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OTTAWA – The first national roundtable into the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women was held on Feb. 26 and 27 in Ottawa among indigenous organizations, victims’ families and federal delegates including Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt and

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They argue that as a result of this, many more women have been victimized. They also said that it is evidence that the federal government “breached their fundamental moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety of all women, without discrimination,” according to a Rabble article.

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However, though some families were given the opportunity to tell their stories, and an agreement was made to meet again before the end of 2016, some say that overall participation was constrained and that nothing new was proposed or achieved at the end of the day.

According to a News Talk 980 article, Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte, an indigenous activist and cousin of a victim (Shelley Napope), said not enough families were allowed to speak due to the antiquated “methodology” used by the government.

Indeed, a CBC report confirmed that out of the 10 participants that each organization, province and territory was allowed to bring, only two could actually participate in the meeting at the same time, though they could rotate. “The other eight are there strictly as observers and cannot take part in discussions or ask questions,” explained the article.

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OTTAWA – Cree NDP MP Romeo Saganash is blasting the Liberals and their leader, Justin Trudeau, for supporting Stephen Harper’s anti-terror bill C-51, arguing the bill directly threatens indigenous rights covered by section 35 of the Constitution.

The Liberals have stated that although they support the bill, which passed a second reading in the House of Commons, they would amend it if elected to federal office.

The bill will now go to a parliamentary committee for study, reports APTN News.

Bill C-51 proposes to expand the scope and police-like powers of CSIS, Canada’s spy agency, and it would give police more powers to crack down on people they deem terrorists, or whom they believe are spreading “terrorist propaganda” through social media. This may include anti-pipeline protestors and indigenous

people who might be deemed to “undermine the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada” by advancing indigenous land rights.

Despite lacking any regulatory oversight mechanism, Harper also wants to impose a three-daylimit for committee hearings on the bill, which critics have condemned.

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs also rejected the bill, saying it “directly violates” both their rights as Indigenous individuals and their rights to their respective territories. A group of over 100 Canadian professors of law and related disciplines have also recently released an open letter to Parliament calling on MPs to vote against the bill.

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By Mari Reeve OHSWEKEN – On Wednesday, February 25th Six Nations celebrated its 3rd year of participating in Pink Shirt Day. Begun in a Nova Scotia highschool in 2007 as a response to a Grade 9 being bullied for wearing a pink shirt on his first day of school, the wearing of pink shirts has come to stand against all types of bullying.

In Six Nations a group of professionals in community building and healing put together a powerful presentation about bullying and visited grades 4, 5 and 6 at local schools J.C.Hill/Jamieson, Kawenni:io, Lloyd S King, Emily C. General and I.L.Thomas.

Their message was simple and beautiful: Be The Change. That means standing up against bullying, walking away from people trying to gossip, and not engaging in bullying of any kind.

One of the organizers, Danielle VanEvery, Community Educator at Ganohkwasra, acted in all the role-plays for the youth and explained that the theme was about “reinforcing the positive, and bringing kindness back into our community so we can be powerful.”

In total, nine talented individuals within the community put their heads together to devise a half hour presentation for the elementary youth. Lance

Logan Keye, Youth Justice Worker at Six Nations Grand River Correctional Services, began the interactive presentation with a Creation Story.

Explaining the struggles between the left handed and right handed twin, hinting that we all may have a bit of both twins inside of us, but that we must choose to be positive, Keye described the tragic birth of the twins, their battles growing up together, and their final battle concerning who should take care of creation.

After the story telling, the rest of the group played out 3 different scenarios, first allowing the situation to play out negatively, and then ‘re-doing’ the sce-

nario, choosing a positive response to the situation instead. The actors included Brittnay Thomas and Barb Rowe from Six Nations Child and Family Services, and Brody Thomas, Brandon Martin, Jami Lee VanEvery, Amber Silversmith and Dion Jonathan from Ganohkwasra.

The first scenario depicted a bus ride home after school, involving online bullying as kids on the bus used Facebook pictures to make fun of people. The negative scenario showed them insulting people on Facebook while the rest of the group laughed and joined in.

Lance Logan Keye, acting as the narrator, paused the scene, and

asked what kindness looks like. The youth replied “Be The Change!”

The positive scenario showed kids praising Facebook pictures, saying how happy and pretty their peers looked, while also noting that we should not talk badly about people when they are not around to defend themselves.

There was laughter in the audience and the youth were giving their full attention to the scenario.

The second scenario showed three cousins hanging out at Grandma’s house, while one girl was very distressed because her mother was hospitalized for depression. The first, negative response scenario showed the girls

blaming one another and finding fault with their families for the turmoil.

The scene was paused and started again with a completely different, positive response. The cousins talked kindly with one another, explaining that depression is not like a cut, you cannot see blood or a scar so it is hard to know someone is in pain. The cousins did not blame one another or their families but offered an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on, wishing for the mother to receive the care she needs.

Lastly, the group showed the young audience what bullying can look like in sports. The group was playing Lacrosse and was asked to

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Murder trial continues in Cayuga Court

By TRT Staff The trial of a Six Nations man facing two counts of murder in the deaths of Richard Powless and Elaine Laforme continues Wednesday at the Cayuga Court House.

In January of 2012, Six Nations and Haldimand Firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire on Mississauga Road on the Mississaugas of the New Credit Reserve, adja-

cent to Six Nations. When firefighters arrived the house was fully engulfed in flames. While battling the blaze they discovered the charred remains of two people inside the home. Police and the Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office were called in to do a full investigation of the incident.

The bodies were later identified as those of Richard Powless and Elaine Laforme.

Pink Shirt day from previous

pair up, leaving one kid alone and isolated because no one thought he was skilled enough to partner with and lacked quality sports equipment.

The skit showed that more experienced players may not encourage players of all skill levels, and also showed that some kids may feel left out if they don’t use the ‘right’ brand of sporting equipment. With the positive spin of playing Lacrosse, we saw the experienced players offering pointers and help with practice after school. All youth were including in playing Lacrosse and all skill levels were supported with enthusiasm and sportsmanship.

After the scenario demonstrations, discussions were held with the youth in the large group setting. Brittnay Thomas says that her main goal in being involved was “being able to make our faces look familiar so that the youth know us and can utilize our services.”

More conversations were and around how to stop bullying, treat all people with respect, resist the pressure to be a bully, and try to keep a good mind. All youth involved were given pink t-shirts with the phrase: “Love Among Us: Be the Change” as well as a design that included the words: Respect, Caring, Sharing, Peace, Good Mind and Kindness.

Glenn Owen Hill was arrested a short time later in an inebriated state walking down Mississauga Road and later charged with two counts of First Degree Murder.

There is a publication ban on the information being presented to a jury of eight men and four women by prosecuting attorney Alexandra Paparella and defense lawyer Michael Wendl. The trial is expected to continue

for another two weeks.

The next court date is set for Wednesday, March

11th, at 10 am at the Cayuga Court House.

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UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

War is a hard business

Fires Are All Too Common On First Nations

By Xavier Kataquapit

MARCH 4TH, 2015

Life in a remote northern Aboriginal community has many difficulties. One of the greatest dangers I recall during the cold winter months was home fires.

