Six Nations Food Bank gets $20,000 donation
The Six Nations Food Bank got a $20,000 boost, thanks to Hagersville Lions Club’s Catch the Ace jackpot. After the Hagersville Food Bank received 30 per cent of the jackpot winnings from the coveted Catch the Ace prize, they very generously decided to share their winnings with five other local banks, including the Six Nations food bank. Turtle Island News spoke with Six Nations Food Bank Chair Mary Monture who said the funds are greatly needed, and will go directly towards the purchase of needed items. “We’ve already put in place an order for this coming month,” she confirmed. Monture explained that after receiving the donation on May 23, the Six Nations food bank put in an order for food staples such as vegetables, fruit, pasta, juice, sauces, beans, and...
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Six Nations annual Tom Longboat Run about Family and Fitness
By Lisa Iesse Writer SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND – The Tom Longboat Run swept through Six Nations Sunday June 4th) with over 100 community members and visitors running, biking, strolling, and walking to a shared finish line. They ran, jogged, strolled, and glided on bicycle wheels from the starting line at the Six Nations Community Hall down 4th Line to Mohawk Road and back. Six Nations has honoured one of their own with a statue in front of Six Nations Community Hall. Six Nations Parks and Recreation Director Cheryl Henhawk is one of the original organizers of the Tom Longboat Run. She told the crowd of runners its difficult to describe the greatest long distance runner of his time, and perhaps of all time? He was called “The “Bronze...
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Cost to produce Six Nations 154th annual fair going up
Six Nations’ 154th annual Fall Fair’s midway could cost more than $100,000. Six Nations Agricultural Society (SNAG) vice president Leslie McDougall said the community asked for a larger midway with more rides for adolescents and adults in addition to rides for small children this year. McDougall gave Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) an update on the fair at its General Finance Committee meeting on June 5 and said the cost has risen beyond the society’s means and they asked SNEC for $60,000 to help fund the midway and 24-hour security for the event from a reputable security company or the Six Nations Police. The contract for the midway will cost $130,000 for the three-day fair. “We had a couple incidents at the fair last year, we’d like to try and...
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How many fish from the Grand River should you eat?
Six Nations is trying to help the federal government determine how many fish they should recommend people eat from “areas of concern.” Lauren Jones, Wildlife Management Assistant, Lands and Resources helped administer an anonymous survey during Community Awareness events that addressed where Six Nations community members are fishing. Jones told Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) the survey was designed to tell the government and SNEC if community members are fishing in waterways deemed concerning at the general council meeting on May 23. “The ethics application largely just revolved around an anonymous survey… to determine Six Nations use of the areas of concern within southern Ontario,” she said. The waterways of concern were listed as the Toronto waterfront, Hamilton Harbour, Niagara River and Jones asked that the Grand River be included....
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SN Elected Council approves professor’s tourism study
Six Nations tourism may get some help from the University of Waterloo. Anke Foeller Carroll, a University of Waterloo researcher was approved to co-create a course with Indigenous perspectives and explore how Indigenous Tourism Experiences are Created. Foeller Carroll’s application was approved at Six Nations Elected Council’s General Council (SNEC) meeting on May 23 after agreeing to share her research and physiological profiling with Six Nations Tourism. Darrin Jamieson, Six Nations CEO said Six Nations Tourism is now under SNEC. “I also think the results of the research, part of the ethics process to share that in Six Nations just in terms of the psychological profiling for the marketing, will be very helpful,” he said. Foeller Carroll said her goal is to help improve how future tourism students and tourists...
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What has the AFN accomplished lately?
RoseAnne Archibald is heading into her final year as the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief and it has been a controversial two years. Elected in July 2021 to a three year term the first female leader has faced controversy throughout her term. Right from her election during COVID-19 questions arose after the AFN had to go to a second day of voting and a fourth ballot when none of the candidates reached the 60 per cent threshold they needed to take the helm. Add to it Chiefs raised concerns that online voting was creating a “data glitch” in the voting process. And there were chiefs who express concern that chiefs in British Columbia, a huge voting block, were unable to participate with wildfires forcing evacuations of their communities....
