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OHSWEKEN — The Six Nations of the Grand River’s Dialysis Unit will be receiving 11 new power recliners for patients. Six Nations Health Foundation’s Roger Jonathan presented a cheque for $10,000 to the Six Nations Elected Council at General Council on Tuesday evening. The funds will be used to purchase two Lumex Powered Bariatric Recliners. The new high powered recliners are power operated, can fully recline and accommodate patients up to 700 pounds. Multiple reclining positions will allow healthcare providers in the

Dialysis Unit at Six Nations Health Services’ White Pines Wellness Centre to properly position their patients and are equipped with a rechargeable battery pack for emergency operation during a power failure. Six Nations Elected Council will kick in funding to purchase an additional 9 Connect power operated recliner chairs at a cost of $86,517.00. The Ohsweken Dialysis Unit opened in 2010 and began as a 12-station dialysis satellite unit for the Chronic Kidney Disease Program at St. Joseph's Healthcare. The program offers culturally safe intervention care for those patients from the community and surrounding area who need to access dialysis locally, up to 6 days a week.

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OHSWEKEN — Six Nations Elected Council heard discussions with the Economic Development Trust and the Six Nations Community Trust to find out ways the three entities can work together to better provide access to community members seeking funding. The council was seeking a solution to why several applications have been returned rejected. Councillor Dave Hill commented that he doesn’t agree with the process being exempt for individuals who have a need and that the funds in those accounts should be open to all people of the community for whatever needs they may have. Currently the Community Development Trust has one application annually that distributes $800,000.

However the trust has $15.5 million dollars. Councillors wanted to know why the distribution is only giving out $800,000 in light of how many large community needs there are. Trust representative Kevin Martin said the trust has distributed $17.5 million since its inception in 2004. The Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation’s Economic Development Trust received $24.3 million in requests in the three years it’s been in operation. To date, EDT Board member Rachel Martin says they have distributed $9 million in 2016, $3.5 million in 2017 and $2.5 million in 2018 to successful applicants. Elected councillor Melba Thomas asked the trust representatives present if HDI was invited to contribute and join in conversations with the two trusts to

make money available for community members. Rachel Martin said HDI’s finance board Ogwawista Dedwasnye was invited to participate but said they are “still young” and don’t have public application processes in place yet for community members to access funds held in trust for the people. The elected council heard concerns about the application process from community members gathered at Tuesday’s General Council meeting — several expressing ideas that the application process is complex and that funding isn’t easily reaching community organizations needs. The council voted to work together with the two trusts to try to streamline the policies that govern funding processes to increase accessibility to funds for community members and organizations with needs.

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Is the Elected Council turning Six Nations into a municipality? NAHNDA GARLOW

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In 2018, a list of the most popular indigenous personalities on Twitter was published by opencanada.org. The list, dubbed ‘Twitterati: the Indigenous Voices edition’, named the top 100 indigenous people contributing to discussions on the social media platform. Included were notable advocates, academia, politicians, media and organizations that contribute to the discussions surrounding indigenous issues in Canada. In general, these are the people to follow to get involved in the conversations of things that are important to indigenous people. Facebook is a different beast altogether. There is no “Facebookerati”. It is a longer, slower brewed cup of commentary in contrast to Twitter’s 144 character quips. Facebook has stirred controversy worldwide over it’s corporate lack of responsibility for the drama it has brought to politics. That is playing out here at Six Nations as well. On the positive side Facebook relationships among indigenous people in Canada was the springboard that took the Idle No More movement from a few mothers with posters to a nationwide resurgence of indigenous activism. On the downside Facebook unites those who share bigoted ideals about white supremacy and anti-immigration sentiments to allow them to organize

and assemble their people as well. Facebook has proven itself to be the omnibus of misinformation that we’ve all travelled in down the road to polarization — even here on Six. One only has to be mildly connected to Rez politics to recognize the platform has been the jumping off point for multiple community disputes, fuelled by gossiping keyboard warriors armed with their opinions, the cloak of inbox messages and able to call in support with the click of a tag. Ganging up on people is very easy and often relied upon in Facebook political fights. In media they call this the ‘echochamber’ — the place where one is preaching to the choir and repeating the same ideas to already same minded people. Collectively, groups can fall deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of misinformation, what-ifs and what-aboutisms — and before you know it you’ve created a monster of misinformation. One new discussion that is slinging mud at the Elected Council these days on Six Nations social media is that the SNEC has plans to turn the reserve into a municipality and will soon charge taxes. To be fair that is an old narrative that seems to be re-emerging, with a little bit of weight coming from Trudeau’s new suspicious looking Indigenous Rights Framework seeking to replace the Indian Act. I haven’t seen any sources backing up the claim that SNEC is going to “turn us into a municipality” — but is

there some clout to this claim? Is Six on it’s way to becoming a municipality? Let’s unpack some facts. Six Nations is a now a reserve. Technically it is called Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve #40. But before it was a reserve, it was a municipality. Prior to the Indian Act turning our geographical area into a reserve — way back to the 1700’s — Six Nations Indians occupied land on the Haldimand Tract made up of three low-tier municipalities: Tuscarora Township, Onondaga Township and Oneida Township. In the 1800s the greater area was amalgamated and became Brant County. According to Six Nations Lands and Resources Lonny Bomberry Six Nations is still identified by it’s Townships —so terminology wise we are technically still made up of low tier municipalities. However, with the Indian Act came a formal articulation from Canada’s side that we were now “Indians as defined by the Indian Act”, that we would live on reservations, and that while living on those reservations we would have tax free “rights” as Indians. So the municipality lingo of Tuscarora, Oneida and Onondaga was kind of overshadowed by this new articulation that we are a reservation. Tax free status on reserve is seen from two vantage points. From an indigenous perspective we hold tax free rights because of our sovereignty. Hard stop. But from the perspective of Canada we retain that right because of two things: section

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87 of the Indian Act, and additionally band councils are entitled to register for tax free status via paragraph 149 of the Income Tax Act.