Our homes were surrounded by many dangers associated with fire and the potential for disaster. Since electrical heating can be expensive and even prohibitive for some Native communities, people resort to using wood stoves. During my childhood in my home community of Attawapiskat, the iron wood stove at the centre of our home was a normal part of life. Mom and dad always assigned us the

daily chore of bringing in an arm load of wood whenever we came through the door. We were cautioned to stay away from the hot stove and our parents kept a close eye on the baking pipes and stray sparks that fell when the stove door was opened.

The odds seemed stacked against us. We lived in substandard homes with not enough insulation even though we were situated in the one of the coldest regions of the country.

This meant we relied heavily on wood heat.

For those individuals who did not have the resources to heat with wood, they relied on electrical heating which also could be hazardous

as heaters running continually on high could catch fire.

I remember as a child that it was was a normal part of every winter to hear the screams of fire as some poor unfortunate family would have their home go up in flames.

We would all run out to investigate and thankfully much of the time the fires were small and quickly extinguished by quick thinking individuals with little or no fire training. At times the fires were terrible and resulted in the loss of life or severe injury.

Some terrible memories came back to me when I read of a house

When Stephen Harper was voted into power indigenous people across the Canada took a deep breath and had a moment of silence. Why? We knew we had to prepare for the grim and difficult journey ahead of us.

Now – nearly a decade later – there is a loud and clear public outcry.

Conservative Canada has become a triple threat to indigenous people in Canada.

Missing and murdered indigenous women and girls are overrepresented in statistics. Indigenous people are being disrespected in medical facilities. All the while national media continues to promote prejudice and ignorance regarding indigenous issues.

In the last week the public outcry across the

indigenous world is loud and clear: we need the help of our non-indigenous voting friends in Canada and the United States to speak up. In plain language – we are being bullied and we need your help.

The judicial system, the healthcare system and the media are all receiving failing grades when it comes to representing indigenous people with integrity. This kind of abuse of First Nations people must end and it will take the friends of indigenous people coming to our aid.

How can you help?

Let us give you a couple of ideas.

Demand an indigenous led inquiry from the federal government of Canada. Write emails to the province of Ontario

insisting the healthcare system reconcile historical offenses against indigenous people and begin to build framework to create a welcoming environment for indigenous patients. Instead of sharing the mainstream perspective on indigenous news stories on your social media streams, consider instead sharing indigenous news from indigenous media written from an indigenous perspective. There’s a bunch of us. Any one will do – just make it a point to prioritize indigenous media as the proper source of accurate information on indigenous issues.

And seriously take the time to consider what kind of Canada you want to live in, and take that with you to the polls when you’re voting.

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By Bubsy Martin Three years in Afghanistan or three years in the federal penitentiary?

The army is after our youth to use them as cannon fodder in the Middle East. The courts in Western Canada are starting to push troubled or misunderstood young aboriginals toward the armed forces. Commercials on TV and other media are romanticising the use of murder and weaponry in silhouetted top gun-esque recruiting features for the Canadian Armed Forces.

The target audience is primarily focused on young natives in Western Canada where there are a lot of poor families. This has been done in the US ghetto since before Vietnam. This is harder to do on reserve because it’s harder to economically manipulate people that don’t pay land taxes, but believe me it’s coming.

We’re getting played like hamsters on a hot plate. They use the natural instinct of the Onkwehonwe hunter against us.

You’ll never have enough money to survive paying the constant stream of bills, so the high school aged male is easily pushed into the armed forces. Our young men are intrinsically hard wired from hundreds of thousands of years of experience that the great hunter/warrior got the attention of the ladies and had multiple wives and children to keep the clans strong.

In today’s modern jungles, deer hunters are forced to adapt to grinding poverty by doing crime to trade money for

meat or to join the armed forces where we get front row tickets to the insanity of warfare.

To quote many great Haudenosaunee warriors, “War is a hard business.”

There is nothing romantic about death and destruction, especially when it is most likely against another indigenous earth people. So we have to be very careful about what our misguided youth think is the definition of the warrior for the nation. For one thing, he/she already has a nation. Whether it be Dene, Sioux or Mohawk.

There is much work to be done amongst the Iroquois Confederacy. Many limbs and arteries are severed from our body.

Your nation isn’t Canada, you are sovereign by natural order and don’t need nobodies approval to assert it. You just need a basic understanding of love for the earth and spiritual energies.

Power is a lake or a herd of caribou. Power is not a gun. Real power is the power to create, to call the lighting and thunder and believe me, I’ve seen it happen. It’s real as anything. Hence the name Haudenosaunee – the people that build. We build strong people and we build the earth energy with the stowa-gowa/ great feather dance.

Destroying life destroys us. You can’t kill a single person without killing a part of ourselves.

Everything is connected in the web of creation.

So tread lightly and talk it over with many elders and peers before you sign away your body to be the property of the corporation of Canada. Any

natives can organize a society of men to help their community. There are many dangers to our communities – look at all our murdered sisters. As the statistics show, we’re on our own. 1200 murdered and missing women since the 1970s not counting the millions undocumented in the history of colonialism.

If you must join the army to save yourself from addiction or death, always remember who you are and if you don’t know, learn. We are never supposed to raise weapons of war against each other. That’s Rule #1 in the Great Law. In the United States, the number of Black males joining the armed forces are in decline. The elite 1% have their eyes on set on North Turtle Island for fresh recruits. Beware!

In the Mohawk nation, our warriors cut their hair in the infamous Mohawk to symbolize the trajectory of the mighty warriors path in the sky from sunrise to sunset. The sun is a male energy (Esetiwatsia ent yek anek a k ara k wa) hence the yellow sun on the unity/warrior flag.

It means that after war, hopefully with ceremony and love we can find our way back home to a sane place in our spirits.

Peace/skenna kowa is an interconnection back to the creator on the path of love. War is wrong!

That’s why we buried our war clubs. War is the last resort, because war will destabilize our youth.

War is a game of the left handed twin. We must put our energies together to de-manifest war.

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People, not playthings: debate over Lancaster mascot heats up

By Jodi Lynn Maracle LANCASTER, NY – In the summer of 2014, as conversation around the Washington DC football team’s mascot grew, Lancaster School Board president Kenneth Graber reached out to Alvin Parker, Heron Clan, Seneca, to help address issues with their own mascot, the Lancaster Redskins.

On January 21, 2015, a distinguished panel comprised of Alvin Parker, Dr. Hillary Weaver a Lakota professor of social work at the University at Buffalo, John Kane a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk and well known radio host, Al Jemieson, Seneca, from NETO, a local Native arts organization, and Dr. Donald Grinde, Yammassee and professor of American Studies at the University at Buffalo, met with school board members in a public forum to explain the historic background and contemporary impact of the use of racial slurs and racist stereotypes for sports teams, especially in schools.

Dr. Weaver highlighted the many accomplishments and positive attributes found at Lancaster High School, where the meeting was held, including their annual day of kindness. “You have so many other things to be proud of – your image of

Some Students and facility at Lancaster High School in Upper New York state still cannot understand the historical trauma of the R-word and are fighting to keep their school mascot of 67 years. yourselves is strong and shouldn’t rely on a caricature of someone else”, she encouraged.

Despite the positive reminders offered to the school board, the history behind the word cannot be overlooked.