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Indigenous housing to increase in Hamilton
By Lisa Iesse Writer HAMILTON – Ontario is going to provide $2 million in funding to build supportive housing units for Indigenous parents in Hamilton. The 12 housing units will be located on 180 Ottawa Street North, in a historic building that will be restored and renovated. “Hamiltonians may remember a small hotel at the corner of Ottawa and Cannon, that was followed by the former CD Sports Bar. Indwell, with help of Social Services Relief Funding from the provincial government, completely transformed the building into supportive permanent housing for 12 people who are in partnership with Hamilton Regional Indian Centre and Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing. Working together, we continue to create supportive homes that are the solution for people who are unhoused or precariously housed,” said Jeff Neven, CEO of...
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Six Nations players among those celebrating Bandits’ championship season
By Sam Laskaris Writer A pair of Six Nations players were among those who helped the Buffalo Bandits capture a National Lacrosse League (NLL) championship. Tehoka Nanticoke and Adam Bomberry were in the Bandits’ lineup on Saturday as the host Buffalo squad downed the visiting Colorado Mammoth 13-4 in a game played at the KeyBank Center. With that victory, the Bandits won the best-of-three NLL championship final series 2-1. Buffalo had won the opening game in the series, edging the visiting Mammoth 13-12 back on May 27. Colorado then downed the visiting Bandits 16-10 two days later to set up a third and decisive contest in the series. The Buffalo squad this season also had another Six Nations connection. The Bandits’ head coach is John Tavares, who is also the...
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Montour and teammates need massive rally to capture Stanley Cup
By Sam Laskaris Writer Six Nations’ Brandon Montour and his Florida Panthers teammates now have the formidable task of trying to keep their Stanley Cup hopes alive. The Panthers were downed 7-2 by the host Vegas Golden Knights on Monday. With that victory the Vegas squad now leads the Florida side 2-0 in their best-of-seven series to determine this year’s National Hockey League playoff champions. The Golden Knights had also hosted Game 1 in the final series and emerged victorious by a 5-2 score. As a result, Montour, who is a defenceman, and his fellow Florida teammates would now have to capture four out of the next five games in the series in order to hoist the Stanley Cup this year. The Panthers will no doubt be hoping to capitalize...
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Sam Laskaris – BEHIND THE ACTION – Lyle Thompson
By Sam Laskaris Writer Do yourself a favour. Get to a Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) game involving the Six Nations Chiefs within the next few months. That’s because for a relatively cheap night out you’ll have the opportunity to see one of the world’s top lacrosse players in action. The Chiefs’ roster this season includes several world-class players. But one guy especially worth keeping an eye on is Number 4. That would be Lyle Thompson. Thompson is a bit different than the others. A bit better than the others. If you’re having a conversation about the top players in the world right now, Thompson’s name is most assuredly part of that discussion. Having close-up views of some MSL players can leave one in awe. The speed at which these athletes...
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Tomahawks leading standings in Senior C lacrosse loop
By Sam Laskaris Writer They didn’t bring their A game this time around. But the Six Nations Tomahawks still managed to win three out of their four contests at a tournament in London this past weekend. As a result, the Six Nations side, the local Senior C men’s box lacrosse squad, finds itself sitting atop the standings in the eight-team Senior Series Lacrosse (SSL) loop. Teams in the SSL do not compete in regular league action. Instead they can participate in up to four weekend tournaments that are staged throughout the spring and summer across the province. Clubs are then eligible to compete in their Ontario championship. The Six Nations side will host this year’s provincial finals, Aug. 18-20, at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. The Tomahawks had steamrolled over all...
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Adventures await Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers on Tour
By Crystal St.Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers will make their way through Ontario this July as part of All Star Tour 2023. The Troublemakers currently include Derek Miller, Brock Stonefish and Howe Gelb, and while the make-up of the group has changed from time to time, Gary Farmer has always fronted the band, collaborating with the Troublemakers to produce six albums over 20 years and soon to release their seventh, Lucky 7, just before the All Star Tour commences. The group was the recipient of the Best Americana Album Award at the 36th Annual New Mexico Music Awards for Fool for Love, their sixth album, released in 2022. It picked up two additional nominations for Best Blues and Best Rock. The album also climbed the...
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OPP investigate empty house and property in search for missing Amber Ellis
By Lynda Powless and Lisa Iesse Writers SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER-The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Criminal Investigation Branch has a team of officers back at Six Nations today (Wed., June 7, 2023) searching a vacant property on Sixth Line in connection with missing Hagersville woman Amber Ellis. The team of OPP officers and equipment are at the vacant property and expect to be there for a few days. Police, while confirming they are investigating as part of the Amber Ellis missing person investigation, would not comment further except to say the Six Nations Police Service is assisting. Police are investigating the grounds and area surrounding the house including the property behind the house. Six Nations Police sent out an advisory to the Six Nations community Monday evening...
