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Turtle Island News, 21 Oct 1998     Election '98 underway with largest slate of candidates By Lynda Powless, Editor Six Nations Band Council elections are underway with 41 candidates jockeying for chief and councillors' jobs in what ma

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 7 Oct 1998, pp.1-2     Election Code in place: Band council stops INAC move to go back under Indian Act By Lynda Powless, Editor Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) election officials say that Six Nations band counci

    SIX NATIONS COUNCIL OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OHSWEKEN, ONTARIO TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE SIX NATIONS INDIAN RESERVE: The present Elective Council came into being in 1924 as a result of a vote by referendu

    "Canada's top native leaders gathered in Ohsweken today for the annual Chiefs of Ontario conference."

Garlow, Nahnda, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 3 Dec 2014     AFN votes for National Chief: SNEC endorses Picard By Nahnda Garlow WINNIPEG - This month, the Assembly of First Nations 2014 Election for the Office of the National Chief will take place on December

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 10 Dec 2014     "Three men are all vying for the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations in a vote today that is as much about the AFN as it is about who will lead it."

Brantford Expositor, 1991     "They all talk of the importance of returning to traditional values, and emphasize the need to improve living conditions in native communities."

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 28 Oct 1998     "Unless a political resolution can be quickly found a brother and sister team are threatening to seek an injunction to stop next month's Band Council elections."

    "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."

    A brief description of five candidates running for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and their platforms.

    "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."

    "If the six candidates for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations had their way, the Canadian political system would be drastically changed after June 11."

    "Bill Montour soon graduated from toys and household items. He spent 15 years as a high steel worker, putting buildings together, and occasionally, taking them apart. Now he's running for the nationa

Turtle Island News, 8 Jul 1998     "Joe Norton, who has waged a war of words with the Quebec government over tobacco taxes, was re-elected Saturday to his ninth two-year term as grand chief of the Kahnawake reserve south of Montreal."

    "Aboriginal people have been "treated like dirt" since whites set foot in Canada but natives aren't going to be kept down anymore, a leadership candidate for the Assembly of First Nations said Tuesda

    "Ovide Mercredi said it would be different the second time around. In a stunning, come-from-behind victory early today, Mercredi became the national Indian chief of the most powerful aboriginal organ

    "The race to become national chief of the Assembly of First Nations has taken on many of the trappings of non-native politics."

    "Ovide Mercredi says Canadians probably will greet his election as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations with a sense of relief."