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The top Jr. B players from across Canada stood to join the Six Nations Rebels in a moments silence for one of their fallen comrades. Carney Johnson, who wore #28 for the Rebels died suddenly last Monday on the eve of defending the Cup he helped bring to Six Nations last year at this time. (Photo by Jim Windle)
2 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS
There were not as many people attending the recital of the Great Law as expect-ed, however, organizers and those who have been attend-ing the 10 day marathon event are pleased and increasingly hopeful nonetheless.
The long planned recital be-gan last Friday, and is expect-ed to wrap up Sunday, August 19th.
Several recognized speakers of the Gayanashagowa, repre-
senting a number of Iroquois communities, relayed through the day-long recitals, dialogue and anecdotes relative to The Great Law, or Great Peace as some prefer to call it.
Traditional adherents of what is known by some as the Six Nations Constitu-tion of Peace, which formed the Iroquois Confederacy, sat and listened with open ears to the words and spirit of peace brought many generations ago by the Peacemaker and Hi-awatha, or Haiëñ’wa’tha.
People from several Haude-nosaunee communities, some non-Haudensaunee Onkwehon:we Nations and even a few interested settlers came and sat in designated ar-
eas around the arena floor as speakers tracked trough the ancient political system which brought about peace between the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga Na-tions after generations of ha-tred and war.
The event could have and probably would have attract-ed more people had it not become the centre of a con-troversy over protocol, only days before it was to begin. The Six Nations Confederacy
Chiefs Council refused to en-dorse the event which caused some who had planned to at-tend from other territories not to come. On the recommen-dation of a few Clan Mothers and Faithkeepers, the Confed-eracy Chiefs withdrew any official support they initially might have shown towards the reading.
With or without the Confed-eracy Chiefs’ blessing, orga-nizers representing members of the Men’s Fire saw the long neglected reading of the Great Peace of the Haudenosaunee as too important to cancel for reasons of political protocol.
But by the third day, even some staunch Confederacy adherents who were being discouraged to attend, began drifting in, including at least one sitting Confederacy Chief and a few Clan Mothers and Faithkeepers.
“It seems to be getting bet-ter all the time,” said speaker Frank Miller. “We are making history here and I feel really good about it. This is really bringing minds together.”
He also is taking notice of people who have begun to at-tend whom he didn’t expect to see, which gives him great hope that what they are do-ing is important and impact-ing. Members of some of the
families that spoke out against the event over protocol issues have been seen in attendance as well.
“It’s been a long time com-ing to bring our community back together,” he said.
Tuesday, organizers decided to move the reading from the Gaylord Powless Arena over to the Community Hall after receiving complaints of poor sound and hot, sticky condi-tions in the arena.
“That was a nightmare,” said Miller. “We got rid of the noisy fans but then there was the problem of stagnant humid air and it didn’t help the acous-tics anyhow.”
Miller and others we have spoken to are pleased with how things are going and they are encouraged by the mid-week attendance, which they anticipate will increase as the recital continues into the weekend.
Kanenhariyo, aka Seth La-forte, is proud to be one of the speakers along with the others whom he knows and respects as wisdom keepers.
According to him, although the last public reading of the Great Law may have been 28 years ago here at Six Nations, it has been done elsewhere.
“I know there was one five years ago in Tyendinega,” he said. “There have also been
partial readings done as well.”Either way, the regular read-
ing of the Great Law of Peace is to be done more often than it has been, at least here at Six Nations.
Five years ago, according to event organizers, the idea of conducting such a wide ranging and large event was brought to the Confederacy Chiefs to organize, but nothing ever happened. That is why the men took it upon themselves to organize the event designed to renew understanding of the Great Law in the hearts of younger generations and re-vive unity and friendship be-tween Haudenosaunee people here and throughout Iroquoia, as well as renewing alliances with other nations.
“It is very important be-cause this is what reminds the people where we are headed,” says Kanenhariyo. “When too much time passes people for-get. That’s just human nature.”
He also sees the need for the foundation of the Great Law in the lives of young people who have never been exposed to it and have lost their identity and their hope, and for some, even the will to live.
“The Great Law could help many young people who too often see suicide as the only escape for themselves,” he
said. “I think it can also play an important role in recovery. These are signs that there is something wrong.”
He believes that when young people look towards the future these days, all they see is themselves being swal-lowed up in the white man’s world.
“There is no people in the world who feel good about being absorbed by another people, anywhere,” Kanen-hariyo says. “We are in a state where things are so dys-functional that people start to think, maybe it’s too far, or too late. Maybe we are going to be
swallowed up.”The Great Law of Peace
has the power to correct this way of thinking, however, one can not learn something they have not been taught, and that is why this reading is so very important, according to many we have spoken to at the re-cital.
“If individual families and clans once again begin to un-derstand how much we have, and start getting together to discuss matters of impor-tance again, it builds commu-nity and gives the children a sense of the future and maybe start striving towards living
by the Great Law. But people must take this knowledge and put it into action. If they do those kids won’t be wander-ing around like I do wonder-ing where do I belong,” says Kanenhariyo.
He hopes the people will be inspired enough to begin to re-organize themselves back into their rightful clans and fami-lies.
He applauds the organizers whom he says took the initia-tive to try and fix the problem.
The recital continues all this week and is scheduled to end this Sunday.
Great Law reading gaining momentum
Speakers and teachers of the Great law tag team their way throughout the public reading and discussion of the Gayanashagowa, the Great law of Peace. Over the course of the first three days of the ten day long recital, the attendance has been slowly growing. Some of the guest speakers include Paul Delaronde, Seth Laforte, Roger Jock, Francis Boots, Kelly Curley, Frank Miller, Lonnie Thomas and others. (Photos by Jim Windle)
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3 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS
Normally the Brant-Six Na-tions Plowing Match is held in October. “We moved our match ahead. Thought we’d get rid of the rain, but it didn’t help any,” said Doug Smith, Director of the Brant-Six Na-tions Plowman’s Association. “At least it’s not as cold.”
Smith explained the match is usually held the third Sat-urday in October. “This is the
first year we moved it.”But the farmers didn’t
mind Saturday’s rain, which at times was heavy. “It’s just right for plowing,” said Six Nations farmer Cory Green, who ended up taking home First Place in the Class 1 di-vision of the competition. He took a break from pulling mud off his tractor tires with a hammer to survey his furrow, called an ‘open split.’ “The next one is to put it all back in even,” he said. He acknowl-
edged his furrow wasn’t the straightest.
“We had just one of those days,” said the Secretary-Treasurer for the Brant-Six Nations Plowmen’s Associa-tion, Donna Telfer. “We got through the day. It was only water.”
Cecil Wells, who at 76 was likely the oldest plow-man competing, said the rain made the soil nice and soft. Legendary for his skill, Wells,
3WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012TEKAWENNAKE
Plowing match not stuck in a rut, but close call with the rain
The Bank of Montreal presented $525 to the Six Nations Plowman’s Association during Saturday’s plowing match. Accepting the cheque were President Art Porter (the only man in the picture), and Secretary-Treasurer Donna Telfer (third from the far left). Also partici-pating were (from left to right): Crystal Verhagen; Tara Schatz; Ontario Queen of the Fur-row Courtney Connors; Valerie Stone, Brant-Six Nations just-past Queen of the Furrow; and Chris Balazz.
Cory Green takes a break from pulling mud off his tractor tires for a few minutes. Green did not mind the rain at all. He took home First Place in the Class 1 division of the competition. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).
By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN
The 99th Internation-al Plowing Match will be held between September 18 to the 22nd in the Waterloo area, just upstream from Six Nations of the Grand, and the event promises to be a lot of fun.
Chairman of the IPM, Dave Pyper, attended the August 13 meeting of Elected Council's Com-mittee of the Whole to “let Six Nations know about the plowing match and our de-sire to include the Haude-nosaunee.”
Six Nations members are not only invited to at-tend the event, which will be held in Roseville, but members can also rent an exhibitor's booth during the event, which will bring an estimated 150,000 people, “depending on the weath-er,” said Pyper.
Six Nations singers and dancers will be perform-ing at the event, Pyper told the Committee. Events in-clude not only plowing, but a dog show, log cabin demonstrations, a heritage
village, rodeo, a dancing tractor performance, local food demonstrations, fash-ion shows, horticultural shows, a lumberjack show, and a week-long old fash-ioned barn raising.
