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Ken and Sonya Sault are in a mounting battle with McMaster Children’s Hospital over the use Ongwehowe Onohgwatri:yo: (traditional medicines) to treat their daughter Makayla. The child was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia that is now in remission. During her 11 weeks of chemotherapy Makayla endured acute side effects and says she does not want to continue pharmaceutical treatments. McMaster Children’s Hospital says current protocol PM42686517 requires them to notify the Children’s Aid Society. Read the whole story on Page 4. PHOTO BY NAHNDA GARLOW
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Spring cleanup at Province proposes 'naturalization' initiative at Kanonhstaton Kanonhstaton By Jim Windle Spring cleanup at the Kanonhstaton reclamation site near Caledonia happened last Saturday with people coming and going throughout the day. Several dozen black plastic bags of litter were collected and hauled away the next day. “It was great,” said organizer Cam Staats. “People came and had a good time.” About two dozen volunteers spread out over the 40 hectares of Kanonhstaton to clean up not only rubbish from the house on the site, but also a lot of litter either blown onto the site from elsewhere as well as
trash allegedly thrown over the fence onto the site from neighboring properties. “The site sure looks good,” said Staats following the pick up of plastic bags and debris by Kayanase of Six Nations. “It was good to see the people back at Kanonhstaton with no pressure and just enjoying themselves.” But excluding a surprise visit by a few known Caledonia troublemakers, who were there to create an incident, everything was pleasant and positive as people came together to care for the land Six Nations residents and allies fought for in 2006.
Haldimand OPP removed a group of Caledonia area troublemakers during the cleanup of Kanonhstaton land Saturday. Aside from this brief encounter, the day went peacefully and the troublemakers along with dozens of bags of litter were removed from the reclamation site. PHOTO BY JENNIFER MT. PLEASANT
By Jen Mt. Pleasant SIX NATIONS – Randy Reid, Director of Community Initiatives for the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs was met with skepticism on Monday after he attended a Committee of the Whole Meeting at Band Council and proposed an idea for Kanonstaton (the former Douglas Creek Estates). “It’s a bit of an eye sore,” stated Director of Six Nations Lands and Resources, Lonny Bomberry who introduced Reid to Council and explained why he was there. According to Reid, the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs has already spoken with Haldimand County and the Confederacy Chiefs on the proposed ‘naturalization’ of Kanonhstaton or the former Douglas Creek Estates located on Old Plank Road just south of Caledonia. “Ontario has spoken with Haldimand and the Confederacy Chiefs and there has been some agreement on what to do with it,” stated Reid. According to Reid, naturalizing the land would be a ‘stand alone project’ and will not af-
Randy Reid, Director of Community Initiatives for the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs was before Elected Council on Monday to propose naturalizing the former Douglas Creek Estate. PHOTO BY JEN MT. PLEASANT fect the future or long term use of the property. “We would be making the property more presentable. The purpose of naturalizing would be to return the land to its natural state. We would replace the topsoil removed by the previous developer. We would also remove invasive species, put up fencing around the perimeter, do pond restoration and remove all infrastructure,” stated Reid. If Council approves the project, the Ministry would draw up a memorandum of understanding, which, according to Reid, will be a ‘collaborative venture’ with the Haudenosaunee Con-
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New Credit child resists forced chemotherapy By Nahnda Garlow NEW CREDIT – Makayla Sault, daughter of Pastors Ken and Sonya Sault has taken a very brave and bold move to assert herself. The 11 year old, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia in January, has asked her parents to stop chemotherapy treatments and instead give her Ongwehowe Onǫhgwatri:yo: (traditional medicines) They have done so, and now McMaster Children’s Hospital says that they have a fiduciary responsibility to report the Sault’s to the Children’s Aid Society for keeping Makayla out of chemoAdditionally, therapy. despite hours of consultations with various physicians, and indigenous officials including New Credit Chief Bryan LaForme, McMaster Children’s Hospital is pursuing a judicial process with the Consent and Capacity Board, a provincial body, to determine if Makayla
or her family are of sound mind. If the Consent and Capacity Board deems that Makayla and her parents are not of sound mind to make this decision, all involved are concerned that the Children’s Aid Society will move to apprehend Makayla from the New Credit First Nation and force her into chemotherapy, thereby
derailing the Ongwehowe Onohgwatri:yo: process she is on. That decision also would violate Articles 10 & 24 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; that indigenous people cannot be forcibly removed from their lands without free and prior consent, and the right to use traditional medicines
and health care practices without discrimination. Makayla was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) but also tested positive for the Philladelphia chromosome. This particular combination makes an aggressive form of leukaemia which, from a pharmaceutical perspective, requires two years of aggressive chemotherapy
treatment with a survival rate of 75%. However during the 11 weeks of chemotherapy that Makayla did complete, which brought the ALL into remission, the child endured acute side effects, including constant nausea, weakness, muscle wasting and a ten pound weight loss. Pharmacists prescribed the child a variety of anti-nauseants, including medical marijuana to try and help control the vomiting, but there was no relief, leaving many in her team struggling to find a solution to alleviate Makayla’s severe side effects. “They kept saying that she is our mystery child,” said Makayla’s father Ken Sault, a well known Pastor of the New Credit Fellowship Centre. “Coming to the last weeks of her treatment alarms started to go off inside of me” said her mother, Sonya. “It was that maternal instinct that told me that we’re not doing the right thing with her. She was so weak
that when you went to go and talk to her you would have to get right down just to be able to hear what she is saying.” Sonya said. “I remember Makayla said to me, ‘Mom I can’t take this anymore. I want you to get me out of here. I don’t want to go this way no more’.” The Saults’ were allowed to take Makayala home for a break from chemo. That is when the child spoke up and asked her parents for help. Her mother explained, “Makayla said to me, do you have the power to get me out of there? If you have the power to take me out of there I want you to take me out of there. I’m telling you mom it’s not right. The way that we are going it’s going to kill me.” In the meantime, the child had a spiritual encounter where she says Jesus appeared and told her that she was healed. This encounter has been revered by the traditional healers and members CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Cont'd from previous page of the New Credit First Nation, but the medical team told the family that in light of her spiritual encounter, she needed a psychiatric evaluation. Taking all of this information, and Makayla’s specific request to stop chemo and instead use Onǫhgwatri:yo:, the family came together of one mind and is now treating the child via a traditional healer on Six Nations. Hamilton Health Sciences has a number of Aboriginal Patient Navigators on staff to help medical officials and indigenous patients communicate effectively. However despite the hospital being next to Six Nations, which is the largest Indian Reserve in Canada, they do not have a current protocol in place for children whose families opt for Ongwehowe Onohgwatri:yo: instead of pharmaceutical therapy. Because the hospital has no current protocol for indigenous families pursuing traditional medication in lieu of treatpharmaceutical ment for children, staff feel that their hands are tied and that they need to bring this matter to a higher level of consultation with the Children’s Aid Society and the Consent and Capacity Board. The Sault’s said that in a previous meeting one of the members of the team assigned to Makayla’s case told them that if they did not proceed with the two year protocol of chemother-
apy for Makayla that Children’s Aid would become involved and that all three of the family’s children would be apprehended. Apprehending children for preventing them access to chemotherapy is not a situation unheard of in Ontario. In 2008 an 11 year old Hamilton boy was temporarily apprehended by the CAS during a routine visit to McMaster and his parents were handcuffed and escorted out of the hospital by security after they refused to continue chemotherapy at the boy’s request. The Saults say they are not refusing treatment altogether, only the form of treatment via chemotherapy. The family has put together a number of meetings with the staff of McMaster including the lead physician overseeing Makayla’s chemotherapy. McMaster proposed a compromise to combine chemo and Ongwehowe Onohgwatri:yo:, however the family declined stating that the chemo makes the child too sick to keep down the medicines traditional healers would be administering. As for Makayla, the traditional medicines have helped her put the weight back on that she lost while in treatment. She isn’t vomitting anymore and entered the track and field meet at her school this week. The CCB hearing date is not set at this time.
