Six Nations Community audit meeting crowd questions audit, housing and more

Community members heard for the first time Six Nations Elected Council received $182 million in funding from a Canadian Human Rights ruling ordering reforms to Ontario’s First Nations on reserve child and famly servioces.

By Lynda Powless Editor Six Nations own source funding and a huge Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Agreement reforming First Nations Child and Family services is helping keep the band out of the black. Six Nations Elected Chief Sherri-Lyn Hill said the band received $182 million in government funding from a Canadian Human Rights (CHR) ruling affecting all First Nations in Canada. In March, of 2026, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal approved a landmark $8.5 billion Ontario Final Agreement to reform First Nations child and family services. It was part of a massive multi-year move to deal with discrimination in the on-reserve child welfare system. Elected Chief Hill told, about 40 people and an online audience that despite the community suffering from “catastrophic flooding in Ohsweken that came to a great…

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