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OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Police arrested three Ohsweken men and seized what police described as a “large quantity” of marijuana in a raid on a Six Nations business last week. Officers executed a search warrant at King Leaf Onkwehon:we Produce and Manufacturers on 4th Line Road on
Thursday, April 5th, at 5 p.m. According to a media release from Six Nations Police, officers seized “a large quantity of marijuana in various forms” and made three arrests. Sheldon Joseph Doolittle and Jacob Allen Froman, both 18, and 27-year-old Aaron Cody Staats face charges of trafficking and possession of cannabis. The three accused are due back in court on May 31st.
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BRANTFORD — The vice principal of a Brantford high school said threats of a school shooting turned out to be “not credible” after an investigation Friday morning. Two Brantford schools investigated threats after a social media post said a note was found early Friday morning, attached to the Lorne Bridge, threatening STAFF REPORT
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our school community, these rumours are not credible and there is no threat to Assumption College,” said Brophy. Brophy added that all claims of violence were investigated by city police and senior school board officials and “deemed unsubstantiated.” Brantford Police later sent a message out via Twitter saying the content in that post did not originate in Brantford but was connected to a threat at a Cambridge high school
under investigation by Waterloo Regional Police on April 2. On April 3, a youth was arrested by Waterloo Regional Police in connection with the threat and charged with mischief under $5,000 and uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death. Brantford Collegiate Institue principal Ann Myhal said she had limited information about the incident, but said a “generic threat” was posted on the bridge. Myhal said police were not investigating at BCI.
artistic works, both contemporary and traditional, from June 15 to 17. According to a statement from the WCC, “Attendees will have the opportunity to witness unique traditions that have been existent before contact. Performances and events will be multi-disciplined and of the highest calibre, featuring storytelling, dance, music, theatre, visual arts, film and workshops.”
WCC says partner sites will be set up around Six Nations and Brantford showcasing lead-up activities to the event itself. “The intent of the festival is to provide a space for Haudenosaunee artists and other Indigenous nations from across Turtle Island to showcase their artistic gifts,” says the statment. “The vision is to create and grow a festival within the community that will be a
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OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Public Library Board announced a new person will be taking the role of director for the Six Nations Public Library. Feather Maracle, originally from Tyendinaga, has worked at several libraries in her career. According to a statement from the library board Maracle worked at the Kanhiote Tyendinaga Territory Public Library, and the past 15 years with the Timmins Public Library in the Reference Department. SNPL says Maracle worked as an advocate for First Nation Public Libraries, sitting in leadership roles with the Ontario Library Association (OLA) as the OLA Super Conference Indigenous Stream Coordinator and chair of the OLA Indigenous Task Group. She has been a juror with the First Nations Communities Read for several years, and member of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Indigenous Matters Committee.
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LONDON — Planning for a high speed rail line between Toronto and Windsor that will intersect Six Nations territory near the Grand River can begin in earnest now that the province has announced an $11-billion funding commitment for the project. Premier Kathleen Wynne was in London recently to announce the funding. She touted high speed rail
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requires.” Don Lynch, chair of the Six Nations Public Library Board, says, “We are very excited to welcome Feather Maracle as our library’s new CEO. She comes to Six Nations with a wealth of library experience and a special understanding of a
First Nations’ community needs. As a board, we look forward to working with her in the months and years to come. Together we’ll ensure the SNPL will continue to be a vital community resource.” Maracle assumed her role as CEO on April 1st.
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as vital to the future of transportation in southwestern Ontario. "The best time to build high speed rail was thirty years ago. The second best time is right now, so we are taking action,” Wynne said. “We are going to build this line, because high speed rail is going to unlock so many benefits for people and businesses across Southwestern Ontario." The electric-powered high speed rail line would allow for rapid transit from Toronto to Windsor, with stops in Guelph,
Kitchener, London and Chatham. Travelling at speeds of up to 250 km/h, high speed trains would dramatically reduce travel times while also cutting carbon emissions. The trip between Toronto’s Union Station and London, for example, is expected to take 73 minutes. The province sees high speed rail as beneficial to businesses and workers alike, by allowing residents who live outside major urban areas like Toronto to commute from further distances at a rea-
sonable timeframe. The province says that the first phase of the rail line, which will link London and Toronto with a connection to Pearson Airport, could begin service as early as 2025. The government has committed up to $101 million over three years to fund planning, environmental assessment and preliminary design for phase one. Consultation with Indigenous communities and municipal governments will be undertaken during this stage.
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OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Elected Council’s General Council meeting was busy Tuesday night with more updates on a local family’s struggle with trucked-in soil dragging out a home build approval process and discussions on expediting council’s hiring process. SOIL TESTING RESULTS
Six Nations residents Lisa VanEvery and Joleen Johnson were added to the council’s agenda as a late addition. The pair presented a soil report acquired by a third party showing an analysis of
the sample taken and updated the council on where they are at with the Ministry of the Environment reviewing the property. The family is bringing in nearly 5000 loads of soil and have had issues getting the home build approval process completed as proof of soil safety has not been accepted by Six Nations yet. Six Nations Public Works Director Micheal Montour said the Ministry of the Environment was called to the site to do a visual assessment of the site and they would be discussing the matter at a meeting this Thursday. It was unclear to
all council members whether a further soil test would be required from the Ministry of the Environment in order for the worksite approval process to be complete. The council opted to hold any further decisions until updates from the MOE’s Thursday meeting about the soil’s safety can be heard and assessed. STUDENT NUTRITION FUNDING
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Youth Services and offers school-age children and youth nutritious food through breakfast, lunch, and snack programs. The goal of the program is to support learning and healthy development. The program is open to all children and youth at approved program sites. Secure doors for Six Nations schools New secure swipe entry door systems will soon be be installed at all of Six Nations schools. Elected Council awarded a contract for the project for just over $57,000. EXPEDITE HIRING PROCESS
SNEC did not approve a motion from District 2 Councillor Audrey Powless-Bomberry to sole source an Education Coordinator and Secretary. A lot of lively debate went back and forth among council members concerned that the position was not offered up as a general posting.
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Councillors Helen Miller and Melba Thomas are set to attend the Iroquois Caucus for a Citizenship Summit April 18-19 in Akwesasne. Mark hill will travel to the UN’s Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues in New York City that same week. Later in the month Councillor Carl Hill travels to Kanesatake for an Iroquois Caucus General Assembly and Terry General is headed to the Ontario First Nations Water Symposium in Niagara Falls May 16.
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It's possible to be woke and not be broke EDITORIAL BY JONATHAN GARLOW
The maple: chief of all trees DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO news@tworowtimes.com
If you are leaving Six Nations on Chiefswood Road and happen to catch a red light at Highway 54 you could end up waiting like ten minutes if the line up is really long. It's frustrating but the wait does provide plenty of time to think. I thought that I should be thankful that we have lights at all. I'm not that old but I can remember a time when there were no traffic lights anywhere on the rez. Many of us still remember when the numbered Lines were the only paved roads on Six Nations and the "national" roads such as Mohawk were mostly gravel. Back in those ancient times (1980s) most intersections were a twoway stop but all that changed after one too many car crashes. The speed limit is 80 kilometres per hour around here. Now we have paved roads and four way stops at all the intersections even the not so busy ones and I can't think of anyone who is against that. There is now lights at Chiefswood
and Highway 54, in Ohsweken. The more traffic lights on Six Nations the better, and we can all agree to that. Now this is what makes the concept of decolonization tricky. If one does not understand what colonization is, it makes decolonization impossible and unfortunately we have been intentionally conditioned to confuse technology with colony and to conflate them as inseparable. It's possible to have technology without colony and that idea helped make Marvel's Black Panther such a success. Everyone wishes they could live in Wakanda – a place of social justice, equality and technology. T'challa is showing America that it's possible to be woke and not be broke. Decolonization in Canada may not be as romantic as the Marvel Universe but it doesn't have to be painful. In South Africa they decolonized by forcefully removing the colonists, but if Canada is wise they will fix the stolen land problem before it reaches that point.