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AFN National Chief suddenly resigns By Jim Windle OTTAWA – In the wake of AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo’s sudden resignation last week, Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard announced Valcourt that although the controversial Education Act heard second reading in parliament Monday, the government will wait until Atleo’s successor is selected and given some time to settle in before steps are made to implement the Act. Valcourt told APTN TV that he was also giving the AFN time to clarify its position on Bill C-33. Some of the wording in Atleo’s resignation speech was rather ambiguous, but his departure was clearly over Bill-33, Harpers new education act, which he endorsed, and the fallout he was getting from First Nations leaders and grassroots activists who are against the Harper government’s Native education reforms. There are some who believe that Atleo’s endorsement of the act was being used as an open door to push through the proposed changes to Aboriginal Education. Harper made a statement about his association with Atleo following his resignation, calling
him “a conciliator who strengthened the relationship between First Nations and the Crown. As the Hereditary Chief from the Ahousaht First Nation, he showed leadership to his nation and all First Nations across Canada.” Opponents of the bill include Mi’kmaq lawyer Pamela Palmater of Ontario, who ran against Atleo in the last election. Although she said she is not looking for his job, she has been an outspoken critic of Atleo’s since before the election that put him in power. “Now, individual chiefs are making the same call, but I’m making that call because Shawn Atleo has stopped defending our rights,” she said. Her main objections to Bill C-33 is that she believes the bill gives Aboriginal Affairs even more control over Onkwehon:we people every-
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perhaps as the Confederacy of Nations, which is still outlined in the AFN Charter,” says Hill. “We had set the date at May 14th, when we wanted to have a major rally, not only to rally on bill C-33 but also bill C-10 and the missing and murdered women.” How and when to replace the National Chief is a grey area since it has never happened before. New Credit of the Mississaugas Chief, Bryan LaForme, wasn’t as surprised at Atleo’s resignation. “I think the general public may have been surprised, but those issues of not carrying out the wishes of the Chiefs goes back to 2013 and Theresa Spence’s hunger strike,” says LaForme. “He was told by the chiefs not to meet with the Prime Minister and Governor General, (without Spence), but went ahead anyhow.” Some Chiefs have not been comfortable with the apparent closeness of Atleo with the Prime Minister and have expressed their concern. Although unsubstantiated, there had been talk in certain circles about launching a non-confidence vote against Atleo. If true, it could explain his sudden resignation.
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Men’s Fire takes action in Wahta By Lucho Granados Ceja
WAHTA - Members of the Wahta Men’s Fire alongside community members and elders initiated a protest in front of the Administration Office on the morning of Tuesday May 6th, 2014 to voice their displeasure with the decisions of the recently elected Council. As a result, there is no access to the Wahta Mohawk Administration Office and it has been shut down indefinitely. Two Row Times spoke with Wahta on-reserve member Karihwakeron Tim Thompson who told us that the same group of people have been on Council for most of the last 25 years, except for a brief three-year period over the previous council term. In that period a number of
Men's fire, elders and other community members stage protest in front of Wahta Administration Office. important initiatives were taken up, including the development of Administration Code and Financial Management Code to ensure transparency and accountability from elected Council. These codes were developed through a participatory process that worked to ensure input from a wide swath of community members.
According to Karihwakeron the incoming Council has stated that they will not abide by the Administration or Financial Management Codes. “What do you do when your government refuses to follow its own laws? What can the people do to make sure that they do that? That’s been our dilemma,” stated Kari-
hwakeron. He also told us that the incoming Council has put any initiative developed in the past 3 years under review, “Everything from the nursing station that we put up to serve our community to the Mohawk language program, which we’ve now been told has been cancelled.” According to the press release, a daycare facility
that had been opened has already been converted into an office. There were previous attempts to resolve the dispute but community members were left feeling unsatisfied. In their press release the Wahta Men’s Fire stated that they felt that they felt compelled to carry out this protest after feeling demeaned by the members of elected Council in public meetings. Two Row Times also spoke with elected Chief Phillip Franks, who at the time of writing had not yet read the statement put out by the Men’s Fire but did suggest that the elected Council is interested in dialogue with those protesting outside the Administration Office. He also stated that the elected Council wants to review and conduct fur-
ther consultation on the Administration or Financial Management Codes. Karihwakeron informed us that, “There’s a groundswell of support from community members to make sure council follows our community laws.” Community members have been showing up to provide support and have donated food and water to those gathered in front of the Administration Office. Karihwakeron finished by saying, “I think it’s going to be a moment to rally our people around. Now the hard part comes, what will it take to restore... our laws?” For more information on this developing story follow The Two Row Times on twitter @tworowtimes or Karihwakeron’s twitter feed @okwarikowa.
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Atleo, the AFN and Idle No More The resignation of National Chief Shawn Atleo was unprecedented. Never before has a leader of the Assembly of First Nations stepped down. Stating that he didn’t want to stand in the way of children affected by the passage of Bill C-33, the newest version of the First Nations Education act that the Harper government is trying to ram through against the will of Onkwehonwe people, Atleo stepped aside. Of course it may have been a matter of jumping before he got pushed, as there have been rumours of an impending leadership review, and much criticism of Atleo for his leadership methods and close collaboration with
Stephen Harper. However, the true credit for Atleo’s departure should belong with the Idle No More movement. It was at the height of that movement in January of 2013 that Atleo took a “health leave” when faced with criticism about how he handled Chief Spence’s hunger strike. We are not suggesting that the Idle No More movement is necessarily a coherent force as it means many different things to many different people, but the fact is that its existence makes for a whole new factor in the world of national Aboriginal politics. In this new post-Atleo moment, the power and presence
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Dear editor, For most Native communities today, tobacco is what makes the economy go around. Over the last 30 years the tobacco trade has become the largest employer among Native people in our communities. The proposed Bill C-10 would destroy the economic foundation of our sovereign rights as Native people. The fact is this proposed law is racist, its targeting our people. Profits from the tobacco industry employ thousands of people in hundreds of businesses. Most to be lost due to the fact that the Canadian Government cannot profit from the Native people developing our economy on a marketable commodity
of INM can’t be discounted, and that’s a fact that makes the Harper government very nervous. Despite all the problems inherent to the AFN and the band council system, we are now in a new kind of political moment in which Onkwehonweh peoples’ resurgence is changing how native and non-native politics gets done. Grievances keenly felt by Native people for generations were mobilized with the Idle No More, and the power and connectivity of social media and the internet spread and strengthened the movement. It showed what all our struggles have in common, and it created an unprecedented explosion of political
activism that touched the lives of millions of peoples. Nor did it leave the AFN untouched. Even if we accept as correct all the criticisms which have been made of the inadequacies of Idle No More, the fact remains that in the minds of tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of people the movement stands for a resurgence of indigenous identity and political opposition to the Harper government and the protection of mother earth. It also has the use of an enormous and highly sophisticated social media platform to get the word out. That’s a potent force to have on side if you’re the new AFN leader. It
cloaks you in the mantle of the peoples’ interest and it makes it possible to extract significant concessions from the Canadian establishment. How this will actually shake out is unclear as there are factions both for and against the INM “leadership” within the AFN. But the fact remains that we may be about to see a significant realignment of power on the national Aboriginal scene. Of course it would be nice to see the AFN leadership do more. Imagine if they used their national voice to raise the issue of Bill C-10 (the Criminalization of Native Tobacco Act) and link it to the new First Nations Education Act and the government’s
refusal to call an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. That might create a nightmare situation for the Harper government. In the wake of all of Harper’s omnibus bills that have run roughshod over the rights of both the people of the ship and of the canoe, maybe the time has come for an omnibus moment of our own. What if we created an “omnibus movement” that unites the peoples of all nations to insist that our ways of living be remade, so that we can all live in harmony with our mother the earth and in societies in which all are treated with the peace, justice and respect they deserve.
able, to hiring people to advertise, business cards, signs, etc. This reserve’s businesses directly support each other and other Native communities. without the profits of tobacco” “contraband would put a serious strain on our community. With that being said, with this Bill being introduced, the government is trying to take the food right from our tables. This community is full of hard working individuals that spend many long hours serving the public, providing for their families and giving back to their community. If Bill C-10 becomes law this will all soon be a crime. This isn’t the beginning of Canada’s hidden agenda of colonialism us,
its been happening for quite some time. Land, education healthcare, taxation - little by little the Canadian Government is taking from us and violating our treaties, violating our right to be Native. We are not doing enough to stop the inequities, discrimination and the agenda to totally eliminate our integrity and culture. We need to make a stand. I attended a meeting in Six Nations on Feb 22/14 hosted by The Two Row Times, regarding this topic, which was very informative. Many good speakers, lots of community support and outside support. It was really a great a thing to see. Besides myself only one other community member attended.
