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Darlene Maracle, a classroom assistant at Oliver M. Smith Elementary School, stands by artwork that was displayed at last night's Spring Awards Gala. Artwork was displayed all around the school's gymnasium and was created by students at Jean Vanier Catholic Elementary School in Brantford. PHOTO

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Community members recognized at Brantford award night

By Jayson Koblun BRANTFORD – Community members Pauline Johnson, Lana Henhawk and Donte VanEvery received awards of excellence at last night’s Spring Awards Gala in Brantford.

The gala, held at Jean Vanier Catholic Elementary School on Tuesday May 31, is put on by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and takes an opportunity to award and thank students, teachers and community volunteers for their hard work throughout the year.

“Award applicants are nominated by fellow students and co-workers,” said Darlene Maracle, classroom assistant at Oliver M. Smith Elementary School and committee

member for CEC chapter 834. “The council committee then goes through all of the nominations and selects the recipients.”

CEC is an non-profit organization that ensures students who face challenges have their needs met. They provide special education to pre-school, gifted, multi-handicapped, learning disabled, post-transition and ADD students. They work toward the professional upgrading of teachers and give students the opportunity to participate in various activities and special programs.

Maracle nominated the winner of the Professional Support Service Award, Pauline Johnson for being a over-and-above helper and contributor to their school.

Pauline Johnson, Donte VanEvery and Lana Henhawk took home awards of excellence in various areas at last night's Spring Awards Gala put on by the Council for Exceptional Children Chapter 834.

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“I nominated her because she is an outstanding woman,” said Maracle.

“She goes out of her way to help anybody and everybody in the classroom.

She is an early counsellor learner, and teaches the kids how to cook, has

taught the staff how to make scone and she has done other thing like teach girls how to sew.”

Johnson is retiring this year, so Maracle was very happy to see her recognized for all her hard hard work.

Lana Henhawk took home the Judith Lapierre Community Volunteer Award. Henhawk is a parent who is very involved with the school.

“Lana is also our chair for the home and school committee, she caters all the time for our school events and is an amazing cook,” said Maracle. “She always finds the time to pick up food for the kids, bring snacks, cook hot dogs, cook a hot meal ever week. She's amazing.”

Maracle said Henhawk has a lot of children and says “hats off to her!” for finding the time to help so much with the school on top of everything else she does.

Donte VanEvery, winner of a student achievement award, was nominated for

the award by his teacher, Tamar Thomas. VanEvery is in the primary multi-level class at Oliver M. Smith Elementary School and his teacher nominated him for consistently bringing such a positive attitude to class and everywhere he goes.

“Donte won for being such a big help in the classroom,” said Maracle. “He has such a great attitude, good behaviour, comes to school on time and finishes all his work.”

CEC puts on the gala every year and has been doing so for more than 25 years. It was started

by Judith Lapierre. There was also artwork posted around the gymnasium that was made and created by students who attend Jean Vanier Catholic Elementary School.

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10th year anniversary for SN pen pal program

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – Ten years ago, right at the height of the Caledonia conflict over a piece of land Six

Nations believes was never legally surrendered, Suzie Miller, a Six Nations public school teacher, had an idea to bypass the barricades being set up by

adults, and instead build bridges between the two communities, through children.

She and her husband Scott talked about the

idea with friend and former teacher and Hamilton Tiger Cat, Scott Cooper, who immediately caught the vision and has been helping out every year since.

The concept was simple. She believed that since children don’t seem to have the same seemingly racist qualities being displayed in those days back in 2006, helping them to understand each other would be planting better seeds for the future co-operation between Caledonia and Six Nations.

She with the co-operation of other elementary school teachers, began a Pen Pal program between a school in Caledonia and E.C. General School on Six Nations where students would write to a student counterpart and ask questions about each other like what they like, and don’t like, favourite music

etc., the exercise being to show the future adults that they have more in common with their neighbours than they may have known otherwise.

Since then, her vision has proven to be true as young students began developing cross-cultural friendships based on mutual understanding through these pen pal interactions.

At the end of the school year the pen pals come together for a day of games food and fun.

The pen pal provides a venue for relationship building between First Nations communities and their neighbours.

“In nurturing these relationships, the project sets goals for students to engage neighbours in relations of peace through a pen pal letter and cultural exchange, with peace as the starting point,” said Miller.

She has heard many stories of long lasting friendships developing and lasting well beyond school and probably for life.

In the past 10-years the pen pals program has grown to now include dozens of classes at dozens of area schools involving hundreds of young students. In January, 2016, the Susa Creek kids from Grande Cache Alberta, will be doing their own pen pal program mirroring the original pen pals projects.

This year’s gathering, expected to be the largest to date, will take place this month, June 17, at Chiefswood Park on Highway 54. Students will receive a commemorative t-shirt, and lessons in cultural awareness, along with all the fun.

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Sharing of Hearts and Support Group Tuesday 6:30PM to 8:30 PM Ju n e 7, 1 4 , 2 1 , 2 8 Ten years ago, in 2006, Emily C. General School teacher, Suzie Miller, supported by her husband Scott, began a pen pals program between a class of students from Six Nations and a class from a Caledonia elementary school. The idea was to promote peace through friendships and understanding, and it has worked beautifully ever since. The program has since grown to include dozens of classes at dozens of area schools. This June 17, the annual gathering of all the pen-pal participants will meet one another face to face. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Millions for First Nations Health Action Plan

By Nahnda Garlow TORONTO – Ontario announced nearly $222 million dollars in funding towards indigenous health care in the province.

The First Nation Health Action Plan investment will be followed with an annual $104 million dol-

lars in funding to address inequities in the health care system and improve access to culturally appropriate care for First Nations patients.

Anishnabek Nation Grand Council Chief Pat Madahbee said the investment is a positive step forward to address-

ing areas of need for First Nations in the North.

A portion of the funding will provide access to fresh fruits and vegetables for approximately 13,000 indigenous children in northern and remote communities.

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Learn theatre and get paid for it

By Jim Windle O H S W E K E N/ B R A N TFORD – Learn theatre and get paid for it? Now that’s interesting and is what the Brantford Theatre Workshop is offering and are reaching out to Six Nations for talent.

There is a shortage of indigenous actors, writers, and technicians and far too few opportunities for Aboriginal artists to practise and improve their trade. But if that is so, what can one do about it? That seems to be what is driving the project.

A successful applicant is someone who has to have a lot more than blood alone to become a top ranked actor or theatric technician. He or she does not necessarily have to have any experience. Just a love for acting and the theatre is required.

“We need to hire — that’s right — hire, 12 students,” said playwright, director and actor, Peter Muir. “The whole concept of the entire piece is that it be 50 per cent indigenous and 50 per cent non-indigenous participation.”

That was one of the stipulations brought forth by Naomi Johnson, Artistic Director at Woodland Cultural Centre (WCC).

“When I first sat down with Peter I was adamant that every part of the production it would be a true 50/50 collaboration,” she says.

He agreed wholeheartedly.

Muir talked to TRT last week about how the project began.

“I was at a meeting with Heather George and Amos Key Jr. representing WCC and Chiefswood,

Playwright, director and actor, Peter Muir of the Brant Theatre Workshop, is looking for Six Nations talent for a new project he has received funding for that will focus on the lives and friendship between Chief George Johnson, father of renowned actor and poet Pauline Johnson, and Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the telephone, and his family. He may be working with Six Nations playwright and actor Gary Farmer on a joint project that will include Six Nations talent, later this summer. were in attendance,” recalls Muir. “Heather had seen the work Brant Theatre Workshop has been doing at the Bell Homestead over the past 10 years of the Bell Summer Theatre Festival. She suggested they do something at Chiefswood.

Then Amos spoke up and said, ‘don’t forget about us’.”

Out of that, planning meetings were arranged where the concept of exploring the friendship between Chief George Johnson, father of Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson, and Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was conceived.

