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Idle No More celebrates anniversary Across the country Idle No More protests were held to commemorate the one year anniversary of the movement. There has been little progress in addressing the fundamental issues at stake but indigenous people across the continent continue to call for action. Story inside on page four. (Photo by Kevin Konnyu) PM42686517

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St. Andrew’s wants Thorold Black- Last monolingual Chickasaw Speaker Passes Away hawks logo changed

By Jen Mt.Pleasant In a statement issued to Thorold Blackhawks owners, Ralph Sacco and Tony Gigliotti, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Thorold expressed their concerns regarding the refusal of the Blackhawks owners to change their offensive team caricature. statement, The signed by 31 members of St. Andrews Presbyterian congregation expressed their concern by stating, “On the surface of things, we think the Blackhawks logo should

be changed – it’s good for everyone – it would resolve the perceived offence, provide a positive re-branding to your team, be an example of admirable conduct to the children who admire the Blackhawks and allow all involved to focus on the purpose of hockey – the game itself.”

The congregation also stated they are following all developments via local media and are concerned about how Thorold will be perceived by Canadian media and the broader Canadian public.

The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma has announced the death of Emily Johnson Dickerson, 93, who spoke only Chickasaw her entire life. She passed away on December 30, 2013.

whose gallery, Gzaagin, is spearheading the Parry Sound visit, “I’ve had correspondence from a woman in the UK who wants to come to Parry Sound while the exhibit is here. And visitors to my gallery have been donating to the cause.”

In Canada, it is estimated that more than 600 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or have been murdered in the last 20 years alone. In response to this issue, 1,725 pairs of

moccasin tops have been created by 1,372 caring and concerned people in honor and memory of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered.

This large collaborative art piece premiered in Edmonton on October 2nd where 2,200 people attended over the 11 day period. It is currently booked to tour more than 30 locations across Canada and the United States, over the next six years into 2019.

The national exhibit, Walking With Our Sisters, which honours Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women in a stunning array of over 1700 donated moccasin vamps, will make its Ontario debut this week.

Parry Sound’s Tower Hill Museum will host the memorial from January 1026th, 2014.

“Interest in the exhibit is gaining momentum,” says Tracy Pawis

Federal regulation of Six Nations drinking water now in effect

By David Langer

By Jen Mt. Pleasant

Dickerson was the last monolingual Chickasaw language speaker.

There are an estimated fluent hic asa language speakers left, according to Joshua Hinson, Director of the Chickasaw Nation Language Department.

Walking With Our Sisters in Parry Sound

By Nahnda Garlow

JANUARY 8, 2014

A sunrise ceremony will be held Friday January 10 at the Tower Hill Museum to honour the memorial at 6:30am.

SIX NATIONS – A fundamental legislative change in the regulation of Six Nations drinking water treatment and supply may have far reaching First Nations sovereignty implications. The Federal Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act, formerly known as Bill S-8, has been in force since November 1, 2013, and was purportedly enacted because the Constitution Act 1867 has so far prevented the legislative regulation of drinking water safety for First Nations by Provincial authorities. This Act now allows the Federal Government to allocate liability for drinking water and wastewater system management and ownership to Six Nations, through a series of generalized regulations.

The Act, as a framework of regulations, is prefaced by the disclaimer that, “nothing in this Act or the regulations is to be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any existing Aboriginal or treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada”, with the notable the exception that abrogation of these rights may occur “to the extent necessary to ensure the safety of drinking water on First Nation lands.”

Whereas prior to

these regulations, Six Nations apparently had no legal obligation to follow Canadian guidelines, or Provincial water quality laws, there now exists a definitive re imen hich includes the possibility of serious personal liability, such as imprisonment, should the regulations be contravened.

Compliance with the Act is apparently ensured by giving “any person or body” legislative, judicial, administrative or “other” powers to, for example, audit the books of the new Six Nations water treatment system, apply for a search warrant, and to seize and detain “things found in the exercise of that power.”

Federal authorities, may also delegate powers to management “independent of the First Nation to operate a drinking water system”, and may choose “any person” as the owner of the system.

Absent from the Act is any mention of funding to assist First Nations with compliance with these regulations.

Chief Charles Weaselhead of the Blood Tribe summarized his concern last year to a committee hearing on the Act, “By transferring the liability to the first nations ill S-8 absolves the federal and provincial governments of liability.”

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Actor Charlie Hill loses battle with lymphoma

By Nahnda Garlow Haudenosaunee/Cree comedian and actor Charlie Hill passed away last week following a lengthy battle with lymphoma. He was 62 years old. His family issued a statement via Facebook Monday evening saying, “Thank you all for the positive thoughts and prayers. The Creator has called Charlie back to the spirit world early this morning. He was 62 years old.”

Six Nations actor Gary Farmer took to social media offering condolences after learning of the death

of his friend. Farmer post posted on his Facebook, “My sincere condolences to family, friends, and fans for my long time friend, Charlie Hill who passed on early this morning.”

Haudenosaunee musician Pura Fe also put out condolences on social media today saying, “One of my favourite people crossed over this morning…and it is best to let everyone know…and that the family will need all kinds of support and love and good stories…to share and remember Charlie Hill for all he gave us!! He would love that…that you

keep real and keep laughing!! He loved his family… his friends and his people…”

Hill has been noted as one of the most groundbreaking actors in our generation. A website has been up and running to raise funds for the family while they cared for him in his illness. The Two Row Times has set up an online condolence card for anyone wishing to express their sympathy to the Hill family at this time. To sign the card or to make donations to The Charlie Hill Fund visit our website at www.tworowtimes.com.

American Rights Fund and the Denver American Indian Commission. documentaThe ry titled “March Point”, as filmed by Annie ilverstein, Tracy Rector, Cody Cayou, Nick Clark, and Travis Tom. Cayou, Clark and Tom are from the Swinomish First Na-

tion located in the state of Washington. Initially the Swinomish teens wanted to make a gangster movie but instead were asked to investigate the impact of oil refineries on their tribal lands. documentary The tells the story of each youth and their search

“March Point” awakens the youth

By Jen Mt.Pleasant

Denver, Colorado – A new youth documentary will be screened in Denver on Wednesday as part of a monthly Indigenous film series hosted by the Institute International for Indigenous Resource Management, the Native

Bab ies of 2013

for answers resulting in what they call a ‘parallel awakening.’ They uncover the truth about oil refineries and the detrimental impact it has on the health of their people.

Like so many other First Nations youth, the teens never knew about their history until they

interviewed community Elders who taught them about how their land was taken through the Treaty of Point Elliot in the 1800’s. More was taken from them two decades later, which the tribe considers illegal.

In this groundbreaking documentary, the

teens not only learned ho to be filmma ers through inquiring and speaking with Elders, they also learned how to be storytellers, knowledge holders and leaders in their community. To find out more about the film o to http marchpointmovie.com.

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Idle No More: the indigenous news event of 2013

By Jen Mt. Pleasant From an Onkwehon:we perspective, there are few more important stories in 2013 than the rise to prominence of the Idle No More movement. Idle No More was founded by four women out of Saskatoon in December of 2012. What started off as a small grassroots movement, quickly gained international support. Idle No More was initiated in response to the Conservative government’s omnibus Bill C-45. Part of this Bill, was changing the name of the Navigable Waters Protection Act to the Navigation Protection Act. In the new Act, most bodies of water in Canada are no longer protected.