Suggestions of “making their own laws” to present to the government, how can this happen due to the fact most reserves (especially our own) are currently funded by the Federal Government? No matter what, we allow to them to have control, and there are always strings attached. The Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians (AIAI) receives funding on our behalf but yet if you research their website, there is currently no mention of the proposed Bill, are they not the ones that fight for us on a political level? Are they not also our backbone when all else fails?
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not subject to their taxation system. A plant with a long standing cultural and spiritual significance which was domesticated and grown by Native people since time immemorial is providing a way out of underdeveloped economy on reserves. What this proposed law should mean to us is an anti-economy law. Canada’s colonialist dream has blocked all other economic development options for Native people, citing threats to public health, links to terrorists and “underground” criminal activity…claiming full jurisdiction over Native communities and economies. In reality Native people are only seeking a path to economic independence on their
own terms, without government assistance. This proposed Bill has made it past its second reading almost under our radar. In our community the sale of so called “contraband tobacco” provide basic necessaries for families without the need for Government assistance, the local smoke shops provide jobs within the community and assist with special programs and charities. Our businesses provide a place to socialize, to watch the game, to have a cup of coffee and enjoy a cigarette without the worry of breaking a law to Natives and Non-Natives alike. Our businesses also provide outside of the community, to making tax free goods avail-
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The truth behind the ‘contraband’ tobacco raids By Kelly MacNaughton
Just about everyone has heard about the recent “largest tobacco bust” in North American history. There is nary a media source that is reporting all the elements of this raid right. Some have spoken of 400 armed officers of different jurisdictions coming together to carry out coordinated raids on Onhkwehonh:we territories. Other reports spoke of mafia connections to an organized native crime syndicate with the implication being that hundreds of Native peoples were arrested in these raids. Still other reports spoke to the gathering of firearms in the hundreds and a substantial accumulation of marijuana plants along with 3,4, 5, no, wait for it! 6 trailer loads of raw tobacco leaf. So what is the fuss about and why the amazingly disparate descriptions of what actually took place in the Kahnawake and Akwesasne territories? In order to sort out what the genuine facts of this criminalizing media blitz were all about I decided that a road trip was necessary. From all incoming reports on the social media sites one would assume that a mass arrest
of gun toting mafia affiliated Natives was carried out. Oh, and apart from our dangerous hunting rifles, all kinds of drugs were also seized. Does it get much worse than this? In 4 separate articles I read that 130, 1300, 1100 and 950 plants of marijuana were collected. Despite the inconsistency on the amount of marijuana plants seized and it being the only illegal narcotic, this road later wound around to being a seizure of 2 bricks of hashish, small amounts of cocaine, ketamine and MDMA with a street value of $85,000. First out of the blocks on the weapons was a 9 mm pistol that later became a seizure of ‘various’ arms to being an assortment of long guns. Now we get to the trailers of raw tobacco leaf that seem to have different market values depending on who you ask. So exactly how many trailers were recovered and what is the mafia connection and how definitively are the Native peoples involved? There is a seamy underbelly to this story and the stench is purely governmental fiction and intentional criminalization along with their continued agenda of genocide. I was extremely ner-
vous about heading out to communities known for their militant stance on the Indian Question. A major share of my nervousness could be attributed to the fact that I was traveling with a Non-Native who very much looks the part of Non-Native. My fears were without merit. When my friend and I arrived in Kahnawake for our first appointment everything looked business as usual. First mistake! A raid had not been carried out on Onhkwehonh:we territories and certainly not in Kahnawake. I spoke to several members of the community, and in particular Peggy Mayo who is a Mohawk representative of the proposed tobacco commission in Kahnawake. The raids were carried out in Dundee, Que., and in the home of Anthony David whose home is on the St.Regis part of Akwesasne Reserve. Anthony David 49, wife Tracy-Ann David-Dogget 47, daughter Fallon David 31 and son-in-law Christopher Thompson 26 were arrested by the Akwesasne Mohawk Police acting on warrants from the SQ (Surete du Quebec). Anthony David is facing charges of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud
with future charges pending concerning the ‘cache’ of weapons recovered. Akwesasne Police Chief Jerry Swamp spoke to the suspicion of drugs moving through the Akwesasne community as being the reason for the Akwesasne Police Force becoming involved in the SQ investigation. David and his family were arrested and then transported by the Akwesasne Police across the St. Lawrence River by boat to Cornwall, ON and from there they were then transported to Montreal. St. Regis Village, which is on the South Shore of the river is part of the Akwesasne Reserve in Canada but is only accessible by road through the United States. David is owner of the strip club Sweet Dreams in Dundee, Quebec where the other part of the raid took place. Surete du Quebec allege that tobacco was stored at the club before being transported to Kahnawake to be made into cigarettes. Further arrests were made at the strip club according to the SQ which allege that the ‘smuggling’ network was headed by Mafia linked businessman Nicola Valvano from Saint Leonard, Que. Montreal ma-
fia members would buy the unprocessed tobacco from North Carolina and then transport it to Canada hidden in transport trucks carrying cedar mulch. Reliable sources place the amount seized as being 4 tractor trailer loads of raw tobacco leaf. Authorities also indicated that David owns a cigarette manufacturing plant on the U.S. side of Akwesasne which produce ‘rollies’ – cigarettes sold in plastic bags. So there you have it, the largest tobacco raid in North American history. If one were to take the word of mainstream media as being gospel we would all be caught up in a whirlwind of misinformation. The question that then needs to be asked is why all the intentional criminalization and misinformation concerning the Onkwehonh:we? Have you heard of Bill C-10? The bill amends the criminal code to add jail time to people involved the ‘contraband’ tobacco trade. If the Harper government can continue to push its agenda through parliament the economic foundation in the majority of Onhkwehonh:we communities will be further wrenched apart and our people will be imprisoned
in their jails. Bill C-10 effectively allows the Canadian Government to enter the Onhkwehonh:we communities with no knock raids, flash bangs, police dogs and RCMP in riot gear if we have in our possession unstamped tobacco products. The absolute greatest danger to this line of thinking being the will of the people. The Confederacy. The Government is travelling a road that can only lead to all out war. The misinformation that has come from mainstream media is working to paint the criminal activities of one individual (Nikola Valvano) as a brush stroke that paints us all. People are starting to become aware of the genocidal bias broadcast through mainstream media. The contrast of positive results starting to materialize from all the intentional negativity speaks volumes about the broader intelligence of society. One such positive result is that people are working in a variety of ways to fight Bill C-10. One such coalition that has begun is meeting this Sunday May 11, 2014 at Sour Springs Plaza on Six Nations, 1:00pm. Contact Icky’s 519-445-9252 if directions are needed.
