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The Haudenosaunee Development Institute has begun consultations with members of the Six Nations community on a proposed $40,000 facelift of Kanonhstaton (formerly known as Douglas Creek Estates). In a meeting held this past week at the reclamation site, attended by around a dozen Six Nations residents, Hazel Hill offered some suggestions and received input on ideas for the beautification the reclamation lands. See Page 2 for the complete HDI report. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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HDI and community begin clean up of KanonhstatonGRAND RIVER TERRI-TORY SIX NATIONS - Six Nations Confederacy Coun-cil ‘s Haudenosaunee Devel-opment Institute (H.D.I.) has begun working with the Six Nations community to re-vitalize Kanonhstaton (the former Douglas Creek Es-tates).

Six years after the Grand River Haudensaunee re-claimed their lands adjacent to the town of Caledonia, the Six Nations community is ready to move forward with revitalizing the lands and restoration.

At a meeting at Kanonhsta-ton, Thursday, August 30, 2012, H.D.I. Interim Direc-tor Hazel Hill heard sug-gestions from Six Nations people about how to move forward with plans for the reclaimed lands.

“We heard a lot of posi-tive, exciting ideas about what to do with the land and how to bring it back to its former state while planning for the future,” said Hill.

The Six Nations Haude-nosaunee Confederacy al-located $40,000 towards the revitalization of the site and instructed the HDI, its planning department, at its August council meeting, to oversee the revitalization project Hill said “we decid-ed to hold the first meeting at the site so people would be able to see what we are deal-ing with and come up with suggestions.”

Those suggestions includ-ed construction of an iron gate with Haudenosaunee designs, to mark the en-tranceway to Kanonhstation, fencing installed around the perimeter and stones placed to block old driveways off Highway 6 .

The main roadway into the site to be re-named Confed-eracy Way and a welcome sign to be placed on the site designed by a local Six Na-tions artist.

“Our people have said they want to see lots of in-digenous trees, restoring of the Carolinian forest, with white pines bordering the section facing Highway 6, or Plank Road, and a sec-tion for fruit trees and pos-sibly a harvesting garden,” said Hill. She said the “dis-cussion was very exciting. A lot of people said they were ready to move forward now and are excited about plan-ning for the future.”

She said local schools will be asked to participate by having students design

children’s areas or learning areas.

“People said they wanted to see pathways or gardens with plants that our schools could use as outdoor teaching areas for our children. They wanted to see our children involved even if we hold a contest for the schools or get the teachers involved in what they think we should incor-porate to meet their outdoor education needs.”

Other suggestions includ-ed:

-Solar lights to line Con-federacy Way roadway -Planting a cover crop to bring the soil back after all top soil had been stripped away

- A welcoming assembly area near the front that would be landscaped with patio stones, a fire pit, benches, a ceremonial area for gather-ings. -Benches and rockwork along Confederacy Way

- A shed at the front of the site will be finished off as an information/museum with the history of the Rec-lamation.

- A trailer burnout out by unknown vandals will re-main at the front of the site but suggestions included moving it and the hydro tow-ers into a monument area.

Hill said the HDI is work-ing with the Confederacy’s greenhouse project Kaya-nase, (managed by Grand River Employment and Training as a greenhouse training project) to develop a revitalization plan including restoration of a pond on the site for future fish stocking and a local landscaper.

“This was our first meet-ing. It was very exciting. Very positive. We are hop-ing to hear from a lot more people on what they would like to see at Kanonhstaton,” she said.

Kanonhstaton is the for-mer Douglas Creek Estates housing development re-claimed by Six Nations in 2006 after a botched OPP raid sparked a summer long protest and barricades along Highway 6.

The HDI was created by the Confederacy to work with developers who are be-ing caught in a void being created by Canada and On-tario’s failure to resolve Six Nations land rights.

The organization over-sees development of Six Nations lands and resourc-es including land within the Haldimand Tract, an area six miles on either side of the

Grand River from its mouth to its source and Haudeno-saunee treaty areas.

In addition the Institute has been working diligent-ly to respond to Ontario’s Green Plan and Places to Grow Act, which was put into place by the Province without consultation with the Confederacy. As a result the Confederacy has devel-

oped its own “Green Plan” with a map of its lands along the Grand River that outline development potential and environmentally sensitive areas including lands with-in the cities of Brantford, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cam-bridge, Guelph and towns and centres along the tract.

Six Nations land rights talks came to a halt in 2008

when the Six Nations Band Council walked away from the negotiation table along with Ontario and Cana-da leaving the Six Nations Haudenoniso (Confederacy Council) to work alone to-wards a peaceful, fair reso-lution of its more than 200 year old land rights issues throughout Southern On-tario.

HDI reports directly to Confederacy Council monthly.

Director Hill said updates will be provided through lo-cal newspapers.

More meetings will be held and anyone with sug-gestions or ideas can contact the H.D.I. at 519-445-4222, fax to 519-445-2389 email - [email protected].

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Mohawks serve notice on municipalities for outstanding debtBy Stephanie DearingBRANTFORD

Wanting compensation for lost lands – and lost revenues, the Mohawks of the 5 Nation Confederacy have served a cease and desist notice on the City of Brantford as well as five other municipal and business leaders. Six Nations Elected Chief William Mon-tour and Gord Peters, Grand Chief of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Nations were also given the same no-tice.

Claiming they are owed over $700 billion as well as jurisdiction to pursue a resolution under the 1784 Haldimand declaration, the Mohawk group, Kanienka-hagen (Mohawk Workers) based at Kanata, have told all parties served with the notice to immediately stop “all unauthorized negotia-tions, development, mainte-nance and construction,” as well as to “desist from any other unauthorized actions in respect of the lands within the Haldimand Tract.”

The named parties have been directed to “cease and desist from any and all acts which directly pertain to mat-ters in respect of any land sit-uated within the Haldimand Tract, including unlawful trespasses,” and to either im-mediately register themselves with the Mohawk Workers or to leave the Haldimand Tract.

The Mohawks, repre-sented by Mohawk Worker Bill Squire, say further pro-ceedings are to be expected. Claiming sovereignty, the Cease and Desist order is the first step towards recouping the more than $700 billion the Mohawks say is owing to them as a result of delin-quent lease payments, unset-tled land claims, and stolen monies and lands

Special Assistant to Squire, Jason Bowman said Brant-ford has “such a massive debt for the land they didn’t pay for. To show it on the books would increase the debt” and would affect Brantford’s AA credit rating issued by Stan-dard and Poor.

“Either they hid it or they reported it to Standard and Poor, and Standard and Poor chose not to include it. Either way, it is fraud,” said Bow-man, who calls himself a “citizen prosecutor,” and who was until recently affiliated with Kevin Annett, a Chris-tian Minister from Vancou-ver, who had been authorized by the Mohawks to search for the bones of children at the former Mohawk Residential School.

Squire said he is feeling hopeful that “some resolve will come which we didn’t have before.” In 2008, he in-voiced the City of Brantford for $663 billion for the unre-solved lands matter. He said he was prompted to act after he learned Brantford council

“passed a resolution to get rid of about 209 properties.”

According to Brantford Council Minutes (June 18, 2012, available on-line), 65 of those properties have been assessed as being worth more than $14 million.

“The 209 properties are in the midst of Mohawk terri-tory,” said Squire, adding, the lands “are up for imme-diate auction. That leaves us in a position to do whatever we have to do.” Squire said that action would be peace-ful. “We’re going to do what-ever we can do to resolve this in a peaceful manner.”

Squire said progress on the issue had stalled-out after he invoiced Brantford in 2008, but Bowman’s serendipitous arrival at Kanata in July “pre-sented me with some options to resolve the land issues in a way that are beneficial to us.”

“I have a better under-standing of how things work, and we do have rights,” said Squire. “We are a people.”

Bowman claims to have studied law at Harvard, and has helped the Mohawks set up a website, mohawkwork-ers.wordpress.com. He said the next step is to provide a series of public service an-nouncements “to assist in the process of letting people know we’re on their side.”

Squire said he would wel-come negotiations. “I want to improve and create relation-ships with municipal govern-

ments in the Haldimand Tract that is fair and just, based on the Two Row. I’m after a new understanding based on mutual agreements.”

“We were given rights to one million acres,” Squire said, when the Mohawks moved to the area in 1784. Outstanding land claims with the federal and provincial governments are “a no-win situation for us.”

Squire said he hopes to unite the Mohawks “under our constitution” through the

new action. “As a people, we need to look at our roots as who we really are. We are people of the Great League of Peace and have a constitution that guides us.” Squire said it was “up to the Mohawks to lead. It’s our responsibil-ity as well.”

The Cease and Desist No-tice, served to Brantford Mayor Chris Friel on August 31 was also delivered that same day to County of Brant Mayor Ron Eddy; Haldimand County Mayor Ken Hewitt;

Six Nations Elected Chief William Montour on Friday August 31, 2012.

Also included in the notice were Patrick Doherty, who heads up Walton Internation-al Group Inc., Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon (CEO of Samsung Electronics); Gord Peters, Grand Chief of the Associa-tion of Iroquois and Allied Nations; and Lynda Tanaka, Chair of the Ontario Munici-pal Board.

Jason Bowman (left) is assisting the Mohawk Workers in a newly-launched legal fight to obtain compensation for lands lost since 1784 to development. A Cease and Desist order was delivered to Brant County, City of Brantford, Haldimand County, Six Nations of the Grand, as well as the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians, Walton International Group Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. And the Ontario Muncipal Board through their leaders. (Photo-graph by Stephanie Dearing).

