but it’s definitely a war with many wounds and tears. You have your own unique way of doing everything, no need to step outside our own circle.

Tekanawita said watch for traitors. Stay unified using Peace, Power and Reason and you’ll never be conquered.

By Nahnda Garlow

at a large scale pow-wow.

Patterned themes like lacrosse, hunting, strawberries, hummingbirds and other indigenous prints line the shelves just calling on your creativity. Of particular interest is the large selection of real Pendleton fabrics. Normally you have to special order this fabric online and ship it in from the US, which can take up to three weeks, but at Evelyn’s they have it in stock.

There is also a really fabulous collection of jackets, coats and other Haudenosaune branded finished items available.

Bomberry, a wellknown champion fancy

shawl dancer, has a long heritage of being one of the go-to resources in the province for high quality regalia and ribbon dresses.

At 19, Bomberry was pursing a career in film and graphics, but after taking a long hard look at what a career in that field would build for her future – it didn’t fit the vision of motherhood she saw in her personal life. So, she changed gears, taking the training her grandmother gave her in sewing and design – and applied to college for Fashion Design.

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Indigenous Languages Day on Six Nations territory

By Mari Reeve OHSWEKEN – Roughly 120 people gathered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday at Six Nations Polytechnic (SNP) for a celebration of the Indigenous languages of Six Nations.

Tannis Hill, with SNP, was the main organizer of this event and made sure everything was running smoothly.

The gathering began with socializing and interacting with the different language school representatives, each with their own information booth.

Rick Hill, coordinator at Deyohaha:ge Indigenous Knowledge Centre, presented information about the language resources available through the centre.

K a w e n n i : i o (Gaweni:yo) School had extensive information about their curriculum model and the Cayuga and Mohawk Immersion Planning Framework. The Two Row Times was able to chat with the student and teacher representatives from the Cayuga, Mohawk, and Onondaga language programs offered in the area. Everyone that we had a chance to speak with had great things to say about their programs, and the beauty of the different language programs coming together and celebrating.

Darla Henry, student at the Onondaga Language School, offered attendants an opportunity to speak in the language and be thankful for a drink of sap water. Darla says, “I think it’s really good we have gatherings like this on Six Nations because it’s who we are. Our language defines who we are. I think we should have more gatherings to promote our language.”

People who gave thanks in the language were not only offered a delicious drink of sap water, but also a CD with language recordings and other useful resources.

The event also featured the launch of a new book: Carrying It Forward. Traditional Knowledge through the Eyes of Young Hodinohso:ni Artists.

Rohahi:yo Brant, studying in the Onkwawenna kenthyokwa program, shared his enthusiasm about the day’s events: “It’s awesome to hear the other languages and how strongly related they are. A lot of words are similar. It’s good to see people so passionate like us, doing what they love.

Hopefully in the future it will be a whole weekend celebration of the languages.”

Artie Martin, who attends the same Adult Immersion program for Kanienkeha (Mohawk), displayed the multimedia aids the class uses to learn, like videos that are both interactive and entertaining.

Instructor Renae Hill of the Cayuga Adult Program, and one of her five students, Tesha Emarthle also displayed language resources such as pictures, flash cards, grammar rules and language recordings. Hill also invites elderly Cayuga speakers to class to help students with their conversation skills. This helps in demonstrating the difference in dialects between speakers of the Cayuga language.

This is a tactic that works well for Emarthle, who says, “Most of us don’t have access to elders, we are second language speakers… We always have at least one person (if not three or four) aged 60, some as old as 89, to speak to the class. It’s helpful to us, and our elders. There are some differences in dialects and speakers so that is helpful to hear many different ways of speaking Cayuga.

We are being exposed to proper enunciation and higher fluency.”

Hill estimates that there are currently only about 40 fluent speakers of the Cayuga language.

“These five advanced students are wanting to teach. It is good to see this today and know that we all have the same wish to keep languages going.”

Darla Henry, student at the Onondaga Language School, offered attendants an opportunity to speak in the language and be thankful for a drink of sap water. PHOTO BY MARI REEVE

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Filmmaker debuts her language revitalization documentary in Tyendinaga

By Erica L Jamieson TYENDINAGA – March 30th was the beginning of Annual Language Revitalization Week in Tyendinaga, and this year featured the premiere of Chloe Ellingson’s documentary Raising the Words on Monday night at the Mohawk Community Centre. Earlier that evening, Tyendinaga Mohawk Council was honoured for their years of support at the Language Hero Dinner.

The Two Row Times had an opportunity to sit down with filmmaker Ellingson to discuss her journey from apathy to understanding, as well as her struggle with the ethics surrounding non-Indigenous people telling Indigenous stories.

Ellingson enrolled in the photojournalism program through Loyalist College and was working on a class project exploring grandparents raising their grandchildren when she met Grandmother Tsyotsyate

Margaret Claus and her granddaughter Karennisakhe Ellie Claus. A friendship ensued, and at age 75, Tsyotsyate courageously began learning Kanyen’keha through Shat iwennak ara:t at s Adult Immersion program. Karennisakhe began to learn the language, as well, in the brand new Kawenna’on:we Elementary Immersion program.

Raising the Words follows six people from a variety of backgrounds, all learning Kanyen’keha: Tsyotsyate and Karennisakhe Clause, Thohyanoken Storm Brant, Niwahkwarita:a, Nathan Thanyehtenhas Brinklow and Mike Kraszewski.

The adults had all attended Shatiwennakara:tats Mohawk Adult Immersion and were excited to be a part of the project.

Ellingson initially had very little knowledge of the Indigenous communities that she had come into contact with throughout her lifetime. However, “the significance of what they

Chloe Ellingson's documentary Raising the Words was shown at the Mohawk Community Centre in Tyendinaga Territory which is located near Belleville, Ontario. PHOTO BY ERICA JAMIESON (Tsyotsyate and Karennisakhe) were doing and how it relates to a broader context just crept up on me and it was informing how I view what Canada is, maybe some misconceptions about what

it is, what’s left out of our history… Learning about language revitalization painted a more complex picture.”

Ellingson expressed the problems she grappled with being Norwe-

gian, Scottish and Irish telling a Kanyen’keha story. She says, “It had to do with ethical concerns around telling a story very different from your own.”