of view, I wanted to get to know my peers – other indigenous women artists from across Canada. Can you elaborate on how you were motivated by Idle No More? Well, I just found that a lot of people were getting “sound bites”
from the media without adequate explanation of what the movement was all about. So, the general public was forming inaccurate pictures of not only the movement, but also the people. It just amazes me that most Canadians still think Aboriginal people don’t pay taxes or don’t face the same kinds of issues as ordinary Canadians, in addition to the issues with treaties, or the missing and murdered women, or residential schools. I thought that bringing the artists together to show them artwork that represents them as they are in contemporary society would be a creative way to open discussion and maybe correct some of ideas that people have about native women, and
bridge the gap between native and non-native people. Who is in your artisitic line up? We have an awesome line up: Kayeri Akweks, Christi Belcourt, Lee Deranger, Raven Davis, Lee Claremont, Lita Fontaine, LauraLee K. Harris, Maria Hupfield, Nadya Kwandibens, Tanya Lukin-Linklater, Shelley Niro, Janice Toulouse; Also, Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk will do a musical performance. We also have workshops in beading and quillwork scheduled. It was important for us to include traditional arts. When is the grand opening? The show is open to the general public starting May 7 but the official Opening Reception is
May 15, from 7-9pm. We will have Métis Nation of Ontario Senator Alys Kennedy doing an opening blessing. In this case, the Senator is the Métis equivalent to the Aboriginal Elder. They are the knowledge keepers and the ones who pass it on. Raven Davis is doing a poetry reading about her work; and Suzanne and Cedar Smoke are performing a traditional song with drum. Suzanne is originally from the Curve Lake, Alderville area. Her daughter Cedar is Chippewa from Georgina Island. For more information go to Facebook: Indiginesse or call (905) 713-1818
Exhibition brings female artists together By Tim Reynolds
AURORA – The Indignesse art exhibition featuring numerous Indigenous women artists will start May 7 to June 28, 2014 at the Aurora Cultural Centre, 22 church street, Aurora, Ontario. I spoke with the curator of Indigenesse, Nathalie Bertin. What inspired you to do this? As an artist, whenever I had an exhibition of my own work, I was often confronted with an audience that just didn’t know or understand Aboriginal people or history in Canada. When Idle No More became huge, and the media was all over Chief Spence, I thought there had to be something we could do, as artists to
help the average person understand who indigenous people are because artists are usually the ones who record our true history through their art. So we’re the ones who should step up and talk about it. Also, from a purely personal point
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Landfill worker defends new disintegrator By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – Amidst rumours, doubts and misunderstandings regarding John Kearns’ garbage disintegration unit at the Six Nations landfill, a Six Nations woman who has intimate knowledge of both the unit and the process speaks out in defense of the technology. “I’ve been working midsince here February,” says system feeder Denise Webster, who was hired to work at the disintegrator full time, through Grand Employment River And Training. “I met John and the crew and became familiar with the machine, which I think is awesome.”
some She has advice for anyone who is not familiar with the revolutionary technology before they form an opinion about it. “If somebody does not know what it is, they really should find out, because to me, I believe this community will benefit from it,” says
Webster. “It is doing its job, which is to get rid of the trash from polluting the land and the water. We are not burying it anymore and instead we are disintegrating it. That’s just awesome. I think that the community should be more aware and know what the machine is before they start criticizing it.” She has heard the concerns of some members, community but assures them that there is nothing to fear. “The people need to know that this is for garbage,” household she says. “I know the run would machine perfectly if we are doing our job right. I know that for a fact because I run it.”
Webster says that the need right now is for the people to bring the garbage to the bins rather than back to the landfill, which Kearns agrees with. times “Several over the past weeks, and even during this past week, the machine had to be cooled down because there was not enough garbage to keep it running,” says Kearns. “Once that happens it has to be fired up again, which creates a minimal amount of smoke, no more toxic than burning brush in your back yard or running an oil furnace.” Webster explains that when the garbage is wet after a rain or when it is exhumed from the
landfill, it takes longer to burn and may emit water vapor from the stack. This is why any exhumed garbage is blended with “new” garbage in the burner. She told the Two Row Times that she had a friend tell her about how the machine is no good, but when she asked what the source of her information was, she said her momma told her, who mother it from someone else. “As someone who works on this machine every day, I know first hand what is going on here,” says Webster. “There is nothing bad about it, unless we put something bad into it. If we are not doing our job, it will not do its job effi-
ciently.” Does she feel safe running this machine? “I’m standing right up there next to this machine and I wouldn’t be putting my health in jeopardy for nobody. I’m no genius, but I’m not stupid either. If I felt unsafe in any way, I’d make sure somebody knew about it.” Last week, she says, someone stopped by and asked why the machine wasn’t working. “I said it is working,” she said laughing. “They seem to think that if there is no smoke coming from the stack, and they don’t see commotion and people running around that it isn’t working. But that is when it is working at its best.”
tended SNEC last Friday to try and convince them that any type of incineration is detrimental to the community and to the environment. “I told her (Elected Chief Ava Hill) that I teach about the environment and health and I just mentioned to them about the precautionary principle. If you have concerns or if the community has concerns, you err on the side of caution.” Despite increased concerns about the disintegrator from a growing number of community members, SNEC went into ‘Phase Two’ of the project with Kearns back in April of this year. Once the deal is finalized, SNEC will pay Kearns around 6 million dollars for the purchase of a brand new unit. The Two Row Times spoke with a respected community member who lives near the landfill site on Fourth Line who wished to remain anonymous. When asked if he noticed any smell coming from the unit, he stated, “There is definitely a toxic smell coming from that machine. It smells like tar and it is definitely a new smell. I know exactly when that machine is running back there because of the smell. It’s
running right now actually because I can smell it. “I know for sure this machine wouldn’t be allowed in the cities so why would we have something like this here. And it’s not like I can just move away from this thing. I’m pretty much stuck here. One of my sons lived with me but since the disintegrator was built back there, he got worried about the chemicals in the air and so he packed up and moved to the city.“ The biggest concern at last week’s community meeting was the lack of knowledge about waste incineration at the community level. Even SNEC seem to be oblivious to the various research studies conducted in the past few decades on the hazards of waste incineration. Many countries around the world have banned waste incineration. What newer studies are now finding is that these machines produce what is known as nano-particles. According to Benneian, “No matter how advanced people claim disintegrator technology is, smaller toxic particles will be released into the air. These are known as nano-particles.
There is no such thing as zero emissions,” stated Benneian. “I always tell people, the first law of physics is that nothing is created nor destroyed. For someone to say he is able to burn any type of garbage without any sort of emissions is a lie. When burned, garbage either turns into ash or smoke. The toxins from the burned garbage don’t just disappear, it goes into the ashes and into smoke and eventually it goes into the air that we breathe,” stated Benneian. In one study done on the effects of nanoparticles caused by waste incinerators, “To increase the efficiency of an incinerator, often the combustion temperatures are increased and this leads to the generation of finer particles. The higher the combustion temperatures the finer the particles that will be generated. A finer particle will travel further and quicker into the human organism, reaching the blood and therefore the vital organs in a matter of minutes. “Once particles of heavy metals enter the organism and, in the case of nano-particles, the
cells’ cores, they can’t be eliminated. Waste incineration produces, amongst many other pollutants, ultrafine particles – such as heavy metals – and the demonstrated link between the exposure to these particles and the occurrence of a wide range of serious diseases – such as cancer, sarcomas, neurological diseases, fetal malformations and many others.” What is even more worrisome, according to Benneian, is that there is currently no air quality test that can detect the deadly nano-particles. Elected Chief Ava Hill told the Two Row Times in an email, “The Elected
Council has not made the final decision to purchase the Kearns machine. We are not pushing this through and we have not signed any deals. We are in negotiations. “We also made a commitment to have the air tested and staff are looking into who can do that testing. The Committee is meeting on Friday and will make a recommendation to Council. As to whether Council wants to listen to various experts about what they believe the hazards of this unit to be, that will be a decision that Council will make based on a recommendation from the Committee.”
Disintegrator sytem feeder Denise Webster says the machine works.
