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Native Journal, May 2010     "Anishinabek leaders and citizens demonstrated at the constituency office of Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty April 30th to voice concerns about the proposed Harmonised Sales Tax. The new federa

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."

Moses, David A., Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 28 Jul 1999, pp.1-2     AFN Conference centres on North-South unity by David A. Moses VANCOUVER, B.C. - Sixty years ago, members of both Canadian and American First Nations were invited by the University of Toronto to a joi

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."

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

Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 26 Feb 2014, p.6     "People are unnerved. The Government has put forth a Bill to effectively destroy the economic base of our communities. That Bill is C-10. A meeting was held at Polytech Institute on Saturday, Feb 22,

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

Barnsley, Paul, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 22 Feb 1995     Mohawks ask for financial help in legal fight by Paul Barnsley SIX NATIONS - The 8 Mohawks who are challenging the right of Canadian courts to exert authority over the Mohawk Nation say they have alr

    "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

Mt Pleasant, Jen, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 26 Feb 2014, p.8     "Concerned community members packed the hall at Six Nations Polytech last Saturday to listen to a line up of speakers discuss the ramifications of Bill C-10 and what it means for First Nations people

    "An Ontario Ojibway band pulled out of the Union of Ontario Indians on Tuesday, saying it can assert native sovereignty over issues such as gambling better on its own."

    "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

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

Keefer, Chris, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 12 Feb 2014, p.9     "Tobacco has a long and complex history. From its original sacred and ceremonial purpose amongst the Ongwehon:we people of Turtle Island to its commercialization and engineering into the cigarette, o

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 26 Feb 2014, pp.2-3     "Bill C-10 claims to be aimed at cracking down on illegal 'contraband tobacco growth' but that's not how it's being seen by First Nations."

Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 23 Apr 2014, p.7     An outline of the issues surrounding Bill C-10 the Tackling Contraband Tobacco Act.

Mt Pleasant, Jen, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 26 Feb 2014, p.8     "The Two Row Times spoke with a storeowner for a smoke shop on Six Nations who identifies as Mohawk and wished to remain anonymous. For the sake of this article we will call him Jim to protect his id