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Celebrating 20 years with Community Living

By Jayson Koblun OHSWEKEN – Cindy Lalonde reached the 20year milestone of working at Community Living Six Nations (Ronatahskats) last month. She celebrated with staff and friends last week.

“We wanted to show Cindy that we appreciate her years of service here,” said Joel Jamieson, employment consultant for Community Living Six Nations. “We’re proud of her for her dedication and commitment. It’s a huge accomplishment.”

Lalonde is the supervisor of the Ronatahskats gift shop. The shop is part of the Six Nations Supported Employment program (SNSE) at Community Living. SNSE strives to teach and train the community’s adult band members who have intellectual disabilities the necessary skills and responsibilities they need

Staff and members of the Six Nations Supported Employment program (SNSE) at Community Living celebrated with Cindy Lalonde last week for having reached the 20-year milestone of working at Community Living Six Nations (Ronatahskats). Staff congratulated Lalonde with short speeches, plaques, a homemade card, a great home-cooked lunch and a gift that is still on its way. PHOTO BY JAYSON KOBLUN to get a job.

“The gift shop is a place where the people that want to work go to learn valuable workplace skills,” said Jamieson.

“And Cindy supervises them while they are working. Sometimes it’s things like cleaning the floors, tidying the shelves

or tagging items. There’s a lot of managing for Cindy to do. Part of Cindy’s role is to coach and help them gain job experience.”

Lalonde said she is fairly sure her start date at Community Living was February 2, 1997. Her party was held a little late because staff ordered a

gift for her that hasn’t arrived yet.

“The present we ordered for her isn’t here yet, but we really wanted to have the party anyways,” said Jamieson.

In the meantime, staff and residents celebrated Lalonde’s milestone with a few short speech-

es, plaques, lunch, and a poem written and read aloud by Alex Martin; one of the adults in the SNSE program.

“Roses are red. Violets are blue. Here is to 20 years. Cheers to you,” said Martin.

Lalonde said that a lot has changed in the past

20 years of Community Living.

“Back then we had a much larger gift shop and we had the opportunity to sell more items and hire more employees,” she said. “A lot has changed. We’ve had many ups, but we’ve had downs too. That’s just normal business though. It happens.”

Working at Community Living for the past 20 years has been a good experience for her. She’s gotten to know her friend, Gloria Hill, really well.

Gloria has been working with her for almost as long as Lalonde has been a part of the team.

“I really like working with Gloria and the other adults here,” she said. “I also really enjoy the retail side of business. It’s nice that the money from the gift shop comes back into the community and helps us run our programs.”

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HCCC has hired lawyers before

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – In a recent response to questions regarding his work here at Six Nations, HDI lawyer Aaron Detlor stated that he does not, in fact, work for the HCCC at all, but rather the Haudenosaunee Development Institute, which answers to the HCCC. Sounds like lawyer-speak, but he further stated that as far as he knows the Confederacy has never hired a lawyer.

Documents state otherwise and there have been at least lawyers who have been paid for by the Confederacy. Lawyers Charles Chisholm and George P. Decker.

The Mohawk Workers also contributed to the upkeep and work of Deskaheh while in Europe, but the legal costs were born by the Confederacy. This arrangement displeased the Mackenzie King government of Canadian in many ways, causing it to pass one of the most alarming laws in Canada’s history.

“Every person who, without the consent of the Superintendent General expresses in whiting, receives, obtains, solicits or requests from any Indian any payment or contribution of promise of any payment or contribution for the purpose of raising a fund or providing money for the prosecution of any claim which the tribe or band of Indians to which such Indian belongs, of which he is a member, has or is represented to have for the recovery of any claim of money for the benefit of said tribe or band, shall be guilty of an offence an liable on summery conviction for each such offence to a penalty of not exceeding $200 and not less than

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Cayuga Chief, Deskaheh, A.K.A. Levi General pictured here with Confederacy Chiefs' lawyer, George P. Decker in 1923. Becker and lawyer A.J. Chisholm before him, were both paid for through the Six Nations Confederacy Chiefs Council, as shown by this billing.

There was no such thing as the HCCC, or Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council at that time. FILE PHOTO compensated for. Such was the case of Samuel Jarvis, and the controversial “surrenders” of 1841 and 1844 in particular. Canada today still stands on these frauds as legitimate sales and title transfers despite many documents that legitimately refute their case.

George P. Decker was a prominent lawyer in New York specializing in native rights cases in the late 1800s and early 20th century. He spent a great deal of time and energy to assist Deskaheh both at home and throughout Europe in the early 1920s. Before him was J.P. Chisholm who was also paid for by the HCCC. “We didn't think we would ever live long enough to find that a British promise was not good,” Deskaheh lamented on a Rochester, N.Y. radio show upon he and Decker’s unsuccessful return to North America. “An enemy's foot is on our country, and George V knows it for I told him so, but he will not lift his finger to protect us nor will any of his ministers.

For Detlor to say the HCCC has never hired a lawyer, “to his knowledge” may be true. After all the Haudenosaunee Council of Confederacy Chiefs, as an organization did not come to be until around 1951.

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In essence, if an Indian hired a lawyer to defend himself from government land theft, the illegal dispersal of lands to settlers, or status on their Trust Funds, he or she could not raise money to secure one, and even if a lawyer went pro-bono, that lawyer could be disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada for taking on such a case.

This obviously racist and opportunistic law remained on the books until it was quietly revoked in 1951 after 26 years of legislated interference. Most natives knew nothing of the removal of it for several more years and did not generally challenge these issues in Canadian courts until the late 1950s or early 1960s.

It was under that law that thousands of acres of what is now registered as settler land was stolen in land frauds and outright thefts while Six Nations was bound and gagged by Upper Canadian Law. Even after many unscrupulous Indian agents and commissioners were investigated, discovered and removed from office, in many cases the Haldimand Proclamation Tract lands they were defrauded of were never returned or

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Enbridge seeking injunction against pair

By Jim Windle HAMILTON – The past and the present have clashed again as two Six Nations, men who are affiliated with the Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI), have challenged their right for hunting and fishing on Haudenosaunee land, as outlined by the Nanfan Treaty of 1701.

To exercise their treaty rights, Wayne Hill and Todd Williams have laid rabbit traps along the path of two proposed oil pipelines, Line No. 10 and Line No. 11.

This simple move has stopped Enbridge Pipelines Inc. in its tracks, but only temporarily it would seem.

Enbridge is countering by seeking an injunction to remove the two and their traps.

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They suggest that preventing the tests that the company are conducting along the tracks of the two old lines would be a safety hazard.

“Interference with preventative maintenance work puts people, including Enbridge personnel, and the environment at risk,” Wilton continues. “Safety is our top priority and Enbridge cannot allow interference with preventative maintenance work.”

She also refers to a working agreement with the HDI on Line No. 10.

“Enbridge has been working with the HDI on Line 10 Westover Segment Replacement Project and we are committed to continuing a respectful dialogue,” she says. “Enbridge has reached out, in person and in writing, to understand HDI’s concerns but a

negotiated resolution has not been achieved and the two individuals continue to interfere with the preventative maintenance work.

Enbridge has therefore filed an injunction application in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Enbridge cannot comment on the substance of its legal filing as the matter is now before the court.

“To ensure the safety of both Enbridge crews and the environment, we have taken this legal action to protect our right to safely access these sites located on private land and to undertake this important preventative maintenance work.”

The injunction hearings were slated for this past week; however, as of print time, the HDI has not released to the TRT any information regarding the men’s challenge using the Nanfan Treaty, and pickup trucks to block the workers from entering.

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Johnson Settlement is still Six Nations land

By Jim Windle

BRANTFORD – How did the Johnson Settlement Tract get into the hands of Brantford?