With the Johnson’s mansion located on what is today Highway 54, and the Bell Homestead a number of miles away on Tutela Heights, by 1800s standards, they were neighbours. In fact, Chief Johnson helped Bell

string wire to conduct early telephone experiments. The two families would often visit one another even though their world-views and cultures were much different.

Muir researched for available funding for such a joint project and found enough to launch the project from idea to actual planning, casting, recruiting backstage people, and even writers, since the story would be developed and written especially for this project with mutual input.

Once the project is written, casted, rehearsed and ready, the play, Summer Breeze will be performed at the Bell Homestead, Chiefswood National Historical Site, and another at Woodland Cultural Centre. Rehearsals will be at Woodland.

“The production is important, and we will do the production,” says Muir. “But it’s the process

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that is really interesting to me. We’re going to have cultural workshops for everyone involved.

We’ll be bringing in people to not only teach about theatre, but bring a cultural understanding as well. It could be someone interested in dance, music, scriptwriting, production, set building or anything related to producing performing and promoting the local theatre.”

There is a tourism aspect of the play as well as an opportunity to offer a glimpse into how these two neighbours from two different worlds developed and maintained a close friendship, according to Muir.

Part of the dialogue will address the different perspectives on similar

situations shared by the Johnsons and the Bells.

Ironically, Six Nations’ actor, writer, singer, musician and entrepreneur, Gary Farmer happens to be in the Six Nations community, promoting a very similar concept on reservation.

When Muir heard about it, he immediately went to the Red Door Studio on Fourth Line Road where Farmer was conducting his own workshop. During a brief break, the two artists spoke about how they might help each other accomplish their goals.

Farmer seemed excited about working together with Muir. The two met several years ago somewhere in theatre circles.

Muir says he was trying to get a hold of Farmer to

Coincidentally, Six Nations actor, writer, musician and media entrepreneur Gary Farmer was in Six Nations doing a theatre workshop of his own. When the two became aware of each other's work they met to see if there may be a way to work together to help train and place Six Nations actors and technicians actors for the stage and perhaps professional careers in the arts.

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see if he could be of any help for the project when he found out Farmer was back at Six Nations from his home in New Mexico.

Muir explains that the style of the presentation is called a “promenade style” where the audience travels with the actors around various settings to tell the story.

According to Muir, the play will stay away from divisive political issues and will focus more on the Johnson/Bell friendship in a lighthearted and historically centred piece.

It is hoped by both Muir and Farmer that perhaps the process and the play itself may stand as an example of how mutual respect is the foundation of any relationship when it's between two people or two peoples.

Muir admits his contacts come more from the non-indigenous side, but hopes to develop relationships with indigenous thespians and actors for future projects as well.

For his part, Farmer is checking his appointment book to see if he could be up this way when the real hard work of getting the play polished and ready takes place.

“If I can, and it looks like I might be able to, come up after a theatre job I am doing in New York,” he told Muir.

If interested in any role or part you may be interested in providing for Summer Breeze, there are 12 paid positions that need to be filled. To apply, call Peter Muir at 1-226-938-1930, or email request for more information to btheatre@rogers.com.

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Biography of Pauline Johnson wins Guelph Reads 2016

By TRT staff GUELPH – Since making the shortlist as the possible first woman on a Canadian bank note, late Mohawk poet, writer and performer Pauline Johnson has received a lot of media attention. Fitting, because Flint and Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake has just become Guelph Ontario's new must-read for 2016.

Panelist Brenda Lewis, a publicist and acclaimed jazz/roots vocalist defended Charlotte Gray’s award-winning and best-selling biography of Johnson in Guelph Reads 2016, garnering it the top applause from the enthusiastic participating audience.

On May 25, the fundraising organization Friends of Guelph Public Library presented their popular annual version of CBC’s Canada Reads at the library’s downtown main branch.

After this spirited, educational and entertaining event and surprised by her win in what she considered to be a close competition, Lewis emphatically stated that she is very grateful to Charlotte Gray for breathing life into Pauline's timeless story and the eras in which she lived.

“She made Pauline real to me,” said Lewis. “I'm very glad to have won because I absolutely loved my chosen book and am passionate about sharing Pauline's essential story

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Panelist Brenda Lewis, a publicist and acclaimed jazz/roots vocalist defended Charlotte Gray's award-winning and best-selling biography of Johnson in Guelph Reads 2016, garnering it the top applause from the enthusiastic participating audience. PHOTO BY IAN MOLESWORTH — that of a First Nations, Canadian and early feminist heroine.”

Lewis is no stranger to Pauline Johnson, so when asked to be on the Guelph Reads panel and to select a book, Gray’s biography was a natural choice. It had been on her mustread list for years. Almost two decades ago an old friend gave Lewis a 1917 edition of Johnson’s Flint and Feather poetry collection in hopes that melodies would ensue.

It turned out that Pauline became a longtime muse to Lewis and she has since put two of Pauline’s poems to music.

One being “The Birds’ Lullaby” and the other “A Toast (to Vancouver)”, is currently in the works.

“All of this certainly will help bring new generations to learn about Pau-

line — as they should,” said Lewis.

Also on the local celebrities panel with Lewis were city councillor Phil Allt championing Michael Crummey’s Galore, head of policy/research for the Ontario Good Roads Association Scott Butler with The Heart Goes Last

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Fight where you are Editorial by Jonathan Garlow When you think of the aftermath of the Holocaust, you can wonder how long it takes a society to heal from something like that. Or if it's possible to heal at all.

Researcher Henry F. Dobyns concluded that 90 million indigenous inhabitants of the Americas died post-contact with Europeans. Scholars say that we had no immunity to the small pox virus and 90 per cent of us were wiped out.

According to Charles C. Mann, small pox mutated out of horse pox and believe it or not, horses did not exist in North America until the Spanish brought them. Hollywood tells us Indians and horses usually go hand-inhand. Maybe 200 years from now we will be depicted driving Chevy’s and Pontiacs.

Here's a thought. If an equivalent cataclysmic disaster happened to earth today with the same force that annihilated indigenous people the global population would drop to 740 million people.

Would humanity be able to recover from that?

And so, special recognition should be given to all indigenous people who are still reeling from the aftershocks of genocide and colonialism.

That's us. We survived. We are still here.

And this is a fact we expect will be taught at local schools now that the government of Ontario has officially apologized for their role in our destruction.

Some cash was promised and a Ministry was renamed to something less racist.

Probably the best thing that Premier Wynne said was when she admitted that, "residential schools are only one example of systemic, intergenerational injustices inflicted upon indigenous communities throughout Canada.”

But it's difficult to thank the Premier for simply being honest. Someone needs to remind her speech writer that even though most of us perished from disease we are still Nations not communities.

We were always Nations and we will continue to be the true Nations of this entire continent. Not First Nations of Canada but NATIONS — period.

And we should try to speak gently with each other with great care because our Nations are re-covering, regenerating, and repairing. Soft words are needed when we talk with extended family and our other relations. Especially when we disagree with one another.

Another issue altogether but equally grievous is when non-indigenous people get involved in matters internal to the indigenous community, Because it creates a power-over dynamic automatically.

It also further grieves a people who are still hurting from the trauma of colonization and trying to heal. What results is inevitably chaos regardless of the intentions behind those opinions — bringing harm to the very community they hope to engage with. It becomes a lose-lose situation.

So while indigenous nations may appreciate the sentiment of our many different allies, its important to remember the advice about solidarity given by Shawn Brant – "Fight where you are."

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How do we heal trauma suffered

by Native communities?

By Gabor Maté

It is not enough that the Attawapiskat First Nation has declared a state of emergency over the epidemic of suicides and suicide attempts among its youth. Our entire country should declare a state of emergency about the appalling health status, physical and mental, of First Nations and Inuit communities. Would we not have already if, instead of Nunavut or Attawapiskat, it was, say, the teens of Westmount, Forest Hill or Kitsilano who were killing themselves at 10 times the national rate?

