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https://theturtleislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/editorial_thumb-1.jpg300300It took a few minutes…but they got there. There isn’t a community anywhere that doesn’t believe its youth is its future. They bring with them hope, excitement and the belief in a future. For those of us who are no longer youth it can’t help but touch our hearts. Especially after watching while the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) tried to dig itself out of the hole it was pushed into, by one of its departments, in what we hope was simply a mis-communication and not an attempt to put youth in their place. In a nutshell, the Six Nations’ youth group had received funding from SNEC to the tune of about $25,000 over a year ago. Monies to carry out a variety of initiatives in particular those involving the