She remembers a woman who, “challenged me to look at my own history and said, ‘If you don’t know where you come from, how can you justify wanting to understand where other people come from?’” What transpired for Ellingson after that conversation was not so much learning more about her specific blood identity but, “the history of my family as Canadians, and what about Canada [and] the myths of Canada… [that] I want to delve deeper into.”

Being the only non-Indigenous person, Mike Kraszewski seemed to be the odd man out in the documentary. However, Ellingson states, “Mike, to me, is an important part of the picture… especially [if I’m] being honest about where I’m coming from as a non-Indigenous

filmmaker. How he articulates his belief opens up the conversation for people who aren’t intimately involved in revitalization to say, ‘Okay, this matters.’

Those who are interested can go to www. r a i s i n g t he wor d s . c om to see interviews with more champions for the language and read more about Ellingson’s project.

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Skakaraksen: One Bad Eye (Part 1 of 2)

Sovereignty at spear point

By Rahkaratahkwas The river spawning is so important to our people that we even have a social song for it. Men and women will dance to mimic the habits of the jacks and sows. First the jacks come in to scout the area for predators. What most call the walleye or pickerel lay their eggs after the pike, so there are already dangers lurking in the water.

Then they will go back to the deep, while the sows come in to drop the eggs before also returning to the deep. The jacks will then come back in to fertilize them. This process could last for 3-6 weeks depending on weather conditions.

On shore there will usually be a line of spears stuck in the ground, one for every person that will be doing a run. Any more than five and you could be waiting all night. The run is a rather slow walk upstream. Carrying a light, spear and a stringer full of fish makes it all that more interesting.

At times the current is so strong that it can send a 200 pound man flying down the river.

It’s no walk on the beach as some may think. Onkwehonwe travel from all over to come to Kanienke:haka Territory to try their hand at spearing.

It wasn’t always so easy, though. What many

people take for granted as a birthright was realized because the People of Tyendinaga fought for those rights not so long ago. Not just in the rivers of Shannonville, but away from the safety of home in Belleville, Napanee and Trenton. At times these spear-fishers even faced discrimination and persecution from community members, as well as fines from the reserve police.

In Tyendinaga in the 1990s the spawning of Skakaraksen had created a cultural awareness in the community unprecedented in times past. The elders said that for a long time they mainly harvested white fish, but then there was a return of the leader, Omha’a konwatikowanen. Skakaraksen nihosonoten. One bad eye is their name, and with razor sharp teeth and spiked fins, they are at the top of the food chain in these waters.

Sows dominate in size and can be longer than 2 feet. They say that in the old days the men would use torches at night to locate the fish in the turbulent waters.

The eyes reflect the light fiercely, making it their only weakness to predators. Modified flashlights and homemade pronged spears are now the tools of choice, along with chest waders and a solid determination.

Confrontations on the shore were mainly brought on by, for lack of a better term, racist provocateurs. While the young warriors were pushing boundaries into occupied territory, a resurgence was going on back home in Shannonville.

The original expedition was brought on by four men teaching their sons how to feed their families. At that time, Shannonville was considered off the Territory.

There were unoccupied homes left vacant in the small village of mostly Mohawks. What had started as a small fishing camp had turned into a full on sovereign occupation. The SWAT team was eventually called in to remove those resid-

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ing in the vacant houses.

The brave stand made by these few families lead to the checker boarding of the village and made every other house an Onkwehonwe dwelling.

Originally Tyendinaga was called Kenhteke.

This is the birthplace of the Peacemaker, the most influential man that ever counseled with the Five Nations. It is the Holy Land amongst the Iroquoian People. That is the reason 23 families left Lachine by canoe to settle here.

Back on the shores of Kehnteke there is a camaraderie amongst the fishermen. Jumping in the river ahead of someone or shining lights in the water could lead to a wrestling match quickly. Most

visitors don’t know the unwritten rules and can sometimes cause a commotion.

The best thing to do on arrival to a crowded spot is to introduce yourself if you are not already known. At times the Conservation Police will try to push their weight around, but know they have no jurisdiction over the Haudenosaunee.

There is no limit but it is a common practice to share your catch with others, especially the elderly. Milking the fish into a bucket of water and placing it back in the river ensures the spawn is available for the coming generations.

Be sure not to let any blood from the puncture wound to enter the mixture as this prevents the fertilization process.

An offering of Tobacco should always be given before the first harvest, but most do this when burying the waste products of the fish after they’ve been cleaned.

So if you find yourself in Kehnteke this season be sure to acknowledge the efforts and perseverance of those four men who fought for our fishing rights, and remember the saying “4, 40, or 400,” we’re going to be there.

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Demonstrators across Canada rally in honour of Cindy Gladue

By Fernando Arce TORONTO – There is nothing about being an indigenous woman or sex worker that is inherently violent – that was one of the main messages First Nations activists delivered on Apr. 2 to about 200 people gathered in front of Toronto’s Attorney General’s Office. It was part of the “No Justice, No Peace - Honouring Cindy Gladue” national day of action.

“Indigenous people and sex workers are over-policed and under-protected,” said Chanelle Gallant, co-director of STRUT, a Toronto based sex-worker-organizing project, and one of the event’s organizers. Gladue “was legally barred from working with any (expectation of) safety.”

On Mar. 18, Mississauga trucker Brad Barton was acquitted of a first-degree murder charge he faced for having left sex-worker Cindy Gladue, 36, to bleed to death in the bath-tub

On Apr. 2 about 200 people gathered in front of Toronto's Attorney General's Office to voice their concerns of a perceived lack of justice regarding the Cindy Gladue case. PHOTO BY FERNANDO ARCE of an Edmonton hotel in June 2011. His lawyer argued that the 11-centimetre wound in Gladue’s vagina which led to her death was caused by rough consensual sex – despite the fact that her blood alcohol level was so high, she could not legally give consent.

But none of that mattered at the end of the month-long trial. The

jury, which had no indigenous persons, took a day and a half to find Barton not guilty.

As protests in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver were underway, Alberta prosecutors announced they would be appealing the not guilty verdict. The Crown’s appeal notice includes mistakes it says the judge made during his charge to the jury.