I am often asked to visit First Nations communities across Canada to speak about addiction, stress-related illness and child development. The ordinary Canadian citizen simply has no idea, cannot even begin to imagine, what misfortunes, tragedies and other kinds of adversity many native young people experience by the time they reach adolescence – how many deaths of loved ones they witness, what abuse they endure, what despair they feel, what self-loathing plagues them, what barriers to a life of freedom and meaning they face.

At the core of the suicide pandemic is unresolved trauma, passed almost inexorably from one generation to the next, along with social conditions that induce further hopelessness. The source of that multi-generational trauma is this country’s colonial past and its residue in the present. The march of the history and progress Canada celebrates, from which we derive much pride and national identity, meant catastrophe for natives: the loss of lands and livelihood and of freedom of movement, the mockery and invalidation of their spiritual ways, the near-extirpation of their culture, the corruption of their

intra-familial and intra-communal relationships, and finally, for nearly a hundred years, the state-sanctioned abduction, rape, physical abuse and mental torture of their children.

The questions we must ask ourselves nationally are very simple.

How do we as a country move to heal the trauma that drives the misery of many native communities? What can be done to undo the dynamics our past has dictated? Some may balk at such inquiry, fearing the discomfort that comes with guilt. However, this is not a matter of communal guilt, but of communal responsibility.

It is not about the past. It is about the present. And it is about all of us: When some among us suffer, ultimately we all do.

To begin, native history must be taught fully and in unsparing detail in our schools. All Canadians should know, for example, that 50 years ago it was not unheard of for a four-year-old girl to have a pin stuck in her tongue for the crime of speaking her mother language and later endure serial rape by teachers, religious mentors. Such were the antecedents of today’s drug use and suicidal anguish. The resonant values, brilliant art, stories and wisdom culture of First Nations people should be introduced in Canadian schools. Canadians must be helped to see their First Nations peers in their fullness, which includes their humanity, grandeur, unspeakable suffering and strength.

We must renounce any political, economic or social policy that reinforces the colonial trauma of disempowerment, loss and dispossession. Not another square centimetre of native land must be disturbed, not a blade of grass cut, not one more drop of water diverted, not a millimetre of pipeline laid without First Nations

agreement.

Institutions and individuals interacting with native people must become deeply trauma-informed.

Judges, teachers, law-enforcement personnel, nurses, doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, public employees, policy-makers all must understand what trauma is, its multiple impacts on human mentality and behavior, and how to address it. Without such information, as I have witnessed repeatedly, the best-meaning people can unwittingly re-traumatize those who can least bear further pain and loss. Practices that devastate families must be stopped, such as the frequent apprehension of children without restorative and compassionate family-building support.

Alternative forms of justice must be developed, aligned with native traditions and in consultation with First Nations. The implicit racism in our law-enforcement institutions must be openly acknowledged and cleansed. Powerfully beneficial traditional healing practices must be researched, taught, encouraged. We need to celebrate the First Nations cultural renaissance, a tribute to human resilience, now taking place.

Economic and social conditions that engender despair must be addressed, with the utmost urgency. If we could spend more than $15-billion on our self-declared mission to help the people of Afghanistan, surely we can find the resources in our rich land to help redeem people whom our history continues to victimize.

This article is reprinted with permission. Gabor Maté is a retired B.C. physician who specializes in addiction.

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FEATURE COLUMN:

Mu WÎyan Î’uch: Thunder Woman speaks

Who defines success?

By Rachel A. Snow

If we think back to the teachings and original education systems of our ancestors, we would remember that our skills based education systems included our spirituality and original kinship laws.

Everything in our societies or communities is spiritual. The first law to respect the Creator and to uphold our responsibilities or obligations to our original teachings begins with this acknowledgement.

With these responsibilities or obligations, we have inherent duties to uphold the stewardship and respect for all parts of Creation.

Our first education systems begin with the defining of kinship roles.

In our languages we have great detail to define our relationships within our families, clans and then in defining the larger collective. These roles and relationships carry great weight for our people. The defined roles reach back to the time of Creation of Turtle Island and mark that we are distinct and original peoples.

It is as simple as knowing that our first roles come under the training of our mothers and immediate family. Babies are nurtured, loved and welcomed with each nation honouring the gifts of Creator with specific ceremonies. It could be a ceremony with the first solid food, the first laugh or first steps that signal lifelong

learning. Following this for boys, there are rights of passage with the first kill and feast. For the girls, they are rights of passage when they become young women. These are not the only ceremonies or teachings that indigenous people retain. These are some examples of teachings that were held to be Indigenous markers on the trail of life.

These concepts can now be placed in current boxes of what is considered “education”.

Yes, we, as original people, live in a different time and place.

Yes, we, as original people, require different skill sets and ways of living.

However, the ancient teachings, the basis of honouring the Creator, Creation and our original ways cannot be lost. If we lose the very things that make us distinct peoples, we have become colonized or assimilated participants in Canada’s agenda.

It was announced this past week at an Assembly of Treaty Chiefs (AOTC) meeting in Tsuut’ina (Calgary) by Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAC), that the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has given permission for 30 million First Nation Education dollars to be allocated to Paul Martin’s “Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative”.

Why do our “leaders” believe that a member of mainstream can make better use of First Nation education dollars than our

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own communities or educators?

First of all, Paul Martin, in his very short term as Prime Minister, instituted the two per cent cap on First Nation education dollars. This shortsightedness should be an action taken against the Federal government to recoup losses from two decades of harm to First Nation education. It is a matter for redress, not a matter to be “rewarded” to Martin and his initiative.

If our “leaders” have the mistaken belief that the descendants of the colonizers now “understand” our original approach to education, how can we measure this?

In her comments justifying this action, Carolyn Bennett drew on statistics that Walpole Island had been utilizing this program.

“It was successful for them and the government wanted to support a program it (deemed), successful,” she said.

Furthermore, from May 5, 2016, during the Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee (Meeting #12 Openparliament.ca), Bennett stated the dollars that go to Martin’s initiative prove to be “transformative”… we want these results to be replicated, now that “we” have proven it works.

It is not for First Nation educators who work in their communities to identify the funding shortfalls that need remedy. The

Minister of Indigenous Affairs readily points to the successes of a settler/ colonial initiative that has “proven results”.

Has any Minister or Federal representative ever stated that there is a First Nation that is funding or developing a program without the colonizer’s benevolent oversight that “they” would deem successful? This insight begs the question; who defines “success”?

Is success defined by mainstream settler standards or do the Indigenous people define it? In education we have a clash of world views. The spiritual component necessary for our children since the time of Creation is not included in Federal government “success” markers.

The language that retains this spiritual connection is not a “success” marker.

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power of the Creator upon an individual person, it is hard to accept if the person decides to leave with the Spirits, if not, then let it be within the person to wonder no more and continue to enjoy, give thanks and respect all things here on Earth.

The old people used to say:

In the manner of speaking of our time here on Earth, I can not help but wonder as to why we as people are here.

When it comes to the

7 education is life-long from womb to the final journey is not a “success marker”.

If settler governments define education they have paternalistic markers of “success”. This approach to education, for the original peoples, will continue to cause harm for further generations.

Then, in looking at the Assembly of First Nation’s action to “give or allow” the allocation of dollars to Paul Martin’s initiative, we must ask why was this action not given consent, by the original people, before it was unilaterally made “on our behalf”?

It is the height of hypocrisy that AFN national chief Bellegarde, Bennett et al, were just in New York speaking about the need to implement the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. One of the core principles is Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC). If the original peoples own “representative bodies” do not exercise these principles, how do we hope to entrench this concept into Mainstream governments? (That’s another column) Finally, with this talk of education comes the spring season of graduations from high schools or

various post-secondary institutions. There have been numerous postings throughout Turtle Island about the difficulty in wearing traditional clothing that acknowledges Indigenous nationhood.

