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Debate continues on Six Nations’ alcohol regulation

By Paula Hill OHSWEKEN – Six Nations Council’s Economic Development team of Matt Jamieson and Amy Lickers presented the changes to the alcohol referendum questions and fielded inquiries regarding the proposed alcohol regulations and brewery to some 20 community members at Six Nations Polytechnic on Monday.

IPA Enterprises executive Jim Brickman was also present. The team is midway through the community consultation process. Advanced polls will be held on Saturday, January 10th 2015 and the referendum vote will take place on Saturday, January 17th, 2015. Online voting will not be utilized for the referendum.

The referendum questions that will be posed to the community will now read: “I support a PERMISSIVE alcohol regulation for Six Nations. This means that the regulation will be drafted to permit the sale and/or manufac-

turing of alcohol under certain requirements.

This would allow for community input to include things like the number of permits granted, sale times and locations and age restrictions.

“I support a RESTRICTIVE alcohol regulation for Six Nations.

This means that the regulation will be drafted to state that there will be NO sale or manufacture of alcohol within the community at all.

“I DO NOT support an alcohol regulation for Six Nations. This means that the regulation will not move forward and alcohol within the community will remain status quo.

Community members will still have the option of pursuing Provincial Liquor licenses for events in the community where alcohol is being served.”

The question of whether to pursue the brewery as a business opportunity will not be directly posed to the community in the referendum. The brewery will be viable if the permis-

sive alcohol regulation receives a majority vote in the referendum and pending feedback given online at www.snfuture. com or via the comments/ suggestions card distributed at the community engagement meetings.

The community is asked to submit their filled in comment cards to either Economic Development at 2498 Chiefswood Road or Elected Council at 1695 Chiefswood Road

by January 16th, 2015.

Lickers stated that the issue of how to include the opinion of non-voting Six Nations members is being discussed.

Should the community vote in favour of a permissive alcohol regulation at the January 17th, 2015 referendum, another series of community engagement meetings will take place to decide how the regulation should look.

The concerns raised at the community meeting tended to be based primarily on personal values, with some stating that it would be “an

embarrassment” while another saw it as an “attack on [their] family, community and the next 7 generations” to suggest permitting alcohol sales or manufacturing in the community.

Jessica Martin, a 23 year old community member, expressed concerns about the impact of the referendum on local youth. “We are a hurt people, and we need to refrain from alcohol. This referendum will just get more and more people involved in drinking. We call ourselves Haudenosaunee, but do we really stand by those values?

Are we really who we say we are?”

Some community members inquired whether financial forecasting or business retention and a recruitment strategy had been considered. The community members were consistently reminded that at this time, the Economic Development team has estimates of potential opportunity, but that it would be “putting the cart before the

horse” to have gone that extensively into the planning stages. At this time, Economic Development is merely seeking out the opinions of the community. The initiative will not proceed if the community votes against it.

Questions around policing and community safety were also posed.

From her seat in the audience, Ava Hill stated that Council had discussed the issue of “bootleggers” on the territory and she said it is up to the community to decide “Do we want to regulate it?” It became less clear what that statement meant as the discussion went on.

Jamieson stated that currently provincial liquor laws are enforced when alcohol is sold on the territory without a permit. If the proposed alcohol regulation is passed through Elected Council, the only noticeable value added would be recognition of Council’s authority.

With the regulation, provincial liquor laws would continue to be re-

lied on to deal with infractions. Lickers stated that there is currently a case from Six Nations before the courts, challenging the applicability of provincial liquor laws on the territory. It was questioned whether the regulation, if passed, would potentially serve as yet another unenforceable bylaw in the community.

Jamieson philosophically talked about this as a step towards self-government. The sample regulation provided uses strong language identifying Band Council’s “power and jurisdiction.”

Lickers was asked how Economic Development moved from a Band Council department to becoming an arms length entity. She stated that through community consultations such as the “We Gather Our Voices” community engagement discussions, it became evident that the community would prefer an arms’ length entity to handle economic development CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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Alcohol referendum – a step towards self-reliance or destruction?

By Jim Windle BRANTFORD – With Six Nations considering an alcohol referendum, which would pave the way for a microbrewery on the Six Nations reserve, one might consider studying the pros and cons of the matter by looking at the model of the Osoyoos Indian Band of B.C. Through the Osoyoos Development Corporation, Chief Clarence Louis and his council decided several years ago that fighting against the times was far less profitable than adapting traditional beliefs to benefit from the times we are living in.

Part of that adaptation included a very successful vineyard and winery, as well as many other Band owned facilities.

The forward thinking small Onkwehon:we community has since become one of the most prosperous reserves in Canada.

Although there are many significant differences between Osoyoos’ Nk’Mip Cellars winery operation and the proposed brewery for Six Nations, there are enough similarities to at least consider when deciding if a brewery is good business for Six Nations or a step towards self-destruction.

“The single most important key to First Nations self-reliance is economic development,” says Osoyoos Indian Band Chief Clarence Louis. “The biggest employer on reserve,” he says, “shouldn’t be the band office.”

He says his model has brought about a total self-sufficient reserve within a timeframe of five years. According to their community mission statement, “The Osoyoos Indian Band is committed to be one of the major economic generators in

The success of an the Osoyoos Indian Band winery in British Columbia could hold answers and insight into Six Nations planned referendum regarding the possible invitation of a brewery onto Six Nations to occupy the Oneida Business Park. Pictured above is Osoyoos Chief Louis. the South Okanagan by increasing its self-Generated Revenue by 50% to 27-30 million per year, while further focusing on capacity building in the Development Corporation and general Band.

The Osoyoos Indian Band will achieve this by being entrepreneurial, prudent investors, educators, and mentors to its membership of the Osoyoos Indian Band Community and Business Community, while being viewed as professional practitioners, who are good business people and hard working.”

Among the Band’s other holdings are the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, which provides on-site cultural tours, programs, self-guided nature trails, interpretive sites, visitor programs, a gift shop, cultural events and an exciting film called “Coyote Spirit” along with other multimedia productions. The community also owns the Nk’Mip RV Park; British Columbia’s largest gas station and convenience store owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band; a holding company for land leases; a world class resort, convention and banquet facility; a world class golf course; a

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When asked about whether he is turning his back on traditional ways of his people with all of this development, Chief Louis says, “You’re going to lose your language and culture faster in poverty than you will in economic development.”

Louis’ frankness is sometimes alarming to many Native community leaders, but the success of the plan is undeniable.

In his way of thinking, too much energy is being spent on blaming the Canadian government or the Crown of England for the woes of his people.

“Blaming government? That time is over,” he says.

Louis describes himself as “a stay-home chief who looks after the pot-

holes in his own backyard” and wastes no time “running around fighting 100-year-old battles.”

Admittedly, it takes a while for many Onkwehon:we people living on other reserves to get their head around his model, as well as his sometimes-abrasive honesty.

“I can’t stand people who are late,” he says.

“Indian Time doesn’t cut it. My first rule for success is show up on time.

My No. 2 rule for success is following Rule No. 1.

Go to school, or get a job.

Get off of welfare. Get off your butt. Our ancestors worked for a living and so should you.”

It is also fair to note that Six Nations is on a different footing than any other reserve in Canada, including Osoyoos. Osoyoos has a unique history and is much smaller in population than Six Nations.

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Update on Six Nations Child Welfare Designation

by Nahnda Garlow

whole well-being of the child, and under the control of indigenous people themselves.

For Six Nations it has been a lengthy process.

The first requests for indigenous led child protection services on the territory were being heard in the 1990‘s. To date there are seven indigenous agencies within the province of Ontario that are designated specifically for First Nations children.

Longboat said, “We’ll have a community based agency that is going to be providing child welfare services for Brant County to Ongwehowe people.

This is also going to be available for any self-identifying indigenous person and Metis as well. This is what we have asked the

Ministry to grant us. Until our feedback session in September I think the ministry thought we only wanted to service Six Nations but we said ‘no, we want all of Brant County’.”

Longboat said that the long term goal is to eventually see Ogwadeni:deo branch offices offering child protection services to the indigenous people in the surrounding area including Hamilton, Haldimand and Niagara.

Ogawdeni:deo is breaking new ground in the child welfare designation process as they will be primarily about intervention and child protection. Longboat says this differs from the other seven indigenous designations who primarily focus on prevention and have

The process will differ from the CAS structure in that Ogwadeni:deo will pursue an assessment of the child’s family relationships including consulting with extended family where there is a concern for a child’s safety.

“In our process we are going to do an assessment instead of an investigation because that is what you are going to be doing; asking questions, getting to know the family very quickly in order to make a determination on whether there needs to be an intervention and what that intervention will look like.

“We want to incorporate the family as much as possible. We want the family to know that they are the experts of the file.

We want to defer to them in terms of ‘hey, what direction do you want to

go on this?’ because if you think about it, a lot of times its not a surprise if a call comes in on a family.

A lot of the times a family member knows, their extended family knows and they will either have a sigh of relief and go ‘phew finally someone said something’ or if someone did something sometimes the family has already tried to intervene.

“When the referral comes in from the family member when the CAS becomes involved – they will do interviews. We would like to do a wider scale assessment where we interview the extended family to find out who is supporting the family right now.”

Longboat says the next phase of the Child Welfare Designation will hopefully be in effect this coming Spring 2015.

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The Six Nations Child Welfare Designation, also known as Ogwadeni:deo, is well on its way to becoming a fully operating child welfare organization providing child protection services to all indigenous people in Brant County.