This year's plowing match will feature a Remi-niscence Journey. “What we are planning to do is to highlight the four found-ing farm or agricultural groups in the Waterloo Re-
gion,” said Pyper. “Which of course Six Nations, the Haudenosaunee commu-nity, is a big part of. That includes also the Scottish immigrants, Pennsylva-nia Dutch immigrants and German immigrants who all founded the Waterloo region itself.” The history will be portrayed through a series of storyboards as well as cultural perfor-
Dave Pyper, the President of the 99th International Plow-ing Match, visited Six Nations Elected Councillors Mon-day morning to personally invite Six Nations to the event, which will take place in September in the Waterloo region. Pyper presented Elected Chief William Montour with the art work being used to promote this year’s match. (Photo by Stephanie Dearing).
Six Nations invited to International Plowing Match
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4 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Stephanie DearingOHSWEKEN
A small delegation of Dundalk area activists, ac-companied by Floyd and Ruby Miller, attended Six Nations Elected Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting Monday morning to give an update on their fight against the Lystek de-velopment. They also asked council to press the province for an environmental assess-ment (EA) of the project.
SPIRG (Southgate Public Interest Research Group) has asked for – and received – support from Six Nations in their fight against Lystek after pointing out the plant is situated just north of the headwaters of the Grand River. The land in question is also located within the Haldimand Tract.
SPIRG claims the indus-trial park in Dundalk, where Lystek is building its bio-solids-to-fertilizer process-ing plant, is surrounded by a wetland, and say there is potential for harm to both the environment and to hu-man health. Lystek disputes those claims.
Anna Maria Fosbrooke advised the Committee of the Whole “Southgate Coun-cil continues to develop and sell land to waste-related de-velopers.” Fosbrooke and her husband, James Cooke, spoke about the concentra-tion of waste-oriented busi-nesses to be operated in the Dundalk industrial park.
A soil remediation compa-ny has purchased land there, said Cooke. “...They’re go-ing to be pulling in contami-nated soil by the truckload from Toronto.” He added, “I’ve got a list of 15 classes of hazardous chemicals and
contaminants that can be in that soil ... including PCBs, Benzene, Toluelene ... that is coming to Dundalk as well.”
Fosbrooke said compost-ing company CCI is also interested in the industrial park, but hasn’t purchased any property. The industrial park already has a tenant, OrgaPower Compost Corp, which creates compost out of yard waste, which Cooke said comes from Toronto. The leachate from the com-post runs into the wetland, Cooke told the council-lors.
An environ-mental assess-ment is the only way to determine the overall cumu-lative impact of such a concentra-tion of businesses in one place, said the pair. “It [an EA] has not hap-pened, and that’s the route that we want to take,” said Cooke before ask-ing the Committee to push Ontario for an EA.
According to Cooke, Lystek “does not qualify for an environmental assess-ment because it’s a private company... Until they hit about 100,000 tonnes a day of output, they don’t need an environmental assessment. Lystek is seeking approval or a licence for 900 tonnes a day, they’re 10 percent un-der where they need an envi-ronmental assessment.”
“The thing is, they don’t in the slightest understand the regulations,” said Lys-tek President and CEO, Frederick Mosher when
reached by telephone Mon-day. “And they don’t know what the heck they’re talk-ing about.” He said Lystek does not need an EA for its Dundalk project under the existing regulations.
Mosher said Lystek is seeking a licence to pro-cess “100,000 tonnes of the material.” He stressed there will be no raw human waste incorporated into the Lystek fertilizer product, and said Lystek needs approvals
which he characterized as “a series of technical approv-als under the Environmental Protection Act.” Those ap-provals “deal with the air, the water and the overall processing facility.”
Projecting a map onto the large screen in the council chambers, Cooke pointed out where Lystek is building its plant, noting the opera-tion is being constructed just northwest of the Southgate Township waste water sew-age lagoons. “There are four
of them here,” said Cooke, pointing out the sewage la-goons.
“This is what’s interest-ing,” said Lystek’s Direc-tor of Development, Kevin Littweiller, also reached by phone Monday. “The munic-ipal sewage lagoons, which contain raw material, and are unlined ... just like any sewage lagoon; those have been there for 50 years al-most and those are 500 me-ters away from our site.”
“These guys ... try to sensationalize the poten-tial detrimental effect of our product leaking onto the land or whatever, but there’s a few really impor-tant things,” said Littweiller. “Our lagoons hold a finished fertilizer product that’s gone through a process that has totally neutralized and killed all pathogens and things like that.”
“The ... lagoons that we’re building, or the reservoirs, are lined with a heavy-du-
ty geo-membrane liner both top and bottom, which is de-signed to contain the mate-rial. I hate to say this, but selfishly, once we produce our fertilizer product, we don’t want to lose it because we want to sell it to farm-ers. That’s what it’s for,” said Littweiller.
“The absolute worst thing that could happen, and this is a worst-case scenario, if our product somehow got into the river, then it would be
just like any fer-tilizer, it boosts the nitrogen lev-els and you get a little extra plant growth, which is already hap-pening along the Grand anyway,” said Littweiller. “We would nev-er want to con-tribute to that.”
L i t twe i l l e r said the compa-ny has a vested interest in pro-ducing a good quality fertil-izer saying, “We’re only as good as the ma-terial that we take in.” That material will
come from municipal waste water treatment plants ... but it would also include food processing waste ... always non-hazardous and organic [plant and animal-based] waste because that’s what we’re approved to do.”
“Only 15 percent of the total capacity” of the waste materials processed will come from pre-treated mu-nicipal waste, said Littwei-ller.
Cooke said he and Fos-brooke have been hit with
a SLAPP lawsuit filed by Southgate Township, Lys-tek and OrgaPower in an attempt to stop their op-position. The parties want “about a million dollars for delay to their ongoing devel-opment.”
SLAPP, Cooke explained, “stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. In other words, if you criti-cize them or question what they’re doing, you’re going to get hit with a lawsuit, so that’s where we are.”
“Firstly, that’s not true, said Mosher. “We certainly haven’t filed anything. All we’re trying to do is defend ourselves. Secondly, the damages we have incurred are far bigger than that...”
When it came time for the Committee of the Whole to make a decision on the SPIRG presentation, Dis-trict Four Councillor Helen Miller told the delegation she had “a real concern. Different groups, such as yourself come to Six Na-tions and want Six Nations to support the group all the time ... If those plants were being built here, I doubt you people would be here sup-porting us.”
SPIRG has filed an appeal of the building permit given to Lystek in February 2012 by Southgate Township, and the hearing is scheduled to get underway on Septem-ber 4th.
The Grand River Conser-vation Authority approved Lystek’s Dundalk facility in 2011, but Lystek still needs a certificate of approval from the Ministry of the Environ-ment.
The Committee of the Whole accepted the presen-tation as information.
Opponents urge Environmental Assessment for Lystek’s waste operation in Dundalk
The satellite Google map shows the Southgate Township waste water lagoons. The plant being built by Lystek to process biosolids and other plant and animal materials into fertilizer is located a few hundred metres north and slightly west of the sewage lagoons. A Lystek executive said the Southgate lagoons are about 15 times larger than the lagoons Lystek will use to hold its finished product.
By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS
Is the Johnson Tract still unceded Haudenosaunee land or not? If so, why are Haudenosaunee people pay-ing taxes to the municipali-ty of Brantford to live on it? These are questions Six Na-tions‘ Lisa VanEvery went to Confederacy Council with last Saturday. After giving her presentation, the only re-sponse she got was to go to
the HDI and discuss the mat-ter with them.
VanEvery did just that on Monday, but came out of her meeting with more questions than she had when she went in.
She was advised to register her land with the HDI and fill out a Haudenosaunee Certifi-cate of Responsibility.
VanEvery went to the Longhouse and the HDI with the hope of getting someone to back her as she begins her
battle with Brantford over be-ing taxed on unceded Haude-nosaunee land.
There were mixed signals right off the hop for VanEv-ery after she began to read the material given her by the HDI explaining their land registry system.
“I read in the document they gave me that the cer-tificate of responsibility is ‘granted by the Haudeno-saunee Confederacy Chiefs Council, the HCCC,’” she
says. “But the application it-self says it is from the Haude-nosaunee Land Registry Six Nations ‘Iroquois’ Confed-eracy, Grand River Country.”
