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It\u2019s been 20 years since two Six Nations women walked onto a housing development being built on unceded Six Nations land and reclaimed it for the community. Today the land sits empty. Fields overgrown. It\u2019s been two decades of waiting for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) to decide how it will work with the people to make use of the vacant lands. And 200 years of waiting for a conclusion with Canada and Ontario, who seem to have a problem with Haudenosaunee reclaiming their lands. For Janie Jamieson and Dawn Hill it wasn\u2019t just about reclaiming lands a housing development was scheduled to be built on. What the two women did was not just bring back the land, but set the stage for the enacting Haudenosaunee rights. They did… <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been 20 years since two Six Nations women walked onto a housing development being built on unceded Six Nations land and reclaimed it for the community. Today the land sits empty. Fields overgrown. It\u2019s been two decades of waiting for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) to decide how it will work with the people to make use of the vacant lands. And 200 years of waiting for a conclusion with Canada and Ontario, who seem to have a problem with Haudenosaunee reclaiming their lands. For Janie Jamieson and Dawn Hill it wasn\u2019t just about reclaiming lands a housing development was scheduled to be built on. What the two women did was not just bring back the land, but set the stage for the enacting Haudenosaunee rights. They did... <\/p>\n

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