The Two Row Times sat down with Director Tricia Longboat to get an update for where the process is at now. “There are five stages of designation set out by the Ministry of Child and Youth Services.

We’ve been in the second stage (capacity building) for two years now and we’re coming up to the last part of it when we resubmit our documents.

Basically everything we need to do business we have submitted to the ministry. They reviewed it and we had our feedback session in September,” Longboat said.

Longboat says that the Ministry gave recommendations to the collective and that they will again re-submit documents with the suggested edits for consideration by the end of this month.

This means that indigenous people, including those who self-identify as Metis and Inuit, across all of Brant County are a few steps closer to receiving help from a child welfare agency that is culturally driven, focused on the

incorporated child protection services into the plan as only a part of what they do.

“Ogwadeni:deo will first and foremost be involved in child protection while utilizing the other existing agencies on the territory that already are involved with servicing other aspects of childhood well-being. This will ensure that Ongwehowe children in crisis within Brant County are receiving the kind of care they deserve,” said Longboat.

Longboat said that during the community consultation process it was heard loud and clear that a child protection agency founded on traditional teaching that would work toward the wellbeing of the entire family was what the people wanted.

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Hagersville Food Bank donation

HAGERSVILLE – On Thursday, December 11, Elizabeth Hartrick (right), manager of Lone Wolf Pit Stop at 9183 Townline, Hagersville, presented a cheque donation of $2206.00 to Janice Schweder (centre), coordinator of the Hagersville Food Bank.

On the left is Karen Leatherbarrow, Board of Directors member and one of the 70 volunteers.

Besides the cheque, Lone Wolf donated coffee gift cards and has a donation jar that will be presented to the Food Bank before Christmas. After retiring from Hagersville High School, Janice was looking for her next goal. She saw

a need for a food bank in Hagersville and worked to help get it started. In 2012 they had eight families as clients.

This year they are helping 60 families, half of whom are native from New Credit, Hagersville or Six Nations with an RR1 address. This Christmas the Food Bank is providing Christmas hampers that contain provisions for the whole day from breakfast to the main course. This includes pancake mix, syrup, soup for lunch and a choice of a turkey or ham plus toys for the kids.

Janice expressed all of this could not happen without the tremendous

community support. The Hagersville Food Bank has come up with specialized food drives such as a boxed cereal drive, paper products drive and a tuna and salmon drive provided by area churches.

Lone Wolf Pit Stop would like to thank their customers for helping to support the Hagersville Food Bank. The money was raised from coffee sales at Townline Rd. location.

For those who want to donate to the food bank their address is 5 Marathon St., Hagersville and the phone number is 289758-3789.

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SIX NATIONS POLICE COMMISSION Applications are being called for a community member position with the Six Nations Police Commission. The member will be selected from residing community members.

The Six Nations Police Commission shall be comprised of a maximum of eight (8) members whose appointment will be ratified by the Six Nations Elected Council (“the Council”). Two members shall be Six Nations Elected Council appointees; five (5) members shall be recruited from the Six Nations of the Grand River Community at large; plus a Traditional Elder Adviser who will be counted as one.

The following criteria will be applied in the selection and appointment of community members: • Must be at least 18 years of age • Residing Band Member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory • Proven community participation and demonstrated knowledge of community dynamics • Knowledge of and commitment to community policing • Willingness to place his/her signature to a declaration/oath of office and confidentiality • Willingness to adhere to Commission policies • Able/willing to become knowledgeable of Commission proceedings • Able/willing to attend training sessions • Ability to participate in a consensus/decision-making process • Able to attend regularly scheduled monthly evening meetings • Provide at least two references • Submit to an initial and an annual police background check by completing and signing a Police Information Check Form • Must not have a criminal record • Six Nations Elected Councillors currently holding office are ineligible to apply for a community member position on the Six Nations Police Commission • Individuals whose livelihoods could give rise to an inherent conflict of interest will not be eligible to apply Duties: To provide planning, direction and policy for the Six Nations Police in connection with crime prevention, maintenance of the peace and law enforcement.

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Your Voice Is Important Our Community, Our Future, Let’s Talk About It

Alcohol Decision-making: a two part process

There are two separate, but related projects running side by side throughout this engagement; the Six Nations Alcohol regulation and the Brewery Proposal.

Six Nations Alcohol Regulation

On January 17, 2015 Six Nations members will have the opportunity to attend a referendum to show the community stance on alcohol within the community.

There will be three options to choose from at the referendum: I support a PERMISSIVE alcohol regulation for Six Nations. This means that the regulation will be drafted to permit the sale and/or manufacturing of alcohol under certain requirements. This would allow for community input to include things like the number of permits granted, sale times and locations and age restrictions.

I support a RESTRICTIVE alcohol regulation for Six Nations. This means that the regulation will be drafted to state that there will be NO sale or manufacture of alcohol within the community at all.

I DO NOT support an alcohol regulation for Six Nations. This means that the regulation will not move forward and alcohol within the community will remain status quo. Community members will still have the option of pursuing Provincial Liquor licenses for events in the community where alcohol is being served.

If there is support for an alcohol regulation at Six Nations, a community engagement process will be undertaken, following the referendum, to allow for further input from the community regarding the details of the regulations.

Brewery Proposal

IF the community supports the project within the community, it will be subject to the Six Nations Alcohol Regulation. If the regulation does not pass through referendum, the project will NOT move forward.

The decision regarding the Brewery Proposal will be gathered through collection of comment cards submitted indicating whether community members DO or DO NOT support the project. Comments can be submitted through www.snfuture.com or by dropping off written comments at Six Nations Tourism building or at the Six Nations Elected Council Administration building.

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Monday, January 12, 2015 Polytech

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014 Tourism Assembly Room

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Saturday, January 17, 2015 Community Hall

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Editorial A shiny new National Chief for the AFN Last week the Assembly of First Nations elected Perry Bellegarde to stand as the National Chief representing the AFN. His appearance was clean and tidy. His speech was inspiring and the people in the audience were clearly caught up in the energy of what he was saying. But will this really be the guy to lead the indigenous people of Canada to victory?

During the Special Assembly, Six Nations’ elected Chief Ava Hill spoke at the podium addressing the numerous resolutions within the organization of the AFN that have been on pause, some for as long as eight years. In fact, she started her message like a proper Haudenosaune woman, right scolding the chiefs assembled for not attending earlier sessions and for canceling a session scheduled for the Special Assembly to discuss education. Ava 1; AFN 0.

One of the points she mentioned was that the role of the National Chief is supposed to be that of an advocate who goes to Ottawa and “kicks down the door for us” so that we (as indigenous peoples) can have a place at the table to address our issues. She also articulated that while the hope is that the AFN can represent nations the fact of the matter is that they are assembled as 639 Indian Act Reservations meaning that there is a long road ahead.

While the validity of the AFN regarding the Haudenosaune people is widely disputed one thing is for sure. Like it or not, the decisions made by the AFN leadership will affect the indigenous grassroots.

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One of Chief Hill’s major points was that there seemed to be a lack of motivation for change to be initiated. Sadly this is not an issue that is isolated to the AFN. In fact there has long been a lackadaisical attitude from indigenous leadership in general when it comes to making effective and lasting change; whether that be something as simple as entering the realm of social media to communicate with the 1835 age bracket, or something larger like letting go of backward and colonialized ideas about our identity such as qualifying who counts as a “real” indigenous person based on federally regulated band membership.

That is not to say that getting lazy in politics is isolated to the indigenous community. It is a systemic issue we learned from our “Great White Father”.

According to Ottawa’s own “Act respecting Indians”, and apart from the obvious that is wrong with this racist piece of the Canadian fabric, indigenous people in the western provinces cannot sell cows or take gravel off the rez. To do so is simply labelled an “offense”.

Additionally, the “Act respecting Indians” also says that anyone who wants to acquire a totem pole or a rock with paintings on it from an ‘Indian’ must first seek the written permission from the Minister of Indian Affairs and that violators could be thrown in jail for three months.

The point is we have a long way to go not only as the AFN but as sovereign indigenous individuals who are living under a state of seige. But who knows, maybe Bellegarde will end up busting through the doors of Parliament and sparking something everlasting?

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COLUMN: Morning Coffee Thought

I'll have some Spirituality with my Decolonization, thank you very much

By Giibwanisi Mkwa Dodem I was at this presentation the other week, and I listened to this doctor give his medical opinion on how to treat addicts and help them in their recovery. I sat there and reflected on how almost everyone I meet outside of ceremony, whether they are in activist, academic or revolutionary circles, tend to see spirituality as a passing thought or a footnote. I beg to differ.

Spirituality is the foundation upon which any healing or decolonization must begin.

I can only draw on my own experience, but I have been to every recovery, self-help and therapy imaginable. I have been to AA, I have had thousands of hours of counselling sessions, I’ve been to church, I’ve been in psychiatric facilities, I’ve had outreach workers buy me meals, etc. I’ve done almost everything that western medicine and science can prescribe, and time after time I have failed. In AA, their perspective would be that “I didn’t work the steps to my best ability.”

That might be true, but I also didn’t see anything uniquely distinct or Anishinabek worked into the writings. There was a component that I could hang on to. AA worked with me for a while, but it eventually stopped working, just like all the psychiatric medications and counselling sessions that I had been to.