She wonders if they are, in fact, the same entity, legally, since the documents do not carry the same name.
“So, who is it I am regis-tering with, the HCCC or the HLRSNICGRC,” she asks.
The explanation sheet VanEvery was given also states that the Certificate
of Responsibility “may be amended or revoked by the HCCC” under certain cir-cumstances.
“So what if I sign this and they make some decision to change what it is I signed?” she wonders. “Because my name is on it, am I now ex-pected to live up to whatever amendment they decide to put in place somewhere down the road?”
She also wonders if the land she is registering would
be tied to the certificate. If so, would the HCCC now have control over that land too?
“I didn’t go there to have more rules and regulations put on me,” she said.
But the biggest disappoint-ment is a claus that relieves the HCCC from any respon-sibilities should VanEv-ery face legal charges or is evicted for not paying taxes on land she and the Confed-eracy believes to still belong
Woman will be on her own in her tax fight with Brantford
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5 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
NOTICE OF DRAFT SITE PLAN, REVISED STUDY AREA AND PUBLIC MEETINGTo be held by Niagara Region Wind Corporation regarding a Proposal to Engage in a Renewable Energy Project
Project Name: Niagara Region Wind FarmProject Location: The Study Area is within Haldimand County and Niagara Region (including the Township of Wainfleet, and Township of West Lincoln). The Interconnector Study Area is within the Town of Grimsby, Town of Lincoln and the Township of West Lincoln, in Niagara Region, in southern Ontario. Dated at Haldimand County and Niagara Region this the 15th of August 2012.
Niagara Region Wind Corporation (“NRWC”) is planning to engage in a renewable energy project in respect of which the issuance of a renewable energy approval is required. The distribution of this notice and the project itself are subject to the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act (Act) Part V.0.1 and Ontario Regulation 359/09 (Regulation), which covers Renewable Energy Approvals. This notice is being distributed in accordance with Section 15 of the Regulation prior to an application being submitted and assessed for completeness by the Ministry of the Environment.
The project team will be holding a drop-in style Public Meeting on September 20, 2012, between 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., at Smithville Christian High School (6488 Smithville Townline Road, Smithville, Ontario). The purpose of the meeting will be to present and discuss the Draft Site Plan and Draft Site Plan Report, and to provide properties newly added to the Study Area the opportunity to be notified and to review the draft Project Description Report in accordance with the Regulation.
Project Description: Pursuant to the Act and Regulation, the facility, in respect of which the project is to be engaged in, is considered to be a Class 4 Wind Facility. If approved, this facility would have a total maximum name plate capacity of 230 MW. The project study area is shown in the map below.
This project is being proposed in accordance with the requirements of the Act and Regulation. The project will consist of approximately 77 ENERCON wind turbine generators (80 potential locations identified), each with a rated capacity of 3.0 MW. The collection and transmission system includes a 34.5 kilovolt (kV) overhead and underground electrical power line collector system, atransformer substation, a 115 kV transmission line, fibre optic lines and a manual disconnect switch at the tap-in location. Other Project components include an operations and maintenance building and associated servicing and access roads with culverts installed, as required, at associated watercourse crossings.
Over the past several months, NRWC has been refining the project location and completing various technical and environmental studies in preparation for finalizing the project layout, including identification of the proposed turbine locations. Through these studies, the Project Study Area has been reduced and amended as follows:
No project components are located within the Town of Pelham (Pelham has been removed from the Project Study Area); The majority of the Township of Wainfleet originally located within the Study Area has been removed with the exception of two small areas near Wellandport and Lake Erie (approx. 5 turbines); The Interconnection Study Area has been expanded to accommodate the location of the proposed transformer substation; and,A small area in the Township of West Lincoln has been added to accommodate 3 additional turbines west of the original Study Area.
The revised Study Area is shown on the adjacent map.
Documents for Public Inspection:A Draft Site Plan and Draft Site Plan Report, including the proposed turbine layout, will be issued for the project and made available for public review, as listed at the bottom of this notice. The legal effect of this Notice is such that pursuant to Section 54 of the Regulation, NRWC has to take into account noise receptors as defined by the Act that existed as of the day before NRWC published this Notice.
The Draft Project Description Report titled Niagara Region Wind Farm Draft Project Description Report (August 2012) has been updated with the details outlined above, and will bemade available for public review, as listed at the bottom of this notice.
The Draft Site Plan, Draft Site Plan Report, and updated Draft Project Description Report will be made available as of August 20, 2012, for public review at www.nrwc.ca, and the following locations:
Haldimand County: 45 Munsee Street North, CayugaNiagara Region: 2201 St. David’s Road, ThoroldTown of Grimsby: 160 Livingston Avenue, Grimsby Town of Lincoln: 4800 South Service Road, Beamsville Town of Pelham: 20 Pelham Town Square, FonthillTownship of Wainfleet: 31940 Highway #3, WainfleetTownship of West Lincoln: 318 Canborough Street, Smithville.
Project Contacts and Information: To learn more about the project, or to communicate questions or comments, please contact:
Robert Daniels, Vice PresidentNiagara Region Wind Corporation277 Lakeshore Road East, Suite 211Oakville, ON L6J 6J3
J.A. (Al) Leggett, BA, MCIP, RPPProject Manager, Stantec Consulting Ltd.300 - 675 Cochrane Drive West TowerMarkham, ON L3R 0B8
Information will be collected and used in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. This information will be used to assist NRWC in meeting applicable environmental approvals requirements. This material will be maintained on file for use during the project and may be included in project documentation. Unless indicated otherwise, personal information and all comments will become part of the public record and publicly released as part of project documentation.
NRWC will be holding a drop-in style public meeting
WHEN: September 20, 2012 at 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. WHERE: Smithville Christian High School 6488 Smithville Townline Road Smithville, Ontario
6 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY
More Storms On The Horizon by Xavier Kataquapit www.underthenorthernsky.com
I noticed in the news recently that there seems to be a move from denial of climate change or global warming. It looks like people are finally waking up to the fact that we humans are contributing to a situation that is causing change in the climate and weather patterns. Sadly, we have wasted a lot of time and missed a lot of opportunities to do our part to fight global warming. People seem to be coming out of denial now because the changes in weather pat-terns are just too obvious to ignore.
For example, consider the wide spread drought of the United States and large parts of Canada. I notice myself in my immediate environment the changes that are happening. There has been much rain and terrible storms in the northern wilderness where I am spending the summer.
A few days ago, I experienced the most intense thunder and lightning storm ever in my life. There were a series of storms in my area and the worst awoke me at about three in the morning. This storm was terrifying as the lightning and thunder flashed repeatedly like a strobe light for over an hour. I felt as though I were in the heart of this great storm.
Native people have always been in awe of the force of thunder and lightning. I was raised to respect these powerful forces on the land. My Elders told me of a Cree mythology of the origins of thunder and lightning. Even though we lived in the flat lands of the western James Bay mushkeg, there were stories and legends of high mountains in the west that rose up and met the sky. My people believed that these high places was where lightning and thun-der originated and these phenomenon were thought of as living entities that travelled with the storms and clouds. They came in different sizes, shapes and intensities so people pointed out the small young ones that briefly flashed or the great old ones that came down as power-ful lightning bolts.
In our language lightning is known as Ominiskoo. It is the origin of more modern words we use to describe anything having to do with electricity. Batteries of any sort are referred to as Ominiskoo and electrical wires are known as Ominiskoo-Api.
Scientifically, lightning is actually a very powerful force. A lightning bolt has an average peak power output of about one trillion watts, or one terawatt and the strike lasting only 30
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Unanswered questionsWe really try and give people a chance to respond to questions as they arise, but
sometimes even our best efforts go unrewarded.
Last week we, like most of the community, were caught off guard with the HDI’s signing of a $90,000 lease agreement with First Solar for a huge solar farm on Haldimand Tract land, as reported in the Turtle Island News.
And also like most of the community, we have a few questions about this deal. We sent these questions over to Hazel Hill and Aaron Detlor in written form so they could offer us the answers in their own words exactly. We also gave them a heads up about our deadline Tuesday night.
Well, as of the writing of this piece, at 6:30 pm Tuesday, an hour and a half past deadline, we have not heard a peep from the office that consistently tells the com-munity of their transparency and their willingness to offer any information one might ask of them.
