Editorial: All governments must be financially accountable

Editorial

No one should be surprised to see a local men’s group launching a lawsuit against the Six Nations Confederacy’s Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI) demanding an accounting of monies it has received off Six Nations lands. The HDI, by the way, represents the Haudenosaunne Confederacy Council (HCC) when it comes to land interests within the HCC jurisdiction. That jurisdiction extends through areas of Ontario including the Haldimand Deed tract area. At least, that’s one of the only areas in Ontario the HCC has in the recent past intervened in, or received monies from, despite it representing all Haudenosaunee lands. The local men’s group are not alone in their questioning of the HDI authority or what monies the HCC has collected off the lands. In fact, Turtle Island News has for years…

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