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By Lynda Powless Editor The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) says a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Brantford and Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) over the \u201cBrantford Boundary Lands\u201d attempts to reduce the HCCC\u2019s relationship to its unsurrendered lands. The HCCC statement, issued late Friday, says it did not authorize the agreement, is not a party to it and has not seen it. Instead, the HCCC said the agreement attempts to reduce the Haudenosaunee lands at Brantford to little more than an \u201cinterest, economic benefit, or a seat at a table, but forgets the acres are unsurrendered Haudenosaunee lands.\u201d The HCCC was responding to SNEC\u2019s signing an MOU with Brantford over lands known as the boundary lands. The HCCC said \u201c Our relationship to these lands does not originate with… <\/p>\n

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By Lynda Powless Editor The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) says a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Brantford and Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) over the \u201cBrantford Boundary Lands\u201d attempts to reduce the HCCC\u2019s relationship to its unsurrendered lands. The HCCC statement, issued late Friday, says it did not authorize the agreement, is not a party to it and has not seen it. Instead, the HCCC said the agreement attempts to reduce the Haudenosaunee lands at Brantford to little more than an \u201cinterest, economic benefit, or a seat at a table, but forgets the acres are unsurrendered Haudenosaunee lands.\u201d The HCCC was responding to SNEC\u2019s signing an MOU with Brantford over lands known as the boundary lands. The HCCC said \u201c Our relationship to these lands does not originate with... <\/p>\n

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