Many of our people are posting on social media sites about their triumphs or challenges. Earning an education has become a new right of passage that must be combined with our original teachings.

Our identities as original people are sovereign to this land.

First Nation sovereignty means knowing that our actions and words carry all our collective ancestor’s voices and pride. Do not “ask” for permission in our own land. Make the sovereign action. Our ancestors stand with us.

Rachel Ann Snow is the daughter of late Chief John Snow Sr., from Mini Thni (Morley, Alberta). A grandmother, mother, niece, sister and auntie, she also has a mainstream business background and a Juris Doctor degree. She is also a member of the Ĩyãrhé Nakoda or Rocky Mountain Sioux. Follow her on Twitter @rachelannsnow and on Facebook at Rachel A. Snow.

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“We are just passing through and there comes a time when we ourselves are going to leave this earth and all who we know, to pass on into the spirit world and to meet all the people who we once knew.”

In the manner of speaking of our time here on Earth, I came to real-

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Trump dismisses New Mexico senator as "Pocahontas"

The anti-Trump rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico had a definite American Indian component - adding their voice to the growing throngs of women, ethnic groups, Muslims and Mexicans that Trump has openly ridiculed and announced plans directed against ethnic Americans and now, American Indians. SUBMITTED PHOTO

By Jim Windle NEW MEXICO – The bombastic republican presidential candidate Donald Trump added yet another ethnic group to his growing list of people he has alienated by stereotyping the American Indian. Trump called U.S. senator from New Mexico, Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” in a twitter feud between the two, in which Warren refers to Trump as a “loser”. War-

ren Claims American Indian heritage.

Earlier in May, Warren called Trump “a bully” who “spews insults and lies.” In response, he called her a “fraud” who is “weak and ineffective” and “not Native American.”

He called her out on her unsubstantiated claims of ancestry. Warren’s claim to have had a Cherokee great grandfather could not be substantiated when she was

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challenged on that claim during her own election.

Whether she is or is not, is really not the issue. His immediate racist response is, and many American Indians are offended by Trump’s comment.

Others are seeking an apology, not from Trump but from Warren.

“Shame on Elizabeth

Warren for pretending to be Native American at U of Penn. and Harvard for free tuition 20 years ago. Warren should resign and apologize to Native Americans,” said one posted tweet.

Another says, “Trump can apologize to Native Americans for using the name of Pocahontas like it's a dirty word.”

Warren’s name has been floated as a potential vice president for Clinton, and even Vice President Joe Biden considered asking her to be on his ticket when he was thinking of mounting a bid last August.

“We are grateful to see leaders of all stripes calling him out for his divisive comments,” said

Christina Reynolds, a Clinton spokeswoman.

“As a leader and major advocate in holding Wall Street accountable, Senator Warren’s voice is particularly important and we are glad she’s helping lead the fight.”

A Letter to the Community from the Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) A recent consultant’s report prepared for the BCHS to deal with significant operational pressures recommended a complete assessment of the impact of closing the Willett facility in Paris. The report did not recommend ceasing urgent care for residents of the County. Unfortunately, initial interpretation of the recommendation led many to believe differently. The Willett is an aging facility that is in need of major upgrades and has been underused for more than a decade, in spite of our best efforts to attract tenants. We believe in healthcare for the communities we serve: County of Brant, City of Brantford, Six Nations of the Grand River and surrounding communities but we believe there is a better way and place to deliver healthcare in the future. We also appreciate the fear and anxiety that change brings.

At a recent meeting convened by MPP Dave Levac with a number of key community members and healthcare providers, the consultant’s recommendation was considered. We agreed on the need to involve and engage other stakeholders and the broader communities in understanding the health and healthcare needs of the population, where these services might be located and who would be best to deliver them. We will continue to meet and in the future provide opportunities for public input.

Residents of Brant County currently receive healthcare services from a number of different providers. The way healthcare is being delivered in Ontario is undergoing change and that has implications for all partners in the system to find better ways going forward. As we mobilize to act on the recommendation we need to ensure the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MoHLTC) are involved, that municipal and provincial representatives are involved, and that key community stakeholders and primary care partners are involved.

As we begin the financial and operational assessment, we will consider many possible options that might reasonably include: offers from others to purchase and refurbish the Willett and offer a range of services, a possible new build with partners or moving an urgent care service into an existing space. BCHS may no longer be landlords or owners of this site and may lease space for an urgent care centre. Over the past year, there have been a number of unsolicited expressions of interest from interested parties and there may be others forthcoming for consideration, all with an aim to provide the healthcare services people need and expect.

We have just recently received the report and at this point no decisions have been made and no timelines have been developed. We do not expect changes to happen fast, given a number of unknown issues that may arise from a sale or divestment of The Willett. Staff may be impacted and if so, we will transition through those changes with the expected care and fulfilment of the requirements under the provisions of collective agreements and other legal obligations. We also have tenants that we would collaborate with. We are not in any position to offer any notices at this point. We rely on our dedicated staff, physicians and volunteers and will seek ways to include them in the process as it unfolds.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.

By Nahnda Garlow TORONTO – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne apologized yesterday on behalf of the Government of Ontario for the brutalities of Canada’s residential schools system.

Wynne apologized for the policies and practices supported by past Ontario governments, and the harm the province’s 18 residential schools brought to indigenous people.

The province announced a $250 million dollar investment into actions of reconciliation in Ontario.

Wynne recognized no apology can change the past or the future, but said the province hopes to demonstrate their commitment to changing the future by building relationships based on trust, respect and Indigenous Peoples’ inherent right to self-government.

Decisions will be made following consultations and a thorough assessment of the needs of the community along with the financial and operational implications on the acute care services we provide. Communities across Ontario and elsewhere are already planning ahead as they develop community and primary care ‘health hubs’ and greater opportunities for partnerships that create and expand access to healthcare services.

We recognize the importance of healthcare to all residents and appreciate the concerns you have.

Please take the time to read the full report on our website (www.bchsys.org) and when we begin our consultation process, feel free to share your concerns with us. Again, we re-state: this will be an open process and there have been no decisions made to date.

We thank you for your patience while we work through this process.

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Mohawk “Code Talkers” honoured in New York

By Jim Windle

ST. REGIS N.Y. – During the Second World War a special unit of the U.S. Marines was secretly mustered from Indian reserves across the country to carry out a mission that was genius in its simplicity. How can you decode a language you have never heard spoken before?

To prevent top-secret messages and classified communications from being decoded by German intelligence, these special recruits were trained in military jargon, identifying specific weapons, tanks and aircraft, Morris code, map making, map reading and the use of field communications equipment.

They were imbedded with U.S. troops and were protected like gold but, on the downside, should a Wind Talker look like they were going to be captured, orders were to kill them to protect the secret.

The thought was, even if the Germans were listening, they could not decode an obscure language they were completely unfamiliar with.

The 2002 movie, Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, deals with members of the Navajo Nation who participated in the secret project, but it has come to light recently that several indigenous languages were also used. A unit of code talkers from the St. Regis Mohawks were also recruited to carry out the

This still from the MGM film "Windtalkers" shows actors Adam Beach and Roger Willie portraying the training of Navajo soldiers who hid top secret messages by speaking their native tongue. Recently the U.S. Congress honoured the Mohawk Code Talkers with a specially minted silver medal for their secret, but invaluable contribution to the American war effort. PHOTO FROM MGM STUDIOS same plan, in the Mohawk language, under General George Patton in the European theatre.

In all, there were around 500 Native Americans in the U.S. Marine Corps who served as code talkers. To further confuse the code, languages of several other American Indian tribes were also used including Assiniboine, Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Seminole as well as Mohawk and Navajo.

For a number of years the Mohawks of St. Regis have been seeking recognition from the U.S. federal government for their contributions to the war effort, but the secret was not declassified until relatively recently.