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When the Creator – Sonkweiiateson in Mohawk – planted the trees of the world a decision was made to make Wahta – the maple – the chief of all trees. Not only did the maple carry the words of humans to his relatives, but to that species was given another task. In this part of the world the winter months may be long and cold, the land covered in heavy blankets of snow, which makes food difficult to come by and would push the Mohawk people closer to their longhouse fires. The Creator noticed that the people would become ill for lack of fresh food and their spirits would grow weary as they waited for the spring. He decided that he would speak to the maple and see if something could be done. It was decided that the maple would allow its sap, its blood, to be taken and made into a drink, one that would replenish the body and lift the soul. So it was done; the Creator showed the people how to take a hollow sumac branch and insert it into a maple tree and then drink the pure syrup which flowed from the tube. The people were happy and thanked the Creator. As is the way, the Creator had to leave this earth to travel to other
worlds and tend to them. He was gone a very long time. One day he returned to see how the people were. This was in the latter days of winter, but when he came to the longhouses he did not see plumes of smoke arising from the home fires. He would have normally been welcomed by the dogs of the village, but they were missing. When he entered the longhouses there were but cold ashes and above him in the rafters food which had not been eaten. He wondered at this. When he left the longhouse he saw many footprints of humans and dogs leading away from the village towards a forest of maple trees. He followed the tracks until he entered the grove and their saw the people sprawled upon the ground. It was that they had become immersed in the maple syrup. They had taken the sumac tubes, inserted them into the trees and drank so much that they could hold no more and dropped to the ground. The Creator saw that even the dogs had drunk of the syrup, copying the behaviour of the people – drunk of the syrup and lay there on their backs with their legs pointed to the sky. This was not good. The Creator aroused the people from their stupor and told them that no longer would they be able to drink the syrup right from the tree. They
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would have to work for it. So he showed them how to take sap, place it into a container and bring it to a near boil until, after many hours, they would have syrup and, after more work, maple sugar. While both maple sap and syrup would remain a great medicine for the people, they must not take it for granted. The people were also shown how to speak to the maples, and then all trees. They would watch carefully for the maple to emerge from its sleep and gather to express their gratitude to Wahta for its great gift before they tapped into the trees. Once they had a harvest of syrup they would gather again and thank the Creator and Wahta for this most wonderful of drinks. Should they do this, then the maple would give its lifeblood to the people. Should they fail, the maples would one day leave the earth. To this day, the Mohawks, the inventors of maple syrup and maple sugar, gather at the longhouse to honour Wahta by giving thanks. On the banks of the Nihahnawa:te (Raquette) and Kaniatarowanenneh (St. Lawrence) rivers you can still hear the Mohawks rise their voices in song and stomp their feet in dance as we celebrate the arrival of spring and the beginning of new life on Iethi:nistenha Ohnontsia – our Earth Mother.
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How racial bias likely impacted the Stanley verdict DAVID M. TANOVICH
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The acquittal of Gerald Stanley was shocking. There's no dispute that Stanley shot Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, in the head at close range. By any reasonable account it was a wrongful killing that was either intentionally or negligently caused. However, the jury was not satisfied of either beyond a reasonable doubt. Reasonable concerns have been expressed over whether overt or implicit racial bias played some role in the jury's verdict. The very suggestion of a verdict tainted by racism has garnered a hostile reaction even from advocates who acknowledge the existence of systemic racism. A prominent concern seems to be that it is unfair to talk about racism and this verdict in the absence of direct evidence of bias, and because of the inability of the jurors to defend themselves. We will never know for certain, of course, how this jury came to its verdict. Unlike judges, a jury does not give reasons for its decisions, and we have strict jury secrecy rules that prohibit questioning
them about their deliberations. Nevertheless, public confidence in the administration of justice and justice itself requires us to examine the role of racism in the trial. In my opinion, when we examine the case as a whole, it justifies the conclusion that racial bias likely played a role in the jury's deliberative process. Proving that something probably happened is the standard of proof we use in our civil system of fact determination. It is a standard that can be met even if there is no direct evidence. NOT ABOUT SHAMING, BUT UNDERSTANDING
While it's true jurors cannot respond, the same is true for judges accused on appeal of bias or of erring. We do not refuse, however, to assess those claims simply because there is no opportunity to directly respond. The point is not to shame the 12 individuals who gave of their time to fulfil their civic duty, but to identify the problems with the trial process, one that was beyond their control. This is a conversation that we must have if we are going to constructively address the problem of racism.
the ways recognized by both Williams and Rogers. A RACIALLY
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SYSTEMIC RACISM IMPACTS JURIES
Our courts have recognized the existence of systemic racism towards Indigenous peoples and its effect on jury decision-making. In R v Williams, a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada acknowledged in 1998 that ``racism against Aboriginals includes stereotypes that relate to credibility, worthiness and criminal propensity'' and that ``this widespread racism has translated into systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system.'' The Supreme Court also recognized that systemic racism can ``predispose the juror [to the party] perceived as representative of the `white' majority against the minority-member ... inclining the juror, for example, to resolve doubts about aspects of the ... case more readily.'' While Williams concerned bias against an
Gerald Stanley
Indigenous accused, the same displacement of the presumption of juror impartiality logically applies in cases involving an Indigenous victim and a white accused. Indeed, in R v Rogers, the trial judge stated that ``racism will be at work on the jury panel as soon as the victim is described as an Aboriginal.'' The judge ruled that a race-based ``challenge for cause'' (a screening of the jurors) was therefore necessary to ``prevent that bias from destroying the impartiality of the jury's deliberations.'' In that case, each prospective juror was asked whether their ability to judge the case impartially would be ``affected by the fact that the deceased victim is an Aboriginal person and the person charged with the crime is a white person?'' In the Stanley case, there were a number of triggers and process failures that enabled racial bias to impact the jury in
Colten Boushie was killed on Aug. 9, 2016. Almost immediately, racist narratives framed the public's construction of the shooting and of Indigenous communities. As the Assembly of First Nations noted ``to see racist, derogatory comments about this young man and about First Nations people ... in response to this tragedy is profoundly disturbing.'' The online hate prompted a response by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and RCMP hate crime investigations. Ben Kautz, a farmer and rural councillor, resigned after it was revealed that he had stated that Stanley's ``only mistake was leaving witnesses.'' In the absence of trial safeguards, this very public and racially charged battle between white farmers and residents and Indigenous communities could have predisposed some jurors to engage in jury nullification despite the judge's instructions that they must not use their ``own ideas about what the law is or should be.'' Jury nullification, according to the Supreme Court of Canada, refers to ``that rare situation where a jury knowingly chooses
not to apply the law and acquits a defendant regardless of the strength of the evidence against him.'' It has characterized ``the jury's power to nullify as `the citizen's ultimate protection against oppressive laws and the oppressive enforcement of the law.''' Nullification would have occurred here if the jury acquitted because of a belief that Stanley was entitled to defend his property as he did, even though the law did not give him that right. INDIGENOUS
JURORS EXCLUDED
During jury selection, defence counsel used their peremptory challenges to remove every juror who appeared to be Indigenous, without objection from either the Crown or judge, to create what appeared to be an all-white jury. This would have sent a powerful message to the jurors who witnessed this and who were selected to serve that Indigenous perspectives were irrelevant or could not be trusted. The ``us'' versus ``them'' racial dynamics of the case and any other pre-existing racial bias would have been reinforced by this exclusionary process. This made nullification even more likely. CONTINUED ON PAGE 25
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For westerners, the concept of marriage is defined as “the process in which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that punitively lasts until death but in practices is increasingly cut short by divorce.” And this is performed before their families, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. But for Haudenosaunee women, who hold the responsibility of passing on their clan and nation to their descendants, traditional marriage creates a much deeper bond than simply promising to love until death and being recognized as married by law. From the ceremony to their vows, a traditional
couple is surrounded by immediate family, loving relatives and supportive friends. The couple, the parents and the rest of the family are each given duties during the ceremony – all is done to help ensure that the couple have ample support and are assisted with any problems as a team. Two chiefs must also be present and it is a ceremony that recognizes the importance of the family unit, and views the union
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“I had originally wanted to do both but people were like ‘you’re not supposed to do that,’” said Skye. “So I had to decide and that’s why I got Hubert Skye to marry us and we did it outside. It was still like our [traditional] ceremony but I just wanted to be able to wear the dress,” she said with a laugh. Skye said that the reason traditional and western marriages were advised to never both be put through for couples has a lot to do with the drinking of alcohol at receptions, as alcohol is not allowed near ceremony. She also explained that a traditionally influenced wedding is nothing like a western wedding either.