That is a question that was not talked about much when Brant and Brantford were wrestling over boundary adjustments that include a large portion of the Johnson Settlement lands.

Of all the land claims involving Brant and Brantford, the Johnson Settlement is one of the most documented.

Historical records clearly show Six Nations Chiefs had no intention of letting go of the 7,000 acre Johnson Settlement, a position still held by both the Six Nations Elected Band Council and the traditional Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council.

The following is a chronology of how this and similarly other parcels of land in and around Brantford were illegally acquired.

This and 28 other claims were prepared and submitted for settlement in 1989 and accepted as a legitimate land claim.

The government’s obvious dragging of heals pushed the Elected Band Council to formally launch litigation against Canada in 1995, seeking settlement of the list of claims researched by Six Nations lands researcher Phil Monture.

The federal government used the lawsuit as an excuse to close all of these land claim files. They have been collecting dust while Brant and Brantford have been collecting taxes and other income from Six Nations land without any form of compensation to Six Nations.

The idea of leasing Haldimand Proclamation land instead of selling it came from the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in October of 1829 to address the controversy of the late Joseph Brant selling off large tracts of land within the Haldimand Grant lands for the benefit of the Six Nations.

Around the same time,

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County of Brant Mayor Ron Eddy and new Six Nations elected Chief Ava Hill have a casual conversation in front of a copy of the Haldimand Deed before a joint councils meeting between Six Nations and Brant councils a few years ago. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE Six Nations was considering surrendering land for what would become the Brantford Town Plot, but it came with a very important caveat; the surrender did not include the Johnson Tract. The surrender of the plot was given under the condition that the Governor remove settler squatters from the Haldimand Tract and relocate them there.

The Chiefs expressed specifically that the Johnson Tract be leased on short-term leases and not sold, to ensure perpetual income for the Six Nations people.

In 1830, the Town Plot was surrendered and surveyed by Lewis Burwell and John Brant, with proceeds of the sale of these lots intended to go to the Six Nations Trust Fund.

But many of the squatters did not comply and remained squatting on the Haldimand Tract “Indian” lands.

Once building began, the terms of the surrender were quickly forgotten.

Some lots were sold legally, some only a partial payment was made and others have no record of a transaction to account for at all.

Either way, all the money did not go to the Trust fund but was used for the building of Canada’s infrastructure, without permission or even the knowledge of the sitting chiefs.

In April of 1835, the Six Nations Chiefs Council agreed to sell off the Town Plot, but not the Johnson Settlement. In 1839, through an Act of Parliament and public notices squatters were ordered

off Six Nations land. Several other orders were released, but the squatters remained.

Documents from 1840 show there was no real intent to remove the settlers, and in fact some government employees were advising squatters to stay and they would get first dibs on the land once it came up for sale.

In 1840, Canada came up with the suggestion to promise that the people of Six Nations would be looked after and cared for forever should they surrender all the Haldimand Tract land except for that which they wished to keep for themselves and future generations. The Chiefs refused.

A document dated January 18, 1841, reflects Six Nations desire to keep the Johnson Tract separate from the Town Plot lands.

In 1841, Samuel Jarvis orchestrated a so-called surrender of all Haldimand Tract lands except that which they wanted to retain for themselves. The people of Six Nations rejected it immediately because it contained the signatures of only six chiefs, rather than the 50 required by Haudenosaunee law. One of those chiefs later revealed that he was promised land if he signed it. He later recanted.

That ignited tensions between Six Nations, settlers and the government itself, which recognized the angry petitions from Six Nations and quashed the 1841 “surrender” ordering a redraft, which CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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Reservation PTSD EDITORIAL BY JONATHAN GARLOW When we were children our imagination about the future was limitless — that’s what made us so precious.

Today that innocence embodies our own dreams that we once had for ourselves; the ideas we had before reality awoke and responsibility suffocated those hopes.

Minimum wage has a way of grinding you down and gnawing at your self-worth. The lack of justice becomes maddening and everyone else you know is in the same boat. You sense a trap.

Then there is the identity crisis indigenous people face when we learn of the dark colonial past and the genocide that our peoples have shouldered.

Survival is woven into our DNA. All 12,271 of us on Six Nations and all 1.5 million of us indigenous people in Canada have been searching for something but we don't know what it is.

Alec Elijah says that the elders in Oneida spoke of a time when we used to take care of each other in a practical way.

Before anyone had money. Before there were any programs.

He says that when there was a problem at a house, all the neighbours and elders would go right in and sit there and talk about it with mother and father until the matter was resolved. For the children’s sake they would go in and fix it right away—not wait until tomorrow or next week. Alec Elijah stressed that they fixed it right away.

We used to belong to each other.

That’s why I find it shocking when self-righteous voices from within the indigenous

communities cry for the “drug houses” to be destroyed and the dealers to be banished forever; executed on sight. Why do we behave as if addicts are the ultimate enemy?

There is absolutely a problem with substance abuse and a criminal drug trade on Six Nations as there are in every community in North America.

What is uniquely given to us however is the gift of our teachings to cope with those who have addictions.

Because we care about each other, and love one another, our leaders should remember that addictions are symptoms of a much larger underlying problem that we all struggle with as a community. It’s the on-going loss of identity and colonization that was perpetuated upon us by an external, hostile force. That’s not us.

Addictions expert Dr. Gabor Mate says in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, “A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain.”

We shouldn’t condemn our struggling brothers and sisters because as they are suffering from mental health problems.

The Peacemaker didn’t kill or shun Tadadaho—he repurposed him.

The stresses that indigenous people face can be compared to the stresses faced on a battlefield.

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Changes at the Brantford General Hospital I would like to dispel some of the rumours and misconceptions we have been hearing in the community regarding some of the changes being made at the Brantford General Hospital (BGH).

This misinformation includes: that our Fracture Clinic is closing, that cancer treatments have been cut and that there has been a reduction in operating room time for plastic surgery. I thank those who have reached out to us after they heard this inaccurate information. I also apologize if you have heard these or similar rumours because you have been provided with incorrect information.

We are making changes within the Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) to keep up with changes in how healthcare is funded and because BGH has grown to be a large community hospital handling more and often sicker patients. Many of the changes have stemmed from recommendations made by consultants from Ernst & Young, who we invited into our organization to conduct a voluntary strategic operations review last year. As a publically-funded organization we needed to take action because the way we were conducting the business of healthcare and allocating funds/resources was crippling our current and future operations. These recommendations were made to assist us in addressing our deficit and provide us with solutions to be more efficient, as well as enable us to focus on fulfilling

our role in the community as an acute care hospital.

Based on these recommendations we have recently announced changes to the ambulatory services we provide at the Brantford General Hospital.

These changes affect non-urgent, non-emergency services that are most appropriately delivered outside our acute care hospital, yet still within our community. These are also services we are not paid by the province to provide, and therefore add to our deficit.

We need to focus on our mandate as an acute care facility to provide the best possible hospital care for our communities. This is how we are funded.

Many hospitals throughout the province do not provide these types of non-urgent, non-emergency ambulatory services for this very same reason. When we provide these services, such as follow up appointments, consultations, injections and some minor procedures and dressing changes, we do not earn funding for them. We are also not funded by the province to provide the overhead, such as building costs, registration, utilities, nursing, cleaning, etc., to support physicians to deliver these services. These are services that can be provided within a community setting, can be more convenient for patients and can take funding away from the acute care resources our patients need in our hospital.

In our healthcare system, physicians are compensated directly by the province to provide these services to their pa-

tients, and are able to provide these services outside of the hospital setting -- i.e. within their own offices or in clinics as is done in many communities across the province.

The BCHS will continue to support physicians to provide care for their patients who require resources within a hospital setting, and patients will continue to receive the appropriate range of ambulatory services at the Brantford General Hospital.