In our last communication with Aaron Detlor when we were asking a few questions about another issue, he responded that the HDI is always forthcoming with informa-tion. All one needs to do is ask.
Well, on that invitation, we asked about details of the First Solar agreement the other paper scooped us on.
This first question was: We read the First Solar deal was a $90,000 lease arrange-ment. That is over how many years and how will that money come in — one lump sum or smaller instalments — and to whom?
Q: We understand there is no giving up of land or claim to land included in this agreement. Is that right?
Q: First Solar says they have been in dialogue with you for four years, but Hazel says two. Which is it?
Q: In our last taped interview with Aaron, (re: Samsung) he said that once the draft had been agreed to and a formal negotiations agreement is in place, the community would have complete say in it. I would assume that to be general policy. That being said, how did details of this First Solar deal get passed without any specific com-munity input or consultation?
Q: What about the “clean-up” of Kanonhstaton, (removal of trailer and front gate) which is to be paid for from the $90,000. Is that too beginning without community consultation or input?
Q: What would you say to those who would find little difference between how the HDI conducts its business and how Six Nations Economic Development handles its business - both without public consultations or knowledge - something the HDI has been very critical of Band Council of doing.
Q: Who else are you currently in talks, discussions or negotiations with?
There has been no response to these questions, the answers to which we were prepared to present to the community in the form of a news article in this week’s Tekawennake.
But since there was no response, there is no article, and since there is no article, we and therefor the community at large is left without answers to questions people are asking us. This is yet another case of the HDI being about as transparent as a bowling ball.
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millionths of a second or 30 microseconds. At this energy output, the lightning heats the surrounding air in its imme-diate vicinity to about 20,000 degrees Celsius or 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about three times the temper-ature of the surface of the sun. The sudden heating from a lightning bolt super heats the surrounding air and creates a supersonic shock wave. This shock wave is what we hear as thunder.
Tall trees are conduc-tors of lightning because they are often the highest point in the landscape. However, the sap inside trees is a poor con-ductor of electricity so when lightning strikes a tall pine, the sap is instantly superheat-ed into steam and explodes. Lightning striking trees is of-ten the source of forest fires in many remote forested ar-eas.
You can judge the dis-tance of a lightning strike by counting how many seconds it takes for the sound of thun-der to follow a flash of light. It is estimated that a flash pre-ceding thunder for three sec-onds is about one kilometre or a five seconds for a mile.
There isn’t much you can do to avoid the power of these huge thunder storms that are becoming more regular in parts of the country. Scien-tists tell us that as weather
patterns change due to global warming we can expect more volatile and violent weather.
Don’t ever take shelter under a tree during a thun-der storm and try not to get caught out in the open on a lake, river or flat area. The safest places are inside a ve-hicle or a building.
The fact is that the recent
thunder storm I experienced really scared me. After all, I was surrounded by tall pine and poplar trees in the wilder-ness. I guess I am just going to have to get accustomed to bigger and more violent thun-der storms and that is not go-ing to be easy.
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Despite a temperature that was over 30 degrees Celsius, three Elected Councillors toured the new water treatment plant on August 3rd. The meeting had been set up after some of Elect-ed Council showed an interest in touring the facility. Senior Administrative Officer, Dayle Bomberry joined District One Councillor Lewis Staats, District Two Councillor Ava Hill and District Five Councillor Darryl Hill for the tour Accompanying the group was James and Kyle from First Nations Engineering, Project Manager Mike Murray and Kevin from Maple Reinders. In the photograph above, the group is checking out the Gravity Thickener (the round structure), which will collect waste water. The sediment will eventually be compressed into bales and most likely land-filled. (Photo by Stephanie Dearing).
Approximately 100 people came out to the Hagersville United Church Sunday afternoon to wish Dr. Powell a happy 100th birthday. Incidentally, this year marks the 70th anniversary since Powell set up his office in Hagersville. Although he has been retired for some time, over the years, he had delivered over 2,000 babies, including Six Nations and New Credit babies. Due to poor health, Dr. Powell did not attend the celebration, but the event was recorded so he could watch later. Dr. Powell was a key player in establishing the West Haldimand General Hospital. He also set up the Dr. Powell Award, which is given to a qualified Hag-ersville Secondary student each year. Described as someone who genuinely cared about his patients, recollections of the doctor were shared while dignitaries such as MPP Toby Barrett and Haldimand Mayor Ken Hewitt presented plaques honouring Dr. Powell's 100th birth-day. (Photo by Stephanie Dearing).
8 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Stephanie DearingOHWEKEN
It seemed like it was mov-ing day at the Six Nations
Food Bank on Friday after-noon. Starting around 1 pm on August 10, a trickle of people steadily made their way towards the food bank,
where they gathered to unload a rather sizeable donation made by the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation.
By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS
When the Americans de-clared war on Great Britain in 1812, aiming, of course, at what was then called Up-per Canada, General Isaac Brock was the fellow who roused a contingent of fight-ing men, who eventually stopped and repelled the American incursion. But Brock couldn't have done it without Six Nations and oth-er allied First Nations.
On Wednesday August 8, a small group of actors stopped at the Mohawk Cha-pel to recreate a moment in time when Brock travelled through the area to solicit support.
The moment might not have been completely his-torically accurate, but was something Brantford histori-an Zig Misiak saw as a foun-dation to build upon. “Being here is so symbolic, so sig-nificant,” he said.
Approximately 100 peo-ple watched as the three ac-tors who portrayed Brant (Bob Rennie), John Brant (Six Nations member, 18 year old Andrew Martin)
and John Norton (Tyler Misiak) played out a ver-sion of what Zig Misiak de-scribed as “what might have taken place” 200 years ago.
Six Nations historian and Director of the Six Nations Legacy Consortium, Keith Jamieson, did not attend the event, but said when reached by telephone, the Legacy Consortium had been con-sulted by the organizers of what was called Brock's Walk, the Western Corridor War of 1812 Bicentennial Alliance, providing advice.
The Alliance had or-ganized the recreation of Brock's eight day journey through the region gathering support as he went from Fort York to Port Dover, stopping at points in between before sailing for Amherstburg.
“We're standing here to-day as guests of Six Na-tions,” said Zig Misiak as he introduced the reenactment, dressed himself in period clothing. “There used to be a substantial village here ... we're standing on some in-credible land here.”
Zig Misiak, who is an au-thor as well as historian, chairing the Brant Historical
Society and the War of 1812 Committee for the area, was glad for the opportunity to give people a glimpse into the Native side of 1812.
200 years ago, Brock and his emissaries went to On-ondaga, where they met with elders. “It was crucial for Brock to get Hauden-saunee support,” Misiak explained after the reenact-ment. “Brock died shortly after [his visit] but Norton and Brant kept fighting.”
Misiak said the presenta-tion of the William Claus belt in 1815 after the war was over was an acknowl-edgement the British “rec-ognized that they likely wouldn't have won the war without the help of the Haudenosaunee.”
While elected officials from Six Nations were not in attendance, Six Nations was represented by both Six Na-tions Tourism and the Wood-land Cultural Centre. Both organizations set up tables with information for guests to take, many of whom had travelled to Brantford for the event. A number of Six Na-tions members also attended the event.
SIX NATIONS SOCIAL SERVICES Is Conducting a Survey on the following topic: “Gaining Awareness on Physical Disabilities at Six Nations”
We will be available to assist you in filling out the survey On the following dates
August 16, August 17, and August 20, 2012 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Stoneridge Day Care— 2nd Floor 18 Stoneridge Circle
Ohsweken, Ontario NOA 1M0
PLEASE CALL 226-227-2168 Ask for Shelbi Jonathan or Barbara General
You may also access the survey on the Six Nations Council Website: sixnations.ca
Note: the survey is voluntary, and your assistance is anonymous and the data will be kept confidential . The survey is to establish a baseline on the physi-cal disabilities at Six Nations.
Historic meeting recreated at Mohawk Chapel
Bob Rennie, playing General Isaac Brock (left), presents Six Nations actor Andrew Martin (far right), who was portraying John Brant and Tyler Misiak (middle), playing the part of John Norton, with a wampum belt, asking for the support of Six Nations to help fight the Americans after the Americans declared war on Great Britain in 1812. The actors were rec-reating a possible moment in time from 200 years ago as a way to commemorate the war of 1812. Observing is Zig Misiak. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).