The passing of Bill C-45 is in direct contradiction to various treaties that were made between the Queen and First Nations people all across Canada.

Bill C-45 also changes the Indian Act and the Environmental Assessment Act. The changes allow for easier privatization of treaty lands by way of a referendum vote, and they give the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs power to call a meeting to consider surrendering treaty territory.

What seemed to go hand-in-hand over the past year was Idle No More and protesting of pipelines, in particular the Northern Gateway Pipeline out west and the Line 9 reversal project in Ontario. With Canada having a large oil reserve in the western provinces, large industries from all over the world, including the US and China have come knocking on our doors to exploit and prof prof-

Idle No More protesters gather on the streets of Toronto on December 21st 2013. (Photo by Kevin Konnyu) it from our resources.

One thing that had a huge impact on the Idle No More movement and helped it gain international support, was the influence of social media.

In the past year, thousands of photos can be accessed via Facebook of Flash Mob Round Dance’s all over Canada and the United States. We can view pictures of people from countries all around the globe, holding handmade posters and signs supporting Idle No More.

Idle No More has even been compared with the black civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950s and ‘60s. The civil rights movement as a fi ht to end racial segregation and discrimination and to enforce constitutional voting rights of African Americans. According to its founders, Idle No More is a fi ht for ustice in the sense that the federal government acknowledge and respect it’s trea-

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ty obligations with First Nations people and 2) a fi ht for our other the Earth in protecting her against industrialization, resource-grabbing and pipelining. In regards to point this fi ht isn t just for Mother Earth: it is a fi ht for everyone.

The destruction of lands, water, and animal species does not just affect First afNations people, it will af fect humanity as a whole.

This is why Idle No More has arnered si nificant support from the non-Indigenous community as well.

The vision statement of Idle No More is, “…to protect water, air, land

and all creation for future generations… The movement promotes environmental protection and indigenous sovereignty.”

So what is Idle No More other then recurrin themes of flash mobs performing round dances in shopping malls and blocking major highways, roads and railway lines?

Idle No More was built on the frustrations of years of systemic racism and oppression through such things as the Indian Act, residential school system, and the 60s Scoop era. It is because of that, that Indigenous people have lost entire generations,

literally. Because of the violent ways in which Native people were stripped of their culture and traditions, they were left feeling less then human.

Voices were lost and integrity and honour were replaced with silence, violence and addictions.

Almost every Indigenous family todaysuffers to some degree from the residual effects of colonialism: drugs, alcohol, violence, abuse (sexual, physical, spiritual, emotional), poverty, low self esteem, sense of loss, depression, and suicide.

Idle No More is a ‘wake up’ call to all of this. Kind of like, “Okay,

we acknowledge that we have been hurt in the past by the colonizers but, it’s time to pick ourselves up and move on. Time to stop lying down and feeling sorry for ourselves.

It’s time to get up and start fi htin in a ood way, and with a good mind. Fight for ourselves, for each other, and for Mother Earth.”

Idle No More is Indigenous resurgence: we were knocked down, we stayed down for a while but now we’re getting back up. It’s time to get bac up and fi ht the ood fi ht.

Idle No More is Indigenous resistance: we refuse to let go of our culture and traditions no matter how hard the colonizers try and take it away from us. We refuse to give that up. We will not let go of our traditions nor our language.

Though the future of Idle No More remains uncertain, one thing is for sure, and that is Indigenous people worldwide are no longer afraid of colonialism or colonizers.

The era of being bullied, intimidated and harassed off of our land and out of our culture and tradition has ended. It is now time to unite and take a stand against oppression and the oppressors. Indigenous people are Idle No More!

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Indigenous to Pursue Chevron in Canada

By Santiago Escobar

As the Unist’ot’en continue their protracted battle against Chevron and other companies in resistance to the acific rails ipeline in northern B.C. over Wet’suwet’en unceded territory, Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rain Forest in Ecuador are pursuing Chevron in Canada for damages in one of the largest oil-related catastrophes in history.

This past December 2013, after twenty years of legal battles with America’s third largest corporation – ranking 11th in the world – the 30,000+ Indigenous plaintiffs of Ecuador made a small step forward when an Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that they could pursue Chevron for damages they were awarded in the Ecuadorian courts. But the battle is far from over.

Between 1964 and 1990, U.S. oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) deliberately contaminated Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest by dumping some 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, among other contaminants, leaving in its wake pollution levels 30 times higher than the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. What has been called Amazon’s ‘Cherprolifnobyl’ has led to a prolif eration of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer rates that are thirty times higher than elsewhere in the country. cientific readings of the toxicity of water and soil in the region have revealed levels thousands of times above what is permitted by both Ecuadorian and U.S. law.

And it’s the region’s Indig-

enous inhabitants – which includes the Quechua, Siona, Cofan, Secoya and Huaorani peoples – that are being bearing the efbrunt of the genocidal ef fects of the Amazon’s destruction. The Tetetes and the Sansahuari peoples have already been killed off by Chevron’s activities.

Chevron has used all the “legal” resources at its disposal to avoid compensating those affected in Ecuador. According to the indigenous plaintiffs, Chevron has a legal army with more than 60 legal firms some le al professionals, top-notch public relations firms the shadowy “investigative and risk” management firm roll. n 3 alone Chevron spent $400 million alone in 2013 for “legal services” that have been deemed “unethical”.

“This is probably the most money any company in history has spent defending itself on environmental claims,” said Aaron Page, a U.S. lawyer for the Ecuadorians. “The total legal cost for Chevron shareholders is likely ap-

proaching $2 billion and it is rising fast.”

In addition to the ‘legal’ means at its disposal to defeat the case, Chevron has also employed a whole series of other dirty tricks to undermine the lawsuit, including: harassing the plaintiffs’ legal team, several bribery attempts, and undercover plots such as setting a trap to the judge overseeing the case in Ecuador.

After nearly 20 years of battle, in 2011 an Ecuadorian court ruled that Chevron had to pay for the destruction that it caused and was required to compensate the victims. On December 11, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ecuador ratified the rulin and set the final amount o ed at US$9.5 billion.

The plaintiffs are now trying to gain justice in several courts across the globe, including Canada, since Chevron no longer has assets remaining in Ecuador. On December 17, 2013, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that Ecuador’s Indigenous communities indeed have the

right to pursue Chevron’s assets in Canada to enforce the US$9.5 billion Ecuador judgment. Chevron’s assets in Canada are currently estimated at US$15 billion. Thus, the entirety of the Ecuador judgment can be collected in Canada if the communities prevail on their enforcement action.

Referring to comments from a Chevron spokesman that the company ould fi ht this until hell freezes over” and then fi ht it out on

the ice,” Justice James Mac Pherson of the Court of Appeal for Ontario said that: grant“Chevron’s wish is grant ed. After all these years, the Ecuadorian plaintiffs deserve to have the recognition and enforcement of the Ecuadorian judgment heard on the merits in the appropriate jurisdiction.

At this juncture, Ontario is that jurisdiction.”