“That’s the other thing about our weddings too is that they aren’t these big hoopla events that they are in Western society because it’s more like a commitment and responsibility now to your family. And if you have kids already, like we already had our daughter Alee-
na, it was like we were already married. Like in our traditions we would be connected forever and that’s what they tell us about having babies.” Skye included that she had always wanted to be married by Hubert Skye, who, during his lifetime was a recognized solemnizer of marriages for the longhouse faith and performed well over 400 traditional marriages. She said that she found even more appreciation for the ceremony afterwards. “I also like that the ceremony is a lot about the family and the kids,” she said. “It’s giving us our responsibilities not just to each other, but to our family.” CONTINUED
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“Getting married traditionally was important to us because we both understood that promise and commitment we were making to each other, infront of the Creator in the longhouse, to live by the words that were spoken,” says Carey-Leigh Vyse (right) stands with husband Danny Vyse and daughter Lyla Shae. PHOTO BY CORRIE HILL
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TWO ROW TIMES the women’s line for the dance and she and her husband also exchanged white ash baskets, which was once extremely customary. Although Cooke has had some issues with changing her maiden name to her married name due to systems not recognizing her confederacy marriage certificate, her memories of the day are still bright with appreciation. “One of my favourite moments was when my sister pulled into the longhouse and I seen everybody standing outside waiting for us and I started to cry. She’s like ‘don’t cry right now you’re going to ruin your makeup,’” said Cooke with a laugh. “I looked around and just knowing that all of our families were coming together for me and Norm meant so much to me, and I just tried not to [get emotional about] it.” It is very easy to see that to traditional Haudenosaunee, marriage is just another way for a couple and their respective families to connect, grow and support one another.
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the United States for dating and analysis. The discovery was made along the eroding banks of the Red River in the immediate path of the erosion pattern meaning, if it were not found now, the site would have been lost to history. “[The farmers] were certainly involved with corn and beans – probably squash and probably sunflowers as well,” said Leigh Syms, a former curator at the Manitoba Museum. The discovery is so new that archaeologists fear that without new mandate to research the site, its full significance will be lost. Records exist of early American colonists documenting Iroquois villages that were surrounded by eight square miles of cornfields, but this is the first find of its kind for a plains village.
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Farming a second career for Six Nations innovator Barry Hill planted the region’s first soybean crop in late 1970s LILIAN SCHAER
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Barry Hill calls farming his second life. After all, it was only meant to be a stress reliever from his work as an engineer. What started with a small garden beside a cabin on the Six Nations Reserve near Ohsweken, Ontario and the region’s first soybean crop in the late 1970s eventually evolved into a 2,600 acre farming business growing corn, wheat and soybeans. “I was told never to be a farmer, so I went off to be an engineer, but you can’t get farming out of the boy,” he chuckles. “I bought the cabin here instead of a cottage in Muskoka and started gardening. I won a vegetable prize that year, but also realized I can grow 40 acres of wheat in the time it takes me to garden.” And so began, on the home farm where his dad farmed after World War II, Barry Hill’s second career as a farmer and innovator, farm leader and community champion, and advocate for Ontario’s native farmers. In addition to his three main crops, Hill is always keen to try something new – he successfully no-tilled alfalfa into bean stubble and sold hay for a few years, planted organic soybeans and spelt. He’s also experimented with white beans, industrial hemp and switchgrass over the years but with mixed success; the heavy Haldimand clay soils impose limitations on many crop options, he learned. “We tried industrial hemp for a couple of years but quickly realized there was no infrastructure for it, so the only thing that came out of that were some good stories,” he says of that particular crop’s requirement for farmers to get a Health Canada licence and undergo an RCMP check in order to be allowed to grow it. He’s also tried a foray into processing, but found it difficult to get the needed financial support to get the venture off the ground. “Processing is a tough business. Commercial
banks won’t touch you on Reserve land since it is not mortgage-able,” he adds, crediting ACC Farmer’s Financial with helping his farming business grow. “I was farming on a credit card for a long time,” Hill said. First Nations farmers must overcome their own unique hurdles when it comes to farming, in addition to the common challenges of weather, prices and markets faced by everyone in the business of agriculture. Much of their land is scattered in small parcels and because most of their land is either rented or can’t be used as collateral to secure credit because it is on the reserve, it makes both long-term planning and ongoing farm business management more difficult. This led Hill to organize his fellow farmers into the First Nations Agri Group co-op, whose members get rebates on their seed purchases and do bulk tendering for fertilizer. The co-op now has 25 members who farm more than 20,000 acres of cropland. One year, the co-op applied to the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA) for some funding to run a soybean rotation demo in their area. Hill attended the OSCIA’s annual meeting to present a report on the project – and eventually ended up on the organization’s executive as a Vice President. “My wife Cheryle never forgave me. She let me go to a conference by myself and I come home as third vice,” he chuckles. Eventually, Hill became OSCIA’s provincial president, and one of his fondest memories of this time with the group was when he and Cheryle hosted the organization’s annual summer meeting the year he was the First Vice President. They raised more money that year than ever before for the meeting and accompanying tours so Hill helped set up at post-graduate scholarship at the University of Guelph with the residual funds. His kids aren’t inter-
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ested in farming, with his son back at school and his daughter teaching in Hamilton, and he knows he should start scaling back his business a bit, so Hill has started letting a young farmer in the area have some of his land. He hasn’t totally let go of the processing idea, but he’s starting to think he might be getting a bit old for starting into too many new ventures, he says. “I don’t do Junior Farmers or 4-H and my wife doesn’t bake pies, but we do a whole bunch of other things,” he says of the traditional farmer stereotypes. So in addition to farming, he keeps busy with the odd consulting project, community volunteering, and helping with the preservation and sustainability of the Royal Chapel of the Mohawks, Ontario’s oldest Protestant church where he is also the organist. The fact that he’s well respected and his work appreciated is evident in his farm office, where the walls are covered with certificates, plaques and awards he’s won. Hill is particularly proud of having been named Brant County Farmer of the Year in 2011, and he was a finalist in the 2014 BMO Farm Family Awards. This story was originally published online at www. FacesOfFarming.ca.