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Photograph: A dozen people showed up Friday afternoon at the Six Nations Food Bank to help unload three trucks carrying a substantial donation from the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation. A load of fresh produce had already been brought over on Thursday morn-ing. Front Row, left-right: Yvonne Jamieson, a Dreamcatcher employee; Brandy Doolittle, Dreamcatcher employee; Sara Awdish, Dreamcatcher’s Executive Director; Sadie Buck, food bank coordinator; Emmanuel Lewis, Chair of Dreamcatcher Board; Missy Davey, food bank board member; Edna Aylward, Dreamcatcher employee; Eric Anderson, Economic Development employee. Second Row, left-right: District Six Councillor Mark Hill, sits as a board member on both the Dreamcatcher and food bank boards; Vera Styres, Dreamcatcher board. Rear Row, left-right: Delby Powless, Dreamcatcher board; Josh Powless, Dream-catcher employee.
Large donation shocks Six Nations food bank coordinator
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ATTENTION PARENTS! We will be holding a Community Presentation
On Modernizing Child Care To clarify on what does it mean; what is full-time kindergarten, and the
integration of day care and full-time kindergarten. This is your opportunity
to ask questions.
Join us on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Two Sessions: 2:00 pm —4:00 pm
6:00 pm — 8:00 pm Stoneridge Community Room—2nd Floor Stoneridge Day Care, 18 Stoneridge Circle
Guest Speakers From Supervisors from Six Nations Day Cares
Ministry of Education—Early Learning Division Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Any questions contact: Barbara General, MSW
Special Projects Coordinator, Phone Number: 226-227-2168
Paddle SongA Musical play about the life of E. Pauline Johnson
231 Queens Quay West, TorontoSaturday August 18th at 8:30 pmSunday August 19th at 4:30 pm
Planet IndigenUSat
Starring:
Cheri MaracleOn Stage at the
Tickets purchase at harbourfront.com(416) 973-4000
By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS
An eight day festival cel-ebrating all things IndigenUs kicked off at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford Saturday. With a theme of 'power of the voice, heart of the drum', Saturday kicked
off in Six Nations with the presentation of the first On-tario Arts Council Aboriginal Arts Awards to Six Nations members Shelly Niro and Tracey Anthony.
Planet IndigenUs is offered in Toronto and Brantford si-multaneously over the same period of time. Established
in 2003, the festival is held once every three years, and is described in superlative terms such as 'ground break-ing' and 'once-in-a-lifetime.' Those words are not just pret-ty promises, but accurately portray the experience that awaits festival-goers.
Woodland Centre's Exec-utive and Artistic Director, Janis Monture, said three years ago the festival attract-ed “about 150 people a day on average. We hope to triple attendance this year.”
Possibly it was the rain Sat-urday, but attendance for the opening ceremonies wasn't as strong as Monture had hoped, although the comedy night, Heck Init, featuring Don Burnstick and Charlie Hill was sold out long before the festival opened.
There were a few flies in the ointment Saturday. The outdoor stage wasn't set up until late Saturday, but that was okay because the rain meant the acts that were to go on outdoors had to be brought inside. The chef didn't show up for the First Nations Food Fusion Demo, but a bit of quick thinking by Monture and her staff, saw the perfor-mance schedule bumped up
a bit to fill the gap.Performances, workshops
and activities are largely free, and those interested can catch the play written by Six Na-tions playwright Falen John-son on Wednesday (7 pm start time). Two-time world
champion hoop dancer Lisa Odjid will perform Thursday (8 pm start), and at 9 pm there will be a documentary on the Creator's Game.
Tickets for Susan Aglu-kark and Ali Fontaine were still available as of Saturday.
Saturday features a visual art exhibit by Kawenni:io/Gaweni:yo students, New Credit musicians, Six Na-tions musicians.
The whole fest wraps up on Sunday August 19 with more activities and music.
Planet IndigenUs kicks off week of beauty and talent
Goombine (far right) is a descendent of the Wadi-Wadi peo-ple of the Yuin nation, located in the continent now known as Australia. He and his co-performer, Darien, shared songs and stories from his people. While Darien played the Digi-deroo or danced, Goombine sang and provided percussion with a pair of sticks, which he said were similar to the drum. Both wore paint “to respect Mother Earth,” said Goombine. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing)
Walking into Woodland’s exhibition space, guests come face to face with a piece made by Elizabeth Doxtator, ‘Encircles Everything.’ The artwork features corn husk dolls represent-ing Confederacy Chiefs and Clan Mothers. While faceless, the dolls are individuals, made so by attention to the details, such as bead work and the baskets in front of the Clan Mother dolls. Standing in a circle, the women are on the outside, facing out to guests. To their backs stand the Chiefs, who all face inwards towards the Great Tree of Peace, a white pine with its four roots stretched out dividing the circle into quarters.
10 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS
Win lose or draw, the de-fending Founders Cup cham-pion Six Nations Rebels were guaranteed a berth in this years event as the host team. But the Rebels overcame an emotion filled week in which
they lost the heart and soul of the 2012 squad last Monday afternoon, when teammate Carney Elijah Johnson passed away, to claim their 5th OLA Jr B championship Friday night in Akwesasne.
It took a focused and de-termined third period for the defending Founders Cup
champions to eke out an 11-10 win over the Akwesasne Indians in Akwesasne Fri-day night and take the OLA Jr. B championship in three straight games.
The Indians gave it every-thing they had to stay alive, but the energized and well running Six Nations Rebels
machine proved to be too much for the game challeng-ers in the first ever all-Native championship series.
The Rebels can now focus on getting ready to host the Founders Cup tournament which will bring the top Jr. B teams from across Canada to Six Nations. The defending
champs are determined not to let that trophy out of their possession again this year and seem to have the horses to make good on that goal. But anything can happen in the playoffs, and usually does.
The Rebels took a 3-0 lead in Friday’s game with goals from Jacob Bomberry, Brine
Rice and Joe Haodias Mara-cle before Nick Sanseverino put the Indians on the score-board. Zed Williams rounded out the first period scoring at 1:25 from Tony Doxtator and Wayne Hill. Tugo Goodleaf, Rice, Bomberry, Daniel Hen-hawk also picked up assists.
Rebels go into Founders Cup the right way
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Six Nations Rebels celebrate at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena Saturday afternoon after returning home from Akwesasne with their 2012 J. A. MacDonald Trophy in tow as the OLA Jr B champions following their thrilling 11-10 over Akwesasne Indians Friday night. (Pictured Front Row L-R) – Marcus Elvin, Travis Elvin and Jacob Crans. Back Row (L-R) Dono-van Fleischer, Wayne Hill, Cap Bomberry (Advisor), Danton Miller, Tyson Bomberry, Cory Bomberry (Coach), Tom Johnson (Equipment Manager), Stew Monture (Head Coach), Chase Martin, Spencer Hill, Tony Doxtator, Tim Johnson, Harris Lemon, Ian Martin, Wray Maracle (EGM), Dallas John, Brian General (Advisor), Scott Maracle (President) and Derek General (Goalie Coach) (Photo’s by Amanda White)
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11 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By jim WindleSIX NATIONS
Six Nations Rebels and the Iroquois Lacrosse Are-na opened their arms Tues-day to some of the best Jr. B talent in the country as they host the 40th Founders Cup Championships.
Along with the host Reb-els, representing the OLA will be the Akwesasne Indi-ans. The Alberta representa-tive Calgary Mountaineers are joined by British Colum-bia’s Kamloops Venom, the Manitoba Gryphons, Team Nova Scotia, Team Quebec, the Saskatchewan Swat, and the Onondaga Red Hawks.
The Ontario teams are grouped with Quebec Sas-katchewan and the Redmen of Onondaga in Group “A” while Kamloops British Co-lumbia, Manitoba, Nova Sco-tia, Alberta and Six Nations compete in Group “B”.
According to organizers Tuesday, everything is run-ning smoothly and on time. All teams arrived safe, on time and ready to put on a show.
The opening ceremony in-cluded the marching on the floor of all teams as Cheri Maracle told the story of Creation.
Once the formalities were over the Rebels took on Brit-ish Columbia in their first game of the series.
Game #1 got under way at 9 am with Quebec losing to Saskatchewan, 8-5. A slow start by Quebec proved to be their undoing as they fell be-hind 3-1 and could not make up that ground.