Indigenous peoples in Canada will be watching the ruling closely, as the notorious polluter development pursues the acific rails pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory in central B.C. In an interview for this article, Freda Huson, a spokesperson for the Unist’ot’en, said “We are protecting the Morice River and Gosnell creek, which feed into the Bulkley River. Salmon is one of our main staple food that spawn in Gosnel and swim down stream into Bulkley.” The Unist’ot’en built a cabin near the initial route of the proposed pipeline in 2010, which forced a route change for the acific rails ipeline.

Huson told BASICS Community News Service that “We have since constructed a traditional pithouse on their new proposed route. We have people living at the site blocking the only bridge into our territory. We stand in Solidarity with many other nations struggles against industry destruction.”

Currently, several organizations and alliances in Canada are backing the Indigenous plaintiffs in Ecuador, including the Canadian and Quebec sections of the International League of People’s Struggles; the Hugo Chavez People’s Defense Front; Amigos de la Revolucion Ciudadana; Red de Amigos de la Revolución Ciudadana; Centro Comunitario San Lorenzo; and Barrio Nuevo. The alliances are planning to have the first meetin of a Solidarity Committee at 6:30pm on January 16, 2013 at the Hispanic Centre of York, 1652 Keele St.,Toronto.

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EDITORIAL: The Diaspora Letters to the Editor

We have been people of the Grand River for just over two hundred years now but there are a few problems with our situation. The problem with these problems is that they are nearly invisible.

According to the Indian Act we don’t actually own Six Nations Reserve No. 40 because Canada considers these 50,000 acres to be Federally owned Crown Land.

There is an illusion of ownership and control but most people are able to recognize that certain rules and regulations apply to this land when it comes to commerce and trade that are not defined by our government but by corporate Canada.

According to our own history and law there are two views.

One is that we were awarded this land because of our allegiance to the British during the Revolutionary War as chronicled by the Haldimand Proclamation.

The other view is that Ontario and the Grand River did not have ownership because it was the Beaver Hunting Grounds therefore the Huron or the Mississaugas broke a pre-existing treaty (Dish with One Spoon) by selling common la land to a fled ling Province of Canada 300 years ago. This view asks, “What right did Haldimand have to award us our own land, our hunting grounds?”

If we follow this legacy then Ontario is not a province it is a giant refrigerator for the indigenous people of the

northwest of the continent.

At this time we are in diaspora. The word diaspora refers to a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area. The word can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland.

The next invisible problem is that our nations have taken on a secondary identity as a refugee within a foreign authority and land. We are the Six Nations of the Grand River, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the Oneida of the Thames.

Does anyone remember that we used to be the League of Nations of the Finger Lakes?

Even our names in the lan ua e reflect our true homelands.

Kanienkehaka means people of the place of the flint and nondaga means people of the rolling hills etc. etc.

How long will it be until we change our name to people of the Grand River or people of the flat clay soil? Maybe people of the crappy area the British didn’t want? But they wanted it later.

When I look at the Israel-Palestinian conflict the bi est thin I see is that it took the Jews 1878 years to return home after Titus crushed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. They were dispersed northward, and like the Haudenosaunee they lived in exile amongst other nations as second rate citizens for hundreds of years.

The successor state of Canada has not been acknowledging our

treaties pre-existing with their Monarch. We aren’t getting the best treatment or recognition as allies. Instead we are governed as subjects because our population was annihilated by diseases that we had no immunity to. How long will we endure until we give them their three warnings? How long until we splash red onto the wampum?

As far as we know we have never broken the Two Row Wampum or the Covenant Chain, we are always trying to polish it. Why is that? Is it even possible for us to declare these treaties null and void due to gross negligence by the British party?

Regardless of how that situation works out, can we envision a day when we gather our people together and retake our original homeland back? Do you know that the Haudenosaunee people today have a total population of over 300,000? If we have 500,000 people by 2020 is that enough for us to march the 300 km or so back to our ancestral lands? Or do we have to wait until there are a million of us in the year 2050?

Until then we will continue to endure hardship and turmoil as a displaced people within a system that dishonors us and our legacy.

Until then our hearts will groan in anticipation to be revealed to the world who we truly are and who we have always been.

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My near-death experience After reading Rhonda Maracle’s article “Survival” in last week’s paper I felt compelled to share my near-death experience. Both my parents were Christians, embracing the Pentecostal faith all their lives. I always believed in God and the hereafter and that we made the choice where we wanted to spend our eternal life.

What happened to me is just as vivid in my mind today as it was 42 years ago.

In 1969 a week after giving birth to my 2nd son, I was in excruciating pain and had to go to emergency. The doctor told me I had an infection in my ovaries and had to be hospitalized.

This meant leaving my newborn with his grandmother. My other children stayed with their father. The doctor said I had abscesses on each ovary and except for pain medication nothing could be done until the abbesses ripened, hoping the ripening happened before the poison spread through my body.

I knew I was sick.

After about a month of being in the hospital my fever spiked. When the nurse came in and took my temperature she enclosed the curtain around my bed. I knew then it wasn’t good. She only said to me your temperature has risen.

So I did the only thing I knew how to do and that was to pray. I asked God to make me better so I could go home and

look after my children, look after my baby boy. I didn’t want my children to be raised without a mother.

I remembered that the hospital always had these little red testaments in the nightstand so I reached over, got the testament out of the drawer and turned to the 23rd Psalm and started reading “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want….That’s the last thing I remember.

I don’t know what time it was when I looked over and seen a fi ure standing by my bed. The fi ure had a lon hooded cloak on and I couldn’t see a face just a shadow.

I wasn’t afraid. I looked over at the fi ure and said, “I’m really sick” and a man’s soft, calming voice said to me, “I know and I’ve come to make you better.”

The man then reached down with both hands and started rolling my blanket down my body. Even when the man was bent over me I still couldn’t see his face but I still wasn’t afraid of him. As soon as he started rolling down the blanket I could feel the fever leaving my body. I looked at him and said “Oh that feels so good.”

The next thing I remember is waking up about 9:00 in the morning with the testament lying across my chest opened to the 23rd Psalm and having a strong urge to pee. So I wobbled to the bathroom and experienced the most excruciating pain I ever felt. I knew the abbesses had

burst and the poison was draining from my body.

When the nurse came and I told her what happened she checked my temperature and my temperature was normal. My fever was gone.

She couldn’t believe it.

She went out and called the doctor who was looking after me. He came in my room and he too was shocked at my recovery.

“We didn’t expect you to make it through the night,” he said to me.

I didn’t tell the doctor my experience because I didn’t think he would believe me. In fact at that time I didn’t even tell my family and my kids. I guess I kept it to myself because it was the most personal experience I had ever been through. But now with all the death and turmoil in our community I thin it s time. m a firm believer that we have to have faith in something or someone.

I was ready to go that night those 42 years ago. I had made my peace with God. To this day I don’t know why God chose to let me live, chose to save me. Why he answered my prayers. ofOver the years I have of ten pondered that question. I know other people in our community have had a near-death experience as well. Each of us has probably had a much different experience but we are all testaments that a higher power does exist.

Councillor Helen Miller

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Florida High School gives racist lesson to pre-schoolers

By Nahnda Garlow A racist video depicting caucasian youth impersonating a pow-wow is circulating around the internet this week and landed in the hands of indigenous media.