Please be assured that cancer cases and other critical services that are core to an acute care hospital will continue for our patients. Also recognize that physicians will continue to manage and prioritize their wait lists for these services.

For example, we would expect that a physician would use his or her hospital resources for procedures and services that are most acute and of greatest need before non-acute and elective matters.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we make these necessary changes to be more efficient and have the resources to provide you with care when you are acutely ill. These changes also allow us to evolve with the way healthcare is delivered in our province.

Jim Hornell President & CEO Brant Community Healthcare System

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Signs of the times as told by Six Nations' elders THE SIX LINE

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By Thohahoken 2012 — yikes!

People fear the end of the world. It’s in our minds. Organized religions and governments teach fear of death. Repent or go to hell. Buy insurance—because you never know.

Around 25 years ago, New Agers popularly wrote about what they called Mayan Prophesies of the year 2012. Yikes!

The Mayas did say that the Star Calendar and the Earth Calendar match up only once in 6,000 years.

That conjunction occurs around 2012.

Moreover, the New Agers preached doom and gloom. What else could they do. They come from a society that lives in fear.

In 2007, Akhwesahsne was gripped with a tense border dispute. At that time, Elder Jake Swamp noticed what was going on in the world. The inventory included: (1) FEMA in the U.S. stockpiling portable caskets continent-wide (2) George Bush spending $8 billion restoring 20 underground military bases as “gated communities” for the rich (3) the crashing pa-

per-money economy (4) global climate change (5) the shifting earth and (6) despair among the people.

Clearly, the elder related these events to Rotinohnsyonni teachings.

In the days of the Great Swamp Elm (Kakaratsikowa) we’d see strange terminal diseases, strange behaviour by wildlife, strange fights for control of oil (black snake), strange activity by the Sun (Big Man kicks the earth), and a break down in our society (leaders throw ashes on each other).

As with elder-teachers like Jake Thomas, the time of the Great Swamp Elm described by Jake Swamp begins with a time of renewal—where the People would be revitalized and take their rightful place in the world. For Swamp this meant healing “our Indigenous Peoples are carrying a great burden of grief caused by the colonization of the past five hundred years”.

The Elder Swamp describes a dream where Indigenous People gathered by a great river. These people were dressed in white with red head bands. He said they looked

Reservation PTSD continued

An American Defense Department study of combat troops returning from Iraq found one in six soldiers and marines acknowledged symptoms of severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

According to Department of Veterans Affairs' statistics in 2004, 25,000 veterans from the Second World War were still receiving disability compensation for PTSD-related symptoms.

An investigation into the mental health status of 127 former Canadian Aboriginal residential

school students in British Columbia found that 64.2 per cent met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Was residential school that much worse than Iraq?

A 2003 study on PTSD rates in indigenous people in Canada revealed higher rates of mental disorders have been “attributed to continued effects of past colonization policies through which Aboriginal peoples have endured traumatic forced assimilation practices and cultural oppression” Another study in 2005

The time of the Great Swamp Elm was identified by Elders like Jake Swamp as beginning in 2012. SUBMITTED PHOTO heavy hearted and sad.

“As I was looking I saw a hand appear on my shoulder,” Elder Swamp said of his dream. “It was a man’s hand but I didn’t see him, I only heard his voice directed to me.

“He said, ‘onta:on enseyatakenha thikon” meaning ‘you have to help them’.”

The messenger’s visit prompted Swamp to call for the “They Shall Wipe Each Others’ Tears Ceremony” (Great Condolence Ceremony), at the headwaters of the Mississippi in Minnesota on June 21, 2012. From 2007 to 2010

concluded historical and intergenerational trauma was the direct cause for a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders.

Given these statistics and the host of other resources commissioned by indigenous experts, medical professionals and finally, federal officials — a word of caution to those pushing to use shame as a correction method for addicts and their suppliers.

Be careful that your war on drugs doesn’t become a cover for a war on poor and broken people.

the call went to the Four Directions.

Indigenous People of the Americas would meet in the geographic centre of North America where they’d met every six years prior to 1492.

Oneida scholar Elder Pam Colorado wrote about the headwaters conventions as well. The Eagle people live in the Land of Winds (Amerikua) and met every six years and shared their knowledge at the headwaters of the Mississippi. In their last meeting in the 1480s the Maya said they built a nine- terraced pyramid at Chitchen Itza that was carefully coded with time calculations.

The pyramid has nine terraces. Each face of the four-sided pyramid has 13 steps for a total of 52 steps per terrace. The arithmetic is simple. The total number of steps on the pyramid is 468, added to the year 1492—or 1960.

“Our lost white brother returns, but we think he has become corrupted so be careful with your knowledge,” said the Maya at the 1480s meeting.

“This pyramid calculates what will happen. Our children will live through nine hells (468 years).

“But at the end of these nine hells our children will revive our old knowledge and help those for what will come next.

Some will listen. Some

will not. A serpent will descend from the sky and strike the earth. When this occurs the earth will be changed. After a long winter the real human beings will emerge into the era of 13 heavens.”

After the era of the nine hells the pyramid forecasts the return of a Sky Serpent that will strike the earth. Our people say the Big Man comes from the east and kicks the earth. People in the northwest say a fiery serpent descends from the sky and carries 1,000 miles-per-hour winds. In the southwest those People say the fiery serpent brings 500 miles-per-hour winds. There will be a great change in the earth and once the violence has ended peace shall return to the earth. That is the era of the 13 heavens—or as Swamp and Thomas said after Kakaratsikowa there will be “1,000 years of Peace”.

From June 18 to 23, 2012 Indigenous People gathered at Leech Lake, Minnesota. There were Indigenous Peoples from the four directions. On June 21 the gathering travelled to the small lake located on a hilltop where the Mississippi begins. It was here that Akhwesahsne Elder Ernest David delivered the seven-string condolence by People from the Woodlands, for the People from West. David was assisted by Kanatsiohareke Elder Tom Porter.

The People from Ohsweken participated by providing a thirteen bead white wampum that was

touched by all those at the gathering. Once the “Wiping of the Tears” was finished, Ohswekenron:nen Elder Renee Thomas took the beads and went into the lake and washed the wampum strings. The beads traveled back to Akhwesahsne before they were returned to Six Nations in 2014.

Jake Swamp-Tekaronianeken, was described in Indian Country Now as the Wolf Clan Mohawk diplomat, author, teacher, chief, husband, father, grandparent and great-grandparent who died in October 15, 2010. The passion of his dream was carried forward by his family. The Condolence happened.

The time of Kakaratsikowa means that the people take their rightful place in the world. According to these teachings the people straighten out the clans, recover the old knowledge of how to live without electricity and fossil fuels, and decide who they want speaking for them. Those who mock this renewal of the Great Peace suffer mental anguish and illness—like those in power today.

When the League of the Five Nations covered the fire in 1838 they said there would be a time when the fire would be rekindled. The elders have shown that 2012 signaled the start of that renewal.

Onen yeyohe Kakaratsikkowa.

Thohahoken Michael Doxtater is an educator from Six Nations.

The Great Condolence Ceremony was held in 2012 at the headwaters of the Mississippi that starts in this lake, where Elder Renee Thomas wiped the tears from a wampum string from the Ohswekenron:nen.

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Second racoon with rabies Murder in Brantford found on Six Nations Six Nations Elected Council says another racoon on the territory has tested positive for rabies.

The animal was positively identified as having died of rabies by Ministry of Natural Resources officials.

Rabies is spread through infected mammals through the saliva in either a bite that breaks the skins, getting the animals saliva into a cut or sore or getting infected saliva near your mouth, nose or eyes.

OTTAWA — AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde and First Nations Child Advocate Cindy Blackstock say the federal government has failed to comply with a ruling ordering Ottawa to amend discrimina-tory funding practices towards first nations children on reserve.