By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

John Boots is an elder from Akwesasne who was at Six Nations recently for the re-cital of the Great Law. He is very concerned for the future and believes the answer to the coming calamities facing mankind can be found in the Great Law.

In 1972, when he was a much younger man, he was invited by a friend, Tom Cook, to go to Stockholm, Sweden, to participate in a worldwide council of pro-fessors, scholars, scientists and Onkwehon:we people in what he believes was one of the first serious meetings of minds regarding global warming and the ramifica-tions it will bring. The gath-ering was sponsored by the United Nations.

“Some of the Asian del-egations insisted that there

be North American Natives invited as well because they were told we are stewards of environment,” Boots recalls. “So there was a large contin-gent of Haudenosaunee and Navajo people there.”

Even back that long ago, the predictions made during that conference by the scien-tists and learned people of the day was very disturbing, ac-cording to Boots.

“They didn’t have any good news at all,” he says.

They said at that time that the ozone layer was thinning out, blaming freon, the cool-ing agent in refrigerators and air conditioners, and carbon emissions from vehicles, among other reasons.

“They predicted in 1972 that the weather conditions would become more ex-treme with very cold winters and very hot summers,” says Boots. “I remember one thing in particular. They said the

ice in glaciers may even be-gin to melt away,” he remem-bers. “Now I see stories in the media that in the Philippines some of the coastal villages and low lying areas are now underwater. I heard there are 850,000 people marooned on a small island,” because of the rise in ocean levels due to the melting glaciers.

“I read about a huge ice-berg, that is marooned just north of Newfoundland,” Boots says. “Some enterpris-ing people have started us-ing this big block of ice as a tourist attraction. They found a pod of whales close by the iceberg which really helps with tourism as well.”

According to him, the think tank said some of the eggs and larva of subterra-nean insects like worms and beetles may be coming to the surface and infesting parts of the world making it hard to grow crops.

“They said it could be worse than the sand storms of the 1930’s,” as the land would no longer be aerated and could turn into sand.

“There was no good news at all then,” says Boots. “When you hear in the news about record breaking temperatures as if that was something to be happy about?”

Today, he sees many of the predictions of 1972 coming true and fears for not only his own people but the world at large.

Boots believes that this is a sign.

“The Haudenosaunee peo-ple should be getting back to their clan systems and to their Nations that used to help one another and to prepare our young people and children for the things to come,” he says.

With all the gloom and doom around us, Boots be-lieves things like last week’s

gathering and recital of the Great Law and other Onkwehon:we gatherings are exactly what is needed, especially at this time, to help people get back to their tradi-tional ways of survival and caring for one another.

“When the Clan Mothers are raised up, they are the su-pervisors over the Chiefs,” he says. “The Clan Mothers are put up by their clans so the real power is in the people.

“The relegation of Clan Mothers in some communi-ties to that of kitchen help for the Chiefs is unheard of,” ac-cording to Boots. “She is to observe very closely the ac-tions and words of her Chief and when he errs, or makes a mistake, she has the right and the duty to take him aside and set him straight. Actually democracy is much purer and truer within the Confederacy because of these layers of su-pervision.”

In light of a recent news article, Boots is strongly ad-vocating the Haudenosaunee return to the Great Law and the Clan system for the sake of all humanity.

Stockholm gathering in 1972 predicted today’s events

John Boots is seeing predic-tions made in 1972 coming true today and is advocating an immediate return to the Great Law, the Clan System, and the traditional knowl-edge of the ancestors. (Photo by Jim Windle)


Support building for extension on residential school applicationsBy Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

The request for the AFN Chiefs to call for an exten-sion on the Sept. 19th dead-line for residential survivors to register for compensa-tion was discussed at the last AFN convention, ac-cording to Melba Thomas and Ida Martin, who helped host the recent “Strengthen-ing Survivor’s Connections” gathering at Six Nations Community Hall. But so far there has been no announce-ment made of any extension as the deadline looms only a few weeks away.

According to the women, there will be people left out for various reasons, but the news most relevant to the former survivors of the Mo-hawk Institute is last month’s announced release by the Huron Diocese of the An-glican Church of Canada of 21 boxes containing tens of thousands of Mush Hole and other residential school doc-uments. These documents may contain vital informa-tion, especially for survi-vors who have been denied compensation because their names could not be found in the school records to prove they ever attended.

According to a church spokesperson, it will take several more months to dig-

itize and record all of the documents that have been held in the Anglican archives for decades and others col-lected by church researchers and historians 12 years ago as part of their own internal investigation. Martin is very concerned that the govern-ment has left it up the the church itself to catalogue, digitize and process the doc-uments.

“(I’m concerned) because they are doing it themselves,” she says. “Bring them (the documents) out and have a 3rd party go through them.”

The women believe that the chances of purging these files and documents to pre-vent the coming to light of evidence that would hurt the image of the church or even cause possible legal reper-cussions is very high.

Thomas is afraid that, even if some documents have not already been purged in the 12 years the diocese has had ex-clusive access to them, they will be destroyed in the cata-loguing and digitizing pro-cess now under way.

Thomas and Martin are now trying to build a ground-swell of support to pressure the AFN to pressure the government to extend the deadline to allow for proper research of the recently re-leased files which will like-ly contain roll calls or other

day to day operational docu-ments from the Mush Hole that could prove that certain individuals actually attend-ed.

“The lawyers are becom-ing millionaires over this,” says Martin.

Shortly after the an-nouncement of the total sum of monies being set aside for residential school sur-vivors compensation, then AFN Chief Phil Fontaine was quoted as saying that from that total announced sum, more than 300 full time lawyers were being paid very well to block or reduce pay-ments to some survivors who have registered but have little evidence they ever attended a residential school.

Sen. Patrick Brazeau called the compensation system “a good first step,” but added, “the only thing I find uncomfortable is that the compensation for those First Nations people who went to residential schools is nothing compared to what the lawyers who worked on those cases made,” he said. “That’s outrageous.”

The Common Experi-ence Payment (CEP) is set at $10,000 for the first year and $3,000 for each addition-al year spent as a student.

More than 78,000 survi-vors have been paid an av-erage sum of $20,000. More

than $1.68-billion of the al-lotted $1.9-billion CEP fund has been awarded to claim-ants.

Victims of physical or sex-ual abuse can also apply for compensation under the In-dependent Assessment Pro-cess (IAP). To date, 29,700 applications have been made and more than 16,000 com-pleted, with an average pay-out of $117,000.

“A lot of people are now scrambling to register,” says Thomas. “It’s hard for some to admit what happened to them. Even family members

don’t really know because a lot of them won’t talk about it. It’s such a shame.”

According to federal Ab-original Affairs as of June 20, 2012, $1.55 billion has been paid out to IAP claim-ants. Government statistics also show that 39% of re-jected CEP claims were from individuals whose schools were not included on the list or those who could not prove they attended.

The women have started a survivors support group known in English as “We are Still Here”.

This name is in response to a statement made by fed-eral Indian Affairs Superin-tendent Duncan Campbell Scott. Early last century he predicted that through the Indian school system of as-similation and intermarriage with European settlers, that by 1920 there would be no Indians left and Canada would be done with the “In-dian Problem” for good.

To date, Indian Affairs has only admitted to the residen-tial schools as “an education-al policy gone wrong,” and not genocide.

Residential school survivors, some who have not been back since children, some with mem-bers of their family, take a guided tour through the Mush Hole. For some it took a lot of courage to do so. Others however could not bring themselves to go back into the school and remained outside. (Photo by Jim Windle)

Renewable Energy Approval – Notice of Meetingss. 15(1)(b) Ontario Regulation 359/09

NOTICE OF FINAL PUBLIC MEETINGTo be held by Penn Energy Renewables, Ltd. regarding a

Proposal to Engage in a Renewable Energy Project

Project Name: Penn Energy – Brantgate (OPA Contract ID# F-001576-SPV-130-505)

Project Location: 153 Bishopsgate Road, Township of Burford, County of Brant (Concession 11, Part of Lot 1 & 2).

Dated at the Township of Burford, County of Brant this the 26th day of June, 2012.

Penn Energy Renewables, Ltd. is planning to engage in a renewable energy project in respect of which the issuance of a renewable energy approval is required. The proposal to engage in the project and the project itself is subject to the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act (ACT) Part V.0.1 and Ontario Regulation 359/09 (Regulation). This notice must be distributed in accordance with section 15 of the Regulation prior to an application being submitted and assessed for completeness by the Ministry of the Environment.

Meeting Location: DATE: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 TIME: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Open House Format)

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Project Description: Pursuant to the Act and Regulation, the facility, in respect of which this project is to be engaged in, is considered to be a class 3 ground mounted solar photovoltaic renewable energy generating facility according to the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act. If approved, this facility would have a total maximum name plate capacity of 8 MW (AC).

Documents for Public Inspection: A copy of the Draft PDR - Project Description Report was made available for public inspection at the first Public Meeting held on September 17th, 2010 and is also available at the project’s website: www.PennEnergyRenewables.com.

Further, the applicant has obtained or prepared, as the case may be, the following supporting documents in order to comply with the requirements of the Act and Regulation. Written copies of the draft supporting documents will be made available for public inspection no later than August 12th, 2012 at the County of Brant office and also at the project’s website: www.PennEnergyRenewables.com.

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Oneida Nation to host Great Law recital in 2013By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

The recent controversial recital and discussion of the Great Law as presented by members of the Men’s Fire and others, seems to have planted a seed in the Onei-da Nation.

This past Saturday at the Onondaga Longhouse, Oneida Chief Howard Elijah made it known that planning has begun for a Great Law recital in Oneida, near Lon-don, but according to Chief Elijah, this time it will be done the right way.