Experts urge a second look at disintegrator By Jen Mt. Pleasant SIX NATIONS - A small group of concerned community members attended the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) last Friday afternoon to raise concerns about the Kearns disintegrator at the landfill site. With them, were two activists from off the territory who are knowledgeable about the harmful effects of waste incineration. One activist has been successful in stopping other municipalities in southern Ontario from having these machines. Ella Haley is a Professor at Athabasca University and teaches Environmental Studies. Liz Benneian is the Manager of Partnership Programs for Oakvillegreen Conservation Association. Both ladies had recently heard about the proposed disintegrator that SNEC is planning on purchasing from John Kearns of Kearns International which is based out of Nova Scotia. Haley and Benneian had grave concerns regarding health effects on humans and environmental pollution and degradation. Haley stated that she, along with Benneian at-
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FEATURE COLUMN: LET'S TALK NATIVE WITH JOHN KANE
Lucky 13 for the UNPFII On May 12, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) will begin its 13th session at the United Nations in New York City. The session will run for two weeks and cover a broad range of topics. The event is not open to the public. Only confirmed and registered NGO and IPO representatives are allowed to participate. However, as a UN accredited member of the media, I will be there, too. Yeah, that’s right. Two Row Times columnist and radio show host John Kane will be there having the conversations that may or may not be welcome. Now I’m not among the starry-eyed devotees of the UN. I am a skeptic although I appreciate the good intentions of such a body and even the nice words assembled in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). But intentions are not actions and the UNDRIP clearly identifies itself as the minimum standards that the world holds for the rights of Indigenous peoples. And while I understand
the most common denominator for the nations of the world would almost have to accept a minimum standard, this Mohawk certainly doesn’t. Of course, the US and Canada, the last UN nations to conditionally endorse the Declaration, could not even accept this minimum standard at face value but rather suggested they could only support the “aspirations” of the document provided that its articles do not conflict with US or Canadian law, which kind of misses the point. Uh... if your laws conflict with the UNDRIP, which they certainly do, as well as your policies, propaganda, altered history, religions, schools and state sponsored racism, then you obviously are not really supporting what the rest of the entire world has endorsed. So why go? Simple. Shame. I have made it my mission to encourage conversations on Native issues. The more conversations that are had, the brighter the spotlight shines on those issues. If it is nothing else, I see the UN as a grand stage for conversations. But because the US and Canada fail miserably by almost any standard for compliance with the
UNDRIP and because they have no intentions of complying, our best recourse is the “court of public opinion” and shame on that grand stage. One of the biggest mistakes we make in fighting for our inherent rights is treating them as gifts from our oppressors. Our rights are neither “treaty rights” nor are they UN Declaration rights. They are unalienable, inherent and original. Treaties may acknowledge them or even suggest protection of them but they do not grant them. The UNDRIP makes no claim to be the origins of our rights either. This declaration simply reiterates much of the UN Declaration on Human Rights with certain other obvious international standards such as “free, prior and informed consent” from people affected by the actions of another. The UNDRIP recognizes rights. It does not establish them. Our job begins with asserting our inalienable rights based on our inherent sovereignty. The language in their treaties may be used to demonstrate and remind those that would violate our rights how many times they acknowledged their limitations and just how
little we ever really ceded to them regarding our rights and liberties. The same goes for the UNDRIP. But unlike all those treaties that our people were coerced into, for access to our lands, the Declaration is not a quid pro quo or a this for a that. It is simply a minimum standard. But it is pointless if it is unknown or never cited. So while our job begins with asserting our rights, it is also incredibly important to specifically cite how and where our rights are being violated within the context of the UNDRIP and our inherent sovereignty. We need to make the violators of those rights painfully clear of the international standards they are ignoring and alert the international community of the violations and impacts of this as well. There are 46 articles and a preamble loaded with affirmations, acknowledgements, concerns, beliefs and specific points of recognition to which we should hold the non-Native governments and do so with every intent of leveling shame and embarrassment on these US and Canadian hypocrites. The opening day of the UNPFII, among other issues, is scheduled to
cover sexual health and reproductive rights. With more than 1,000 missing and murdered Native women in Canada alone and the highest rate of childbirth mortality rates on the continent, how can the US and Canada not be shamed? The second day will focus on the impacts of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. This can’t be just a study of past atrocities but must include the ongoing ones, as well. The US codified this racist doctrine in 1823 and it is still cited to this day to diminish everything from claims to our stolen lands to our right to trade and develop our own economies. This can’t just be about condemning ugly history as though it’s all better now. It isn’t! The suggestion that our “discovery” by Christian nations justified conquest is not just wrong today. It was just as wrong when the house of cards that is “federal Indian law” was built on it then. The UNDRIP should assist us in securing more equitable remedies, not just for past grievances but current conflicts, too. The US and Canada can keep their “houses of cards” but if they don’t want it toppled they should keep us out
of it. There is no shame in fairly and respectfully resolving conflict but any nation claiming superiority based on race or religion should be truly embarrassed. Redress, land disputes and land claims, Indigenous children and Indigenous youth, and implementation actual of the UNDRIP are other scheduled topics for discussion. And I will take every opportunity I can to bend the ear of anyone that will listen to address the most critical issues to our people — poverty today and bleak prospects for the future. All the access to sacred sites in the world can’t fix poverty and self-esteem. All the special days, decades and declarations the world over will not secure a future for our unborn faces. We don’t need world courts or international sanctions. We need real international relations that support our trade, our travel and our autonomy. We need interface between the voices that call for our right to be respected and protected, and those whose laws fly in the face of those calls. Let’s see what a little “Let’s Talk Native...with John Kane” at the UN stirs up.
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FEATURE COLUMN: SCONEDOGS & SEED BEADS
My story When people find out that I am a cancer survivor they typically reply with shock and disbelief. “Really? But you’re so young,” they say. “Yes, I had a double mastectomy in 2012,” I usually reply. Then in my mind I count to ten to see how long it takes for them to stare directly at my chest. Sometimes I get to the count of four. Breast Cancer does not run in my family. In fact, I was an atypical “candidate” for a breast cancer diagnosis: no family history, I was 32 years old at the time, breastfed two healthy children and I was at a healthy weight. For a while though, I noticed something was off. My right breast just started to feel different. It felt heavier and after a
little while I noticed that my bras weren’t fitting as they should. I went to the doctors and asked if it was something I should be concerned about but was reassured that it was just run of the mill asymmetry. About a year and a half later in a totally unrelated problem I’d broken a bone in my foot and it was still tender even after it had healed. So I called in to my doctor to get it checked out. The night before my appointment as I was getting ready for bed, I noticed my right breast felt heavy and full, almost as if I was breastfeeding. The first thing that popped into my mind was, ‘I wonder if I’m pregnant.’ So I sort of pushed down on the area that felt full. I looked down and noticed what looked like
orange or pink tinged milk coming from my body. The next day after the doctor looked at my foot I nonchalantly mentioned it to her. “I’ll be honest, when we see blood it’s usually not good,” she said. I left the office that day with three requisitions; one for an X-ray of my foot, one for a breast ultrasound, and one for a mammogram. About a week later I was getting ready to go and do my Wednesday grocery shopping and I happened to trip and drop my purse on the ground. Out tumbled all kinds of purse junk; papers, snacks, toys, and the requisition for my mammogram. Which literally fell on top of all my purse junk face up! ‘Mammogram. Wednesday. Brant-
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ford General Hospital. 9:30am.’ it read. I believe this was a miracle. “Oh no!” I shouted. I looked at the clock on the stove. It was 9:10am! I grabbed my keys and flew out the door. First of all, I was not prepared for what a mammogram actually is. If you are lucky like me, a very kind and gentle nurse will take your breasts, one at a time, and place them gently on a cute little table just for boobs. ‘This ain’t so bad.’ I thought to myself. It was then that my kind and gentle nurse did an about face and became the executioner, squashing my parts in an iron maiden of sorts, pinning me to the little boob table. “Stand very still,” she said to me sweetly and patted me on the back. “I can’t go anywhere at the moment,” I joked. About ten minutes later the radiologist came in. She said, “We had to magnify your mammogram to the highest mag-
nifications that we have, and when we do that I am seeing this very faint cluster of calcifications in your right breast. There are no lumps, but I’d like to biopsy one of those calcifications.” Waiting on the results felt like the longest week of my life. Finally my doctor confirmed I had Ductal Carcinoma In Situ - an early form of breast cancer. So early in fact, that from the biopsy they saw pre-cancerous cells before they matured. I was afraid, but I was also humbled and in awe of the Creator’s protection. He allowed this cancer to be discovered before it became out of control. Another miracle. After further consultation my medical team at the Juravinski Cancer Centre recommended a double mastectomy. No radiation, no chemotherapy and no hormone pills. I knew that was what I wanted to do. A year and a half of reconstructive surgery later, I now have what we breast cancer
survivors call “foobs”. That is, fake boobs. I don’t mind them, but they sure don’t compare to the real thing. On Bread & Cheese Day, Cancer Care Ontario has arranged to have a mobile cancer screening bus come to Six Nations. On this bus you can have a mammogram, a pap test, or get a stool kit to check for breast, cervical or colon cancer. When I found out, I told them I wanted to help. My friend Dr. East said that current breast, cervical and colon cancer screening in Ontario are the best method of early detection, and early detection of these cancers offers patients the most effective treatment. If you are thinking quietly in the back of your mind, ‘I should go and have that checked’, perhaps this is your opportunity. If sharing my story can do anything to help any one of you I pray that it does.