While many in favor of retaining the 67 yearold “Redskins” mascot believe the term is a descriptor for people with red toned skin, or that it may stem from a practice amongst some nations of painting one’s skin red for certain occasions, the evidence suggests otherwise.

The origins of the term come from the practice of early United

States citizens who, at the behest of the federal government and various townships, would advertise a bounty on the scalps of Native peoples. The highest price for scalps were for men (whose genitalia would also need to be brought in as proof), while women’s scalps brought in a mid range price and children held the lowest bounty.

Because blood would pour from the scalps of the slaughtered Native men, women and children, and drench their faces and now lifeless bodies, thus turning their skin red, early United States citizens began embracing the term “redskin”

for all Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island. The term implied that, eventually, all living Native peoples would be nothing but a “redskin” – a lifeless, blood covered, piece of bounty.

This all too common piece of hate speech now “inspires pride” in alumni and current students of Lancaster High School, whose slogan, “Once a Redskin, Always a Redskin”, says it all.

Prior to adopting the “Redskin” mascot 67 years ago, the school’s mascot was the “Maroons” which is a term, often used derogatorily, for escaped slaves and people of both African

small remote First Nation hits everyone so hard as everyone is so close knit. There are few things worse than being part of a helpless crowd look on as a home is devoured by flames.

Although things have progressed over the past 20 years or so there are still many challenges on First Nations all across this country when it comes to fire protection. In many cases there is just not enough funding to put together a state of the art volunteer firefighting service. Adequate management and training is not what it should be and many

First Nations have lots of fire accidents waiting to happen.

Due to the fact that many homes are still heated by wood and these houses are not well insulated, the chance of a fire in the midst of freezing temperatures is great. In many northern First

Nations, the winters are very cold with months of freezing temperatures.

That means that people are having to maintain big wood fires in their stoves or use constant full on electrical heating to keep warm. In addition there is a housing crisis in First Nations across Canada and of-

Under the Northern Sky continued from previous page fire at the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation in Saskatchewan recently, where two small children died. The fact that the community was no longer able to run its own fire services and instead had to rely on outside help rang all too familiar to me. I was reminded of the great difficulties my home community and many other First Nations across Canada have to face on an ongoing basis when it comes to fire protection.

On several occasions in my home community, we watched in horror as homes burned with people trapped in them. A tragic fire in a

and Native American descent.

Following the commentary from Native panelists, school board members had an opportunity to comment and ask questions. Member Michael Sage, whose children attend Lancaster schools, put the matter quite succinctly, “People think its offensive. So I don’t use it and I teach my kids not use it”. Instead, he and children call the term the “r-word”, much as people reference the “n-word” to avoid repeating a racial slur for people of African descent.

Sage added that at times, it was quite difficult to explain to his children why this word is not ok to say when it is plastered across the walls of their school, their gymnasium, their cafeteria and all over sporting event paraphernalia.

School board Vice President Patrick Uhteg, a proponent for retaining the controversial mascot, rebuked John Kane’s suggestion that Native children are psychologically damaged when they see at sporting events “Indian heads” impaled on a stick, with “dead skin, red skin” scrawled across the face and blood pouring from the eyes, a common effigy utilized by fans of teams playing against schools with Native stereotype mascots.

ten homes are crammed with too many people.

As you can imagine all of the above conditions can end up producing the environment for tragic fires such as the one in Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation. There is a need for more funding, better management and training for the vol-

“Well that’s just lowclass” Uhteg quipped, “I mean…think of squish the fish here- dolphins on sticks – it’s just low class”. No one pointed out to Uhteg that no baby dolphins would be attending sporting events nor do they stand the risk of psychological damage from hate speech inspired effigies of dolphin mascots.

Nor did anyone point out that dolphins, are different from human beings, i.e. – Native peoples.

At the close of this initial meeting, a meeting that many angered Lancaster alumni stormed out of, local television news networks interviewed remaining non-Native attendees.

One woman begged the camera, “When will our side of the story be heard?” evidently missing the point that this question and answer session was an opportunity for Lancaster school board members, alumni, parents and students to hear from Native peoples about the history and impact of this mascot.

In preparation for an upcoming public forum regarding the Lancaster school district’s mascot, Brenda Piskun Christopher started a Facebook group while other supporters hung two banners in Lancaster readCONTINUED ON PAGE 9

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Sconedogs & Seed Beads

Biting my tongue

By Nahnda Garlow As I was driving into work the other day I bit the underside of my own tongue. It wasn’t a bite like, ‘Owch, I bit my tongue. Man that sucks.’

This was more like cutting through a piece of salt pork with a pair of scissors. Yep. Raw meat plus scissors – literally what it felt like.

It was my own stupid fault. Like a Big Gwiss I was gossiping with my husband and eating a bagel at the same time.

When I was midsentence my upper canine teeth gave my lower bicuspids a high five straight through the underside of my wildly flapping tongue.

What happened next was a whole new world to me. Turns out that when you bite yourself a hole in the tongue; shock and awe flash before your eyes to help prepare for the impending pain.

It was as if time stood still for a moment and I actually had the time to curiously ponder what had just happened. I stopped chewing my bagel. ‘Oh dear God no! What did I just do?!’ I thought.

‘Did I really just bite through my own tongue?

Sick!’ I thought again.

Now because I bit myself on a weird angle directly through the muscles that connect to my throat – an intense tongue charlie horse set in.

“Ga h h h h h h h… . .uggggghhh!” I groaned through the bit of chewed up food still in my mouth.

I screamed and grunted like I was in the throes of active childbirth. Partly in pain, mostly angry at myself for biting through my own flesh.

My husband and my girls looked at me with grave concern. “What?

What’s wrong?” they exclaimed.

“I-bilt-mah-tung” I managed to lisp to them.

“Gahhhhhhhhhhh.”

It was literally so much unanticipated pain that I considered pulling over and asking my husband to take over driving the rest of the way into work so I could cope. I quickly swallowed the big hunk of bagel and cream cheese that was left over in my mouth. More pain.

I whimpered and took a swig from my coffee thinking that would help me overcome.

I honestly considered stopping the car, getting out and laying down in the snow to try and cope with the pain. I don’t know what it is like to get kicked in the nuts but this is the closest I’ve ever come to that feeling.

Still angry, I flipped down the visor mirror and stuck out my tongue to survey the damage. A big bruise had formed.

All I could do was breathe deep, let go of being angry about it and endure through the pain. Sometimes you just have to take it like a champ and keep on going.

I guess there are many things in life that are like that – you just gotta keep truckin’ on through the bull and get to where you are going.

I don’t really have a point here. Maybe I do.

Don’t ever gossip about

the rez while eating a bagel? Don’t let getting kicked in the nuts get you down and rolling about in the snow? Keep on keepin’ on no matter what ‘cousints’. That is all.

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Families of Makayla and JJ tell their stories

By Nahnda Garlow A hall full of Oncologists and national press gathered to hear the parents of Makayla Sault and the mother of J.J. speak at McMaster University.

Both families were invited to read prepared statements as part of a community panel addressing the prejudice they recently faced in the healthcare system and media – and why indigenous people continue to have traumatic experiences in the healthcare system.