After several years of planning for the recital at Six Nations a few weeks ago, a controversy arose only days before the event when certain Clan Mothers objected to two important elements of the planned re-cital and ordered the sitting Chiefs not to accept the in-vitation wampum string brought to them by the event organizers. They insist that it was their understanding that the Confederacy had sanctioned the event when they appointed Ron “Hum” Thomas to follow up on the planned recital on the Chief’s behalf.

The recital went ahead without the official sanction-ing by the traditional Chiefs and some Clan Mothers.

“My Nation talked of the work needed to bring this knowledge to our peo-ple,” said Chief Elijah. “We would like to invite the Haudenosaunee Confeder-acy Chiefs Council and Clan Mothers to come help us do it right.”

He estimated that to do all that needs to be done in preparation, would take at least one year to ensure it was delivered properly.

He recalled several years ago Oneida was to host a re-cital featuring Jake Thomas but unfortunately, he passed away before that could hap-pen.

He pointed out that as the elders with the knowledge pass on to the spirit world, they take with them that knowledge and that the Six Nations people need to “take advantage of those with the knowledge while we still have them.” He again re-

ferred to the missed oppor-tunity to host Jake Thomas’ recital.

Elijah formally asked Le-roy “Jock” Hill and Onon-daga Chief Pete Skye to be two of the speakers for the event. When he was young-er, Hill sat under the teach-ing of Thomas and, along with his own study, Elijah believes he has become well acquainted with the ancient teaching within the Six Na-

tions of the Grand River Territory.

Chief Elijah was asking for guidance from the Coun-cil as to what they consider to be the proper way to go about the planning, invita-tions and the recital itself.

“My people have become hungry for (understand-ing of) the Great Law,” he said.

He added that many of his people have felt left out of

the loop, as it were.“The Great Law is sup-

posed to bring our people together,” said Elijah. “We want to respect the Chiefs and Clan Mothers like the peacemaker did. This is medicine to us. It is what being Haudenosaunee means.”

Although he said the Chiefs often do small con-dolences which contain many of the aspects of the

Great Law, it is long over-due to have a full recital.

He is targeting July of 2013 as the projected date.

He recommended that each Nation hold a similar recital and sometime after that, the entire Six Nations should host a big one for all Nations.

The recent recital at the Six Nations Community Hall attracted an average of 200 people per day over the

10 day event. Organizers are certain that the last minute controversy caused many who had initially commit-ted to attend to back off, not wishing to interfere with the inner politics of Six Nations of the Grand River.

Those who did attend were thankful they were able to hear, some for the first time, the Great Law of Peace, despite the contro-versy.

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to be held by Prowind Inc. regarding a Proposal to Engage in a Renewable Energy Project

Project Name: Gunn’s Hill Wind Farm Project Location: Township of Norwich and City of Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario Dated at Hamilton this the 30th of August 2012 Prowind Inc. is planning to engage in a renewable energy project in respect of which the issuance of a renewable energy approval is required. The distribution of this notice of a proposal to engage in this renewable energy project, the notice of a public meeting, and the project itself are subject to the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act (ACT) Part V.0.1 and Ontario Regulation 359/09 (Regulation). This notice must be distributed in accordance with section 15 of the Regulation prior to an application being submitted and assessed for completeness by the Ministry of the Environment. This project is being proposed in accordance with the requirements of the Act and Regulation. Meeting Location: DATE: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 TIME: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm PLACE: Vansittart Room, Quality Inn & Suites, 580 Bruin Blvd., Woodstock Project Description: Pursuant to the Act and Regulation, the facility, in respect of which the project is to be engaged in, is considered to be a Wind Energy Facility, Class 4. If approved, this facility would have a total maximum nameplate capacity of 25 MW. The project location is described in the map below. The project location of this facility has expanded to include land within the City of Woodstock municipal boundaries; therefore, this additional Notice of Proposal and Notice of Public Meeting has been issued. Documents for Public Inspection: The Draft Project Description Report titled Gunn’s Hill Wind Farm Project Description Report – DRAFT describes the facility as a ten-turbine wind farm on agricultural land, with each turbine producing 2.5 MW of electricity for a total energy output of 25 MW. A written copy of the Draft Project Description Report is being made available for public inspection on Sept. 7, 2012 at the Woodstock Public Library, 445 Hunter St., Woodstock and Norwich Public Library, 10 Tidey St., Norwich and is available for download online at www.prowind.ca. Project Contacts and Information: To learn more about the project proposal or for general communications, please contact: Prowind Canada Inc. 226 ! James St. N., Unit A Hamilton, ON L8R 2L3 Telephone: (905) 528-1747 Fax: (866) 203 6516 Email: [email protected] Website: www.prowind.ca

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A response to Hazel Hill A couple of weeks ago Hazel Hill distributed a paper called “IF IT’S NOT THE STRUC-

TURE HE GAVE US, IT’S NOT THE LAW”. In this paper Hazel attacked just about everybody and anyone who has opposing views, even a non-native editor who was simply expressing his opinion. She accused us all of not taking responsibility for our part in the confederacy process and the structure the Creator gave to us. But if we think about it neither is Hazel, the confed-eracy council and the HDI following the traditional system as they should be.

First of all we know birth determines our nation and our clan. We know the traditional system follows the maternal lineage which means any children born to a non-native mother are considered non-native. So by allowing such people to speak on their behalf and to act as their representative are the confederacy chiefs adhering to the structure and process as laid out by the Creator?

“We’ve got band councillors yacking about not hearing about any clan meetings….” she writes, going on to say we should be attending confederacy council meetings if we want to know what is going on. This is 2012. When the confederacy structure and processes were put in place there were few villages and a handful of people in each clan. Today we have over 12,000 people just living on reserve alone. With the confederacy council holding its “monthly” meetings at the Onondaga Longhouse it’s unrealistic to expect the longhouse can accommo-date 12,000 people, including those living off reserve who may want to attend just so we can all find out what is going on.

Furthermore we know that probably 99 per cent of the people don’t speak and understand the language; yet the confederacy chiefs still hold their meetings in the language sometimes interpreting but most times not. I attended a few meetings before and would attend more meet-ings. But if I don’t know what they’re talking about well….

Secondly, according to Hazel the HDI reports “directly to the clans through the clan moth-ers”. So in the structure and process as Hazel understands it the clan mothers would inform their clan families. The logical thing to do then would be to have clan meetings. But to my knowledge the clan mothers are not hosting any meetings so this means the community is not being consulted. Or could it be the clan mothers are having meetings but only telling a select few?

Again this is 2012. Understandably, with several hundred people belonging to each clan family it’s unrealistic to expect the clan mothers to hold regular clan meetings. A clan mother would have to hold a meeting at the ILA just to accommodate her family. Does the HDI give the clan mothers some of the money they get from developers to cover their

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Misunderstanding with HDI explainedCrow, like Cod Liver Oil, never tastes good going down but it is always good for

you in the long run. A couple of weeks ago, we made a serious mistake when we assumed Hazel Hill

and the HDI had received an email we sent seeking information relative to the ac-tivities of the HDI, and simply chose not to respond.

The misunderstanding began with a list of questions we electronically sent Ha-zel. The week previous to that, we had some issues with not being let in on news of some HDI dealings, as published in the other local paper.

We had a conversation with Aaron Detlor about it, shook hands and put that issue behind us. However, we admit to still being a little chafed over it. That is why we emailed the list of questions, as Hazel had suggested we do, so we would have a record of it. When we did not get an answer, nor a notice of an undeliverable email returned to us, it was easy to take it the wrong way. Which apparently we did.

Hazel insisted she did not get that list of questions. We insisted we had in fact sent it. As it turns out, we were both right. We checked our transmission records and, sure enough, we did send the message as we thought we had. However, Hazel continued to insist she did not receive it and suggested we may have inadvertently sent it to someone else. We went back and checked again and discovered that she was absolutely right. The message went out to [email protected] instead of [email protected].

That is our true and honest chronology of what created the misunderstanding. We have personally apologized to Hazel E. Hill and hope the other Hazel Hill, wherever she may be, isn’t still wondering what the hell those questions were all about.

As is usually the case when one feels unfairly misrepresented, Hazel responded with an angry letter to the community. We now understand her upset in feeling that she was ambushed in our article.

For our part, we call for a truce between ourselves, Hazel, and the HDI, with this unsolicited, full and open apology, trusting we can move past this misunderstand-ing and leave all this behind us and continue to inform our readers of what the HDI is doing.

We have since sent Hazel (the real Hazel) the same questions we asked at that time and are currently awaiting a response which we will publish verbatim when we receive it.

Once again, we apologize to Hazel, the HDI and to our readers for our part in this misunderstanding.

‘92 Arrows will always be championsWhat a pleasure covering the reunion of the 1992 Minto Cup winning Six Na-

tions Arrows. It was very obvious in watching them interact and joke around with each other that these guys hold a special place in each others’ lives, long after the glory days have passed.

We trust the same emotions are felt by members of the 2007 Arrows, all five Founders Cup Rebels teams, and any team of players in any sport who have, ‘gone through the wars” as it were, even if they never won a championship.

There is a lot of personal satisfaction in reaching the pinnacle of any sport, but there is something even more special about doing it as a team, with all members depending on each other to cover their backs and to assist in achieving their mutual goal.

Parents, if you have a young one, even if you are not sports oriented, any team endeavour, whether it’s lacrosse, hockey, baseball, bowling or a chess team, instills invaluable life skills that cannot be achieved in any other way. It also produces life long friends, as we witnessed this past weekend.

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To whom this may concern:This is toad, the one and only, calling all Ongwehon:weh. I am doing what I think and believe I

am supposed to be doing — standing up for our law, the Great Law of the Universe — since Aug. 31, 1142, protecting Mother Earth.