At one point in the war, allied intelligence found

that there was a German professor who was called back to active duty in the German Army that may have been able to understand Navajo. Because of the possible breach in security, Mohawk was used instead.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council requested of the United States Mint to develop a Code Talkers Congressional Medal for Mohawk Code Talkers.

“Those Mohawk Veterans of World War II who used the Mohawk Language to help the Allied Forces win victory demands Tribal and U.S. Government distinction as true heroes,” the letter stated.

It took a long while, but it was announced last week that members of the Mohawk Nation, who served as code talkers during World War II, or their families, would be presented with a special honour on the U.S. Memorial Day weekend.

The specially struck Congressional Silver Medals were awarded May 28, during a ceremony held on the St. Regis Indian Reservation, on the Canadian border in northern New York.

Surviving Mohawk Code Talker, Louis Levi Oakes and family members of deceased veterans were honoured.

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Alberta Chiefs unanimously support resolution to repeal Bill C-27

By TRT staff TSUU T’INA NATION – At a meeting last week the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs of Alberta met with Carolyn Bennett and Richard Feehan to discuss issues affecting Treaty people. At the meeting Bennet confirmed Bill C-27 will be repealed.

Bennett is the Federal Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs and Feehan is the Provincial Minister of Indigenous Relations. This was the first meeting a federal minister has attended in 15 years.

“It was a historic day today to sit with the federal and provincial governments. We emphasized the importance of Treaty and highlighted the need to build our education systems to reflect our ceremonies and laws in the

way our ancestors envisioned for our future,” said Treaty No. 6 Grand Chief Tony Alexis.

The Chiefs discussed education, health, child welfare, treaty based funding, climate change, lands and resources, laws and legislation impacting Treaty peoples and implementing both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

“We are pleased to hear Minister Bennett will repeal Bill C-27 First Nations Financial Transparency Act, since our Nation has been in litigation against the legislation,” said Okimaw Wallace Fox of Onion Lake Cree Nation.

The Chiefs were unanimous in their support of a resolution directing

Minister Bennett to repeal Bill C-27 and also requested a review of all legislation passed by the previous Conservative Government. The direction by the Chiefs to the Ministers centred on less talk and more action.

“Although I am optimistic to hear Minister Bennett confirm Bill C-27 will be reviewed, I am cautious that there was no indication of how First Nations will be consulted going forward,” said Chief Roland Twinn of Sawridge First Nation. “Our Nation is not against transparency of financial matters with federal funds, however our own source funds should not be subject to the same reporting requirements and should respect Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution Act 1982.”

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Here we find the Body Fat Percentage (BF%) that most people tend to hover around. Typically people will dip and climb above and below this plateau as it doesn't require much effort or food control to maintain. The benefit of starting your wellness journey here will be a very easy transition out of this BF% with little effort to see results.

In this category of BF%, we find the average long-term gym goer. Crafted by habit and lifestyle, this section shows the types of efforts necessary to attain and maintain this body structure. Extra effort into meal planning, sleep, and regular intense workouts will get you to this level of health with a moderate amount of effort.

The most common thing we are asked at Pro-Fit is just how to shed those unwanted pounds we collect from year to year. A mystery to some, but a very easy solution to find once you know all the parts that go in to building the picture of health you have in your mind. Here are some helpful tips and important things to keep in mind when trying to improve your personal health and wellness.

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By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – The Six Nations Chiefs are fine-tuning their 2016 edition with the central theme of taking back the Mann Cup they lost last season to the Peterborough Lakers.

It’s face-saving time now since the Chiefs and their fans were forced to watch the Cup winning Lakers celebrate by carrying the Mann Cup around on the carpet of the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.

If you were looking for an offensive co-ordinator for your lacrosse team, who would you consider?

How about arguably the greatest professional lacrosse player of all time and points master of the NLL? Or perhaps you need a general manager who is a Hall of Fame inductee and knows and sees the game from the goal crease on out — someone who knows and is known by virtually everyone in the game of lacrosse today.

This season, there will be as much lacrosse royalty behind the Chiefs bench as there will be on it with

Last MSL Sr. A season the Six Nations Chiefs were without Cody Jamieson, who was injured during the NLL playoffs with the Rochester Knighthawks. Jamieson is back and he is healthy which should counter the loss of Shattler who burned up the playoffs last season. Jeff Shattler has elected to stay out west and play for the Victoria Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association this season. FILE PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE the return of the legendary John Tavares to the Chiefs organization, coming in as offensive co-ordinator, and Hall of Fame goaltender Steve Detrich taking over the general manager’s position. Johnny T will be returning to the organization he played with for four full seasons and won two Mann Cup rings with in 1994 and 95. He was with the Chiefs again in

1996, but the streak ended at three in a row, including 1993, before he joined them.

The Chiefs lineup will be missing a few familiar names this season including Jeff Shattler who has chosen to stay out west and play for the Victoria Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association.

Colin Boucher who has been a Chief for the past

three seasons, has signed with the Oakville Rock this year and will be playing against many of his old teammates.

Colin Doyle and Brandon Miller will also be leaving the fold.

But they will be replaced with new names like Jordan Durstan, Leo Storous and Warren Hill, all former Jr. A Arrows, bringing with them youth and speed. Hill

will back up goalie Dillon Ward who won the Sr. B Presidents Cup last season with the Rivermen.

Ontario Lacrosse Association's Junior “A” Defensive Player of the Year, Leo Storous will bring plenty of additional toughness to an already nasty defence.

Also joining the Major Series Chiefs will be Wenster Green and Brier Jonathan.

Green won the Mann Cup last year as a member of the Lakers.

Last season the Chiefs really missed the role of Cody Jamieson who took last summer off to heal a bad wheel he suffered in the NLL Champions Cup playoffs with the Rochester Knighthawks. He is back and is healthy which will be exciting for Chiefs fans.

Among other returnees are Johnny Powless, former Knighthawk who split last NLL season between the Vancouver Stealth and the Minnesota Swarm.

Ryan Benesch, with 10 years at the top of the NLL with various teams. Dhane Smith who recorded 11 goals and 10 assists in three NLL playoff games

as a member of the Buffalo Bandits, amassing a NLL career total of 155 goals and 192 assists in four seasons.

Other known returnees include Randy Staats, Stephen Keogh, Craig Point, Dan Coates, Billy Dee Smith, Jesse Gamble, Dave Brock, Ward and Rob Marshall.

More returnees are expected to sign on now that the NLL Champions Cup has been determined, to make an already deep talent pool, abyss-like.

The Pro-Fit Chiefs kicked off their 2016 season on Tuesday, May 31, at the ILA against the Coburg Kodiaks in a game that will miss our deadline. They will then be traveling to Brampton for a date with the Excelsiors, Thursday night at 8 p.m.

Most home games will be Tuesday nights at the ILA with an 8 p.m start.

TOP PHOTO: The Six Nations Chiefs announced this week that the lacrosse legend, John Tavaras, will be joining the Chief organization as offensive co-ordinator.

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Rebs still hold first after split with Spartans

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – The Jr. B Rebels remain in first place after splitting their home and home series with the St. Catharines Spartans this past week.

Sunday night the Rebels were in St. Catharines on the second leg of their series after decisively winning the first game at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena in Six Nations.

The week’s work actually began for the Rebels Thursday night when the Hamilton Bengals hosted them at the Dave Andreychuk Arena on Hamilton Mountain.

The Rebels carried off an easy 13-7 win with Lyne Smith scoring three and assisting on three to lead the Rebel charge.

Six Nations got off t a huge 5-1 start after the first period, bracketed by Smith’s first and last goal of the stanza.

Hamilton didn’t lay down and die, but fought hard against the obviously better team to come up 9-5 after two frames.

