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Same ol’ same ‘ol after municipal elections By Jim Windle BR ANT/BR ANTFORD/ HALDIMAND — It looks like nothing is going to change for the next four years, politically anyway. All three of Six Nations neighbouring communities will continue with incumbent mayors following Monday’s municipal elections, none of which have declared any intent to change their policies regarding Six Nations land. All three mayors intend to continuing development on contested Six Nations land without
meaningful consultation or compensation. In Brantford, Chris Friel returns to the chair with 8743 for 32% of the votes cast after fending off several opponents for the city’s top job. The closest challenger was former Ward #1 Councillor Jan Vanderstelt who garnered 4519 votes, followed by former Ward #4 Councillor Dave Wrobel with 4042 votes. Both have lost their seat on council by running for the mayors office, making room for a few newcomers on council. Mark Littell, who also served as a Councillor in
years past, earned 2018 votes while newcomer Mary-Ellen Kay attracted 1113 votes. John Turmel took 113 votes. HaldiMeanwhile, mand County re-elected Ken Hewitt for another term. Judging by statements made by Hewitt in his campaign, no meaningful shift in policy is likely on that front either, although Hewitt has expressed what he sees as hope for some form of breakthrough on the DCE issue. four last “The months, we’ve made some headway,” Hewitt told
the Grand River Sachem before election day. “I’ve spent some time meeting with the different leaders on Six Nations. I met with the Ministers a couple of times. We’ve had some joint meetings, which we’ve never had before.” He promised to continue to have meetings with the province and Six Nations Elected Council and encourage the Confederacy Council to discuss the future use of the land. “I think that the next steps for us is to really get in the trenches with the public,” Hewitt said. “This
includes both Six Nations and Haldimand residents. The use of the land should be beneficial for everyone because the one thing that’s not going to change is that we’re neighbours.” It has been Six Nations stance, from both the Elected Council and the Confederacy Chiefs Council that any discussions about the future use of that land will be between Six Nations and the Province only, not recognizing Haldimand as having any legal stake in the matter. Ron Eddy held onto the Mayor’s Chair in the
County of Brant with no real challenge coming from candidates Roy Haggart and Shawn Pratt. Eddy drew 5357 votes while Haggart came in second with 2506 votes and Pratt with 1571 votes. Brant has been the more conciliatory of the three to date and has formed partnerships with Six Nations Elected Council. With these same players in place, chances of any shift in policy regarding Six Nations issues are not likely, for the immediate future anyhow.
OHSWEKEN – Multimedia house Thru the RedDoor, Juno award-winning musician Derek Miller, and musician and media professional Marty Ballentyne (Breach of Trust, Inez Jasper, George Leach) are eager and excited to announce the launch of new venture 6 Arrows Media. The three came together sharing a vision of an unparalleled creative environment and next-generation studio experience. Now, 6 Arrows Media, nestled in
the heart of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, launches November 1, 2014. “Our core Thru the RedDoor team is humbled to be working with both of these tremendously talented individuals. With our combined resources we envision 6 Arrows Media quickly becoming a behemoth multimedia hub in Indian Country and beyond,” said Gary Joseph, 6AM Partner and Project Manager at Thru the RedDoor. “Our Nov. 1 launch
event will be streamed live from our Ohsweken studio, will be viewable on our website, and will be the first real demonstration of our capabilities as 6AM.” For artists, partnering with 6AM means access to recording, photography, and video production technologies, spaces for live performances, live streaming, and all the capabilities of an internet service provider in one place. Juno award-winning musician Derek Miller,
one of the minds behind the new partnership, says 6AM is the company he wished existed twenty years ago when he began his own career in music. “We’re eager to share what we’ve been working on. 6AM will be able to take those artists who live next door and give them every tool they need to be successful. We have the technology, we have the industry experience, and we have the vision. It is our hope that this company is there to give artists the boost that people
like Marty and I didn’t have when we began. For us, this is a way of giving back,” said Miller. “The need to create meaningful art with like-minded people is something felt keenly by all artists,” said Ballentyne, 6AM partner and media Toronto-based professional. “We believe in collaboration, honoring our roots, and taking what we’ve learned and paying it forward. This is an unbelievable opportunity for all involved and we encourage anyone
who might be interested to come and visit. We would love to know what you’re getting into and how we might be able to help you bring your vision to life. Let’s talk!” The doors will be thrown open with an exclusive kick-off celebration streaming online live at www.6arrowsmedia. com November 1, 2014. Joseph says, “Viewers can look forward to dynamic web content, original programming and live-streamed events for years to come.”
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Dress for the cause comes to Six Nations By Mari Reeve OHSWEKEN – Last Friday in Chiefswood Park at Six Nations firefighters and Elected Band Council members, along with their family and friends gathered at 2pm for a picture to commemorate the over $400 they raised for breast cancer research. Nationwide, businesses, clubs, schools, and organizations of all sizes teamed up with the Breast Cancer Society of Canada, each simultaneously hosting their own event, to mark the 17th Annual DRESS for the CAUSE. The event was previously called “Dress Down Day”; this year the event collectively raised over $2 million for breast cancer research in Canada. Employees had to wear a pink or white shirt to be included in the picture, and were encouraged to invite their family and friends, even if they weren’t Council employees or participants in the actual fundraising. The Organization/Team name was ‘Six Nations of the Grand River/Six Nations Fire Department’.
Due to the nature of their work, firefighters have a higher risk of developing cancer and other job-related health complications. Dr. Tee Guidotti, a leading expert on occupational and pulmonary medicine explains that there is much needed (and costly) research in terms of firefighters and their environmental exposure to toxins known to cause cancer. “The problem is that although we have lots of studies on firefighters, they don’t tell us everything we need to know. There are lots of uncertainties and because any one study is usually small and local, it
often does not reflect the true risk for firefighters as a whole. We need more research that addresses gaps in information. We need studies that really drill down on specific exposures and specific cancer types, and this will take more funding. We know that every exposure to a fire is a dangerous and poisonous event. We need to use the same studies that document cancer risk as guides for prevention, so that future firefighters are better protected.” Participation was a first for Six Nations Elected Council, but even with little time the money raised is a huge success.
show that the negative side effects of chemo may be more pronounced in Onkwehon:we children than in non-Natives. The cost of these holistic treatments, plus the travel and lodging for the families, is very expensive and there have been a number of other fundraisers conducted by friends and family of the two girls. But this time it is the Six Nations Police Services who are stepping up to the place by dedicating their annual “Community Cuts for Cancer” event to help these families. According to a Six Nations Police media release, so far, there are 30 people who will be participating by having their
heads shaved. Six Nations Police Community Services Officer, Janna Miller has agreed to have her head shaved “if” she receives $2,500.00 in sponsors on the night of this event. “We are calling on any sponsors, private or corporate, to come out on Wednesday and make a donation towards Janna’s challenge,” according to the SNPS release. Community members are also encouraged to come out and show their support for of Makayla Sault and Teiekwa Johnson and their families. The fur begins to fly at Polytechnic at 6 pm.
SNPD to host hair razing fundraiser for Makayla and Teiekwa By Jim Windle OHSWEKEN – There will be a hair-razing fundraiser held Wednesday, October 29th, at Six Nations Polytechnic with all proceeds going to the families of Makayla Sault and Teiekwa (Jada) Johnson. The two 11-year-old girls are suffering from cancer, but they and their families have opted for traditional, wholistic remedies as opposed to the standard chemotheropy treatments, which many times, can create acute sickness and other serious complications, even if it is successful in the temporary remission of the disease. There are also studies underway which may
Next year Six Nations Elected Council hopes to
organize an even bigger event, with the inclusion
of the Health Department. There was also talk of getting a portable mammography machine so people could do breast cancer screenings on the spot. There is no doubt that firefighters risk their lives daily to ensure the safety of others. It is a beautiful thing to see community members step up and support the need for research that will seek to understand health factors for firefighters and determine prevention methods for their optimal health.
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Darlene Necan’s struggle continues By Fernando Acre On November 20, Darlene Necan, from the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen no. 258, will have her second hearing at the Ontario court of justice, in Sioux Lookout. She’s being charged $20,000 under the Public Lands Act, section 2(1), by the Ontario government for allegedly building her plywood house on Crown land last October 2013. As a result, Necan is also currently homeless and therefore has very limited access to a computer or phone. That’s why on this particular morning, she finds herself waking up early to use the computer at her sister’s home in Ignace, Ontario, where she is staying for now. We chat for the next few hours over Facebook. The dispute over her plywood house, built on land where her entire family grew up, goes back to October 29, 2013. As she finished nailing the roof of what would become her residence, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources handed her a stop-work order. They argued she was building on the supposed township of Savant Lake. However, with no mayor, much less a town
Darlene Necan of the Ojibwe of Saugeen No. 258. council, the region has traditionally been known to Nishnabeks as Unorganized Indian Settlement Land. This particular piece of land was also directly given to her in an oral agreement among Nishnabeks, by her aunt and headman of the reservation, years ago, long before the OMNR showed any interest. The house – which remains without electricity, a door or plumbing – sits beside highway 599, a major route for the devel-
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opment of the so-called Ring of Fire. Noront Mining – one of the major developers – has proposed a road running 280 kilometres east-west from Pickle Lake to Eagle’s nest using this highway. The mined nickel would then end up in a transport facility “about five kilometres down the railway tracks” in Savant Lake. “So I’m thinking that is why the OMNR wants to turn Savant Lake into a township,” she explains. Yet, as she battles the
OMNR with one hand, Necan, a residential school survivor and the band’s spokesperson elected since 2003, is also digging for the truth behind the community’s residential school settlements with the other. She says she believes lawyer Doug Keshen, who represents the community on the matter, and Chief Edward Machimity, are misleading members. In June of this year, the CBC reported that Keshen’s firm – Keshen and Major – was being investigated by the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat. Complaints had emerged that he was advancing the claimants loans at high interest rates and then paying himself from their settlements. “Now they keep stalling and cancelling meetings with us,” she writes. “Keshen represents the government of Saugeen, not the people… He also says our band wants to negotiate a bilateral meeting with Noront, but I’m guessing that’s not true, because they seem to want to push this quickly… It seems we have been cheated out of a lot of things.” Now Necan is taking
her story on the road, on a tour through various Ontario cities, hoping to raise awareness about the struggles she and the people of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen no. 258 are facing, particularly with off-reserve housing. Her first stop will be Toronto, on November 8. It will be hosted at the Native Canadian Centre, at six PM, and organized by a number of progressive entities including No More Silence, Muskrat Magazine, Idle No More Toronto, among others. The tour also hopes to raise funds for the long trial ahead of her. Necan’s path is not clear of trouble. Hitchhiking from place to place to avoid “overstaying (her) welcome” is frightening, particularly amid growing reports of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. “I just recently had a somewhat bad experience with a non-native guy. He started to get mad at me because of chief’s salaries… he said he was an honest taxpayer,” she writes. “He picked me up outside Thunder Bay and dropped me off Kakabeka Falls… a 20 minute ride, though he was going to Winnipeg. But that was
OK. I wanted to get off. He looked mad.” In 2003, shortly after being elected spokesperson, a treaty technician who’d been working at her reservation, whose English name was Richard Harper, had noticed the uphill battle she was undertaking. While he taught her about treaties, conventions and traditions, he gave her advice she still hangs on till today. “He did tell me it was going to be a long fight,” Necan recalls. Now, more than ten years later, those words couldn’t ring truer to Necan, who lost a son to suicide in 2002, and who admits she, too, has contemplated it at her weakest moments. “But I always remember when he also told me, ‘if ever you get too sad, go into the bush and pray.’ That’s why I stay in the bush, I love it there. If my house in Savant Lake was done, I’d be there.” Darlene Necan will be spending some time during her tour at Six Nations. Anyone interested in meeting with her and finding out more about her struggle can call the Two Row Times office at 519-900-5535.