Last November, a high school in Baker County, Florida brought in pre-kindergarten students to teach them about the first than s ivin .

BCHS Students were videotaped wearing baggy leather-like dresses and Sioux style war bonnets, carrying colourful tomahawks, patting their mouths and grunting; all under the supervision of the school’s History Club. The school’s website says staff members Mark Hartley and Amanda Rhoden are assigned to oversee the History Club. Rhoden is listed on the website as a Social Studies instructor.

Two Row Times contacted Joel Addington, managing editor for Baker County Press, the media organization who initially posted the video to

A student led “pow-wow” recycled racist stereotypes in an attempt to educate pre-school students about Native American culture in Florida.

You Tube for comments.

TRT: What were your initial thoughts after seeing the video?

Addington: My initial thought was where are the pilgrims, because this was done just prior to the Thanksgiving and of course natives were only part the “traditional” story of the holiday, i.e. natives breaking bread with pilgrims.

That’s probably more a reflection of American culture, however. I understood that the powwow was not completely

culturally or historically accurate, and that wasn’t too surprising given who was responsible for putting on the event, i.e. non-native largely Christian southerners. I covered a real pow-wow a few months prior by the Cherokee tribe of Georgia, and there were many differences like I wasn’t allowed to shoot certain people or come inside the circle where the tribal dance was happening as a non-native. (Here’s a link to the video and photos of that event: http://

bit.ly/1bP39Fj) All that said, I didn’t think the history club meant the program to be 100% culturally and historically accurate. I intend to confirm this ith the club s sponsor, but my guess is the students did some Wikipedia research on native American culture and combined that with some silly song and dance they thought would keep the preschoolers entertained. Should they have done better research and executed the program to be more culturally/

sleeping in his bed during shootanother drive-by shoot ing. Both shootings were gang related.

Maskwacis has been plagued by gang violence for years.

Maskwacis is located on resource-rich land and residents decided years ago to allow oil companies onto their traditional territories to extract oil.

In exchange, Maskwacis residents received hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties once they reached the age of 18. Most residents squandered the cash and now Maskwacis is plagued by alcoholism, gambling problems, domestic violence and drug abuse. When drugs came to Maskwacis, gangs soon followed.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police estimate there are approximately 5 gangs on Maskwacis, all fi htin to control the drug trade. Despite this, Maskwacis has seen a steady drop in crime in

the past few years. What was once understaffed, Maskwacis RCMP detachment no has officers. ive officers are indi enous, two are elders and there is also a victim services unit.

What does this new name change mean for the people of Maskwacis?

According to the Samson Cree First Nation website, he official name chan e to ‘Maskwacis’ is seen as a welcome change. It signifies respect for our ree way of life, our language and our authority over the traditional territories we have historically occupied.”

With 50% of their troubled community being under the age of 18, the website goes on to state, “Reclaiming our traditional names for Maskwacis territory, instills a sense of pride in Cree values, languages, culture and history and a sense of belonging among our Nations, especially

our youth.”

The name Maskwacis itself refers to the traditional land, which was once covered with blueberry bushes. The berries attracted large populations of bears to the area.

The Cree word for bear is ‘muskwa’. Muskwa is also si nificant to the history spirituality and culture of the Plains Cree people that make up Maskwacis. ofIn order to get an of ficial name chan e irst Nations must make a formal request to Aboriginal and Northern Development Canada. Other nations which have recently changed their names to reflect their cultures are hitefish a e irst ation, which changed their name to Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation, back in October and Canoe Creek Indian Band in British Columbia, which changed its name to the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation.

historically accurate, or better yet, have real natives put on a program?

I agree they should have.

Alas, I don’t make such decisions. We simply report what happens in our community.

TRT: Is the prevailing attitude in Baker County toward the indigenous people of the United States accurately depicted by the actions of the BCHS History Club as shown in the video?

Addington: That’s a tough one because it’s a pretty sweeping statement. If by the “the actions of the BCHS History Club” you mean them displaying their ignorance of native American culture and history, I would say probably yes, most Baker County residents couldn’t tell you the difference between two types of head dresses, or war paint versus hunting paint, if there even is such a distinction.

I certainly could not and I’m pretty well educated, albeit not on indigenous cultures. But keep in mind this was largely a student-led program with

minimal oversight from club sponsors/teachers.

Should the adults have foreseen the potential for an international backlash and taken steps to blunt such a backlash? In a perfect world, sure. But having covered this community for six years, I don’t think they were thinking in those terms. In fact, more usual for this community is to do things how they’ve always been done. And this program has been done at the preschool for at least the last three years with no such back lash until this year, likely precisely because of the online video. I think we’ve only done photos in the past.

TRT: Do you feel the lesson given to preschoolers was accurate?

Addington: No. Two Row Times did contact Baker County High School principal Tom Hill for comment, but have not received a response.

The video can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/1cOfnOB

Troubled First Nation changes its name Dechinta Bush

By Jen Mt. Pleasant

MASKWACIS – Hobbema, Alberta, one of Canada’s most crime-ridden and troubled First Nations formally changed its name, effective January 1st. The new name is Maskwacis, which is Cree for ‘Bear Hills’. The four Cree communities that make up Maskwacis are: Samson Cree First Nation, Ermineskin Cree Nation, Montana First Nation and Louis Bull First Nation.

Maskwacis is 100 km south of Edmonton.

Maskwacis made national headlines in 2008 when 2-year-old Asia Saddleback was shot in the stomach in a drive by shooting as she sat at the kitchen table eat eating supper. Although she survived, the bullet lodged in her spine and doctors were unable to remove it. Headlines were made again in 2011 when 5-year-old Ethan Yellowbird was shot dead while

University: Education in the North

By Jen Mt. Pleasant Started in 2008 on traditional Dene territory (Yellowknife), at Dechinta University, students learn about self-determination and the land. Dechinta combines academics and theory with cultural activities on the land and indigenous knowledge. One such activity is learning to tan moose hides.

Dechinta was started by Erin Freeland Ballantyne who is non-Indigenous but grew up on the Dene territory in Yellowknife.

Dechinta means ‘the bush’ in the Dene language. Dechinta is a

way to keep members in the northern communities whereas, traditionally, in order to get a higher education, members must move away.

It also provides youth with skills and knowledge relevant to their lives and communities.

The majority of instruction takes place outdoors. Students have a selection of courses from building sustainable communities to self-determination.

Admission requirements are based on life experience, willingness to learn and dedication.

For more information, please check out www. dechinta.ca.

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FEATURE COLUMN: LET'S TALK NATIVE WITH JOHN KANE

Here We Go Again I’m sorry, but I can’t resist the temptation. As we rip open a new calendar I can’t help but reflect on the past year and the one that is now before us.

I won’t attempt to list all those who completed their time with us in this last trip around our eldest Brother, the Sun. We have had people close and intimate to us as well as people we admired from afar who now serve us only in our memories and in whatever form we may have them recorded.

We had people rise up from obscurity and gain the spotlight. Some of them have shown genuine courage and integrity, while others walked on the faces, shoulders and necks of their own people past and present to promote themselves and their agendas.

