Six Nations Councillor: a lifetime of local politics

By Lynda Powless Editor At 60, and heading into a new chapter, Helen Miller wasn’t ready to simply retire. Active, interested in community issues she stepped into politics with a political career that would span 21 years as a Six Nations Elected Councillor. In a freewheeling interview with Turtle Island News she talked about being a councillor. She had always followed Six Nations politics, attending community meetings, council sessions and staying alert to local issues. “I wrote a lot of letters to the editor on different issues. I just always had an interest in politics.” She went to public school at Six Nations before heading to Caledonia for ight school saying she got “a late start in life.” Married in 1962 and later divorced she was a single mom in…

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