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Water cooler chit chat about Bill C-10 By Paula Hill
The looming status of Bill C-10 has First Nations communities scrambling to find ways to maintain a local economy. Not only has the industry served to create millionaires, the industry supports a very large portion of on-reserve jobs. The prospect of suddenly becoming an entire community on social assistance is scary. The thought of a federal government that is so racist in its ideologies is scary. That fear is evident in every news report, in every coffee shop or water cooler conversation in our community. I consulted with my friend Sarah Dover, a local lawyer who specializes in Criminal law as it pertains to Onkwehonwe people, to get clarity on what Bill C-10 says. I also spoke to two men that have a long history of making money in the tobacco trade industry. I feel the need to protect these men’s identities so I am assigning pseudonyms to them. Let’s call the manufacturer, “Bob” and let us call the frontline worker, “Chris.” Ms. Dover advised that convictions under the Excise Act could result in jail time and fines but those convictions did not result in a criminal record. As Bill C-10 is an amendment to the Criminal Code, Bill C-10 will make it a criminal act to “sell, offer for sale, transport, deliver, distribute or have in their possession for the purpose of sale a tobacco product, or raw leaf tobacco that is not packaged, unless it is stamped.” Dover and I contemplated the impact of that wording. I told Ms. Dover of a meeting I was in a few
months ago, where a non-native lady at the meeting had asked me for a cigarette. I knew that this lady did not drive. I assumed her mobility was somewhat restricted to the city limits, so I offered to bring cigarettes from the reserve to the next meeting, if she wanted me to. To me, this was a gesture of friendship. The reaction I received from the entire group was as if I had offered the lady a “hoot” off my crack pipe. It is times like this that you feel a bit of culture shock. I had never thought of our reserve cigarettes as “illegal.” Dover stated that when Bill C-10 comes into force, minor actions, such as my offer to that lady, would be a criminal offence. I sat astounded, thinking that not only will this legislation impact those in the tobacco industry, but it will require an entire revision of our community’s perceptions on tobacco. Dover further stated that the mandatory minimum sentences are equivalently found only in highly violent offences, such as murder, robbery, etc. She stated that as a hybrid offence (meaning that the Crown can elect to proceed summarily or by indictable offence), the charge must be dealt with in the court as if it is an indictable offence until the Crown decides how he/ she will proceed. Dover expressed concern that given the political climate at Six Nations, when Bill C-10 passes, she fears that there may be people attending at local stores with the intent of laying citizen’s arrests if they witness sales of “contraband” tobacco. “Bob,” a local cigarette manufacturer, stated that we have to accept
responsibility for this situation. It has long been a contentious issue that when new guys would come in to the industry, they would undercut all of their competitors in order to create a customer base. This practice would require other manufacturers to lower their prices. Now cigarettes are being sold with an absolute bare minimum profit, while the buyers are often selling the products at prices that should have been charged at the source. Bob stated that “we did this to ourselves.” It seemed to aggravate Bob that people are blaming the government without taking responsibility for their part in attracting the government’s wrath. He felt that if prices had stayed closer to parity for cigarettes manufactured off reserve, the government would not have felt as compelled to intervene. It has been argued amongst the manufacturers that there had to be agreement on a minimum sale price but many refused to see the validity in this practice. Bob felt very strongly that the industry has been compromised by people that do not understand basic principles of business. He felt that any strategy to save the industry would have required business-minded people coming together and developing a plan but he fears it may be too late. Bob knows that organized crime has been involved in the proliferation of the tobacco trade industry, often because “they knew how to get the things we needed.” But he did not believe that they should be involved in the industry at Six Nations. Bob stated that “this is our thing. We shouldn’t
be bringing those guys into it.” Bob expressed concerns about working with Band Council to regulate the trade industry. He felt that Band Council has mistakenly assigned too much power to one position within the organization and there are limited options for appealing decisions made by Elected Council or their administration or to hold them accountable for their actions. He also saw no real promise in the community group tasked to come up with solutions on addressing the Bill C-10 issue. “Chris” no longer works in the tobacco trade industry. His career change is as a result of being convicted numerous times under the Excise Act. He has worked for 6 different cigarette manufacturers in the community over the years. During his employment in the tobacco trade, he had been charged in jurisdictions across Ontario. He has delivered and manufactured cigarettes and he is well-versed in fixing the machines. Chris was upset with what he saw as government tactics to maintain a monopoly over the tobacco trade industry. He was also upset with “government propaganda” that likens participation in the tobacco trade industry to terrorism. He stated that the guys he had worked for were major contributors to the community’s non-profit sector, supporting youth sports and other fundraising initiatives. They also invested in their money in restaurants, convenience stores and other initiatives that helped employ community members. Chris never witnessed or participated
in sales of guns or activities that he considered criminal. Chris described his experiences of his arrests, being in jail and the court process. He stated that the RCMP charged him but they would always call in Native RCMP officers to deal with him directly. He felt that this was so to avoid accusations of racism. Chris does not have a criminal record, yet his convictions under the Excise Act put him behind bars like a criminal. I laughed as he showed me what it’s like to try to walk when you are shackled and handcuffed. But Chris sees the tobacco trade industry as an exercise of our treaty right to trade, akin to the right to hunt and fish. He said that it was a real shock to be treated like a criminal, to be humiliated, to have women and children staring at you as you shuffle along shackled and handcuffed. He was incarcerated alongside highly criminally-involved men doing time for serious and violent offences. It did not matter that, in his mind, he had consciously chosen not to follow some of his friends into the criminal life. In one of Chris’s convictions, the buyer (a Canadian) non-native was charged with him. The buyer received no jail time but Chris served several months, and the buyer received a far smaller fine. This is particularly offensive given the fact that it is actually the buyer that is evading taxes, not the “Indian.” The buyer also did not receive nearly as many remands. Chris was remanded repeatedly while in custody even though he was prepared to enter a guilty
plea early on in his court process. His lawyers in all of the jurisdictions were unable to perceive or properly advocate for his perspective on the treaty rights issue. While in custody he was denied access to culturally appropriate services. Chris was incarcerated in jails several hours away from the Six Nations community and his family could not afford to come visit him very often. He made requests to speak to the Native Liaison Officers or any Native workers and his requests were repeatedly denied in two of the three jails he was in. Chris stated that when he was in jail, he just wanted to see a friendly Native face. Chris got out of the business because on his second charge, the Crown wanted 2 years and on the 3rd offence their position was for solid penitentiary time. Chris acknowledged that another impetus for change in his life is that there are no labour laws applied on reserve. He completed a college diploma but has not found work in his chosen field. Chris has had to leave the Six Nations area to find work. creative Perhaps solutions are needed to address the subsidiary issues that may arise with Bill C-10. It is likely a fallacy to think that we need only to argue jurisdiction and Aboriginal rights. What will be done to ensure that our people will be able to retain competent legal counsel when they are charged and must stand before an Ontario judge trying to explain a perspective that is uniquely different from the rest of Canada? Will CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Commemorating the last battle of the war of 1812 By Zig Misiak For the last three years, since 2012, we have been the commemorating 200th anniversaries of many events related to the War of 1812 all over Canada and the United States. I had the privilege of being the chairman of the War of 1812 committee comprised of volunteers from Brantford and Brant County in collaboration with the First
Nations. A souvenir map of three major events was created with thousands of copies distributed. Spin offs from this commemoration spread far and wide and many more people became aware of the War of 1812 events that took place especially in our area. We became significant and known throughout other parts of Canada. During that war our surrounding communi-
C-10 story from previous charges, convictions and sentences be monitored? Trade is a collective right and must be treated as an issue that affects the entire polity. Our collective rights are eroded in each individual case where there is a conviction. If we allow individuals to deal with their legal matters without the community’s support, we are allowing the erosion of our rights and our children’s rights. Can we commit to regulating not only the sale of tobacco, but also how our workers
are treated, regardless of what industry they work in? It is one thing to watch people stomp around saying “provincial laws don’t apply here” whenever it is convenient to them, but it’s a damn shame when that equates to our greatest resources, our people, getting mistreated in our own territory. These are all much bigger governance issues. Much like Bob, I have lots of hope but little faith that our community will get it together in time.