What I do give AA credit for is their recogni-

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tion that there is absolute necessity for this “spiritual awakening.” Time and time again, my AA sponsors told me that if I ever wanted to get sober, I had to grasp the spiritual aspect to the AA recovery. But I’m a bit of an idiot, and if it isn’t directly spelled out most of the time, I have a hard time grasping it.

It wasn’t until I had met Elder Vern Harper at CAMH (Centre for Addictions and Mental Health) that I actually had someone spell it out for me. Only he didn’t use a chalk board or any literature. He did it with some Grandfather Teachings, sage, a smudge bowl, and some prayer. What he was able to do for me, with that little gesture, did more for me than all those other things that had failed me all those other times.

I don’t know how to explain spirituality to non-Anshinabek people. I don’t have those answers, as I have discovered that there isn’t a way to spell out spirituality for anyone. The seeker actually has to find it for themselves.

For me, as an Anishinabek man, it was the return to the Red Road.

Once I retraced my steps here, and listened to what the Elders were telling me, I had a better grasp on what it was that I had been missing my entire life, a connection to my spiritual centre that had been severed. It was only when I began to mend that broken and severed part of me, that I began to feel like I was recover-

ing from that “hopeless and helplessness” that AA talks about all the time.

Colonization can be viewed as a carcinogenic sickness that has eviscerated our indigenous interconnections to all things, animate or inanimate, including our ceremonies, governing political systems, and everything that is our Anishinabek Mno Bimaadziwin (Good way of life). Therefore, the cure, or the path towards decolonization must be, the reconstruction of all of these things, which includes the Grandmother and Grandfather Teachings, and the Anishinabek holistic approach, where Two Legged Humans, can be put back together using not only the mental, physical, and emotional, but especially the spiritual.

The Anishinabek belief system holds that all things have a spirit, even our emotions, and the interconnectedness in which we relate to everything. There is a spiritual conceptualization to it all.

Which is why, the path of decolonization or Biskaabiiyaang, must include the spiritual awakening and recognition.

Our spirituality is the key to our identity, our strength and our very survival. Why else would the colonizers outlaw them? They knew that if they could take that away from us, they could more easily defeat us. But we have persevered, and we will continue to persevere, lest we forget our spirituality.

I will leave you with this thought.

There was a teaching that I was given once, when I was asking an Elder why he was so helpful to White people, and why he chose to share knowledge with them. He said something that went like this, “There was a prophecy that came to the people of Turtle Island once long ago. It came around the time of the Seven Fires Prophecies, and it said that in the time of darkness that would be known as the Seventh Fire, many of the White people would come to us Anishinabek people seeking help.

“They would have forgotten their original teachings, and they would become aware of this, and they wouldn’t know where else to turn but to us. It says in this prophecy that we would either help them or we wouldn’t. Our decisions of either helping them or not, would also decide the outcome of the Seventh Fire.

“I choose to help them, because my teachings are that if you see someone with genuine intentions, then the medicine that we carry are not exclusive to Anishinabek people. If we are truly medicine people, then we understand that the medicine isn’t exclusive to us. If we see sick people who genuinely want to get well, then we have an obligation to help those people.”

You see, people, it is the matter of intention.

What is it exactly that you are seeking, and what do you intend to do with it?

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Elected Councillor Responds This is in response to the letter “It’s not a bar.” Dec. 10, 2014 In her letter about a comment I made to The Expositor reporter regarding the alcohol issue, Rhonda Martin says that “Perhaps you should rant, lash, expose and exploit your own backyard. Now that’ll be a story.” Yep, my colorful life back in the day would make a hellava story. What would be an even better story is when I realized 27 years ago that wasn’t the kind of life I wanted for myself, my children, and my grandchildren so I went back to school and changed my life for the better.

Ms. Martin was upset about the story in The Ex-

positor “Six Nations not so dry” where I was quoted as calling The Barn a bar. First of all I don’t recall speaking of The Barn and Yogi Bomberry in a derogatory way as Ms. Martin alludes. But at the same time I have no control over how a reporter chooses to write a story. Yogi Bomberry was my friend for years and I would never intentionally denigrate him or his family.

Yes I did call The Barn a “bar”. I’ve been at The Barn and when I was there I saw it as a bar. At least it functioned like a bar. People I know who went to The Barn considered it a bar. People who used to stop there after work for a few drinks considered it a bar. My niece used to tend bar there. So there was no ill will on my part toward

anyone when I called The Barn a bar. I can’t help if Ms. Martin interpreted my words that way.

Yes The Barn is in my neighborhood, just down the road from me in fact.

On summer nights when an event was going on at The Barn I could often hear music wafting through the air and hear people talking and laughing. Sometimes it seemed like it was right under my bedroom window. I never complained to anyone because I assumed there was a fundraising event going on or the night was for some worthy cause.

I did worry about people driving home drunk, especially knowing how people drive like maniacs over the Chiefswood Bridge.

Anyway Ms. Martin has her opinions and that’s ok. But I’m really

not the big bad wolf Ms. Martin makes me out to be. We do have to do something about the alcohol. We can’t bury our heads in the sand any longer and pretend it’s not here because it is here.

People sell, yes actually sell, alcohol at all kinds of different events. That’s the message I was trying to get across to The Expositor reporter.

Six Nations has had bootleggers for 100 years or more. We’ve always had an after-hours party building to go to. But today people are getting braver and opening daren’t I say bars. Maybe I’d better say people are renting buildings for dances and such events where alcohol is sometimes sold. People have Buck & Does all the time.

Since time immemorial the selling of alcohol has

ed on counter-extremist/ terrorist strategies I use on the ground level. I presented with Mubin Shaikh, a former CSIS double-agent in the Toronto 18 terrorist plot. I have been a guest presenter at Universities across Canada at conferences on my research and disengagement/deradicalization work that I do. I have also opened a conference in UK on responding to right wing extremism, where I sat on a panel with a survivor of the massacre in Oslo perpetrated

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government’s stance on spying on First Nations, and who do you feel are the real threats to Canada?

I can tell you that I am very troubled by what I have learned. The law is built upon doctrines of supremacy; there are a number of them. This represents the overall relationship between the Crown and indigenous nations. Our current government executive and national security teams have been issuing surveillance of indigenous activists under national security and terrorist policy umbrellas. Whether we are talking about surveillance of Clayton Muller Thomas, who was involved with grassroots organization; or adding indigenous

Neo-Nazi turned Native ally discusses white privilege

By Tim Reynolds The Two Row Times has previously printed Daniel Gallant’s personal story of transformation from being a Neo-Nazi to walking the red road, but the story doesn’t end there. Gallant completed a Grade 7 education in the suburbs of Toronto and lived on reserve and the streets in BC for years, involved with gangs, organized crime, and violent extremism associated with white supremacist hate groups. He later graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) with a Bachelor of Arts in First Nations Studies and a Masters in Social Work. He is currently studying law. With his academic and first-hand life experiences, Gallant has also become a formal

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expert consulting on terrorism/extremism.

What consulting have you done in regards to terrorism?

I have consulted for films around the world at no cost for TV in Australia, USA and several film/TV projects in Canada. I have done presentations for Google Ideas in NYC at a summit on terrorism. There I present-

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been wide open with no rules. There’s no regulations to control how, where, when and to whom alcohol is sold. The Police do the best they can. Some people get a provincial liquor license; some people don’t.

In my mind if Six Nations develops regulations we can make the selling of alcohol safer.

We could issue our own license and monitor the license. We could target the drinking age to 21.

We could designate only fundraising events and weddings to get a license.

We could if we choose only designate certain buildings to serve alcohol, or certain areas of the reserve. Maybe the restaurants might want to sell wine or liquor with meals. We could set up a liquor commission or some such organization

to oversee the regulations and it would be this commission who would determines what facility would get a liquor license.

These are just my ideas.

I’m not speaking for the council.

The community will decide how best to deal with the alcohol issue.

But when it comes to the Community Referendum let’s remember alcohol is here and it’s here to stay.

If the community votes NO to regulating alcohol that doesn’t mean the alcohol is going to go away.

That just means the sale of alcohol will continue to be wide open and unmanageable and uncontrollable.

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My five cents worth on injustice

By Nahnda Garlow It was a cold and peaceful morning. My alarm went off and gently beckoned me, ‘Rise and shine sweetheart!

It’s 7am! Time to get up, turn on the morning news and drink some coffee.’

Sadly, in real life I was actually up until 2am the night before pinning DIY Christmas projects on my Pinterest account. Yes like any other human with just 5 hours sleep I rolled over and hit the snooze button a good 6 or 7 times, fully embracing those final 30 minutes of blissful ignorant slumber.

Suddenly the loud crushing noise of the garbage truck mashing up trash on my street jolted me awake in a panicked frenzy. “Aw crap!” I shouted out.

“Everybody get up, we slept in again!” That is when the shock and awe campaign

of pure adrenaline started coursing through my veins and the morning rush was on.

I rolled out of bed and into some clothes that were laying next to me on the floor. After I managed to drag the kids out of bed I ran downstairs to check the clock. It was 7:45. “Fifteen minutes,” I shouted out to the rest of the house!

Quickly I whipped open the fridge and grabbed whatever leftovers closely resembled a healthy lunch.

Just for good measure, I tossed a pickle in a sandwich baggie and called it a vegetable. Done!

I checked the clock again: 7:50. As I’m furiously smearing some makeup over my face I happened to glance over at the coffee pot. The sad and cold coffee pot literally looked like it was frowning at me in disapproval.

