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Brantford Expositor, 12 Dec 1961     "Joseph Logan Sr., the oldest hereditary chief of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy both in age and years as a chief, died Monday on the reservation."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 15 Jun 1991     "Ontario will give the Six Nations band council $445,000 in return for the use of a portion of land along a provincial highway claimed by the band."

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 o

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."

Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 10 Jul 2013, p.6, p. 7     This article revisits the arrest of George Beaver for treason by the Iroquois Police during the 1959 Revolution in response to a letter to the editor Beaver had written in the Brantford Expositor cri

    "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."

    "I remember sitting in the manse in Kispiox Village as Jim Angus, a a hereditary chief of the Gitksan people - and, though certainly not as important in his eyes, current president of British Columbi

Brantford Expositor, 16 Oct 1961     "Indian poet Pauline Johnson, who had difficulty in having verse published while she lived, was subsequently 'chosen for immortality by the literary boosters of the 1920s,' a McMaster university assi

Windle, Jim, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 2 Mar 2015     Oneida fine-tunes joint governance By Jim Windle ONEIDA - Oneida of the Thames is looking back to the future by making steps towards a newly designed government that reflects the Great Law or Peace a

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 8 Jun 1991     "The province and the Six Nations band council are planning to continue with a land-use agreement despite opposition by the Confederacy council."

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 happ

    "Jubilant Mohawks in this once shattered and depressed community cheered wildly Friday night when they heard that democratic elections for their chiefs could be back."

    "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

Brantford Expositor, 18 Jan 1962     Article detailing the efforts of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council to have their grievances against the Canadian government heard at the United Nations. Issues include the imposition of th

Stonehouse, Eldon, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) ( CTVglobemedia), 1957     "The chiefs, warriors and women of the Six Nations recited their history, religion and traditions in the white man's court this afternoon in a continuation of their battle for the independence of the