While the Indian Act provides tax free status as individual band members — to goods provided on reserve, the income tax act provides tax exemption for “a public body performing a function of government”. In a letter from the Canada Revenue Agency in 2016, federal officials verify that Indian bands were created by the Indian Act, and from the federal governments perspective are recognized under the Income Tax Act as “a municipality or a municipal or public body performing a function of government”. When changes to the Income Tax Act came around in 2012, hundreds of band councils across Canada registered for the tax free status as “donees” that the Act now provided them. This did not mean they were registering as municipalities but that the federal government would allow them to receive donations in the same way as charities do — and allow them to distribute tax receipts — keeping the band councils free from income tax. That 2016 letter, however, clarified that the reason the federal government recognized band councils as public bodies was because “these bands of First Nations may be able to levy property taxes and create by-laws that affect its members. …the very nature of an Indian band and its council under

the Indian Act is that of a local government, similar in nature to a municipality.” So to be clear — it seems the CRA sees reserves as ‘municipal-like’ entities with the ability to create taxes — while band councils across the country seem to agree that they are the administrative governing bodies of sovereign indigenous communities historically rooted to traditional territories. The fear mongering of late that Six Nations is about to turn into a municipality seems to be rooted in concern that Six Nations residents may be forced to pay taxes to a provincial or federal political system that they may or may not believe in. According to a number of current sitting Six Nations Elected Councillors that is not factual. The current council says they have no desire to become a municipality, nor want to establish taxes on residents. Another point of fear mongering is circling around the Cannabis Law, people citing that the required 8% of sales contribution that is required to go back to the community is, in effect, a tax. Again, officials with SNEC say it is not a tax, but a fee participants in the cannabis industry on Six Nations will pay to the Cannabis Control Commission, with funds likely to be used to assist with policing and other community driven initiatives that

are yet to be determined. There is a natural inclination, unfortunately, to not trust one another in our community because of a shared history of feeling like your voice is not being heard. This was something that was supported by the SNEC’s hasty passing of the Cannabis Law at an impromptu Elected Council meeting and a lack of planning for making that decision making process open to the public. On this matter, the Elected Council made a big mistake that tarnished the restorative work they did during community consultations on the Cannabis law. In light of this, it is understandable to doubt the process going forward. However, those mistakes are not evidence that the current sitting elected councillors, who are all Six Nations residents and Haudenosaunee people, are making steps to abandon income tax protections for residents. It is also not proof that the 12 Haudenosaunee men and women who sit on the elected council are part of a secret evil assimilationist agenda. That belief inherently discredits the power we as individual band members and Haudenosaunee people have over our own destiny. If you have concerns or comments, or even information to contrast the above — feel free to email it to editor@tworowtimes. com.

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Column: Thunder Woman Speaks

The original laws and teachings of this land are instilled in our blood memory and DNA The voice of the first people is not only in print, media or communications that are discernable by mainstream measurements. The voice of the first people is the land. The voice of the first people is the water. The voice of the first people stretches centuries back to our creation stories. It is a voice that resounds with power and strength on this land. When Jody Wilson Raybould evoked the words of the true Indigenous laws of this land, these words resonated into the cosmos. Initial reactions from Mainstream media were the incredulity at what Wilson Raybould shared with the justice committee. Very quickly, global media sources were quoting this event. An Indigenous woman, originally from the west coastal people was delivering in the Canadian House of Commons a lesson on what the “rule of law” actually meant. She did not get this understanding from her undergrad or degree from mainstream institutions. Jody Wilson Raybould reminded the world and herself that the original laws and teachings of her own people are instilled within her own blood memory and DNA. Global media focused

on the past corruption of a global corporate actor, the placement of deferred prosecution agreement, or remediation agreement in an omnibus bill, and the unwillingness of a Liberal cabinet to lose footing or seats in the province of Quebec. The corruption of a Liberal or Conservative government is not something new to the First Nations or people like Jody Wilson Raybould have had to encounter. In 2012, the Conservative sitting federal government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth an omnibus bill where they attacked the protection of waters and also, hidden in this legislation was also an amendment to land surrenders or designations on reserve. But Harper’s Bill C-38 had one positive outcome. It united the indigenous people in Canada and launched the IdleNoMore movement. Similarly, with Jody Wilson Raybould, there is an “indigenous take” on her testimony. The most important factor was not the fact that the Liberals were guilty of some serious corporate cronyism. The most important factor was that after 152 years, a sitting member of the white Canadian parliament had not followed the rule of whiteman made

law. Jody Wilson Raybould quoted her own experiential learning, the laws of the Big House and her position as a matriarch and truth-teller. This action by Jody Wilson Raybould was heard, not only by the Indigenous people throughout this land called Canada;

know the place name and the stories of this place and the power that still lives. The difference in our memories and the difference in our history, means the application of law will be different for the Indigenous and the non-native who are guests in this land.

Integrity cannot be taught. Integrity must come from within and must be supported by the systems that exist around a person. the land, itself, heard her words. Our ancestors are in this land. The relationship between the Indigenous and the land is absolute. Repeated attempts to explain the spiritual significance and cosmic connection that the original people have in this territory falls deafly on mainstream ears. The Indigenous “anthropomorphize” tangible objects. Mainstream sees a tree and a specific land area in monetary terms. The Indigenous sees the same tree, but they see the places where our people took shade or sheltered. The Indigenous

This is the conflict between Mainstream and the Indigenous. This is why there can be no reconciliation. For the Indigenous to reconcile, they have the option of assimilating into the larger society and becoming “equal” to the non-native so that they can finally take up their roles as “Canadians”. The indigenous must come to see the tree as just a tree with a price tag or a value attached. If the Indigenous cannot see this tree like a commodity, they have a second option. This option is to maintain their Indigenous teachings and

understanding and to go forward until the larger society begins to reconcile their view with our understanding. Jody Wilson Raybould has opened this doorway. Only after the initial fray, mainstream media began to write that Jody’s words returned her to her teachings as a Kwakwaka’wakw person. Therefore the heart of democracy and the noble action Jody Wilson Raybould took in not acquiescing to party pressure came from who she is as a person. Integrity cannot be taught. Integrity must come from within and must be supported by the systems that exist around a person. In the Indigenous systems, there is respect for all life, because the Indigenous understand the Creator, the Great Mystery has made all things. There is no hierarchy of animals, rocks or water, there is only existence and co-existence. In this system, if you value or respect the land, the waters, the animals, the plants and all things, you have innate respect before any other measurable. Where is the integrity in the non-native system? With technology, humans separate themselves from each other and from the natural world. With this

separation, there is no connection, no reminder and no awe for the wonders of this world. Within the mainstream system, there are false examples of integrity like returning a lost wallet. If there is money involved, and money is measured, then there is integrity in this action. When the newcomers to this land begin to operate in a system of interconnected understanding, they too will begin to understand what integrity means. It is standing at the edge of headwaters, looking at the mountains and seeing a line of shadowed ancestors, praying and resting in the foothills. It is in seeing a grizzly bear show its young how to push over trees in an area that has always been where the grizzlies go to dance. It is returning to the places where salmon swim against the current to reach their destination with determination and glory. It is in the comforting winds that gently rock babies to sleep in their swings. All these things do not cost and have no “apparent” monetary value. The value is in the eternal song of life that continues because of the respect, the integrity and the love each part shares for the other. It is in the Indigenous law of this land.

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The Grand River Post Secondary Education Office is accepting tenders for a person to do cleaning and janitorial duties. Frequency: 2 days per week Start Date: April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2021 Experience: Experience an asset Work Setting: Office building Duties: • Sweep and mop floors • Dust furniture/window sills • Vacuum carpeting, area rugs, draperies and upholstered furniture • Clean and disinfect bathrooms and fixtures • Clean and disinfect all door handles and light switches • Empty trash containers • Wash windows • Wax and polish floors If interested in viewing the office, please contact Susan Hill at (519) 445-2219. Please submit a quote to: Grand River Post Secondary Education Office P.O. Box 339 2160 4th Line Rd. Ohsweken, ON N0A 1M0 The successful candidate must provide a police check. Deadline Date: March 22, 2019 at 4 PM.