He briefly came to life, reminding me of what mighthave-been. ‘We could’ve had a romantic morning, you and I,’ he whispered to me. I reached out to him, ‘I know,’ I whispered back and hung my head in shame.

This moment was interrupted by, “Mom! I can’t find any socks!” Socks – the final obstacle to getting out the door on time. I threw the lunches into the backpacks, blew my coffee maker an imaginary good bye kiss and in record time found enough clean (non-matching) socks for everyone to get us through the day. Success! We were out the door with five minutes to spare.

Now everybody who loves their morning coffee knows those five critical minutes will make or break the day because if you can manage to squeeze a coffee into the morning rush you’re

winning at life.

We rolled up to the local coffee shop and I took my victory stroll inside. At this point I was feeling pretty good. I had two socks on, my kids had vegetables in their lunch and I just so happened to find a toonie in my pocket to get my coffee.

I strutted up to the counter all proud and said, “I’ll take a large double double please.” I noticed the girl behind the counter looked all grouchy. She’s a little goth; about 16 with a lot of black eyeliner and piercings on her face.

“That will be $1.95,” she growled at me as she bit her lip ring.

‘Hmph...what a sourpuss.’ I thought to myself.

‘Oh well. Must’ve gotten up on the wrong side of the bed’ I supposed. But I was feeling successful, you know? I figured I had enough pleasantry in my morning to spare so I made direct eye contact with her, smiled, and handed her my toonie.

She rudely slid my coffee across the counter toward me, looked in my eyes glaringly and muttered out, “Have a good one.”

‘Holaaay!’ I thought. And as I sheepishly reach out for my nickel back the little goth

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cashier looked right back at me and threw my nickel into her tip cup! I stood there for a moment flabbergasted as she stucks her nose up in the air like a little snot, looked past me to the next guy in line and sweetly said, “Can I help you?”

Now picture me, large double double in hand, standing there frozen, still reaching for my nickel with my mouth gaping wide open.

‘Wha–? Did she just take my nickel? She did. She just took my nickel!’

It was only a nickel but it was my nickel! I was instantly faced with making a decision: fight for my nickel back or just let it go.

As the moment sunk in I realized that I’d become victim to the morning coffee power play executed by this teenager with a bad attitude.

It was now her nickel and I was the underdog. She had the power because she had all the coffee and all the people in line behind me wanted the coffee. Battle staged, battle lost.

Stunned I sort of stepped backwards and looked at the other people in line, pointing at the goth cashier as if to say, ‘Did anybody else see that?’ But all the people in line behind me

just wanted me to get the heck out of the way so they could get their coffee and get back on the road. There was no justice! I stood there, helpless, while I was robbed of my hard earned (alright, hard-found) nickel change.

I turned around and walked out the door, mouth still gaping wide open, got back in the car and said to my husband, “You will not believe what just happened to me.”

As I retold the story I started getting angrier and angrier as a major sense of injustice started to try to shift my morning and steal my joy. See that nickel robbery activated the chip on my shoulder and I started ranting to my husband all the way to work about how, ‘What, don’t you have enough? First you steal my land and now you steal my nickel?!’

Yeah – I actually said that out loud. And about two seconds after it came out of my mouth my husband and I started laughing hysterically at how irate I was getting.

Okay, it was only a nickel but still. It’s the principle right?

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Let’s Talk Native with John Kane

We won’t be choked Now that the NYPD has literally been caught on video choking a man to death for defying the most oppressive taxation scheme in the United States and then exonerated itself of any wrong doing, it’s time to make a few things clear.

The Tax Foundation in a national study has determined that New York State is the highest net importer of smuggled cigarettes, totaling 56.9 percent of the total cigarette market in the state. With State cigarette excise and sales tax over $5 per pack ($50 per carton) and another $1.50 per pack ($15 per carton) added on in New York City anyone can simply jump to a neighboring state and turn a nice profit by avoiding this massive tax burden. And apparently the majority of all cigarettes smoked in the state have indeed slipped past the taxman.

So, when several carloads of white police officers, still operating under the policy of the state’s biggest tobacco Nazi and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, choke to death Eric Garner, a generally well regarded black man in his Staten Island

community for occasionally selling a few “loose” cigarettes (because buying one cigarette at a time is about all anyone can do) this isn’t a crack down on a gangland crime.

Eric Garner was with the majority of tobacco consumers in the State who vote with their wallets every day. Hell! Every bar and bodega in New York City has loose cigarettes behind the bar and the cops know it. So letting an established business beat the system is okay but apparently the line gets drawn in front of a black man in his neighborhood.

Eric Garner was with the majority of tobacco consumers in the State who vote with their wallets everyday. Hell! Every bar and bodega in New York City has loose cigarettes behind the bar and the cops know it. So letting an established business beat the system is okay but apparently the line gets drawn in front of a black man in his neighborhood.

Consider that number again. 56.9 percent of all the cigarettes consumed in New York State

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are smuggled in from out of state. And this doesn’t even include Native or reservation sales. Those aren’t smuggled. They are just sold outside the State’s reach on sovereign Native lands. And the State is trying it’s damnedest to choke that out too.

Last month, on November 28, a newspaper in Hamilton, Ontario ran a story about how the State of New York was trying to kill the Seneca brand of cigarettes and planned to sue for $350 million in a claimed loss of State cigarette tax. In the article the New York State Attorney General’s office was claiming that Grand River Enterprises, a Native company on the Six Nations territory in Ontario that manufactures the Seneca brand and Native Wholesale Supply, a Native company on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation that imports the product for distribution on Native territories, “have sold, shipped, and distributed, and continue to sell, ship, and distribute, large quantities of unstamped and unreported cigarettes into the State of New York” and they “are

operating in open violation of state and federal laws.”

This is a blatant lie on every level. Each Seneca cigarette is legally entered across the U.S./Canadian border and shipped in bond by common carrier to a foreign trade zone or bonded warehouse where it is cleared through U.S. Customs with all Federal Excise Taxes and duties paid and clearly established destinations designated, none of which are in New York State. All Seneca brand cigarettes go either to other states or Native territories. None are ever sold, shipped or distributed into New York State.

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In a May 11, 2011 interview on The Capitol Pressroom radio show in Albany, host Susan Arbetter told the New York State Budget Director that “John Kane says the State plans to outlaw Native brands” and then asked, “Is this the case or not?”

Director Robert Megna responded, “You know…I don’t think so…I mean, I haven’t heard that. We know that Native Americans produce or have be-

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Elder is forcefully taken down by RCMP officer SMITHERS, BC – Irene Joseph, 61, from the Wet’suwet’en nation, was forcefully knocked down by an RCMP officer on the weekend, as she tried reaching for her walker.

She is now filing a formal complaint for the use of excessive force.

Joseph told the Smithers Interior News that the officer had demanded to know her name and the name of the person she’d been talking to inside a store. After refusing to give her own name and demanding to know what she had done wrong, Joseph began to walk away, and that’s when the officer jumped on her and tackled her to the ground.

Then he went inside her bag and extracted her ID, according to a report on CBC News.

Smithers RCMP has confirmed there was an incident after an officer was dispatched to the area to investigate an alleged theft. In a statement cited by the CBC, the police suggest Joseph tried resisting and, as a result, was taken down.

But Civil Liberties Association Policy Director Micheal Vonn said, “The statement by the RCMP seems to indicate an attempt to resist a kind of arrest. We cannot understand the legal basis for the arrest in the first place,” CBC reported.

Indigenous police trainer racially profiled and roughed up by police

REGINA – A Regina man who sits on the board of directors of Briarpatch Magazine is also filing a formal complaint for having been wrongfully detained by police who he believes racially profiled him.

Simon Ash-Mocassin was detained near Casino Regina last Wednesday, where he had simply been walking after a

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Christmas party. He says a cruiser approached him and told him he fit the description of someone who had stolen a television set, according to the CBC report.

He also said that he was treated with excessive force and that he suffered injuries to his face and shoulder as he was forcefully thrown in the back of the car.

Ash-Mocassin, who has ironically been hired by the police department in the past to play the bad guy in training scenarios, said the police quickly let him go after running his name and realizing there were no warrants.

Though not many Aboriginal men file formal complaints, according to Kim Beaudin, a spokesperson of the Aboriginal Affairs Council of Saskatchewan, Ash-Mocassin said he is determined to do so.

Beaudin said these kinds of cases are not rare.

“They call it walking while aboriginal, driving while aboriginal, or riding a bike while aboriginal,” he told CBC news.

Supreme Court hears Indigenous Ecuadorians

TORONTO – Seven Justices from the Supreme Court of Canada will deliberate over the next few months on whether a group of more than 30,000 Ecuadorian indigenous plaintiffs can enforce a foreign judgment against Chevron in Ontario’s courts.

Lawyer Alan Lenczner, for the plaintiffs, made an impactful argument as to why the so-called ‘corporate veil,’ which seeks to protect subsidiary companies from their parent’s actions, is worth piercing in the name of justice.

Lenczner also pointed out that Chevron is trying to avoid paying the $9.5 billion judgment brought against them in Ecuadorian courts and upheld by the Supreme Court of Ecuador in 2011,

even though they had promised to abide by the decision when they filed 14 affidavits earlier in the decade, in New York courts asking for the trial to occur in Ecuador instead of the United States.

The Toronto-based grassroots group Chevron’s Dirty Hand attended the trial to show support for the indigenous plaintiffs.

AFN relevance questioned

WINNIPEG – As the second election for a national Chief of the Assembly of First Nations wrapped up last Wednesday, December 10, both grassroots indigenous groups and Chiefs are questioning whether the organization is relevant to anyone anymore.

