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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

    "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."

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

    "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