The ruling was issued

in January of 2016 after a years long case.

Blackstock has criticized the feds for taking so long to amend the discrepancies.

Officials for Indigenous Affairs say government funding is being phased in over time to include new programming and staff.

Ottawa slow to fund on reserve kids

CAINSVILLE — Brant County OPP are asking for help from the public in the murder investigation of 69 year old Robert Waite.

Waite’s body was discovered by police Wednesday afternoon at around 3pm in the parking lot of Diamond Towing in Cainsville.

His death has been ruled a homicide. No cause of death has been released.

A tip line has been established and police are asking anyone who may have been in contact with Waite from noon on Sunday, February 26 through to Wednesday, March 1 to come forward.

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A delegation from the Six Nations Agricultural Society presented to SNEC on Tuesday night. From left to right: Dakota Brant, Michelle Bomberry, Rachel Hill. PHOTO BY JAYSON KOBLUN

Fall Fair back to Setpember?

By Jayson Koblun

OHSWEKEN – The Six Nations Fair, or, Fall Fair, has been held in late August for the past few years and some community members are hoping to see it moved back to it’s original dates—the first week of September.

A delegation from the Six Nations Agricultural Society, the organization that hosts the fair, came to the Six Nations Elected Council’s (SNEC) general meeting last night on March 14 to introduce some of their newest members and to ask if elected council would considering changing the dates in a few weeks after further deliberation.

“We want to know if the dates for the fair can be amended to its original times,” said Michelle Bomberry, from the soci-

ety. “Ideally it would run from September 7 to September 11, starting on a Thursday.”

Community turnout for the fair has been decreasing for the past several years and some think that it is partly due to the fair being held during a month that is still considered ‘summer’. Many other fairs, like Pumpkinfest in Waterford, Ont., take place in late September or even early October.

District Two Councillor Carl Hill said that the fair has been losing interest within the community before its dates were switched to August, yet said that he may reconsider after spending more time looking into the pros and cons of switching the dates.

“I’ve spoken with a lot of people who would not want to see the fair

moved to September,” said Hill.

The society also asked SNEC if they would be willing to forgive a loan they took out with SNEC for $35,000 several years ago. They plan on fundraising $10,000 on their own to help with costs for the fair.

“We want to be able to start the year off fresh,” said Bomberry. “Forgiveness on the loan would let us be able to do that.”

SNEC received the presentation as information and will make a decision at a later date. District Four Councillor Helen Miller reminded everyone that the Agricultural Society has always been at an “arms length” with SNEC and thereby doesn’t need council’s permission to change the dates of the fair.

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Johnson Settlement continued from page 5 was presented in 1844.

This time the document contained the signatures or marks of 48 names, said to be chiefs. This document has been a bone of contention ever since, but even if it were upheld to be a true surrender; it too excludes the Johnson Tract.

June 24, 1843, the Confederacy finally agreed to let out the Johnson Tract

lands, but on short term leases only. In July of 1843, Samuel Jarvis confirms in a letter to Burwell that Six Nations will not surrender the Johnson tract for sale, but would lease under certain conditions.

An Order in Council dated Oct. 4, 1843 confirms the short term leasing of lots on the Johnson tract and further assures Six Nations that the Gov-

ernment has “no wish to procure the surrender of any portion of the lands against the lands” in question.

Jarvis himself was removed from his office shortly after the so-called 1844 surrender after three investigations into fraud, embezzlement and breach of duty. But his fraudulent surrender remains the only document

Canada has to support its case. That, and a document dated July 30, 1851, from David Thorburn who obviously helped bully the sale through, despite having no map, no formal surrender and without the free will of the Six Nations people to do so.

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SIX NATIONS – Hill’s Autobody and Glass is one of the oldest businesses on Six Nations that is still up and running and owner Tony Hill sees no signs of slowing down soon.

“I remember working alongside my dad years ago and I only remember a few business off the top of my head that had been established,” said Tony.

“It was pretty bare bones back then.” Tony’s father Gordon Hill Sr. started the business. He had been working in the automotive repair business since the 1940s; raised in the Hamilton area, Gordon Sr. later moved to Detroit to learn more tricks of the

trade. He met and married Tony’s Mother, had a few children and moved back to Six Nations in 1953.

The family then established a repair shop in Hamilton, Ont. before opening up Hill’s Autobody in 1967 in the north end of Ohsweken. Gordon Sr. passed away in the early ‘70s and Tony’s eldest brother took over the business in 1973. The business was moved in 1985 to where it currently sits on Chiefswood Rd. Tony later purchased his brother’s interest in the business and has been sole proprietor ever since.

“It’s a multi-generational business and that’s why I

wanted to get involved,” said Tony. “I wanted to see the business stay in the family and I was already familiar with the community and many of the customers. It was an easy transition for me.”

Hills Autobody and Glass offers complete autobody collision repair for all makes and models.

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itive with Ontario rates and we have a computerized database for estimating the cost of a job,” said Tony. “Long gone are the days where handwriting everything is acceptable to insurance companies and the like. Having our database for emails and new technologies speeds up the process for the customer and insurance companies.

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customers who come from Rochester, N.Y. and Buffalo area.” Tony said that the one of the most required services at the shop is collision repair, glass installation and classic automobile restoration. “What makes us different is the experience we offer,” said Tony. “My team is knowledgeable and they’re very dedicated to their work.

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What’s happening in 2017 with Healthy Roots

Healthy Roots Herbals If you are looking for other teas to try while doing the Healthy Roots challenge check these out.

All of them are traditional Haudenosaunee teas and most can be found in the tea aisle of natural grocers.

Red Raspberry Leaf Nettle Wild Ginger Sassafras White Pine Wild Berry Cedar Sumac

HEALTHY ROOTS -- Six Nations Health Services has partnered with McMaster University for something a little different but super interesting this year with Healthy Roots. Two groups have been selected to participate in this year’s challenge.

First, a group of 24 people will take part in a medical study examining what the Healthy Roots style of eating does to our indigenous bodies.

A second group of community members has also been selected as part of a Community Participant Challenge Group. Together, Health Services and the Our Sustenance Market & Greenhouse will lead the challenge

group through workshops addressing the ways we are all affected or impacted by food.

We’ll be keeping tabs on how participants in each group are doing and keep you posted!

Also coming this spring are four FREE Community Events. And as always in the grand Healthy Roots tradition there will be much delicious food to gwiss out on — with interesting speakers, good friends and entertainment.

Catch up with us at the first of these events this Monday, March 20 at the Six Nations Community Hall. We’ll get to hear from everyone more details on what is coming this spring with Healthy Roots!

Maple Syrup: a nutrient-rich indigenous sweetener

HEALTHY ROOTS – Swapping out refined sugar and replacing it with maple syrup in your diet is one simple way to incorporate indigenous flair into your everyday. But did you know that maple syrup does so much more for our well-being than adding flavour to food?

Though it is primarily a sweetener like white sugar, honey or agave; swapping out these products and replacing them with maple syrup can up the nutrient value of your food choices and make for a healthier body.

Nutritionally speaking maple syrup is far superior to refined white sugar, honey or agave. This is because maple syrup contains naturally occurring vitamins, trace elements and polyphenols.

At just 50 calories a tablespoon, maple syrup has just half the caloric intake of other sweeteners.

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Free radical damage to human cells can lead to health problems such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. In addition to being tasty, pure maple syrup is packed with cell protecting antioxidant polyphenols; similar to those found in berries, green tea, flax seeds and red wine.

In 2008 Canadian researchers determined maple syrup contains the same amount of antioxidants as raw tomato or broccoli. Keep in mind: the darker the syrup the higher its free radical fighting power.

Maple syrup is known to be an excellent source of manganese, an important element in normal brain and nerve function. It is also a great source of riboflavin to strengthen your metabolism and zinc for a healthy immune system.