ties provided essential militia to support the fragile regular British army. The Six Nations and Mississauga as well as many other First Nations allies played a major role preventing American occupation of the lands north of the Great Lakes. Nearing the end of one event we are now rolling into the 100th anniversary commemoration of World War One. Once again our communities, Brantford, Brant County and neighbors and allies from the Grand River Six Nations and Mississauga played a significant role
in this horrific event. I was at the Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ohsweken, Grand River Six Nations this past Sunday. I have been there many times before and each time I stand among the large crowds from all over North America and I become enveloped in the emotion of the day. I am always very touched by the very clear and loud reaffirmation of the First Nations relationship to the Crown and to Canada. They are very proud of the fact that they have faithfully volunteered to fight along side their al-
lies, us, for several centuries. I stood with my eyes closed as they read the names of those that lost their lives during World War One and Two. They also remembered the warriors that died during the War of 1812. 200 years ago, in November, the Six Nations Territory and surrounding counties were invaded by over 750 American mounted militia who came to destroy farms, mills, Six Nations villages and outflank the British stationed at Burlington Heights. The Americans were confronted by a
small party of militia and warriors in the area of D’Aubigny Creek. The Americans moved towards Malcolm’s Mills where a larger force of militia and warriors anxiously waited. Outnumbered, the locals fought valiantly but were overrun. The American horde turned toward Dover and destroyed much more on the way. For more information and to see photos on my web site of the route taken by the Americans starting in Burford, pleas check out www.realpeopleshistory.com.
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Editorial: #GoodMindsStandUp The Two Row times and the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation have partnered together in the #GoodMindsStandup anti-bullying campaign. You may have noticed the contests, prizes and winners each week in our special sections. Our goal is to encourage adults and children to use their voice and take action if they see someone being bullied. The premise is simple. We are reminding our people that bullying is an after affect of colonialism and is contrary to our original way of Ganigohiyo or Good Mind. Good minds stand up for those around them. Good minds stand up and refuse to react to anger with anger. Those who bully others have been bullied themselves so we are calling everyone to end the cycle of lateral violence. The problem of bullying is also complicated. Those raised on Six Nations know we like to tease each other and the oldest journal entries indicate that we always
have. In 1630, dutch explorer Harmen Van Bogaert noted our laughter. Beacause of our horizontal social structure no one was beyond reproach. Making fun of each other was our ancient way of remembering that we are all equal in the Creators eyes. They tell white people that if native people are teasing you that means they accept you. So then it becomes a matter of the heart. We must use discernment to be able to tell if someone is being teased in good humor or if someone is using negative energy to bully others. Bullying is an unprovoked attack on the identity of another, sometimes called character assasination. It is a method of repressing the true self of another and is counter productive to the communal healing that Six Nations is desperately trying to pursue. We need more people who have discovered their true self and are actively sharing their gifts with the community.
The former Douglas Creek Estates has a new front gate. On Saturday, Oct. 25th, the 130th anniversary of the Haldimand Deed, a new gate was put up at the reclamation site known by Six Nations as Kanonhstaton, to make unauthorized access a little more difficult. The move is in response to several attempts over the past few years by a small group of Caledonian residents to disrupt the peace with demonstrations designed to lure Six Nations people into violence and have them arrested. The custom-designed front gate was fabricated by Mohawk Iron of Six Nations, which depicts both the Two Row and the Hiawatha Five Nations wampum belts. Kanonhstaton land protector John Garlow stands guard. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE
I Wish I Was White By Gitz Crazyboy (poem inspired by Donald Glover) I wish I was white not because I think life would be easy, but because more things would become an option. Like the option of choosing or choosing not to play the Race Card. The spectrum of some people’s day to day realities would be an option for me. I could get into arguments and discussions and downplay what their culture means, stating the issue is above their culture. I could look down at them and wonder when they’re going to evolve and join
mainstream society. I wish I was white so I could push hard that it’s actually about Classism and not racism. Because then it becomes an issue that only happens to you when you’re poor and all you need to do is become rich and everything solves itself. I could also reference the odd time I have experienced a “Class” issue. I wish I was white so I could celebrate a culture by wearing their regalia and do nothing to actually help the community. It’d be nice to rock a head dress or war paint or buckskin at a club or
at home or a sports game. Because that’s how your people would want to be celebrated: Alcohol and/ or Drugs on the dance floor or maybe just some Beer and Wings. I wish I was white so I could define what “integrate” and “appropriate” mean and then explain it to the group of people I offend. I wish I was white because statistically speaking I’d have to deal with less suicide than I’ve encountered in my life. In fact my only connection or few connections would also include Robin Williams. I wish I was White
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because I wouldn’t have to have an honest to God fear this might be the last time I see this Womyn in my Life (Any Indigenous Womyn; Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cousin, Friend). I wish I didn’t have to live with the statistic that one Indigenous Female will disappear within the next 12 days. I wish I was white because the womyn I know that have been murdered might not have been or their killer(s) brought to justice. I would watch these womyn grow up and grow old. We wouldn’t have to live with this pain and loneliness.
I wish I was white so in regards to residential schools, I could tell my Mom and Dad to “get over it.” In those nights where the dreams and memories come haunting back, when the horrors come flooding in. And as they relive the Abuse, the Torture, The Rape? When they are in the Fear, the Anger and consumed by PTSD? I can hold their heads in my hands, look directly into their eyes and tell them to “get over it.” And just like that, like magic, it vanishes, all of what they had experienced they would never have to feel again. Because in all truth
they don’t want to be there anymore either.... But it’s PTSD and they may never get over it.... I wish I was white so I could say “get over it” to my other family members, my aunties, my uncles, my grandparents. I might have been able to cure their drug addiction, their alcoholism, the only places they could take refuge from not feeling anything anymore. I might have been able to save a few of their lives. I might have been about to stop them from killing themselves. I wish I was white to say we’re not all like that.
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AIAI Grand Chief Gord Peters on Ottawa Shooting On Wednesday, October 22, people across Canada stood together, collectively watching a tragedy unfold in Ottawa. Thoughts and prayers reached out from all across the country in solidarity with those in the capital. I would like to express my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. Throughout the day, people tuned in to radios, live-streamed news broadcasts from their desks, and anxiously awaited each new tweet from reporters and eye witnesses on the ground. Information was flying as fast as it could be spoken, typed and broadcast – and consumers were thirsty for every drop of information; even if it was mostly speculation. A really dangerous thing happens in this kind of information whirlwind. We allow our fears and biases to mix and mingle with news and fact. In the chaos of the whirlwind that had a whole nation spinning, people excused the racialized fears that were fed into our news cycle and into the collective Canadian psyche. One reporter for the Globe and Mail reported on Twitter that “eyewitnesses say suspect has long dark hair and two said he appeared to be aboriginal.” Other reports claimed he looked “South American” or “Muslim.” These kinds of assumptions, which also proved not to be true, served only one purpose – to rationalize tragic violence as outside of the realm of the white-colonial state. In the case of Bill Curry this happened by labeling the perpetrator “Aboriginal.” Looking specifically at Mr. Curry’s tweet, it is problematic in several ways. First, it relies on ra-
cial stereotypes of Aboriginal peoples to convey information. How does one “appear Aboriginal”? The only signifier used to express “Aboriginal-ness” in this example is long dark hair – a common racial stereotype of the modern Indian. Second, this tweet threw fuel on a fire that was raging inside of the information whirlwind that used charged and emotionally amplified language like “terror” and “terrorism.” This type of language is risky when attached to a single act of violence, and has been seen to lead to new and amended legislation that further restricts civic freedoms both in Canada and the United States. It becomes additionally problematic when used predominantly to describe acts of violence committed by people of colour. Once the identity of the shooter became known, the media slowly and subtly started shifting their language. No longer were they talking about an act of terror, they were talking about a Canadian born to a business man and a public servant who had “mental health problems” and who “seemed unstable,” according to neighbours quoted in various news outlets Thursday morning. Lastly, I would add that these kinds of racial assumptions feed the deeply-rooted and thriving racism in Canada that says Aboriginal peoples are unlawful, dangerous, and citizens with less intrinsic value to society. This is detrimental because when Canadians stereotype our peoples in this way, it enables the Canadian government to get away with continued policies of assimilation and discrimination. It also allows Canadians to continue to remain ignorant of our cultures, value systems and treaties. We need to demand more from the media and from every person across Canada. We will not sit
back and tolerate racially-charged language from prominent members of the media like Mr. Curry. Members of the media have an opportunity to shift the tides of negative attitudes towards Aboriginal peoples in this country. It starts with thinking before you tweet, challenging stereotypes, and being open to seeing the embedded bias beneath the surface of your writing. I challenge Mr. Curry and all members of the media to learn from this example. Together, we can shape public discourse in a way that accurately reflects all the people in this country, free from bias and stereotypes. Sincerely, Grand Chief Gord Peters Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians
Brightening the Spirit and Breaking the Silence For much of our history since contact with European colonizers, First Nations people have been actively suppressed, undermined and destroyed. These acts of violence – colonization, marginalization, forced assimilation and the active suppression of Aboriginal culture and identity through the residential school system – have wounded and disrupted families and had a devastating effect on contemporary Aboriginal youth in many communities. Suicide is often a response to feeling trapped with no exit to escape unending frustration, grief and psychic pain. The prevention of suicide must therefore counteract frustration, hopelessness and unbearable pain in all their toxic forms and provide other means of changing or escaping intolerable circumstances. In many cases this may involve psychotherapy, medication, or other forms of