Sonya Sault said her daughter Makayla’s experience at McMaster Children’s Hospital was traumatizing. “Every time Makayla approached the hospital her body began shaking,” she said. “She never got over the fear she experienced when she heard her parents threatened with jail and she and her brothers threatened with apprehension.”

J.J.’s mother read a written statement and clarified that she will be willing to share her story once the March 13th deadline for appeal to her case has passed.

“I have met with provincial government representatives who have been respectful and

compassionate,” she said.

“The issue is not whether traditional medicine will be respected but how it will be respected. And how and when the two systems can work together.”

Makayla’s mother Sonya Sault read an emotional written statement about their experiences at McMaster Children’s Hospital.

She also sought to correct inaccuracies reported about the child across national media.

Sault clarified that after Makayla’s diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with a positive Philadelphia Chromosome the child was given a 72% survival rate – if she made it through the five or more years of chemotherapy.

“Not 90%, not 95% – 72%,” she read. “We also learned from doctors at McMaster that chemotherapy is less effective and more punishing for indigenous children. The reasons for this are ‘not well understood’ we were told. In other words – [Makayla] had a 1 in 3 chance of dying from leukemia with the chemotherapy.”

Sault said chemotherapy took such a horrific toll on their child

R-word article from page 7 ing, “Save the Redskin Tradition”, inviting people to attend a rally before the public forum.

On the Save the Lancaster Redskins Facebook page, opinions such as, “I thought redskins lived on reservations…. sure are a lot of redskins running around this country”, “stomp their pansy butts” and “enough with political correctness” are plentiful.

A petition started

by Kate Derkovitz and Change.org to keep the mascot brought similar vitriol and even some celebrity signatures including “Chief Wahoo” who wrote “me wantumm smokum peace pipe”.

To prove the sup-

porters’ assertions wrong that this is only a small group of Native people that wish to see the mascot changed, a counter petition can be found at https:// w w w. c h a n g e . o r g /p/ lanc aster-school-dist r ic t-change-t he-racist-redskins-name-andmascot Encouragement comes from a variety background. One current Haudenosaunee student at Lancaster writes, “I want to see racism stop in schools”.

Numerous alumni have weighed in happy to hear a change is finally on the horizon.

However, a non-Native resident of Washington, D.C. sums it up best, “Native mascots

that doctors declared her a “mystery child.”

They also bravely confronted the erroneous media reports and opinionating their family has been subject to following the child’s case making world news headlines over the last year. She said, “The controversy, attention and inaccurate reporting have caused our family so much distress we have not been able to truly mourn Makayla.” addressed Sault media criticisms of her choice to travel to the Hippocrates Health Institute, saying it was upsetting to see her private family vacation exploited by the members of the press.

Dr. Dawn Martin Hill, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at McMaster University, spoke about how prejudices about indigenous people latent in the foundations of the healthcare system and mainstream media create great psychological distress for indigenous people across Canada.

A newspaper article from a large Canadian newspaper was quoted which criticized the choice both families made to travel to the Hip-

pocrates Health Institute in Florida. Martin-Hill addressed the truth of the matter in its proper context.

“Neither family went to Florida seeking alternative medicine,” she said. “They fled Canada: fleeing threats of apprehension, incarceration and hostile acts of aggression. In the US they found peace. Think about that. A safe place. That is all. Hope we cleared that up. They did not go there for any other reason than to get away from what was going on here.”

Martin-Hill said that in all of Canada’s reconciliation with First Nations people, the healthcare community has never

been a part of those discussions.

“The healthcare industry has not only never acknowledged there is a problem, they refuse to discuss any role they may have played in the unethical practices towards First Nations,” said Martin-Hill.

“Collaboration not coercion,” Martin-Hill said. “Using CAS or courts to apprehend First Nations children is loaded with horrific unjust actions Canadian institutions have exacted on First Nations people opening up deep wounds of historical trauma.”

Martin-Hill again invited the McMaster Children’s Hospital and Ham-

ilton Health Sciences to work with the McMaster Indigenous Studies department to collaborate and ensure that staff are aware of the historical traumas enacted upon First Nations people by the healthcare system so staff are better able to treat indigenous patients effectively.

“I am aware there are many good doctors here at McMaster. We need your support. We need you to stand up and work with us. I know you are here,” said Martin-Hill.

“We need integrative policies and practices so that J.J. does not have to be in a hostile environment.”

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How gardening heals: growing white corn as cultural reclamation

By Laura Hill For nearly 40 years, Sagoyesatha has been planting white corn on his family’s plot of land on Sour Springs Road. He returned to Six Nations in 1976, making the move

from Buffalo to be closer to family and the community where he spent most his childhood.

Upon his return, he was given Tuscarora Longcob seed from a relative.

He planted it, watched it turn into a seedling, and

then into a tall, towering stalk. The tassels drank in the sunshine that has risen over the family homestead since time immemorial.

Sagoyesatha saved the seed that year, as he does every year, some-

thing that he tells me is an act of resistance. A form of protest against some of the more aggressive forms of industrial agriculture that our society has come to know.

Sagoyesatha is my father. He, along with my mother, raised 4 babies on the land that my ancestors relocated to 175 years ago.

White corn has always been part of the landscape of my home for as long as I can remember. By day, the rows of corn made a great hiding place that my siblings and I would race through during games of hide and seek.

By night, my cousin and I would run past the corn field as fast as our little legs would go, certain otherworldly creatures dwelled in the shadows of the stalks. Other times the corn field was our classroom – my father would walk us through and educate us about the value of the corn and its importance to our people.

Today my classroom is the harvest table in my parent’s dining room.

In front of me is a tray of white corn that my father is drying out for flour. We snack on it as he reminds me of some of the lessons that I learned as a child.

“Oneha is central to our culture, our staple food.

It is what sustains us – food and medicine all in one. Some refer to it, along with beans and squash, as ‘The Sustenance’ or Dyohegwih. The Three Sisters.”

Sagoyesatha recounts the story of how he came to grow Mother Corn – Etnoha Oneha – a medicine corn that was traditionally used in ceremony for children who had lost their parents at a young age. “They say 1

cob in every 100 will be Mother Corn”, he shares.

After several seasons of growing corn, he peeled back the husks to find one – a single beautiful kernel at the end of the cob, surrounded by 7 rows of kernels.

“To me, it symbolizes one person in the middle, consoled by a circle of others offering support, holding them up.” He adds “I also see Mother Corn as a symbolic message from Mother Earth – if we reconcile our lost relationship with the natural world, our grief and pain as a whole can be changed”. Growing corn to him is a healing process. A cultural reclamation. A reconnection journey.

We sit in front of mason jars full of Mother Corn seeds he has saved as he pauses – silently reflecting on what growing them means to him.

He continues, “They almost lost this seed in the 50s and 60s. There was a

shortage, and they only had enough for ceremonies. People had to go to other communities to find it. But luckily people kept growing what little was left, and we still have them today.”

A residential school survivor, the significance of his role now as a cultivator of the very food that has sustained our culture since the beginning becomes apparent to me.

This is more than hobby gardening. It is a story of tenacity and survival – not just for the seed that was near lost, but for him too.

In the summer, he will walk through the corn fields with my daughter.

The vibrant green of the corn will be imprinted on her memory, like it was on mine. My heart will grow at the sight of it because over time, like me, she will make the connection. She will know. She will understand.