While the national day of action was in Gladue’s honour, it was also meant as a call of solidarity with the women and men in the sex industry who are socially stigmatized and legally criminalized. This was in reference to Bill C-36, the new sex working law which would effectively criminalize paying or communicating for sex

and advertising for sex services.

“It’s about the criminalization of the entire indigenous community – not just sex workers,” said one of the speakers in a broken voice.

“The stigma that exists about sex workers is not fair... when in reality, we’re just doing anything we can to survive.”

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne expressed “grave concern” over the bill – The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act – in December, when it was first introduced, saying she was worried it would not maker sex workers safer. She then asked the attorney general to conduct a review on the law’s constitutionality, and on Apr. 1 she announced the review had found the law to be constitutional.

At the Toronto rally, Gallant said that the attorney general’s decision was “mystifying,” since more than 200 lawyers who looked at the law thought differently. She was referring to the July

2014 letter urging the federal government to reconsider the bill. In it, more than 200 legal experts asserted that the new laws would likely violate Charter rights of sex workers who will, in turn, face increased risk of violence.

Davyn Calfchild who was present at the Toronto event, said he would like to see the police treat indigenous victims with the same amount of respect as non-native victims.

“Regardless of whether she’s a sex worker, she still has rights. Sex workers are someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, aunt – they deserve the same respect,” he said.

“I don’t mean to be rude, but what if the murdered women were white? Why are our women placed at the bottom of the scale?”

The Toronto event ended with a series of healing songs which included drumming, throat singing, and traditional dance.

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Does Canada play a role in Colombia’s ‘social cleansing’?

By Fernando Arce COLOMBIA – In 2011, Canada signed the controversial Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).

It was – and is – controversial because for decades, the indigenous communities of Colombia have fiercely resisted what they call illegal mining projects on their ancestral lands.

Over the years, reports of mass displacements, death threats against indigenous leaders, disappearances and actual deaths have been reported by local and international media and by various human rights organizations.

Guerrillas, paramilitary forces and state forces have all shared responsibility. But none of this has elicited a response, much less any kind of condemnation, by any of Canada’s political parties.

The 2011 CCFTA legally requires Canada’s federal government to submit annual reports, which must include a section on human rights violations and concerns that could affect trade relations. Human rights organizations have blasted Canada for not writing a word about the conflict in its 2013 and 2014 reports. This included making it difficult for local human rights organizations to submit their own reports before the deadline, which left many of them out entirely.

Prime Minister Harper’s Conservatives haven’t given any signs that they will acknowledge any of it this time around for their upcoming 2015 report.

But this hasn’t deterred international organizations supporting the decades-old indigenous resistance. A recent statement released by members of Nahuacalli, an international embassy of indigenous peoples,

Indigenous people in Columbia protest government policies. condemned the violence and asked Colombian authorities to investigate the human rights violations which peoples of the Nasa Nation have suffered in recent months.

“The situation in Colombia has been one of concern all along,” said Tupac Enrique Acosta, founder and coordinator of the community-based organization Tonatierra in Phoenix, Az, in a phone interview. “It now is an assault by the Colombian government on indigenous people, who are claiming their territories as was agreed upon.”

Acosta, of the Izkaloteta Nation (descendants of the Aztecs), is referring to more than 250 unhonoured treaties which the Colombian government signed over the years, promising to return ancestral land to various indigenous communities. Some of these have been signed as reparations for past human right violations.

One example is the 1991 El Nilo massacre, which left 20 Nasa Nation members dead, including children, at the hands of state police.

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To date, only about half the lands have been returned. This is the base for the resistance, which formally organized in the 1970s, and which has concentrated for the most part in Cauca, a province in South-Western Colombia.

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There are about 87 tribes in Colombia, which comprise about three per cent of the total population, according to the CIA Factbook. These are heavily concentrated in the southern provinces of La Guajira, Nariño and Cauca.

In the 1970s, the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council (CRIC) was formed with the objective of recovering thousands of acres of ancestral lands, which rested in the hands of a few landowners. It began organizing the native community and then mobilized it.

“By the 1990s and 2000s, it gained an impressive force,” said Jose Vicente Otero, CRIC’s cooperation and foreign relations coordinator and member of the Nasa Nation, in a

phone interview. “And this has practically become the strategy for our survival, as the only option for our development.”

The national army, as well as vigilante paramilitary groups who claim they are defending the motherland by defending the multinational mining companies that operate there, have responded to this strategy over the years with brutal force.

In 2011, a Walrus article reported that by then, more than five million citizens had been internally displaced, pushed in large part by daily death threats towards community members.

The article also mentioned a 2008 report by a Canadian standing committee on international trade, which found that “many of the opportunities for foreign investment in Colombia were being underwritten by government-abetted atrocities.”

Indeed, recently a paramilitary outfit known as Rastrojos Urbanos, sent a threatening letter to several CRIC members, including Otero, who’s also a journalist reporting on the conflict. He sent a copy of the letter dated Feb. 1, 2015 to the Two Row Times.

Among other things, the Rastrojos warn that they have been spying “for years” on CRIC and other organizations. It gives about 15 names of leaders, including Otero’s, whom

they warn “have pending matters with us.”

“We demand that you drop your positions and abandon the territory before we find you. You know you’re military targets, and we won’t forget it until you stop getting in the way of progress in this country... Don’t say you weren’t warned,” concludes the letter.

Despite all this, the

resistance has managed to grow past the 100,000-member mark.

“There are groups in other regions of the country, but the indigenous resistance, through its history, in its permanency, has been through CRIC,” said Otero.

The Liberation of Mother Earth

Dubbed the “Liberation of the Mother Earth,” their movement seeks to reclaim the once-fertile land that has been usurped by either private landowners or guerrillas whom they claim have set up illegal sugarcane and cocaine plantations. Taking back the land is a way of defending it and of asserting their traditional way of life.

“It’s a simple but profound concept,” explained Acosta.

“Indigenous peoples are reclaiming our right to identity and self-determination based on being nations of Mother Earth.”