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Indigenous nations say movement to end 'redface' is slow CANADIAN PRESS

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FLAGSTAFF, AZ — John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of the past: the Indian maiden on the butter container at the grocery store, the kids' teepees sold at popular retailers and the sports fans with their faces painted doing tomahawk chops at games. But he doesn't hear widespread outrage over these images that many Native Americans find offensive, even as the country has spent most of the year coming to grips with blackface and racist imagery following the revelation of a racist photo on the Virginia governor's college yearbook page. Since then, new examples have surfaced regularly, most recently a TV host who painted her face brown in a parody of Oscar-nominated Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio. ``These are everyday realities for Native people,'' said Little, a Standing Rock Sioux tribal member. Redface may get less attention because of ingrained misconceptions and feelings of entitlement to Native American culture and land, scholars say. Native Americans also are a relatively small group, making up less than 2 per cent of the U.S. population. Blacks, by comparison, make up around 13 per cent. Convincing the masses that stereotyping Native Americans as savage, ignorant or humourless is insulting has been a slow movement, scholars say, and one they aren't sure will gain steam. Throughout America's history, people have donned redface, worn fringe and feathers, and spoken in broken English as they ``played'' or portrayed Native Americans in theatre, film and everyday life. In one of the earliest examples, colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped tea into the Boston harbour in 1773 in protest of British rule. Early settlers wanted to take what they saw as the best values of Native

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Americans while simultaneously seizing the land and destroying tribal communities, scholars say. Part of that was a desire to be seen as indigenous to the new land. Secret societies based on Native American symbols, customs and terminology formed and still exist, such as the Improved Order of Red Men and the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow. Waves of Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s sought to align themselves with Native Americans, whom they saw as fellow displaced people, dressing up as and singing songs about being Native American while belittling them to be socially accepted, said Peter Antelyes, an associate professor in English and Jewish studies at Vassar College. Philip J. Deloria, a Harvard University history professor and author of ``Playing Indian,'' said Native Americans also were hypersexualized and depicted as cannibals. One famous political cartoon shows European nations lifting up the skirt of a Native American woman to reveal the newfound land, suggesting both were open to the desires of men, he said. The Last of the Mohicans, published in 1826, furthered those depictions and stereotypes, as did Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, Deloria said. Some actors later playing Native Americans made it their real-life image. Italian-American actor Iron Eyes Cody is well-known in Indian Country for a 1971 environmental ad in which he shed a single tear after paddling through a river

littered with trash. He wore fringed buckskin and had a feather in his long, braided hair. Most people think those images, largely based on 19th century Plains Indians, are who Native Americans were and still are, Deloria said. And some believe Natives went extinct. ``There's a big, long, complicated history to this that's really deep in American culture,'' Deloria said. ``It's every bit as deep as blackface minstrelsy and slavery. It's just out there, but we've kind of forgotten about it.'' Nowhere is redface more prominent than at sporting events featuring teams with Native American mascots like the Redskins, Braves and Indians, and around Halloween. In the documentary ``More Than a Word'' about the Washington Redskins, fans say the team name honours Native Americans. Stadiums today are dotted with fans who paint their faces, perform their versions of a Native American dance or war cry, and wear toy or replica headdresses that are mass-produced. It's insulting to many Native Americans because headdresses historically were a symbol of honour and respect, earned by tribal chiefs and warriors, they say. Modern-day veterans and leaders sometimes are gifted them in ceremonies and honoured with the right to wear them. ``It's easy to do the comparison: If this was blackface, it wouldn't be tolerable,'' said Little, who co-directed the docu-

mentary. ``But that also discredits it because you are comparing issues in two separate races and two distinct people.'' Redface for many Native Americans isn't limited to face paint. It also includes clothing and speech. Celebrities have donned fake headdresses and feathers and hosted cowboys and Indians parties without many repercussions, beyond being called on to apologize. Non-Native actors portray Native Americans in movies more often than Native Americans do. And some politicians routinely cast doubt on tribes' ability to control their own land. ``It's hard for me to say people don't know it's wrong,'' said Kyle Mays, an assistant professor of African American and American Indian studies at the University of California-Los Angeles, who is black and Saginaw Anishinaabe. ``They might not know Native people, (but) they know it's wrong and it's just OK to do because there are not any consequences for it.'' Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst, who is Lakota and Navajo, has been trying to take companies to task for misappropriating Native American culture and to highlight indigenous people in a more contemporary way. ``When you're viewed in that way, as only existing in the past, as the 'frozen Indian' found in museums ... it makes it harder for voices of leaders in our communities to actually be heard, and it's easier for people to ignore us,'' she said.

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Inuit hope deals with mining companies boost employment at new projects in Nunavut CANADIAN PRESS

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Inuit leaders are hoping a new cycle of mine expansion in Nunavut brings with it a motherlode of jobs and economic spinoffs. ``Inuit are very eager and wanting to participate in the economy,'' said P.J. Akeeagok of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association. His group recently signed an agreement with a mining company that has a billion-dollar expansion proposal before northern regulators. Baffinland's Mary River mine on the northern end of Baffin Island is considered one of the richest iron deposits in the world. That's not the only mining news out of Nunavut. Quebec-based Agnico-Eagle has begun to pour gold at its new mine near Rankin Inlet and is developing another nearby deposit. The two projects represent $1.6

billion in investment since 2017. Agnico-Eagle, which already has about 800 employees and 300 contractors at its Meadowbank mine, expects to hire more for the new ones. ``We're going to get close to 700 people by the end of the year,'' said Dominique Girard, the company's vice-president for Nunavut. Both companies have already made promises about job levels for Inuit. Like other northern employers _ including the government of Nunavut _ they've had trouble living up to them. Agnico-Eagle, with a goal of 50 per cent Inuit employment, has achieved about 37 per cent. Although Baffinland has the same target, only about one-quarter of its 1,200 employees and contractors are Inuit. The level has been as low as 14 per cent. The consequences of those gaps are real. A study commissioned for the environmental group Oceans North

concluded that the gap between Baffinland's targets and its actual employment would amount to about $1 billion in lost wages for Inuit over the life of the mine. That would be especially so if the proposed expansion resulted in increased production before more Inuit could be trained. ``What is the case for massive expansion of the mine before the labour market can keep up with it?'' asked Chris Debicki of Oceans North. ``The rapid scaling up of this mine, as proposed, will not maximize Indigenous benefits.'' But Akeeagok and Gabriel Karlik of the Kivalliq Inuit Association _ which has just signed a new benefits agreements with Agnico-Eagle _ say strengthened promises of education and training will get local people into the workforce. ``(The Kivalliq Inuit Association) is working with stakeholders, including Agnico-Eagle, to ensure that Inuit are in a position to take advantage

