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    "Six Nations Chief Coun. William Montour has accepted the position of chief of staff for the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, Fall 1991     "Family violence in native communities will not be wiped out until the social, economic, and historical factors which trigger the abuse are addressed, Phil Fontaine said Tuesday."

Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, Fall 1992     "If Canadians are not going to allow aboriginal self-government, then the time has arrived for Indians to claim it for themselves, including making their own laws, an angry national chief Ovide Mercr

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, Winter 1992     "Bill Montour has moved hundreds of kilometers away, but his home is still Six Nations."

Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, Fall 1991     "National Indian chiefs slammed the federal government's native self-government proposals Tuesday as a 'total betrayal'."

    "Indian groups will look to the provinces for allies in their battle to change the constitutional proposal they consider badly flawed, the head of Canada's largest native organization said Wednesday.

    "Ottawa will spend $8 million to build a minimum-security prison primarily to house native men on Indian land in central Alberta, federal Solicitor General Doug Lewis announced Friday."

Southam News, Winter 1992     "Ontario has recognized that the inherent right of natives to govern themselves includes their right to control land and resources, says the head of a provincial association of Indian chiefs."

    "Edith Gagen was exiled from her reserve 30 years ago when she married a white man and the federal government decided she was no longer Indian."

Young, David, Brantford Expositor, Spring 1993     "Bill Montour is going ahead with plans for a $15 million tire recycling plant at Six Nations- with or without community or government approval."

MacGregor, Roy, Southam News, Summer 1990     "It is an astonishing admission. But George Erasmus now thinks he may have been wrong all along."

    "Canada's natives, living in Third World conditions, can't jump on the deficit-reduction bandwagon because they're mired in poverty and hopelessness, says the leader of the Assembly of First Nations.

Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor     "A couple of months ago, George Erasmus was re-elected chief of the conference, he made an eloquent speech which was largely misinterpreted and to which most white commentators reacted badly. In his

Brantford Expositor, Fall 1991     "No one should be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen in order to become a lawyer, says Darrell Doxtdator

Morrisseau, Miles, Southam News, Fall 1992     "There should have been little surprise that the Assembly of First Nations chiefs were unable to endorse the Charlottetown accord in Squamish, B.C., last week."

    "The 'legitimate government' of the Six Nations is being left out of the negotiations over the way native peoples will govern say two traditional chiefs."

    "The Assembly of First Nations said Wednesday it is willing to be a partner in the new Constitution if natives are treated as equals and granted self-government."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, Spring 1992     "For years, Wilma General has opened her home to Six Nations women who needed to escape violence."

    "Natives have won a tentative deal for self-government, Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark said Wednesday."

    "In the North, teenage girls blush red and shyly ask for Ovide Mercredi's autograph."