The latest round of occupations began last December in two large farms in the municipality of Corinto, according to an article on the CRIC website. The objective is to end up occupying four of the large farms in the area which make up about 2,000 hectares. These are very large lands that often belong to one or two owners, most of whom live outside of Colombia and put up their farms for rent,

said Otero.

Occupying the lands was not always the first choice. What the indigenous community continues to demand is that the lands be sold to the government so that they may then be given back to the various native groups with claims. But since asking nicely hasn’t proven fruitful, they’ve turned up the heat.

“Occupation is one of the methods of pressuring both the government and the so-called landowners,” explained Otero. “We don’t know how long people will stay, but if they’ve already begun planting corn and maize. They’re probably planning to stay a long while.”

Other tactics have included blockading the Panamerican highway – a 50,000 km system of roads connecting the entire South-American continent. Though some government officials and wealthy landowners have responded with hostility by making derogatory remarks about indigenous people, civil society has shown itself mostly supportive, said Otero.

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Charges against NHL Hockey legend dropped

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – The charges filed against hockey legend Stan Jonathan after a tragic hunting accident that killed a Hamilton man in November of 2012, have been dropped.

Jonathan was initially charged with “criminal negligence causing death” after crossbow hunter Peter Kosid was struck by a single high velocity bullet fired from a distance of 375 meters by Jonathan, an avid hunter who has hunted for most of his life.

Jonathan and Kosid did not know each other and were not hunting together when the accident occurred.

Jonathan, although still deeply saddened by the incident that resulted in the loss of Mr. Kosid’s life, was greatly relieved when he was informed by his lawyer that the charges had been dropped.

“It was a horrible accident,” Jonathan told the Two Row Times. “But I am glad the truth can be told about what happened.”

Jonathan was frustrated at times with the spin some news outlets were giving the story and the misinformation about the events of that day that were published, but he could not respond to the media because of a publication ban on all evidence.

He acquired the services of a Two Row Times photographer to follow him as he walked through what happened that November morning in 2012 to show the court what he

Charges against Six Nations hockey legend Stan Jonathan in the Nov. 11, 2012 hunting accident, which left a Hamilton bow hunter dead were dropped by the Crown last Thursday. If convicted he would have spent a minimum of four years in prison. He is seen here helping out at the lil NHL all-Native hockey tournament in Mississauga during the March break. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE saw that morning.

“We went out on that same date, Nov. 11th, at that same time in the morning,” said Jonathan.

“It looked almost exactly how it looked that morning.”

The court heard that he saw what he thought was a deer while driving down Third Line Road at around sunrise that morning. He stopped and turned around to take a closer look.

He said he clearly spotted a deer in the field close to the bush line. As a seasoned hunter, he felt that despite the range, he could make that shot. He took out his 270 Weatherby Magnum Mark V high-powered rifle, with scope, and fired one shot, striking what he still says was the deer.

“I watched it go down,” says Jonathan.

“You always wait a while before you approach a wounded deer to give it time to bleed out. So I went and got my brother and his four-by-four to drag it out. When we got there, that’s when I saw the guy laying there and I called police.”

Jonathan has maintained all along that he did not see Mr. Kosid at all. Kosid was wearing standard camouflage and not the bright orange camouflage used in hunting deer since deer do not perceive colour. Against the backdrop of the bush, Kosid was virtually invisible. Jonathan says Mr. Kosid must have been crouched down behind the deer, which blocked him from Jonathan’s sight when the fatal shot was fired.

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through the deer and hit Mr. Kosid in the lower back. Kosid died very quickly due to massive blood loss.

Crown attourney George Orsini advised the Court that there was not sufficient evidence for a criminal conviction.

“There is no question Mr. Jonathan thought he was shooting at a deer,” Orsini said.

When he saw Kosid on the ground, he was dead. Jonathan closed the man’s eyes, called police and he and his brother offered up a prayer for the man at the scene.

“I see it in my mind all the time,” said Jonathan. “I have not touched a gun since then. Maybe I will in time, but… it’s not easy.”

Jonathan has been a hunter and fisherman since he was a youngster growing up at Six Nations, where he still lives today.

He enjoys celebrating his heritage, which includes

hunting.

Jonathan attributes the support and love of his family and the many friends he has made both on and off reserve for helping him to get through the past several months since the accident.

The sorrow over the incident itself, plus the added worry of possibly spending a minimum of four years in jail if proven guilty, have weighed very heavy upon him since that morning.

“I have to keep it in the back of my mind and only bring it out when I need to,” he says. “I can’t dwell on it.”

Despite the tough guy on-ice persona he is famous for, off ice Jonathan is a humble, honest and polite man who is known as a role model for Six Nations kids and all young First Nations hockey players across Turtle Island (North America).

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Jonathan would like to turn the tragedy into good by going into Six Nations schools to teach young Six Nations hunters in safe hunting practices, and how quickly something tragic can happen.

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With turkey hunting season about to open, when many Six Nations fathers take their sons out to learn how to hunt, he believes his story and hunting experience is timely and useful.

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BARRIE – Despite a gallant comeback attempt by the Ohsweken Demons that sent the game into OT, the Barrie Blizzard scored shorthanded to win the 2015 CLax Creators Cup, 13-12.

After Barrie’s Michael Teeter opened the scoring less than two minutes into the first quarter, Demons’ scoring ace Chris Attwood evened the score with an unassisted effort.

Roger Vyse and Wayne VanEvery turned that into a 3-1 Demons lead, but Barrie would not be shaken, and rallied with three straight goals, all scored by Caleb Wiles.

Teeter netted his second of the game to give the Blizzard a 5-3 lead.

Tom Montour cut the Blizzard lead to 5-4 but Shane Scott restored the two-goal edge by the end of the quarter.

Barrie widened the margin with early second quarter goals scored

by Mike Mawdsley and Dustin Caravello.

That would be all for starter Jake Henhawk, who was replaced by Chase Martin, who went the rest of the way in the

Ohsweken net and was sensational in keeping his team in the game.

Mo Bissel reduced the Barrie lead to 8-5, assisted by Wayne VanEvery and Chase Martin.

Shane Scott made it 9-5 before Roger Vyse scored a pair of late period goals to close out the first half with Barrie leading 9-7.