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Pro-Fit Corvairs win Sutherland Cup By Jim Windle
CALEDONIA – To a man, there was great relief coupled with euphoria and exhaustion when the final buzzer rang out at the Haldimand Centre Saturday night. The Corvairs had won Game #7 by a score of 3-1 over the tough St. Catharines Falcons to take the game and the Sutherland Cup. For coach Mike Bullard, it was a matter of destiny. “If you believe in destiny, then destiny took centre stage,” he said about the series winner. “Matt Quilty, our captain got hurt (with a serious eye injury) against St. Kitts,” said Bullard. “He called me after the Wednesday game and said ‘coach, I’d like to skate and see if I can play.’ His eye was ok and he got permission from his parents and his doctor to play. So he’s coming off a serious injury and he played Friday night.” In that game, which St. Catharines won in triple overtime, Quilty just missed an open net in overtime, which would have won the game and the Cup.” But on Saturday fate played its hand as Quilty
The Six Nations' owned Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs have won the 2013-14 Sutherland Cup with a thrilling 3-1 win Saturday night at the Haldimand Centre Arena in Caledonia before a complete sell out crowd Saturday night. More photos on our website www.tworowtimes.com PHOTO BY ALEXANDER JACK notched the Sutherland Cup game winner from Jordan Peacock and Connor Murphy. Cosimo Fontana, who got the 3-1 empty net goal, had his grandfather pass away at the beginning of December and his father pass away in January. He was also very good friends with a boy in major Jr. A who recently committed suicide. “That kid has been through hell in three months,” said Bullard. “It just looked like fate for these two kids that it would end up this way.” As exciting as Game #7 was, Bullard believes the premier game of the entire season was Game #6, played Friday night in
St. Catharines. Both teams left it all on the ice. “I think that game in St. Catharines, Friday night, was one of the most enjoyable to watch games anyone has ever seen,” according to Bullard, a former journeyman professional player himself, who played 10 seasons in the NHL with Pittsburg, Calgary, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Toronto before heading to Europe where he played another 12 years before retiring after the 2003-2004 season. You could not fit another body into the Haldimand Centre Arena Saturday night if you had to. In fact they had to start turning people away.
The teams skated to a 0-0 tie after the first 20 minutes with goalies Colin Furlong for Caledonia and Knick Dawe standing tall for the Falcons. At 1:07 of the second period, Justin Abraham hauled down St. Catharines forward Aaron Taylor, who was given a penalty shot which he scored on to give the Falcons a 1-0 lead. At 3:57, Brennan Feasey was handed a tripping call, which Jake Brown capitalized on for Caledonia to tie the game at 1-1, heading into the third. It was at 13:05 when Quilty did his magic to record the game winner. With Dawe on the bench for the extra man, Fon-
tana sealed the Falcons’ fate with an empty netter assisted by Ryan Blunt and Kyler Nixon. Bullard believes that Friday night’s triple OT Game #6 may have played a role in Saturday’s game. “It was a hard fought series and after triple-overtime Friday night, I don’t know how both teams had the energy to play Game #7,” Bullard says. Friday’s Game #6 started out the same as Game #7 with both goalies holding all shooters at bay. Six Nations’ own Mitch Green, an AP player with a bright future, called up from the Six Nations Minor Hockey sys-
tem, scored the only goal of the second period, assisted by Scott Dorian and Jeff Malott, with less than a minute left in the period. St. Catharines’ Dillan Walker made it 1-1 on a powerplay at 10:09 and Ryan Doucett gave St Kitts the 2-1 lead at 13:11. Jordan Peacock tied it up 2-2 and sent the game into OT, 27 second later. There was no scoring in the first OT period and the second with Furlong and Dawe putting on a show. But at 3:03 of the third extra period, Tommy Barszcz ended the marathon with the game winner assisted by Dillan Walker and Kyle Woodhouse to force Game #7, which was played 19 hours later. “We won every league trophy, and the goaltending that was performed by Colin Furlong throughout the playoffs was sensational,” said coach Bullard after the game. “He carried us on his shoulders.” “We had a lot of injuries toward the end, we battled it and these kids were just unbelievable and it ended up the way it should be. It was a dream season,” he said.
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Six Nations boxer wins championship By Jim Windle BRANTFORD – “I feel I am getting stronger,” says up an coming amateur boxer, Six Nations’ Obediah-Blasdell Cher after winning the United Golden Gloves Championship belt last weekend at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. “I’ve been working on my cardio a lot so I am better for the next person I meet in the ring,” she says. Obediah-Blasdell defeated Emma James for the belt with a unanimous decision in their four round bout. James is a familiar opponent for her, as Obediah-Blasdell has now faced and beaten her
three times, the last time at the Silver Gloves tournament. “I was a little concerned about my energy level after I weighed in,” she says. Obedia h-Blasdell’s home scales were wrong and when she went in for her official weigh in she discovered she was actually under weight by about three pounds. She and coach Jackie Armor went out for a good nutritious meal between the weigh in and the afternoon bout to get her weight and energy back up. “It was a great fight,” says coach Jackie Armor, of Brantford’s Black Eye Boxing Club. “Cher was showing more power in
her punches.” “I felt in charge but it was a hard fight,” reflects Obediah-Blasdell. “She came out stronger than I though she was going to. She didn’t shoot down my confidence level or anything, she was just tougher than I thought she would be.” The win qualifies Obediah-Blasdell for the Canadian Nation’s where she won Bronze last year. Now with the United Golden Gloves Provincial Belt, it makes her the girl to beat and she will attract an even higher level of opponents. But she is up for this and any other challenge as she works her way towards turning pro. Armor, who has been carefully directing Obediah-Blasdell’s career, is still going slow with her methodically adding more amateur championships to her resume before making the step up to the pro ranks. “Oh, yes, I definitely want to turn pro,” she says. “So now we are just building my credentials so that when I do go pro, I will be easier to promote.” The way things are going, that day is not far away.
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Wampum Belt teachings at GREAT Theatre By Jen Mt. Pleasant Last week, the community of Six Nations had a rare chance to learn about the various wampum belts in a teaching done outside the Longhouse. Among interested community members were a few Confederacy Chiefs, Sub-Chiefs, Faithkeeprs and Clan Mothers. These wampum belts were made between the Haudenosaunee and various European settlers. According to Jamie Jacobs, Seneca Nation, “The original wampum belt was known as the Friendship Belt and it was an agreement or treaty made with the Dutch.” Jacobs works at the New York Rochester Museum and Science Center and was brought to Six Nations last week to share his knowledge about the significance of wampum and wampum belts. Jacobs explained that the Friendship Belt pre-
ceded the Two Row Wampum and stressed the importance of it being read or explained before the Two Row. “When they are read, they should be read together,” said Jacobs. Talking about Guswenta, or the Two Row Wampum Belt, Jacobs stated that in the pre-contact era, the Haudenosaunee controlled the northeastern seaboard. When the Dutch arrived, treaties were made with them which established rules as to how each nation would abide by and respect each other’s way of life. “According to the Friendship Belt, we are friends to the settlers, not allies. You can have an ally but not be friends with them. Our agreement was that we were friends as long as the grass grows, the sun shines and the water flows,” said Jacobs, which called for a higher degree of respect for one another then simple ally-ship.
“Our culture is built on wampum. It’s always been supported by wampum. Everything we had to say, everything we did was based on wampum. Wampum to us is what binds us together, not only as people, but it binds us with our maker, our Creator,” stated Jacobs. Jacobs described the various wampum belts and showed the replicas he had for each, including the Circle Wampum, Wolf Clan Condolence Belt, Dish With One Spoon and the Ever Growing Tree Belt. To learn more about the stories that go with each wampum belt, Jacobs stated that in the near future, there will be teachings of them at upcoming Confederacy Council meetings. You can also attend the Reading of the Great Law in July or visit the Tonawanda territory where the original belts will be laid out.