As I go through this struggle of trying to find out what I am doing here, why do I feel like some-thing needs to be done?

I am only one person out of many who know if we follow the right ones, the traditional Chiefs, the Confederate Chiefs, the 50 Chiefs, who truly have the say. I believe our strength will return.

I felt diminished as I heard the no-clanners, the Christians, making decisions for our next seven generations. We need our proper leaders making our future, not developers to look nice.

I am sorry if I am stepping out of line, but I am trying to be honest and as straight forward as I can be. I am not trying to hurt anyone, as everyone else is, or so it would seem to be.

Theresa “Toad” Jamieson

costs for meetings? Not likely. Hazel writes that “we have colonized ourselves so much that we think that the clan mothers

and chiefs have to come to us, door to door, telling us what is going on.” That isn’t true but they do need to start having community meetings or utilize some other form of communication to keep people informed and abreast of what the HDI is doing.

In her paper Hazel says the issue isn’t about governance but “seems more like ‘Who’s the boss’. The only ones who want to control everything and everybody is the HDI. Hazel even wrote a letter to Paul General, Manager of the Eco Centre, telling him to “cease and desist” his work. For over 30 years Paul has worked diligently to protect Six Nations rights and to ensure Six Nations gets the recognition it deserves for a variety of land projects up and down the Haldimand Tract. And just like that without even knowing the extent of Paul’s work Hazel tells him to quit. Why would the chiefs want Paul to “cease and desist” when he does such important work for our lands and our rights.

Anyway, Hazel needs to walk her talk as the saying goes instead of pointing fingers at all of us. She certainly didn’t write her paper with “a good mind” and respect for her people as the Cre-ator instructs.

Councillor Helen Miller

NEW FIRM WILL BUILD THERMAL TREATMENT PLANT

Kearns International Ltd. of North Sidney, Nova Scotia was awarded the contract to complete the Thermal Treatment Plant at the Six Nations dump site. Meanwhile, Six Nations continues legal action against EnEco Systems Inc., the original company who failed to honor its contract. A judgment debtor examina-tion was conducted on August 8, 2012 in Vancouver of Mr. Dickinson as President on behalf of EnEco Systems Inc. We are asking the Court to order Mr. Dickinson to reimburse Six Nations the full cost of the contract agreement.

Kearns has agreed to supply a patented Kearns Waste Disintegration System to deal with solid waste located on the site. This unique system is capable of meeting and exceeding all applicable environmental regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Act as well as the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.

The project is a two Phase Project. In Phase 1 Kearns International will supply an existing 20 ton per day Disintegration System that is 85% complete for period of time to take care of the current waste problems at the Six Nations dump site. During Phase 1 Kearns will conduct a complete waste audit to identify the needs of a permanent system for Six Nations. The cost to complete Phase 1 is $480,000 which has been paid to Kearns as of Friday, August 24, 2012. The Phase 1 por-tion of the project will be complete in 150 days from August 24, 2012.

In Phase 2 and after the waste audit is complete and the design of the perma-nent system is complete, Kearns and SNEC will complete negotiations to enter into a final agreement. If the negotiations result in a final agreement the initial payment of $480,000 will be applied to the cost of the permanent system. If the negotiations fail, Kearns will reimburse SNEC the $480,000 and remove the 20 ton machine from the Six Nations territory.

“The Kearns system is a unique patented process that will meet Six Nations household waste needs without burying anything,” said Chief Montour.

OPP BriefsStaffBRANT & HALDIMAND

Arrests follow another visit by McHale to Surrey

StreetHaldimand OPP said they

arrested seven people “to pre-vent a breach of the peace” at approximately 2:15 pm on Sunday, September 2. Anoth-er four people were arrested for trespassing onto Ontario

Infrastructure property, and all 11 were released from cus-tody later that day. The peo-ple charged with trespassing are to appear at the Provincial Offences Court in Cayuga in November.

OPP change address for victim of collision

A Six Nations woman was the victim of a collision that took place on Bateman Line on August 25. Initially Brant OPP had reported the victim, 33 year old Sherri Hill, was

from New Credit. Brant OPP have corrected their report, saying Ms. Hill is from Six Nations. An investigation into the single vehicle collision is still ongoing. The car, which was travelling on Bateman Line south of Burtch Road,

left the road for unknown rea-sons and rolled over. Ms. Hill was partially ejected from the vehicle, and was pronounced dead on the scene, but there will be a postmortem exami-nation to determine the cause of Ms. Hill's death.

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Teachings on Wampum Belts wraps up Lunch and Learn seriesBy Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN

The last of the August Lunch and Learn series, which took place in Six Na-tions Veteran’s Park Wednes-day August 29, left people asking for more.

Organizer Jan Kahehti:io Longboat wasn’t sure if she would organize the series for next summer, so those in-terested in similar informal

workshops will have to wait and see what Kahehti:io de-cides to do.

Historian Rick Hill pre-sented the last of the Wednes-day workshops offered in August, talking about Wam-pum Belts.

Wampum Belts were used by a number of different First Peoples, and Hill said the oldest known Wampum Belt is Huron. “The oldest tubu-lar bear found around here is

from 1,500,” he said.Most people are aware

belts were used for convey-ing messages, alliances and promises. There were other uses for belts. The sacred Wampum also had other uses, Hill explained. In the case of murder, “the only way to atone for such a serious crime was to give Wampum.” A tra-dition Hill said has been lost was the placing of Wampum into a grave when someone

was buried. “Once the Wam-pum was put in the grave, the grief was carried in there.”

Some of those hold-ing significance for today are the belts made by the Crown and given to Six Na-tions. Hill showed a replica of the Big Belt with George Washington, as one example. The belt, he said, signified a promise from George Wash-ington to the Haudenosaunee to “protect our land interests

in the United States.” He said “it’s ironic because a year lat-er he ordered the destruction of [over 40] Haudenosaunee villages.”

That betrayal of promises made happened again and again on the part of the Euro-pean settlers and their descen-dants. Showing an example of the Silver Covenant Chain, representing the relationship between British and Haude-nosaunee, which dates back

to at least 1677, Hill said “to go back and rebuild our rela-tionship we need to start with respect.”

Recollecting a lacrosse tournament held in Great Britain in the past, Hill re-called how the Hiawatha Flag was the first to be raised – and respected by the audience. Six Nations members don’t like to show respect to the flags signifying the Crown,

Third annual Fish Quill Poetry Boat tour wraps up at ChiefswoodBy Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS

Just as the sun was mak-ing its way towards the west-ern horizon en route towards bathing the eastern hemi-sphere in its golden glows, a different sort of glow was beginning to affect people at the Chiefswood National Historic Site.

Five travelling poets, ac-companied by one musician, met up at Chiefswood with local musicians Dawn and Marra and Six Nations sing-er and actor, Shelley Clark,

for the last stop on the an-nual Fish Quill Poetry Tour. It is the second year the tour has stopped at Chiefswood.

“It’s appropriate to have Fish Quill here,” said Chiefswood curator, Karen Dearlove, as she officially welcomed the guests before turning over the microphone to the visiting artists.

The mood was relaxed, the atmosphere ambient, as the small group of people who came out to experience an-other kind of culture relaxed. The smell of citron bug spray flavoured the air while crick-

ets, birds and other creatures filled the air with goodnight conversations as Jack Marks added his mellifluous guitar and voice.

Marks was one of the ca-noeists who had travelled from Elora to Chiefswood on the Grand River, mak-ing stops along the way to provide poetry readings mixed with musical perfor-mances. The tour takes ten days to complete. Now in its third year, the tour officially kicked off with a reading in Toronto.

This year Janet Baine, a

print communications spe-cialist for the Grand Riv-er Conservation Authority, paddled along with the art-ists on Sunday. “This river is about 300 kilometers long,” she said, adding, “There are about 11,000 kilometers of streams incorporated into the Grand River watershed.” GRCA received the Theiss Riverprize, an international

award, for its management of the Grand River, which was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1994.

Organizing tour poets Linda Besner and Leight Kotsildis joined fellow pad-dlers Moez Surani, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff and Darryl Whetter provided readings. Books and music CDs were available for pur-

chase.According to informa-

tion provided by Besner and Kotsildis, most poetry readings are scheduled for larger urban centres. The idea of canoeing the Grand River appealed to the wom-en because “rivers were the communication systems in much of Canada before peo-ple built roads.”

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Kevin McPherson Eckhoff entertained a small group of people who came out to the Chiefs-wood National Historic Site to hear five poets and a number of musicians in the last stop of the annual Fish Quill Poetry Boat tour. The tour is organized by two poets, who were part of those giving a reading Sunday evening. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

Little did Paul Royter re-alize that performing magic tricks as a young boy would one day lead to saving peo-ples lives by helping them quit smoking for good.

Paul Royter’s career be-gan as a magician. From a very early age he always had a knack for doing the impossible. He received a magic kit for Christmas in 1960 and became a good childhood friend of the leg-endary magician Doug Hen-ning. In the 1970’s when he lived in Los Angeles, Paul was a regular member of Hollywood’s famed magic castle and become friends with many of the world’s greatest magicians.

After many years of per-forming his magic all around the globe, Paul turned to the art of stage hypnosis. He eventually developed what was to become one of Cana-da’s finest theatrical comedy hypnosis shows. His name is well known in many parts of Canada, having travelled back and fourth across the country with sell out crowds for over 30 years.