Many of us forged great new relationships and rekindled some old Conversations ones. were advanced. Issues were elevated. And while our impatience for significant chan e and solutions seem to be a constant ache, small signs of promise for change show themselves daily.

Even in the absence of a coming-of-age ceremony, we have seen some of our young people stepping up and standing up to the challenges that generations have faced, some quite poorly and some against nearly insurmountable odds.

Of course, there are our new ones, all those faces that have come to join us. New children, new grandchildren, generations removed from petty conflicts and feuds

that have kept many of our people and territories from standing with each other.

Creation had another tough year as it continued to be compromised for profit. ur land ater and air remain in jeopardy to those who only see value in terms of dollars and how quickly they can be extracted from our Mother. Our plants and medicines are being altered and affected at alarming rates, diminishing the value that the wisdom 10,000 years has placed within them.

Our Cousins, the winged and, four legged, and no legs, continue to adapt as best they can while their habitats are destroyed yet all continuing to show us the same lessons taught to all those who came before us. But our Mother and Creation are not taking these offenses quietly. Climate change, severe weather, seismic events and major breaks in ecosystems demonstrated the planet’s response.

Last year at this time a groundswell began. A movement, driven not by bold dominant leadership but simply by the people, captured the world’s attention.

The idea that many of those who never considered themselves activists would become Idle No More and was powerful and encouraging but, unfortunately, that momentum would be squandered by distracting individual acts. Hunger striking on Victoria Island or wining and dining with the NFL in D.C. were great headlines for individuals but it was the participation of the tens of thousands that was si nificant last year.

So with one cycle

completed what do we see for the next one before us?

Well, whether the people remain “Idle” or

not; corporations, governments and our Mother will not. The planet will continue to lash out, not just at the culprits raping destructing the earth, but at all of us.

This is no longer a Native issue. We have proven our ability to survive crimes against humanity but who can survive the crimes against that, which sustains us all?

This year and every year until we turn back global exploitation — what “they” call the “global economy” — people will face the choice of siding with the planet or cashing it in. The “Revolution” isn’t what we need; it is what we need to prevent. When the planet presses reset, that is when the revolt happens. And like a true revolution the planet will attempt a new beginning, with or without us. Many of us will not survive a revolution by the planet.

Our Mother and Creation ill fi hat e fail to correct. In fact, they will restore what we broke. Our role as Native people is to lead the charge so we are part of the solution rather than the obvious problem. We can’t do it alone, which is one of the things we must realize, and must convince those who are

still too wary to join us.

The challenge for us is to continue to resist the colonial subjugation while we defend our Mother. That resistance is, essentially, one and the same. We hear much debate about our people’s “sovereignty.” This word, like many others we have added to our le icon must be defined. uch of the orld defines sovereignty with almost an exclusive emphasis on authority and power. As our people began to own this word, it began as an expression of our rights and our freedom. Our sovereignty is our right to have independent or individual authority. It is our right to a freedom that predates European contact, Christian missionaries and the doctrine and dogma that came with them. That freedom is tied not to our “tribal governments” or “traditional councils” but to Creation. It is a birthright, the same as with all of Creation. Our sovereignty is not a collective right but a right we must defend collectively.

Unfortunately, too many of our people have bought into “their” definition. he ori inal

meaning has become diluted and obscured.

Our responsibility to the earth is like that sovereignty. The earth was not “given” to us from God, Jesus or “The Creator,” like the Europeans believed and espoused.

No one has been granted the right to pillage and plunder our Mother; and specifno one has been specif ically charged with defending her either. If we believe the earth is an “every man for himself” proposition or that any of us can truly do right by ourselves, then we are pitiful creatures indeed.

We are all in this together. We need to rethink the world order — new or old. This is what

this trip around our eldest Brother has laid before us.

John Karhiio Kane, Mohawk, a national expert commentator on Native American issues, hosts “Let’s Talk Native…with John Kane,” ESPN Sports Radio WWKB-AM 1520 in Buffalo, Sundays, 9-11 p.m. Eastern Time. He is a frequent guest on WGRZTV’s (NBC/Buffalo) “2 Sides” and “The Capitol Pressroom with Susan Arbetter” in Albany. John’s “Native Pride” blog can be found at www.letstalknativepride.blogspot .com.

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FEATURE COLUMN: SCONEDOGS & SEED BEADS

True repentance

By Nahnda Garlow A cold autumn morning in my first year of hi h school, a girl named “Ang” taught me how to smoke.

Ang was fourteen, and I thought she had it all; she was pretty, swore like a trucker straight to her parents face, and all the boys liked her. One mornofing before school she of fered me a cigarette.

I’d never Now, smoked a cigarette in my life before this, I didn’t know what to do! I was twelve and all of my smoking references involved Popeye and a can of spinach. Nevertheless, puffI “lit up” and started puff ing away.

Ang laughed out loud, pointed at me and shouted, “You’re not even smoking!” This caught the attention of a bunch of the older students, who gathered around and

started watching us. ere first inhale the smoke and then you exhale like this…” she demonstrated. Ang held the cigarette between her two perfectly manicured nails, brought her pouty pink lips together like she was kissing the air and blew the smoke out in a perfect stream. I just stood there disgusted and blinking while all the boys just stared at her; smiling dumbfounded, and speechless with their mouths gaping open.

Totally naive and wanting some attention too, I imitated her. Two seconds later my eyes welled up with tears and I proceeded to hack up a lung, choking for breath right there on Brant Ave. Ang and a bunch of the older students laughed out loud, shook their heads at me and walked away.

I tossed the cigarette into the street totally humiliated. I felt like Molly

Shannon’s ‘Mary Catherine Gallagher’ from “Superstar”. In a passionate “made for teenage TV” moment, I looked at Ang happily walking down the street followed by a pack of boys, and vowed someday I would get her back.

So I picked up a smoking habit which eventually morphed into a full fled ed addiction that followed me through college, university and into motherhood. I worked my way up from a cigarette at school during lunch hour, to half a pack per day for 12 years.

At some point in this story, the provincial government launched a ‘truth campaign’ and started labelling cigarettes with warnings and graphic images. I didn’t realize it then, but every time I smoked a cigarette, I allowed an uneducated decision I made at twelve continue to impact my daily life through

to adulthood. If it wasn’t for the ‘truth campaign’ labels on cigarette packages I might not have realized smoking can be afdeadly. The point is, af ter I recognized smoking was wrong and that I was offending my own body, I was able to decide to quit for good. I am now eight years as a non-smoker and counting.

It is the time of year for new beginnings. For some that means making a New Years resolution, and for many in the Haudenosaunee community it means Stirring Ashes during Midwinter ceremonies. Both beginnings require the foundational work of a repentant spirit.

Repentance is a funny thing. We have this unfortunate image of a person walking into a weird wooden booth and confessing through a weird screen to a weird priest.

But it is so much more than a religious rite. True

repentance re uires first an awareness of what is right and wrong. Next it requires an inner conviction, that pulling on your conscience that you did something wrong.

Finally, true repentance requires a commitment inside of each one’s spirit to stop doing the wrong thing, turn around and begin doing the right thing from that point forward. That is when you get to the part of new beginnings. Only then can a person, or a nation for that matter, work toward reconciliation.

