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      "A federal vote for the Indian without any strings attached was urged Tuesday before the joint Commons-Senate committee studying Indian affairs."

      "For a week an angry band of Indian warriors in Ohsweken, Ont. tried to reverse history and throw over the white man's law. Led by hereditary chiefs, Iroquis braves of the Six Nations tribes stormed the council house, proclaimed their reservation an independent nation and dispatched wires to U.S., British ...

      "A delegation of Six Nations Indian warriors announced in Hamilton yesterday that starting today hereditary tribal chiefs are taking over governmental authority on the Brant-Haldimand reserve."

 Brantford Expositor, 1959     "Twenty-one charges against 20 Six Nations Indians involved in the recent "revolution" were dismissed for want of prosecution in magistrate's court here Wednesday."

 Dunn, Nigel, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) ( CTVglobemedia), 2 Jul 1959     "The Six Nations Indians' treasured Queen Anne Bible became even more valued as a historical possession here today when it was signed by a later Queen - Elizabeth II."

 Brantford Expositor, 1959     "Two stained glass windows, the first of eight depicting the history of the Six Nations Indians as related to the Church of England, were dedicated at Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks yesterday."

 Cosway, Roy, Brantford Expositor, 13 Mar 1959     Mounties' Gain Control of Council House

Caught unprepared: youthful members of the Iroquois Police play cards in the council house minutes before RCMP arrived.

In the struggle, an arm puts pressure on a Mountie's neck. Tempers become sharper and Indians ...

 Hamilton Spectator, 13 Mar 1959, pp.1-2     "Four Indians were arrested early today after a scuffle with raiding RCMP in the council chamber of the rebellious hereditary chiefs on the Six Nations Indian Reserve."

 Kidd, Paul, Hamilton Spectator, Mar 1959     "The 6,000 Indians who have their home in the Grand River Country are sitting on a volcano. And it is one which could explode without warning. Behind what some outsiders regard as the incredible happenings of the last two days on the Six Nations Reserve, 25 miles from Hamilton, a ...