healing that renew the individual’s sense of power, self-efficacy and selfworth. Brightening the Spirit-Breaking the Silence is comprised of a group of community volunteers who want to work with community partners to reduce the number of suicides in the Six Nations Territory. Community partners include ‘Formal Community Resources’ such as the SN Police; SN Ambulance and First Response; SN Mental Health Team; Early Childhood Development /FASD; Ganohkwasra; Family Health Team; SN Child and Family Services; New Directions; NSB Children’s Aid Society. Free Training is offered through SN Social Services for Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training(ASIST) and safeTALK. Many of our committee members have taken advantage of these free trainings. Informal community partners include Elders, Traditional Healers and Parents. Brightening the Spirit-Breaking the Silence Committee believes that supporting community development and political empowerment will in turn help our young people gain a position of creativity, self-confidence and hopefulness. The Committee is now offering a logo context. Brightening the Spirit-Breaking the Silence is looking for a visual identity and needs your help. We are seeking Six Nations members; artists who are creative, innovative in the creation of a professional logo. The logo should be recognizable and help promote our committees mission: to promote suicide Awareness, Prevention and Healing. Logo Contest Rules: 1. All entries must be submitted in their original format art/design 2. Entries to be submitted as a single image file in both black/white and color versions of logo on white background
3. The logo to relate to the words…”Brightening the Spirit, Breaking the Silence” 4. The logo is to promote Suicide Awareness, Prevention and Healing 5. Logo cannot contain copyrighted material 6. Logo must have been created and edited by the contestant(s) 7. Logo may not include images or licensed images that have been previously published 8. Logo must be easily reproducible and scalable for large or small formatting. 9. There are no limitations and any colors may be used. 10. C o n t e s t a n t s must provide their Name, Contact Number and a brief description of their Entry. Logo Contest ends on December 19th, 2014. Submit entries to “Brightening the Spirit, Breaking the Silence Committee” c/o St. Peter’s Church 1631 Chiefswood Rd, PO Box 370 Ohsweken, ON N0A 1MO or Email to: spirit@ caseyhr.com
Only one winner will be selected. The winner will receive a $250.00 Visa Gift Card. Perhaps, together we may create a model of integration with cultural norms and values that address the problem of suicide from many perspectives: biological, psychological, socio-cultural and spiritual. This model may be one that other First Nations communities across Canada can adapt and find helpful. Sincerely, Brightening the Spirit-Breaking the Silence
What is love? We call ourselves the people of the earth. While we are walking this earth, we look at power and what is real. We call it in Mohawk goon na lonk
wa (love). Love is the greatest power because it has the ability to travel through time. That is to say, if your grandmother showed your mother love, your mother shows you love, you show your children love and on and on it travels. The heart is the universal symbol of love. Everyone understands it. On the other side of the heart I carved an eagle feather. This represents a message from the Creator of the Great Law, which says to respect and understand that everything made on this earth is to show us how to love. When you get into this understanding, this is where you will find the Great Peace. When the Creator sent the Peacemaker to stop the people of the longhouse from hurting each other and to unite with Peace, Power, and Righteousness, our Confederacy was born. Once the Peacemaker and Hiawatha together accomplished this, the Peacemaker transformed into the eagle, which is why we hold the eagle in such high esteem. Hence the feather is in the centre of the heart. In the centre of the feather, there’s a line which represents the path the Creator intended for us to walk. Don’t destroy or pollute the earth because there are other faces yet to be born that need it. Here’s the neat thing about this whole idea: If you take the word HEART itself, take the H and put it behind the T you will find EARTH. It’s the key for everyone. Also ART is smack dab in the middle of the whole thing! Okwaho Randy Johnson Sunrise Trading Post Ohsweken (226-387-0992)
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Reservation Royalty and Huron Honeys By Nahnda Garlow When the world is overwhelming me and I need to run away, my favorite escape is running to the past. Specifically through pre-Hollywood classic code films; they gotta be black and white, and the more ‘romantic-al’ the better! Human life in the 1930’s was fascinating. It was truly another world. Their use of language is so refreshing! People in love call one another ‘darling’, they don’t fight – they ‘quarrel’, and when they finally kiss and make-up (which they always do) an orchestra plays and they dance off cheek to cheek at some big fancy ball. In my romantic imaginings of the past everything in the 1930‘s costs a nickel: burgers, ball gowns and bus fare – all for a nickel! People used to bake their own bread, buy meat from a butcher shop and didn’t ever have to worry about milk because if you didn’t have a cow the good white people who ran society somehow arranged to have a guy deliver it to your home fresh every morning. And oh, the clothes! People dressed for every occasion. Whether it was heading out to work or heading out to confront an enemy – people dressed for it hats, gloves and all. There is nothing more glamorous than Norma Shearer as jilted Mary Haines in “The Women’, gliding across the screen in that glamorous black ball gown to confront the golden and glittering Joan Crawford for stealing her man. My escapism session this weekend lasted for just a short while until my cellphone started going off and my jogging pants and hoodie beckoned me
back to the reality of today. “Ugh, go away!” I shouted at my phone. Still, I had to check though. It was a notification from one of my Facebook friends, she’d posted some pictures of the latest ‘Indian’ costumes for public consumption at the Hallowe’en store. There she stood, frowning, holding a plastic package called ‘Indian Warrior’. Pictured on the front is some white guy in faux leather pajamas making an angry face. For about twenty bucks you too can dress like this “real Redsk*n” this Hallowe’en. Tomahawk included. What was probably the most disturbing though was the costume offerings for women. Scantily clad white women in faux leather miniskirts and bouffant hairstyles beckoning you in to touch their exposed skin with titles like ‘Reservation Royalty’ and ‘Huron Honey’. Even worse was the costume entitled ‘Wild Frontier’, worn by an alluring white girl donning a come hither stare – cementing the ever-racist “dark and forbidden” sexual fantasy – that women of indigenous heritage are here for the consumption and satisfaction of everyone’s sex-
ual appetites. Barf. Normally things like this piss me right off and I end up writing angry letters to store managers. But this time I felt different. I truly felt objectified. I felt negated and unimportant. After all the press, after all the efforts to raise awareness of cultural misappropriation that folks have done in the last ten years – these costumes still somehow ended up on the shelves of a Canadian store. So whose fault is it? Rather whose duty is it to make sure that the people do not have to endure objectification for their identity? Sadly, it’s no shocker that Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls don’t matter to Stephen Harper – or his wife for that matter. I wonder if they’d even notice the inappropriate “Indian” costumes donning the shelves of Hallowe’en stores? No, they’re likely distracted over in the kitty cat aisle trying on fuzzy ears, purring and licking one another. If Ma and Pa Canada aren’t thinking about protecting the integrity of indigenous women than who will? Or who should? Last year Toronto hosted World Pride, the largest festival worldwide
promoting the issues of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer communities. People from across the globe literally travelled to Canada to celebrate. For two weeks this past June, Ontario municipalities and local governments raised the rainbow flag and the issues surrounding the identities of the LGBTQ community. LGBTQ people were celebrated and their niche in Canadian society etched into our social consciousness as a protected place within our borders. This level of awareness didn’t come to the LGBTQ community without activism however. In fact they boast about fifty
years of rallies, sit-ins and campaigns building their safe places. Is that what it will take for indigenous women to no longer be a Hallowe’en costume option? Can you imagine in this day a costume called ‘Gay Gary’ or ‘Lesbian Lisa’ where one can dress the part of a homosexual person? Or what about a Hallowe’en costume for other races: how about a ‘German Ginger’ costume that includes a swastika clad mini-dress and bright red lipstick? Okay maybe that’s going a little too far. But is it really? And how will things ever change if not pushed ahead by our leadership? If I, an indigenous woman, remain
objectified and hurt by the ‘Huron Honeys’ surrounding me Hallowe’en night – who will speak up for me when I am weak? Fact of the matter is that because the Harpers prefer the company of kittens over indigenous women, all Canadians now have the responsibility to use a Good Mind, Stand Up and shout as loudly as we can for the well-being of indigenous granddaughters and great-granddaughters. As much as I would prefer to dwell in the black and white romantic distractions of the 1930‘s – reality knocked me over the head with a colorful tomahawk. The time for our collective romantic imaginings about indigenous sexuality is over. It never should have been presented for public consumption. I am not a Huron Honey. I am not Reservation Royalty and the bodies of indigenous women and girls are not your Wild Frontier to explore.
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NORFOLK BLOOMSBURG SOLAR PROJECT
Located outside the City of Welland.
Located outside the City of Simcoe, in the village of Bloomsburg.
The ground mounted panels are located on 38HA of land
The ground mounted panels are located on 29HA of land
A stage 3 archaeology was conducted on the site. The study did not locate any artifacts of significance, some stone flakes and shatter. Six Nations monitors were involved.
The Stage 1 and 2 archaeological study did not recover any artifacts and was not required to go to a Stage 3.
There are no significant wetlands or natural areas of interest within 120m of the project site.
There are no significant wetlands or natural areas of interest within 120m of the project site.
There are no anticipated adverse impacts on surrounding wildlife or native vegetation.
There are no anticipated adverse impacts on surrounding wildlife or native vegetation.
This project became operational in September 2014
This project become operational in March 2013.
Each project will be generating 10MW of renewable energy, which is enough to supply approximately 1200 homes for a year.
COMMUNYITY BENEFITS A one time payment of $432,892.73 based on the net present value of $2000/Mw for 20 years, for both projects combined. A full presentation and supporting documents can be found at www.snfuture.com
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Can this power be used to offset the hydro in our homes? Power generated from these projects are sold into the Ontario Hydro One power infrastructure to be used wherever the system needs it. At this time, Hydro One is not willing to provide the administration required to provide a subsidy for the bills of Six Nations members. We hope to be able to provide a solution and provide subsidies in the future.
Why is this coming to the community when the projects are so far along? SunEdison believed that they had fulfilled their duty to consult and accommodate. When they attempted to sell the Norfolk Bloomsburg project to current owners (Firelight Infrastructure Partners) Six Nations sent a letter to Firelight to make them aware that SunEdison had not fulfilled their legal duties.