The Kamloops Venom played Manitoba in Game #2 of the opening round at 11:45 Tuesday morning.
Manitoba prevailed 6-5 after leading the entire game.
The third game of opening day saw the Calgary Moun-taineers defeat Nova Scotia 10-8 at 2:30 in the afternoon. The Calgary mountaineers led 3-2 after the first peri-od.
The 4 pm game had the Akwesasne Indians beat up
the Onondaga Redmen 23-9 while the feature game of the day, played after the official opening ceremonies, had the host Rebels take on Ka-mloops, the Venom’s second game of the day.
The Rebelswon it convinc-ingly bay the score of 18=6 ledby Dallas John who col-lected 4 goals and 3 assists.
Not to go down without a good fight, the Indians poured it on in the second period, scoring five second period goals, four by Derek Hopps and one by Ross Cree which Hopps also assisted on. Jacob Crans scored one late for the Rebels.
With the score 6-5 in fa-vour of Akwesasne, the third period turned into a wild one with 10 goals scored. Fortu-nately for Six Nations, four were scored by the Indians and six for the Rebels.
Tony Doxtator evened the score at 6-6, 57 seconds into the final period assisted by
Maracle and Williams. Mara-cle scored at 5:26 to give Six Nations the lead, very tempo-rarily as it turned out. Akwe-sasne’s Ty Thompson evened the score again at 5:55.
Rice put the Rebels ahead again at 6:04 which Akwe-sasne’s Hank Delisle an-swered at 10:06. Hopps scored his fifth of the game at 11:26 and it was a 9-8 game with the Indians hanging on to the narrow one goal mar-gin.
Dallas John took that lead away at 16:16 but Akwe-sasne’s Tyler Barnhart put the Indians ahead again at 17:14.
With time winding down, Zed Williams tied the game from Maracle and Doxta-tor. Just when it looked like OT looming on the horizon, Maracle silenced the Akwe-sasne crowd at 19:23 with the winning goal assisted by Wil-liams and Chase Martin.
There were no powerplay goals scored in a game that had relatively few penalties called, two against Akwe-sasne and four against Six Nations.
Donovan Fleischer went the distance in the Rebels net while Jake Lazore did the du-ties in the Akwesasne net.
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Six Nations welcomes the Founders Cup Championship
Teams from British Columbia to Nova Scotia have come together at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena to fight it out for Jr. B supremacy as they take on the defending Founders Cup Cham-pion, Six Nations Rebels. (Photos by Jim Windle)
Day #2
Wednesday Aug. 159:00 am Manitoba vs Nova Scotia11:45 am Saskatchewan vs Akwesasne2:30 pm Onondaga vs Quebec5:15 pm Kamloops vs Nova Scotia8:00 pm REBELS vs Manitoba
Day #3Thurs. Aug. 169:00 am Kamloops vs Alberta11:45 am Quebec vs Akwesasne2:30 pm Saskatchewan vs Onondaga5:15 pm Manitoba vs Alberta8:00 pm REBELS vs Nova Scotia
Day #4Fri Aug 17 9:00 am 1st Place A vs 4th Place A11:45 am 2nd Place A vs 3rd Place A2:30 pm Alberta vs REBELS5:00 pm Teams Banquet at ILA
Day #5 Sat. Aug. 18th11:45 am 3rd Place A vs 4th Place B2:30 pm 4th Place A vs 3rd Place B5:15 pm 1st Place A vs 2nd Place B8:00 pm 2nd Place A vs 1st Place B
Medal DaySun. Aug 1911:00 am Tier 2 Trophy2:00 pm Bronze Medal Game5:00 pm Gold and Silver Game
12 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS
The 2012 Six Nations Pro-Fit Chiefs have made it to the Major Series Lacrosse finals and will face the Peterbor-ough Lakers for a berth at this years Mann Cup champion-ships on the 20th anniversary of the organization.
The Chiefs knocked off the defending Mann Cup champs, the Brampton Ex-celsiors, Tuesday night at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena with a 12-6 exclamation point to take a big step towards restor-ing the legendary franchise to its former glory as the best Sr. lacrosse team in all of Canada for three years running.
In 1994, 1995 and 1996 the Chiefs dominated Sr. lacrosse winning three Mann Cups in succession, but since then, have never been able to mus-ter the same kind of success.
Since 2006, Brampton and Peterborough have traded Mann Cup championships, which is a streak the Chiefs hope to bring to an end in 2012. This year they just may have both the horses and the dedication to it.
But the Lakers will be wor-thy opponents when that se-ries begins. They too possess a very deep and well balanced pool of lacrosse talent. The schedule is not yet released. The ILA will be booked sol-id for the Jr. B Founders Cup championships which began Tuesday night, with the med-al games set for Sunday, Aug. 19th.
Brampton’s Shane Scott scored first at 8:01 which only served to awaken the sleeping giant as the Chiefs responded with goals by
Roger Vyse, assisted by Cody Jamieson, and two by Craig Point, one on a powerplay at 15:26 and his second, 26 sec-onds later. Colin Doyle, Ste-ven Keogh, Casey Biernes, and Tom Montour earned as-sists.
The Chiefs kept coming in the second, adding goals by Rhys Duch and Biernes to build a 5-1 lead by the 4:35 mark. Brampton countered with a goal by Carter Bender at 5 minutes even but Duch cancelled that 30 seconds later.
The defending Mann Cup champs dug deep and came up with the last three goals of the period to draw within one goal of the Chiefs with 20 minutes remaining in reg-ulation time.
The Chiefs could smell an-other Mann Cup appearance and exploded with six third period goals, beginning and ending with Cody Jamieson at 4:55 and 16:28. In be-tween were tallies by Ke-ogh, Biernes, Marty Hill, and Roger Vyse. Bender scored the only Brampton goal of the period.
Six Nations out-shot Brampton, keeping Bramp-ton’s Anthony Cosmo, last year’s Mann Cup MVP, very busy with 50 shots. Brandon Miller handled the Chiefs‘ goaltending assignment, turn-ing away 32 of 38 shots.
But they will have to get past a very hungry Peterbor-ough team who were deeply disappointed after watching the Excelsiors celebrate last year’s Mann Cup win.
GAME 4Chiefs 9
Brampton 7
The Pro-Fit Chiefs put a headlock on their semifinal series with the Brampton Excelsiors Sunday night in Brampton with a 9-7 win to take a 3-1 series lead.
They had to come from behind to do it after going behind 6-3 in the first 20 minutes. The Chiefs pulled it out of the fire in the sec-ond period, taking an 8-7 lead and adding one more in the third.
GAME 3Chiefs 9
Brampton 5The Six Nations Pro-Fit
Chiefs took game 3 of their semi-final series against the Brampton Excelsiors Thurs-day night at the ILA after dropping a 6-5 heartbreaker in game 2 in Brampton.
The Chiefs bolted into a 2-0 lead with goals by Rhys Duch and Cody Jamieson early in the first period Thurs-day night. But the Excelsiors erased that lead by the end of the first 20 minute session.
Jamieson gave the lead back to the Chiefs at 18 sec-onds of the second period assisted by Sid Smith. Craig Pointed added to that at 3:41 from Steve Keogh and Ja-mieson. Once again how-ever, Bramptoon matched those two goals to create an-other level playing field at 4-4 by the 12 minute mark. The goals kept coming in pairs as Casey Biernes and Tom Montour put the Chiefs ahead 6-4 heading into the third period.
Brampton’s Mike Burle chipped one goal from the lead at 2:32, but the Chiefs got that one back only 20 sec-onds later with Point’s sec-ond goal of the game.. Alex Hill and Biernes assisted.
Keogh and Montour put the cherry on top with late period goals to produce the 9-5 winning score and give the Chiefs a 2-1 lead in the best of seven series.
GAME 2Brampton 6
Chiefs 5A second period letdown
by the Six Nations Chiefs led to their first loss of the semi-final series with Brampton.
After taking a 1-0 lead in Brampton, thanks to Colin Doyle’s goal at 4:56, John McClure evened the score at 16:15.
The Chiefs kept the pres-sure on throughout the first six minutes of the second
period beginning with Ryse Duch surprising the Excel-siors 22 seconds into the pe-riod. Joe Walters tied it up again at 5:13 before Stephen Lablanc made it 3-2 for Six Nations at 6:46.