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New Indigenous film set to spark conversations on #MeToo Haudenosaunee cultural change-makers among participants in film from Rematriation Magazine
be free-of-charge to view for Indigenous nations, health care providers, educators, organizations, community members and those interested in joining the conversation. The short is also a product of the discussion between more than 70 Indigenous people from across Haudenosaunee territories during the
2018 launch of the magazine, and also tackles a mindful angle. “The mainstream trend has been to outcast prominent men accused of sexual harassment, but what does #MeToo look like for Indigenous people?” asked Schenandoah. “There is no recourse for both men and women in the mainstream and there really hasn’t been much direction beyond this point for the movement. As Indigenous people, we've been working to address sexual abuse a lot longer than in the mainstream. “Acceptance of the mainstream does not have to be our response and it’s not the healthiest option for our communities; we have our culture to help guide us,” she added. More information about the film is available online at www.facebook. com/Rematriation, or contact together@ rematriation.com or (315) 925-7191 to book a screening and discussion of An Indigenous Response to #MeToo in your community.
proud of our collection.'' Lomayesva said he has taught himself how to create all his art since he never went to school. The contemporary painter and sculptor often uses aspects of his Hopi and Hispanic heritage in his works. More recently, Lomayesva has started creating vacuum tubes for different sound equipment used in recording studios and branching into photography. When Tea Collection approached him about the fashion line, he said he had to do a lot of tweaking before creating designs suitable for children's clothes. ``It was nice to chill out and stop trying to be some hot . artist and just return to the craft,'' Lomayesva
said. ``It's so fun.'' He said working on this project took him in a different direction than his other works, one with more vivid colours and happier meanings. ``It opened doors to a place in my brain I wasn't using,'' he said. ``I really look forward to the future of what this has brought to me.'' Boes said she and her team worked with representatives of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture so that as the company looked to pueblo pottery for inspiration, it was not disrespecting the culture. ``A lot of clothing brands have appropriated Native American art,'' Boes said. ``We wanted to make sure we were telling the story in the right way.”
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SYRACUSE, NY — A new half-hour film created by Rematriation Magazine (an Indigenous women’s online publication) and featuring a group of cultural change-makers from the Guachichil de La Gran Chichimeca and Haudenosaunee territories encompasses a response to a recent movement under the title of An Indigenous Response to #MeToo. The film premiered on April 3 in the Indigenous Women’s Lives class at Syracuse University and was produced by Indigenous Concepts Consulting for Rematriation Magazine, led by executive producer Michelle Schenandoah. Neal Powless is co-producer while the film is directed by Katsitsionni Fox. As CEO and editor in chief of Rematriation Magazine, Schenandoah explained that the prevalence of sexual abuse in Indigenous communities is an issue to be explored
The new half-hour film An Indigenous Response to #MeToo is an engaging conversation starter to break the silence and lean into cultural teachings for viable solutions to sexual harassment. As pictured above, the film encompasses the conversations and discussions sparked by the topic. SUBMITTED PHOTO
with cultural solutions. “The #MeToo movement has taken the country by storm and this is why I asked a group of Indigenous people to come together to discuss what is – and what is not – going on so that we can extend the conversation into our communities and take control of the narrative,” said Schenan-
doah. “We are not part of the mainstream society; yet knowing how pervasive sexual abuse is in our communities, this film provides a backdrop to explore this issue in our own way.” “In our own way” reflects within the film as well as the film features an all-Indigenous cast of
community leaders and includes music by Joanne Shenandoah and “The Women’s Power Song” written by the Akwesasne Women Singers. It is hoped to inspire group conversations about the topic of sexual harassment as well as to uncover culturally based solutions. Rematriation Magazine even sponsored the film to
Spring fashion line draws inspiration from Native American art CANADIAN PRESS
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SANTA FE, NM — An international clothing company based in San Francisco is introducing a spring fashion line that exhibits Native American-inspired art and designs, including a collaboration with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and work by Santa Fe-based artist Gregory Lomayesva, who is of Hopi and Hispanic heritage. The company, Tea Collection, explores a different culture around the world each season and creates children's clothes using designs inspired or created by local artists of that region. For 2018, the
company decided to focus on the United States, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. Laura Boes, vice-president for design, said it felt important for the company to tell the story of the cultures that make up the U.S. Boes visited New Mexico in 2017 and her team worked with different pueblos and the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, eventually asking Lomayesva and other Native artists in the U.S. to create graphics that could be reproduced. By commissioning local artists or creating designs inspired by these cultures, Tea Collection tried to translate motifs and styles distinguishing the culture in a way children can
Santa Fe-based artist Gregory Lomayesva, who is of Hopi and Hispanic heritage, draws inspiration from Native American art for his colourful clothing designs. SUBMITTED PHOTO
enjoy, Boes said. ``Making the foreign familiar and bringing that into the lives of children
is really special,'' she said. ``I hope that everybody in Santa Fe or with connection to the museum feels
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The Pueblo, the precious stones and the trade routes CHEZNEY MARTIN
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Indigenous nations have mined precious stones such as turquoise for over 1000 years. They have also used it to create beautiful adornments to wear during traditional ceremony, to trade or to give to relatives and new allies. But the way in which precious stones were obtained by the ancestors of such nations is only now becoming common knowledge. One of the more recent “discoveries” was found within Chaco Canyon, as researchers uncovered the massive turquoise trade network of the ancient Pueblo. Through the study; Turquoise from Chaco Canyon artifacts were traced to resource areas in Colorado, Nevada and California, which proved that the Pueblo in the San Juan Basin area of New Mexico did not get all of their precious stones from a nearby mining site as was believed. The study further proved that the Pueblo of Moapa Valley in Southern Nevada received some of their turquoise from as far away as Colorado and New Mexico – which suggests that the trade network ran in both directions. But trading and trade networks aren’t a new concept to indigenous nations and the findings of the study aren’t surprising to the Pueblo today, however, the findings do show the grand scale at which some indigenous nations would travel to trade.
The middle necklace is known as a “treasure necklace,” which Arquero described as a necklace made from all other necklaces as it is a string of unused or rejected beads.
Abby Arquero of the Cochiti and Kewa (formerly Santo Domingo) Pueblo poses wearing a traditional style shell necklace with a 1,000-year-old mosaic design and holding a contemporary piece both made by her relatives, brother-in-law and sister Orlando and Joann Crespin from Santa Fe, New Mexico. INSET: Jewelry on sale at Six Nations. PHOTOS BY CHEZNEY MARTIN
Abby Arquero, of the Cochiti and Kewa (formerly Santo Domingo) Pueblo, serves as an educator at the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) located in New Mexico as well as a director for the student exchange program between SFIS and Kawenni:io/ Gaweniyo Elementary School on Six Nations. She arrived in tow with mosaic and silver work made by her brother-inlaw Orlando Crespin and her sister Joann Crespin to sell within the Six Nations community during her visit this past week, creating a trade network of her own. “My father was a silver-smith and he taught my brother-in-law how to make jewelry,” she said. “They use a lot of turquoise in it’s raw form and they use shells too, so
shells would be cut up to fit a particular piece and beads are made from the natural resources.” Today, many artists will use modern tools for jewelry making, but the tools used by the ancient Pueblo were very similar to the tools used by the Haudenosaunee to cut and shape quahog shell if not more advanced. “I can only imagine how they did it way back then,” she said. “They mined the turquoise and they would have flat stones and actually chip away pieces and sand them down with stone. I seen it happen in my generation when I was a young girl.” Much like the Haudenosaunee and wampum jewelry, the Pueblo incorporate spinal shells, coral shells, abalone shells, obsidian, opal, onyx and
Indigenous cast including the likes of Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, and Forrest Goodluck, is Barnaby’s first feature film following Rhymes for Young Ghouls. To top it off, the film will shoot in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, Montreal and Barnaby’s hometown of Listuguj, Quebec. The film follows a zombie apocalypse with a pleasant twist for Indigenous audiences – the dead
come back to life outside of the isolated Red Crow Mi’qmaq reserve and the indigenous inhabitants are found to be immune to the zombie plague. The tribal sheriff, played by Greyeyes, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, refugees and riff raff from the reserve from the hordes of walking corpses. Production began on April 5 on a film expected to be both a timely and eerie addition to the genre.