This year, not only were there only three candidates as opposed to the eight in 2012’s election, but more than a quarter of Chiefs did not show up.

In a 10-minute CBC report, three young Aboriginal leaders gave their opinions on the matter.

Wab Kinew, one of the panelists, said that the AFN is not only not relevant to indigenous people, but that it doesn’t provide any service except that of a lobbyist, which it hasn’t even done well over the last five years.

“And if I’m a person living off-reserve, then it doesn’t even claim to speak for me at all,” he said.

However, Wanda Nanibush, a second young Aboriginal leader, said that the problem comes from the fact that there are others negotiating on indigenous people’s behalf, chiselling away at their rights “like a slow legislative death.”

She added that according to what she read on Twitter, many of the Chiefs who didn’t show up did so choosing to negotiate on their own “rather than going through a very

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large organization that may or may not speak about the issues they have.”

Guatemala Indigenous people nominate senatorial candidates

GUATEMALA – More than two million Guatemalan indigenous people have participated in a process initiated in 2005, which has culminated in a Consultative Assembly which will produce senatorial candidates in the 2015 presidential elections.

Four ethnic groups including the Maya, Mestizo, Garifuna and Xinca, will participate in the Consultative Assembly, according to upsidedownworld.org, an online magazine covering activism in Latin America.

Though there have been other projects began by traditional politi-

cal parties to include the Mayan community, this is the first time that the initiative has been born from the indigenous people themselves.

The initiative is an addition to the wave of strong indigenous political movements sweeping Latin-American nations and finally returning power to the Onkwehon:we peoples there.

The CPO-CRD Convergence will produce its own community leaders to gain seats in congress, who will then help promote their own political vision for the country.

Manitoba artist named in Top 100 Most Fascinating People

WINNIPEG – Leonard Sumner, who earlier this year performed at a fundraiser for the legal defence of Darlene Necan, has made Metro News’ Ace Burpee’s Top 100

Most Fascinating Manitobans for 2014.

Sumner, an Anishinaabe from Little Saskatchewan First Nation, also won the Winnipeg Arts Council RBC On the Rise Award earlier in the year, and “was also named Best New Artist at the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards,” reads Metro’s report.

Sumner is a singer/ songwriter, MC and videographer. At Necan’s fundraiser, he pledged to donate 20% of his proceeds to her cause.

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Social evolution is the only solution

In my experience organizing on issues surrounding systemic oppression, I have heard the statement made countless times by fellow organizers that, “No one people have suffered more than Black people.” Every time I’ve heard this assertion made, I feel deep frustration, but at the same time I am aware of the reality that births such sentiment. Our education system in the US has failed us all, by omitting and excising from our history books the true story of the people.

Whenever I overhear such a mistaken statement made in Western New York, I like to pipe up just long enough to remind those around me that it is in fact Seneca

land we stand on when we have debates about whose oppression is most pertinent or pressing. Thanks to truth tellers like historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, we as a people have access to sources of truth, independent from the failed school systems obsessed with standardized miseducation.

The oppressor’s toolbox is vast and well equipped, and there are many parallels to be drawn when we examine the tools of oppression utilized against both Indigenous North American Peoples and captured Peoples of Afrikan descent, who struggle for survival on the same continent. But, we need to pay specific attention to the differences between their respective oppressions as well. This can be a harder task to take up.

It can be argued that the “five acts” constituting genocide have been satisfied for both Black America and Native peoples, but this notion doesn’t sit well with many. There is a very real and significant difference between intentional

genocide and continued, systemic exploitation of a people for utility purposes. And, let it be known, it is a falsehood that slavery was abolished in the US. The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution clearly states that slavery is alive and well, with the fortified prison industrial complex now standing in place of the plantation. As Michelle Alexander notes in her book The New Jim Crow, “more Black men are in prison or jail than were enslaved in 1850.”

Despite the many differences, however, the history shared by Blacks and Natives is a full one.

From the Buffalo Soldier cavalry units who set out to destroy the lifeblood of Indigenous North Americans, to the little known ownership of Blacks by many Cherokee families on the Trail of Tears, there is a very real, intertwining connection between these two groups.

Thankfully a new day is on the horizon, but how do we get there? The democratic system, so coveted by US power structures, has collapsed into a top down, trickle down

schematic, stifling and drowning out the voices of the People, particularly the youth.

Seneca Tribal Councilor Arthur “Sugar” Montour discussed the shortfalls of such a system, illuminating alternative pathways of liberation, during a conversation had on Sunday night’s radio program “Let’s Talk Native with John Kane.”

Montour says, “What the Native People did was educate the children – from the children up is where the strength comes from. And where the children’s strength comes from, is from their mother. And where that understanding comes from is from Mother Earth and how everything works in unison. If one oppresses the other, then there is extinction…”

Also in studio for Sunday night’s broadcast was co-host Matt Hill. Hill states, “The colonists, when they came here, saw what inherent freedom was, what they saw was inherent sovereignty in individuals, they saw what it was to be a People that had free-

dom of thought, freedom of belief, as a birthright.

That it wasn’t something bestowed upon you by an entity of this world. It was something bestowed upon you, as we say, as those faces came out of this Earth.”

Hill went on to say, “All of our Brothers of color, we should all stand together, all of our colors, all of our brothers that may lack some pigment, we are human beings.”

Ramona Africa was the only adult survivor of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE organization’s compound by Philadelphia Police. At a 2013 address given at Burning Books bookstore in Buffalo, NY, Africa mirrored the Native sentiment, emphasizing the guidance of Mother Earth. Africa acknowledges, “We don’t know what we’re doing.

But Mama does. Mother nature does. And she coordinates things right.

Every species, every chain in the link of life, has its role and is important… We need to learn to accept Mama’s coordination. We need to understand the importance, the

urgency, of revolution…

[A]ll revolution really means is putting things right.”

When we were offair during Sunday’s radio show, Matt Hill offered another way to describe the dramatic change Mother Earth has been crying out for. Leaning in to emphasize his point, Hill stated, “We don’t want revolution, we want evolution.

With revolution you come right back around to the same point…”

But where was this starting point? Surely, there was a time when such widespread exploitation of the land and its Peoples wasn’t par for the course. Whether we subscribe to the term revolution or prefer to drop the leading ‘R’ in support of evolutionary progress, we can all agree that transformation from life as we know it is essential for our survival. We have one last chance in this world to “put things right.” We must seize the day, empower ourselves, organize our communities and call upon all Four Winds to catalyze such transition.

other bit of entertainment news, Mekayla Diehl, an Ojibwe from the Zhiibaahaasing First Nation, has made headlines after not only becoming the first Aboriginal Miss Indiana USA, but also for having what people on Twitter are calling a “normal body,” referring to the fact that she isn’t super skinny, according

to Indian Country Today Media Network.

Though she was born in the United States, her roots reportedly reach above the Canada-U.S. border, and her mother now lives on the Canadian Reserve.

Diehl has overcome a tumultuous life, including sexual assault, and says she has found success

by embracing her native culture and being active with her Ottawa tribe, reports Indian Country.

ter Kerri Irvin-Ross announced that the Manitoba government will invest $150,000 in counselling aimed directly at Winnipeg’s Aboriginal women who are sexual assault survivors. The program will be unfolded over the next three years in collaboration with Ka Ni Kanichihk, a resource centre helping indige-

nous families in the city’s North End, Klinic, the Health Sciences Centre and Police, according to a CBC article.

The program hopes to be a tool that Aboriginal women will feel comfortable using, so a network of elders along with a trained counsellor will be hired to meet their specific needs. Les-

lie Spillett, the centre’s executive director, says she also hopes the women will go on to use the other services the centre offers, and that they will feel comfortable enough to report their attacks to the police.

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Let's Talk Native from page 11 Gallant Interview from page 9 constitutes commerce that is essentially Native to Native, and therefore cannot be regulated or taxed by the State of New York.” Mattox refused this request and to date has never provided clarity to the State’s position. The unofficial response for the department was that it was a “gray area.”

The Supreme Court of the United States in a case that many mischaracterize as a ruling allowing the State to tax Native sales of tobacco was very clear on this issue. Justice Stevens wrote in Attea that the idea of a tax obligation “which falls on the non Indian purchasers of goods that are merely retailed on a reservation – stands on a markedly different footing from a tax imposed directly on Indian traders, on enrolled tribal members or tribal organizations or on value generated on the reservation by activities involving the Tribes.” No one doubts that the branding, development, manufacturing and marketing of a Native brand is a value generated activity.

It is clear that the only open violation of law is being perpetrated by the State. The fact of the

matter is that the people bringing Seneca cigarettes into the State for consumption are neither Grand River Enterprises, Native Wholesale Supply or even Native retailers but rather the New York consumers themselves.

Under New York State law, New Yorkers can bring into the State up to two cartons of cigarettes at a time for use in the State without paying New York State tax or New York City tax. So the sale, purchase and even transport by the consumer is all legal.

Aggressive tax enforcement may have resulted in the choking death of Eric Garner but Andrew Cuomo had better work on a much stronger grip if he thinks he will succeed in choking out Native tobacco. The Native tobacco industry will not lie down for the Governor, his courts or his cops.

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peoples and communities to terrorist watch lists; or the ridiculous surveillance of child advocate and scholar Dr. Cindy Blackstock; or labeling First Nations and colonial-settler allies as radicals in northern BC for opposing intrusive natural resource development I have also learned that the government is seemingly targeting First Nations peoples and the struggle over dominion of natural resources.