Paul’s Hypnosis shows have appeared in more than 30 countries around the world. He is the only person ever to present his own solo cross country show all across New Zealand for International Entertainment Corporation for three consecutive years in a row. Many pictures of Paul’s early career as a ma-gician as well as a stage hyp-

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Several years ago Paul became aware of the fact that he could save peoples lives by using his powerful hypnotic voice. Paul lost both of his parents due to smoking related issues. In 2010 Paul gave up his suc-cessful touring career as a stage hypnotist and decid-ed to dedicate the rest of his life to helping people to help themselves stop smoking. His EZ Method removes a persons desire to smoke.

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St. Mary’s Cement begins First Nation consultation on new quarryBy Stephanie DearingNEW CREDIT

As St. Mary’s Cement gets closer in its process of apply-ing for a licence to operate a quarry situated on 500 acres in Brant County, something it has been actively planning since 2003, the company be-gan its consultations with First Nations, starting with New Credit Council.

A team of three people, representing St. Mary’s Cement (Melanie Horton), landscape architectural consulting firm, Harrington McAvan (Glenn Har-rington), and Golder and Associates (Adria Grant), at-tended the August 20 meet-ing of New Credit Council. Grant brought along some of the artifacts found by her company at the site of the planned quarry, called the “Olszowka Pit.”

St. Mary’s Cement has been planning the quarry for the past seven years, and is approaching the point where it will be applying for a li-cence from the Ministry of Natural Resources. There are two Provincially Sig-nificant Wetlands on two sides of the proposed quar-ry, which, while covering approximately 500 acres, will be split into two sec-tions, with a road and “per-haps the nicest trout stream I’ve ever seen,” said Har-rington, running between two segments. That stream is the reason why the stud-ies, particularly water stud-ies, have been so extensive, he explained.

“We spent a long time making absolutely sure that we can operate what is es-sentially an agricultural field without interfering with that flow of water into the trout stream,” said Harrington. St. Mary’s Cement, which is celebrating its 100th anni-versary this year, hired Stan-tec to monitor the water on an ongoing basis.

Initial archeological as-sessments were completed in 2003, while noise, emis-sions, and traffic studies have been completed or are close to being finalized. Har-

rington’s company has cre-ated site plans for the quarry. St. Mary’s Cement is close to filing an application with the Ministry of Natural Re-sources for the quarry, but Harrington said the com-pany wanted to begin a dia-logue with people first.

“The landscape in Ontario is changing with regard to approvals,” said Harrington. He said once an application is made to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) “the requirements for tim-ing are very, very strict.” He said they told the MNR “we want to start this process but we don’t want to apply be-cause we want to listen to what people have to say.”

The property where the quarry is intended to go is currently a farm, but with sandy soil, irrigation is needed for the crops, which include horseradish, “a vari-ety of vegetables, broccoli,” said Harrington. St. Mary’s Cement has obtained lease rights to the 500 acres for its quarry.

Once the aggregate has been extracted, the quarry will be rehabilitated, and three small lakes will dot the landscape. Aggregate extraction will go below the water table. While the quar-ry is active, the company will ensure there is a green corridor to allow the move-ment of wildlife around the operation.

Grant briefed council on the archeological assess-ments completed. The ar-cheological work began in 2003, and identified 54 pre-contact sites. “Only 24 of these were subject to any further work,” said Grant, and have gone to stage three assessments. She said the sites were “very small tem-porary hunting and fishing camps,” adding they were finding projectile points. “The majority of the arti-facts are small little chips, basically these are the result of somebody sitting and cre-ating some tools or perhaps sharpening” the projectile tips.

The strategy is to protect “as many sites as possible,”

said Grant. Those sites that “could not be avoided,” will be excavated to protect the artifacts.

“The way we do things now are very different,” said Grant. Involving First Na-tions communities with the archaeology is now a “big way in how we work.” As work has continued on the archeological assessments at the Olszowka Pit, Golder and Associates has brought in New Credit archeologi-cal monitors, as well as two individuals who are “regu-lar employees” of the com-pany.

Carolyn King, who is New Credit’s Consultation and Accommodation Offi-cer, told the delegation of guests New Credit wants recognition and access to do ceremonies, as well as hunt, fish and gather plants. “We’re proposing, and New Credit is taking the initiative to establish a universal sym-bol to recognize sites that are identified as Mississau-ga, Ojibway, Anishinawbe sites, Iroquois, Huron-Wen-dat here in southern Ontar-io ... we could talk about that.”

“Access, whenever any-thing is built, we lose all that access,” said King. She cited the Davisville site as an ex-ample, and urged the dele-gation to “think about some of those more traditional things.” The loss of access “is never compensated.”

King also expressed a concern that archeologists

consider “our old tools as novelties,” and said she wanted to see “something formal to recognize that” the land was part of New Credit’s traditional territory.

“That’s exactly what we want to hear today,” said Harrington. “This is a new process for us. When we started this, the Ministry of Natural Resources told us under no circumstances

should we contact Aborig-inal groups, that was their job to do ... It’s a different world today, probably a bet-ter world, and that’s exact-ly what we’re doing here. I think there are opportunities for access here, certainly op-portunities for recognition ... as I said, we have time to make this happen in a way that everybody understands what happened here.”

Horton wrapped up the visit by saying they would leave copies of the studies completed so far with coun-cil. “But you may have spe-cific knowledge of this area that may help us ... So we’d like to talk about that with you as well... Please let us know how we can stay in touch and we’d like to know how you would like to be in-volved.”

New Credit councillors look over artifacts brought to the August 20 council meeting by a Golder and Associates employee. The company is doing archeological assessments on the lands St. Mary’s Cement intends to turn into a quarry (the Olszowka Pit), west of Brantford. The meeting was the first time St. Mary’s Cement has begun consultations with any First Nation about its quarry. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).

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No movement to restart work at BurtchBy Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS

One Six Nations business owner is still waiting for ac-cess to the Burtch job site – and payment -- after envi-ronmental remediation work was shut down over three weeks ago.

In a situation that Con-federacy Council Secretary Leroy Hill described as “a power struggle going on be-tween three or four parties,” all remediation work on Burtch was put on hold on August 13, meaning Six Na-tions contractor Dan Elliott and his five employees have not been working on the job ever since. Elliott has claimed the Haudenosaunee Develop-ment Institute (HDI) stopped the work.

And Infrastructure Ontar-io also initially said HDI shut down the site, but in an email sent late Tuesday afternoon, Caroline Knight, spokesper-son for Infrastructure Ontar-io said, “Further remediation work was placed on hold at

the request of the Haudeno-saunee Development Institute over the procurement of the environmental monitor.”

That’s what HDI Inter-im Director Hazel Hill has maintained. When reached by telephone Tuesday after-noon, she said HDI lawyer Aaron Detlor expressed dis-comfort in proceeding with work at Burtch when the province was changing the terms of the agreement with-out consulting with the Con-federacy. The province then stopped the work.

One of those discomforting changes was the removal of Drew Hill as the Environmen-tal Monitor. Knight confirmed in an earlier email statement Drew Hill had been hired as the Environmental Monitor “since the remediation and restoration of the Burtch site began [in 2009] to ensure that the work is performed in ac-cordance with the contract documents and any applicable environmental legislation.”

“That project involved the removal of 38 main buildings,

other smaller structures, and three miles of airport run-ways. Environmental reme-diation and land rehabilitation have also been conducted in order to rehabilitate the 379 acre site to an agricultural state,” said Knight.

Knight said that once work had been completed, “Infrastructure Ontario (IO) identified a need for further remediation work and fol-lowed the government’s pro-curement policies to procure the contractors that were nec-essary for the new phase of remediation work. Vendors were selected through an open, fair and competitive procurement process.”

Reached by phone, Drew Hill said he understood about 12 to 13 firms had submitted bids for the latest work on the site, including his. Hill said he did not want to comment on the issue. “I’m just going to let them figure it out.”

Leroy Hill said Drew is owed back pay by the prov-ince, and the Confederacy wants him reinstated as the

Environmental Monitor.Another bone of conten-

tion for HDI and Confederacy Council is that the province is attempting to sidestep the Confederacy, and is plan-ning to give Burtch to Elected Council instead of Confeder-acy, violating the agreement made in 2006, said Hazel Hill.

In the interim, Elliott’s five-man crew “is behind on bills. I loaned them some money, but I’m not rich.” El-liott said. If the work stop-page continued much longer, he might have to dig into his retirement savings, an option he would rather not have to contemplate. Altogether, he and his employees have lost over $30,000, Elliott has cal-culated.

Elliott went to Elected Council on August 28 to seek help with the shut-down, which began on August 13. At the time, Elected Chief Wil-liam Montour asked Elliott to provide him with contact information for some people involved with the project. El-

liott later said the efforts of the Elected Chief did not re-sult in any changes to the situ-ation.

Elliott also went to Confed-eracy Council on September 1st, where he was “given di-rection,” said Hazel Hill. But a dissatisfied Elliot disagrees, saying he was not given any direction.

Leroy Hill said the plan out-lined at Confederacy Council by HDI was that Elliott was to bring in his paperwork for lost revenue, even though he does not have a contract for the work, and HDI would attempt to leverage the pay from the province.

However, Elliott wants HDI to reimburse him for the monies he is losing as a result of the work being put on hold. He presented Hazel Hill with his invoice Tuesday morning, but Hill said she refused it be-cause HDI is not responsible for the stoppage of work at Burtch.

“The issue isn’t about these individuals,” said Hazel Hill. “The issue is the province

tried to renege on our agree-ment.” The issue “is about our land and our agreement, which to me is our law.”

HDI is working to have El-liott reimbursed by the prov-ince, said Hazel Hill. She said she has emailed the province several times, but still has not heard back about setting a date for a meeting.