Production begins on Indigenous horror film Blood Quantum CHEZNEY MARTIN
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MONTREAL —Prospector Films announced that principal photography for the new horror film Blood Quantum, directed by Mi’qmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, was set to commence on Monday and will continue to shoot until the end of May. The film, featuring an
turquoise to create some of the most intricate and delicate designs. Arquero said that the selling of jewelry came about in the same way that raised beadwork being sold on roadsides by Haudenosaunee women came about; from tourist interest. She explained that today some artists will supplement their income with jewelry, while others will make their entire living from the sale of their jewelry. And many artists incorporate traditional and contemporary methods including the mosaic style. “The mosaic form is old, it goes back to our ancestors that lived in places like Chaco Canyon,” she said. “During the time when the Europeans first came there were over 200 villages — now there’s
19.” In other words, more than 200 designs particular to the certain groups once existed and would come out through their artistry in jewelry. The mosaic style is also one of the most beautiful and intricate as inlays of different stone slabs lay together in patterns to form the artists design. “There’s a process in place and the artists that do the design will use traditional forms of designs or they will create their own form of designs, but they will certainly use traditional symbols. They will create a hummingbird or a butterfly, or the sun or moon symbol, the turtle, and the water symbols; the rain, the cloud, the rainbow, lightening and all other natural aspects of nature can
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influence their work.” To also enhance their regalia along with the jewelry, Arquero said that the Pueblo will use a combination of turkey, eagle and central American macaw feathers which makes their regalia colourful and bright. The use of macaw feathers also hints at more trade-routes. “Macaw feathers have always been a part of the south-west even though the resource is in Central America, so there was a definite trade route," she said. "People would come for our turquoise and the pottery and different things, and indigenous people would trade long before the Europeans came. Whether it was for things or jewelry.” Her advice in regards to purchasing Pueblo style jewelry is to seek out places that sell authentic work, and to ask the artisans questions about their experiences crafting their pieces if it isn’t specified. As well, if you purchase from an authentic artist, not only may you find a deal but you will also support them in practicing both their passion and an art form that is that of their ancestors.
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SIX NATIONS — Friday’s deadly crash involving a busload of junior hockey players hit a little to close to home for Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs general manager Brian Rizzetto and team owners Jerry Montour and Ken Hill. Riding the bus is usually one of the best and most memorable things about playing junior hockey, but in this case, it all turned tragic. “After that tragedy, I don’t think I will be quite as at ease when we get on the bus agin,” said Rizzetto, who was stunned to hear the news of the crash, saying it brought his focus even more towards the young players in his charge. “I often get on the bus and the first thing I say is, 'win, lose or whatever, let’s get home safe.' But you never know," he said. "I don’t know what happened in this case, whether the bus driver made a mistake or the truck driver.” Rizzetto has been working with and developing young hockey talent since coaching Tim Bits in the Brantford Minor Hockey system.
He had a good start into hockey, growing up next door to Wayne Gretzky and at times sharing the famous backyard rink Walter built for his boys. In the summer, it was ball hockey in the Gretzky driveway. Of course, at the time no one knew what would become of that skinny kid. Rizzetto had opportunity to talk with “the Great One” last weekend at the Masters, which he attended with Corvairs owners Jerry Montour and Ken Hill and a few others. After hearing about the accident, they kicked around some ideas about how to help. “One thing I pitched was to create a fund that would pay for the registration of 15 kids who otherwise wouldn’t be able to play,” says Rizz, as most people call him. “Kenny said there is more he wants to do but he is looking into the most effective way to help.” Rizz joined the Jr. B ranks when Hamilton businessman Nick Pellegrino bought the franchise and put it in the Brantford Civic Centre as the Brantford Golden Eagles. He served as assistant coach under NHL star Jay Wells and others and served as coach from time to time between
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2004 and 2009, but his real talent was yet to be discovered. Although he was kind of assistant coach and GM, he really didn’t have either the authority or the budget to offer young players a professional atmosphere to play in Brantford, which was a struggle. After Six Nations entrepreneurs Montour and Hill purchased the franchise, they told Pellegrino they would not be making any changes immediately, which they honoured. But they could also see there was going to have to be some changes the following year after another disappointing season. “Nick is a good person, and I have total respect for him,” says Rizz, “but I think he overestimated his hockey knowledge.” The biggest change was to give Rizzetto more responsibility and control of the team. After
playing their final season in Brantford, Hill and Montour merged with the Jr. C Caledonia Corvairs, moved the franchise to the Haldimand Centre as the Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs of the GOJHL, Jr. B’s. It was Rizzetto and head coach Mike Bullard who were given the charge of finding a new team. Although many players came to Caledonia with the franchise, Rizzetto had a blank sheet in from of him and was expected to put a winner on the ice, but more importantly, to help these young athletes find their potential in hockey. Rizzetto is proud of the part the Eagles and the Corvairs have played in nurturing NHL talent. Paul Szczechura went on to a sign with the Tampa Bay Lightning, finishing in Buffalo before playing in Europe with his brother Alex, who was also a Golden Eagle
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standout. Both Adam Henrique and Brandon Montour of the Anaheim Ducks spent time under his oversight. There are others who went on to lucrative careers in Europe as well and he could tell you stories and glories and positive traits about about pretty well every player he had a hand in developing and still sees them as his kids. Bullard, a former NHL defenceman, and Rizzetto hit it off right away, and soon they were making joint decisions regarding the team. Bullard depends on Rizzetto as much as Rizzetto leans on Bullard in making decisions that involve the on-ice team. That is the part of the job Rizzetto enjoys most. Maybe it was because of growing up next to the Gretzky’s, but Rizz developed a keen eye for talent. Those little subtleties offer a glimpse into what potential there is in a young player, but also what kind of person he is, that’s what he sees. “You look for those subtleties,” he says. “Can they skate, are they afraid, do they have a good hockey IQ? There are kids that can be good players by working with them, but there are kids, when you look at them, you know they are never going to play any
higher. I seem to have that ability to pick those kids out and I hope that always stays with me.” He is training his son Michael, who already seems to have his fathers instincts when it comes to player recruitment, and he uses him to help scout out talent. Rizz says he reached back to retrieve something his father taught him, which was that you'll only be as good on the ice as you are off the ice. “That is how I’ve tried to live my life,” he says, “and I try to pass that on to these young men.” When the 2012-13 season opened, Rizz was handed a new team, a new home city, and enough financial backing to do it right, but it’s no free ride in Caledonia. “I was told that Kenny and Jerry expect me to treat their investment like it was my own investment, and I try to do that,” he says. And that does not only mean to be responsible to the business aspect of the team, but to also be that way regarding players he will and won’t bring in. “If someone is here for the wrong reason, they won’t be here long,” says Rizzetto. CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
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Every hockey parent's worst nightmare Nation mourns after Humboldt players, team personnel killed in bus accident
not injured and RCMP is trying to piece together the circumstances of what caused the collision. The bus was T-boned by the transport at an intersection. The semi-trailer was travelling westbound on Highway 335 when it collided with the bus travelling northbound on Highway 35, according to police. News of the tragedy spread quickly throughout the sports community with condolences given to the city and the team from many circles including the NHL, MLB, and elsewhere who paid special tribute and condolence for the
Broncos before several games. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “I cannot imagine what these parents are going through, and my heart goes out to everyone affected by this terrible tragedy, in the Humboldt community and beyond.” American President Donald Trump also sent a message of condolence saying, “Just spoke to @ JustinTrudeau to pay my highest respect and condolences to the families of the terrible Humboldt Team tragedy. May God be with them all!” Several other teammates were seriously injured including Ryan Straschnitzki, who suffered a broken back, according to his father Tom. He said his son, who wasn't able to feel anything below his waist, was scheduled to undergo surgery Sunday. A GoFundMe page to collect money for families affected by the crash had raised $1 million of its $2-million goal by 2 p.m. Saturday, 18 hours after it was created. That total has since risen to over $7 million and continues to grow rapidly.