Chris Attwood got a little too aggressive at 6:40 of the second period and was tossed from the game, leaving his team in a jam with one of their hottest sticks watching from the stands.

In the semi-final game against Durham, Attwood scored five goals and assisted on three to power the Demons of-

fense.

“We got ourselves in a hole,” said coach Mouse Henry. “We knew the game would be played with a lot of emotion.

They had a little more positive emotion, while our emotion was trying to get back at a guy rather than helping their teammates. We focused on the referees and it got out of control. We talked about the emotional part of the game. He got caught up with the emotion and stuff happens. We feel bad, and he feels bad, but it’s part of the game and he got busted for it and we dug a bit of a hole there.”

Martin was especially good throughout most of the third quarter, but

Barrie Blizzard's Caleb Wiles and Ohsweken Demons captain Travis Hill have a bit of a disagreement along the boards in Sunday's Creators Cup Championship in Barrie. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE

late in frame the Blizzard added two quick ones before Montour chipped one in from Rodd Squire to make it 11-8. The teams traded goals to move the score to 12-9 with Torrey Vanevery doing the honours for Ohsweken and Caravello for Barrie.

The Demons were down by three when Wayne VanEvery took the bull by the horns and conducted a personal comeback rally with three straight Demons goals to send the game into OT. There were several very close chances for the Demons to win it, including what they thought was the game winner when VanEvery snagged a clearing pass from the Barrie goaltender’s stick and bounced one in behind him in one motion.

What would have been the Creators Cup winning goal was called back for a very close crease violation.

Then with 4:48 remaining in the first OT period, and with a man in the box, the Blizzard caught another break as Jason Crawford found a loose ball and a clear lane to the Demons net to score and win the franchise’s first Creator’s Cup.

Barrie Blizzard captain Spencer Janes receives the Creators Cup from CLax Commissioner Jim Veltman following their 13-12 OT win over the Ohsweken Demons Sunday afternoon in Barrie. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE “We had a good game,” said Martin following the disappointing loss. “We started out with what we wanted but started jogging in the second half and came one shot short of winning.”

He too saw the ejection of Attwood as pivotal.

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Henry was professional in dealing with the loss after the game and thanked them all, one-onone, for battling back so hard.

Henry thanked the Demons fans for following them this season and is already looking forward to next year.

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Powless debuts with Minnesota Swarm

By Jim Windle MINNESOTA - Johnny Powless will be playing a little closer to home after being traded last week from the Vancouver Stealth to the Minnesota Swarm in exchange for Logan Schuss.

Although it is still uncertain what he thinks about those lovely yellow and black bumble-bee uniforms, it most certainly didn’t take Powless long to make his presence felt.

He scored one goal and added two assists in his first game on Friday night.

Not bad after meeting his new teammates for the first time in the warmups for Friday night’s 12-8 win over the New England Black Wolves.

Then Saturday night, he went back to Rochester, where he played for three years before being traded to Vancouver following the 2014 season. They knew him well and kept Powless off the score sheet entirely in the Knighthawks’ 10-2 win.

Powless’ record in Vancouver before the trade was 7 goals and 32

assists for 39 points in 11 games played.

The Swarm certainly know what they have in Powless, but loosing Schuss in the bargain was not an easy pill to swallow.

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cited to add Johnny to our team.”

Twent y-fou r-ye a rold Schuss has posted 33 points (14G, 19A) and 44 loose balls in nine games for 2015.

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“This move is beneficial for both parties, and we wish Logan the best of luck in Vancouver. With that said, we’re really ex-

“The Ohio State University product was named the 2014 NLL Rookie of the Year after recording 73 points (36g, 37a) in 18 games last season. Minnesota selected the 6-foot, 210-pound, lefty forward with the No. 1 overall selection in the 2013 NLL Draft.”

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Columbia's social cleansing continued from page 12 Evelyn's Fabrics continued from page 7 the role of Canada’s government in reshaping other country’s mining laws over the years.

Mining Watch Canada, for instance, reported that the Canadian International Development Agency financed a technical assistance project in the 1990s.

It effectively “dismantled the state mining company, criminalized the artisan and small-scale mining sector, subordinated local land use plans to mining interests, and limited the role of environmental authorities.”

Over the years, Canadian companies have also come under fire. In February of last year, Cosigo Resources Ltd., a Vancouver-based gold mining company, was facing bribery allegations in Colombia. It was claimed that, in order to set up their drilling operations, the company tried to bribe indigenous communities that resisted their attempts to eliminate a nature reserve on the Yaigoje Apaporis National Park, in Taraira.

But Andres M. Rend-

le, Southamerican operations director, laughed and denied the allegations in a phone interview. He claimed they had stopped all operations once the Colombian ministry for the environment told them the area was off-limits as a national park.

“But then half of the indigenous communities came to us asking why we’re not working in that zone,” he said. “They said, ‘We don’t care that they put a park there, we want to work!’”

Rendle, whose company profile says he has a “military and corporate security background,” said they ended up hiring many of them as tour-guides for $25-a-day. He claimed this is what was “misinterpreted” as bribes, and insisted the matter has been put to rest.

Otero, the Colombian journalist, said it’s wellknown among indigenous communities that private sugarcane plantation owners and even some “big multinationals” pay “taxes” to paramilitary groups in

return for “protection.”

“It means a social cleansing. Getting rid of indigenous people getting in their way,” he said, though he clarified he had not heard of anything like that regarding Cosigo Resources.

Still, many reports have linked other Canadian multinationals with environmental destruction, militarization and human rights violations over the years. It’s also been well documented in several Amnesty International reports, among other organizations.

Otero urged the public to pay close attention to the situation in Colombia and to ask our governments to stop turning a blind eye to their plight.

“We have survived, resisted and cared for mother earth for the benefit of humanity,” he said. “Please help us by asking the government to respect the rights of indigenous people and to honour the agreements that have been made so that our communities can live in peace.”

The store is named for Bomberry’s grandmother Evelyn – the family matriarch who taught Christina to sew.

Evelyn, who passed in 2010, was one of the founding members of the Grand River Champion of Champions Pow Wow. She was a well known seamstress on Six Nations and sold Pfaff sewing machines. The fabric store was a shared dream between Evelyn and her granddaughter.