When a particular government, like the current Tories, have their eyes set on natural resource development and the issues that arise from indigenous land title claims and other inherent rights,

there is no doubt that the government will utilize all means necessary to suppress those rights. I believe we are beginning to see this through the application, or should I say misapplication, of terrorist legislation.

In fact, last year I met with an RCMP Superintendent in Prince George, BC, who was interested in talking to me about several projects I was engaged in. He informed me that the RCMP were receiving training in the coming months from a national security team in order to deal with First Nations extremists and radicals.

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writing my thesis, which does emphasize the need to heed misapplication of terrorist legislation against indigenous peoples. The intention to do this is obviously the vested interest in natural resources.

It seems to me that white privilege even exists within the context of terrorism. If you’re Muslim and labeled an extremist, you’re number one on the list. If you are indigenous, you are number two on the list.

And yet white supremacists who bomb, murder, rape, beat and intimidate people on the streets get charged under the normal criminal code charges even though they are terrorists. But there is a point blank reason for this. We live in a racist so-

ciety that has racist laws.

If you’re white you are inherently favored with extraordinary privileges at the cost of injustices served unto indigenous peoples.

It is even so acceptable to be a right wing extremist, or at least normalized to accept white supremacy in Canada, that even our current Prime Minister Stephen Harper had close association and proximity with a convicted white supremacist terrorist, Wolfgang Droege. In fact a scholar wrote about how Harper started an organization, The Northern Foundation, with Droege and others in the 1980s. The organization was proSouth African Apartheid.

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“Do ze” (pronounced “dau je”) is the only word in Cantonese that I know, but I think that saying “thank you” is always a good place to start a story, even if I never physically make it to Hong Kong, where British colonialism got a strong foothold in what was formerly considered China’s “Fragrant Harbour.”

Having nearly 25,000 times less land mass than our “Big” Turtle Island, but a government with an even larger appetite for industry, it’s not surprising that there’s not much left of traditional knowledge or the natural world in the Asian city-state. It’s also not surprising that their water supply is one of the Earth’s most contaminated, host to a cocktail of chemicals.

This includes fluoride compounds, which don’t smell so good and have devastating effects on the indigenous turtle populations that are famously sensitive to water quality.

Last week, we talked about recognizing fluoride toxicity in the human body and this week we’re

going to discuss what you can do about it using some Turtle Teachings that the 7.2 million inhabitants of Hong Kong and most of the 528 million settlers in North America have never heard.

Most medical geologists, environmental health practitioners and mining-energy industry prospectors use Turtle Teachings all the time without knowing it, thinking that they’re talking about structural geology, plate tectonics and chemical hydrogeology.

But those who are familiar with the Sky Woman story don’t need a piece of paper in any of those disciplines to know that the water that comes from the middle of a scute on the turtle’s back will be night and day different in terms of chemistry, taste and health effects than water that’s “on crack.”

Fluoride never travels alone in any case (a trickster can only exist if there’s someone else to play with), so it’s the best indication of how “powerful” the water might be.

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ter favours the Twin who takes electrons from the cells of the body (a process called “oxidation”), and sometimes it’s tipped towards the Twin who gives electrons (called “reduction” or “anti-oxidation”). Too much of either one for long or sensitive periods of time are linked with disease.

Typically, only prospectors in the mining and energy sectors know the secret of how to use modern technology to track fluoride in water, soil, rocks and sometimes snow or tree leaves back to the buried treasure in the ground, but they’re not in the habit of sharing their knowledge, especially among themselves.

Not that modern western healthcare workers, with their fixation on superbugs and Big Pharma, would think to look for anything beyond E. coli and other microbial relations for the cause of disease anyway, even if it is preventative healthcare and common sense.

But the good news is that it’s never too late to start managing your family’s environmental fluoride exposures, simply by making informed consumer decisions. Many people start to feel better in as little as 3 days after reducing their total fluoride intake from all sources to a safe level. Most notice a big improvement in their overall health and need for prescription medication or traditional

remedies after 3 weeks.

Breastmilk, rain water, uncontaminated surface water and shallow groundwater usually have low levels of fluoride (between 0.0128 and 0.3 parts per million or ppm) and we should work hard to keep them that way through source water protection regulations that are based on traditional knowledge.

The bad news is that we now also have lots of fluoride pollution in the air that you breathe in, and that municipal water treatment plants, boiling the water or using a Brita filter at home won’t remove the fluoride that occurs naturally in water or is intentionally added to a level of 0.7 ppm. Reverse osmosis or steam distillation systems can be expensive, but they also remove most other harmful chemicals that might be along for the ride, especially the ones we’re not testing for.

The ugly news is that make-up and personal care products can contain up to 67,000 ppm fluoride that gets absorbed through the skin, and the tooth discolouration of early childhood fluoride toxicity is permanent unless you spend about $2000 on cosmetic dentistry work. This is why fluoridated toothpaste, with an average of 1,200 ppm fluoride should never be swallowed (even if it tastes like bubble gum) and great care must be

taken when making up infant formula that may have up to 5.5 ppm before adding any water.

Devoted “tea grannies” should know that fluoride in the soils where food plants are grown will build up in the leaves, with black tea imported from India, Africa and China (often via Hong Kong by ship to North

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Combining traditional teachings with modern analytical technology is a practical and economic way of renewing the Two Row treaty and ensuring that future generations say “Do ze” to us instead of something that starts with the letter “F.”

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bers challenged whether due diligence had transpired in reviewing the background of the IPA Inc. Executive, Jim Brickman. Jamieson advised that Mr. Brickman is highly respected in his field.

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Johnny P nominated for Lou Marsh Award

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – Imagine the surprise when mild mannered, 21-year-old lacrosse phenom, Johnny Powless of Six Nations, heard that he was on the short list for the Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s top athlete. Powless was nominated for the prestigious award alongside tennis players Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic, and Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty.

The award, named after a former Toronto Star sports editor, is annually given to Canada’s

Six Nations lacrosse star Johnny Powless was nominated and in the final cuts for Canada's most prestigious individual awarded for athletics, the Lou Marsh Award.

Although the award was presented to Olympic bobsled champion Kallie Humphries, Powless was honoured to be named among the finalists.

top athlete as selected by representatives of Canada’s leading news organizations.

Powless didn’t know he was even being considered.

“I found out about it on Twitter,” Powless told media.

At first he thought people were pulling his leg and joking with him about his very successful year. But the tweets and phone calls kept coming and soon he began taking it seriously.

“It was exciting and an honour to be mentioned with athletes such as Kaillie Humphries,

Eugenie Bouchard, Milos Raonic and Drew Doughty,” said Powless. “I was pumped when I found out.”

Although he was beat out for the award this year by Olympic bobsled champion Kallie Humphries, being nominated amongst such notables was an award in itself.

What a year it has been for Powless. He helped the Rochester Knighthawks to the Lacrosse League’s Champions Cup in 2014 after collecting 30 goals and 66 assists that season in 18 games. He played hurt through the playoffs,

but contributed to the Knighthawks third consecutive cup win.

He took a good part of the regular Jr. A Arrows Express season off to rehab his injury and rest up, but as the post season came and the Arrows looked like contenders, Powless returned to the floor to lead them to the Ontario Championship and a trip to Langley, BC to play for the Minto Cup. In the Ontario championships, Powless recorded 21 goals and 42 assists in 13 games.

In BC, Powless won tournament MVP honours by scoring eight goals and

adding 21 assists to lead the Arrows to the Cup. IL indoor lacrosse magazine voted him Jr. player of the year for 2014.

But that wasn’t all.

It was now Major Series Sr. lacrosse season and Powless returned to the Six Nations Chiefs lineup to help them win their second consecutive Mann Cup, this time in front of a home crowd at the ILA in Six Nations.

Just before the draft, Powless was traded to the Vancouver Stealth and has been putting up a lot of air miles flying to and from Vancouver for training camp.

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Pro-Fit Corvairs not looking back

By Jim Windle

CALEDONIA – With a huge edge over the rest of the league, the Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs are on a roll and show no signs of looking back. A home-andhome series between the Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs and the Fort Erie Meteors had a predictable outcome.

The defending Sutherland Cup Champions and first place Corvairs and the second last place Meteors met together, Friday and Saturday nights.

Saturday night at the Haldimand Centre, the Corvairs earned a 3-0 shutout win in a fight-filled affair. There was no scoring in the first period as Meteors goalie Liam Conway turned aside 24 Caledonia shots in the first 20 minutes. Meanwhile, Marc Sinclair faced only two shots.

Connor Bramwell scored both second period goals for Caledonia, with assists earned by Jamie Forslund, Mitch Purdle and Connor Patton with two.

Caledonia's Jamie Forslund and Meteors' Tristan Drescher have a little dance Saturday night at the Haldimand Arena. The Corvairs won both legs in a home-and-home series. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs posted two more wins this week, taking both legs of a home-and-home series with the Fort Erie Meteors. The Corvairs won 5-3 Friday night in Fort Erie and 3-0 at home Saturday night. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE Forslund and Tristan Drescher went toe-to-toe at 5:13 of the middle frame and were both tossed from the game.

Patton accounted for the Corvairs’ third goal at 2:50 of the third period with a short-hander. Riley Vanhorne assisted.

There was more rough stuff when Bramwell and

Josh Micallif dropped the gloves at 6:28, with both parties sent to the showers early.