Elliott, in the meanwhile, has taken his invoice to his lawyer. He said he is afraid his crew might look for oth-er work, which would leave him in the lurch if the work resumes at Burtch. Unhappy with being made to wait for an indefinite period of time, Elliott holds HDI responsible for the situation.

“They’re the reason we’re shut down. Hazel Hill and Aaron Detlor was the ones behind it. They don’t want to take responsibility, but they want to shut you down,” said Elliott.

“Hazel Hill and Aaron Detlor, they’re getting paid anyway, so why should they worry,” said Elliott.


’92 Arrows brush off the dust at the GPABy Jim WindleOHSWEKEN

There has been a lot of lacrosse played since 1992, but Cam Bomberry will never forget the Cinderella Six Nations Arrows team that surprised everyone but themselves by winning the National Championship as the best Jr. A Lacrosse team in Canada.

Twenty years later, the 1992 Minto Cup champions got together at the old Six Nations Arena (now called the Gaylord Powless Arena) this past weekend for a cele-bration of that remarkable ac-complishment and a chance to tell those old stories to each other again and bask in the afterglow that still burns in their hearts.

There was supposed to be a scrimmage game against a team of old-timers from the St. Catharines area, but that somehow failed to material-ize. Instead, a team of present Jr. A Arrows and Jr. B Rebels was hastily put together and an hour and a half later there was a game.

That delay didn’t seem to matter one little bit. After all, it was more about getting to-gether again to celebrate the ’92 Arrows than anything else. The game was second-ary.

Some of the special com-

memorative Arrows jerseys were a little tighter than they were in ’92, and some of the wheels showed considerable rust, but what do you expect.

“It’s been 20 years,” said Cam Bomberry, who won MVP honours that year. “We were a close bunch of guys back in the day. You don’t win something like that and not develop close friendships. Growing up together as little

guys here at Six Nations and even up to now, we’ve known each other all our lives.”

Cap Bomberry, Kevin San-dy and few others sat around a table one day and said, “we have to get a Jr. A team here at Six Nations and bring these boys back home and play to-gether again.”

With dogged determina-tion and a lot of work, that is exactly what happened.

“I was in St Catharines, and a bunch of guys played in Hamilton,” Cam Bomber-ry recalls. “We were separat-ed at the time because there wasn’t a Jr. A team.”

The Arrows franchise be-gan as the Six Nations Braves in 1974 as a Jr. “C” franchise. In 1979 they became the Ar-rows and moved up to Jr. B status and finished in first place in the Western Division

that year and the next.Fast forward to 1990 when

the Arrows moved up to OLA Jr. A status. That first year was not good for the new Ar-rows, who finished seventh and out of the running for the playoffs.

The next year, in 1991, they fared much better, fin-ishing third and making it to the OLA final where they lost. However the loss

had taught the Arrows how to win, and in 1992, all the stars were aligned and after once again finishing the regu-lar season in third place, the Arrows went on to win the league title and the Minto Cup.

The franchise had many ups and downs since then, winning three league cham-pionships in 2004, 2005, and

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The full 1992 roster included: Bob Henry, Chad Squires, Darren Wilson, Brandon Hill, Jason Johnson, Randy Renuad, Scott Ronson, Ed Vyse, Tra-vis Hill, Scott Cavin, Trevor Brennan, Doyle Bomberry, Tim Bomberry, Pete Skye Jr., Miles General, Wayne VanEvery, Cam Bomberry, Neil Bomberry, Dallas Squires, Arlie LaForme, Ken Sandy, Yul Baker, and George Baker. Coach Dave General, General Manager Cap Bomberry, Asst. coaches Claude Sault, and Jack Hill, President Brian Staats, Vice-president Louis Staats, Team manager Keith Martin, Equipment manager Wayne Miller, and advisor Pete Skye Sr. and Trainer, Art Smith.

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2006, but could not get over that last hurdle to bring the Minto back to Six Nations. Not until 2007 when they fi-nally captured their second National title.

Since then the Arrows have been consistent contenders but have fallen just short of their third Minto Cup.

But the Dave General coached and Cap Bomberry managed 1992 team was the first and they are proud of that to this day. General still wells up a bit when he talks about that time and that team. And the same goes for every-one associated with it.

“On our 10th anniversa-ry we had a little shindig in Brantford and brought all the boys back for that,” says Cam. “Even then there was talk about what we are going to do for the 20th anniversary. We had high hopes of maybe all going to Hawaii together or something. But eventually we got real and came back to an anniversary scrimmage.

“It was lacrosse that brought us together in the first place and if it’s lacrosse

that brings us together again, that’s alright with me,” he says.

Together again after 20 years, the 1992 Minto Cup Champion Six Nations Arrows pulled on the equipment again, this time just for the fun of it. (Photo by Jim Windle)

The 1992 Minto Cup winning Six Nations Arrows were back at the old arena for the 20th anniversary gathering and exhibition game over the weekend. Just in case you don’t recog-nize the faces, here are their jersey numbers. (Photo by Jim Windle)

After the formalities and a few inside stories that never get old, the ’92 Arrows took on a pick-up team of current Jr. A and Jr. B players for an exhibition game. The score doesn’t matter at all. It was all for fun and camaraderie. (Photo by Jim Windle)

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Six Nations Warriors take inaugural Dreamcatcher Festival honoursBy Jim WindleSIX NATIONS

It was a celebration of la-crosse and young up-coming lacrosse talent as the inaugu-ral Dreamcatcher U-16 La-crosse Festival kicked off Friday August 31 and con-tinued through September 2nd, at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.

Two Six Nations entries plus teams from Onondaga, Tuscarora, and Tonawanda NY went head to head but in the end, it was the Six Nations Warriors who took the gold medal by defeating Tuscarora 9-6 Sunday evening.

The Six Nations Warriors scored first in the champion-ship match-up with Brennan Ferguson scoring from Austin Staats and Thomas Miller at 7:06 of the first period.

Connor Fields tied the game at 1-1 at 8:44 assist-ed by Tehota Nanticoke and Hayes Hamby for Tuscarora, But the Warriors turned on the jets and hammered in three more to end the first period 4-1, with goals by Lyle An-derson, unassisted, and two by Staats. Assists went to Ferguson with two and Josh Miller.

Tuscarora fought back in the second period, out-scoring Six Nations 3-2 to carve the Warriors’ lead down to 6-4.

Steve Lickers scored first from Staats at 1:34, but Hayes Hamby got that one back for Tuscarora at 5:50 assisted by Fields and Tosh Hamby. Six Nations returned the favour at 8:32 when Staats netted his third of the game assisted by goalie Logan Hill.

Tuscarora got the last say, scoring the next two. Tosh Hamby and Evan Printup closed the second period scor-ing. Hamby concerted a cross-crease pass at 9:20, followed by Printup at 11:54. Printup, Nanticoke and Vern Hill as-sisted.

In the third period Tuscaro-ra’s frustration began to show in the form of penalties. Staats scored his fourth of the game to make it 7-4 at 7:40 from Ferguson and goalie Mitch Nanticoke who took over in net from Hill for the third pe-riod for Six Nations.

Alex Henry stole a ball from a Tuscarora defender right in front of their goal, and quickly turned and fired to double up on Tuscarora, 8-4 at 8:34.

Madison McAlfer an-swered for Tuscarora from Fields at 9:28 before Cole-

man Powless made it 9-5 for Six Nations with a nifty move in front of the Tuscarora goal when he showed pass and then fired it in without looking towards the goal. Alex Henry and Seth Ferguson assisted.

Tehota Nanticoke scored his second of the game for Tuscarora late in the game with Vern Hill assisting to round out the scoring at 9-6 in favour of the Warriors.

Leading up to the champi-onship medal game, Six Na-tions benefited from a forfeit over Tonawanda in the open-ing game of the tournament when the team did not show. The official score was 5-0.

Organizers patched togeth-er a third Six Nations team they called the Knighthawks after ILA owner Curt Styres’ NLL franchise.

Tuscarora defeated Onon-daga 6-4 in the 10 o’clock game. At 11 am, Six Nations U-16 Arrows were crushed by the Warriors, 23-1.

The Knighthawks were defeated 8-7 by Onondaga, before the Warriors beat Tus-carora 9-5 in the 1 pm game. At 2 pm, Onondaga beat Six Nations Arrows 15-2.

The Knighthawks and Tus-carora tied 4-4 at 3 pm, and the Warriors doubled up on Onondaga 12-6 in the 4 pm game. The Arrows and Tus-carora tied at 5-5 in the 5 pm game.

Sunday saw the Warriors defeat the Arrows 10-4 at 11 am, and Tuscarora slipped by Onondaga 6-5 before the lunch break.

That set up for the War-riors versus Tuscarora medal match-up mentioned. earlier

On hand for the post game medal presentation repre-senting the Dreamcatcher

Foundation was tournament Chairman, Emmanuel Lewis, known to the world as Web-ster from the long running TV series of the same name which began in 1983 and ran until 1987. The show contin-ued on syndication for anoth-

er two years.“This was an awesome

tournament,” he said follow-ing the medal presentations.

Lewis admits to never see-ing a lacrosse game until he began coming to Six Nations from his home in Atlanta,

Georgia, seven years ago to work with the Dreamcatch-ers. Nonetheless, he has de-veloped a love for the game, although he admits to liking hockey a bit more.

“Lacrosse is a pretty inter-esting game,” he said.