of available opportunities in training and upskill development,'' Karlik said in an email. Baffinland has expanded a five-day program about work issues that includes managing finances and the strains that fly-in, fly-out work can put on families. Recruits sit in a classroom and shadow current employees. ``That helps long term with retention,'' said Baffinland vice-president Grant Goddard. The company sends potential recruits to an Ontario college for trades apprenticeships and heavy equipment operators. The program had 54 graduates last year. It's developing an Inuit-focused section to its leadership training. Baffinland has also committed $10 million to building a training centre in Pond Inlet. Agnico-Eagle has developed a work and training approach that moves Inuit

along a career path of operating ever-more-complex machinery. ``All of our entry level positions are 100 per cent Inuit,'' Girard said. ``But when we get into semiskilled or skilled, this is where we're having more difficulty.'' The company has hired an adult educator for each of its sites to run after-work classes in literacy and numeracy. ``We'd like to develop more leaders,'' said Girard. ``We'd like to have our mine managed by Inuit.'' Both companies pay royalties of about $5 million a year to their respective Inuit associations. Akeeagok said the increased emphasis on training should help ensure that Inuit get the benefit of resources on land that they control. ``Absolutely we want to participate in these industries,'' he said. ``There's some real exciting benefits that are out there.''

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World Water Day Feature Edition THE CLEANSING POWER OF WATER

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My Mother was blessed with many gifts and talents – the gifts of encouragement, patience, forbearance and hope. She also liked to clean! Actually, I am not sure if she really liked it, or just felt it was important. Nevertheless, I have fond memories of her cleaning up after our young family came for a visit, and how Grandma was usually busy cleaning up dishes and tidying the house while we visited. She always seemed to be in motion! Cleansing is such a powerful act! Having a shower or bath invigorates our skin and freshens our outlook. Washing clothes is satisfying and reminds us that possessions are a gift to be cared for. Cleaning our homes helps us to be safe and hospitable. Water is an amazing cleansing agent in our homes! Most natural substances will dissolve out of our clothes and dishes with water if we let them soak long enough. Water also helps to cleanse our digestive system, as well as supply the necessary hydration our bodies require. After all, each of our bodies are composed of about 60% water by weight (our brain, heart and lungs even higher). But how does water itself get cleaned? Nature has been designed with a natural cleansing system – it is the soil under our feet! The topsoil, sand, clay and rock beneath our feet acts as a cleansing agent for groundwater – the residues of plant, animal and human activity can be processed in the soil through microbial action, filtering and oxidation/reduction. With adequate residence time and travel distances, the groundwater can then become a source of life for animals and humans. Cleansed groundwater is discharged to streams and rivers, and wells can be built to allow us to obtain safe groundwater for ourselves, animals and irrigation. Unfortunately, many man-made chemicals are not easily cleansed by the natural systems. This includes fuels, oils, solvents and some agricultural chemicals. When discharged to the environment, the cleansing system of the earth can be overwhelmed and create unhealthy situations for people and nature. As stewards of the earth, each property manager has two fundamental obligations in this area: 1) to understand the impact of their land use on water quality; and 2) to ensure that the sources of water they are using are safe. Managing our impacts on water quality starts with eliminating and cleaning up spills of man-made chemicals and managing our human/animal waste wisely. Thankfully, there are technologies available to help us, and I would encourage you to consult experts who specialize in this area. For safe consumption, I recommend that you have your source of water annually tested and inspected by a professional – for instance, licensed water well technicians who can sample and inspect your water source, well and treatment system. Water is an essential component of life - it is a blessing from the Creator we can be thankful for every day. Consider today how you can look after this precious resource on your property.

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TRAINING FOR OPERATORS OF FIRST NATIONS DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS

DRINKING WATER RESOURCE LIBRARY WCWC has developed an online reference library containing thousands of vetted resources addressing common issues facing drinking water systems, the Drinking Water Resource Library. The library features multiple search functions to ease the research of information. This free resource can be accessed at drinkingwaterresourcelibrary.ca.

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Participants in the Entry-Level Course for Drinking Water Operators for First Nations work on hands-on activities WCWC, in partnership with Keewaytinook Okimakanak and the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation, is delivering the Entry-Level Course for Drinking Water Operators for First Nations. Curriculum and delivery have been tailored to meet the needs of operators of First Nations drinking water systems and training is delivered by instructors who have experience training operators in First Nations communities. Each course delivery is a two-week initiative with one week of supervised self-study and one week of practical hands-on training. Training is provided at no cost to participants, including all associated expenses. Since 2017, more than 70 Indigenous participants have successfully completed the course. Additional training is being developed including a new course, Managing Drinking Water Systems in First Nations Communities, which will be available in spring 2019. The one-day course will focus on components of effective drinking water system management, resources and practical tools. The target audience for this course is individuals in management and supervisory positions in drinking water and those interested in becoming managers or supervisors.

Pilot Testing in the Technology Demonstration Facility WCWC’s pilot testing program provides site-specific information to address challenges regarding source water characteristics, treatment process performance, and alternative treatment technologies. Projects can be undertaken on a bench-scale at the clients’ location or at the Technology Demonstration Facility in Walkerton. The Technology Demonstration Facility features a lab and many pilot systems, including a dual train conventional treatment pilot plant, ozone systems, a dissolved air floatation pilot plant, ultraviolet light treatment systems, slow sand, green sand and membrane filtration systems. Side-by-side comparisons of various technologies can be carried out using the same feed water. WCWC has years of pilot testing experience in areas such as natural organic matter removal, disinfection by-products control, iron and manganese treatment, and coagulation optimization. Clients are involved throughout the process to ensure their needs are met. WCWC has undertaken pilot testing for a number of First Nations communities. Upon completion of a successful project conducted for Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, the client said, “WCWC is well equipped with knowledgeable staff to provide effective pilot testing services. They took the time to listen to our needs and provided the best options for pilot testing our intended water treatment process.” For more information on any of WCWC’s initiatives to support drinking water improvements in First Nations communities, please visit www.wcwc.ca/en/training/first-nations-zone/ or contact us at 866-515-0550 or training@wcwc.ca. For technical questions, connect with our knowledgeable staff at the Helpline, 1-855-306-1155 or helpline@wcwc.ca.