In total, the Corvairs outshot the Meteors 54-22.

Saturday night, in Fort Erie, the Meteors put up some resistance skating with the high-flying Corvairs for the first 20 minutes, which ended in a 1-1

tie.

Kyle Tanev opened the scoring for Caledonia at 5:54 with a short-handed goal assisted by Jake Brown and Austin McEneny. Wade Kenny evened the score at 8:22.

The Meteors jumped ahead 2-1 early in the third period, with Holden Garlent scoring on a leftover

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Trailing the Meteors was something the Corvairs were certainly not used to, and that motivation led Caledonia to fourgoal charge. Luke Sinclair, Kyle Tanev, and Connor Patton took the lead back and Tanev closed the book with an empty netter for the 5-3 final.

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By Jim Windle HAGERSVILLE – The Hagersville Hawks split this week’s games with a 4-2 win in Niagara Falls Thursday night and a 4-3 loss to Grimsby in Hagersville, Saturday night.

The Hawks are still well out of the top three spots, sitting in 6th place in the eight team league, but are close enough to make a move on fifth place Niagara this coming week when the Dundas Blues come to town Saturday, Dec 20th. Sunday, they travel to Glanbrook to face the Rangers.

The first place Grimsby Peach Kings had the territorial edge on Saturday night, but had a difficult time beating Hagersville’s AP goalie Jonah Capriotti, who blocked 37 of 41 Grimsby shots.

Cole Martin got the scoring started for the Hawks at 8:39 from Mitch Green, but Kings’ Curtis Conrad answered two and a half minutes later

had an easier time taking down the Riverhawks with a score of 4-2, in Niagara.

Brandon Niagara’s McLean gave the Riverhawks the lead 35 seconds after the opening face-off. Derek Friesen responded with a powerplay goal at 11:57 from

Nick Sherwood and Jacob Soloman.

John Montour sent the teams into the first intermission with Hagersville ahead 2-1, assisted by Matt Rimac and Friesen, who opened the second period with Hagersville’s third goal scored at 4:10 from Kyle

Phibbs.

Niagara clawed one back at 14:29, but it would be their last gasp as Friesen secured the Hagersville win with the only goal of the third period for the 4-2 win.

Hagersville Hawks' John Montour and AP goalie Jonah Capriotti gave the first place Grimsby Peach Kings a much harder time than they expected in Saturday nights 4-3 Kings win at the Hagersville Arena. The Hawks won a 4-2 decision in Niagara Falls Thursday night. Photo by Jim Windle

to tie the game before the end of the first period.

There was no scoring in the second, but 24 seconds into the third, Jonathan Pace gave Hagersville a 2-1 lead with a short-hander from Green.

Kings’ Jeromy Hopkins evened it at 2-2 at 8:19, which Dan Mederios quickly erased at 8:52 with an assist from Travis Bell.

Grimsby’s Brennan Smith made it 3-3 at 10:43. Hagersville had their chances late, but it was Kings’ Derek Rotter who scored the game winner at 17:09. Capriotti got full marks for keeping the game close enough to win it, but the Hawks just could not get that last goal.

Thursday night, in Niagara Falls, the Hawks

Ross Hill scores one of his three goals as the Six Nations PeeWee's demolish the Waterford Wildcats 10-3 Sunday at the Gaylord Powless Arena. Damon Declaire and Kevin Hill scored two each, with single goals scored by Thunder Hill, Nolan Jonathan and Wyatt Williams. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE

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Blast and McCoys rivalry keeps fans happy

By Jim Windle DUNDAS – The highway 403 rivalry continued this past week as the Brantford Blast and the Real McCoys faced off in Dundas in Sr. AAA action Friday night. This time, it would be the McCoys taking the two points in a thrilling 6-5 win over Brantford.

The Dundas win put them in third place, two points ahead of the forth place Blast. However, Brantford holds two games in hand over Dundas and second place Whitby, and four games in hand over first place Stoney Creek.

Dundas struck first at 1:53 with Chris McGuffin scoring, but the Blast evened the score at 4:58 with Chris Rebernik converting a pass from Cam Sault. Andrew Marcoux was also in on the play.

Dundas came out hot in the second period, potting three goals right away – two on powerplays as Omar Ennaffati, Chris McGuffin and Steve Hurst gave Dundas a 4-1 lead.

Brad Jones cut the McCoys lead to 4-2 at 16:24 from Ryan McCarthy and Kevin Christmas.

It was a nasty third period, with several aggression penalties hand-

It's never an easy night for the players or the referees when the Brantford Blast and the rival Dundas Real McCoys face each other. The game was in Dundas this past week and the McCoys held off a Brantford rally to retain a 6-5 win. They go at it again this Friday Dec. 19th in Brantford. FILE PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE ed out to both sides, along with a couple of on-ice bat-

tles. Brantford’s powerplay unit took advantage

of the extra man, scoring the first three goals of the period on powerplays thanks to Mike Burgoyne, Rebernik and Derek Medeiros. Cam Sault picked up his second assist of the game and rang one off the cross bar as the Blast peppered Dundas goalie Mike Mole with 24 shots in the last 20 minutes, 56-37 for Brantford overall.

With the score 5-4 in Brantford’s favour, Dundas’ Simon Mangos took advantage of a powerplay opportunity and evened the score at 9:35.

Cam Wilson recorded the game winner for the McCoys at 16:22 from Shawn Snider and Scott

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Brantford lost the services of their leader on the ice, Joel Prpic, when he was tossed from the game at 8:07 of the third period along with Dundas’ Adam Ostermier for fighting.

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put a tablespoon of cornstarch in a bowl. Whisk in two tablespoons of cold water until there are no lumps.

Savory meat pie

By Joe Farrell Meat pies have a long and storied past. They can be traced back to the Neolithic period of ancient Egypt. In Medieval times they were made with thick, nearly inedible crusts that were used as the baking vessel. Today we get to indulge in buttery, flaky crusts set in conveniently modern pie plates.

In its simplest form, a savory pie consists of a crust and some type of meat and/or vegetables, usually with some sort of binding agent like a sauce. There doesn’t always have to be a top to the pie and some pies just get folded over in halfmoon shapes. The cook’s discretion and creativity can be expressed in this endeavor.

They are a great way to use any cut of meat from the hunt. Likewise, meat and savory pies can serve as a way to repurpose leftovers from a big turkey dinner or family roast. They are also a great way to present and prepare the less expensive and typically tougher cuts from your butcher or grocery store. If you’re feeling adventurous you can make one with offal like heart, kidney, sweetbreads or liver and transform it into a meal that has lots of deep, delicious flavours.

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Meat and savory vegetable pies make for incredibly versatile meals and to me are comfort food that warms the soul and sticks to the bones on a cold winter’s night.

The pies can be made well in advance and stored in your freezer for families on the go. On a day when you don’t have time to cook, simply place your pie straight in the oven and wait for it to be done.

Preparing the dough and filling can be easily turned into a fun activity for the whole family.

The dough for the crust can be made using healthy flour alternatives. For a savory meat pie, I suggest trying finely ground corn flour. It will add a unique flavour that will pair well with any meat. The dough will not be a flaky crust, but will be able to take on whatever filling you put in your pie.

Corn Flour Crusted Meat Pie Ingredients: D Meat of your choice D Onion D Garlic D Any root vegetable D Oil D Salt D Cornstarch D Coarse Ground Black Pepper D Any seasonings of your choosing Note: The meat pie photographed was made with duck. I seasoned it with nutmeg, cinnamon, sage, chili flakes, salt, coarse ground black pepper and parmesan cheese.

Directions: Cut your meat into evensized pieces. Sear on high heat with vegetable oil until a nice golden brown colour is achieved.

Remove from pan. Add your base vegetables to the pan: such as onions, carrot, rutabaga, turnip, parsnip. Cook until a nice colour is achieved as well.

Add garlic when vegetables are nearly soft.

Deglaze as you go with water or stock as necessary. Add your meat back to the pan. Then add just enough water or stock to cover the meat and vegetable mixture. Cover and cook until meat is tender, simmering on low heat.

To thicken the braise, add one teaspoon of slurry at a time and incorporate well.

To make a slurry,

To make your crust, you will need: D 1 part water D 1.5 parts finely ground corn flour D Pinch of salt D Directions: D Boil your water. Take finely ground corn flour and put it in a bowl. Make a well in the middle. Pour boiling water in.

D Stir in with wooden spoon until incorporated. Once it has cooled slightly, use

21 your hands to knead the dough for 2 minutes. Should be just tacky to the touch and the consistency of play dough.

D On a floured surface, roll the dough out thin, being sure to continue dusting as you go so it does not stick. Grease your baking dish with vegetable oil and lay dough in the dish. If you are having trouble rolling it out simply assemble the dough in the dish piece by piece, pressing the pieces together to make the crust.

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cover or lid for your pies, be mindful of the thickness. When I do, I make sure it is very thin so it becomes as crisp as possible, more like a corn chip.

D Bake pie in a preheated oven at 350F for 25-30 minutes if not frozen. Frozen pies will take longer, roughly 45 minutes to an hour. Check to ensure pies are cooked all the way through and warm in the center before serving.

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A fundraising gala for the future Thunder Woman Healing Lodge was held at Lee's Palace in Toronto on Monday. PHOTO BY TIM REYNOLDS

Digging Roots jams out fundraiser for space to heal

By Tim Reynolds TORONTO – A fundraising gala for the future Thunder Woman Healing Lodge was held at Lee’s Palace in Toronto on Monday. The event was co-ordinated by the Toronto Aboriginal Social Services Council (TASSC) and the Toronto Doctors Lions Club, with Muskrat Magazine..