Because true repentance takes place in the spirit of an individual, there isn t a one si e fits all corporate answer.

Had I not been informed smoking cigarettes was so unhealthy, I might still be smoking to this day.

However, there are many people who are offended by those same images on the cover of their smokes.

Sadly, some people are

more happy turning a blind eye to things that make them uncomfortable.

For those of us who are willing to look, walking out repentance is a matter that brings everlasting spiritual change one day at a time. It is a deep conversion of thought and principle.

Perhaps we Ongwehowe are in a parallel situation in our relationship with the citizens of Canada. Here’s some food for thought: why isn’t it called the Truth, Repentance and Reconciliation Commission? I have an inkling that if we speak truth unabridged to the citizens of Canada about our shared history, we just might bring about the corporate repentance needed to make reconciliation between Canada and indigenous people everywhere a reality.

an Indigenous ‘specialty court’ to Brantford. She was especially pleased with how they included the Six Nations community in the decision-making process. The key, Hill believes, is through using education as a tool for change. The new APC can be used as a way to educate Canadian society about the history of colonialism that First Nations peoples have suffered in the past and how indigenous people continue to feel it’s residual effects today. Speaking on the residential school system, Hill says, “The toll it has had on our people has resulted in the social problems we have today.”

Motivational Speaker and Cree warrior, Earl Lambert moved the crowd when he gave a personal account of his life and how he managed to overcome barriers in order to start his healing journey. Lambert spoke of his own involvement

with the criminal justice system at a young age.

Having experienced domestic violence, physical and psychological abuse as a child, Lambert spent part of his life in and out of youth and adult correctional facilities. ambert first be an to realize that criminal life was not for him after the birth of his first son but soon after, relapsed a ain. ambert finally decided that he wanted to better himself, if not for himself then for his young family. He said his, “internal motivator was to heal and external motivator was not to go back

to jail”.

Lambert had a Gladue Report done during his final encounter ith the law many years ago and said he never realized the impact that his tragic life experiences as a child had had on his current life circumstances.

In Lambert’s healing journey, he engaged with his traditional culture: attending teachings and participating in the sweat lodge.

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Aboriginal Persons’ Court opens in Brantford

By Jen Mt.Pleasant

BRANTFORD - The Ontario Court of Justice in Brantford was packed Tuesday morning as the new Aboriginal Persons’ Court (APC) held their open ceremonies. The APC is meant for First Nations people going through the criminal justice system in Brant County and who are also facing a term of incarceration. A Gladue Report, which is done by a Gladue Caseworker, will take certain factors into consideration when the judge determines the length of the sentence.

Some factors include: history of physical or sexual abuse, history of family violence and whether or not a relative attended a residential school.

Program Director of Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, Jonathan Rudin stood in front of the packed courtroom and spoke of the symbolism

and importance of the APC in Brantford. Rudin described the long process of getting this specialty court to Brantford and said the attempt began back in 2003, “after the inquest into the death of Benjamin Mitten while in (Brantford) police custody.” Rudin stated that this is when the real journey began to bring something to Brantford; something designed to meet the needs of First Nations people who go through the criminal justice system. he first ladue Court was opened in Toronto back in October of 2001. The name Gladue itself refers to the case, R. v. Gladue. In 1995, Jamie Gladue a Cree woman from British Columbia stabbed to death her common law partner during a night of heavy drinking, after she learned he was having an affair with her older sister.

The case went all the

Six Nations Elected Chief Ava Hill. way to the Supreme Court of Canada. Although Gladue’s appeal was denied, the case set precedence for future cases.

The Supreme Court ruled that the original trial judge erred in not taking into consideration the of offenders ‘aboriginal background’ when deciding her prison sentence.

Six Nations Elected Council Chief, Ava Hill congratulated Justice Edwards, who spearheaded the initiative to bring

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Every winter, during the first New Moon of the year, when the Seven Sisters constellation is directly overhead, the Haudenosaune celebrate Midwinter. This is a very special time because it is seen as the beginning of a new year and a chance for renewal.

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Dreams are a very import important part of Haudenosaunee culture because someimporttimes they bring import ant messages. A long time ago people would share the dreams they were having during a ceremony at Midwinters. Sometimes if you have an important dream, writing it down will help you learn from it.

Instructions for How to Make your Own Dream Journal: What you will need: Paper (6-10 sheets) One piece of thicker card stock for the cover Ruler Twine, yarn or dental floss to bind your book together (about 12 inches long) Scissors A large needle or pointy scissors to make holes.

Some Duct Tape Decorations for your cover Get some nice paper.

Any kind will do, but to make your journal look nice you can also choose coloured paper or pat pat-

terned paper.

Fold the inside pages in half. It is easier to do this one sheet at a time and then stack them all together again.

Fold the card stock cover in half.

Open the cover back up. With your ruler, mark dots one inch apart along the fold line where you want the holes. (If you are using regular paper folded in half, you should have eight holes.)

Take your needle or pointy scissors and poke holes through the cover at each dot.

Use the cover as a template, and poke holes through the rest of the pages. When you are done, put all the pages together again like a book, with the cover on the outside.

Now we are ready to string it all together. Get your string. If you are using yarn or twine, you can put a little piece of sticky tape around the end like a shoelace. This makes it easier for the yarn to go through the holes. Start on the outside of the book, and go through the top

hole, but leave a tail. We’ll use this at the end to tie everything together. Sew your string through to the inside of the book. Next, go through the second hole down the fold line. Your string should end up on the outside of the book this time. Do this all the way down the seam of the book botuntil you come to the bot tom hole. Now both ends should be on the outside of the book.

Bring the two ends of the string together and tie it in a strong knot.

Get a piece of duct tape and tear off a piece just a bit longer than the spine of your book Put the tape over the outside seam of your book, but leave a little hanging over the top and bottom edge. Tuck those ends over the cover. This step will protect the string and keep everything in place. It also looks really cool if you are using patterned duct tape.

Ta-Daaa! You made your own dream journal.

Now you can decorate it however you like and write down your dreams so you won’t forget!

THE SEVEN SISTERS This constellation is a cluster of stars in the night sky. It is also sometimes called the Pleiades. Scientists even call it Messier 45! This star cluster actually contains hundreds of stars but here on earth, we can only see a few of them.

According to legend, the Seven Sisters were beings in Sky World. They wanted to teach the peoplehow to sing and dance but the Great Sky Council said that stars falling from the sky would make everyone afraid. But the Seven Sisters disobeyed! They came out of the sky, travelling from village to village, swirling in the sky above. People would imitate the star dancers and it brought them great joy. But when Sky Council discovered the Seven Sisters had disobeyed, they were banished to a far corner of the night sky.

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Stirring Ashes Using a good mind is very important in Haudenosaune culture. If you did not behave with a good mind, this ceremony leads a person through what other religions call “repentance”. Repentance means looking at your behaviour, admitting you did something wrong, and promising not to do it again. It is a very happy time because everyone gets to thank the Creator for a new chance to go forward and use a good mind.

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CLax getting set for third season

By Jim Windle

SIX NATIONS – After a tumultuous off-season, the Canadian Lacrosse League (CLax) is getting set for its third season, which begins February 1st. This year, there will be only one Six Nations franchise as the 2013 Champions, the Iroquois Ironmen, sponsored by Slack Lumber, were absorbed into the 2012 Champion Ohsweken Demons for the 2014 professional lacrosse season.

