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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."

    "The "historic" agreement that recognizes the right of the First Nations of Ontario to self-government was announced Thursday in the legislature."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 6 Jun 1991     "Native leaders say aboriginal hunting and fishing rights may be the first big test of the provincial government's willingness to recognize their right to self-government."

    "The Ontario Government will try to negotiate land claims and self-government arrangements simultaneously with First Nations in the province, Native Affairs Minister Bud Wildman said Tuesday."

    "Status Indians who fish and hunt for food in their treaty areas may continue to do so unless they pose a threat to conservation or public safety, the Ontario government said Tuesday."

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."

Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 2 Apr 2014, p.2     "With Elected Chief Ava Hill at the helm of a community meeting on the impending Tackling Contraband Tobacco Act (Bill C-10) last week, she called on the community to help them come up with strategie

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

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

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 4 Jun 1991     "After nine months, the province and the Chiefs of Ontario have produced a policy which could bring new life to the struggle for native rights."

    "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."

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

Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 19 Jun 2013, p.1     This article details a meeting between the Mohawk Workers, Liberal MP Dr. Carolyn Bennett, and Swiss Ambassador Ulrich Lehner during which the Mohawk Workers presented their objections to the Governm

    "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

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 2 Apr 2014, p.3     "Less than a month after elected chief Ava Hill signed a local unity pledge, a letter to federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Bernard Valcourt has surfaced in which Hill has demanded the minister m

    "What do the Indians want anyway? This plaintive question echoes the old whimper about Quebec, yet also grounded in an anxiety to do something about it."

White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 7 Jun 1991     "A four-day conference of Ontario native leaders ended Thursday with a flurry of resolutions demanding changes to government policies on taxation, resource development and child welfare."

MacNaughton, Kelly, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 14 May 2014, p.12     "One community, the Kahnawake Mohawk Reserve, is attempting to put together a proposal of how to regulate and maintain control of the tobacco trade on their reservation."

    "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

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