Where does the money go? A trust is currently being assembled to disburse funds to community priorities. Currently the Charter/TOR for the trust is being drafted. It is anticipated that the selection process for the Board of Trustee will happen in the early part of 2015. If you would like further information on the trust, or would be interested in serving as a trustee please contact us.
COMMENTS (please drop off comments to Six Nations Tourism or Council Administration building)
PLEASE SUBMIT ALL COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS BY NOVEMBER 21, 2014
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the website at www.snfuture.com Email: communityplanner@sixnations.ca Call Amy or Nicole at 519-753-1950 Visit Six Nations Tourism—2498 Chiefswood Road
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The Caledonia Pro-fit Corvairs were in the pink Saturday night in Cayuga in more ways than one. Wearing their Breast Cancer Awareness jerseys, Caledonia took a 4-0 decision while raising funds and awareness to Breast Cancer. The Corvairs outshot the Pirates 42-14 on their way to the win. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE
Corvairs conquer Pirates, Falcons; raise breast cancer awareness By Jim Windle CAYUGA – The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs “Pinked the Rink” Saturday night in Cayuga with their special Breast Cancer Awareness Game against the Pelham Pirates. Dressed in custom pink jerseys, which they sold following the game, the Corvairs took it easy on the Pirates, whom they demolished 16-1 in their last outing, by taking the 4-0 decision. A large crowd was in attendance at the Cayuga Arena to help make the night a fundraising success for cancer awareness. The teams played to a 0-0 tie in the first period despite the lopsided shots on goal statistic, which showed Caledonia registering 15 shots while holding Pelham to two in the first 20 minutes. In total, the Corvairs outshot Pelham 42-13. Nathan Gomes and Tyler Lepore accounted for Caledonia’s two goals of the second period, with assists going to Austin McEneny, Justin Abraham, with two, and Matthew Hore. Connor Bramwell and Cosimo Fontana accounted for Caledonia’s two goals of the third period with assists going to
Catharines shots recorded on Brendan Polasek. Only one connected – that by Jake Brown at 4:20 – to even the score at 2-2, which is where the score would stay as regulation time ran out. Matthew Hore played the hero at 4:30 of the OT period for the Caledonia win and extra point. Next week will be a busy one for the Corvairs as they begin three games in three nights with a Friday, Oct. 31st faceoff against the Ancaster Avalanche in Caledonia at 7:30, followed by a Saturday, Nov. 1st road trip to Fort Erie to meet the Meteors, and culminating in a Sunday showdown in Welland at 7 p.m. against the top- seeded Canadians.
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Daniel Puglese #17 finds room in front of the Pelham net in Saturday's 4-0 Caledonia win for Breast Cancer Awareness. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE Jordan Peacock, Ryan Moran, Todd Ratchford and Matt Hore. Brendan Polasek earned the win for Caledonia while the shellshocked Matthew Camilleri kept the Pirates in the game. The Corvairs put some distance between
themselves and the third place St. Catharines Falcons Friday night in St. Kitts with a 3-2 OT win. Once again, the Corvairs put a lot of rubber towards the opposition net, outshooting the Falcons 44-22, but many of those shots were low percentage and from well out-
side. The Corvairs’ general manager Brian Rizzetto said recently about this trend that he would like to see fewer shots, but more high percentage shots. “I think we need to start paying the price to get those kind of chanc-
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Hagersville Hawks working hard to improve record By Jim Windle HAGERSVILLE – Backed up by shutout goaltending by Curtis Dortenzio, the Hagersville Hawks improved their record to 5-5-1, Saturday night with a 7-0 crushing of the Port Dover Sailors, at the Hagersville Arena. The Hawks took a 3-0 first period lead with goals scored by Derek Friesen, Cole Martin and Dan Mederios. Assists were gathered by Mederios, Kyle Phibbs, Travis Bell, Matt Rimac, Bailey Fletcher and Derek Low. The Hawks kept pressing and by the end of the second frame had the game in the bag after goals by Fletcher, Friesen and Mitch Green who scored on a powerplay. Mederios, Fletcher, Brayden Hill and Cole Martin assisted. It was now only a matter of preserving Dorenzio’s well-earned
shutout. The Hagersville defense kept the Sailors to 9 third period shots while Hagersville was pumping 17 of their own towards Horia Lucaciu and Justin McSpadden, who shared the duties in the Port Dover net. Rimac accounted for the only third period goal, scored on a powerplay from Jacob Solomon and Friesen. Fortunately for the Hawks, they have a very solid penalty-killing unit who fended of all seven shorthanded situations with players in the penalty box. At the same time, their powerplay connected twice on their seven chances. The Hawks were coming off a 5-4, OT loss against the second-place Glanbrook Rangers last Wednesday, and a 3-2 loss to Niagara Thursday. It took a lot of work to earn the single point Wednesday, as the Rang-
The Hagersville Hawks earned three of a possible four points this week in NDJCHL action with an OT loss against Niagara and a 7-0 win over the Port Dover Sailors. They were able to earn a point from an OT loss against the second place Glanbrook Rangers last Wednesday. 20 minutes remaining in ers opened strong with 11-7. The Hawks rallied in regulation time. a 3-1 first period lead. Both teams worked Mederios opened the the second period with score on a Hagersville powerplay goals by Mar- hard in the third but powerplay at 1:03 but tin and Green, two of the at 5:11, Dan Medeiros Glanbrook’s Brad Paris, four Six Nations players evened the score at 4-4. Noah Matteson and Aar- in the Hagersville line- Neither team was able to on Smith countered with up. Sandwiched between crack the tie by the end of those two goals was regulation time, so that goals of their own. The Rangers owned Glanbrook’s Garnet Ba- meant a sudden death OT the momentum through- trynchuk with a Ranger period would determine out the first 20 minutes, powerplay goal, keeping the winner. The Rangers’ game outshooting Hagersville, them one goal ahead with
winner came at 4:20 of sudden death scored by Chris Haigh from Curtis Edwards and Chad Carey. Thursday night, The Hawks and the Niagara Riverhawks stayed neckthroughout and-neck most of the game. It was 1-1 after 20 minutes and 2-2 after two periods, but that would be all Hagersville could manage. After Niagara’s Alex Cipriano gave the Riverhawks the 3-2 lead at 42 seconds, Niagara closed the door the rest of the way and the one goal lead stood up as the game winner. Hagersville will play host to the Dundas Blues on Saturday, Nov. 1st, at 7:30 before traveling to Grimsby in what could be a clash of the first place contenders at 7:30. Then, on Wednesday, they will get a chance for a little retribution when they visit the Glanbrook Rangers.
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The Ollivanders nominated for best rock recording award By Mike Burgess HAMILTON — Popular southern Ontario band The Ollivanders, whose members hail from both Six Nations and Caledonia, have been nominated for Best Rock Recording for their song “Amazed and Amused” in the prestigious Native American Music Awards, to be held Friday, Nov. 14 at the Seneca Allegany Events Center in the Seneca Nation. The hard-driving tune with its distinct primal beat is a cut from their 13-song album Two Suns, recorded at Jukasa Studios in Ohsweken on Six Nations of the Grand River territory. three-member The group, all close friends since attending McKinnon Park High School in Caledonia, consists of Marty Isaacs (lead guitar, vocals), Ryan Johnson (bass guitar, back-up vocals) – both of Ohsweken – and Ryan Mickeloff (drums, percussion) of Caledonia. They came together at a time when the Douglas Creek land claims conflict was at its full height; focusing on making harmony and peace at a time when others were trying to generate hatred and division between the two communities and their peoples. Fittingly, they sign off their album “Peace and Love.” Also contributing on the CD is 2012 Juno Award winner for Aboriginal Album of the Year, Murray Porter (keyboards) and Emily Rose (vocals). “I was completely surprised, but I also think it’s exciting that our music has been recognized,” said Ryan Mickeloff about
the nomination. “It’s a bit intimidating when I look at whom we’re up against; George Leach is a Juno award winner. Next to him I feel like we’re like an appetizer to the main course. But all in all, I’m excited and hoping for the best. I believe that our goal with the album was to create something that was a mix and reflection of all our diverse influences.” Ryan Johnson is also excited about the nomination. “Being nominated for NAMA’s best rock recording is deeply gratifying and a great honour to be placed in a category with such other amazing talent and respected musicians,” he said. “It’s always nice to be recognized for your dedication and hard work. It may seem like it’s easy to plunk a few notes but it’s about plunking the right ones.” Johnson said Two Suns is a great leap in writing and performance from the band’s first album under The Breaking Wind brand. The style and tone are different, he said, but it reflects how far they’ve come, incorporating their past experiences individu-
ally and as a band. “A lot of these songs come from the creative mind of our guitarist and lead singer, Marty Isaacs,” said Johnson. “But one of the things I find fascinating is how we added our own individual parts to his songs. My bass lines are distinctly mine; ‘Little’ Ryan’s (Ryan Mickeloff) drums are his own. And we all have different influences, so what we end up getting after a long writing session is something hard to place in one genre. I am truly a fan of the songs on this album and can’t wait for more people to hear them, especially ‘Amazed and Amused.’” Johnson said the band was honored to have the legendary Murray Porter contributing to the album. “Murray Porter added amazing keyboard work and recorded one of my favorite keyboard solos ever in ‘Not Around,’” said Johnson. “He truly turned that song up to eleven. Watching him work was also a delight. The keys were simply an extension of Murray. One of my favorite moments was when Murray played a dramat-
ically beautiful song on a grand piano we found in a recording room in Jukasa Studios.” Johnson also had high praise for the band’s supporters. “I’d also like to thank my family and friends for their endless support through the three or four years it took to complete Two Suns,” he said. “They were with us every step of the way. It was a long haul, but the end product is something we’re all supremely proud of. I truly mean it when I say this album was not possible without them. I really can’t thank them enough.” One such supporter and admirer is Johnson family friend, bassist, back-up vocalist, and sometime lead guitarist of the legendary Steve Miller Band for over 32 years, Kenny Lee Lewis. Reached on the way to his remote getaway cabin north of California, the articulate and friendly Cherokee and Mohawk musician with a John Candy chuckle was thrilled at the success The Ollivanders are having. “I’m very supportive of The Ollivanders and am pleased with their success and happy that artists from different heritages can be such good friends while creating great music,” said Lewis. “This is in keeping with the spirit of all the historical treaties between both cultures.” Lewis himself has been on a quest the past few years exploring his Six Nations roots from his mother and probable relation to legendary Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, a spiritual journey which has brought him to Pennsylvania, New York State,
