Police look for second man in early morning attempted robbery
OHSWEKEN, SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER- A 17-year-old Six Nations man has been arrested and police are seeking a second man after an attempted robbery at Route 54 Grocery and Convenience store on Highway 54 just after the store opened early this morning. The two men, armed with what appeared to be a firearm, entered the store just as the clerk had opened. One of the two was carrying a coffee he had stopped to pick up from a nearby coffee shop as the two walked down Highway 54 Turtle Island News was told. Upon entry to the store the two demanded cash before leaving on foot, walking down Highway 54. No one was injured. Six Nations Police, Brant County OPP, K9 and Emergency Response Team all responded to...
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Six Nations marked Red Dress Day with an exhibit at the Six Nations library
In Six Nations, in Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and all across Turtle Island family and community members face grief and frustration on a daily basis for the Missing and the Murdered. We remember them here. Taylor Marie Keizer-Douglas, 28, was last seen January 7, 2023, in the area of 6th Line & Oneida Rd. Amber Ellis went missing in Six Nations in February 2021. Patricia Diane Carpenter was only 15 years old when she was killed in September 1992. Her body was recovered from a construction site in Toronto. Paula Joy Martin was murdered on April 21, 1996 by her husband who had stalked her and then stabbed her to death in a Brantford motel room that she had fled to for temporary shelter. Dustin Craig Printemp was...
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A Red Dress Day march made its way from city hall through St Catherines
By Lisa Iesse Writer ST. CATHERINES – “We must talk about it. We must spread awareness. We must make them hear our stories,” urged one of the many women at the Red Dress Walk. On May 5, De dwa da dehs nye>s (Aboriginal Health Centre) held a Red Dress Walk for the Missing and the Murdered Indigenous Women Girls, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender-diverse persons. They held a march from City Hall to the Marilyn I Walker building. Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit persons spoke on the steps of St. Catherines City Hall. One by one, they stepped up to the podium to speak. “My name is Alexis, in my language which is the Onondaga language, my name is Strawberry. Me introducing myself and my language is an act of resistance to...
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Across Ontario National Red Dress Day marked in Hamilton with a display of dresses and women missing
By Lisa Eisse Writer HAMILTON – From the entrance area of the library, the pathway begins. On the wall is a photo of Helen Gillings, a 19-year-old young Indigenous woman who lived in Hamilton. Her story appears on the poster. On Friday February 17, 1995, she was found in an alley near 483 King Street East in Hamilton. She had been strangled and her naked body was pushed under an overturned couch in the alley. You take another step along the pathway and sadly find another story . “Evaline Cameron, 19, was known for getting good grades and her sparkling sense of humour. On Oct. 19, 1995, she was found dead on Wabaseemoong First Nation in Ontario. She She had gone missing two days earlier after going to a house...
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Six Nations/Haudenosaunee who are they?
Everyone that has anything to say about Six Nations land rights is in court. The Six Nations Elected Council, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council and its delegate the Haudenosaunee Development Institute. Add to that the Mens’ Fire and of course both Canada and Ontario. The actual hearing seeking intervenor status began Tuesday with the HDI/HCCC lawyers laying out the case for over 80,000 Haudenosaunee to be part of the case and represented by the HCCC, not just the members of the Six Nations Band list a list of some 30,000 people. Add to it the HCCC/HDI is arguing the community’s history underlies what happened at Grand River, what happened to the Haudenosaunee and how the Haldimand Proclamation, a treaty that will become 100 years old next year came into play. That...
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Haudenosaunee language online courses coming at Fort Erie
By Lisa Iesse Writer The sky’s the limit for emerging Haudenosaunee language degree programs expected to be up and online this August. The new Mohawk language degree program will be the largest Mohawk language degree program in the country says Sam Hill, Indigenous languages program co-ordinator at the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre (FENFC). The program is aiming to boost access, first, to Mohawk language learning resources, support, and education opportunities for a burgeoning community of Mohawk language learners, he told Turtle Island News. The program is just the first in a series of Haudenosaunee language degree programs, Hill said The new program was born aftera number of Mohawk language students taking FENFC’s language immersion program, called Kén:tho tsi kateweyénhstha: (I Study Here in Mohawk) expressed a desire to keep learning....
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Six Nations Elected Council getting hit with donation requests
Organizations are coming to Six Nations for donations, but Six Nations Elected Council doesn’t know where it can find funds. The Survivors Secretariat, the North American Indigenous Games and the Under 15 Six Nations Blackhawks were seeking donations from Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) at its General Finance meeting on May 1. SNEC deferred all three requests to give the finance department time to figure out where, how, when and if funds were available for one or more of the requests. Elected Chief Mark Hill asked Finance department’s Wayne Staats to work on the issue but gave no timeline on any of the three requests. “Again we’ll leave this with Wayne to see how, where and if, and get a more detailed report if that’s OK with full council we’ll...
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Tomahawks register four victories at season-opening tournament in Brampton
By Sam Laskaris Writer The Six Nations Tomahawks made it clear that they will be one of the contenders this season in Ontario’s Senior Series Lacrosse. The Tomahawks, one of eight Senior C men’s team competing in the provincial circuit, won all four of their matches this past weekend at the season-opening tournament in Brampton. Instead of participating in league action, the entrants in the senior loop, a moniker which is misleading since it features players aged 22 and up, compete in four tournaments during the year before taking part in their provincial championships. “Not to sound cocky and confident but I was expecting us to come out of the weekend 4-0,” said Jay Smith, the Tomahawks’ head coach and general manager. Smith had founded the club in 2019. He...
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Winnipeg set to host 20th anniversary edition of National Aboriginal Hockey Championships
By Sam Laskaris Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Jeff Spencer is counting down the days. Spencer is the chair of the hockey committee for the Aboriginal Sport Circle (ASC), the national governing body for Indigenous athletics. The ASC annually organizes the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC), which attracts elite Indigenous players, both female and male, representing their provinces, territories and regions. This year’s event begins this Sunday, May 7, and continues until May 13 in Winnipeg. All matches will be staged at the Seven Oaks Sportsplex. This marks the 20th time the national tournament, featuring many of the country’s top Indigenous teenage players, has been held. The first tournament was in 2002 at Akwesasne, Ont. The tourney should have actually celebrated its 20th anniversary a couple of years ago. But because...
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Miller leads Rivermen to victory with five-goal performance against North Stars
By Sam Laskaris Writer Following a five-year hiatus Danton Miller is once again having an impact with the Six Nations Rivermen. Miller was one of the key offensive players for the local Senior B lacrosse club during the 2018 season. But he tore some tendons in his left foot that season, forcing him to stop playing the sport until he was healthier. The 27-year-old is just returning to the sport now. And Miller is proving he still has quite the offensive touch. Miller earned four points (two goals and two assists) in Six Nations’ season-opening 15-6 victory over the Clearview Crushers back on Apr. 29. Miller also had a game-high five goals leading the Rivermen to a 12-10 triumph over the Owen Sound North Stars this past Saturday, in a...
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Brandon Montour shining for surprising Panthers: ‘I just wanted to run with it
By Joshua Clipperton THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO-Brandon Montour unloaded a one-timer and watched the puck hit the back of the net before dropping to one knee and sweeping his glove over the ice in celebration. The third-period goal on a delayed penalty took the air out of Scotiabank Arena and gave his Florida Panthers breathing room on the way to a 4-2 victory in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. For anyone not paying attention this season, Montour stepping up in a key moment has become the norm. The 29-year-old defenceman nearly doubled his career high with 73 points in 2022-23 after finally getting the chance to play a bigger role in his eighth NHL campaign. Largely a third-pair blueliner until this past fall,...
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Powless accepts scholarship offer to play lacrosse at Iowa’s Clarke University
By Sam Laskaris Writer As it turns out Six Nations’ Dougie Powless is not finished his collegiate lacrosse career just yet. Powless had spent the past couple of years playing field lacrosse for the Herkimer Generals, a junior college team based in the state of New York. Powless was scheduled to write his final Herkimer exam on Monday before returning to his Ohsweken home. But it was announced this past week that Powless will be continuing on with his academic/athletic careers south of the border. That’s because he has accepted an offer to play at Iowa’s Clarke University. He plans to major in History while also suiting up for the school’s lacrosse squad. The Clarke Pride lacrosse team competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Powless said he...
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Chasing Horse asks Nevada high court to toss sex abuse case
By Rio Yamat THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP)- A “Dances With Wolves” actor charged with sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for more than a decade has asked Nevada’s high court to toss his sweeping indictment in state court. Nathan Chasing Horse and his lawyers have argued that his accusers wanted to have sex with him. The 46-year-old’s appeal to the state Supreme Court, filed Tuesday, marks his latest attempt to get his case dismissed as he remains jailed in Las Vegas on charges that could send him to prison for decades, or life, if convicted. “Nathan is pursuing this extraordinary writ because the trial court refused to dismiss the charges contained within the indictment in this case,” Deputy Clark County Public Defender Kristy S. Holston wrote in an...