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Cleaning out the pantry

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what firm. The rice was strained and I saved the water in case it was needed for cooking the Swiss chard.

I cleaned the Swiss chard and tore it into small pieces. I wilted it slightly with a short sauté with crushed garlic in some of the duck fat from the jar.

Then, as a garnish for the meat, I chopped up and mixed together some parsley, pickled ramps, pickled peppers and sunflower seeds.

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Statement from the family of Makayla Sault “Our hearts are broken by the passing of our daughter. Makayla’s decision to stop chemotherapy in April of last year and our decision to support her in that choice has been the subject of great controversy. Much of the information reported in the media about her condition, her treatment, her life and her passing has been untrue. It hurt Makayla to hear these things said about her by the national media. It hurt our family, our community and indigenous people across the country to know that Canadians believed what the media were telling them.

The controversy, attention and inaccurate reporting have caused our family so much distress we have not been able to truly mourn Makayla. In many ways the last thing I want to be doing right now is sitting here in front of you and hearing the public, the press and everyone discussing her life and her illness and our loss. No one has the right to pass judgment. Because you were not there the days we watched our daughter suffer in the hospital on chemo. But I am here to speak on behalf of my daughter and my family with the hope that the public knows the truth about who Makayla was, about her choices and who we are as Annishnabe people. This is one of the ways that I can honor her.

I’d like you to know who Makayla was. She was a dancer, gymnast and lacrosse player. And an active leader of Chosen

Kidz. She was always wise beyond her years. She was precocious in so many ways and understood the world, and other people and herself more than we ever thought a girl her age could.

She loved her community and her people.

She usually had an opinion about things and she was seen as a leader by her peers, her teachers and members of her community. She was young and playful but her intelligence and her maturity were remarkable.

She had a strong faith and many spiritual encounters. By the time she was eleven years old Ken and I had come to respect her autonomy and her insight. We grew to respect her even more when we saw the courage she brought to her illness, to chemotherapy and how she lived the last year of her life.

Makayla was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with a Philadelphia Chromosome just over a year ago on January 22, 2014.

We were told that with aggressive chemotherapy over the course of two and a half years, and one chemo continuing for five years or more, she would have a 72% chance of survival. Not 90%, not 95% - 72%.

This percentage dropped even further when we learned that children of indigenous descent do not fare well on chemotherapy. We also learned from doctors at

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We were made to feel there were no other options so we began treatment. Makayla was part of every conversation with medical staff. In every treatment decision she understood the advice that the doctors gave us and voiced her opinion often about what should happen and how it should happen.

We were told by the hospital that Makayla would likely suffer from nausea, mouth sores, hair loss because of the chemo and this is all we were told. We were assured that these side effects were minimal and that there were drugs that were effective in counteracting these side effects.

Chemotherapy took a horrific toll on Makayla.

We know that chemotherapy is not easy for anyone, but for Makayla it was devastating. In her third week of treatment she developed a blood infection and went into septic shock. That was the first of four severe infections she experienced while on chemotherapy. She was not just nauseous but violently ill and not able to keep any foods or liquids down for weeks at a time.

She became so weak she could not stand or

even sit up at times. Her voice was reduced to a whisper.

The medical staff at McMaster said that she was suffering from some of the worst side effects from chemo they had ever seen and that she was their mystery child. I later learned through my own research that chemotherapy can also destroy your body’s ability to produce platelets and hemoglobin.

As well as your immune system. And permanently damage your organs including your kidneys and your heart causing cardiomyopathy. And that chemotherapy can cause death. Sadly, Makayla suffered from each of these permanent side effects.

As her condition worsened Makayla began to question us about whether or not the chemo was worth it. Whether it was working and whether she should continue. She asked, “Mom are you sure I’m getting better are you sure we’re doing the right thing? I feel like I’m getting worse.”

We reassured her over the course of several weeks that chemotherapy was killing cancer cells and so the other effects were worth it and would pass. And she continued her chemotherapy.

The chemotherapy made Makayla so weak and so ill that she put her foot down. She kept pushing more and more and saying things like “The chemo is going to kill me.

I feel like I am going to die and I can’t take it any-

more.”

Finally she asked me, “Mom, if you have the power to get me out of here then you need to get me out of here.” Meaning the hospital and treatment. She said she wanted to try traditional medicine instead.

Makayla was raised knowing about and using traditional medicines.

She was deeply aware of her culture and heritage.

Our medicines are an important part of who we are as Annishnabe people.

They are sacred and that knowledge is kept within the community. They are something that cannot be delivered by the Hippocrates Institute.

Makayla’s choice to use these medicines did not come out of nowhere.

It came out of knowledge of our people and our ways, and from her heart.

Makayla very well understood the harsh reality of the doctors reports should she stop chemo.

She also knew that the chemo would not guarantee her recovery and the side effects themselves could kill her. Her words to us were, “I don’t care if I’m going to die. I don’t want to die weak and sick in a hospital.” And we listened.

We made an agonizing decision in April after 11 weeks of chemo to support her choice.

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The doctor went on to tell us that anyone who claims they can be cured by traditional medicines should be thrown in jail.

We were told that she should be forced to continue with chemo because, in the doctor’s words, “she had not suffered enough.”

McMaster reported to Brant Child and Family Services that Makayla was a child in need of protection. CAS investigated and closed their file shortly after.

We shared and still share Makayla’s belief that had she continued with chemotherapy she would have died in a hospital bed in May or June of 2014. So instead, we took her home and we began traditional medicines.

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Heavyweight George Chuvalo lost to Muhammad Ali and after their rematch in 1972 it was reported that Ali suffered from bruised ribs and kidneys while Chuvalo was well enough to take a night on the town. Chuvalo was never knocked down in his career.

Heavyweight Champ George Chuvalo comes to New Credit

By Jim Windle NEW CREDIT – When George Chuvalo was Canadian Heavyweight Champion of the world, he fought some of the biggest names in boxing, including Muhammad Ali, whom he fought twice, Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry, George Foreman, Ernie Terrell, and Jimmy Ellis.

Although he lost those bouts, except for Quarry whom he defeated, Chuvalo earned the praise of the best of the best during the heyday of the heavyweights.

His bout against Patterson in 1965 was a very close decision which Ring Magazine declared the fight of the year. Following the fight, Patterson recalled that it was “the toughest fight of my career.”

Chuvalo also went the distance in both battles against the legendary Mohammed Ali when Ali was in his prime. Years later Ali told reporters, “He’s the toughest guy I ever fought.”

Ali’s cornerman, the equally legendary Angelo Dundee said of Chuvalo, “He never stopped coming on... you’ve got to admire a man like that.”

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ter a ring tell his own story Wednesday, March 11, at the New Credit Community Hall beginning at 5 pm. There will be a light supper provided and admission is free.

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Demons bitten by Turfdogs

By Jim Windle

Here is a young Chuvalo posing with Muhammed Ali before their epic fight.

1972, it was widely reported that Ali spent time in the hospital recovering from bruised ribs and kidneys while Chuvalo went dancing with his wife.

Chuvalo was never knocked down, even against the power of Foreman and Frazier although he lost to both in TKO’s.

He reigned as Canadian Heavyweight Champion from 1958 to 1979, an incredible 21 years.