Hamilton scored the first and last goals of the third but the Rebels put more laundry in the basket in between with goals

Jeremy Bomberry sets up one of his three assist in Friday night's 11-5 Rebels' win at the ILA. Shane Henry, #91, received the pass and buried it for one of his four goals on the night. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE

scored by Dylan Hill, Shane Henry, Josh Miller, and Danton Miller for the final 13-7 spread.

The next night at the ILA, the Rebs were hosting the St. Catharines Spartans in the first of their two game, homeand-home series.

Shane Henry scored two, and Josh Miller and Garrett Vyse-Squire as the Rebels built a 4-0 wall in the first period.

Sherman Williams surprised the Spartans with the Rebels’ fifth goal scored 14 seconds of the second period, right after

the face-off. The Spartans regrouped and put in a fine second period outscoring the Rebels, 4-2 to close the gap to 6-4, Rebels, after two periods.

The St. Catharines’ gas tank went dry in the third after scoring the first goal of the period at

3:20, as the Rebels piled on with five more in the third scored by Justin Martin, Josh Miller, Shane Henry and two by Dylan Hill to register an 11-5 Six Nations win.

Sunday in St. Catharines, things were different. The Spartans ran

stride for stride with the Rebels throughout much of the game. St. Catharines took a 3-2 first period lead that the Rebels could not seen to erase.

Six Nations owned the first part of the second period scoring the first three goals from Daylan Hill, Justin Martin and Travis Longboat, but the Spartans counterattacked with three late period goals leaving that one odd first period goal on the ledger.

Six Nations took the first two goals of the third period as well but the Spartans worked their way back again to match the Rebels in third period goals, once again leaving that one goal, first period edge in the hands of St. Catharines.

The Guelph Regals will pay a rare visit to the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena as they visit from the Midwest division where they hold second place behind the Orangeville Northmen.

Then, on Sunday, June 5, the Rebels travel to Welland to take another swat at the Generals.

NLL Buffalo Bandits up against the wall

By Jim Windle BUFFALO – You couldn’t get any closer than the Buffalo Bandits and the defending NLL Championship Cup winning Saskatchewan Rush for most of Game #1 of the twoGame, home-and-home series.

The teams ran neck and neck for three quarters, but Saskatchewan nosed ahead, 11-9, at the finish line.

"Both teams are battling for the cup, you can't get any tighter than that was tonight," said Bandits coach Troy Cordingley. "Unfortunately they went on a run late and time ran out on us."

The Rush got off to a 2-0

Alex Kedoh Hill invites the Buffalo Bandits fans to join him in celebrating his first period goal in Game #1 of the NLL Champs Cup. Buffalo lost Game #1 of the home and home series, 11-9, Saturday night in Buffalo. Game #2 is in Saskatoon, Saturday, June 4, at 9 p.m. EST. PHOTO BY BILL WIPPERT FOR THE BUFFALO BANDITS

first quarter lead and 3-0 on an early second quarter powerplay. Anthony Malcom popped the bubble around Saskatchewan goalie Aaron Bold at 2:13.

Dhane Smith breached the wall Bold had built opening the floodgate as Ryan Benesch, Mark Steenhuis, Malcom with his second, and Six Nations’ Alex Kedoh Hill contributed with a Bandits’ goal scored at 9:43 of the second quarter. The Rush had also been scoring between Bandit goals but the game was even at 6-6 at the half.

Each team scored twice in the third quarter to bring the score to 8-8 with 15 minutes left on the regulation time clock.

Benesch delivered Buffalo’s go ahead goal unassisted at 4:18. Once again, Saskatchewan wouldn’t let the Bandits break out and tied the score yet again, at 5:04.

The Rush took the lead back at 10:44 and added an insurance marker at 11:34 holding the Bandits off until the final buzzer sounded.

"Tonight was a battle for 60 minutes and we expect Game #2 to be a battle for 60 minutes. If there's a Game #3, we expect the same thing."

If Buffalo wins the series returns to Buffalo for an all-deciding Game #3.

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Six Nations Arrows Express finding their stride

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – It was a lot closer than it had to be, but the Six Nations Arrows Express, defeated the visiting Whitby Warriors 9-7 Sunday night at the ILA. After a slow start, the Jr. A Arrows are gaining traction and finding their stride in the young Jr. A season.

The Arrows took an easy 5-2 lead after the first period, with Austin Staats scoring his second and third of the game in the second period to take a 7-2 lead into the third.

It could have been all but over in the second period had it not been for at least six great saves, made by Matt Carrol in the Whitby net, four of them on breakaways.

Whitby scored their third goal to open the third period, but Brendan Bomberry and Oran Horn tallied to create a 9-3 score with the Arrows well ahead. Maybe too

Arrows attack with three goals and an assist. Doug Jamieson earned the win.

Last Tuesday, in a game played in Peterborough that missed our deadline, the Arrows Express won 15-9. Austin Staats scored three and assisted on seven for a 10-point-night.

Also adding numbers to their season statistics were Jake McNabb with four goals and an assist, Travis Longboat (3G,1A), Dylan Riley (3G), and Alex Henry (2G,1A).

This week’s games include a Thursday night visit to the ILA from the

Mimico Jr. A Mountaineers at 8 p.m., and a Friday night road game to the Innisfil Arena to take on the Barrie Lakeshores.

From there, the Arrows will return home to get ready for Sunday’s game at the ILA against the K-W Braves at 7 p.m.

Community Awareness Week volleyball tournament a success

Six Nations Arrows Express ace, #83, Austin Staats, leap-frogged a number of players this past week to land in third spot, overall, in the OLA Jr. A ranks with six goals and seven assists, for a season total so far of 17 goals and 15 assists for 32 points in five games played. PHOTO

BY JIM WINDLE

well ahead to worry about their own end, as the Warriors made the Arrows pay for taking the foot off the pedal maybe just a bit too far in front of the finish line.

Four successive Whitby goals in the last three

and a half minutes of the game made the ending interesting but the final results were unaltered as the Arrows collected the two points for the win and Whitby went home empty handed.

Austin Staats led the

The Arrows Express earned first place at the Annual Community Living Blind Volleyball Tournament and Barbecue on May 25. More than 10 teams competed in the tournament last week in the hot sun and everyone enjoyed some food, drink and snacks from Community Living's barbecue. PHOTO BY CHEZNEY MARTIN

Gathering of The Nations Under the Tent

SOARING HIGHER June 19th-26th Beginning Sunday

Concert & Fellowship Banquet at 2pm

Daily 1pm & 7pm 8 Days You Won't Want To Miss, Your Life Matters!

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Sr. B Rivermen lose in Oakville but still in first

By Jim Windle

OAKVILLE – The Six Nations Sr. B Rivermen remain in first place, but not without an unblemished record after falling to the Oakville Titans, Sunday night.

The defending Presidents Cup Rivermen paddled to Oakville to take on the Titans and were ambushed 9-6 at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre.

Without Roger Vyse, who did not make the trip, the Rivermen seemed to miss their usual scoring touch. Penalties also played into the loss as the Rivermen afforded 14 powerplay opportunities to Oakville who capitalized on two.

Oakville took a 2-1 first period lead and then added four more in the second in a six-goal sting that spilled over two periods.

Tom Montour and Stu Hill temporarily stopped the run, but it was 7-3, Oakville, after two periods. The Rivermen made up some of that lost ground in the third with two goals

by Mike Miller and one

by Jake Bomberry, but it wouldn’t be enough offence to mount a complete comeback as the Titans hung on and added only their second win of the season.

Saturday night, in Wallaceburg, the Rivermen offence exploded with 19 goals on their way to a 19-7 drubbing of the Thrashers.

Despite the lop-sided win, shots of goal were very close at 31-29 for Six Nations. The difference was in quality of shots created by the Rivermen and Grant Crawley backing up the win.

Several Rivermen enjoyed multiple points Saturday including Rog-

Warriors with two home games this weekend

By Jim Windle OHSWEKEN – The game started out well enough for the Six Nations Jr. C Warriors Sunday in Oakville, but it didn’t stay that way as the Oakville Buzz downed the Warriors 15-11.