Rebels blowing away the competition By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – The Six Nations Rebels – winners of the national Founders Cup for the past three years – are already threatening another assault on the league record book this Ontario Lacrosse Association (OLA) Jr. B season. The Six Nations Rebels are neither good guests or good hosts. So far this season, they are 4-0 and have hardly broken a sweat to do it with three wins at home and one at home. But these were not just wins, they were muggings. Not counting Tuesday night’s game against the Niagara Thunderhawks at the ILA in Six Nations, the Rebels have scored 75 goals, while allowing only 15. That is an average of 18.75 goals per game so far, with a goals-against average of 3.75.
Sunday night the Rebels showed Welland no mercy as they recorded a 25-5 slaughter of the Generals, in Welland. Last Tuesday, May 2, they took down the Niagara Thunderhawks 18-3, and crushed the Wallaceburg Red Devils 15-4 May 1st. They opened the 2014 season with a 17-3 walk over the Owen Sound Northmen. The Rebels were the guests of the Welland Generals this past Sunday and may not be invited back after embarrassing their hosts 25-5. The scorekeeper had to use two game sheets to record all the Six Nations goals. Chase Martin was in goal for Six Nations and made 23 saves on only 28 shots. Meanwhile, Welland goalies Graeme McCullough and Dylan Busby-Carver combined to face 75 Rebels shots. So far this young
season, Jacob Bomberry leads the league in scoring 7 goals and 17 assists for 24 points in those 4 games, averaging 6 points per game. Chase Martin is in first place amongst goaltenders with his 3.75 average in four games, the next rival being Daniel Tanner of the Orangeville Northmen with a four game average of 4.14 goals against average. Results from Tuesday night’s game were not available by press time. The Welland Generals will be facing the Rebels again this Friday, May 9, for an 8 o’clock start at the ILA in Six Nations before taking the bus to Guelph to face the Regals for the first time this regular season Sunday night. Game time in Guelph is 7 pm.
Jamie Jacobs who works as a Collections Assistant at the New York Rochester Museum and Science Centre and Leroy Hill share a few laughs after a wampum presentation hosted at the GREAT Theatre last week. PHOTO BY JEN MT. PLEASANT
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Hip-hop: James Blood keeps it raw All I do is kick facts son Hold it down for my natives since day one Word up 6 Nay Son the T Dot mega city where I grew I been through all over the blocks and avenues.
By Wes Day Kick it on the one these cats wanna play chief, just keep it on the hum. I don’t respect all this new swag. I only make music for the slums. It’s like thats what y’all wanna look like if you got to meet KRS one? Or the god Rakim? I stay hot kid. Keep it poppin. Creating. Mix taping. - James Blood Hip hop artist James “Blood” Jamieson of TruRez Crew and RedStar is one of the foremost native hip hop artists in Haudenosaunee territory today. James sees hip hop as a “voice for the voiceless.” While hip hop began as a youth culture among black and latino youth in the South Bronx and Harlem in the 1970’s, James is part of the cutting edge of hip hop culture in Six Nations and he’s adding his own flavour to hip hop culture, rhyming about the struggles of being native. For James, hip hop has been a part of his life since he was a youth. Growing up in the housing projects of inner city Toronto, James says that he could “just go outside and hip hop was there” – he
would see “guys rappin’” and “graffiti everywhere.” It was being in all these places and around these people that molded the young James’ mentality and style of rhyming. James was placed in a group home around the age of 13. He not only moved constantly but often got locked out and would have to stay on the streets all night. When describing his experience in group homes and with Children’s Aid Society (“CAS”), James had this to say: “There were racist people running it… the white kids were taken out to buy clothes while me and this other native kid got nothing. They watched us and treated us like animals. You think like that and you don’t trust no one.” James eventually decided to leave CAS. Although he never knew his father, he found his way to Six Nations where his mother’s family comes from. It was here that he connected with his friend and cousin, Hoodoo, who started Intertribal Records, a Native American record label based out of Six Nations. After working together and developing a mutual respect for one another’s art, James and Hoodoo combined their musical skills and formed
RedStar. When asked about what he does, he said: “I just do what I do man. I am native. That’s what I am. I was born in the world like that.” According to James, the hip hop scene is coming back in full effect at Six Nations. Living at Six Nations, James sees “native kids who are inspired by hip hop when they see other native emcees comin’ out” and this is “just building and adding on to the whole culture of hip hop”. “Rhymin about being native and rhymin about the struggles and all that, a lot of cats are gettin on that. I think it’s good cause it’s a voice for the voiceless. You could say so much on a rap record. I see all these native kids who are inspired by hip hop when they see other native MCs commin out and it’s just building and adding on to the whole culture of hip hop as a whole whether its negative or positive.” When it comes to picking a hip hop style to listen to or to practice, James says, “You can pick and choose the path you wanna walk.” He describes his own style as “street oriented with some influence of the rez” and offered the Two Row Times a little sample:
James’ style is raw and from the streets, but “I wouldn’t call my style gangster rap. I’m not a gangster. It’s street oriented with some influence of the rez. Some people take
it too far with gangster rap. Probably had a couple people acting the fool but everybody has a brain you know? You can pick and choose the path you wanna walk. You could like gangster rap and be a university student.” Whatever style you choose, James believes “rawness” is the soul of hip hop and that’s the music he wants to hear. To hear more from James check out RedStar at http:// www.reverbnation.com/ redstar39 and Intertrib-
al Records http://www. reverbnation.com/hoodoomusic We’ve also put a selection of James’ songs and freestyles on the Two Row Times webpage at www.tworowtimes.com to accompany this article. Check it out and stay tuned for more coverage of native hip-hop in our pages and on our website. You can listen to the full audio of our interview with James by following @rezquestpod on Twitter.
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Authentic hickory smoked BBQ on the Grand By Nahnda Garlow There is nothing like the smell of food being smoked on a wood smoker to get your mouth watering. If you are a barbecue fan and find yourself at Six Nations on the north shore of the Grand, be sure to follow your nose to Big Jim’s BBQ on Highway 54. This little gem on the rez is serving up all the classic meats you would find in a southern competition style barbecue; pulled pork, beef brisket, pulled chicken and some fantastic smoked chicken wings each given a beauty bath in a homemade BBQ sauce that’s got people hooked.
Jim Jacobs is the owner and barbecue aficionado who learned how to cook up that southern smoked goodness the traditional way; by watching and getting insider secrets from his buddies in the competitive barbecue world while he lived in the American South. Big Jim’s signature flavour comes from a wood-fired smoke barbecue. “As far as I know we are the only place in Ontario doing it the old fashioned way of using only hickory wood as the heat and smoke source. That’s genuine Pit BBQ!” said Jacobs. That means Jim is hauling wood, chopping it, building the fires and getting the hickory coals
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original way of cooking with wood. It just tastes better plain and simple” said Jacobs. “Some think there is way too much work in cooking this way but I learned to work hard at an early age. I was raised at Delaware Farms in Smoothtown and loved every minute of it. Starting in the hay fields when I was 9 with my Grandpa, uncles, cousins, and friends of the family. We’d throw bales from sun up to sundown.” The menu is chock full of classic barbecue side items; coleslaw, baked beans garlic mashed potatoes and cornbread muffins. But it is the Montour’s family recipe for Nana’s home-
style baked mac and cheese that has people coming back for seconds. This is a classic dish that comes from Jim’s days working on the Montour family farm. Jacobs said, “The best part of the day was coming in for lunch and supper where Nana, Mom, and all my aunties had a table full of food to feed all the boys. This is where our top selling side, “Nana’s Mac n Cheese” comes from.” It’s these warm, simple, honest to goodness homestyle touches paired with hickory smoked goodness that keeps people coming back to Big Jim’s again and again. “My Mom, Nana, and Aunties showed me all the love that goes into cooking. They were always happy to cook for their family. It would always put an even bigger smile on their faces to watch their families enjoy the food they prepared. And I feel the same way when all of our customers leave with a smile and keep on coming back.” If you’re looking for something sweet to round out the meal, Jim’s Fried Apples are where it’s at. Simple pan fried
apples with warm spices and a dollop of whipped cream are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth without going buck wild. The perfect conclusion to a meal packed with flavour. Big Jim’s BBQ is located at 986 Highway 54 on Six Nations of the Grand Territory in the Old Log Cabin. It is predominantly a take-out counter but there is some seating indoors and outdoors. Summer hours are now in effect Tuesday to Saturday 11am-8pm and Sundays 1pm-7pm; closed Mondays. Take-out, delivery and catering are all available.