Chuvalo was the

number one contender for the British Empire heavyweight title for many years but champion Henry Cooper refused to fight him.

During his long and storied career, Chuvalo recorded 64 knockouts in 93 professional fights.

But as tough as he was, nothing he faced in the ring would hit him as hard as life itself, out of the ring.

Chuvalo lost three sons, Jesse Chuvalo in 1985 to suicide, Geor-

gie Lee Chuvalo in 1993 and Steven Louis Chuvalo in 1996, both to drug overdoses. If that wasn’t enough, he also lost his first wife to suicide after his second son died.

But Chuvalo got up off the canvas and has since remarried and is a stepfather to two children. He and his second wife now tour high schools and community halls speaking about the devastation of drug use to teens.

Hear arguably the toughest boxer ever to en-

DURHAM – The Ohsweken Demons are batting .500 and are in third place in the five-team Canadian Lacrosse League aka CLax after dropping a 12-11 decision to the Durham Turfdogs at the General Motors Centre Saturday afternoon.

It has been the Demons’ style to turn it on in the second half, but this time the Turfdogs came from behind to overtake Ohsweken It was 2-2 at the end of the first quarter, and 7-3 for the Demons at the half. After the intermission, the Dogs would have their day as they fought off the Demons and regained lost ground to stand tied 9-9 at the end of the third quarter.

Durham took the 11-9 lead a pair of quick

goals at 11:48 and 11:40 in the fourth quarter.

Wayne VanEvery, who played a stellar game, cut the Durham lead to one and Dallas John evened the score at 11-11 with 8:40 remaining.

Mack O’Brien played the hero for the Dogs when he netted the game winner with 1:16 left on the clock. The Demons could do no more as the Turfdogs celebrated the tenacious win.

The Demons offense was led by Roger Vyse (2G, 4A), Wayne VanEvery (4G, 1A), and Torrey VanEvery (2G,2A).

The Demons host the Turfdogs at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena for the last time in the regular season this coming Friday, March 6th at 8 pm when they hope to exact their revenge.

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Corvairs mercilessly paste Pelham 31-1

By Jim Windle CALEDONIA – The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs want the Sutherland Cup and will demolish anyone who gets in the way. The unfortunate Pelham Panthers drew the Corvairs in the first round of the Jr. B playoffs with predictable results.

Saturday night, in Caledonia, the Corvairs also showed no mercy on their way to an 18-0 romp in Game #2 of the series.

The Corvairs blew aside the Panthers 7-1 in Game #1 played in Pelham. The slaughter continued in Game #2, at the Haldimand Centre with a 6-0 walk, but Game #3 was down right ridiculous.

In the second of backto-back home games, the Corvairs ran up an 18-0 victory that felt like a midget team playing the Montreal Canadians. It was that lop-sided. Shots on goal tell the story.

Shots on goal tallied 71 for Caledonia against 15 shots by Pelham.

The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs are making very short work of the Pelham Panthers in round #1 of the divisional Jr. B playoffs. They won Game #1 7-1, Game #2 6-0 and Game #3 18-0. Game #4 was played Tuesday night and missed our deadline. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE “Some people might accuse us of running up the score, but the league made a new rule regarding the Sutherland Cup where goals for and goals against could be a factor should playoff wins/ losses be tied,” explained general manager Brian Rizzetto. “It wasn’t that

“Bully” (coach Mike Bullard) was pushing the guys or double shifting guys. The way I look at it, they knew that we were not going to hold anything back. They could have tried to put together a better team.”

In Game #3, the Corvairs rested three of their

better players in Todd Ratchford, one of the best defensemen in the league, Connor Patten a 45 point man in the regular season and Connor Bramwell, a 46 point man.

“It’s a dangerous time of the year and we are predators,” says Rizzetto.

“We smelled blood and

did what we do. You can’t ask your guys to ease up at this time of year.”

Nearly everyone on the game roster for the night got at least one point, but Kyle Tanev led the way and accounted for 7 points by way of 2 goals and 5 assist.

It was 7-0 after 20 minutes, 15-0 after two periods.

The pain may have ended for the Panthers Tuesday night in Game #4, played in Pelham, however, the results missed our deadline.

In the first 3 games of the first round, the Corvairs amassed (31) goals for and allowed 1 goal against.

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Six Nations lacrosse stars make NLL report

By Jim Windle Six Nations’ Alex Kedoh Hill powered the Buffalo Bandits past the Colorado Mammoth 14-11 Saturday, Feb. 28th at the First Niagara Centre with three goals and an assist.

The win increases the Bandits’ record at the halfway point in the season to 5-5, good enough for third place in the east.

The Bandits led the Mammoth 4-3 after the first quarter, but Colorado evened the score to 6-6 by the half.

Each team scored five more in the third quarter to set up an exciting final 15 minutes.

Buffalo goaltender Davide DiRuscio turned into a stone wall in the final frame while Ryan Benesch, Dhane Smith and Hill beat Dillon Ward at the other end of the floor to secure the Bandits’ win.

Rochester Knighthawks’ star Cody Ja-

mieson’s 7-point game was capped off with the game winner scored at 11:12 of the 4th quarter Saturday night at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester.

The Knighthawks were hosting the Calgary Roughnecks who very nearly stole the game after a slow start, falling behind 6-1 in the 1st quarter. Dan Dawson added another Rochester goal early in the second quarter, but Calgary got off the canvas and pounded four past Matt Vinc to cut the Rochester lead to 7-5 by the half.

Each team scored three in the third to keep the two goal margin, but in the 4th, Calgary tied it up 11-11.

Jamieson then threw it in that gear that most other players don’t have, and notched the game winner to improve Rochester’s record to 6-2 for second place behind the Toronto Rock.

Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Johnny Pow-

less and the Vancouver Stealth were hammering the Minnesota Swarm 21-15. Powless assisted on five.

It took OT to settle the score in Edmonton Friday night where the Toronto Rock added to their first place holdings by defeating the Rush 16-15.

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Sault statement from page 13 Dr. Zacks and her oncologist Dr. Marjerrison from McMaster.

We also took her to the Hippocrates Institute in Florida in July.

She didn’t receive traditional medicines there.

The institute isn’t an indigenous institution.

How would a resort in Florida run by non-indigenous people know about our traditional medicine?

It has been very upsetting to see and hear the press claim we went to Hippocrates to receive traditional medicines and have our private family vacation exploited in such a way.

At Hippocrates, Makayla and I received nutritional counselling and she rested in the sun and swam in the ocean. The point of going to Hippocrates was to let her rest and relax.

To learn to eat well. This was meant to strengthen her immune system and to help to recover from chemotherapy.

But the effects of the chemotherapy continued. Her immune system remained very weak, too weak. She was weakened by cardiomyopathy.

Makayla was monitored and treated by her oncologists at McMaster. Makayla was very apprehensive about returning to McMaster for care, considering what we had been through.

But we felt we were left with no other choice.

Dr. Marjerrison gained a trust with Makayla and spoke with her over the phone. She was one of the few oncologists Makayla would ever see at McMaster upon returning.

Every time Makayla approached the hospital her body began shaking. She never got over the fear she experienced when she heard her parents threatened with jail and she and her brothers threatened with apprehension.