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Six Nations woman on wait for new lungs

By Victor Martisius OHSWEKEN – What defines strength? In some instances strength is defined by physical ability, but Six Nations resident Jessica Henhawk is proving that sometimes having strength means more than what you can lift. Holding her head high at the Toronto General Hospital, Jessica patiently awaits her second lung transplant.

“Some people say why me? I’m just thinking Why not me? What makes me any different? It could happen to anyone,” says Jessica. “There are kids at Sick Kids [Hospital] across the street who are way worse off than me and they’re still smiling.”

Jessica has been battling lung complications since her late teen years but has never let it stop her from living life.

“I got diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis when I was 20 - which usually hits people who are in their 60s; so it’s kind of odd that it happened to me,” said Jessica. “It was a slow progression from when I was 20 [years old] to 33 [years old] when I had my [first] transplant.”

For a time, all was well until March break of 2016 when Jessica visited California for a family vacation.

“I went to California for March break last year

with my family and I got sick there. We didn’t have [travelers] health insurance so we waited till we got back,” she explains, “we got back on a Sunday evening and we all just crashed and went to bed.

In the morning I could not breath at all so we called the ambulance and they put me in the ICU at Brantford General Hospital. I had Pneumonia, Influenza A and Blood Clots in my lungs” The staff at Brantford General Hospital corresponded with the staff at Toronto General Hospital to ensure they were taking appropriate steps in Jessica’s treatment.

“I got released from the hospital but from that day on I was in and out of the hospital every month.

A week here, two weeks there,” said Jessica. “It’s just come to this now, where talking and walking can make my heart rate go really high.”

Stationed at Toronto General Hospital, Jessica is completely bedridden as many daily activities put her at risk of fainting.

“It’s very frustrating for me daily, I can’t go and close the curtain when I want to or go to that bathroom and take a shower,`` said Jessica. “Now my mom has to help me bath because washing my hair makes me really out of breath.”

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Jessica Henhawk and her mom Cindy are staying positive while in the waiting process for a second lung transplant operation. PHOTO BY VICTOR MARTISIUS Despite struggling with many complications, positivity radiates from Jessica as she deals with the uncertainty of her situation.

“This is what life has brought me,” said Jessica.

“I’d rather be positive than negative.”

Over the last year, Jessica has had two transplant false alarms.

“The first time I had a transplant I had three false alarms,” explains Jessica. “This last time, I was in the operating room and

they were ready to sedate me, but then the phone rang and they said stop.”

The uncertainty of the transplant date has made Jessica wise when it comes to her excitement level.

“I’ve learned not to get my hopes too high because you never know what’s going to happen,” she says. “I was in the operating room, laying on the bed ready to be put out and it couldn’t happen [at that time].”

Carrying the burden of Pulmonary Fibrosis for so

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long has taught her to accept that it is a large part of her life.

“I actually think it’s more of a rollercoaster for my family than me right now,” said Jessica. “My daughter was here when we got the [false alarm] call and she cried. I told her we just have to follow the Creator’s plan and the Creator will take care of it.”

While Jessica is in Toronto, her entire family is banding together to en-

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sure that they are able to react quickly should anything arise at the hospital.

They are also doing their best to keep life at home running as smoothly as possible.

Cindy Henhawk, Jessica’s mother, has been the driving force behind the family’s correspondence with Jessica in Toronto.

She keeps home life organized and helps Jessica with anything she needs at the hospital.

“Jessica needs me to help her with her exercises so she can be in the best shape possible in case we get a call,” says Cindy.

“Many times we’ve had to take her daughter out of school with homework because we couldn’t make arrangements so I had to bring her with me.”

Many sacrifices have been made by the Henhakws but they are not alone in their fight to ensure that Jessica regains her health.

“My niece, Crystal Seth, has set up a go fund me page on her Facebook,”Cindy explains. “My son-inlaw, Louis, used to work at Features in Stratford and they are doing a spaghetti fundraiser for them.”

The people of Six Nations have also been a big support to the Henhawks throughout Jessica’s struggle.

“This community just pulls together in a time of need, it’s unbelievable,” says Cindy about Six Nations. “The compassion and sincerity that we’re receiving is amazing, I just love this community.”

Cindy is currently looking to gain as much support as she can from the community and surrounding areas to raise awareness for Jessica’s story and funds to support the transplant unit at Toronto General Hospital.

As daily life continues for the Henhawk family here on Six Nations, Jessica patiently waits for her new lungs with a smile on her face- choosing always to stay positive and proving that strength does not always come in physical form.

“Don’t give up,” explains Jessica. “Always have hope.”

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DAPL Protestors March in Washington, D.C.

By Chezney Martin

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two weeks have passed since federal law enforcement removed DAPL protesters from the Oceti Sakowin campsite in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

While only a week ago the Los Angeles Times released notice that oil could begin flowing through the pipeline as early as next week, after U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington did not accept the request made by the Cheyenne River Indian tribe to halt construction on the grounds that the pipeline violated tribal members’ religious freedom.

However, even with the weather taking a cold turn – nothing has stopped dedicated water-protectors and supporters from congregating for the Rise With Standing Rock Native

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Nations March last Friday, March 10. The march took water-protectors from the the Army Corps of Engineers Officer (the governmental agency charged with overseeing pipeline completion), to an extended stop at the Trump International Hotel and finally, the White House. With no reported violence, the march was a national and international display of the

spirit of the protest that still lives.

Proof that support came from all directions; Makasa Looking Horse agreed that positivity at the march was abundant as she travelled from Six Nations to Washington last Thursday to attend the march.

“It felt liberating to march beside so many nations,” said Looking Horse. “Although we were all there for a very serious reason, almost every person was glowing with happiness. I think it was because we were all together protesting for the same reason – we were united and had our minds together as one.”

She travelled alongside her mother, Indigenous Anthropologist Dr. Dawn

Martin Hill, Dr. Theresa McArthur, her brother and Water Protector Cody Looking Horse and Mohawk Language Speaker Dawson George to meet up with McMaster University students. But Looking Horse's reasoning for attending the march also lies in her ancestry.

“I'm half Lakota and half Mohawk,” she said, explaining that she is also the daughter of Chief Arvol Looking Horse. “It is in my blood to fight anything that will hurt my people.

My great-great-great-great grandfather was Chief Sitting Bull and I often wonder what he would think about all of this corruption, how he would fight it and what he would want me to do. I had to take a stand and

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this was one way to do it. I kept in my thoughts about the next seven generations of every nation that was marching with me. Water is sacred, North and South Dakota land is sacred. No amount of many will ever be worth land or water.”

She explained that a huge piece of her cultural understanding focuses on the importance of water and it's protection, especially as a woman.

But, during the march she also found connections between both sides of her ancestry.

“I recognized how close the Haudenosaunee and the Sioux are,” she said. “It got me because I am both.

Almost every speaker at the march acknowledged the Haudenosaunee! [The

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two nations of people] are so far away from each other, but yet we retain a strong bond between the two nations. It wasn't planed it just worked out that way.”

Her experience was overall a positive one as the march proved the resiliency of water-protectors, but the disheartening purpose behind the march also looms over the positivity.

As the Lakota prophecy of the black snake comes with the rapid approach of the pipeline being finalized, it will be up to lawyers to continue to battle in court.

If the legal cases succeed in favour of the nations affected by the pipeline versus Energy Transfer Partners (the company building the pipeline), the pipeline will be “turned off.”

Looking Horse and her mother will be hosting a teach-in session in the G.R.E.A.T Board Room for World Water day on March 22 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m..

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The liberal government has promised to approve recreational use of cannabis by this spring.

