A divided community await COO

The Chiefs of Ontario are coming. Hundreds of First Nations chiefs and their staff will be descending on the community in less than a week and Six Nations will be welcoming them. From businesses to political advocates things are about to heat up and we don’t mean temperatures. Turtle Island News has learned there will be a group of Haudenosaunee traditionalists on hand to remind the Chiefs of Ontario that Six Nations is a politically split community with two active forms of governance in place. The imposed band council system hasn’t ever been a welcome intrusion into a community that has for hundreds of years had its own system of governance. A system that still exists today and is still recognized and supported by the Six Nations community. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy…

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