With her weakened immune system the doctors at McMaster told she would never overcome an infection

but in fact she fought through many. During this time we cared for Makayla. She had constant access to medical care through Dr. Zacks and her oncologist at McMaster. The nursing staff and Dr. Montour from Six Nations attended on her at our home.

Her traditional healer saw her often and adjusted the medicines Makayla took according to her blood work and physical examinations.

She received excellent care.

Finally she had an adverse reaction to an antibiotic. Her blood pressure skyrocketed.

Less than a week after she was taken off of the drug she had a stroke and the next day she passed. She passed at home, in my arms, in her own bed.

Ken and I and the rest of Makayla’s family know that people across the nation care deeply about Makayla and wanted the best for her. The discussion and debate about her and our choices are an important part about educating Canadians about who indigenous people are, what we believe in and how we live. Without that education the tragedies that our people have suffered will continue. But the discussion and the debate will do more harm than good if they are based on inaccurate information, stereotypes and misunderstanding. That is what we have seen so far.

My hope in speaking to you today is to honor Makayla, her life and her choices by trying to correct so much of the misinformation that has been reported to the public. So that no other indigenous child, family or community will have to endure this when they seek medical care for a grave illness.”

MARCH 4TH, 2015

The Renaming of Squ*w Island

By Jodi Lynn Maracle I write this as I prepare for a public meeting with supporters of Lancaster school district’s hate speech mascot, the Redskins. As word of the meeting spread, so too did vitriol, hate, and down right offensive, ignorant comments. It’s hard to keep a good mind in the face of such pointed, violent commentary; especially when preparing to carry my infant son into a meeting with such people.

But I remind myself, this is not the first, or the last time we will face something like this trying to make small changes that have big impacts.

When I began the push to rename Squ*w Island located here in Buffalo, NY over a year ago, I wasn’t quite sure how things would go. When I started, I was mostly brushed off. It wasn’t until I created a petition, spoke with Buffalo Common Council members, and engaged in community dialogues and education that the true colors of the City of Good Neighbors come forth.

People referred to me as a “nasty squaw” who’s “too PC” and “should go back where she came from” in comments section all over the internet.

Third generation Buffalonians bemoaned the loss of their tradition of heading over to Squ*w Island to do some fishing.

People were kind enough to remind me that “squaw” was used as a term of honor. One man was even kind enough to show up not only to a talk I gave about the impact of this and other hate speech

stereotypes, to inform me how wrong how I was, but also showed up to Buffalo Common Council to denounce, pervert, and essentially make a mockery of our Haudenosaunee histories, intellectual, spiritual and political traditions.

On February 20th, 2015, despite all the hateful opposition, Mayor Byron Brown announced at his State of the City Address that the name of Squ*w Island in Buffa-

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lo, NY, thankfully, will be changed to Ga’nigö:i:yoh Unity Island.

Ga’nigö:i:yoh (gaknee-GO-ee-yoh) means, in the Seneca language, “one good mind”. This is one of the central concepts to Haudenosaunee intellectual and political traditions. This phrase is used to bring people together in peaceful consensus and turn our best intentions towards future generations and all creation now and in the future.

While originally I advocated for a return to the Seneca name of the island, Dejo’wenö:gáhdoh (meaning split or divided island since a creek once ran through there thus dividing the island), after speaking with many people ranging from speakers of the Seneca language, to councilmembers, to Native and non-Native Buffalonians and Mayor Brown, we came to agree on Ga’nigö:i:yoh - Unity Island.

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Six Nations man faces jail time for notarizing Canadian documents

By Jim Windle VANCOUVER, COAST SALISH TERRITORY – It may appear to be a Hail Mary pass to some, but others see it as a potentially ground breaking legal face-off between Canadian Law Societies and the sovereignty of Onkwenonwe people.

Sino General is a Wolf Clan member of the Cayuga Nation, from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, who is now living in British Columbia.

He defended himself in a BC Court of Friday against charges laid by the Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia (SNPBC) for, they say, impersonating a “real” Notary Public.

In 2013, after General refused to comply with an injunction ordering him to stop the practice, more charges were laid against him including Contempt of Court.

General was stamping documents with a seal with his Onkwehon:we name “Hajistahenhway” and the words “Notary Public – Cayuga Nation.” General has been helping members of the public seeking to have documents notarized in disputes with corporations and the government.

Under British and Canadian law, the service offered by a Notary Public is to certify that whatever a transaction or official signature that may be needed for a person is in fact true and legitimate. In a nutshell, a Notary Public vouches that a person is who they say that they are and that they are affirming their statements to be true.

For a number of years, General, who also goes by his traditional name, Hajistahenhway, has been providing this service in BC for free, saving people money in an already expensive legal system. He designed his own official seal for that purpose.

“I follow the law of peace and the governments of the (Six Nations) nation,” he said. “Our government’s system was here thousands of years before they (Canadian government) got here. I am exempt from Canadian law.”

Sino General claims to be exempt from Canadian law because he is of the Cayuga Nation.

General cites the Two Row Wampum treaty as the foundation of his argument and holds that as a member of the Cayuga nation he does not need the approval of the BC government or its regulatory bodies to preform the functions of a Notary Public.

According to the Two Row Wampum, Onkwehon:we and non- Onkwehon:we were to honour and respect each other’s laws and customs, without the interference of the other.

Hajistahenhway believes that these legal assumptions practiced as fact by the SNPBC, do not apply to him doing the same service under Onkwehonwe law.

“I told them that if you have proof that you have the authority to make such demands, that I would stop being a notary public,” General told the Two Row Times in an interview Friday.”

“The members of the public need to know that the legal fashions he’s carrying out are not valid,” SNPBC General Counsel, Ron Usher, told APTN. “He’s not qualified…nor a member of any body. Our role is to protect the public from such things. The law says we’re the people who determine who is a notary and who is not.”

General is hoping to find if the presumed authority of the BC government supersedes a treaty.

Under the Two Row Wampum, which is still supposed to be a part of Canadian Law, Canadians have every right to establish their own institutions and regulations for Notary Publics, but not to impose their rules or system

of government on Onkwehon:we people, who are to stay in their own vessel.

The Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee – Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora – operate according to their own politico-legal system known as the Kaianere’kó:wa, which has been in effect since long before Europeans arrived in North America General is not alone in his opinion either. Lisa Monchalin, A Kwantlen

Poly-tech University, Department of Criminology professor, agrees with General that the courts are challenging his sovereignty.

“He has never once declared himself as a B.C. notary,” she told APTN. “ He helps people out,” said Monchalin. “If the B.C. courts think what he’s doing looks similar to them then so be it. But he has every right to do what he’s doing under treaty.”

For General, it’s more

about principle than anything. He refuses to recognize someone else’s authority because he believes Canadian and provincial laws do not apply to him as a sovereign Onkwehon:we person.

“This is something that’s been coming down the pipes for a while,” he said. “We are the people who are original. We always had the agreement that we’d share the lands as friends and not tell each other what to do. Their

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By Nahnda Garlow Kahnawake Mohawk Kawennahere Devery Jacobs has started a kickstarter campaign online to raise $15,000 for a short film on the story of one of indigenous Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigneous Women and Girls.