The tide suddenly turned when Brampton’s Joe Re-serarits took advantage of a Rory Smith holding call by scoring on the powerplay. He
followed that up with a short-hander at 10:29, throwing the Chiefs' equilibrium off for the rest of the period. John Mc-Clure and Walters scored two more to give Brampton a 6-3 lead to take into the third.
The Chiefs scrambled back to within one of the leaders with goals from Duch and Jamieson but were unable to find that last tying goal need-
ed to send the game into OT, losing to the hosts by a single goal. The Brampton win tied the series at 1-1.
The third period also fea-tured a fight card between Six Nations’ Rory Smith and Brampton’s Dylan Evans with a couple of undercard events thrown in for good measure.
Craig Point watches the ball go in behind Brampton goalie Anthony Cosmo. The Chiefs ad-vance to the MLS finals against Peterborough after eliminating last year’s Mann Cup win-ners four games to one. (Photo by Jim Windle)
Brampton’s goalie Anthony Cosmo and Chiefs goalie Bran-don Miller wish each other well following the Six Nations Chiefs elimination of the Excelsiors Monday night at the ILA. The Chiefs will now face the Peterborough Lakers in the league finals which will determining who gets a berth in this year’s Mann Cup.
On June 20, 2012, representatives from Dol Turf Restoration, MMM Group Limited and Six Nations Parks and Recreation reviewed the condition of the new synthetic running track. Based on the site review, it was concluded that the synthetic track will not be accepted by MMM Group Limited and Six Nations Parks & Recreation until corrective actions have been completed and the work has been reviewed by MMM Group Limited and Six Nations Parks & Recreation. Specifically, it was noted that the entire Synthetic track must be resurfaced by Dol Turf Restoration Ltd. no later than September 30, 2012.
On July 6, 2012, Dol Turf Restoration notified Six Nations Parks and Recreation of a new construction schedule to resurface the entire synthetic track and it is as follows:
! Commence Track Grinding August 20th. Duration 15 days or 3 weeks. ! Commence Re-surfacing September 10th. Duration 5 days. ! Commence Clean-up and Wash down September 17th. Duration 3 days. ! Commence Track line painting September 19th. Duration 5 days. ! Completion Wednesday September 26th
As a result, the running track and sports fields facility will be closed to the General Public from Monday August 20, 2012 to Wednesday September 26, 2012. In the meantime, a new pedestrian gate was installed to the facility on July 25, 2012. This will now mean that the facility will not be closed at dusk during the evenings. Persons will be able to access the facility anytime during daylight hours from July 25 to August 19, 2012. Your cooperation in continuing to abide by the facility rules will be appreciated. If you have any questions, please contact Cheryl M. Henhawk, Director of Recreation at 519-445-4311.
Chiefs bounce Mann Cup Champs
13 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS
The end of the line for this year’s Arrows Express came Friday night at the Iro-quois Lacrosse Arena with a 11-3 loss to the Orangeville Northmen in game 5 of the Ontario Championships.
The Arrows had a glori-ous game 3 of the series when everything they did went right, but that was the only time it happened in the final round. In the end, the older and more experienced Orangeville Northmen out-played the Arrows and de-served to win the series.
The do or die game for the Arrows started off on the right foot with Kyle Isaacs opening the scoring at 4:37 assisted by Rodd Squire. Jer-emy Nobles, Orangeville’s MVP of the playoffs, tied it at 1-1, but Shayne Adams gave the lead back to the Arrows three seconds before the end of the period.
From that point on, the Arrows collapsed as the Northmen gained strength and confidence against the much younger Arrows team.
Nobels scored three more goals in the second period to power the Northmen at-tack while Dillon Ward was virtually flawless in the Or-angeville net. Despite be-ing out-shot 39-26, Ward allowed only 3 goals.
Jordan Dance and Bran-don Benn also lit the light in the second period to in-crease Orangeville’s hold on the lead to 6-2 after 40 minutes.
Along with Orangeville’s near perfect game, penalties and inexperience conspired to dash the Arrows’ hopes of
another Minto Cup appear-ance for 2012. The North-men have 15 players in their last year of Jr. lacrosse with scads of experience in tough situations which they drew on to win the series.
The desperate Arrows pulled starter Warren Hill, and later Don Alton, sev-eral times throughout the third period for the extra at-tacker but got burned often
as the Northmen deposited four empty net goals in the final period.
It would have been five except for a great save made by forward Kyle Isaacs who occupied the Arrows crease while their goalie was mak-ing his way back into the net from the bench.
Randy Staats scored the last goal of the season for the Arrows at 9:03 of the third period assisted by Vaughn
Harris and Josh Johnson.About the only thing Ar-
rows fans had to get excit-ed about Friday night was a unanimous decision for Johnny Powless over Oran-geville’s A.J. Masson at the end of the second period.
The Northmen won hon-ours as the OLA Jr. A Cham-pions and will play for the national Minto Cup in Whit-by.
End of the season for the Arrows
Kyle Isaccs, #72, pushes off a check by an Orangeville player in Friday night’s 11-3 loss which ended the Arrows’ otherwise successful regular season where they finished in first place. (Photo by Jim Windle)
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Self has flourished after rededicating himself to la-crosse. After being traded to Rochester in 2011, Self retired from professional hockey to focus on his pas-sion-lacrosse. In 2012, he was an asset on defense and in transition for the World Champion Knighthawks. This season, he played in a career-high 16 games and collected a career best 87 loose balls. He also had a six-game goal-scoring streak.
This summer, he has con-tinued to elevate his game by finishing fifth on the Pe-
terborough Lakers in points. Playing in 13 of the team’s 14 games, he scored 16 goals and added 11 assists. He has been just as valuable in the playoffs, notching 14 points in six games. The Lakers are in the midst of their Major Series Lacrosse Semifinals and have a 3-0 series lead over the Brooklin Redmen. Self was honored by the re-cent recognition.
“Winning any award is al-ways nice. It's nice to be rec-ognized in anything that you do and know the work you have put in hasn't gone unno-ticed,” he said. “Hopefully, I can continue to contribute in the playoffs and help my team make a push for our ultimate goal, the Mann Cup.”
Hill was recognized for his breakout rookie season in the MSL. After an impressive career with the Six Nations
Arrows, he led the senior team with 21 goals and fin-ished third with 32 points. Hill showed his versatility by playing, offense, defense and even transition for Head Coach Rich Kilgour. Hill scored two goals in his MSL Playoff debut on August 4th. The Chiefs lead their best-of-seven semifinal two games to one over the Brampton Ex-celsiors. It has been an excit-ing week for the Hill family.
“I'm very thankful for the honor, it's the cherry on top of my week so far,” said Hill, who recently celebrated the birth of his daughter.
Hill won the Champion’s Cup with the Knighthawks in his second professional sea-son. After being acquired by Rochester from Edmonton, the forward tied his career highs in goals (5), assists (6) and points (11) in 2012.
It was the end of the road for the Six Nations Arrows Express as they congratulate the North-men who will represent the OLA at the Minto Cup championships. (Photo by Jim Windle)
Alex Kedoh Hill is Rookie of the Year
14 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Stephanie DearingSIX NATIONS
Two young men on a jour-ney to learn traditional teach-ings to help them come of age, while learning some es-sential survival skills along the way, came to Six Nations and the home of Jan Long-boat for their first formal les-sons this past weekend.
Their learning is far from ordinary, as their experienc-es are being recorded for a new reality television show, which will air on APTN in 2014, called Aski Boyz.
The handsome young men, both brothers from Attawa-piskat, but grew up in To-ronto, disconnected from the natural world. Their mother, Jules Koostachin, said she wanted 16 year old Mahii-gan (Wolf) and 18 year old Asivak (Spider) to have the traditional education they would have received if they had stayed in Attawapiskat.
Jules said she had asked some elders to take her sons out, but “it just never hap-pened. So I thought, like how am I going to do this as a mom, it's my responsibil-ity to honour my grandfather. My boys were watching Sur-vivorman,” she said. “And I thought, wow, what if we did an Indigenous version of that, from an Indigenous perspec-tive, that respects the elders... And the boys said, 'Mom we want to learn these skills.'”
“So I'm thinking of ways to make things happen for my kids, I'm such a planner,” Jules laughed. “So okay, TV series, there we go, we can do it, we can try to sustain our-selves financially somehow,
use media as a way to inspire kids ... so I came up with this concept with the boys and it's called Aski Boyz. Aski means land.”