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Prepare a Special Breakfast for Mom with Love By Joe Farrell Honoring and giving gratitude to all the mothers in our lives is a daily consideration. Mother’s Day is an opportunity to take time out of our daily routines to show love and appreciation to our mothers and Mother Earth. When visiting Montreal, recently I shared a lovely breakfast with my partner Nicole at Boulangerie Hof Kelsten. It was refreshing to enjoy a meal cooked that I didn’t prepare myself that closely resembled the kind of breakfast I would cook at home. It was simple and mindfully prepared using quality ingredients. You could taste the love put into the food from start to finish. A component of the breakfast that stood out aside from the awesome breads, were the little
turkey sausage patties. I’ve become quite fond of making these at home much to my housemates delight. A sausage doesn’t need to be in a casing for all the wonderful flavours that we associate with them to be enjoyed. I encourage you to break the “casing mold” and prepare sausage patties
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certain choice cuts of meat is not always possible to attain, substituting pre-ground pork or meat of your preference will yield similar results. I often request the help of friends’ children at the Edge of the Woods Farm to help me in meat grinding and sausage making. What family fun could be had when multiple generations come together to make a special meal for the wonderful mothers and grandmothers who we care so deeply for. To bind the meat all you have to do is knead the meat as you would bread. Kneading helps develop the protein in the meat the same way kneading develops protein in bread dough. If you’re using pre-ground meat you may need to add filler in the form of oats or breadcrumb to help absorb some of the excess
moisture. If I were to be cooking for my mom this coming Sunday it would look something like this: A frittata, roasted potatoes, sausage patties, a simple salad and some fruit. You can find these recipes in previous columns or on tworowtimes.com
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 You are in a position of power this week, Aries. But this doesn’t mean you can impose your will onto someone else. Don’t try to take over any situation. TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, someone might dredge up uncomfortable feelings, but you need to muddle through with a smile on your face. This is the case at home and at work.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, separate your personal and professional lives, particulary with regard to potentially contentious issues. You may want to keep mum for a while.
5. Common garden pod plant 6. Machine-guns from the air 7. L____ : shining 8. Scribbles 9. An inclined trough 13. More (Spanish) 14. Durham, NH school 17. Hill (Celtic) 18. Time units (abbr.) 20. Legal clerk Brockovitch 22. Norse goddess of old age 27. Form a sum 28. No (Scottish) 29. Japanese sash 31. 007’s creator 32. Consume food 33. The woman
Answers for May 7, 2014 Crossword Puzzle
37. Group annuity + lottery combination . Set fire to 39. Ancient Olympic Site 40. Split from 41. Awe-inspiring 42. Tidy 43. Drive mad 44. Middle Eastern riding horse 47. Spinal Muscular Atrophy 48. Technical author Clancy 49. Garden framework 51. Being near 52. Of she 53. Summer sun up in NY 58. Highest card
SUDOKU
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, make your feelings known when something upsets you this week. Sharing these feelings will benefit you and your friends and colleagues now and in the future.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, your feelings of restlessness this week can benefit from a creative outlet. Engage in an activity that keeps your hands and your mind busy, such as a craft or a home project. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, minimize any negative energy this week. Strive to be a source of optimism when others are looking at the glass as half empty. It can work wonders. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, after several days of working entirely off of adrenaline, you finally have some time to kick back and relax. This will help you recharge your internal battery.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Your motivation is very strong this week, Scorpio. You can accomplish much more than you ever expected in a short period of time. Pick your projects wisely.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you are unable to convey some feelings to others, but your body language will go a long way toward getting your message across. Remain conscious of your actions. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 One of your goals this week is to propel yourself further without pushing others too hard, Capricorn. You want to be successful but not at the expense of others. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, focus on practical matters, such as your career goals, for the time being. Crucial decisions must be made and new relationships must be fostered.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, trust your gut instincts on an issue that has been puzzling you this week. Your intuition might be your best asset.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
MARACLE Gladys Laura Surrounded by her family at the Brantford General Hospital on Sunday May 4 2014, Gladys Maracle in her 89th year, wife of the late Richard Maracle; mother of Charlotte and Ed, George and Lana, Floretta and Ron Hill, Robert and Debbie, John, Mary, Laurie, David, and Anna; grandmother of 16 grandchildren , 16 great-grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. She will be dearly missed by many nieces, nephews and cousins who also knew her as Aunt Marsha. Predeceased by; son Richard (Butch), grandson Peter Adam and her parents Robert and Genevieve (Barnhardt) Cramer. Gladys was an avid Bowler who loved life and her children. Resting at her son George’s home 7211 Indian Line Road, Six Nations after 7 p.m. Monday where Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday May 7, 2014 at 11 a.m. Interment Stumphall Cemetery. www.rhbanderson.com
Thank You
Thank You
Thank you Words cannot describe the overwhelming response I received from the community on Saturday. I would like to thank everyone that attended or donated to the benefit fundraiser held at Six Nations Community Hall for me on Saturday, May 3, 2014. I would like to send a big thank you to Six Nations Elected Council for their generous donation in supplying the food and rental of the hall. I would also like to thank Sharon Anderson, Lulu Hill, Leenie Hill and their families and Beverly Martin for preparing the food and also to all the people that served the food. Thank you to Jesse and Julia Maracle for getting drivers to deliver takeouts ad also to the drivers. Also a big thank you to my sister, brothers and their partners, my aunts and cousins that also helped in any way they could. But most importantly to all of you that came and bought dinners, tickets and donations, without all of you it would not have been successful. The winner of the 50/50 draw was Laura Mt Pleasant $328.00 Artwork donated by Guy Davis was won by Peter Mitten. Silent Auction Winners were: Lauren Hill – soapstone carving – donated by Judy Sault; Steve Williams – Rebels Jerseys – donated by Six Nation Rebels; Betty Williams – 3 Rebel Jerseys – donated by Six Nations Rebels; Scott Maracle – Lacrosse Stick – donated by ILA Sports; Nancy Belanco – haircare set – donated by First Choice Haircutters – Caledonia; Ed Maracle – tool set – donated by Barry Crawford; Ed Maracle – fireworks – donated by Café 54 and Lonewolf; Ken Mt Pleasant – Large leather gloves – donated by Ed Maracle; Karen Bomberry – small leather gloves – donated by Sue Mt Pleasant; Kathy Styres-Mitten – 1 hour session with Frantasic – donated by Kelly Davis; Laura Church – 1 hour session with Frantasic – donated by Kelly Davis. Thank you all again for your generous support as I battle my illness. The money raised will help in assisting me with the renovations and travel for my treatments. Love You All. District 4 Councillor Wray Maracle
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I would like to thank the Dreamcatcher Fund for the contribution they made towards my year of studying in England. Nia:weh Christa Jonathan
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Coming Events JOEL JOHNSON Joel will be playing at the following:
May 10th – Liquid Lounge, 159 Sydenham St., Brantford 3 to 6pm CD Release
Birthday announcement
Birthday announcement Wishing a very Happy 1st Birthday to our sweet baby girl, Azure Wilma Jean, on May 12th. The first of many more to come! Love You Lots Sweet Baby! Love Mom & Dad XOXO
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Mother’s Day Breakfast Sunday, May 11, 2014 6:30 am to noon Six Nations Community Hall Door Prizes, loonie table. Proceeds go to Kanyen’kehaka Kanonhses (Mohawk Longhouse)
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Wyler’s Italian Ices 24 2.5oz Bars
HEINZ Ketchup Tomato Ketchup
Mosquito & Bug Zapper Kills Mosquitos, Flies, Wasps
Fat Free Made with Real Fruit Juice
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MAY 7TH, 2014
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Elegant Luncheon Napkins
NY Butter Sauce
Family Pack 500 Napkins 12”x12”
355 ML Bottle Wing sauce
Huge 5 Compartment Foam Plate 10 count 9”x12” Plate
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Set of 4 Dragon Fly, Lady Bug,
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Dragon Slayer Firework Assortment
Mystical Ammo Crate Firework Assortment
London Bridge An exciting item containing 20 fountains that produce showers of white plum, silver stars and very bright red and green flares
Mortars Kinds vary
Competition Killer Firework Assortment