The Silver medallists, Tuscarora Thunder, are: Marlin Wilson, Hawk Robertson, Teheta Nanticoke, James McAninch, Hayes Hamby, Connor Fields, Devin Swanson, Evan Prin-tup, Owen Chapman, Lance Kraft, Tosh Hamby, Madison McAlfer, Levi Anderson, Cam McArtny, Vern Hill, and Layne Smith. (Photo by Jim Windle)

The Six Nations U-16 Warriors won the inaugural Dreamcatcher Foundation Lacrosse Fes-tival at the ILA this past weekend: The Warriors are: Mitch Nanticoke, Logan Hill, Steve Lickers, Dray Martin, Rick Smith, Brennen Ferguson, Alex Henry, Coleman Powless, Bai-ley Sky, Seth Ferguson, Tommy Jacobs, Josh Miller, Lyle Anderson, Austin Staats, Robbie Williams and Thomas Miller. (Photo by Jim Windle)

The inaugural Dreamcatchers U-16 Lacrosse Festival proved that the future of lacrosse is in good hands as young players from Tuscarora, Onondaga and Six Nations did battle over the long weekend. The Six Nations Warriors defeated the Tuscarora Thunder 9-6 in the medal game played Sunday afternoon at the ILA. (Photo by Jim Windle)

“I still like hockey, but la-crosse is a very interesting sport,” said the forever youth-ful Emmanuel Lewis, of TV’s Webster fame, following the Dreamcatcher U-16 Lacrosse Festival. (Photo by Jim Win-dle)

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Home and Community Care The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation TBD Sept. 5, 2012 Coordinator/Home & Community Care Supervisor Receptionist Ogwehoweh Skills and Trades Training Centre, Ohsweken TBD Sept. 5, 2012Family Support Worker The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation TBD Sept. 5, 2012Capital Project Coordinator The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation TBD Sept. 7, 2012Administrative Assistant Grand Erie District School Board, Brantford $48,124 - $56,616 Sept. 7, 2012Court Recording Monitor Ministry of Attorney General, Brantford $21.36 - $24.30/hr Sept. 7, 2012Court Clerk & Registrar Ministry of Attorney General, Brantford $23.14 - $26.09/hr Sept. 7, 2012Clinical Social Worker Native Child and Family Services of Toronto $60,000 - $78,286 Sept. 7, 2012Accounting Analyst Grand Erie District School Board, Brantford $51,506 Sept. 10, 2012Payroll Clerk Grand Erie District School Board, Brantford $43,516 Sept. 10, 2012Purchasing Clerk Grand Erie District School Board, Brantford $41,914 Sept. 10, 2012Weekend Visitor Clerk Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford $10.25/hr Sept. 14, 2012

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GRAND RIVER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

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INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR

Grand River Employment and Training (GREAT), in collaboration with several community service organizations, have undertaken a project to develop and implement a Six Nations Women of the Grand River Plan to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. Women and men will be approached to provide input into the development and implementation of the plan.

GREAT proposes to engage the services of an Independent Evaluator with experience conducting formative and summative evaluations. An evaluation of the four phases of the project including: partnership development, project planning, community plan development, and implementation will begin in September, 2012 and end in December, 2014. The Independent Evaluator will be responsible for establishing and implementing a systematic approach for collecting, administering, and analyzing data and preparing reports of findings, best practices, and recommendations.

GENDER BASED ANALYST

As a component to the Plan, GREAT proposes to engage the services of a Gender-Based Analyst to conduct a GBA to help recognize and respond to the situations that women face in their efforts to become economically secure. A Gender Based Analysis (GBA) will review the impacts of policies, programs and initiatives on women and will assess how the policies, programs and initiatives differ from their impact on men. The Analyst will recommend ways of integrating the gender perspective into the planning, development, and delivery of the strategies within the plan. GBA portion deadline: April 2013.

Applicants who are qualified to conduct both the evaluation and gender based analysis are encouraged to do so under one submission.

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, September 21, 2012 – 4:00 pm(Submissions received after this time will be returned unopened to the sender.)

Three (3) copies of proposals, marked: “Six Nations Women of the Grand River Project”

Mail to, or dropped off at: Grand River Employment and Training P.O. Box 69 16 Sunrise Court, Ohsweken, ON N0A 1M0Or, a digital file (pdf) emailed to: [email protected]

Project Fee: $25,000 for both the evaluation and gender based analysis.

Preference will be given to individuals who have experience working with Aboriginal people.

A copy of and/or clarification of the Proposal Guidelines can be directed to: Barbara Miller, Project Manager, GREAT, 519-445-2222 or toll free at 1-888-218-8230; [email protected] or can be found at www.greatsn.com

Are you interested in a career in construction trades?Do you have a driver’s license and willingness to travel?

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If you are interested in this program please call G.R.E.A.T. at 519-445-2222 to book an

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The mandate of the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC) is to provide technical and enhanced advisory services to all First Nations in Ontario. The OFNTSC requires the services of a Technical Youth Career Outreach Program (TYCOP) Coordinator, reporting directly to the Operations Manager in the Toronto Service Centre. The primary responsibility of this TYCOP Coordinator will be raising awareness of technical career opportunities, the potential for employment, and the positive impact of a role model and/or mentor among First Nations youths.

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Volunteer NeededPosition – Assistant Y.I.M. Cheerteam Coach

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said Hill, but “If I want them to respect us, I’ve got to re-spect them ...”

Hill said about half of the Wampum Belts existing were made by the Haudenosaunee, and the other half were made by Europeans. One belt, re-cently repatriated back to Six Nations, is known by some as the Claus belt. “We call it the Pledge of the Crown Belt,” said Hill.

“William Claus, then the head of Indian Affairs, had the belt made and sent to Burlington Heights to thank Six Nations for all their help in the war [of 1812]” said Hill. Claus also promised to uphold Six Nations rights. “This is what will get us what is owed to us.”

The belt had been sold by Pauline Johnson to a collec-tor in New York, said Hill. Eventually, it ended up at the Smithsonian Institute. The design or pattern of beads used on the Pledge of the Crown Belt is “a very old design, some call it a Greek Key,” said Hill. The pattern signifies brothership “inter-woven so tightly together it can never be broken apart.”

“I believe this belt came back on purpose at this time to deliver a message,” Hill said. “I’m hoping we can use this period to think about the next 200 years and what our relationship [with the Crown] is going to be.”

Many Wampum Belts were buried during the revolution-

ary war “to hide them,” said Hill. “But some were lost.” He said it’s believed the Haudenosaunee had over 400 belts, and have recovered about 215 now. “They’re all over the world, including the Vatican.”

“The belts are not frozen in time,” said Hill. “They are really about the future.” He had some cautionary words for his audience. “We’re so focused on them doing the right thing, we forget that we can do the right thing.”

“Our ancestors talked about the transformation of the neg-ative to the good mind. If we don’t make amends, we can’t achieve peace. If we put our minds to peace, we can achieve great things.”

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Ali Joy Brock (11 months old) has already undergone one open heart surgery and will be having three more heart surgeries prior to adulthood.

Donations will be very much appreciated and used towards travel expenses to and from BC Children’s Hospital. Traveling by BC Ferry from Nanaimo (Vancouver Island) to Vancouver (Mainland). Motel accommodations, close to BC Children’s Hospital for

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Thank you so very much for all your helpGrandmother: Dallas Brock (Van Every)

BAND LAND FOR SALESix Nations Elected Council is accepting bids up until 3 p.m. on September 6, 2012 for the following:

The whole of Lot 18-43, Concession 4, Township of Tuscarora, containing .220 acre more or less together with a dwelling located thereon.

Interested parties can contact Six Nations Housing at 519-445-2235 to make an appointment to view the property prior to submitting the bid.

DIRECTIONS:1. After viewing the property, prepare a written offer,

complete with amount of Bid and terms of payment.2. Place offer in a sealed envelope clearly marked

“Bid on Lot 18-43”3. Mail or deliver to Six Nations Housing at: P.O. Box 62 67 Bicentennial Trail, Ohsweken ON N0A 1M0

Minimum reserve bid required – highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

The Museum of Civilization, Voyageurs Salon

Amnesty International Canada, the Assembly of First Nations, and the Na-tional Indigenous Orga-nization of Colombia are pleased to invite you to a special reception on Sep-tember 13th at the Museum of Civilization in honour of

the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

On this auspicious an-niversary, please join Luis Evelis Andrade Casama, Chief Counsellor of the Na-tional Indigenous Organiza-tion of Colombia (ONIC), who is in Canada to launch a photo exhibit entitled “This is what we want to tell you:

messages from Indigenous Peoples at risk of annihila-tion in Colombia.” You will have a chance to see these stunning images and hear first hand from ONIC Chief Counsellor Andrade Casa-ma about the courageous struggle of Indigenous Peo-ples in Colombia to stand up for their human rights.

The situation of Indig-enous Peoples in Colom-

bia provides a particularly compelling example of the urgent need for implementa-tion of the UN Declaration: at least a third of the 102 In-digenous nations have been identified as being at risk of total destruction as a result of ongoing armed conflict and forced displacement from their resource-rich ter-ritories.

Chief Counsellor Andrade

Casama will be joined by Amnesty International Sec-retary General Alex Neve and other guests to reflect on the state of affairs five years after adoption of the landmark UN Declaration and the crucial challenges that lie ahead for Canada, Colombia and the interna-tional community.

Please join us for this im-portant and inspiring event.

Co-sponsored by: Canadi-an Friends Service Commit-tee, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, KAIROS: Canadian Ecu-menical Justice Initiatives, Métis National Council.