STOLEN will focus on the fictitious story of a 14 year old girl who is a group home runaway named Shayna who becomes one of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Jacobs is hoping that through the art of storytelling she will be able to shine a light into the dark experience of becoming a statistic among the miss-

ing and murdered indigenous women and girls.

Jacobs is herself an indigenous woman, a Mohawk from Kahnawake.

The Kanienkehaka actress is widely known for her role as Aila in the award winning feature film Rhymes for Young Ghouls; a dark revenge fantasy on the residential school system. Jacobs was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in 2014 for that role.

On why this issue has prompted her to shoot a short film Jacobs writes, “It has become unavoidable; everywhere you turn, you can’t help but see or hear about more Native girls who are stolen from their families.

Almost every reserve in

Canada has lost a young woman, mine included.

This doesn’t even mention those living in urban areas. You can’t turn on the news or scroll down your newsfeed without hearing about yet another native girl who is missing, ANOTHER girl whose remains has been discovered. With this ever-increasing epidemic, and the Government’s refusal for a National Inquiry; STOLEN has never been more important to tell.

It’s also never been more important for Canadians to hear.”

Jacobs will partnering in the project with Director of Photography Michel St-Martin who also worked with her on Rhymes for Young Ghouls.

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Turning to crowd funding online is an increasingly popular way for young filmmakers to get their projects made.

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Projects are proposed online and you register a pledge.

The campaign organizer sets a financial goal and if they do not meet that goal within thirty days, they do not get the funds and the pledges are not collected.

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Remembering E. Pauline Johnson: 1861-1913

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The books of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism of Emily Pauline Johnson continue to inspire and enlighten readers today.

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was born at Chiefswood on the Six Nations Reserve to a Mohawk father and an English mother. Johnson's writing career began in 1895 with the publication of her first book of poems, White Wampum.

She went on to write additional books of verse and prose. Her career as a stage entertainer took her across Canada and United States as well as to England. In her stage career she adopted her grandfather's Mohawk name, Tekahionwake.

Flint and Feather is a reprint of the book of verse first published by the Musson Book Company of Toronto in 1912.

This Iroqrafts Reprint was published in 1997.

Flint and Feather contains over 90 poems from Canadian Born, White Wampum, and a selection of additional poems. The Song My Paddle Sings remains her most popular poem that for many years was required memory work for Canadian students.

Flint and Feather has remained in print throughout the years since Johnson's death.

Her poems strike a romantic chord of nationalism, loyalty to the Crown, and a celebration of the Canadian landscape.

Many of the poems in Canadian Born reflect her travels from Eastern Canada to British Columbia.

Poems such as The Sleep-

ing Giant, At Crow's Nest Pass, and The Legend of Qu'Appelle Valley reflect her love of the lands of the West.

Her Mohawk heritage is addressed in poems such as The Corn Husker, Lullaby of the Iroquois, Ojistoh, and As Red Men Die. Pauline Johnson remains a popular Canadian figure and her writing continues to inspire First Nations authors. This Iroquois Reprint contains a portrait of Pauline Johnson by Tuscarora artist Raymond Skye.

The Moccasin Maker is an annotated anthology of Emily Pauline Johnson's (1861-1913) short story collection first published in 1913. This University of Oklahoma Press edition is edited by A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff, Professor Emerita, from the Department of English, at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

The 266-page reprint is faithful to the original and its stories include: My Mother; Catharine of the "Crow's Nest"; A Red Girl's Reasoning; The Envoy Extraordinary; A Pagan in St. Paul's Cathedral; As it was in the beginning; The Legend of Lillooet Falls; Her Majesty's Guest; Mother o' the Men; The Nest Builder; The Tenas Klootchman; and The Derelict.

In addition to Pauline’s original stories, A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff provides a helpful introduction about this poet as well as notes explaining each entries references and background.

E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose edited by Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Bo-

ag contains a generous selection of E. Pauline Johnson's poems and prose writings.

This collection includes 169 poems organized chronologically into periods such as The Early Years: Beginnings to 1888; The Prolific Years: 1889-1898; Later Years: 1899-1913; and Anonymous and Pseudonymous Poems. Readers familiar with Johnson's lyrical and narrative poetry will find her bestknown examples such as A Cry from an Indian Wife, As Red Men Die, The Song My Paddle Sings and The Cattle Thief as well as her nature verse and romantic poems.

The editors include an introduction that recounts the main biographical data of the Mohawk performer's life, her career that took her across Canada and overseas to England, and her publishing history. They also describe their editorial process and corrections to particular poems and stories and their perspective on E. Pauline Johnson's place in Canadian literature as a "Mixedrace New Woman".

The book includes 19 of Johnson's prose works including her retelling of legends especially those from British Columbia, short stories, and non-fiction essays. The prose works expand our understanding of Johnson as a woman with distinct opinions on race and gender roles.

One essay in particular, “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction,” takes firm aim at current literature of the times as it relates to the portrayal

and depiction of Indian Women. Many of Johnson's arguments and concerns are relevant to contemporary First Nations who still contend with stereotypes grotesque of Aboriginal women in popular culture.

The book contains detailed notes on each entry that scholars will find beneficial. The gen-

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While some may find Johnson's vocabulary tainted with the British colonial mentality, her essays contain interesting subject matter especially “Forty-Five Miles on the

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HILL: Blanche Louise (Porter) Surrounded by her loving family. It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Blanche Hill in her 83rd year. Loving and devoted wife of 64 years to Fred Hill.

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2ND REGULAR - BROWN SNAKE (5) CRAZY PYRAMID

$1,500 $3,000

3 REGULAR - GREEN 1 LINE 2 LINES

$1,500 $3,000

4 REGULAR - YELLOW 2 LINES SANDWICH 100X NUMBER CALLED

$1,500 $1,500/$7,500

5TH REGULAR - AQUA 1 LINE 2 LINES

$1,500 $3,000

SUPER JACKPOT (Not in Pak $10) SPUTNIK

$2,500

RD

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FULL CARD MUST GO

ü Large Non-Smoking Area

2585 Chiefswood Rd. Ohsweken ON N0A 1M0 Conveniently located just off HWY 54 between Brantford and Caledonia

$10,000

INTERMISSION 6TH REGULAR - PINK SMALL KITE LARGE KITE

$1,500 $3,000

7TH REGULAR - BLUE 1 LINE 2 LINES

$1,500 $3,000

S.N. SPECIAL (Not in Pak $10) 2 LINES T-BIRD

$1,000 $2,000

FULL CARD MUST GO

60/40 SPLIT

8TH REGULAR - BLACK 2 LINES INDIAN STAR 100X NUMBER CALLED

$1,500 $1,500/$7,500

9TH REGULAR - LIME 1 LINE 2 LINES

$1,500 $3,000

JACKPOT - GREY (Extra cards $10) INSIDE SQUARE $1,000 $3,000 LETTER “H”

FULL CARD

$50,000

NEXT FULL CARD

$2,000

LAST CHANCE (Not In Pak $1) FULL CARD

60/40 SPLIT

ü Amazing Snack Bar

ü Friendly Service

NOW ACCEPTING

Open 7 Days a Week

Six Nations of the Grand River Territory

Hotline: 519-753-8573

www.sixnationsbingo.ca

ü ATM On-Site SCAN HERE

to watch the Grand Bingo Video