The Thunder Woman Healing Lodge helps women to heal themselves from suffering systemic and personal harm in a safe environment where they can grow and learn indigenous cultural values. Indigneous lodges are recognized by the Canadian legal system as places that enable a degree of community control and provide cultural, spiritual and correctional programming for offenders.

Featured acts were J-Rez (Jerry Bigcanoe), Gary LaRocca, and Digging Roots. J-Rez stat-

Digging Roots ed that he came out to support the cause and volunteer his time to share some good music. Gary LaRocca said he wanted to support indigenous women in general, especially those involved in the legal system that have gone through tremendous hardships. “If I were to dedicate tonight, it would be for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women that our government has done nothing about,” LaRocca said.

Christa Big Canoe, le-

gal director at Aboriginal Legal Services and one of the organizers for the event, stated that “one of the biggest needs we see is aboriginal women coming back into the community after incarceration without the programming and options that they need to succeed.” Big Canoe also said that indigenous inmates aren’t currently given the tools they need for successful re-integration while still incarcerated. Big Canoe says there is a need for holistic indig-

enous-run correctional services driven by the indigenous community.

The website for the Thunder Woman Healing Lodge says that they intend to be a hub for incarcerated indigenous women to re-learn how to “walk in balance’ according to culturally appropriate teachings in an attempt to help indigenous women to “heal themselves from suffering systemic and personal harm in a safe environment” TASSC carried out

the Toronto Aboriginal Research Project, which is the largest and most comprehensive study ever conducted of aboriginal people in Toronto. One of the shocking findings is that thirty-four percent, or about 1 in 3 women in federal custody, are indigenous.

The event concluded with Shoshona Kish of Digging Roots saying, “Tonight is about indigenous women and girls in our memory and in our hearts. Our Missing

and Murdered Indigenous Women who deserve so much more. 1,200 missing and murdered women in this country is devastating and even one woman is too many. We as a community can raise our voices loud enough in a really good way to keep the conversation alive and keep us moving forward. Why tonight is important is to have culturally relevant services for women.”

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GoodMinds.com is your leading source for purchasing bias-free teaching and educational resources related to Indigenous issues. We have over 3000 titles available for order online at www.GoodMinds. com. Goodminds.com is an Aboriginal-owned family business based on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Southwestern Ontario.

Celebrating Ongwehowe Artists

By GoodMinds.com Iroquois Art, Power, and History is a richly illustrated book written by art historian and anthropology professor Neal B. Keating.

He explores Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) visual expression through more than five thousand years, from its emergence in North America into the early twenty-first century.

The 348-page volume draws on extensive archival research and fieldwork with Haudenosaunee artists and communities allowing the voices of the artists to speak to the reader. Organized in chronological order, Keating presents art from the colonial and neo-colonial periods including tree paintings, tattooing and body painting, painted posts in villages, drawings on boards in residences, decorations on clubs, and watercolour on paper as examples.

Of particular interest are the works of David Cusick, Tuscarora historian and artist; Dennis Cusick, George Wilson, Thomas Jacobs, Zacharie Vincent Telari-o-lin, Sandford Plummer, and Ernest Smith. The final section discusses the decolonizing period from 1950 to the present.

Three chapters investigate the termination phase (1950 to 1970); the Wounded Knee phase (1970 to 1990); and the Oka phase (1990 to present).

Works from these phases include oil on canvas,

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mixed media, lithographs, acrylics, photographs, digital prints, lino prints, colour pencil drawings, and video installations.

Artists represented include Louis Hall, George Longfish, Robert Markle, James Beaver, Ivan Bomberry, Rick Hill, G. Peter Jemison, John Fadden, Oren Lyons, R. G. Miller, Alan Michelson, Shelley Niro, Melanie Printup-Hope, Raymond Skye, Greg Staats, Sue Ellen Herne, and Katsitsionni Fox. The book includes seventy-five colour plates, black and white reproductions, an index, a bibliography, and appendices on documentary research, and a list of painters and photographers.

Highly recommended.

Haudenoshone: Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts is a 2012 Ningwakwe Learning Press publication designed specifically for Ontario Native adult literacy learners and practitioners. This accessible 59-page book

offers senior elementary and high school students an accurate account of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address in English.

It provides specific examples of art pieces known as cornhusk mats, moccasins, and ash splint basketry to highlight the importance of acknowledging various aspects of creation.

The Thanksgiving Address begins the book in a narrative fashion with appropriate colour photographs of each element such as corn, trees, grasses, and water. The remaining chapters provide step-by-step instruction for creating fine art pieces such as moccasins, cornhusk mats, cradleboard, and ash splint baskets inspired by creation.

The corn husk dolls featured in this book were made by internationally recognized artist Elizabeth Doxtator. These pieces are part of her larger work, “The Peacemaker’s Journey.” Her moving poem, “The Good Mind,” captures the essence of her amazing work.

Throughout the book, author Jameson C. Brant has selected colour illustrations created by Ernest Smith from the collection of the Rochester Museum.

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HILL, Joseph Warren - November 6, 1929 - December 11, 2014. Passed away peacefully at the Brantford General Hospital on Thursday, December 11, 2014 in his 86th year after a brief illness. Loving uncle of George and Jackie, Conway and Honey, Sam and Kelli, Johnny, Kalisha, Logan, Beau, Jacob, Kate, Jaxon and Heath. Predeceased by wife, Violet, sisters, Norma and Thelma, and brothers, Wesley and Wallace, niece, Josie and nephews, Cecil and Steve. Joe will be missed by many nieces, nephews and friends as well as his pets, Grey and Lou. Resting at STYRES FUNERAL HOME, 1798 4th Line, Ohsweken after 2 p.m. Sunday. Funeral Services was held in the Styres Chapel on Monday December 15, 2014 at 11 a.m.

Interment Stumphall Cemetery. The family wishes to thank nurses, Doctors and staff at Iroquois Lodge and the critical care unit at Brantford General Hospital that took care of Joe. Elizabeth Joyce Bomberry (nee Hill) August 1, 1926 - December 14, 2014 Peacefully at home on Sunday December 14, 2014 at the age of 88, surrounded by her family. Loving mother of Linda (Welby), James (Audrey), Fred (Ruby), Harvey (Darlene), Marvin (Hazel), David, Betty Lou, Gerald and Wendell. Brother-in-law of Jackie Bomberry. Also survived by many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren. Also survived by and will be lovingly remembered by many nieces, nephews and her extended family. Pre-deceased by lifelong companion Cecil Froman, Carmen Bomberry and son Bobby. Sister of Ruth, Viola, Pete, Floyd, George and Sanford Hill.

Daughter of Edward (Jacket) Hill and Stella (nee Miller) Hill. The family will honour her life with visitation on Monday December 15th 2014 at Styres Funeral Home, 1798 Fourth Line Rd, Ohsweken at 7pm and on Tuesday December 16th, 2014 after 10am with Evening Service at 7pm. Funeral Service on Wednesday December 17th, 2014 at 2pm at the Funeral Home. Cremation to follow. www.rhbanderson.com

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I, Carey-Leigh Thomas, would like to thank the Dreamcatcher Fund for their very generous sponsorship to participate in the Women’s Softball World Championship 2014 in Haarlem, Netherlands this past August as a member of the Canadian National Senior Women’s Softball Team. Our team finished in fourth place in the world, and I had the privilege of playing first and third base. It was truly an amazing and unforgettable experience for me. I will be travelling to Florida in December 2014 to try out for the Canadian National Softball Team in preparation for the Pan Am Games to be held July 2015 in Toronto.

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TOM WILLIAMS August 18, 1959 – December 17, 2013 Gone, home to the Creator But never to be forgotten, Forever in our hearts Tom was a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, nephew, uncle, cousin and friend to many, Our little corner of the world was a better place because of knowing and loving him.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you feel amazing this week. Your enthusiasm can be quite contagious, and many friends may come calling in the hopes that your good vibes rub off.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 You may have difficulty solving a difficult problem at work this week, Taurus. Take a methodical approach, and the solution will come to you before you know it.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Things may not have been going your way, Gemini, but there is still no reason for disappointment. You will find a way to bounce back from these setbacks in a few days.

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CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, your presence alone is enough to impress people this week. Focus all of your energy on positive things, and you will accomplish quite a bit before the week is over.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, now is a good time to assess your health goals and make a few plans for the new year. It’s within reason to change your diet or start a new exercise regimen.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Incredible efficiency this week has you zipping through your to-do list, Virgo. Enjoy some relaxation time once you have completed all your projects.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Work and family issues are on your mind, Libra.

Find ways to balance work and family as best as you possibly can. Don’t be hard on yourself if you cannot manage everything.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, this week is a great time to complete projects that have been on your plate for quite some time. All you really need to do is set your mind on them.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you may feel rushed by external pressures, but it’s really up to you to set your own pace. If you keep a calm head, things will fall in place and you can complete your tasks.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 This week some people close to you need a little space. Honor their requests and show them some respect, Capricorn. Your relationships will weather the time apart.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, things are bound to move quickly once you put a plan in motion. Get all of your ducks in a row to make a smooth transition. You may have to do some homework.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 You can probably have fun in any situation this week, Pisces. Your youthful exuberance will keep you busy and laughing.

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