Light refreshments will be served

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Six Nations historian, Rick Hill (holding up Wampum Belt) brought replica Wampum Belts for his talk, the last Lunch and Learn session of a series of five organized by Jan Kahehti:io Longboat. The free informal workshops allowed anyone who was interested to meet with community elders who shared their knowledge about various aspects of Haudenosaunee life. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing)

Teachings on Wampum Belts wraps up Lunch and Learn seriesContinued from page 8


In apprecIatIonThe family of the late Arden “Bob” Miller wants to thank everyone who helped during our difficult time. Thanks to everyone who brought food, drinks and supplies, as well as monetary donations. Special thanks to our aunt Deb for being there with us through everything. Stan Jonathan for the tent and tables, Six Nations Bingo hall staff, Big Six Gas (Keitha and Carrie), Ganohkwasra staff, Hill’s Water, Hill’s Bistro, Six Nations Police, Six Nations Paramedics and Anderson Funeral Home… And to all our family and friends who shared kind words or just sat and visited with us. Your love and kindness and generosity will always be remembered.Kathy & Family

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Thank You

To all the people who sup-ported our S.N. Health Foundation Fundrais-ing event Summer Draw. Thank you to all the ex-ecutive and directors who spent so much time sell-ing tickets. First prize win-ner was Jeff Smith who won the John Deere Lawn mower purchased from W. J. Heaslip Ltd. Second prize winner was Paul A. Mar-acle $200.00 cash, Third Prize winner was Rebecca Jamieson who won the E-Reader donated by Barb Harris. A special thank you to Cecil Davis for all your help and to Jan Longboat for monetary donations and any others who donated to-wards this event. Sincere Nia Wen from Six Nations Health Foundation.

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Date: September 24 – 28, 2012.

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Mitchell: Norma Althea nee:MartinPeacefully at the Brantford General Hospital on Thursday August 30, 2012 at the age of 86 years. Wife of the late A. Frederick Mitchell. Loving mother of David and Doris Martin, Vicki and Joe Lesinski, Debbie and Duane Gun-dlach, Fred and Joy Mitchell, and A. Mark Mitchell. Dear grandmother of Wendy and Doug, Justin and Briann, Kim and Lauren, Trevor, Tyler, Christopher, Matthew, and Sarah. Dear great grandmother of Jenna, Joseph, Rylan, Avery, Jacob, Joshua, Riley, Mckenzie, Haley, and Eleanore (Elle). Sister of Eva Martin, Charles Martin (Marion), and Joanne Pietricone. Also survived by sisters-in-law, Merna Martin, Joan Martin, Doris Ens, Violet Bent (Sam); broth-er-in-law, Ray Mitchell (Barbara) and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by son, Anthony Mitchell; parents, James Martin and Gladys Thomson; sisters, Ruby Farr (Marvin), Jeanne Silver (Leslie), Blanche General (Bud), Carole Porter, Sharon Dodge (Don); brothers, Jim Mar-tin, Sam Martin (Pat), Lloyd (Fuzz) Martin, Richard Hill and brother-in-law Bill Mitchell (Arlene). Resting at the Styres Funeral Home 1798 4th. Line after 2 p.m. Satur-day. Evening Service 7 p.m. Sunday. Funeral Service will be held in the chapel on Monday September 3, 2012 at 1 p.m. Interment Grand River United Church Cemetery. www.rhbanderson.com

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Originally from Caledonia, Ont. Passed away peacefully in Elkton (Maryland) on Aug. 27/2012 at the age of 61. Beloved wife to James (Ed) Burning (Wilson)

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In loving memory of our Dear Mother, grandmother and great grandmother, who left us 20 years ago on Sept. 10th, 1992.Wonderful memories woven in GoldThis is the picture we tenderly hold,Deep in our hearts a memory is keptTo love, cherish and never forget.We hold her close within our heartsAnd there she will remain,To walk with us throughout our livesUntil we meet again.Forever loved and sadly missed,By Annette and children Jim, Bob & Robbin, Kathy & Scott, Mike & Sandi and all their families.

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Bulla 5. Former Egyptian Pres. Anwar 10. Identical 14. Military assistant 15. True heath 16. Indonesian phenom-enon 17. Japanese social net-working 18. Bring banquet food

19. Front of the head 20. Jean Paul __, author 22. Movie settings 24. Incline from vertical 26. Bleats 27. One who sings carols 30. Any high mountain 31. Mutual savings bank 34. Tequila plant 35. One point N of due E 37. Not large 39. Khoikhoin people 40. Soccer player Hamm

41. European owl genus 42. Palio race city 44. Hostelry 45. Outer ear eminences 46. Explosive 47. Illuminated 49. Musical pieces in slow tempo 51. Not crazy 52. Star Trek helm officer 53. Gave the axe 56. Make a mental connec-tion 60. City founded by Xeno-phanes 61. Extremely angry 65. Wild Eurasian moun-tain goat 66. Voyage on water 67. Comforts 68. Otherwise 69. Young herrings in Nor-way 70. Weapon discharges 71. Prepares a dining table CLUES DOWN 1. Shopping pouches 2. Old Italian money 3. Central German river 4. Composer Ludwig van 5. A way to withdraw 6. Macaws 7. Radiotelegraphic signal 8. Highest card 9. Any bone of the tarsus 10. Places to store valu-

ables 11. Actor Ladd 12. Nutmeg seed covering 13. Vision organs 21. Abnormal breathing 23. Crownworks 25. Religious recluse 26. Fruits of the genus Musa 27. Thou __ do it 28. Repeatedly 29. Plant of a clone 31. African tribe 32. No. Irish borough & bay 33. French Chateau Royal 36. Bulk storage container 38. “Good Wife” Actress Julianna 43. Assoc. of Licensed Air-craft Engineers 45. An account of events 48. West __, archipelago 50. Coercion 51. Ancient Scand. bard 53. Leaves of the hemp plant 54. Jai __, sport 55. Designer Chapman 57. Having the skill to do something 58. Exam 59. Prior wives 62. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! 63. Volcanic mountain in Japan 64. Vietnamese offensive

Tekawennake's Seven Day Forecast

Sun/Moon Chart This Week

Peak Fishing/Hunting Times This WeekDetailed Forecast

Weather Trivia

Today we will see partly cloudy skies with a high temperature of 28º. West wind 7 km/h. Expect partly cloudy skies tonight with an overnight low of 18º. Southwest wind 4 km/h. Thursday, skies will be mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Tekawennake News Weather Summary

Wednesday Partly Cloudy

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Thursday Isolated T-storms

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Friday Mostly Cloudy

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Saturday Cloudy21 / 14

Sunday Mostly Cloudy

22 / 12

Monday Sunny23 / 13

Tuesday T-storms Likely

24 / 18

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Peak TimesDay AM PMSun 5:25-7:25 5:55-7:55Mon 6:15-8:15 6:45-8:45Tue 7:04-9:04 7:34-9:34

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Moonrise10:05 p.m.10:43 p.m.11:25 p.m.

No Rise12:14 a.m.1:07 a.m.2:06 a.m.

Moonset12:02 p.m.12:59 p.m.1:54 p.m.2:45 p.m.3:31 p.m.4:13 p.m.4:51 p.m.

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The Hodiskeagehda formally invited Six Nations Elected Council to attend the Recital of the Great Law of Peace, which will take place beginning

with a sunrise ceremony at 6 am on August 10th, and will continue until August 19th. One of the organizers of the recital, Jagwadeth (also known

as Chris Sandy) told Elected Council all of the Six Nations will be together for the first time since 1890 for the recital. He thanked the Elected Coun-

cil for their help with facilitating the historic event. Tahariwenhawih presented Elected Chief William Montour with the wampum beads. Elected

Chief Montour urged all of council to attend the recital. Other nations such as the Navajo, Lakota and Algonquin will also be attending the recital,

and as many as 3,000 people are expected to attend. (Photo by Stephanie Dearing).

ARIES - MAR 21/APR 20Aries, your goals are easily achieved

this week. All you really need to do is set your mind to them and everything will fall into place along the way.

TAURUS - APR 21/MAy 21Taurus, you may feel rushed by outside

pressures, but it really is up to you to set your own pace. Everything will get done if you just relax.

GEMINI - MAy 22/JUN 21Those closest to you need a little space

and respect, Gemini. Just give them what they need and all will go smooth-ly. Wednesday could be a trying day.

CANCER - JUN 22/JUl 22Cancer, you may need to act quickly be-

fore things start moving in the wrong direction. You have to take control and make sure things are on the right course.

lEO - JUl 23/AUG 23Leo, you can have fun doing just about

anything this week. You have lots of energy, so maybe something physical will fit the bill. Grab a crowd and go to it.

VIRGO - AUG 24/SEPT 22Virgo, things have not been going your

way, but that is no reason to be disap-pointed. You will soon find a way to bounce back and get back on track.

lIBRA - SEPT 23/OCT 23Libra, this week you have the uncanny

ability to impress people in one-on-one conversation. Start by focusing all of your energy on one particular relationship.

SCORPIO - OCT 24/NOV 22Scorpio, it’s time to assess your health

and make a few changes for the better. It’s within reason to change your diet and exercise more often. It will be to your advantage.

SAGITTARIUS - NOV 23/DEC 21Sagittarius, you will find you’re incred-

ibly efficient this week, both at home and at work. If you have time left over, you may want to help a coworker or family member.

CAPRICORN - DEC 22/JAN 20Capricorn, both work and family issues

are on your mind, but you can only tackle one set of concerns at a time. Figure out which one is a priority and set your wheels in motion.

AQUARIUS - JAN 21/FEB 18Aquarius, you are likely to feel amazing

this week, so much so that you actu-ally do a double-take in the mirror to make sure it’s you looking back. Savor every moment.

PISCES - FEB 19/MAR 20Pisces, you may have some trouble fig-

uring out what is real and what’s a fa-cade this week. Others can provide backup if you need it.


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