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Ottawa lauds 'amazing' Mi'kmaq graduation rate, signs new $600 million agreement CANADIAN PRESS

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HALIFAX â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Twenty years ago, only 30 per cent of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq students were graduating from high school. Today, that number stands at 90 per cent _ the highest on-reserve graduation rate in the country. The federal government

recognized the province's Mi'kmaq community for leading the country on Indigenous education on Thursday by signing a new, 10-year education agreement worth $600 million. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said the ``amazing success'' can be attributed to the 1997 creation of the Mi'kmaq education authority, known as Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey or simply

MK. ``When we come together to celebrate the success of MK, we are actually setting an example for the country _ and for the world,'' Bennett said after signing the funding agreement with 12 jubilant Mi'kmaq leaders. ``After 20 years, you are demonstrating the success that everybody wants from coast to coast to coast ... The Mi'kmaq of Nova Sco-

tia are way ahead on how important this is.'' Previous agreements lasted for only five years. The authority supports local band schools in delivering language immersion and other culturally relevant programs. It also protects and promotes the educational and language rights of the province's Mi'kmaq people. The high school graduation rate among First

Nation students in Nova Scotia is considerably higher than the national average, which now stands at 36 per cent for students living on reserve. Chief Leroy Denny, leader of the Eskasoni First Nation in Cape Breton and chairman of the MK, recalled how he decided to become a teacher when the authority was established. As the time, none of the province's Mi'kmaq First Nations had their own schools. Students had to be bused to other communities. ``It was a dream _ a dream that if the Mi'kmaq could control our own education that we could reach levels never believed possible by Canadians,'' he told about 100 delegates to a Mi'kmaq education conference. ``We know that our youth will grow into strong, proud Mi'kmaq when they are given the opportunity to learn in an environment that values the strengths of Mi'kmaq language and culture.'' Still, Denny said the MK has plenty of work to do. ``We want a 100-percent graduation rate,'' he said with a smile, adding

that the focus of the authority is revitalizing the Mi'kmaq language. The Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey reported a high school graduation rate of 89.6 per cent in the 20162017 school year, almost on par with the graduation rate for the entire province, which is one of the highest in Canada at 92.3 per cent. Nova Scotia's Indigenous population makes up 2.7 per cent of the provinces's total population, which now stands at around 960,000. According to federal figures, there are about 3,000 kindergarten to Grade 12 students studying on-reserve, where the attendance rate is 90.9 per cent. As well, there are about 600 Indigenous students enrolled in the province's post-secondary institutions. ``This is the way forward,'' Bennett said. ``When kids have a secure, personal, cultural identity, they end up with better health, education and economic outcomes. To be proud of who you are, means you have self-esteem, it means you have resilience.''

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answers, especially when it comes to trade. The grain is believed to have been first domesticated between 3,000 and 5,000 years B.C.E, and is considered to be the “supergrain” as it is high in fibre and high-quality protein. In fact, it contains more protein than any other grain while also packing in iron and potassium. One half cup of quinoa has 14 grams of protein and 6 grams of fibre, and this would make its trade and use extremely helpful in feeding indigenous nations — ten plants would haul about one pound of the seed. The findings were published in the December 2018 issue of American Antiquity.

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OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government plans to spend $4.5 billion over the next five years to try to narrow the socio-economic gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people — part of a plan to keep reconciliation at the forefront of this fall's campaign narrative. Speaking to reporters, Finance Minister Bill Morneau stressed the Liberals have been committed to reconciliation from the beginning of their mandate. ``It is a continuation of what we've been doing since Day 1,'' Morneau said. ``It is driven by the

million per year beginning in 2019-2020 — to develop a long-term approach for services for First Nations children. The policy is named after a Manitoba First Nations boy from Norway House Cree Nation, Jordan River Anderson, who had multiple disabilities. When he was two years old, doctors recommended he move to a special home suited to his medical needs. He died three years later, after jurisdictional squabbles between federal and provincial governments over payment for his care. ``It should be no surprise that we continue to deal with issues, like Jordan's Principle, that

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spending) over five years, of a total budget spend of $20 billion,'' she said. ``We are talking about a quarter of the budget.'' The federal budget also includes plans to act on calls from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that spent six years probing the dark legacy of Canada's residential schools. The spending plan includes $126.5 million in 2020-21 to establish a national council on reconciliation designed to be a permanent reminder of the fraught past between Canada and Indigenous Peoples and to contribute to better understanding of it. There is also $333.7 million over the next

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MISSISSAUGA — As the Little Native Hockey League tournament came to a close last week, the Iceland Sports Complex was filled to the brim with final games played by the participating divisions to determine the tournaments champions. Kicking Thursday morning off was the Novice Rec A Final between Dokis and the Wiikwemkoong Jr. T-Birds, with the T-Birds taking victory 8-5. Later on was the Girls Novice A Final between CMO United the Moose Cree Lady Scrappers, with United coming away 7-0. The Boys Novice Comp A Final met Walpole Island with the Six nations Blackhawks, with Walpole winning 4-1. The Boys Atom Rec A Final went between the Moose Cree Scrappers and the Awkwasasne Wild, with the Wild finalizing the game 7-2. The Girls Atom A Final brought the Akwesasne Wild to CMO, with Cmo coming away with victory 3-0. Boys Comp Atom A Final seen the Moose Cree Scrappers and C.M.O United, with

This year marked the 48th annual year of the tournament hosted by the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and saw 550 games in the duration of the four-day tournament. PHOTO BY DAVE LAFORCE

the Scrappers earning the win 7-0. The Boys Peewee Rec A Final between the Wiky Selects and Kettle Point gave Kettle Point victory 4-2. Girls Peewee A Final with the Atikameksheng M’iingnak and Fury with the Fury coming away with a win 2-1. The Boys Peewee Comp A Final brought the Curve Lake Screaming Eagle Peewees and the Akwesasne Wild, with the Wild winning 3-1. The Boys Bantam Rec A Final between the NWO Eagles and Constance Lake Oji-Crees gave the

In the Boys Atom Comp C Final, Wanbedeh Flying Cranes defeated Walpole Island Atom Hawks 8-7. PHOTO BY DAVE LAFORCE

win to the Eagles 4-2. The Bantam Girls A Final brought the CMO Hawks and Serpent River together, with the Hawks winning 3-0. The Boys Bantam Comp A Final brought Curve Lake Cedar Bay against the Akwesasne Wild with the Wild earning victory 7-0. The Midget Rec A Final brought a close game between the Pic River Sharks and the Nawash Warriors, with the Warriors coming out on top 4-3. The Girls Midget A Final seen another close game between the Six Nations Wild and the CMO United, with United coming away on top 1-0. The Boys Midget Comp A Final got the AOK Chiefs and the Aamjiwnaang Midgets together with the Chiefs winning 3-1. This year marked the 48th annual year of the tournament hosted by the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and saw 550 games in the duration of the four-day tournament. “The LNHL tournament has been a huge success

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with 15 "A" championship games played on Thursday March 14, 2019 resulting in a very position experience for Ontario First Nation children, youth and communities. For the vast majority of teams, the experience was positive and families and community members celebrated together in spirit of the four pillars of the LNHL,” wrote the LNHL Executive Committee to their website.