Henry Follows netted all three first period goals for the Buzz while the Warriors offence included two goals by Sid Powless and one by Deryl Porter, all of them, unassisted.

Powless gave the Warriors an early second period lead in a 14 goal second period with Oakville taking two more than the Warriors for an 11-9 second period lead.

Six Nations worked their way back into the game with Spencer Martin and Deryl Porter evening the score at 11-11, but the Buzz was at home in front of their own fans and they doubled down and scored the final four goals of the game for the decisive win. Mitch Henhawk was tarred with the loss in the Warriors cage.

The Warriors hold a narrow, one point lead for second place in the Western Division, ahead of Oakville and Fergus, while looking up to the first place Wilmot Wild who are three points ahead of the Warriors heading into this week’s games.

Warrior fans can watch two home games this weekend starting with Wilmot at the Gaylord Powless Arena at 1 p.m., Saturday afternoon, June 4. Then, Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m., the Oakville Buzz will be at the GPA. Meanwhile the Jr. C Brantford Warriors, are 4-2-1 in their inaugural season playing out of the Brantford and District Civic Centre. They are only one point away from Oakville and Fergus, and two points behind Six Nations who are in second place behind Wilmot.

Wesley Whitlow and Sid Powless lead the SN Warriors, as well as the league, in points with 51 and 50 respectively.

er Vyse (3G,6A), Jesse Johnson (3G,3A), Travis Bland (2G,6A), Wayne Hill (4G,2A), Rodd Squire Jr. (2G,4A), Tom Montour (2G,2A), Jake Bomberry (1G, 3A). Timmy Johnson and Johnny Rae, scored one each as well.

The Rivermen will remain on the road this week when they head to Owen Sound to see the North Stars, Fri. June 3. They will be returning to the Gaylord Powless Arena Saturday, June 4, at 7 p.m. to do battle with the Wallaceburg Thrashers.

The Sr. B Six Nations Rivermen are making their bid to repeat as Presidents Cup Champions. FILE PHOTO

BY JIM WINDLE

SNEC’S JUSTICE PROGRAM IS HOSTING THE FOLLOWING: JOHN HOWARD

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Training identifies formal restorative mediation process, strategies, skills and underlying philosophy. Skills are learned in the area of community building, active listening, understanding assumptions and presumptions, restorative language and questions. Provides the participants with skills, knowledge and strategies to prevent or assist in resolving conflict and to build a stronger community.

Open to the Community—Seating is Limited!

Contact: Barbara General, Justice Coordinator at 226-446-9904 if you are interested or email her at justice@sixnations.ca

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Mohawk College New Brunswick explants Three Sisters tends fracking ban Mohawk College’s Indig- indefinitely enous Gathering Space, named the Hoop Dance Garden, is now the home of mounds of soil planted with corn, beans and squash, the Three Sisters. Staff and students interplanted the Three Sisters in order to teach sound agricultural practice and to raise awareness of indigenous culture and traditions that sustained Haudenosaunee people physically and spiritually.

The Three Sisters are planted together because of their ability to work together to produce strong and healthy crops. It is said that the corn, beans and squash thrive together, just like three sisters would.

The plants are said to be gifted from Creator.

They are grown together, eaten together and celebrated together to offer a balanced diet and a sense of cohesion in the community.

The corn offers support, just like a supportive big sister would. The beans give the other sisters nitrogen from the air, bringing nutrients to the soil to benefit the corn and the squash. The beans also offer structural support by offering it’s winding stems as means for the Three Sisters to stay together, like a giving sister would. The large leaves of the squash plant protect the threesome by creating living mulch that shades the soil, keeping it cool and moist which protects the plant from weeds and pests.

The Three Sisters are a sophisticated and sustainable agricultural practice that is marked with ceremony and song. It also reminds us to pay careful attention to the timing of planting and celebrating of harvest.

In September 2014, Liberal Premier of New Brunswick Brian Gallant imposed a moratorium on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Fracking is the technique of using chemically laced water under high pressure to break rock deep with the earth’s surface to access “natural gas” or oil. First Nations land defenders and anti-shale activists have actively opposed fracking in their territories.

The province of New Brunswick has faced major divisions over shale gas exploration. Notably, in 2013, when Southwest Energy (SWN) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) faced off with Mi’kmaw land defenders and Acadian allies over proposed fracking taking place in Elsipogtog. The New Brunswick government extended the ban indefinitely saying that, “the jury is still out on the risks to public health and the environment from this controversial practice.”

A Liberal appointed commission reported that the government needs to take time to build public trust and to appoint an independent regulator to oversee the development. They are looking for ways to get First Nations on board; however, it did warn that the province is dependent on “natural gas” and that the Nova Scotia offshore supplies are quickly dwindling. New Brunswick will have to rely on fracked shale gas from the United States or Western Canada if it doesn’t develop its own resources.

Business lobbyists also criticized the decision.

“They’re saying the number one priority is

job creation, but they’re not going to lift up the rocks to figure out what economic opportunities lies underneath,” said Joel Richardson, Fredricton based VP for the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporter’s Association.

What the lobbyists are not taking into consideration are the valid, and often ignored, world views of indigenous peoples. That is, that the earth is a living, breathing entity and that we are all interconnected.

First Nations land defenders and anti-shale activists are cautiously optimistic about the decision but are happy that protection for the Earth has been extended a bit longer.

Grassy Narrows Anishnaabek travel to Toronto to demand clean up of Mercury poisoned waters

For years, Grassy Narrows has attempted to hold the Ontario government accountable for the lack of political will in cleaning up the environmental disaster left behind by Reed Paper in Dryden, Ontario.

During the ‘60s, the company dumped chemicals into the English River, causing mercury poisoning in the water.

In the ‘80s, a government research team was commissioned to research the effects of the chemical dump but the report was shelved.

Numerous health problems have manifested for the people, including cancer and mercury poisoning. “The problem is being perpetuated,” said John Rudd, lead author of the new research commissioned by Grassy Narrows First Nation released on Monday. “If we don’t do something to stop the source … the problem will continue for many, many more years.” Last year, Kath-

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leen Wynne said that more research was needed.

Ontario will be responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations in Provincial Legislature with another apology for “not doing

more to protect the children.” On the heels of one of many apologies issued by the Canadian government, is the 2014 River Run, held in Toronto, Ontario on June 2, 2016.

Perhaps, the government will realize that

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Sid Hill and Jonny James have a jam session back in the day. PHOTO COURTESY OF WILBUR HILL

arts. culture. entertainment.

ace

Honour local legendary Blues man “Sidman” Hill

By Lindsay Monture June 3rd will mark 15 years since Six Nations lost one of its greatest musical talents, bluesman Sid Hill.

“Sidman” was a big influence on many artists in the community for his outstanding gift, original style, and bringing the Blues scene to Six Nations. Sid’s family and friends have organized the Sid Hill Memorial Benefit concert for a night of great local music to honour him while raising money to get him a tombstone.

“It started with the idea from us sitting around having drinks and playing music, and we started talking about my dad,” said Wilbur Hill, Sid’s son, who remembers him fondly as a very caring and loving father.

Sid had been in a car accident, prompting doctors to operate, however his previous health problems complicated the operation and tragically, he had passed on. “What better way to have a memorial for him on the day he died and use all the benefits to go toward his tombstone because he hasn’t had one yet. I just brought it up to family and friends and his musician buddies and

they were like ‘yeah, let’s do it’.”

“He was one of the first founding members of The Bar Road Band and The Roadhouse Band,” said Wilbur, who also mentions that Sid started the Blues scene back in Buffalo in his teenage years and brought it back to Six Nations.

“There were plenty of bands before that, but Donny Powless and Oren Doxtator, Murray Porter and Faron Johns, guys like that are all the founders of Bar Road/Roadhouse.

