Letter to Editor

Six Nations does not have a community decision-making process that satisfies and is approved by the collective including the Six Nations Grand River Elected Council (SNGREC) and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC). It was at the land talk table back in the Douglas Creek days when the thought came to me that Six Nations has no way of making a decision that involves the collective. In speaking only for myself and not the SNGREC, since then, I’ve been raising this issue every chance I get. Right now, the only reliable decision-making process Six Nations has is the Indian Act’s referendum/voting process. We have people refusing to participate in this process because “we don’t vote” they say. On the traditional side we all know the clan system is broken. The…

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