Ohsweken, and Brantford scouring genealogy and settlement records at municipal offices and museums. His early beginnings as a child began with playing the ukulele and graduating to a guitar and forming a garage band with his friends. In Lewis’ case, the “garage” was an underground 1960s Cold War bomb shelter at the house next door, so he knows what it takes to have a musical goal at an early age and stick with it. Album producer, critically acclaimed musician and Dunnville, Ontario community organizer Rob Lamothe, who found musical success with his band Riverdogs, had plenty to say about his experience with the band. “The Ollivanders are amazing young men, really smart and funny,” Lamothe said. “There is a complicated story behind every one of their songs. I love that. I wish everyone listening to the CD could sit in a rehearsal room with these guys and hear about where the lyrics came from. Wild, funny, poignant stories behind every song.” Lamothe continued: “These guys are kind of obsessed with the smallest historical details, like what guitar was played on a particular Beatles track? In what studio did Zeppelin or The Who record a certain song? They’ve incorporated that approach into their own music… These guys are aware of the history of the artists who have influenced them, and they are very particular about using sounds to convey an emotion or a story.” Lamothe said it was
awesome to make a CD with the guys. “They were kids when I first met them, so I’ve known them since they were writing songs and jamming in their parents’ basements,” he said. “We did a lot of the recording at Jukasa Studio on Six Nations and we finished up the CD at Iguana Studio in Toronto. Every session was a little adventure.” Mickeloff said the band is extremely grateful for all that Lamonthe did to help them produce the album. “He didn’t just put us off as ‘just a job,’” said Mickeloff. “He really took the time and effort to make us sound our best. He spent countless days with Marty on perfecting the vocals. And in the editing process, he helped pick out small details that we would have overlooked. His strong attentiveness to detail was an incredible help and he was a beneficial asset to making this album.” Johnson also praised Lamothe’s work. “We couldn’t have asked for a better producer than Rob Lamothe,” he said. “Rob was there for the entire process, helping us when we were laying down the early tracks of each song. He gave us advice and inspiration and ultimately, helped us produce our best recorded work. Rob goes so far back as to showing up at one of our early practices to hear the songs when they were still just scaffolding. Without Rob Two Suns would not have been the album it is today.” For more information visit: www.facebook.com/TheOllivanders or Twitter: @ the_ollivanders
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MURRAY PORTER SHARED THE STAGE WITH THE GREAT SAM MOORE, AT THE DREAMCATCHER GALA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 23RD.
Porter thrilled to play with Sam Moore By Jim Windle
HAMILTON – Last Thursday night Six Nations bluesman Murray Porter got a chance to perform with the great Sam Moore of the legendary Sam and Dave. It was all part of the 10th annual Dreamcatcher Awards Presentation and Gala, which was hosted at the Hamilton Convention Centre. It was a star-studded affair with world-acclaimed Aboriginal actor Adam Beach serving as master of ceremonies for the black-tie event. Also on the entertainment package was Brian Wilson, co-creator of the iconic Beach Boys, along
with his band. “I was asked to sit on keyboards with Sam’s band,” said Porter about the experience. “It was great to be there. Brian Wilson was there, and it was just great to be included with legends like that.” Last year, Porter performed, on his own, but this year, he became an honorary member of Sam Moore’s band for the night. Porter, now living in British Columbia, jumped at the chance, not only to play with one of his musical heroes, but also to come home to Six Nations to visit with friends and family.
He is writing a new album for 2015 and plays high-end piano bars in the Vancouver area between concert dates. “I’ve got a few good new tunes written,” he said. “But I want ‘em all to be good, so I’m taking my time with it. I don’t want an album with three or four good songs and the rest filler.” “You know, back in the day, the guys that were playing the piano lounges and bars were doing 40’s and show tunes and stuff like that,” he says. “But with the demographic what it is now, I’m doing like Rolling Stones and Beatles and rock and roll and country tunes.
That’s what the people want to hear. That’s the music they grew up with and so did I.” He still sprinkles in some of the many tunes he has written and recorded over the years when he does the dinner club and pub circuit. “Baby You’re My Good Thing” seems to be the original song that most people ask for and has established him as both a recognizable singer and a top flight songwriter. “Everywhere I go people wanna hear that,” he says. “I wrote it in the 1980’s and its such a simple song, but it seems to strike a chord with people. In BC, we have sat-
ellite networks and they play that song quite a bit so people out there know it.” He also gets a lot of requests for “Sorry Enough,” a song Porter wrote for residential school survivors, along with the song that launched his career, “1492 – Who Found Who?” Although his song “Since You Went Away,” which appears on his latest album, was not specifically written for that purpose, he has dedicated it to the missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada. “It’s about the sorrow you feel when somebody leaves and you don’t know
where they are, so it kinds fits,” he says. “I have been on what is called the highway of tears which is highway #16 up in northern BC,” he says. ”There are billboards all along that road with pictures of some of the missing women. It’s really quite moving. Meanwhile, Harper is doing nothing about it. They’re calling them ‘isolated incidents.’ Right, 1,200 isolated incidents.” Recently, the CBC filmed a one-hour special with Porter in Vancouver, which he is quite proud of. It can be seen online at CBC Absolutely Vancouver in the segment entitled, Heart of the Eagle.
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Dreamcatcher Gala brings out the stars By Jim Windle
HAMILTON – Some of the best and brightest Onkwehon:we celebrities were honoured in Hamilton at Thursday night’s Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation’s 10th annual Gala. Awards were handed out in five categories to those Onkwehon:we stars seen as advancing the cause of Indigenous people through their separate fields of endeavor by the Dreamcatcher Foundation. Delby Powless, Chairman of the Dreamcatcher welcomed Foundation, the large black-tie crowd. “I am very honoured and humbled to be part of such a helpful and generous foundation,” he said. “We have Aboriginal people in so many different fields of work, sports, and successful businesses, that it’s hard to imagine where we can go from here.”
The event was also a fundraiser for the foundation. “I cannot say enough about the founders of the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation,” he continued. “They are a group of men that have a heart of gold and who are more than happy to show it. Peter Montour and Yogi Bomberry aren’t with us tonight, but they are definitely here in our hearts and continue to be a driving force behind Dreamcatcher. It’s people like them who make a huge difference in the world.” Executive Director Sara Awdih explained the goal of the Dreamcatcher Foundation, saying, “Dreamcatcher has dedicated itself to ensuring all Aboriginal youth across Canada are provided an opportunity to achieve their dreams. We believe that every person’s story starts with a dream.” The Foundation began in 2004 and has since
become one of the largest First Nations charities in North America, having funded more than 6,000 applications, and providing life-changing resources and support to First Nations all across Canada. “Each award winner tonight is an inspiration to their community,” acknowledged Awdish. The keynote speaker was CEO of Grand River Enterprises International, Jerry Montour, also a co-founder of Dreamcatcher. Honoured in the Sports category was the Rochester Knighthawks organization. On May 31st, the Knighthawks, led by team captain Sid Smith, Mike Kirk and Cody Jamieson, defeated the Calgary Roughnecks in the National Lacrosse Championship, League making NLL history by winning three straight championships. Several Knighthawks also won individual honours for the
2014 season. Receiving the award on behalf of the Knighthawks was Cody Jamieson. novelPlaywright, ist and composer/pianist Tomson Highway of Manitoba was honoured with a Dreamcatcher Award in the Arts and Culture category. Highway is Cree and a member of the Barren Land First Nation. His work has been honoured across mainstream Canada. He was named by Maclean’s magazine as one of the 100 Most Important People in Canadian History. For Education, Duncan Cree from Kanehsatake Mohawk Territory was selected, having earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with a special Aerospace and Vehicle Systems, a Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering. He has used his skills and his insight
with the National Research Council of Canada for two years. He continues to encourage and share his knowledge and experience with high school students from his home community and throughout other reserves in Quebec. Dr. Darlene Kitty, a Cree from Northern Quebec was singled out in the Health category for her years of work as a family physician in Chisasibi Hospital, in the northern regions of Quebec. She is Director of the Aboriginal Program at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, President of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, as well as President of the Council of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists for Region 18. For Lifetime Achievement, Oneida actor Graham Greene from Six Nations was honoured for his positive example and achievements in film, TV
and theatre. In the mid1980’s Greene got his first big break acting alongside the legendary Al Pacino in the film Revolution, but his most famous role to date was his role as Kicking Bird in the classic Kevin Costner film, Dances with Wolves. Greene has also contributed to the success of other films as well, such as Thunderheart, Maverick, Die Hard with a Vengeance and The Green Mile, as well as several TV shows and guest appearances. He continues to work in high profile projects such as The Twilight Saga and A&E’s Longmire. Amongst the many celebrities enjoying the gala were the popular stars from the Trailer Park Boys, Mike Smith, Robb Wells and JP Tremblay, whom almost everyone in the room wanted a selfie with, including Two Row Times Publisher Jonathan Garlow and his wife Nahnda.
