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Gamble, Susan, Brantford Expositor, 14 Nov 2011     An article describing the life and accomplishments of the late Mona Staats.

    "n languages ranging from Ojibwa and Cree to Gitksan and Mohawk, the six people vying for the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations shouted a chorus of defiance Monday."

    "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."

Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 15 Jan 2014, p.4     "Six Nations Elected Band Council (SNEBC) has paid the City of Brantford almost $47,000 in back taxes owing on a property in the city that was willed to Six Nations in 2007 in order to stave off a ta

Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 15 Aug 2012     Great Law reading gaining momentum By Jim Windle, SIX NATIONS There were not as many people attending the recital of the Great Law as expected, however, organizers and those who have been attending t

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 5 Mar 2014, p.19     "After Big Tobacco was caught in 2010 and forced to pay half a billion dollars to federal and provincial coffers, quietly in First Nation communities, armed with money from that same contraband scand

Jarrett, Chase, Turtle Island News, 26 Jun 2013, p.4     "Hundreds now know that 200 years ago, the Battle of Beaverdams was fought and won entirely by Onkwehonwe warriors."

Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 26 Feb 2014, p.4     "According to Bill C-10 the federal government defines contraband tobacco as, 'any tobacco product that does not comply with the relevant federal and provincial statutes. Importing, stamping, marking

    "Their economies have taken a beating. Relations with neighbors have soured. Non-native police patrol their communities and land claims continue to fester."

    "At the end of four days of ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the Oka land claims crisis, Mohawk spiritual leader John Cree said, 'The past is over and now we have to build for the future.'

    "On a blistering June morning in 1975, during a daylong battle between native Indians and law enforcement officials on the Pine Ridge reserve near Wounded Knee in South Dakota, an assailant stumbled

    "Curt Styres, a Mohawk and self-made millionaire from Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve in Canada, brings a new attitude as majority owner of Rochester's hockey and indoor lacrosse teams."

    "An Indian delegation professed Monday to be only partly satisfied with personal assurances from Prime Minister Diefenbaker that none of their treaty or traditional rights will be infringed by giving

    "Between 1949 and 1956, Silverheels, a Mohawk born Harold Jay Smith on the Six Nations reserve at Brantford, played the monosyllabic Tonto in 178 TV films and two full-length motion pictures."

Logan, Skaruianewah, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 23 Apr 2014, p.5     "After the October 2013 appeal to the Supreme Court was also turned down, the Nation had exhausted all domestic avenues to justice. As a result, this past April 15, 2014 the Onondaga Nation travelled

Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 19 Feb 2014, p.3     "A group calling itself the Mohawks of the Grand River is looking to work with Six Nations Band Council as they embark on development projects on unceded Six Nations lands in the hope of regaining ti

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 21 Jan 1991     "Last summer, Mohawks confronted members of the Canadian forces in the Oka conflict. This winter, Mohawks are working side by side with those forces in the Persian Gulf."

Mt Pleasant, Jen, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 19 Mar 2014, p.3, p.4     "Tensions were high last week as members of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River (MNGR), formerly known as the Mohawk Workers, were at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto asserting their sovereignty

    "Georges Erasmus has a map of Canada marked with little red flags. There are some over logging areas in Northern British Columbia. More over Mohawk communities in Quebec. Another batch is around Jame

Hill, Rick, Turtle Island News, 1 May 2013, p.7     "Four hundred years ago in 1613, according to our oral history and European written documents, the events that led up to the making of the Two Row Wampum too place near present-day Albany, NY."