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after a league-leading 38 points in the regular season with 19 wins and only one loss. They were led last year by Layne Smith with an amazing 112 points in 20 games, but something went sideways in the playoffs. But that was then and this is now and the new Rebels are ready to show Six Nations what they have.
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HUMBOLDT, SASK. — Every sports parent’s nightmare became a horrific reality Friday evening in Saskatchewan. A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos Jr. hockey team was involved in a deadly crash with a transport truck on their way to a playoff game. The semi-trailer reportedly T-boned the passenger bus carrying the Humboldt Jr. Broncos about 18 miles north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan. To date 15 players, coaches, staff and a Humboldt sports reporter died in the crash. Others remain in serious condition. The Broncos includes 24 players, all from Western Canada, ranging in age from 16 to 21. Head coach Darcy Haugan died with the members of his team. There were 28 on board and no one escaped without injury, some of them remain in serious condition in hospital. A couple were released Sunday. To see the wreckage it is hard to believe anyone escaped with their lives. The cause of the crash was not yet known, and the driver of the
The Humboldt Broncos were heading to Game 5 of their playoff series against the Nipawin Hawks in the Western Hockey League. They never made it. On Friday evening, their bus was T-boned by a transport truck, killing 15 team members, including 10 players and five team personnel, and seriously injuring several others. PHOTO BY X
semi-trailer was not killed. "This tragedy has hit a number of people, not just us, but I think everybody can relate to this experience," said Humboldt Mayor Rob Muench. "Throughout Canada we see teams going out into the Canadian winters on buses all the time, and it's always a thought in parents' and fans' minds about what can happen and unfortunately has happened here." The Broncos were travelling to Nipawin Sask. to face the Hawks for Game 5 of the SJHL semifinals. The driver of the semi was
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SIX NATIONS — The Six Nations Rebels open their 2018 Jr. B lacrosse season Friday night, April 13th at the ILA at 8 pm against the Hamilton Bengals. This year’s journey began where last year’s journey ended, on Sunday, July 30,
2017, when the Orangeville Northmen eliminated the Rebels from the playoffs. The Rebels will be looking for a return to the run of an unprecedented four Founders Cups between 2011 and 2014. They also held the Cup in 2007 and 2008, with the very first Founders Cup coming to Six Nations in 1997.
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“We are looking for quality kids to play here. Take sticks, for instance. These things are $200 to $250 each. If someone breaks his stick playing the game, blocking a shot or taking one, he will have another one in his hands in five seconds. "But if you break it over the cross bar or the boards because you're angry or something, you buy your own.” “It’s such a supportive atmosphere here with Kenny and Jerry supporting my decisions, a great volunteer staff that supports the team, we are all supportive of “Bully” (Mike Bullard). It’s all about respect.” Again, with the recent tragedy in Saskatchewan in mind, Rizzetto wanted to make certain that people know that their team bus is regularly maintained and inspected for the player’s safety. The combination seems to be working. The Corvairs have already won this year’s Golden Horseshoe Conference Championship and are heading into the Sutherland Cup semi-finals this week. They have won three
straight Sutherland Cups from 2014 to 2016, losing a heartbreaker last year, but are favoured to win it back in 2018. OHA SEMI-FINAL SCHEDULE
The Caledonia Pro-Fit Corvairs are still little banged up, but the battle for the Sutherland Cup continues Wednesday at the Haldimand Centre at 7:30, against the Elmira Sugar Kings. The Corvairs swept Fort Erie, went five with Niagara Falls and swept St. Catharines to get to the Kings. In the B series, it’s the London Nationals and the Listowel Cyclones going at it with the winners of the two to meet for the Sutherland Cup. Game 1 Wed. Ap. 11, Elmira @ Caledonia Game 2 Thurs. Ap. 12, Caledonia @ Elmira Game 3 Sat. Ap. 14, Elmira @ Caledonia Game 4 Sun. Ap. 15, Caledonia @ Elmira *Game 5 Wed. Ap. 18, Elmira @ Caledonia *Game 6 Fri. Ap. 20, Caledonia @ Elmira *Game 7 Sat. Ap. 21, Elmira @ Caledonia * if necessary
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ANAHEIM — Brantford’s Adam Henrique closed out the 2017-18 regular season for the Anaheim Ducks with his 24th goal and 26th assist in defeating the Arizona Coyotes 3-0 Saturday night in Glendale Arizona.
Six Nations’ Brandon Montour goes into the playoffs having had a successful regular season with nine goals and 23 assists for the defenceman. The San Jose Sharks will face the Ducks in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The Ducks are coming into the playoffs hot after a five-game winning streak finished off the regular season.
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The Haldimand Huskies U15 Boys rep team took home gold at the Midget “A” Boys Basketball Tournament with a 52-39 win over their Ontario Basketball League rivals, the North York Avengers. Going into the tournament ranked third in their OBL division, the Huskies started their tournament with a one-point loss 55-56 to North York on April 6, before starting a four game run by defeating Niagara Falls in their second pool game on April 7. Sylas Brown had a big defensive game for the Huskies with three blocked shots and 11 rebounds. The win put them on to the quarter finals against Sudbury, where the Huskies dominated with a 51-35 victory. Point guard Nicolai Niare played a standout game in the win. Haldimand's bid for the team’s first provincial tournament title win advanced with a 45-39 win over the Peterborough Power club in the semifinals. The Peterborough squad was the number one-ranked team in their OBL division going into the tournament and the Huskies handed them their second loss in as many meetings – Peterborough’s only losses this season thus far. The Huskies were led to their two Saturday wins by substitute parent coaches Frank Di Giula and Eden Veluz. Huskies coach Fred Owens said the team went into the tournament with much they same plan of attack as they have had all season. “Game plan for this team has always been man to man defence, and push the pace. I know that we can outrun and outlast any team, so if we got out and transitioned quick it would be good for us,” Owen said.
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Grade 9 power forward Ty Hodgins had a standout second game on Saturday night, and said the tournament win was sweet for this team. “This is our second season as a team, and we’ve worked hard to get where we are," he said. "Our big men really stepped up this weekend, but all of our guys came to play. We just focused on our game plan like we’ve practiced and it paid off.” The final game, though higher scoring, was again a defensive battle, with lots of action under the boards for rebounds. North York’s shooting accuracy kept it close through the first half, but ultimately couldn’t keep up to the Huskies run and gun pace, as the Huskies tallied 35 points while allowing only 15 points for the Avengers through periods 2 and three, leaving the Huskies up 39-28 at the end of three quarters. Huskies’ offence relied mainly on big men Cole Vandonkersgoed and Hagwas Hill, who combined for over half of the Huskies points, while also providing strong rebounding for the squad. Foul trouble hurt the Huskies late in the game, with the Avengers putting
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up 11 to the Huskies 13 in the fourth, but it was too little too late, and the Huskies managed to hold on for the win with a final score of 52-39. Huskies head coach Dave Kenyon said he’s proud of how the team played and has come together off the court. “I’m so proud of these guys. This is a U15 team that’s made up of grade 7, 8, and 9 kids, and one grade 6, playing against all grade 9 teams. The fact that these guys can compete and win at a provincial level is credit to their hard work as a team.” With six of 12 players potentially returning next season, Kenyon said the Huskies are poised to build on this year’s success. “Next year we have a good group of guys who can still play U15 … and then we’ll bring in hopefully some new players and we’ll be back,” Kenyon said. “We’re going to refocus, re-energize and hopefully contend for that provincial title next year.” As for their seniors, Kenyon said he feels good about the crop of players set to move up next season. “Our big men are moving up a level, so we also have a core of U16 players that we’d like to build a team around,” he said. “By drawing from Caledonia, Six Nations, Hagersville, and the rest of Haldimand, I’d love to see the Huskies field a team at the U16 level.” Kenyon also said that girls rep basketball would a great addition to the community.