Clockwise from top left - performer Sam Moore, Nahnda & Jonathan Garlow, Reggie Leach & Cody Jamieson, GRE CEO Jerry Montour, Murray Porter, Josh Bean, Susan Aglukark & Tomson Highway, Nahnda, Bubbles & Jonathan (Centre)
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Good minds stand up by choosing good thoughts By TRT Staff What does it mean to use a good mind, and how would our struggles bullying surrounding and lateral violence be affected if we governed ourselves by this simple concept in our day-today interactions? This is one of the many questions we asked ourselves at the beginning of the Stand Minds “Good Up” campaign, and we searched our hearts, as well as the hearts of the community, to answer this question throughout the month of October. Together with the Dreamcatcher Foundation, we brought you personal stories and resources in our weekly publication, delivered our newspapers to area schools, and gave away free t-shirts to community members to stimulate a discussion about how Good Minds Stand Up to bullying. As our posters lined
the hallways of schools we delivered to, as educators utilized activities from the paper to encourage anti-bullying awareness in their students, and as Two Row Times staff received requests for further programming, it quickly became clear to us that this discussion was long overdue. What we discovered is that the question of how to respond to bullying can be answered simply, though it is a question that we should never stop asking. Every single day, we should ask ourselves if we are utilizing our Good Minds: are we transforming our thoughts and actions to be truly powerful, infusing them with loving and kind intent instead of harmful ones? Research shows that when bystanders intervene that most incidents stop within 10 seconds, so it is essential for Good Minds to stand up by speaking against bul-
lying when it happens. Ask yourself if you are using a Good Mind, and ask the people around you if they are, too. Our anti-bullying campaign ends with this issue, but that doesn’t mean the conversation about bullying needs to end in your workplaces, schools and homes. You can find further resources and information through the following websites and organizations:
And remember, if you’re being bullied: it gets better. There are places you can turn to for help if you are struggling with issues at school and home. The Kids Help Phone is open 24/7 and is free, anonymous, confidential and professional. You can reach them at 1-800-668-6868.
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Frank Douglas By Frank Douglas Where were the good minds when they did me wrong? So what if we wore tight pants, so what if we had long hair and straightened it? So. Much. Hate. Looking back on my old days, there is still no regret – from the eyeliner to the beat up Chucks. I was who I was and I am who I am now. People change, times change and of course we know fashion does as well. As fashions change, some people agree with the changes and others stand back and let it bother them to a point where they have to make the person that wears them feel like less of a person. This makes me feel the need to stand up and reach out to some children dealing with bullying or hate and give them a few tips. So here
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goes. 1. Even if it bugs you, don’t let them see that. Chances are they will come apologizing sooner than it would take for you to deal with your upset. 2. If you like it, love it! 3. Stay away from negativity. If someone is constantly picking on their friends and making fun of their appearance, clothes, etc., it’s best not to spend time around that person and have the same thing done to you. 4. Realize when stuff is a joke or not. Sometimes people are really just kidding and don’t mean any harm. 5. Talk to someone. You know that mother you hate so much? Well she would talk your ear off about this situation you’re having. You know that school coach you think’s so cool? Ask him for a minute of his time. Who knows? It could change the light of both
of your days. 6. And lastly, the hardest point – don’t react the way a bully wants you to. It’s so hard but so simple – just don’t care. If you spike up your hair five feet in the morning and go out and get mad or upset at the first comment that comes your way, you’re caring way too much. Some people won’t try these points, and some won’t agree with them. But out of honesty and experience, most of these work and have worked for me. There’s always people out there wanting to help, just like there’s always people out there getting picked on. Try to keep that head up and your mind at a good state. Don’t let another person’s envy or hate change your life state. It isn’t worth it. They only hate something great. You can take it from me.
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The man who exposed Canada’s experiments on Aboriginals By Miriam Shuchman Ian Mosby, a post-doctoral researcher in the history of science at the University of Guelph, was investigating Canada’s nutrition policies during the Second World War when he saw a paper by a federal scientist comparing aboriginal children with white children. Scientific curiosity had Mosby wondering where this data had come from, but tracking it down did more than just sate his interest. Mosby’s digging led him to one of the biggest stories ever told of biomedical research in the North, a story of experiments on Aboriginals in the 1940s and 50s that ranks among the most unethical research projects in Canadian history. In the wake of Mosby’s exposé I wrote about the need for an investigation into these experiments, but that wasn’t the end of my interest in this dark era. I wanted to know about Mosby’s process, the behind the scenes story of how one
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the diet used to induce starvation in the famous Minnesota Starvation Experiment of 1944-1945. Based on that figure, Mosby determined that what would have been needed was “emergency food relief.” But that’s not what happened. Instead, the federal researchers divided the adults on the reserves into two groups. They provided vitamin supplements of thiamine, ascorbic acid, and riboflavin to one, while the other served as a control, with both groups undergoing medical exams including photos of their eyes, gums, and tongues. Nutrition was a relatively young field in the 1940s and scientists were theorizing about the general effects of supplementing a diet with vitamins and minerals. Mosby thought that what drove the experiment on the reserves was “the nutrition experts’ desire to test their theories on a ready-made ‘laboratory’ populated with already malnourished human ‘experimental subjects.”
A few years later, the tests at the residential schools began. At a residential school on Vancouver Island researchers kept aboriginal children on less than half the amount of milk recommended for children in the rest of Canada. They did this for two years, to establish a ‘baseline.’ For the next three years they added extra milk, to see what tripling the kids’ intake would do. In Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, the scientists used students to test the utility of ascorbic acid, or Vitamin C, to prevent gum disease. Since dental care could have affected the results, the team stopped Indian Health Services dentists from visiting the study schools. In an interview with Ottawa journalist David Napier in 2000, Lionel
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Pett, the biochemist and medical doctor who supervised the research in the schools, defended his work. Pett said that withholding dental care “was not a deliberate attempt to leave children to develop caries except for a limited time or place or purpose, and only then to study the effects of Vitamin C or fluoride.” His argument would not be persuasive today.“It’s very easy to say that this could never happen now,” said Susan Zimmerman, executive director of the federal Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research, in an interview. “Scientific goals and ethics are not always one and the same; you have to sometimes adapt your scientific goals.” CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Zimmerman recently led the development of the second edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS), the rules that now guide research on people in Canada. In the guide, one chapter is specifically devoted to rules for research with aboriginal communities. Today, Zimmerman said that if her office receives allegations of unethical research they can require the scientist’s institution to investigate and, if the ethical breach is serious, the institution and her department can take recourse against the researcher. Mosby’s paper was accepted by the journal Histoire sociale/Social History and once it was published, he honed his social media skills, with cause. At 33—and as a new father—Mosby is nearly jobless. His post-doctoral fellowship at Guelph expires in November, and career prospects in the history of science are not good. Last year in Canada there were just three job openings in the field. Mosby’s paper came out on a Friday in mid-July. That morning he wrote on his blog: “I’m excited to see that my newest article, “Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952,“has just come out…” At 7 a.m. he tweeted the title and citation, tweeting again a few minutes later, “Surely the most emotionally draining research project I’ve ever worked on…” A fellow historian tweeted a link which got to Bob Weber, who covers the North for Canadian Press. As he read the abstract, Weber said when we talked recently, “I thought right away, ‘This is a good story, this has to be told.’” He phoned a press officer at the University of Guelph but she had never heard of the article, so he tweeted Mosby, sending his number and requesting an interview. Mosby said afterward, “I suddenly realized that I needed to get ready.” Mosby sent Weber his
article, but put off the interview for three days in order to reread his paper and its 85 footnotes, focusing on how to answer questions carefully “and not say anything stupid.” Later he tweeted that he was “inarticulate,” adding, “Kept telling myself, ‘keep it simple, don’t say too much.’ Instead I just talked and talked. Hopefully turns out fine. Guy seemed nice.” Weber’s Canadian Press article came out on July 16th, the first day of the Assembly of First Nations’ annual meeting. The Chiefs issued an emergency resolution condemning the experiments, Mosby did 20 interviews in about 24 hours, the CBC covered the story intensively, and, the next week, aboriginal groups held rallies in cities across the country calling for the government to honour the Prime Minister’s apology for the residential schools and release all documents about the nutrition research. The agency with the power to investigate Mosby’s findings is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up to examine the horrors of the residential schools as part of the government’s $1.9 billion settlement of residential school lawsuits. A spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada told reporters that the agency had turned over 900 documents about the nutrition research to the Commission, and the Commission’s Senior Communications Advisor, Heather Frayne, later confirmed that the government provided those materials, prepared during the residential schools’ litigation, prior to Mosby’s article appearing. But the Commission was having trouble accessing additional archival materials—a longstanding problem. In 2012, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission took the dispute over archives to an Ontario court, and in January 2013 the court directed the government to “provide all relevant documents to the TRC… unlimited by where the documents are located within the government of Canada.” Even with the court ruling, the process
TWO ROW TIMES has been moving slowly. Mosby’s findings may have had an effect. In early August, researchers for the Commission, funded by Aboriginal Affairs, entered Library and Archives Canada for a three-month stay, contacting Mosby for advice about how to identify documents related to the nutrition experiments. Yet some documents, it seems, are inaccessible. “The government is refusing to release the information from Indian Hospitals and TB Sanatoria,” Mosby said. “They say it’s private information and they see it as not connected to the residential schools settlement even though children were often sent to these hospitals and sanatoria for years and years at a time.” It’s not clear who is responsible for sealing the hospital records. A spokesperson for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Scott Hutchinson, said in an e-mail that his office searched their database “and we were unable to find any record of having looked into issues of aboriginal health records for individuals in residential schools.” Erica Meekes, a press secretary at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, said in an e-mail that a researcher would “have to contact Health Canada for health records” and Health Canada has not yet been able to reply to my questions. Maureen Lux of Brock University in St. Catherine’s, Ontario offered an example of the sorts of evidence historians are missing. Investigating the history of Indian Health Service (IHS) hospitals for her next book she discovered that in the 1960s, when the IHS hospital in Edmonton was scheduled for closure, local doctors lobbying to keep it open referred to its legacy as “the prime testing site” of streptomycin, an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis in the 1940s and 50s. But Lux has not been able to find records of those tests, and she said she assumes they’re marked private. “I have no doubt that they’re in the National Health and Welfare archival documents,” she said. “As with most bureaucracies,
they had phenomenal record-keeping.” In place of records, Lux is conducting interviews. She teaches in St. Catherine’s, Ontario but I caught her in Saskatoon, and two days later she would drive 400 kilometers south to a town of less than 700 people because a woman on the prairies had agreed to talk about her stay in an Indian Hospital. “When I get these opportunities it’s not like I can say, ‘Well, I’ll do it another time’,” she said. Every aboriginal elder she’s spoken to has told her “they felt like they were being used as guinea pigs, that there were experiments.” But still, she hasn’t found records of the research. In September, Mosby met with Mi’Kmaq elders who survived the school where the Vitamin C study took place. “One of the things that’s happened almost every time I’ve talked to a survivor or an elder is suggestions of more experiments,” he said. Mosby has been following up on letters he’s received from residential school survivors since his article came out, including one in August from an anonymous writer
27 who talked about communities where dentists may have been literally pulling teeth for research purposes. John Milloy, a professor at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, told me he saw suggestions of “dental experimentation” in files he examined for his 1999 book on the residential schools, A National Crime. To Mosby the bottom line is simple: “When aboriginal people say that they were experimented on, we need to take that seriously and look into it.” As of late October, the Truth & Reconciliation Commission team at Library and Archives Canada has identified 4,000 health-related documents deemed worthy of digitizing, according to the Commission’s Heather Frayne. But the government has yet to provide other relevant documents from the Archives and time is running out: the Commission is set to shut down in July 2014,though its chair recently said he may ask the court to extend its mandate due to the continued wait for materials. Susan Zimmerman with the federal Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research said
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her office is prepared to handle complaints of unethical research from the recent past. But, she said, ordering an investigation of research conducted decades ago is “utterly outside” her authority. Yet for the historians, they just cannot walk away from the stories. Mosby, who said he is “applying for any job I can find,” has submitted a grant proposal to continue his digging via partnerships with aboriginal communities, while Lux thinks the best route may be for her sources to request their own archival records—and she already sent one elder the request form. “Next time I see him I’ll ask him if he did it,” she said, “and if not, I’ll fill it in and do it for him.” Miriam Shuchman is a physician-journalist and a CSWA board member. On November 19th she’ll be on a panel at Massey College, Physician Journalists: melding two professions.