Province to lead mercury clean-up TORONTO — Ontario’s Health Minister Jane Phillpot says Ontario will take the lead in resolving a mercury contamination at Grassy Narrows First Nation.

The community’s chief met with Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett about the long standing issue this week and says she’s just waiting for a firm commitment from Ottawa officials.

Philpott says the Liberal government is working with Ontario to support community research and surveillance to examine health issues that may have arisen from mercury.

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Terra Lightfoot was recording at Jukasa Studios and ran into Logan Staats. TRT writer Victor caught the musical journey for us. PHOTO BY VICTOR MARTISIUS

A night with Logan & Terra

By Victor Martisius For those of you who are unfamiliar with me; my name is Victor Martisius and I am a musician from Brantford, Ontario. I am of Mohawk descent and currently call the Six Nations Reserve "home." I wouldn’t say I lead a glamorous life, though at times it can sparkle. Life has taken me on many adventures and some have been solo missions, but the ones where I’ve created my fondest memories have been with my best friend and vocalist, Logan Staats.

After living in Toronto for a few years, a recent falling out with my now former manager has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The road to this realization was an adventure in itself - taking me all the way to Vancouver and back. At one point over the course of my journey, I found myself living in Winnipeg with one of my close friends and favourite musicians, Rylan Braida (who is a former member of Ghost Town Orchestra).

It was at this point in my adventure I tried to start a new life; get a "big boy" job and consider putting down the guitar professionally - for good.

I cannot begin to describe the strange happenings that ultimately prevented me from starting anew, but it was definitely the right thing that I didn’t.

I messaged Logan from the bitter depths of frozen Winnipeg to find out what was going on in the world of “The Love Child of Rock and Roll Soul." He explained to me that things were going extremely well and asked if I wanted to get back on the saddle as his guitarist. Of course, I said yes.

And so, with a little help from my sister, my friend Matt and - the always lovely - Jaquie Black, I hopped on the Greyhound and spent three solid days wondering what was going to happen next. Long story short, I showed up on Logan’s doorstep with nothing but a pillowcase full of the essentials.

Since the day I arrived at “The Ranch” - which

is what we have aptly renamed Logan’s house because his next door neighbor Linda has a flock of chickens and she sells their eggs that I highly recommend - Logan and I have been tirelessly working on his new album in both our home studio and at Jukasa. Jukasa is also the sick studio where The Love Child spins 7 p.m. until 12 a.m. every Tuesday to Thursday. It’s super rad, I even get to guest host from time to time.

It’s at Jukasa where my story actually begins. You see, the Jukasa facility is bonkers to say the least.

With that caliber of studio - that even has its own accommodations for clients - comes that caliber of clientele. Many great artists like Alexisonfire, Cancer Bats, July Talk and even Snoop Dogg have recorded some serious music at Jukasa.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a fabulous folk singer songwriter named Terra Lightfoot and let me tell you; her CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

Richard Wagamese, one of Canada's foremost indigenous authors and storytellers, has died. He was 61 years old. His body of work includes six novels, a book of poetry and five non-fiction titles, including two memoirs and an anthology of his newspaper columns. His most recent book, “Embers” is a collection of Ojibway meditations. It is currently shortlisted for a BC Book Prize.

Wagamese was born in the Wabasseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario. He was removed from his family by the Children's Aid Society as part of the Sixties Scoop and ended up in foster care in suburban Toronto. He struggled for many years before going on a traditional Ojibway camping trip when he was 22 years old, where an elder told him he had the gift for storytelling.

Wagamese was always open about his struggles with alcoholism and PTSD and the impact the residential school system had on his family. "I know that if I don't look at my whole history and embrace the dark and hard parts, I don't know my own story," he said in 2012. "And if I don't know my own story, I can't heal myself."

He began his writing career in 1979 as a journalist, then as a radio and television broadcaster. His debut novel, “Keeper 'n Me”, came out in 1994 and won the Alberta Writers Guild's Best Novel Award.

Tina Keeper (North of 60) presented Tantoo Cardinal with the Earle Grey Award this past Sunday night which honours an actor whose work on Canadian TV has had an impact on the industry at home and abroad.

The Fort McMurray, Alberta born Cardinal has appeared consistently in projects on both sides of the border. Her TV credits include the westerns “Frontier” and “Longmire”, ’90s drama “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”, her Gemini-winning turn on the homegrown drama “North of 60” and roles on other Canadian series “Blackstone”, “Mohawk Girls” and “Arctic Air.” She has also been featured in historical epics including “Legends of the Fall” “Dances With Wolves” and “Black Robe” and received a Genie nomination for her performance in the 1987 drama “Loyalties”. Recent stage work includes roles in “King Lear” and “The Rez Sisters.”

Cardinal said it has been challenging to have the stories of indigenous peoples “told in a proper light” which she has tried to accomplish through the roles she selects and portrays onscreen.

“I’m not a writer, I’m not a director, I’m not a producer—I’m just an actor,” said Cardinal.

The lead cast for WGN America’s “Scalped” pilot is now complete. The Warner Horizon Scripted TV project has added Gil Birmingham (Hell or High Water), Irene Bedard (Lakota Woman), and Chaske Spencer who had a recurring role as Deputy Billy Raven on Cinemax’s “Banshee”; the three join the previously announced Alex Meraz (Animal Kingdom) and Lily Gladstone, 2016 Indie Spirit Award nomination for best supporting actress for, “Certain Women”.

Oklahoma filmmaker Sterlin Harjo (Seminole-Muskogee) will serve as a producer and joins executive producer Len Goldstein on the creative team led by executive producer/writer Doug Jung. “Scalped” is based on characters created by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra for Vertigo from DC Entertainment. A modern-day crime story set in the world of a Native American reservation, “Scalped” explores power, loyalty and spirituality in a community led by the ambitious Chief Lincoln Red Crow as he reckons with Dashiell Bad Horse, who has returned home after years away from the reservation. If it goes to series, it will be the first ongoing project to have a predominantly Native American cast.

Native Earth Performing Arts’ annual Weesageechak Begins to Dance festival is a celebration of new works and works in development produced by Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous theatre company.

Each November, Native Earth selects dance, theatre and interdisciplinary works reflecting Indigenous performing arts in Canada and internationally to be presented or to receive development support and a workshop production during the two-week festival.

We encourage performing artists of all disciplines and at any stage in their career to apply. Deadline to Apply: Sunday, April 30, 2017 www.nativeearth.ca or call Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 416-531-1402.

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A night with Logan & Terra continued from page 19 mom makes a mean homemade strawberry jam.

Wednesday, April 8th was the day we were fated to meet. That day, I was at the studio doing some satellite demo recording for a track called “She Wants a Folk Song” that Logan had written the previous weekend. I was set up in the Producers Room of Jukasa Radio and had crews that included the main radio hosts of Jukasa, while the boys of the show "Smoke Signals" record gang vocals for a chant

part in the song.

Moving along, Terra and her band had been in the studio for the last week-and-a-half recording her new album, so we crossed paths from time to time. With my cards on the table; I only knew of Terra Lightfoot’s music, so I didn’t know what she looked like. It didn’t actually register to me who she was the first time I saw her.

On this particular Wednesday, she had the night off and we were re-

cording some chants for Logan’s song. We asked if she wanted to help out and she said "sure." We ended up having a very ‘interesting’ time recording this very simple chant.

So this story makes sense, I have to stress the fact that this was the Wednesday of the intense windstorm.

Once we had recorded Terra’s attempts, she asked what we were up to.

We told her we were going back to The Ranch to work on music, provided the

power wasn’t out, and asked if she wanted to join us. She agreed, and busted out the fact that she had a cheeky bottle of red wine and a bunch of cookies – a surprisingly good combo.

I drove us back to check the power situation while Logan finished his radio gig. Our drive home was really nice and gave me a chance to learn about Terra beyond her music.