But as Evelyn aged, her doctors eventually declared her legally blind. After careful consideration, Evelyn and her husband made the decision to pass the machines, and the work of sewing, on to Christina. It was an honour and responsibility that Bomberry didn’t take lightly. Bomberry said, “My gramma and my papa supported me in everything I do. That is why I am able to do this now with strength and pride.”

“My papa realized that, because sewing is what I was going to school for, that I was going to be the one to take care of this and carry it on,” Bomberry said. For the last three years of Evelyn’s life, Christina left her job and carried on the work of sewing and learning as much as she could from her grandmother.

Like any woman carrying forward the work of the family matriarch, Bomberry has moments where she feels overwhelmed – but the spirit of her grandmother is never far away reminding her that she is strong and can do the work. “When we lost her I was like, ‘that’s my strength – and it’s gone’.

But then I remembered how when she was still with us she would say to me, ‘You know, you know now. The thing that you’re scared of is to accept the fact that you know. It’s to you now for them to ask you those

questions.’ But I still think they won’t believe me because I’m young,” she shared, smiling.

Eventually the store will offer exclusive things like fully finished regalia, moccasins and all the things needed to get out and start dancing. Bomberry is also a representative with Manitobah Mukluks and Vans Pendleton – and hopes that they may have some in house in the future as well.

Evelyn’s Fabrics will have workshops in house to teach people how to sew special projects and get one-on-one help finishing up projects they are working on. The store will be open from Monday to Friday 11am to 6pm, however if there are things needed after hours, such as clothing or materials for funerals or last minute Heat n Bond – you can call Christina at 519-861-8611 or visit the store at 2355 Fifth Line on Six Nations.

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Return of the red corn seeds and the Skarure

By Fix Cain of the Skaroreh Katenuaka Seed Bank

There are a few things in life that must never be centrally controlled by a single group or individual. Everyone has to eat, breathe, drink, get sick and then die. Each and every single aspect of life and death holds power.

And if you control just one single aspect of any of the aforementioned elements, you control the people. There is sovereignty in our clean air.

There is sovereignty in our clean water, there is sovereignty in our clean food and our medicine and there is sovereignty in the way in which we choose to live and to die.

But these tools of sovereignty are also the tools of our enslavement and destruction. Choose wisely as to whom you give those tools to or it may be your children who will pay the price for your carelessness.

Europeans and Americans from the start of their conquest of Native lands to the present moment understood the importance of controlling the means of life and

death.

In one of most significant attempts to control the otherwise unconquerable people of the Haudenosaunee, George Washington ordered a scorched earth campaign which specifically targeted every major Onkwehon:we food source, from seeds to stored corn. His soldiers also targeted wild life and wild vegetation.

The water sources and villages were the main target of this attack and anyone supplying food to the starving people was punished. Haudeonsaunee people were targeted indiscriminately despite the fact that many of their own warriors chose to fight in the US revolution on the side of the colony by request of George Washington himself. The motive of this attack was westward expansion.

Years later, the Americans mastered the power of the seed over a population during their campaign against Western Native people. An otherwise unconquerable people of the Plains Nations were targeted as they would not oblige them-

selves by the one-sided treaties of the US. As a result, the US government contracted out private hunters to target the wild bison populations in order to starve out the Plains nations. Upward to 60 million bison were massacred and left to rot in the sun. The bison population was almost pushed into extinction.

As a result, the Plains Nations were made more “agreeable” to US terms and were forcibly moved onto infertile reservation lands. Since the bison population was now endangered, and Natives were not permitted to leave the reservation without risk of being killed, the US government used BIA agents to convince these nations to adopt agriculture practices.

Although agriculture is not a bad practice to have, many of these nations had never extensively practiced agriculture and lacked basic seed saving practices and the wisdom that is required to be successful in planting. Of course, it didn’t help that the lands

they were forced to move to had poor soil for the types of crops that they were being made to grow.

Letters from the BIA and DA during the 1800s and into the 1900s indicate that the BIA would purposely with-hold seed as punishment for not agreeing to US terms on new treaties. Conveniently, seed would often disappear or be delayed during a time when planting would be critical due to early winters of the northern plains. The BIA would also confiscate masses of saved seed and blame the Natives for not saving seeds for the following season.

Over the years, the BIA would obtain various amounts of indigenous seeds, particularly corn and would experiment with its adaptation in various regions of the US. Sometimes the BIA sent the poorest quality seed that would not do well in a particular environment so they could lay blame of the crop failure on the Native population as a way to create further dependency on the US government.

Almost every year, these tactics would create a famine around the same time that new treaties and removals were being proposed.

By the 1970s, early American Indian Movement, (AIM) groups mobilized across the nation on their “Trail of Broken Treaties” to educate Native communities as well as to obtain more recruits and support for their legal movement.

One such group came to North Carolina and met with the Skarure (Tuscarora) communities who still lived there. In a mutual trade, AIM helped redevelop community structure and in return, Tuscarora warriors joined their trail to DC to demand the disbandment of the BIA, the upholding of treaties, and the stopping of the various illicit doings of the US government against indigenous populations.

By 1972, AIM activists met with government officials to give their terms. All was peaceful until guards attacked several Native individu-

als in the BIA office due to an alleged lack of communication between the BIA officials and their guards.

In response, AIM members and their thousand plus supporters staged a take over of the entire office building, ransacking numerous files that exposed the criminal activities of the US government.

Eventually some terms were met, and the occupiers were permitted to leave peacefully.

As they left, they took with them relics that had been stolen by the BIA as well as documents that supported the cases of their respective Nations.

Among some of the war trophies were seeds which were captured by the North Carolina Skarure warriors and returned to the Carolinas.

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However these red corn seeds, as well as a black corn survived the attacks. Unfortunately numerous other files and seeds were lost to fire.

These seeds were passed around to various Native peoples and for a while were grown in great numbers in the area until farmers were forced to grow industrial, standardized crops, which failed miserably. Up until this past season, a particular red corn was thought to have gone extinct. It was found being grown by a Native elder who had been close friends with an individual who took part in the BIA occupation. He claimed his friend gave him the seed captured from the BIA, and that it was indeed Tuscarora seed, which makes it significant to one of our stories about the red corn.