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Moving down the River By Joe Farrell Every once and a while I get into conversations with people about why I write recipes the way I do and how I approach food. These conversations usually start out by me explaining how I’m seeking to better understand relationships to the food we eat by engaging in reciprocal relationships with people and the land. I talk about understanding and respecting the ingredients being used in the kitchen and why they hold that value to me. Working with food is medicine to me. When change was desperately needed in my life, knowing I was on a very wrong path, something called me back to the kitchen after a brief but seemingly long hiatus from
professional kitchens. In the middle of that hiatus, I had a very short stint at a family run restaurant in Toronto’s Corso Italia at Lansdowne and St. Clair. I worked there for less than a month and despite this, the chef there at the time has left a lasting impression on me. As my life kept falling into a worse and worse place, the memory of working with food, the responsibility of feeding people, the pride I felt serving good food went from being a glimmering and distant star to a bright light shining in my face. Since that moment of realization, my life has path and purpose continues to unfold. All the puzzle pieces started and continue to fall into place. Through my expe-
riences with community, land and food previously inexplicable thoughts and emotions have become clear. When life isn’t comfortable those things remind me to trust and keep walking, moving forward. The recipes I write are an extension of that mindset. I do not like putting exact amounts I will on occasion for the purposes of understanding yields – I’ll usually suggest ratios, nothing more. I understand how this can seem confusing to people not familiar with this format. I say, trust your cooking abilities, try something new, if you don’t know reach out to me or a family member. Engage in conversation about food. The recipes are only a guideline. When you step out
of your comfort zone and cook with conviction and an open heart the possibilities are endless. A good mind for you and those you are cooking for is just the beginning. As I settle into a new home with a loved one, our meals have had to be simple as we don’t have everything set-up and unpacked just yet. Here is what we ate for dinner in preparing our first meal at the house.
One Pan Dinner: Sausage, Potatoes and Greens
D Sausage D Potato D Swiss Chard (sub spinach or any leafy green if you wish) D Onion D Garlic D Olive Oil D Unsalted Butter
You’ll need a pan or pot that can go in the oven. I recommend using a cast iron skillet. Cut potatoes and onions into a small dice. Slice garlic thinly. On high heat, sear your sausage to achieve a nice golden colour. Remove from skillet and set aside. Add a little more oil if needed and cook potatoes and onions
for a couple minutes until they take on some colour then add garlic. Add swiss chard to the pan and place sausage on top. Add a small amount of water to help steam the greens. Cover with foil or a lid and place in oven at 450F for no more than 15 minutes. Remove sausages and mix in cold butter to emulsify into any liquid that remains to make a sauce. My love likes dijon mustard with her sausage so we had some with it as well. Feel free to add parsley or any fresh herb you like. Enjoy!
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Peacefully at rest surrounded by her family on Saturday, O ctober 2 5, 2 01 4 at the Stedman Community H ospice in Brantford, E leanor E lva Miller, age 7 0, has reunited with her cherished daughter, DeniseCarrie. Loving mother to R ick & Kari, R odney, W ill & Flo, and G ord & V al. Dear grandmother of David, Denise, Mya, Lynnzee, R icki, Starleen, Jesse, R obbie, and Samantha. Sister of Sandra & Maynard Porter, Cheryl Powless, Trudy Miller, Dale & Art Montour, Tony Miller, R oger & N orm Miller, Kathy & Darryl “ Binks” Martin, and Phyllis R ogers. Sister-in-law of Linda Miller, G eorge Miller, Frances Miller-Mahone, V ernon & Maribel Miller, G ilbert & Shirley Miller, David Miller, and Catherine Miller-Dolan. Special Friend of Sharon H ill (cousin), Carol V anE very, Lillian Montour, Diane H ill, and Cheryl Jourdain. Also missed by several nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews, and relatives of the Thomas, G eneral, and Lickers families. Predeceased by daughter Denise, husband Allan Miller, parents E lmore & Lillian (Lickers) Miller, brother John Miller & H ilton Sandy, sister Anne Miller, nephew R obbie Miller, brotherin-law Michael R ogers, G ordon Miller, G eorge “ Cookie” Mahone, and sister-in-law Janice Incardona. She was a retired bus driver and co-owner of the Lillian Miller usline, health care aid at the ro uois odge, mail �ile cler at the amilton ustody upport f�ice, and a member of the Board of Trustees and a beloved member of the G rand R iver U nited Church. The family ex tends a great gratitude to the dedicated and caring staff and volunteers of the Stedman Community H ospice. The Family will honour E leanor’ s life with viewing after 1 pm on Tuesday at the Styres Funeral H ome in O hsweken, followed by service at 7 pm. Funeral Service & Burial at the G rand R iver U nited Church on W ednesday O ctober , at am n lieu of �lowers, donations may be made to the Stedman Community H ospice. www. rhbanderson.com
Suddenly passed away at the Brantford G eneral H ospital on Sunday O ctober 2 6 , 2 01 4 at the age of 2 7 years. Beloved son of Lyle and Andrea Sandy. Special friend of R oni Lynn Crawford. Loving brother of Adrianne, Clint, R yan and V ictoria, and Milissa and John. Dear uncle of Alissa, O livia, Clint Jr., Destiny, Shaylee, Kianna, E laina, and Amelia. G randson of Phyllis and Brian and the late Daniel Sandy, and the late R ussell and Mildred W heeler. Kyle will also be lovingly remembered by aunts and uncles, Sharon and Phil, Allison, Duane and Peg, Sandra, Pat and Bev, James and Cindy, Derek and Becky, Sonya and Curtis, Marti, E dna, E ileen, and G ary, and numerous cousins. R esting at his parents home 3 4 1 8 4 th Line R oad, Six N ations after 1 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral Service and Burial will be held at the Lower Cayuga Longhouse, Six N ations on W ednesday O ctober 2 9 , 2 01 4 at 2 p.m. www.rhbanderson.com
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Nya Weh To All: The helpers, who came to get the house ready for his return (Too N umerous to name! ) O ur Cooks, Angela, Mary & G loria for the wake & funeral To E ddie Thomas & Singers for the wake Special thanks to Candy & Alsea for getting the meals going & their great sense of humour John & Tim, who dressed him To his Snipe Clan mother & clan for their help & donation To the Cayuga N ation at Cayuga Lake for your kind words & donation H is grandsons for carrying him to his resting place; W arren, Thomas, Travers, Josh, Justin & Jersey To his sons, grandsons, nephews & cousins for helping to bury him the “ old way” o all who rought food, �lowers, monetary donations or simply kind words, it was much appreciated Judy, Connie, Tim, R od, Mel & families
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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Conflicting messages confuse you this week, Aries. Just don’t let this confusion keep you from doing what you think is right. Choose a course and stick with it.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Don’t be too hard on yourself this week, Taurus. ou really do not need to push yourself unless you are feeling motivated to do so. If you feel like relaxing, so be it.
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CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, this week you may feel an unusual need to be noticed and appreciated by others. Embrace the spotlight and make the most of this opportunity to share your thoughts.
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VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, do the right thing even if it costs you something emotionally. our actions may be carefully monitored, and someone is learning by your example.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, try your hardest to make a tricky set of circumstances work to your advantage. orking with a partner is a great way to get things done.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you are better at dealing with things when they’re out in the light of day. ou don’t like to be secretive, nor do you like the idea of others keeping secrets.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, do not look at a current problem as something that will always block your success and happiness. Instead, use this obstacle as a way to get your bearings.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, though you may feel like lashing out at others, this week you show an impressive amount of self-restraint. Get through the week, and things will turn around.
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