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Roper, Wayne, Brantford Expositor, Summer 1993     "Chris Sandy Jr. was so scared, he couldn't even cry."

Durie, Donna, Turtle Island News, Spring 2015     "A proposed Haudenasaunee Tobacco Law calls for the banishment of non-Haudenosaunee owners of tobacco manufacturing plants, wholesaler or retail outlets at Six Nations."

    "Plans by members of the Six Nation Confederacy to hold a tobacco-burning ceremony on native land in the city on Wednesday were cancelled."

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, Spring 2015     "Six Nations Band Council says it is not in talks with Ontario about tobacco despite claims by a local lawyer that discussions have taken place over the community's tobacco industry."

    "While shining shoes on the streets of Buffalo, all eight-year-old Reg Hill could think about was becoming a millionaire."

    "Despite Ontario's demand that a local farming family stop work on the controversial Burtch lands, a new crop of hundreds of acres of tobacco is going in this week."

Beatty, Jim; White, Vicki, Brantford Expositor, 1993     "When Six Nations people burn tobacco in a traditional ceremony, they believe the smoke will carry their prayers to the creator above."

Durie, Donna, Turtle Island News, Spring 2015     "Any person who can trace his or her lineage back to Six Nations of the Grand River will be protected under the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council's (HCCC) new tobacco law."

Turtle Island News, 22 Jan 2014, p.3     ...

Roper, Wayne, Brantford Expositor, 1994     Smoke factory on Six Nations Investors in Grand River Enterprises, which wants to manufacture cigarettes on Six Nations, take part in a press conference on Monday. ...

Roper, Wayne, Brantford Expositor, 25 Jan 1994     SMOKE MACHINE Wayne Roper, Expositor Staff Employees Derek Williams and Debra Martin stack cigarettes produced during an open house at a Grand River Enterprises on Monday. The Six Nations company pla

    "Norfolk County was booming tobacco belt long before the arrival of European settlers."

Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 26 Feb 2014, p.9     "The Two Row Times met with Haudenosaunee Confederacy Secretary "Jock" Hill to talk about the pending Bill C-10 and its implications on all Six Nations Residents."

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 13 Mar 2013     "A Supreme Court decision not to hear an appeal from Grand River Enterprises, (G.R.E.) Six Nations Ltd., on whether or not they should pay excise taxes on tobacco product sold between 2005-2007 on re

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 5 Aug 2015     Six Nations closer to regulating its tobacco industry By Lynda Powless, Editor Regulations overseeing the tobacco industry at Six Nations are one step closer to reality after the Haudenosaunee Confed

Publication Title Unknown, 17 Jan 1994     Reserve smokes will be tax free SIMCOE (CP) - The provincial and federal governments can forget about trying to collect sales tax when the first cigarette manufacturing firm on a Canadian Indian rese

Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 Aug 1998, pp.1-2     Mohawk cigarette business stayed open after tax deal nixed QUEBEC (CP) - A Kahnawake cigarette dealer who had a secret tax deal with Quebec was able to continue selling tobacco after his tax permit w

Turtle Island News, 24 Jun 1998     Quebec wants to cut down sale of tax-free smokes on reserves QUEBEC - Non-natives will be discouraged from trying to buy tax-free cigarettes on reserves under measures introduced by the Quebec govern

Windle, Jim, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 12 Nov 2014     C-10 given Royal Assent, now Canadian law By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS - The second shoe has hit the floor with the passage of Bill C-10 last week in Ottawa. The controversial bill intended to criminali

    Barry Snyder He was so determined to present his view to reporters that he agreed to a breakfast meeting on a Friday morning, and drove all night from a conference in Toronto to be there. Some childr