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mine the archives to deepen their understanding, while others can get a basic grasp of the events and begin having a discussion on the implications for First Nations communities today, he said. ``We have a lot to do as a society to create the knowledge base and understanding of all of these circumstances that will
really give us the capability to have informed and thoughtful discussions and to get to better places,'' Kesler said. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg opened in Nov. 2015. The University of B.C. announced it wanted to open a complementary West Coast centre that
would give local survivors a space to gather and share their stories and also support collaborative research. When the centre opens on Monday, UBC president Santa Ono is expected to deliver a statement of apology for the university's involvement in the system that supported the operation of residential
schools. B.C.'s Advanced Education Minister Melanie Mark said the opening of the centre is an example of ``reconciliation in action.'' Helping the public understand this history provides context for current issues facing Indigenous people such as the overrepresentation of children in government care from their communities and the urgency to document languages that are dying out, Mark said. ``I want people to be talking about this so that we don't repeat history,'' she said. The centre also has personal significance for Mark, who had three grandparents forced to attend residential schools. ``Canada has gone through great lengths to kill the Indian in the child and we have to fight back,'' she said, adding that she wore her grandmother's regalia during the government swearing in ceremony as a symbol that First Nations people are still here. Cindy Tom-Lindley, executive director of the Indian Residential School Survivor Society, said having stories of survivors heard and believed also offers validation and contributes to their healing process. ``A big part of the residential school trauma was that no one was allowed
her abuse began at age three. ``At the age of 11 to 12 years old, six of us girls were sold into the sex trade work,'' said Williams, who is now 60. ``As many of you know, I don't wear shorts very often, because I have cigarette burns all through my legs right up to my back. ... This is what we endured. We were just kids.'' Metro Vancouver's hearings on Sunday were the last that were sched-
uled for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, though other participants will continue to testify in private. The inquiry was established by the federal government in 2015 to investigate the disproportionately high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and to give family members a chance to have their stories
heard. Williams, who says she lost three sisters and her mother to murder, told the commissioners she's tired of seeing elders at food banks and unanswered calls for things like health, healing and wellness centres. ``Why has it taken over 4,000 women and girls' names to secure and still keep asking the same questions,'' she said. She said it's time to stem a tide of lateral
violence _ in which people in need fight amongst one another instead of against systemic problems. Audrey Siegl of the Musqueam First Nation described for the inquiry a close and loving relationship with her grandmother, who raised her, but also said she was punished harshly to prepare her for the toughness of the world. ``I don't cry for me. What happened, happened. But what had to
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VANCOUVER — Many university students don't know the history of Indigenous people in Canada, let alone the implications of the residential school system, but a director at the University of British Columbia says a new history centre will help bridge that knowledge gap. The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre opening Monday at the university will house archival photos, maps and personal accounts of survivors collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The digital materials will be available for survivors, their families, students and the general public to access. ``Now that the commission is over, all of that history and everything that began as the discussions of the TRC is at risk of simply not being sustained or moving forward,'' said Linc Kesler, the director of the First Nations House of Learning at the university. Kesler said the centre was designed to break the historical pattern of the public being left unaware of the abuses committed at residential schools. Those who already know the history can also
The history centre was designed to break the historical pattern of the public being left unaware of the abuses committed at residential schools. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
to talk about (it) and the horrific things that happened,'' she said. Tom-Lindley attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School over three dispersed years, beginning when she was eight years old. She said she didn't talk about the experience until she testified during an independent assessment process hearing held when she was in her late 50s. ``Within my community, we can still see those impacts and we deal with them all the time,'' she said. Tom-Lindley never learned the languages of her First Nations' grandparents because her mother feared she'd be beaten in residential school if she did, she said. She struggles with that loss of culture that her children could never learn either. Educating the public about residential schools isn't about blaming, she added, but tackling stereotypes against Indigenous people and creating greater empathy among the rest of Canadians. Tom-Lindley said although the trauma of the residential school system is felt even by younger generations who weren't enrolled, she sees improvements. ``My grandchildren are now learning the language in school. That's a message of hope,'' she said.
happen to my grammy that, tiny little me, she was able to do that to tiny little me,'' Siegl said. Chief Commissioner Marion Buller has said the inquiry needs more time, telling The Canadian Press on Friday that the inquiry has enough material to produce a report but it will only scratch the surface of the issues. Commissioners asked the federal government last month for a two-year extension.
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VANCOUVER — A longtime advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women told her own story of abuse on the last scheduled day of public hearings for a national inquiry. Bernie Williams, who has fought for women on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for 30 years, said
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RICHMOND, BC — Some of those who have told their harrowing stories at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls have since redoubled that courage by taking their complaints to police, getting treatment, or reuniting with family, said the head of the inquiry. Marion Buller told the Canadian Press that the inquiry's value is that respect is too great to be calculated. ``We are hearing on an individual basis wonderful healing and personal growth as a result of coming to the national inquiry,'' she said last week. Nearly 100 people had registered to testify at the final set of public hearings being held in Metro Vancouver and as many as 300 statements were expected to be gathered. Buller said it has not been easy for survivors of violence and their families to retread old wounds and
Marion Buller says some witnesses at the national inquiry have been empowered to go to police or seek treatment.
share their stories, but they remain committed to making the truth known. ``The way they can get up in the morning and go about their daily lives after what they've endured, it's amazing and it speaks to our grace and our strength and our beauty as Indigenous people that we're still here and thriving,'' she said. Trudy Smith recounted
the physical and sexual abuse she endured at a Vancouver Island residential school while testifying last Friday. Smith said she wanted to speak out not just for herself, but to demand justice for her sister, Pauline Johnson, whose mutilated body was found by police in Port Coquitlam 33 years ago. Her sister's murder
remains unsolved, and little information was ever given to the family about the investigation, Smith said. ``There has to be people who are willing to be strong to help us, to solve the cases,'' she said. ``I'm not giving up on this.'' Smith said she had the opportunity for some vindication in the 1990s, testifying against one of her
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abusers, a serial sex offender, who was convicted and sentenced to prison. ``I did fight, and I'm here today,'' Smith said. ``I just want all our voices to be heard. We have the right to be heard about what happened to us.'' Buller said the inquiry has been an opportunity for those testifying to rewrite history that has long been
suppressed in Canada. Canadians are led to believe that as a nation we are kind and generous, but the truth about our history and treatment of Indigenous people suggests otherwise, Buller said. Indigenous people have endured hundreds of years of systemic discrimination and racist policies, and the affects are still felt today, she said. Remote communities continue to lack resources such as health care and they experience high turnover of social workers and police. The lack of support poses safety risks for the people in those communities, Buller said. ``Now Canadians are learning how Indigenous women and girls have to live in their own country and I think that is critical.'' The number of Canadians that have contacted the inquiry with interest in learning about violence and fear that have plagued Indigenous women and girls is heartening, Buller said, adding that by understanding the past, Canada will be able to move forward.