It’s obvious that she is a very intelligent woman who cares deeply about the world and those who

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The 25 minute drive seemed short because we had a good conversation flow, covering a lot of basic “get to know each other” content, so as we rolled up to The Ranch we rolled up as homies. When we arrived however, all of the lights were off - no power. Seeing how un-phased Terra was by the lack of electricity, I got stoked so we started searching the dark rooms for candles. I found one and Terra found three, which is a win because I’ve never seen any candles at The Ranch before, ever.

Almost immediately after we found the candles, Logan and Carla - another host from Jukasa Radio show up and it’s on!

First order of business: Logan mentions the fire pit. At the time, it seemed like a good idea, but if you recall, the wind that day was ferocious. We get this fire going using questionable methods, but the wind does not let up at all. In fact, it got progressively worse as the wind started to cyclone the crackling embers into a Fire Tornado or “Firenado” as I like to call it. Unfortunately the “Firenado” was cutting it a little close to where Linda’s chickens were kept so we put it out and headed inside.

As we sat around the coffee table, we had a great time talking, laughing and enjoying Terra’s wine. There was only one bottle so it didn’t last very long, but as musicians we know how to enjoy that type of stuff to the fullest.

What goes better with minimal wine than a jam session with maximum guitar and maximum vocals? Nothing, so that’s what we did.

By this point it's clear to me that Terra’s vocal capacity has gotten her to where she is for a reason, but almost instantaneously as we started jamming, I realize that this gal can

totally rip a guitar like no ones business. I even snagged a couple techniques off her. As our jam session continued, we started working on a cool little tune in the key of E Major. Luckily, since I have a portable recording studio on my laptop which had about 87% power, I was able to record the skeleton of that song.

Unfortunately, we stopped working on it.

Fortunately, Terra started playing a classic Bob Dylan song. Now, I’ve seen Logan genuinely excited in the past and at this point in time this was one of those genuine moments. I press record and in their first take, Logan and Terra tear up one of the nicest sounding, live off the floor, completely unrehearsed and fleeting moments in time I’ve ever heard. I sacrificed a full pre-pro-demo session of a new song we’re working on for this little gem of a track. The song is called “Don’t Think Twice” and we can tell you every story as to why this specific track is so special.

When you get the chance to listen to the track, listen for the sound of a door opening. The look on Terra’s eyes when that happened in real time was priceles. We may or may not just have told her about the “trickster” that lives at The Ranch, who pulls pranks on us from time to time.

When the night was over and it was time for bed, it was up to me to get Terra back to her studio. So after a nice 4 or 5 a.m. drive, I get Terra back to Jukasa and conclude the sickest middle of the night, power out, candle lit acoustic jam session ever.

Here’s the thing. She came back to The Ranch on Saturday, March 11 and gifted Logan and me the left over groceries that her and her band can’t use because they’re heading to New York to finish their album!

It’s totally dope. Does anyone have a good recipe that uses “Pumpkin Mole?” I’m not sure what it is, but it was among the various treats that she dropped off.

So, that was the time Logan and I hung out with Terra Lightfoot.

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SPORTS Rebels deal with internal management issues know the score.

By Jim Windle

SIX NATIONS – While players are getting ready for the 2017 Jr. B lacrosse season, there was some internal business to be done at the upper management before the new season begins in earnest.

Parents, volunteers and even an few players gathered in the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena (ILA) banquet hall overlooking the green ILA lacrosse floor to express their concerns to the team top brass to clear the air and get on the same page.

It seems a matter of offering payment to some, but not for all of their previously volunteer positions, turned from a small pebble in the shoe back in December to a much bigger problem as the Rebels prepare for the new season. This needed to be dealt with.

A two-page letter to the executive distributed at the meeting, and prepared by members of the community, outlines some of the parents, player and volunteer’s complaints.

In November of last year, rumours circulated that Johnny Powless would be coaching the Rebels this coming season with hand picked assistants Mike McNamara and Donnie Alton, and that Powless was to get $10,000 to do so, but voluntarily asked that honorarium be reduced to $7,000.

The General Manager

There was need for the air to be cleared before the 2017 Six Nations Jr. B Rebels begins. Confusion over this year's coaching staff and mixed messages by the General Manager Bill Montour resulted in Montour resigning and team president Scott Maracle taking over the GM's role for the 2017 season. PHOTO BY JIM WINDLE at that time was Bill Montour. He says there was no guarantee that Powless would be coaching and that the team was still taking in resumes for the job.

Miles General was one of those who submitted his resume directly to GM Montour as instructed to do, with his request to be considered for the head coach’s job. Other hopefuls including Darris Kilgore, had applied as well but after Johnny Powless was already promised the job.

From there, the whole issue became a quagmire

of miscommunication.

It was alleged that Montour withheld General’s standard police background police check and as of Sunday’s meeting had still not submitted it to the executive.

General was given the job to head-coach the Rebels to another Founders Cup in 2017 at an executive meeting, but that was before Kilgore threw his hat into the ring and after Powless was promised the job as a paid position.

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Some Rebels players present voiced a few concerns about alleged bullying of players by certain team staff. These issues were aired to hopefully create a better atmosphere in the dressing room when the new season starts later this spring.

By the time the meeting was over, there certainty over who would be behind the bench for 2017, and that will be Miles General as head coach. He has announced his assists to be Terry “Bear” Hill defensive, and Johnny Powless (not paid) as assistant coach. Jake Henhawk chaired the meeting.

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It was alleged that Montour hired the assistant coaches himself without the executive.

It was alleged that Montour had arranged with a local businessman to pay Powless’ salary to coach the team, again without the knowledge of the executive. This was not acceptable considering the precedent it sets as well as a violation of the team’s non-profit status, which could disqualify the team from fund-

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Team trainer/equipment manager, and third Vice President Brian Miller, resigned earlier, leaving those positions empty for now as they look for a replacement. Nick Skye

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Six Nations Snipers getting stronger every day

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS – The Peterborough Timbermen have been finding some recent success after a dismal start to the inaugural Arena Lacrosse League schedule, but not Saturday afternoon at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena against the league leading Six Nations Snipers who turned them away 13-7.

Tom Montour surprised the Timbermen 32 seconds into the game and Travis Longboat added a goal at the eight-minute mark to take a 2-0 lead. Josh Wasson scored Peterborough’s first goal to cut the Six Nations lead in half, but Race Vyse took a lead pass from goalie Chance Martin for Six Nations third goal. Layne Smith closed the first quarter with Six Nations up 4-1. Quinn Powless and Travis Longboat assisted.

Wayne VanEvery and Tyler Albrecht added to Six Nations scoring in the second quarter while Caleb Wiles put one up for Peterborough by the half.

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Six Nations Snipers' Wayne VanEvery fights for some open space in Saturday's ALL matchup with the Peterborough Timbermen. The Snipers ride atop the Arena Lacrosse League standings, four points ahead of the Oshawa Outlaws after this week's ALL games. The Snipers defeated the Peterborough Timbermen 13-7 at the ILA. This coming Sunday at 1 p.m. the Snipers get another shot at the Timbermen at the ILA. PHOTO

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Albrecht added third quarter goals to take a commanding 11-4 lead with 15 minutes left.

Two Peterborough goals by Josh Wasson and one from Tim Bergin, chipped away at the lead

but Pat Corbett and Layne Smith closed the deal for the Snipers at 13-7.

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to Monarchs did the Snipers a favour by beating the second-place Oshawa Outlaws, 17-15 in Toron-

to. Six Nations now has a four-point lead over the Outlaws.

The St. Catharines ShockWave won over the Paris River Wolves 18-12 in Paris.

Bryan Neufeld led the Shockwave with an 11-point game with seven goals and four assists.