The Ironmen and Demons played against each other for the 2013 Champions Cup. Returning to the ILA this coming CLax season is former Jr. A Arrows Express coach Randy Chrysler as head coach of the 2014 Demons.

“It really felt good walking back into this arena,” said Chrysler.

“There are a lot of good memories here.”

With him behind the bench will be Randy’s brother Roger Chrysler, Ron “Mouser” Henry and Travis Hill.

“I know Randy is going to keep the team on track and in the right frame of mind,” says team president Vince Hill. “He is a good leader and both he and his brother have had success wherever they have been. He has the ear of the players. I was looking for that winning attitude and the discipline he brings is what it takes to win a championship.”

Although he missed celebrating the Minto Cup

Former Jr. A Arrows Express head coach Randy Chrysler returns to the ILA but as new bench boss for the Canadian Lacrosse League Ohsweken Demons. Chrysler was on the ILA carpet Friday night along with assistant coaches Roger Chrysler, Ron “Mouser” Henry and Travis Hill. (Photo by Jim Windle) when he coached the Arrows, Chrysler brought a professional discipline to a highly talented Arrows franchise, which was losing games because of undisciplined play and undisciplined practice at attitudes.

“Everybody knows how much talent there is at Six Nations,” Chrysler told the young players when he took the Arrows job. “But everybody also knows how to beat you. aunt you into fi hts and get you mad and you forget about the game.”

The new discipline didn’t happen quickly or easily that first year and some players balked at

having to follow his regimen. Those players either left, or eventually came around and helped lay the foundation for the current Minto Cup winning franchise.

He is now working with some of those same players he coached as Jr’s, who are now vying to be a part of the 2014 Demons organization.

The inaugural CLax champion Six Nations Iroquois Ironmen franchise was absorbed into the 2013 Champion Demons for the 2014 year. During the off-season, rumours abounded that the new league was in trouble at the upper-management

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level. Most of those concerns, which were never made public, have been resolved, and the third season is a go, according to Vince Hill.

“Internally, we have done some restructuring,” says Hill. “Charles Way and Demon Hill are primary owners of the league. We will not be running this year with a commissioner, but rather a committee. That’s probably the biggest change.”

The league is also courting a new franchise ofin Tuscarora and has of fered potential investors a rare opportunity to try it on and see ho it fits.

“Tuscarora will have

a team testing the market with four games played in Cattaraugus this year, which will count, but they are not actually in the league as yet,” says Hill.

Hill realizes that he has about 90 good quality Native players to choose from, while the other teams can draw talent from all of Canada. But that has not stopped owners Nancy and Demon Hill from hoisting the cup in the first t o years of the league’s existence.

“They (the other teams) are always after our guys down here, but we’re not releasing anybody,” says Vince Hill. “If we do anything it will be

through a trade to get fair return. If there is a release, it will be only a oneyear release with the right of recall.”

That being said, he also says he will never hold one of his players back if they get called up to the National Lacrosse League.

“It’s all about the players,” says Hill. “We’d like to see them, especially the Native players, move up to the next level and we won’t hold anybody back.

If they get a call, we wish them the best and we’ll let them go.”

The former Durham Bulldogs will be reorganizing in the London area, but will play some of their home games at the ILA. The Canadian Lacrosse league is a semipro league and would like to move to ards findin a way to link up with the National Lacrosse League as a farm club system, similar to the American oc ey ea ue s affiliation with the NHL.

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Corvairs earn breathing room with weekend wins

By Jim Windle CALEDONIA – The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs put a little breathing room between themselves and second place St. Catharines this past weekend with a win over Niagara Falls and Welland. games 33 After played the first placed Corvairs have a threepoint lead over the Falcons.

“They have to be scratching their heads over that,” said Corvairs General Manager Brian Rizzetto. “How can they be 30-3-0 and still in second place? It’s turning into uite a do fi ht between us and them.”

The third place Thorold Black Hawks are nine points out of first ith a 21-12-2 record. The Corvairs will be hosting the Black Hawks this coming Saturday night and Rizzetto is not taking this game lightly despite the nine-point cushion.

“You can’t take anyone lightly at this time of the year,” says Rizzetto.

Corvairs’ Jeffrey Malott dre first blood in Welland, Sunday night converting a set up from Mitch Brown and Spencer Gourlay into a 1-0 lead at 5:54.

With just under 2 minutes remaining in the first period elland tied the game at 1-1 with Jack Fitzgerald putting one past Colin Furlong.

The Corvairs turned

Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs forward Scott Dorian sweeps past Niagara Falls’ Cole Langan in Saturday night’s 4-3 Caledonia win. (Photo by Jim Windle) it on in the second period outshooting the Canadians 18-13 and adding two more goals scored by Cody Brown assisted by Jake Brown and Dorian and Scott Dorian at 1:30, and a powerplay goal scored by Connor Murphy at 4:55 from Cody Brown and Gourlay.

Canadians’ Brayden Stortz made it 3-2 at 4:36 of the third but Murphy and Kyler Nixon put the last two goals of the game in for a 5-2 win. Adding assists were Gourlay, goalie Colin Furlong, Murphy and Nixon.

The Corvairs had their hands full Saturday night with the sixth place

Niagara Falls Canucks at the Haldimand Centre Arena in Caledonia.

The hosts, massively outshot the Canucks 4525, but goaltender Emerson Verrier kept his team in the hunt ri ht to the final buzzer. Unfortunately for them, there was Colin Furlong at the other end of the ice protecting the Caledonia cage. Furlong wasn’t nearly as busy but did his ob efficiently enough for the 4-3 win.

The Canucks scored first ith a short hander notched by Denis Creighton at 3 of the first period. Kyler Nixon’s powerplay marker countered that at 6:04 assisted by

Connor Murphy and Cody Brown to even the score at 1-1.

The Canucks skated stride for stride with the Corvairs for most of the first period but the ood start began to unravel in the second when the game turned chippy and the Corvairs took control with its potent powerplay unit.

Mitch Brown and Connor Patton scored second period powerplay goals with assists on both goals going to Nixon and Matt Quilty.

Niagara fought back from the 3 deficit in the third out scoring the Corviars 2-1 but it would

the Kahnawake Sports Complex and in Brossard.

The NAHC is a minor hockey Championship for male and female players who are Bantam and Midget aged. In order to be eligible to play in the Championship a player must be of Aboriginal decent (Status or non-status Indian, Metis, Inuit or Dene).

“There’s going to be a lot of great talent coming to Kahnawake,” Alwin Morris, Chair of the Ab-

original Sport Circle said.

Past players have included many male and female players that have gone on to play hockey Junior Hockey and at University and Colleges across North America. Michael Ferland was drafted by the Calgary Flames; Jocelyn Larocque has been a long time member of Canada’s National Woman’s team, Bridgette Lacquette (MB) played on the Canadian U-21 team and Jamie Lee Rattray (ON) on the Ca-

nadian U-22 team.