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This years Little Native Hockey League seen over 200 teams and 3500 athletes, with an increase in girls participation for its 48th year. The premise of this tournament is to give opportunities to indigenous hockey athletes while holding up four pillars which are sportsmanship, education, citizenship and respect. However, last week video of a brawl that took place during the Long Lake 58 Generals and the Kattawapiskak Midgets match up for the Boys Midget Rec. C final play off game circulated online posted by viewers and parents in the stands of the Iceland Rink #4 in Mississauga last Wednesday. Long Lake took a loss 2-4 against Kattawapiskak and a fight broke out between the two teams after the games conclusion as Kattawapiskak began to celebrate. The debate over allowing fighting in hockey games is ongoing. Despite its potentially negative consequences, such as concussions and serious injury, administrators at the professional level have no plans of eliminating fighting from the game, and most players below the professional level consider it to be an essential part of what makes hockey, hockey. For the midget division

in Little NHL, body contact is allowed and the referees can be seen in the videos allowing the first tussle to continue while others begin. Soon numerous fights on the ice can be seen and eventually several adults emerged while hockey sticks lay strewn across the ice. Some adults appear to be trying to break up the scuffles, while one individual can be seen picking up a hockey stick and swinging it before being taken down by opposing players. Little NHL is not only one of the largest hockey tournaments in Ontario, it is the largest Indigenous hockey tournament in Ontario. Thus, this tournament is a showing of indigenous youth and their athletic excellence. Unfortunately, the brawl itself was covered by media outlets across the board — more so than the opening and closing ceremonies. Thus, as can be expected, rather than focusing on the champions of the tournament, the media flocked to cover the brawl which was the only brawl out of over 500 games. This put the players and coaching staff of both teams on the centre stage while the Little NHL organization rushed to clear the situation in an effective manner. But losing control of a team begins on the bench. If players are given parameters by coaching staff while playing, such as a penalty for checking from behind can result in the team running extra laps or

doing extra push ups, the players are less likely to act out of frustration or anger and exalt restraint because there are consequences they will face as a team. It would appear that no such parameters were in place, as the Long Lake assistant coach was the individual in the videos striking Kattawapiskak players with a hockey stick. Another point is that the youth participating in this tournament should be made aware that they are playing against their own people. Losing a game should not be looked at as a loss in this tournament, but rather a victory for all including the the community that excels in the sport. Competition between communities that face the same hardships and situations should be confident in their ability to do the best that they can and focus on gaining experience while playing, rather than focusing on being in the tournament for a trophy or medals. That material way of thinking does not belong within an indigenous youth tournament but again — it starts on the bench. Out of over 500 games and positive experiences withheld by the larger majority of the athletes within this March Break tournament, not only was the conduct of these two teams out of control, it is embarrassing that one of the the main memories that will be recalled from this years tournament is the line brawl.

EDMONTON - History could be made later this month with the broadcast of what's believed to be the first NHL game called in the Plains Cree language. The game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes is to air on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network on March 24. APTN will use Sportsnet's production capabilities to air the program featuring Cree commentary and analysis. Sportsnet vice president Rob Corte called it a ``momentous broadcast.'' ``We are truly honoured to have the opportunity to work with APTN to celebrate Canada's Indigenous communities and the shared passion for hockey that unites us all,'' Corte said in a news release. The broadcast will come on the same weekend that the Rogers Hometown Hockey festival stops at the Enoch Cree Nation near Edmonton. Jean Le Rose, chief executive of APTN, said it's a great combination. ``We hope it will be the opportunity for us to get into a conversation about maybe having a weekly game in the language ...

and possibly more opportunities for other languages,'' he said in an interview. It also coincides with UNESCO's declaration of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages, Le Rose added. ``We feel the timing was absolutely perfect to highlight at least one language,'' he said. David Proper, executive vice president of media and international strategy with the NHL, said the partnership between Sportsnet and APTN will serve Canada's Indigenous communities and all hockey fans across the country. Saskatchewan broadcaster Clarence Iron will do the play by play, while musician Earl Wood will host the studio show alongside game analyst and NHL alumni John Chabot. Iron, who lives in Pinehouse, Sask., and works for CFNK radio as a program host, has become known as one of the Cree voices of hockey because of his experience calling Indigenous hockey tournaments and local games. Drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in 1980, Chabot spent eight seasons in the NHL and played more than 500 games with Montreal,

Pittsburgh and Detroit. He went on to coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League before spending two seasons as an assistant coach for the New York Islanders. He has also worked as a studio analyst for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games with APTN and as a coach on APTN's hockey series, Hit the Ice. Woods comes from Saddle Lake, Alta. and is one of the original founders of the Northern Cree Singers, which is referred by some as the ``Indigenous Rolling Stones.'' The Cree-language commentary and analysis will be produced at APTN's studio in Winnipeg with a live Sportsnet feed of the game. Although it's believed to be the first NHL game called in Plains Cree, it's not the first time games have been broadcast in another language. Sportsnet contributes to the national production of Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition. Its sister station, OMNI Television, also offers a wide range of programming in more than 20 languages including news, current affairs and entertainment shows.

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LITTLE BRITAIN — During their celebration as pictured above, by defeating the Lambton Shores in their series 3-0, the Six nations Midget Rep. Blackhawks to move on to face the Mariposa Lightening last Monday on foreign soil. The Blackhawks were quick to come away with the win, 6-2 and will be hosting the Lightening this coming Saturday at 3 p.m., at the Gaylord Powless Arena. PHOTO BY CHEZNEY MARTIN

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SYRACUSE — As pictured above, yet another athlete hailing from Six Nations has made waves in the lacrosse sphere at the national stage and is now featured on a billboard within Syracuse. Tyson Bomberry, fourth from the left of posed athletes, stands as the Syracuse Mens Lacrosse team captain as a lead senior defence man. Known for causing turn overs and quick to gain possession of loose balls, by participating in the FIL World Championships in 2018, Bomberry is expected to bring experience of guarding the world's best players for the continuation of the season. PHOTO BY CHEZNEY MARTIN

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Mens ALL League nearing finals By TRT Staff As the last two weeks of March begin, the Arena Lacrosse League will be gearing up for finals to begin on April 6 with just one more home game for the Mens Snipers. Throughout the season, each of the teams have seemed to sit at their current spots for several weeks; as the St. Catharines Shockwave has gone undefeated for a full 11 games, with the Peterborough Timbermen, the Paris RiverWolves, the Toronto Monarchs, the Oshawa Outlaws, the Six nations Snipers and the Whitby Steelhawks each following behind in order. Although packed with potential, the Snipers haven’t been quite able to climb in league standings but hopes are high once the six teams are matched up for quarter finals as there has been promise of improvement. Sitting in third place, the Paris RiverWolves and the Snipers have had several close games, but finally the Snipers closed the gap to come out on top. Coming to the Syl Apps Community Centre last Saturday, the RiverWolves

came out ready to score as in the first half of the period they put away three buries. But to close the period, Vernon Hill scored from Lyle Hill and Travis Longboat. Entering the second, Riley Hess struck back with a goal from Wenster Green and Mike McLaughlin. While the RiverWolves returned three within four minutes of the start. This brought the game to a 2-6 lead for the RiverWolves. But opened for a barrage of scoring by the Snipers as T. Longboat earned a consecutive hat trick within eight minutes of play and Skye Sunday and Justin Martin put away one each, with J. Martin snagging a pass from Tendy Jake Lazore. This gave the Snipers a one point lead as McLaughlin earned his first to answer a final goal for the RiverWolves by the end. Beginning the third, Pierce Abrams scored from T. Longboat and Richard Imus while S. Sunday scored from Pierce Abrams and T. Longboat. The RiverWolves quickly tacked on three more goals and gave themselves a one goal lead by the end. But getting into the

fourth period, the RiverWolves were keen on keeping the lead as they put away another goal. However, Steven Wizniuk scored unassisted and two minutes later S. Sunday buried for a hat trick. This opened for a bit of back and forth as T. Longboat put another one away and so did V. Hill from J. Martin. But the RiverWolves could only answer twice, as the Snipers controlled the period with further goals from Ian Martin, T. Longboat and V. Hill with his third for a hat trick. Overall, the game was heavily physical as the minutes accumulated in penalties was in the high teens for the Snipers. But they closed the competition 17-16. Sitting in the top three players of the game was T. Longboat who earned nine points overall and V. Hill who earned 6 points overall throughout the game. Their next home game versus the St. Catharines Shockwave falls on Sunday, March 24 at 4 p.m., at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena, with their final season game up against the Peterborough Timbermen will take place the following Saturday at the Children’s Arena.