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red corn was thought to be a gift directly from the creator, and was to symbolize unity and peace. The story goes that it was lost due to intertribal warring and warring with our neighbors. What was left was stolen by European invaders. It is believed that once the red corn returns, soon so will peace and reunification.

So due to the nature of our stories, and the history of how this particular red corn found its’ way down here, it will be grown this upcoming season, where shortly after, it will be genetically tested for cross pollination with GMO crops. If it is clean it will be issued out to community members to be grown, and sent to our various relatives as a symbol of peace and reunification.

Seeds of Sustenance Part of getting ready for spring planting is taking the time to appreciate our seeds. They provide the gift of life through their own growth and the sustenance we need to thrive. Between the seeds and the hand that sows them is a reciprocal relationship. Growers put good intentions and minds towards providing the optimal circumstances for seeds to mature and thrive. In return, the seed develops roots, its shoots reach for sunlight, the plant blooms, bearing fruit or other edibles.

I like to say good food for good minds and good minds for good food.

Seeds represent hope in getting away from a dependency on large scale, multi-national agriculture toward a self-sustaining food future. They are also a material re-

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Seeds saved and selected by a family year after year also contain generations of knowledge. A family who saves seeds is able to pick out the characteristics that they wish to nurture in their plants over time. Typically, they will preserve the seeds from plants that thrive best in their particular soil.

That is why I feel the Our Sustenance program is so important. It empowers individuals to help feed their family and community. This happens through the sharing of knowledge made whole by having a tangible experience with food from seed to seed.

This week’s recipe is a guideline for how the

salad at the Healthy Roots finale dinner was made.

Seedy Salad

This salad has endless variations.

Your favorite cooked seeds, you can use one or many. Most people are unaware that these items are considered seeds:

DD Millet, wild rice, wheat berries, amaranth, etc DD Dried fruit: raisin, cranberry, apricot, etc DD Seeds that can be toasted: sunflower, pumpkin, etc DD apple cider vinegar DD maple syrup DD sunflower oil DD bitter greens like arugula or watercress DD salt DD herbs

Make a vinaigrette with ⅓ parts vinegar to ⅔ part oil, season with maple syrup and salt to taste.

Cook each seed individually in salted water until tender. When done cooking, strain well and lay out on baking sheet and drizzle with the vinaigrette. Let cool completely.

Rehydrate your dried fruit by letting them sit in some boiling water covered in a bowl. Any liquid leftover from this process can add into your vinaigrette if you choose.

In a mixing bowl put together cooked seeds, rehydrated fruit, your bitter greens and toss with your vinaigrette and some fresh herbs. Garnish with toasted seeds. Enjoy!

Note: You can cook the seeds ahead of time and they will keep well for several days in your fridge.

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Trudell collaborates with Swiss artist/producer Kwest and they released an 9 song album. The tracks feature a seasoned poet with an even and steady accompanying sound.

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By Janet Rogers Age is just a number, and nowhere in life is that more true than in the arts. I’m pretty sure there is no word in any indigenous language for retirement, or examples of our artists who pick an age, kick up their feet and stop doing what Creator put them here on earth to do.

At age 82, Abenaki documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomasawin has completed her 45th film.

At age 74, Buffy Sainte Marie is releasing her 18th album, complete with a promotional tour.

At 69, artist, activist and poet John Trudell is not only defying statistical longevity predictions for Indigenous men, but going strong with the launch of his 13th Poetry recording, titled Through the Dust.

Trudell collaborates with Swiss artist/producer Kwest and they make a good team. The tracks feature a seasoned poet with an even and steady accompanying sound. The track “Tears for Rain” is a slow jazzy meditation. It’s the voice, it’s the words, it’s the man and his mind that punch through on all nine tracks.

The music merely supports the spoken words. There is a line in the 2nd stanza of “Keeping Dry Tomorrow” which reads: “because i like to get high and other stuff”.

This line didn’t make it into the recorded version of the poem, but shows up in the text. As a poet myself, this line stood out because I always thought

Poet John Trudell Trudell’s poetry, when set apart from musical support, sort of sounds like the hazy ramblings of a guy with a ball point pen in one hand and a spliff in the other – inhaling and writing – sitting back and saying, “Yeah, that sounds great, man.”

But add music, and John Trudell’s far out philosophical and often personal verses are transformed into true art. He first recorded with traditional native music like drums and flutes early in his career, but it was the fateful introduction to Jesse Ed Davis which started Trudell on his journey as a spoken word recording artist with music composed just for him.

Together they collaborated on three albums in the eighties before Jesse overdosed in June 1988.

Through the Dust is void of any live musicians or real instruments.

Kwest has produced sounds, musicscapes and song-like compositions.

Compatible, and all digitally produced tracks which John reads over.

His distinctive voice is what keeps his fans loyal. His conversational tone can almost be an

audio brand for early 70’s activism. His was the voice that reached the masses with messages of Indian unity and empowerment from the Alcatraz occupation.

The messages in the poetry on Through the Dust didn’t quite make it out of the dust. If he intended to make statements or sentiments of anything in particular, they are vague.

But as a poet, he bypasses the canon of free verse to scribe something as unique as he is himself.

And whatever it is he’s doing, I’m not going to worry about it, as long as he keeps doing it.

You can listen to Through the Dust at http://throughthedust. ch/

SIX NATIONS – Several science fair project winners from Six Nations and area elementary schools were submitted for consideration for the BASEF annual awards, and students from J.H. Hill and O.M. Smith/ Kawenio:io schools won recognition and awards for their work.

The Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair is a competition to all grade seven through twelve students from Hamilton, Halton Region, Haldimand County, Norfolk County, Brant County and Six Nations.

Students may attend any public, separate or private school or be home schooled. Participants must be under the age of 21 before June of the BASEF year.

There is no entry fee to participate but over $150,000 in cash, trips and scholarships are awarded every year.

Cara Hill, a student at J.C. Hill Elementary

Six Nations elementary school science project winners' projects were submitted for consideration for this year's BASEF science awards and won in a number of categories. SUBMITTED PHOTO School, won a “New Science Award.”