Brooker Muir scored one and assisted on eight for a nine-pointer while Chris Attwood scored three and assisted on four more for St. Catharines.

For Paris, Mike Burke lead the RiverWolves offence with a goal and five assists. Brenden Thenhaus scored two and assisted on three, and Mike Melnychenko earned four points on three goals and an assist.

This coming weekend games include Toronto Monarchs in Peterborough at 4 p.m. Saturday, The RiverWolves in Oshawa at 7 p.m., and the St. Catharines ShockWave at the ILA to face the Snipers.

Sunday, at 1 p.m. the Snipers have a 1 p.m. date with the Timbermen in Peterborough, the Monarchs are in Oshawa at 4 p.m.

National Lacrosse League weekly wrap up

By Jim Windle GEORGIA – It’s 11 weeks into the National Lacrosse League (NLL) regular season and the Georgia Swarm still retain top spot in the East with a record of 7-3, but the win was costly. Miles Thompson went down with an injury and was placed on the team’s injured reserve list for an indeterminate term.

Meanwhile, the Buffalo Bandits have placed Alex Kedoh Hill on the injured reserve list, moving Brier Jonathan to the Active Roster.

In other transactions around the league, the Rochester Knighthawks released Quinn Powless and the Calgary Roughnecks have released Vaughn Harris.

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breathing down their necks, one game behind at six wins and four losses. The Rochester Knighthawks still struggle in last in place the division.

In Sunday’s schedule, the New England BlackWolves swarmed the Swarm 13-8 Friday night March the Toronto Rock crushed the Calgary Roughnecks 1610 at the Air Canada Centre, while the Saskatchewan Rush took down the Colorado Mammoth in overtime, 12-11.

Georgia took a 2-1 first quarter lead and added another early in the second with an extra attacker on the floor when Shawn Evans scored from Keil Matisz and Joihnny Powless. But New England exploded with a four-goal rally, two of them on the powerplay.

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The BlackWolves kept coming as they outscored Georgia 7-2 on the period and 8-5 at the half and 11-6 after three quarters.

Johnny Powless scored two and assisted on two in the Georgia loss.

Out West it was the Vancouver Stealth winning a 10-6 decision over

he Colorado Mammoth.

This week’s games include Colorado in Toronto March 17, the Rochester Knighthawks travel to New England, Calgary is in Georgia and the Buffalo Bandits are on the west coach to face the Stealth.

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Pro-Fit Corvairs start playoffs against Avalanche

By Jim Windle

The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs are chomping at the bit after having to sit out the first round of Jr. B playoffs to wait for a second round partner. The Corvairs began their post season Wednesday night against the Ancaster Avalanche too late for our deadline, but Game #3, will be Mar 18th, 7:30 pm, Haldimand Center.

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Brandon Montour and the Anaheim Ducks

By Jim Windle

ANAHEIM – Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf recall the euphoria of hoisting the Stanley Cup almost 10 years ago when both were young newbies with the Anaheim Ducks.

Fast forward to this past weekend when both veterans played important roles in the Ducks’ 5-2 win over the mighty Washington Capitals. Perry had two goals and an assist, while Getzlaf added a goal and two assists.

This season it’s 22-year-old Six Nations star, Brandon Montour who is just getting himself oriented to the NHL in a year where he will most certainly see NHL Stanley Cup Playoff action for the first time.

As a defenseman, his name may not be said as much as some others on this strong roster, but Montour is quietly finding himself a permanent spot on the Ducks’ blueline.

His name is mentioned quite often by sports com-

mentators who are beginning to notice his all-out, every shift style, his cannon of a shot and mobility to allow him to get in on offensive rushes from time to time and sill have the gas to get back in time.

Before last Sunday’s win, the Ducks honoured its Stanley Cup winning Team from 10 years ago.

Montour had opportunity to see the likes of Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger and Teemu Selanne, in person. Hopefully 10 years from now some other young upand-coming First Nations player will be just as honoured to meet him.

There are others Indigenous NHL players who are at different milestones the same journey Montour is only beginning to embark upon.

Rene Bourque (Metis) plays with the Colorado Avalanche; Micheal Ferland (Cree) with the Calgary Flames; Vern Fiddler (Metis) of the New Jersey Devils; Dwight King (Metis) of the Los Angeles

Kings; Jordan Nolan (Ojibwe) of the Los Angeles Kings; T.J. Oshie (Ojibwe) of the Washington Capitals; Carey Price (Ulkatcho First Nation) of the Montreal Canadiens and Jordin Tootoo (Inuk) of the Chicago Blackhawks.

All have followed the path blazed by Fred Sasakamoose who broke into the NHL with the 1953 to 1954 Chicago Blackhawks.

Sasakamoose is signing autographs and talking to a new generation of future First Nations Stars at the ‘lil NHL, in Mississauga this past week.

CALEDONIA — The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs finally have a dance partner for the conference semi-finals after sitting out the first round quarter-finals waiting for the winner of the matchup between the Avalanche and the Fort Erie Meteors.

Ancaster won that series four games to one and will now face the regular season champion Corvairs beginning Wednesday, March 15th at the Haldimand Centre Arena in Caledonia at 7:30.

Game #1 was played Tuesday night at the Haldimand Centre and missed our print deadline.

Game #2 of the best of seven series is set for Mar 16th, 7:30 pm at the Morgan Firestone Arena in Ancaster; Game #3, Mar 18th, 7:30 pm, Haldimand Center; Game #3 is Mar 19th, 6:30 pm at the

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In other series, it will be the St. Catharines Falcons versus the Niagara Falls Canucks, the Listowel Cyclones are up against the Waterloo Siskins, while the Chatham Maroons and the London Nationals do battle.

Caledonia’s Brandon Lindberg finished the regular season with a league leading 109 points with teammate Adam Craievich finishing tied for fourth with 93 points.

Daniel Chenard finished 2016-17 regular season as the league’s top goaltender with a microscopic 1.77 goals against average recording 22 wins, two losses and a

tie with seven shut-outs.

The Ancaster Avalanche finished the season in a distant fourth place with 65 points.

The Sutherland Cup was first awarded in 1934, as emblematic of Junior 'B' supremacy in the Ontario Hockey Association. The 27 teams in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League now compete for this trophy.

The Waterloo Siskins have won the most Sutherland Cup championships with 11, with their first coming in 1940 and their most recent in 1994.

In 2007, the Cambridge Winterhawks became the eighth team to win the Sutherland Cup in consecutive years.

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They took out the London Nations last year in four straight games.

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• Open Division entry fee: $1000.

• Old-Timers Division (35+) entry fee: $600.

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VanEvery: Torrence Ezra Todd It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our much beloved son and grandson Torrence Ezra Todd VanEvery, suddenly on Monday March 6, 2017. Born October 29, 2013, survived by his parents Madeline Lee Froman (John Smoke) and Torrey VanEvery and sister Sophiah. Also survived by grandparents Bev and Todd VanEvery, Linda Froman and Bobby Sault and great grandparents Maynard and Sandra Porter. In his short life he was much loved as a nephew to Jeffrey (Kai), Ashley and Lesley Anne (Darcy) VanEvery, Jacob, Ezra and Olivia Froman.

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you will likely experience a week of thoughtfulness and reflection. It can be a very “zen” experience for you, as you’re not typically used to slowing down.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, keep your cool in the week ahead, which might be more tumultuous than you’re accustomed to. Don’t take things personally, and rest assured things will blow over soon.

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, be your own person, even when someone else tries to guide you into his or her line of thinking. Don’t fall for any subterfuge or get carried away.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Cooperation instead of competition may be the way to get ahead this week, Scorpio. Take a look at what others are doing and see if you can combine your efforts.

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CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Simple pleasures will offer you the greatest rewards over the next few days, Capricorn. You don’t require a lot of fanfare or extravagance.

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