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The Stanley jurors were not challenged for cause; that is, they were not screened for racial bias. There was not even a challenge based on exposure to pre-trial publicity, which would have included the racially charged nature of the case. Moreover, in his instructions to the jury, the trial judge gave the Stanley jurors the standard instruction about the need to be impartial. He did not specifically address bias against Indigenous peoples and how that could contaminate their assessment of the evidence. In Williams, the Supreme Court held that ``the potential for prejudice is increased by the failure of the trial judge to instruct the jury to set aside any racial prejudices that they might have against Aboriginals.'' Similarly, in R v Barton, a case involving a white accused and an Indigenous victim, the Alberta Court of Appeal stated: "Nor is there any reasonable chance for jurors to discharge their duties impartially if trial judges fail to warn them about relying on improper myths and stereotypes when jurors have been implicitly or explicitly invited to do just that. ... "[T]here still remains an undeniable need for judges to ensure that the criminal law is not tainted by pernicious and unfair assumptions ... about ... Aboriginal people ... Failing to meet that need can undermine the jurors' ability to apply the law objectively and correctly." In Stanley, such an invitation came from the racial dynamics of the case and jury selection. In addition, two Indigenous witnesses were cross-examined on their criminal
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Outside of nullification, the only explanation for the acquittal for murder and manslaughter was that the jury had a doubt based on Stanley's testimony. He testified that his finger was not on the trigger when his gun went off as it was facing Boushie's head (that is, he claimed it to be an accident and not an intentional act) and that he reasonably believed the gun was empty (i.e. no negligence). In support of his testimony, Stanley relied on a phenomenon known as ``hang fire'' – a delay between the pulling of the trigger and the gun firing. In this case, there was a significant delay between when Stanley said he last pulled the trigger as part of a series of warning shots and when the gun fired the fatal shot. That period of time included him taking out the magazine, getting to the car, reaching in to move a metal object and then across the steering wheel to turn off the ignition. There was no expert evidence to corroborate that this length of delay was possible. Both the Crown and defence experts testified that the gun was functioning properly, not prone to misfires and that hang fires are exceptionally rare. According to the Crown expert, any delay is usually less than half a second. Instead, the defence relied on two lay witnesses who testified about their experience with similar delays with different guns. One of them, who approached the defence to offer his story during the trial, testified about his experience 40 years ago while gopher hunting.
Despite serious questions surrounding the admissibility of this evidence, the Crown did not object. So how could this flawed evidence and spectacularly problematic hang fire accident defence become believable or raise a reasonable doubt? The most reasonable answer lies in the failure of the trial process to safeguard against racial bias. That failure likely opened the door to a dulling of the jurors' critical thinking skills. As the late law professor Andrew Taslitz noted in his work on racism and decision-making, ``racial features trigger an unconscious process of stereotyping and selective inattention'' that can lead fact-finders to ``more likely conclude that such flawed evidence is in fact credible.''
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Moving forward, there is much work to be done. I am part of a group of academics who have come together to examine the trial and better understand and explain to the public what likely happened. We plan to make recommendations for change. It is imperative that other justice officials including the RCMP, Crown prosecutors and the judiciary do the same. Meaningful reform to address the process failures in this case and to ensure that they don't happen again requires all of these actors to confront the question raised here in a constructive manner. David M Tanovich is a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Read the original article at www. theconversation.com.
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Passed away on Monday April 9, 2018 at the age of 65 years. Loving father of Derek, Melissa, Dan, and Ashtynn. Dear Papa of Laila, Kierah, Chloe, Ryan, Stella, William, Luke, Kristen, Ava and Jake. Son of the late Betty & Harold Martin. Brother of Sher Miller, Guy Martin, and the late Larry Martin. Peter will also be remembered and sadly missed by his nieces, nephews, cousins, friends. The family will honour his life with visitation at the Grand River United Church, 1585 Mohawk Road, Ohsweken on Thursday from 6-9 p.m. where funeral service and burial will be held on Friday April 13, 2018 at 10 a.m. www.rhbanderson.com
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I would like to send a very big THANK YOU to the Dreamcatcher Fund for the support. My 2017/18 Atom Rep season was great!! I had a lot of fun this season. J. Vinnai
In Memoriam Memoriam Hubbert, Laura Mae (nee: Davis) In loving memory of our dear Sister and best Friend who passed away April 13, 2016.
We can't have the good old days back like when we were all together. But secret tears and loving thoughts will be with us forever. We miss you in so many ways we miss the things you used to say and do. We miss your smile, your laughter, your hugs and kisses. And when old times do recall, it is then we miss you most of all. Our family chain has broken and nothing seems the same. But as God calls us one by one, our chain will link again.
Lovingly remembered and sadly missed Your Sisters Sharon, Marilyn, Nance, Elda and Families.
Notice St. Peters Join us for the Last service of the season for St. Peters Anglican Church on Sunday April 15, 2018 at 10 AM.
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Memoriam Hubbert, Laura Mae (nee: Davis) In loving memory of my beautiful Mother who passed away April 13, 2016.
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I am sending a dove to Heaven with a parcel on its wings. Be careful when you open it It's full of beautiful things. Inside are a million kisses wrapped up in a million hugs. To say how much I miss you and to send you all my love. I hold you close within my heart and there you will remain To walk with me throughout my life until we meet again.
Love you forever Mom and sadly missed. Your loving Son Dwayne and Pauline.
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April APRIL 11th, 11TH, 2018 2018
CLUES ACROSS 1. Upon 4. Roman Statesman 8. A protective covering worn over the face 10. Perfected 11. British school 12. Colored with red powder 13. Tivoli 15. What bowlers hope to knock down 16. Finnish lake 17. Damaged regions of tissue 18. World-renowned guitarist 21. Political action committee 22. Oxygen reduction system 23. Part of a circle 24. Italian monk’s title 25. Kidney problem (abbr.) 26. One point east (clockwise) of due north 27. Home to a world famous bay 34. Mollusk 35. Large nest of a bird of prey 36. Predict 37. Reconnaissance 38. Move in a particular direction 39. Cut with a tool 40. True firs 41. Heaven’s opposite 42. Employed 43. “Partridge Family” actress Susan CLUES DOWN 1. Induces vomiting 2. Gloss or sheen on wood furniture
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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 A solid week is ahead for you, Aries. However, some surprises can pop up on a day when you need a little extra sunshine in the routine. Embrace the unexpected. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, your relations with authority figures are very good right now. Do your best to maintain this both in the short- and long-term. You will benefit from having done so.
GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, a surprise invitation may come your way this week. You aren’t sure if you have the time or the gumption to accept at this point. But give ample thought to accepting.
CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, even though you may want to spend time at home — and maybe make a cocoon under the covers — there are some things you need to face if you are going to move forward.
3. Meteorological line 4. Help shoppers save money 5. Heart condition 6. What tweens become 7. __ and ends 9. Small knob 10. Island capital 12. Refinisher 14. Brazilian city 15. Pearl Jam’s debut 17. Resinous substance of an insect 19. Stretched out 20. Bag-like structure in a plant or animal
Answers for April 11, 2018 Crossword Puzzle
23. Reference works 24. Hoover’s office 25. Confused 26. The Science Guy 27. A young woman 28. Used to express good wishes 29. Body part 30. Draw blood 31. Curved 32. __ Kidman, actress 33. Profoundly 34. Fools 36. Wife (German)
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LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, you are full of clever ideas that you are eager to share with coworkers and people at home. Pace yourself so you don’t overwhelm others with information.
VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, an opportunity to earn more money will catch your eye this week. Even if it seems a little risky, it could be well worth pursuing. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 This can be a fun-loving week for you, Libra, if you embrace the opportunities for letting loose. You may feel impulsive, and that’s okay in moderation. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, home repairs and renovations are on the brain. You are ready to pour your energy into changing your home spaces for the better. Start making an idea board.
SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, a very fast-paced week is ahead. The good news is that any related unpleasantness will move by quickly, and you can focus on enjoying the fun parts.
CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, work relationships can be unpredictable, which means you may need to reevaluate your approach. A change in tone or direction may be all that’s needed. AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, travel plans can change on a dime, but you are adaptable. It’s not the destination, but the journey. Take someone along for the ride.
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