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Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs head expresses “concerns” over national council for reconciliation
By Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) says Indigenous leaders in Manitoba have concerns about a bill that would see a national council for reconciliation established, and she is asking that several changes be made to the bill before it is passed into law. According to a Monday media release, AMC Grand Chief Cathy Merrick and other AMC representatives recently participated in the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples’ study of Bill C-29, a proposed act that would provide for the establishment of a national council for reconciliation. Merrick said that AMC has five “main concerns” regarding the bill, and the organization has suggested several amendments that could address them, including asking that the national council be “independent of government...
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Industry, conservationists welcome Ottawa’s delay on B.C. salmon farm transition plan
By Dirk Meissner THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA- Both sides of British Columbia’s contentious fish farm debate are welcoming Ottawa’s move to delay a decision on a planned transition from open-net salmon farms in the province’s coastal waters. Representatives from B.C.’s salmon farming industry and Indigenous and conservation groups said Tuesday they agree the delay gives federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray more time to make the right decision after much confusion. But the minister’s decision to extend consultations is about the only point of the agreement among the opposing sides. Environmental groups and some Indigenous nations say the farms are linked to the transfer of disease to wild salmon. Industry and some local politicians say thousands of jobs are threatened if operations are phased out. A Fisheries and Oceans Canada statement...
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International involvement in residential school burial work not wanted, needed
By Shari Narine Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The National Advisory Committee on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials will not participate in an internationally-led engagement process for DNA collection, which has been approved and funded by the federal government. In a statement issued last week, the advisory committee said concerns it had previously raised with the federal government about a technical arrangement with The Hague-based organization International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) still hold true. “We remain deeply concerned that such an important and sensitive process has been entrusted to a non-Indigenous organization with no prior history of working with residential school survivors,” the advisory committee stated. The advisory committee is funded through an agreement between Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation,...
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‘A situation that’s unprecedented.’ Quebec confronted with over 150 wildfires
By Jacob Serebrin and Sidhartha Banerjee THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL- As one Quebec city that had been threatened by wildfires lifted an evacuation order Tuesday, authorities turned their attention to communities in the northern and northwestern parts of the province where firefighters worked to beat back threats from out-of-control blazes. “We’re following all of this from hour to hour, obviously,” Premier Francois Legault told reporters in Sept-Iles, Que. “If we look at the situation in Quebec as a whole, there are several places where it is still worrying.” According to the province’s forest fire prevention agency, more than 150 forest fires were burning in the province on Tuesday, including more than 110 deemed out of control. Legault said the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region in northwestern Quebec is an area of particular concern,...
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Stay out of Indigenous language jurisdiction, First Nations leaders tell Quebec
By Shari Narine Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Mohawk Council of Kahnawa:ke (MCK) is telling the Quebec government to support Indigenous Nations in revitalizing their own languages rather than imposing “even more colonial ideologies” on that work. Jessica Lazare, MCK’s lead portfolio chief for heritage, contends that a newly-proposed bill to revitalize Indigenous languages, which is on the agenda of Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government, is a “band-aid solution”. The bill attempts to mitigate the impacts of Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec on Indigenous peoples. The Charter of the French Language was strengthened last year through Bill 96, despite Indigenous organizations and students marching against it and protesting it at the legislature. The bill was passed in May 2022. Indigenous Nations asked...
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Ontario Justice Andrew Goodman imposes eight-year sentence on Peter Khill in shooting death of Jonathan Styres
HAMILTON – Peter Khill will spend the next eight years in penitentiary for the shooting death of Six Nations’ Jonathan Styres. Khill shot and killed Styres, firing twice at the father of two, the second time while Styres was on his hands and knees, defence lawyer Jeffrey Manishen told the court (Tuesday June 6 2023) . Khill shot Styres with a pump-action shot gun and as Stryes fell onto his knees, facing Khill, he shot him again in the driveway of his Binbrooke home. Khill claimed he heard noise coming from oustide and decided to grab his gun and headed out to his driveway in the early morning hours of February 4, 2016 where he claimed he saw Styres trying to steal his truck. The young Six Nations man was...