The cost to host the NAHC is anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000, Jeff Spencer, the Chair of the Aboriginal Sport Circle Hockey Committee said. The majority of that cost is for ice rentals, transportation of athletes ame officials and a banquet. In return, the revenue generated in Kahnawake and surrounding communities will be close to one million dollars.

not be enough. They had their chances with six extra man opportunities but the Caledonia penalty killers held off all six chances. everal fi hts bro e out early in the third period but after the fur stopped flyin the orvairs had earned their 30th win of the season against one loss and one OT loss.

The team to watch coming down the stretch is going to be the St. Catharines Falcons who are breathing down the necks of the Corvairs in second place.

This week, the Corvairs will be in Port Colborne Friday night and back home to take on the Thorold Black Hawks, Saturday night at 7:30.

Despite being outshot 45-25, Niagara Falls Canucks’ goalie Emerson Verrier kept his team in the game and forced the Corvairs to hold on for the 4-3 win. (Photo by Jim Windle)

2014 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships The 2014 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships will be held in Kahnawake, Quebec from April 28 - May 3, 2014.

This will be the third time that Kahnawake has hosted this national tournament for young male and female hockey players from across Canada.

Kahnawake has previously hosted the NAHC in 2006 and 2013.

This coming spring the 45-game tournament will see games played at

Spencer said that the host committee has followed a conservative budget, which continues to be raised through fundraising and sponsorships. “We have been embarking on an aggressive fundraising and volunteer recruitment campaign,” he said.

Kahnawake’s Alwyn Morris, who has been instrumental in this initiative, said that this tournament is a very important experience for the ath-

letes, especially when they get to play in front of their home crowd fans.

“It is a great opportunity for our youth to see athletes not much older than themselves playing in a tournament of this caliber,” Morris said. “It gives them something more and exciting to strive for” For more information please contact: ASC Hockey Committee Chair - Jeff Spencer creetech@ lino.com

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Card of Thanks

Card of Thanks

The family of the late Albert Harris would like to express our gratitude for all the support and well wishes that many had expressed during the loss of our loved one Albert, who touched so many lives during his time with us. Special thanks goes out to my sister Decarlo Silversmith-Crawford, for being my support during his hospital stay. Also to Tricia & Hodge, Jaqueline House, Dena & Ganks, Mark Porter for being with us at the hospital in his final moments. John & Melvin Maracle, Brad Harris for visiting him during his stay in the hospital. To Bev Crawford, Dolly Longboat, Ruby Hill & Melba Thomas for the delicious food they prepared. Ruby Bomberry-seamstress & cornbread maker, Addy Longboat-headboard, Sam & Racheal Miller for making his moccasins, Pete Skye-speaker, Dean Silversmith-speaker, Arnold Green-looking after wake, Wake Singers, Pallbearers, Miran Hill - artwork, Linda Maracle, Susan House, Tricia Longboat - cooks. Rebecca Longboat, Barb Silversmith, Kevin Silversmith, Sylvester Silversmith, Brandon Longboat for staying at his house. Hyde & Mott Funeral Home, I.L. Thomas School, Lower Cayuga Longhouse, Old Mush Singers, Hamilton General Hospital 8th Floor & ICU East staff. Cayuga Snipe Clan-Mina Key - clanmother, Chuck Jacobs - chief, Karl Hill - sub-chief, Lance Longboat, Robert and Roger Silversmith - dressed him, Dan Hill for their love and support. Also to our friends and extended family from our Cayuga territory surrounded

by Cayuga Lake. Thanks also to the many people who expressed their condolences, gave food & financial donation to our family. We apologize if we missed anyone and thank everyone for their love & support. A very special thanks goes out to Albert's "only" sister Riki Longboat & her family for their love & support and helping us get through this sad time.

Love, Theresa Silversmith & family

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He knows we will always love him That we miss him more each day That we still feel lost without him And will always feel that way.

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9. Hair detangler 13. “l836 siege” of U.S. 14. Old name for Tokyo 15. Largest continent 16. Showed old movie 17. Clatter 18. Considered one by one 19. Chinese cinnamon spice tree 21. Frequently 22. 3 person 32 card game 23. Misaddressed mail (slang) 25. Expresses pleasure 26. Samba or basket rummy 31. Military leader (abbr.)

33. A citizen of Iran 34. Environmental Protection Agency 35. Carbon, radioactive or varve 36. Loss of electricity 41. Mass. Cape 43. Mediator 44. 1/1000 of a tala 45. Players at 1st, 2nd & 3rd 46. Covered Greek portico 49. Bring upon oneself 51. Leuciscus cephalus 52. Cold War foe U___ 53. Bumpkins or hayseeds 59. Fleshy seed cover 60. Golf ball prop 61. Antipathetic 62. Wait or tarry 63. Weather map line ___bar 64. Civilian dress 65. Relaxing resorts 66. Box (abbr.)

67. Burning crime CLUES DOWN 1. Informant (slang) 2. Olive tree genus 3. Armed conflicts 4. Am. Music Awards 5. Dance mix DJ Einhorn

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, enjoy some well-deserved time off. Life has taken on a hectic pace of late, but some much-needed time to rest, relax and recharge has finally arrived.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, hidden feelings come to the surface, and this will prove a pleasant surprise. Let things play out this week, and you will get some peace.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, your friends are up to something and they want it to remain a surprise. Keep your distance, and don’t let your curiosity get the better of you.

6. Oxidation-reduction 7. Structure 8. Modern 9. Roman Conqueror 10. So. Honshu bay city 11. 8th C. BC minor Hebrew prophet 12. = to 100 satang 20. In active opposition 24. 007’s Flemming 26. 12th century Spanish hero El ___ 27. Macaw genus 28. Slave rebellion’s Turner 29. Cuckoo 30. From a time 32. Applies with quick strokes 37. Fasten with string

Answers for January 8, 2014 Edition Crossword Puzzle

38. Teller replacement 39. Command right 40. Sea eagle 42. Most closely set 43. __ Dhabi, Arabian capital 44. Marten furs 46. Strike workers 47. Thysanopter 48. Louise de la Ramee’s pen name 50. King of Thebes 54. __ mater, one’s school 55. Time unit 56. Klutzes 57. __ Von Bismarck, Iron Chancellor 58. Front of the leg

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CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 A temporary situation at work may alter your plans for a few days, Cancer. But don’t let changes stop you from scheduling some down time with your friends.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, think things through before swinging into action. Run your ideas by someone close, and consider all of your options. This will ensure you make the best decision.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Your confidence about the future is a byproduct of the past, Virgo. You have learned from past mistakes and are ready to forge ahead and turn your hard work into results.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, now is the time to address some relationship issues that you have been avoiding.

Deal with them in a straightforward way, and you will glad you did.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 A demanding schedule makes it impossible for you to be bored this week, Scorpio. However, if you desire a little time to decompress, you can fit it into your schedule.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, while you may be anxious about the future, make sure you enjoy the here and now and not wish the present away too soon. New friends come into your life.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, react swiftly to stressful situations, but do so with a clear head and conscience.

Once a situation has been resolved, take some time to recharge your batteries.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, do your best to hold up your end of a bargain with a loved one. If you are struggling, simply ask for more time or help to ensure that everyone comes out a winner.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, your foremost priority is to further your position at work. Rely on your strong work ethic and attention to detail.

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