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SPORTSNET — Don Cherry and Ron MacLean made a shout out to the Little Native Hockey League during Coach’s Corner on SportsNet, as they remarked about how many teams and young athletes took part this year. Cherry can be seen hoisting the collar of an army sweater with the organizations logo on the chest as MacLean noted that Jonathan Cheechoo’s son won with his team in his division during the tournament. PHOTO SCREEN CAPTURED FROM CBC

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LONDON, ONT. — Indigenous musicians attending the 48th Juno Awards ceremony congregated within the Budweiser Gardens last Saturday and Sunday. This included nominees Indigenous Music Album of the Year; Northern Cree for Nitsanak Brothers and Sisters, Elisapie Isaac for The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, Snotty nose Rez Kids for The Average Savage, Leonard Summer for Standing in the Light and the winner of the category Jeremy Dutcher for Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — an album done entirely in the Wolastoqiyik language. Currently, most Indigenous artists of all genres are placed into the Indigenous Music Album of the Year category, despite being very different. Thus, the Indigenous musicians that attended the awards ceremony say that they don’t need to be grouped into one category. Taking a look at the other categories, no indigenous artists were nominated in rock, country or alternative album awards. Yet nearly all of the nominations for the Indigenous Music Album of the Year Award could have. This included Snotty nose Rez Kids rappers Darren Mets and Quinton Nyce, with Metz sharing with APTN that the categorization is “kind of wack.”

“I do take pride in [our nomination], but at the same time I think it’s kind of wack,” said Metz. “They put us all into one group. So there’s four or five different genres put into one category, you know what I mean?” Although they could have been nominated for Rap Album of the Year Award, the rapping duo seem to need an award all on their own. The duo weren't equipped as children to analyze the vicious Indigenous stereotypes and racist caricatures flashing on their TV screens. Like many kids of the late 1990s, they were raised on a steady diet of Disney classics while living in Kitamaat Village on Haisla Nation in northwest B.C. Some of those animated movies sent clear negative messages about their identities that echoed throughout the community. “Peter Pan” presented Native Americans as “savages” who spoke in monosyllables, while “Pocahontas” romanticized colonialism by framing it against a love story. Metz and Nyce remember how elders rarely questioned the ways Hollywood movies taught the Indigenous youth to devalue themselves. “We grew up with a lot of racism in our community,” explained Metz, the 26-year-old MC also known as Young D. “It was normalized, even to me

Snotty Nose Rez Kids rappers Quinton Nyce and Darren Metz say that about five genres go up against each other for one award in nominatoin for Indigenous Music Album of the Year. PHOTO SCREEN CAPTURED FROM APTN

and my parents.” The wounds of those memories flow throughout “The Average Savage,” the rap duo's 2017 sophomore album which was nominated. The 16-track project rebukes those damaging stereotypes they say affected generations of Indigenous people, drawing from audio samples of Bugs Bunny cartoons and a conversation about mascots broadcast on Oprah's talk show. Each clip is a pop culture reference point for rhymes about racism in Canada. “I wanted to make an album about all the stuff that's been drilled into our heads for years,” Metz said. “It's a never-ending cycle unless you break it.” Songs like “Kkkanada” and “Savages” are brash, confident and were written to elevate young Indigenous people, rather

than attract main-stream accolades. That changed, however, when a jury of music critics and industry players heard the album last year and helped the small independent release land on the national radar with a spot on the Polaris Music Prize short list. Not long afterwards, tour dates and festival appearances were being locked in across the continent. It was a shock for the two high school friends who embraced their shared love for hip-hop and began recording music with a “cheap $20 mic” on their computer in 2012, Metz said. Three years later, Metz enrolled in an audio engineering program at Vancouver's Harbourside Institute of Technology where Nyce joined him on a mixtape. In rapid succession, the

duo released two fulllength albums that marked an evolution in their sound. The first album was inspired by the cadence of their idols, the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, but “The Average Savage” carried a voice that was unmistakably their own. As the album gained traction, the duo leaned more heavily into their political views by dropping the single “The Warriors,” a relentless condemna-tion of a planned pipeline expansion in Western Canada. “With the stuff that's going on in our own backyard... getting a pipeline through the territory makes it really personal for us,” said Nyce. What's different for Snotty Nose Rez Kids now is that people are listen-ing. They've seen it within the Indigenous community, and also in

outside circles where their commentary on social issues is leading to a new unity across many lines, he added. “Now that we have this stage, this platform, we can have our voices heard by communities all across Turtle Island,” said Nyce, the 29-year-old who performs as Yung Trybez. “There's no way we would've been able to do that two years ago with any mixtape we released.” But the sudden popularity also led the duo to reassess their priorities. After initially planning to release a mixtape that capitalized on the grow-ing attention with a collection of protest anthems with club tracks, they decided to hit reset on the project and reconsider exactly what they wanted to say. “The tone of the album wasn't supposed to be a political album,” said Nyce, “but with who we are, and what we write about, it's kind of hard to stay away from that.” The duo scrapped the album's original title, which had a lighter bent, re-named it “Trapline” and wrote several new songs and skits that “turned it into something more powerful,” Nyce explained. One of the tracks features all-female Toronto group the Sorority lending their vocals to a song about empowerment of women in the hip-hop community, which has traditionally fall-

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en short of giving women equal space to tell their stories. Keysha Fanfair, who performs in the Sorority as Keysha Freshh, said the experience was one of mutual reverence. “They were giving us the opportunity to take the lead and come up with the ideas,” she said. “There was no male bravado over us. It was just like, we're all here, we're all respecting each other's talent.” Nyce said “Trapline” won't lose sight of the role of women in First Nations communities. “We come from a matriarchal background where the women are our leaders, so the album's going to speak to that,” he said. What lies ahead for Snotty Nose Rez Kids seems almost limitless. They're arriving at a powerful time for Indigenous music, an era that Juno Award winner Jeremy Dutcher has labelled a “renaissance” for the In-digenous arts community. Nyce is hopeful that

radio stations across the country will pay more at-tention to the vibrant and diverse sounds of Indigenous musicians, who he believe hit a stride around the formation of the Idle No More movement in 2012. “We started getting a different kind of attention in the media, we started being broadcasted more,” he said. “People were changing as artists and they were starting to find their true identities.” He is confident Indigenous music will be elevated higher over the next five years as another generation of voices emerges. “You're going to start seeing a lot more First Nations artists on the main-stream platform,” Nyce said. “That includes ourselves if we keep playing our cards right.” As the indigenous sector of contemporary music grows, hopefully more contemporary platforms will step up to provide more diverse options for indigenous artists to shine in the same way.