He’s been everyone’s idol, everyone looked up to him because he had a music shop right here in the plaza called Wilbur’s House of Music, named after me. So he taught a lot of big players down here how to play.” Wilbur said, noting his father’s influence on the local artists now that we all know and love such as Red LaForme, and Lacey Hill.

Being Sid’s son, Wilbur grew up around a lot of Blues music, but he notes that Sid had a love for all kinds of music.

“He had his R&B days.

I know he liked Babyface and the Allman Brothers, stuff like that. So he had that influence but the Blues was a big thing in our family. He started

Sidman is still remembered for his unique and unreplicable sound.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WILBUR HILL

Sid "Sidman" Hill with his fellow founding fathers of the Six Nations Blues scene. Left to right: Oren Doxtator, Sid Hill, Murray Porter, Jonny James and Mark Jamieson (front). PHOTO BY WILBUR HILL

out with the likes of guys like Mat Minglewood, and David Wilcox, who he started out for in Hagersville back in the day. We had these guys playing around the table growing up, so that’s what I’ve seen growing up too,” said Wilbur, who inherited Sid’s musical gift, but notes that Sid’s style is all his own.

“He had his own unique sound that he was known for. No one knows how he got his sound. Everyone tells me he used to play his music backwards from how everyone else played. I don’t think anybody has been able to re-

ally learn his style. I kind of developed my own style but I was always influenced by my father. He was definitely my biggest icon,” said Wilbur.

“It’s important to know about the old-timers because they made an impact to our music scene and it’s good to know your roots, just like it’s good to know AC/DC or the Rolling Stones, or Bob Marley.

They had an impact and an influence so we always want to know the people who started the scene, and started everything. If the kids know that, it can inspire them like I was inspired too,” said Wilbur.

The Sid Hill Memorial Benefit Concert will be taking place at Yogi’s Barn on Friday, June 3.

The Bar Road/Roadhouse Ensemble, Pappy Johns Band, The Healers, Derek Williams/Lyle Sandy Ensemble, Lost Mile Road,

Reid Harris Ensemble, Bad Guys and many others will gather for a great night of music and fun to honour Sidman’s memory. Tickets are $15 in advance, and $20 at the door.

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CLASSIFIEDS

THE SPIRIT OF ALL NATIONS

In Memoriam

Fundraiser

Fundraiser

In Memory Davis, Dona Mae In loving memory of our dear Aunt and best friend who passed away May 29, 2012 If roses grow in heaven, Lord, please pick a bunch for us.

Place them in our Dona’s arms And tell her they’re from us.

Tell her we love her and miss her, And when she turns to smile, place a kiss upon her cheek And hold her for awhile.

Because remembering her is easy, We do it every day, But there is an ache within our heart That will never go away.

Always in our hearts love you forever,

Elda, Dave and Family.

Anniversary Greeting

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Lunch & Dinner & Social Fundraiser

Proceeds to Jagwadeth Sandy Friday June 3, 2016 Onondaga Longhouse Lunch: 11am - 2pm, delivery available Lunch includes: Caesar Salad, Spaghetti with meat sauce, dinner roll, water or pop & piece of cake $10.00 Dinner: 4:30 pm- sold out Dinner includes: Roast Beef, mashed potatoes, veggies, dinner roll, pop or water & dessert $12.00 adults & $6.00 children Social Starts at 7pm Pre-orders appreciated Danielle (519) 717-2695, Kelly (519) 717-3769 Donations: Janelle (519) 717-2199

Community Living Six Nations “Ronatahskats” (CLSN) Community Awareness Week Event CLSN would like to thank everyone who participated in and came out to watch the Blind Volleyball Tournament and partake in the BBQ. Big kudos to the participating teams: CLSN, Public Works, Dreamcatcher, Hillbilly Heaven, Erlinds, Youth Lodge, KL Martin, SN Fire and Emergency Services (3rd place); Kool Kidz and Ice (2nd place) and Arrow Express (1st place). BIG THANKS to Qualia Counselling Services for sponsoring the BBQ and the winners who donated their prizes back to the agency…

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June 1ST, 1st, 2016 2016 JUNE

CLUES ACROSS 1. Businessmen 5. Million barrels per day (abbr.)

8. From a distance 12. Ruth’s mother-in-law 14. Performer __ Lo Green 15. Drug for Parkinson’s disease, L-__ 16. Composure 18. Broadcasts cartoons (abbr.)

19. Used for baking or drying 20. About alga 21. Food grain 22. Not messy 23. Super Bowl-winning Bronco 26. Egg-shaped wind instrument 30. Get rid of 31. Being enthusiastic 32. A bird’s beak 33. Pores in a leaf 34. Time of life 39. Yuppie status symbol 42. Parasitic fever 44. Gallantry 46. Put this in soup 47. Small dog 49. Malay people 50. Third-party access 51. North winds 55. Peruvian mountain 56. Annual percentage rate 57. Mourning garments 59. Network of nerves 60. Guided 61. Nests of pheasants 62. DJ Rick 63. No seats available 64. Patty CLUES DOWN 1. Tennis player Ivanovic 2. __ Nui, Easter Island 3. Cotton pod 4. Air pollution 5. The real __, the genuine article 6. Taken to 7. Holds artificial teeth

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may desire to be somewhere else this week, but responsibilities keep you close to home.

You can still have a good time and make lasting memories.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you initially felt good about choices you just made a few days ago, but now you’re not so sure. Ask around for advice before making any final decision.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Lately you are more willing to take risks, Gemini.

It’s fine to want to try new things, but always let reason guide you. You do not want to bite off more than you can chew.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, the solution to a lingering problem is on the horizon, and you will get some closure. This week you will push past it all and finally move on.

8. Greek mythical figure 9. Small depressions in the retina 10. Vertical position 11. Shout at length 13. Conceivable 17. White (French) 24. Singer Charles 25. Ancient Mesopotamian 26. Canada and the U.S. are members 27. Cognitive retention therapy 28. Much __ About Nothing 29. Georgia rockers 35. Cologne 36. The products of human creativity 37. Brazilian city (slang)

Answers for June 1, 2016 Crossword Puzzle

38. Honorific title in Japan 40. They can die 41. Candy is inside this 42. Verizon bought them 43. Semites 44. Marine mollusk 45. Entertains 47. Made of crushed fruit or vegetables 48. Town in Apulia, Italy 49. Unresolved root or sum of roots 52. Invests in little enterprises 53. Spanish city 54. Search 58. Midway between south and southeast

SUDOKU

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, realizing your dreams is fully within your capabilities. Make a commitment now and stick with it. You have to work hard to get what you desire, but it’s within reach.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, after running the show, it’s now time to hand over the reins to someone else. Surrender some control and enjoy this respite from being the go-to guy or gal.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, your energy is focused on too many things at the moment. Focus your attention on just one thing for the time being, and your main goal will be realized.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you may not be up to too many trivial tasks right now, so immerse yourself in a creative project that’s more about the big picture than the small details.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you may have reached a turning point in a romantic relationship. Now is the time to fan those flames so that the relationship can grow into something special.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Keep riding this creative wave you seem to be on, Capricorn. It will take you far and in many different directions. Trust in your dreams and put a plan to realize them into action.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, assert yourself a little more at work so that you get the respect and the recognition you deserve. When you state your case, others will see your perspective.

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Six Nations Child and Family Services presents our poster campaign “Community Cares, Celebrate Life” as a part of the Six Nations community’s continuing suicide prevention and awareness initiatives.

As a caring community member, be aware of those around you. Dedicate yourself to being more suicide alert and help prevent suicide.

Fill out the dedication certificate and bring it, or mail it, to be included on our dedication wall

Six Nations Child & Family Services P.O. Box 5001 15 Sunrise Court Ohsweken, ON N0A 1M0

Name: Phone: