Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Conflict of interest, declare it, move on! July 22, 2026 521 views Whether, or when, a band councillor is in a conflict of interest has risen….again! And not surprising it involves councillor…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Six Nations sovereignty versus Ontario July 15, 2026 681 views There’s nothing complicated about what Ontario’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) does. For First Nations communities it’s clear. It enforces the…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Finger pointing…really! July 8, 2026 896 views A spat between Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC and now the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs’ Council (HCC) reared its head last…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Haudenosaunee men…stand tall… June 30, 2026 1037 views Sometimes, you just have to shake your head. This is one of those times. The Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC)…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Six Nations Fire Department 60 years and counting… June 24, 2026 895 views Six Nations Fire Department has marked six decades of service to the community. It’s hard to believe that the little…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: All governments must be financially accountable June 17, 2026 1026 views No one should be surprised to see a local men’s group launching a lawsuit against the Six Nations Confederacy’s Haudenosaunee…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Open or closed and is there a penalty? June 10, 2026 1163 views This week Turtle Island News has received a letter from a Six Nations Band councillor outlining her concerns over increasing closed…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: SNEC just walking away from cannabis? June 3, 2026 1233 views Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) has a lot of explaining to do. And a simple post to Facebook isn’t going…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: What were they thinking? May 27, 2026 1003 views The CBC and APTN were planning to launch a so-called satirical show on Indigenous issues…more specifically on residential schools. Let…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Bureaucratic management has descended May 20, 2026 1147 views Six Nations Elected Council has become, well, simply put, just too bureaucratic. That is, the councillors themselves appear to be…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Community has to be included about its future May 13, 2026 1074 views Six Nations land claim is about to enter the courts. The multi-billion dollar claim to a huge swath of Ontario…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Hmmm, audit time coming… May 6, 2026 914 views Six Nations Elected Council is facing yet another audit year. For us here at Turtle Island News it will be…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: We love our trees…and so do you! April 29, 2026 1103 views Six Nations didn’t let Mother Earth Down! For the past 28 years Turtle Island News has been marking the community’s…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Earth Day time to help a planet April 22, 2026 1111 views By Lynda Powless, Editor It’s Earth Day!!! A day the world stops to remember the ground we all walk on.…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Six Nations lands..are Six Nations lands. April 15, 2026 1316 views Six Nations is finding itself once again in a quandary over its own lands. With a need to expand to…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: April 8, 2026 1084 views It was simply all about the land. Who owned it. Who controlled it. And what Canada was willing to do…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Just waiting for the audit… April 1, 2026 1243 views It’s audit time. That arduous time of the year when governments at all levels start the challenge of wading through…
Read more Editorialticker When is a conflict a conflict….? March 25, 2026 939 views Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is facing a major conflict of interest debacle created after the hiring of the daughter…
Read more Editorialticker Editorial: Reconciliation or delay??? March 18, 2026 792 views The city of Brantford is creating a new “Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation” strategy. It’s supposed to be a strategy aimed…
Read more Editorialticker Don’t hold your breath! March 11, 2026 963 views While the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation may have just resolved another land claim, it can’t help but highlight…