Miakun Jones of J.C. Hill Elementary, won the Indigenous Peoples of Canada Scientific Study Award as well as the New Science Award; Mia Martin won two “New Science Awards; Jalen Thomas and Lakendra VanEvery, also of J.C. Hill, each won New Science Awards as well.

Angelina Bomberry, from O.M. Smith/ Kawennio:io school was awarded the BASEF 500 Award as well as the Indigenous Peoples of

Canada Scientific Study Award for her project “Alternative Approaches to Knee Pain Care.”

Jason Hill, also of O.M. Smith, won the Primary Fluid Systems Earth and Environment Awards – Second (B) Bronze Merit Award, and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada Scientific Study Award for his project “Reaction”.

Dallas and Denver Jayne also from O.M. won New Scientist Awards for their project, “Does Diabetes Discriminate.”

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Tell us a short and simple story about someone you look up to. Maybe it is your big brother or sister or someone else in the community who you think is right ace. Write about why you look up to them and enter the contest for a chance to WIN a super sweet PlayStation 4 from Weken Electronics!!

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Obituaries

MONTURE, Irene (Bero) Entered into rest at Iroquois Lodge, Ohsweken on April 6, 2015 in her 93rd year. Beloved wife of the late “Bud” Claybran Jr. Monture for 57 years. Daughter of the late Thomas and Hattie (Cook) Bero of St. Regis. Mother of sons Dave; Gib & Cynthia; Phil & Angie; Jeff & Lou; Rob & Laurie; Glen, Todd & Karen; and daughter Mary & Lyle Sayers. Predeceased by son Stewart and grandchildren Craig and Jewel. Grandmother of 26, Great Grandmother of 28 and Great Great Grandmother of 1. Sister to Esther Burnham, Leona Cook, Eva Emmi, the late Mary Barr and deceased brothers Thomas and Raymond. Irene was a proud homemaker, Blue Jay fan and an ex-bowler at the Mohawk Bowlerama. Cremation has taken place. A Memorial Service will be held at Christ Church, 2317 Cayuga Road, Ohsweken on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 1 p.m. The family would like to extend a special thanks to the doctors, nurses, the entire staff and residence of the Iroquois Lodge, Ohsweken. Miller Funeral Chapel, Caledonia, entrusted with arrangements.

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Extensive renovations and enhancements are completed on the interior/exterior. The floor plan includes 6 bedrooms with private baths and an office. Improvements made; brick re-pointed, fascia and soffit repaired, Electrical wiring and panel installed, panel will accommodate a whole house natural gas generator, 6 shower stalls installed, central heating and air conditioning ducts installed, high density spray foam insulation, sound proofing between the 1st and 2nd floors, Driveway and parking for 7 cars, High efficiency windows in storage. Still intact, the original yellow brick, doors, pine flooring, 2 stained glass windows and staircase.

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Harsh grating sound 5. American Resource Bureau (abbr.)

8. Fiddler crabs 11. Mex. soccer goalie Guillermo 13. After B 14. Jai __, sport 15. Brief ad or notice 16. Certified public accountant 17. Vexation 18. Rough gemstone 20. Annual grass of Europe and N Africa 21. Metal cooking vessels 22. Suspiciousness 25. “Purple Haze” musician 30. In a way, built up 31. Runner used for gliding over snow 32. In a way, initiated 33. Was inclined 38. Divides evenly into 41. Born early 43. The Ocean State 45. Rifle blades 47. Whale ship captain 49. Scientific workplace 50. Fill with high spirits 55. Ancient kingdom near Dead Sea 56. 7th Greek letter 57. Peoples of the Middle East 59. Height x width 60. A way to drench 61. Artificial waterway 62. Possessed 63. Turns into noun 64. Capital of Yemen CLUES DOWN 1. Take by force 2. Liberal rights organization 3. Avoid and stay away from deliberately 4. Meat from a pig (alt. sp.)

5. Harmoniousness 6. Fixes 7. A member of the Beat

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Think before you speak, Aries. Quick wit might lead to some easy laughs, but it’s best to consider how your words will affect those around you before you speak.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Give yourself a little more time to solve a puzzling problem, Taurus. Within a few days you might have the fresh perspective you need to determine a solution.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, criticism coming your way is intended to be constructive. Listen to what others are saying and recognize that they are advocates, not adversaries.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, give yourself time to form an opinion on an important issue in your life. The more time you give yourself, the more clearly you will see the issue at hand.

Generation 8. Arm bones 9. Abel’s brother (Bible) 10. Small Island (British) 12. __ Dhabi, Arabian capital 14. Egyptian cobras 19. Overly precious (British) 23. Not or 24. Foreigners 25. Stab 26. Frost a cake 27. Microgram 28. George’s brother composer 29. Famished 34. Snakelike fish 35. Doctors’ group 36. Anais ____, author 37. CNN’s founder

Answers for April 8, 2015 Crossword Puzzle

39. Bad water disease 40. Given 41. Favorite 42. Lift 44. Discuss opposing points 45. Bleated 46. Swedish rock group 47. Indian housemaid 48. Israeli dance 51. Insect secretion used in shellac 52. Macaws 53. Source of the Blue Nile 54. Abba __, Israeli politician 58. Patti Hearst’s captors

SUDOKU

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, not everyone moves at your breakneck speed.

Just because others aren’t keeping up doesn’t mean they don’t understand what is going on. Give others time to catch up.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a budding relationship demands your attention this week. Give this relationship the attention it deserves, and you will be glad for having done so.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, resist the urge to rehash an old issue. You and others have long since moved on, and there are more positive things to focus on in the next week.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, your financial savvy comes to the forefront this week. Put your skill for finding a deal to work and you and your accountant will be glad you did.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, a goal that seems unlikely is still worth working toward. Others will be there to offer support and guidance as you pursue this very unique and rewarding goal.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, a great opportunity to express yourself comes along this week. Make the most of this chance to let others see your creative side.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, a friend or family member looks to you for advice this week. Do your best to put yourself in his or her shoes and let him or her know your support is unwavering.

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PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, you have the wherewithal to complete a projects other may never even attempt. Put your best foot forward and get to work.

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