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AFN National Chief could be ousted after internal report findings
By Lynda Powless Editor The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) first female national chief may be on her way out. The AFN’s executive committee, in a report leaked late last week, is recommending her removal, at the next AFN Chiefs Assembly meeting in July, based on the findings of an independent human resources investigation into staff complaints. The investigation found National Chief RoseAnne Archibald had harrassed two of the five complainants contrary to the AFN’s violence, harrassment and discrimination policy. The leaked report also said Archibald breached the AFN’s code of conduct and ethics policy The leaked report shows that 10 AFN Regional Chiefs voted unanimously to remove Archibald based on the human resources investigation report into her conduct and at the same time “denounced” the National Chief for her...
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Court documents question “Men’s Fire” credibility and interest
By Lynda Powless Editor Questions surrounding who is the (Six Nations) Men’s Fire group and who does it represent are portraying a loosely knit group of about 10 men being seen as targetting the Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI). Questions over the Men’s Fire were raised in new documents filed by the HDI, May 1, 2023 in Ontario court questioning the validity of the “Men’s Fire” application to intervene in Six Nations Elected Council’s land claim case. The new documents were filed in response to “Men’s Fire” allegations against HDI and weave a picture of testimony based on “hearsay’ and disguising opinion as fact to characterize its allegations as fact. The new documents portray not a national group of men but a loosely knit group of possibly 10 men that an...
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SNEC: government consultation meetings seen as support?
Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is worried the federal and provincial governments are quietly interpreting attendance at meetings as support for downloading government services. SNEC councillor Nathan Wright said he worried the government would view attendance as support to transfer responsibility for emergency management to Indigenous communities. The issue surfaced during the April 25th council meeting when Elected Chief Mark Hill attempted to find a councillor to attend and participate in a multilateral table with Ontario First Nations leadership, the Province of Ontario and Indigenous Services Canada to discuss First Nations’ perspectives on emergency management in Ontario. But no councillors volunteered to attend. Councillor Nathan Wright said he was concerned about the nature of the meeting and if SNEC should even attend. He urged careful consideration. “Before we get to...
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No studies on Indigenous Midwifery prompts research team
There are no studies regarding access to, or use of Indigenous Midwifery services despite available data, but the Association of Ontario Midwives wants to change that. Diane Simon, Mi’kmaw midwife, mother, activist and a researcher herself along with a team of Indigenous researchers want to change that. “It’s going to be a slow process, but it’s meaningful. I really feel like Aboriginal midwives if anybody else needs this we are in a good position to do that. If you don’t make changes, nothing is going to change. There’s so much healing that can come from it. We know pregnancy is such an opportune time to intervene to provide supports for families,” she said. Simon presented the study, “Exploring the economic costs of obstetric evacuation and the social-cultural benefits of Indigenous...
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Committee still working out solution to palliative care
Six Nations isn’t giving up on homegrown palliative care. Councillor Hazel Johnson says she has continued to attend meetings with the Palliative Care Committee after an anonymous donor pulled their offer to fund 100 per cent of the cost of a building in February. Johnson told Six Nations Elected Council’s (SNEC) Political Liaison committee they’re still working and have reworked plans for the building. “As you know the funding person withdrew his offer so therefore, they are proceeding.. with a, not a log building,” Johnson said. Two years ago, a local donor offered to give land and fund the construction of a log building large enough to accommodate all of the committee’s needs in one building, including larger doors, family rooms, gardens and more. Instead the committee turned down the...
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Six Nations Bread and Cheese celebrations back to normal
Bread and Cheese will return to its pre-pandemic celebrations. After three years of Bread and Cheese modifications to continue the time-honoured and much loved tradition to keep the community safe, with deliveries and drive-thrus, Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) announced a return to a full-blown community celebration at its General Finance meeting on May 1. “I’m happy to say, we never ever cancelled it. We had to modify it multiple years, with delivery to homes and drive-thus,” Elected Chief Mark Hill said. SNEC approved the allocation of just more than $72,000 for this year’s Bread and Cheese from the Ottawa Trust Fund and $6,400 for the Economic Development Trust. Originally, Wayne Staats, director of accounting allocated $78,000 toward the community event, and $3,200 to the Economic Development Trust, but reduced...
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