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WRAECLAST – Path of Exile by Grinding Gear Games isn’t exactly a brand new game. It was originally released in 2013 but is constantly updated, so if you haven’t played it in a while, it might be time for a reinstall. Path of Exile is free to play for PC, XBOX and is coming to the PS4 on March 25th. As of March 15, 2019 a new expansion has been released – the Synthesis League – which adds another layer to this already multilayered Action RPG. Although it received GAMESPOT’s coveted Game of the Year when it was released, Path of Exile didn’t catch on like developers expected or hoped. Although not as popular as a game such as Fortnite numbers this season has been the most popular one for Path of Exile yet with 63,000 concurrent players. The gameplay is basically an expanded version of

Path of Exile is a free action RPG game that is available for PC, XBOX and soon PS4. As a warning to parents this game is listed M for mature audiences. PHOTO BY JONATHAN GARLOW

the classic Diablo 2. Grinding Gear Games has this to say about their game: “You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Created by hardcore gamers, Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. With a focus on visceral action combat, powerful items and deep character customization,

Path of Exile is completely free and will never be payto-win.” The New Zealand developers have a diverse staff and have integrated Maori cultural elements into their game. Traditionally, fantasy video games follow eurocentric standards of currency with gold and silver. Instead, Path of Exile uses an indigenous barter system that places items with intrinsic value as its form of currency. For example: crafting materials

used to increase value to a person’s gear are used in trade to purchase other needed items in the game. The storyline includes Maori cultural themes which gives the game the feel of Disney’s Moana – but as an adult horror game, it’s definitely not for children. The plot centralizes around the Karui Pantheon of gods Kitava, Tukohama, Ngamahu and six others. It’s refreshing to see Indigenous culture as the core of this game instead of a stereotypical gimmick. To play this game as an indigenous person instills a deep sense of pride and fulfilment. Path of Exile has been rated 83 on Metacritic. You can find Jonathan Garlow in Path of Exile as player DancesWithWargs.

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OHSWEKEN – Refuelling his career after his victory on The Launch, Logan Staats has released a new single titled Fear of the Flame to iTunes and Spotify which reached third place in the charts upon its release. As always, his work is a product of passion and dedication to the craft that allows him an effortless commitment to music and his single echoes nothing short of hard work. Beginning with the calm strum of a resonating string, his haunting voice is slowly joined by accompanying percussion that flows into an anthem perfectly describing a come up with lines such as “don’t you let me lose the flame.” Staats explained that he worked with Producer Derek Hoffman to create a sound that utilized Hoffman’s previous experience in the rock genre. “After a while of kind of searching for the right person to work with, I really connected with Der-

ek Hoffman,” said Staats. “He’s really, really great and he’s a really brilliant guy.” And their chemistry shows as for the message behind the single — which is presented with a cover work that depicts Staats in his backyard with a guitar enveloped in smudge smoke and a landscape covered in sunset light — his description was simple. “The song is basically my life in a nutshell since The Launch,” he said. “It includes all of the highs and all of the lows and [how I’ve been] able to get through that last year of my life.” He described the song as encapsulating his growth through learning experiences in the past year, while giving the visual that as an artist he wants to continue feeding the fire. Coming up next month, Staats will also be releasing another work in collaboration with Hoffman, that he described as “old school Logan,” which will include his recognizable acoustic guitar.

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Akwesasne hoop dancer Feryn King to tour Europe with Cirque du Soleil

EUROPE — Hailing from Akwesasne, Feryn King departed on Tuesday, March 5 to embark on a journey to begin performing with Cirque du Soleil in their Totem performance for their tour through Europe. King has trained in a pre-professional dance program in Toronto at Centennial College and is an accomplished competitive Hoop, Smoke and Jingle dancer. The performance is just over two hours and is meant to be family oriented, after premiering in Montréal on April 22, 2010. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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The family of Linda Joy Jonathan; wish to express our deepest gratitude to family, friends and colleagues, following the loss of our daughter, sister and auntie. To the Six Nations Police and First Responders; thank you for being present and supporting us. To Richard Anderson and staff of R.H.B. Anderson Funeral Homes; thank you for your gentle guidance and continuous support during this most difficult time. To Pastor Kenny and Sonya Sault, Pastor Bob Muir, Wayne Johnson, Joan Elliott, Hub and Robin Maracle; thank you for your beautiful words and songs of comfort during the service and the funeral. Thank you to Courtney (and Raeghen) for the heartfelt eulogy of Auntie’s life, it brought both laughter and tears. Thank you to the pallbearers; Brody, Lyle (Chubbs), Nolan, Evan, Keaton and Dezi, for carrying Auntie to her forever place of rest. To Toni Anthony and catering staff, thank you for the delicious meal. To everyone that came to visit, shared a hug, shared your memories, brought food or offered words of sympathy and comfort; we are forever grateful for your kindness and support during this time. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4. Sincerely; Helen, Lois, Lyle and Deb Jonathan and families.

On the morning of Friday, March 15th, 2019 Jessica Henhawk, Mother, Daughter and sister passed away suddenly at the age of 41. She will be forever remembered by husband Lou Bayani, daughter Qwaedyne and son Austine. By her parents Tony and Cindy Henhawk and her brother TJay. She will also be forever remembered by many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Visitation on Monday March 18th from 11 am.-7pm. Funeral will be held on Tuesday March 19th at 11am. with burial at homestead, 813 Sour Springs Rd. at Mohawk Rd. www.rhbanderson.com

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TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Turn off the logical part of your mind for a little while, Taurus. Let your fantasies run wild. Trying to manage everything down to the minute can short-circuit your brain.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, a truckload of new ideas is coming your way. These may serve as catalysts for new hobbies, projects and even developing new friendships along the way.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 You may not be entirely sure what’s holding you up this week, Cancer. But once you put your finger on it, you’ll be able to work through the issues that much more readily.

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, home is where the heart is, especially this week. Spend as much quality time as you can with loved ones in the days to come. Find a cozy spot to read and unwind as well. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, might you be so fixated on a problem that you’re overlooking the simplest solutions? Take a step back and refocus. The answer might be simpler than you think. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 You are always ready to take on more, Sagittarius. This week you may have to set some limits or you may burn out. An adventure with a BFF is doable. CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 It is possible to accomplish much in stressful situations, Capricorn. But sometimes you don’t realize when you need to take a step back. This is the time. AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, a long-held belief might be holding you back or preventing you from moving forward. Once you let it go, you’ll feel emancipated and ready to take a step in the right direction.

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