“Basically [Aski Boyz] is about my two older boys, Asivak and Mahiigan, who lived in the city their whole lives, totally urbanized, al-ways on their little gadgets, video games, computers ... The whole concept of this show is to honour my grand-father, my grandmother and their traditional knowledge and to put these boys into situations where they have to rely on their own skill set and their problem-solving skills,” as well as cooperat-ing together to accomplish the tasks they are set with achieving each step of the way.
“They did really well yes-terday,” said Jan Longboat. “They carried wood, piled wood, they worked hard. They made soup over a fire, dug the vegetables in the garden first of all, then they made the soup over an open fire.”
Over their lunch last Sun-day, the brothers said it had taken them almost all of Sat-urday to make their soup from scratch.
“We didn't want to eat the soup,” said Asivak.
“Our soup was pretty much water,” said Mahiigan. “There were four or five dif-ferent vegetables, some dirt, a piece of bark. At one point, there was a maggot in the pot. It wasn't the most ap-petizing soup in the world.” The brothers admitted they hadn't wanted to eat the soup, but had to for the television
show.“There's going to be a lot
of funny moments of me and my brother failing,” said Ma-hiigan.
“They were on their own,” said Jan, adding she was im-pressed with how the broth-ers worked together and organized themselves. “They made their fire with flint. They made their fire from scratch.”
Along their journey, Jules said her sons will be “not only getting male teach-ings, they're getting wom-en's teachings,” which she said they need to be able to respect women. “What a per-fect place to start, here with Jan Longboat.”
Jules told Jan she has heard about Jan for about 22 years, and had visited the Healing Earth Garden once before, about 10 to 15 years ago. “I felt so much love and peace here, and I thought this is where we have to start.”
Jules, an actor and artistic director, met Mo-D in 2009. She pitched the idea of Aski Boyz to him, and they have since partnered to produce the show.
“A lot of cultural stories don't get told in a respect-ful, entertaining way,” said Mo-D, who is of East Indian descent. The show will give the brothers “their own voice and their own opportunity to now express all the different stories that happen through their own eyes.”
A key person in the tele-vision show is cultural edu-cation consultant, Cassius Spears. Hailing from the Narragansett tribe, Spears grew up learning traditional
ways of life, furthering his cultural knowledge through travels across North Ameri-ca. Cassius said he had also spent time living with the Machiguenga tribe in Peru's Manu National Park.
“Being in their presence was like going back 1,000 years,” said Cassius. “Their
way of life, social skills, economic values, the differ-ent ceremonies, knowledge of all the plants, and day-to-day tasks – it was a gift to be there. I could strongly relate it to our culture.”
“I can reconstruct the pre-contact lifestyle our an-cestors were living,” said
Cassius. “My childhood made it easy.”
Asivak and Mahiigan will receive teachings and learn hands-on skills doing things like building a wigwam and making bannock as they trav-el to 12 other communities to film the full 13 episodes for the series.
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Quick thinking and a call to the Six Nations Fire Department likely saved two Third Line homes Wednesday afternoon after the routine of burning garbage turned into a raging wildfire. “It just lit right up,” said Seth Montour. Montour said he and his grandfather were the only ones around, and when Montour saw the garbage fire go out of control he called the fire department immediately. There is a well on the property, but no running water. “I thought it was going to burn up,” said the young Montour, who admitted the fire was initially frightening. “The flames were five feet high,” he said. All four of the Six Nations fire trucks were sent out on the call, and firefighters thoroughly soaked the area to ensure the fire was out. One truck was dispatched to a neighbouring house, which was only about 100 yards from the grass fire. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).
Jan Longboat welcomed a small film crew to her home over the weekend. The stop, first of 13, was to film an episode of a new reality television show coming to screens in 2014 called Aski Boyz. Asivak and Mahiigan Koostachin will be learning survival skills and traditional teachings, and their learning is being captured on film for the television program. From left to right are: cultural consultant Cassius Spears, Asivak, Jan Longboat, Mahiigan, and co-producers Jules Koostachin and Mo-D.
New TV reality show, AskiBoyz, shoots segment at Six Nations
15 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
By Jim WindleSIX NATIONS
At the beginning of Sat-urday’s meeting of the Haudenosaunee Confed-
eracy Chiefs Council at the Onondaga Longhouse, sec-retary Jock Hill carefully un-packed an item of historical significance to show the sit-ting chiefs and clanmothers.
The Great Seal of the Haudenosaunee and the stamp that went with it was used to make legal docu-ments, was kept by Confed-eracy lawyer George Decker following the death of Levi “Deskahe” General. Dur-ing the early 1920’s, Decker traveled throughout Europe with Deskahe seeking help from the world court in The Haug for crimes of theft of lands and resources by the early Canadian government against the Huasenosunee.
The seal and press were all but forgotten about until they turned up at the Rochester Museum after being donat-ed by the family of Decker some years ago.
The items were returned to Six Nations on July 26th of this year. The seal was passed around the Longhouse for all to see before being carefully packed up again to he kept by the Haudenosaunee Chiefs.
Paul Williams has been part of a team whose duty it is to research, find and re-patriate significant histori-cal items sold to museums
or private collectors over the years. They recently found and negotiated repa-triation of what is known as the Claus Wampum, among other items.
How important is this seal? That depends on what one defines as important. Ac-cording to Williams, when this seal went missing, all the Confederacy did was make
another one and carry on. But as a piece of history, it carries significance in that there are several important documents which carry the image of this specific seal.
The clean-up of Kanonhstaton has begin. Last week after the HDI announced it’s $90,000 lease deal with First So-lar, workers came to cut the vegetation in a wide path be-tween Kanonhstaton and its Caledonia neighbours homes. Plans could also include the removal of the trailer that was burned out by non-Native vigilantes a few years ago, and a proper gate across what Caledonia calls Surrey Street. (Photo by Jim Windle)
It might have been raining cats and dogs outside the Iroquois Lodge Saturday, but inside there was a whole lot of shaking going on as Cecil Sault and his band played popular music from the 50s and 60s while elders ate their lunch. The occasion was the annual Cruisin' Down the Grand Car Show, and the downpour that deluged most of Saturday only meant the entertainment and food moved indoors. Dashing out to judge the cars proved to be a fun challenge for elders, who were given umbrella coverage by staff and willing volunteers, such as Nathan Claus (pictured above). Claus did not know the lady he helped. His 1972 Ford LTD placed second in the Ford category, can been seen at the very end of the row behind the young gallant. The residents of Iroquois Lodge and their guests were warmed up by two members of the Graceliners, who dressed identi-cally as Elvis Presley, before Cecil Sault and his band took over, playing music from the 50's and 60's. (Photograph by Stephanie Dearing).
Old official Haudenosaunee Seal comes home
A long lost legal seal of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was repatriated back to Six Nations on july 26th, and shown at Saturday’s Longhouse. It was in the prossession of Con-federacy lawyer George Decker in the early 1900’s but went missing after the death of Deskahe. The seal turned up in a Rochester Museum where it was discovered and repatriated back to Six Nations. (Photo by Jim Windle)
16 WEDNESDAY, August 15, 2012 TEKAWENNAKE
Some of the people were Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation employees, and others were board members from the Six Nations Food Bank and the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation. One was an employee from Eco-nomic Development, who helps out with the food bank. Of course, Sadie Buck, coor-dinator of the food bank, was on hand.
Already waiting was a parked truck filled with a skid of bottled water – 1,728 bottles, to be precise. Sadie Buck knew there was a do-nation coming in, she had just received (and distribut-ed) a large donation of fresh produce the day before from the foundation, so she wasn't surprised, although she was grateful.
“We never get fresh pro-duce,” said Sadie. “That was a really good donation, and almost all of the pro-duce went yesterday.” She
said she had received cu-cumbers, cantelope, onions, carrots, potatoes, broccoli. “Fresh produce, a lot of fresh produce, which we never get ... it was a really good do-nation.” Sadie said she had given away nearly all the fresh produce to clients who came to the food bank Thurs-day afternoon.
Tomatoes “and some bell peppers too,” said Emannu-el. “garlic and onions. That's going to go good with the pasta,” he said with a laugh. “It's going to be something to see this,” he said, “because there's a lot of different kinds of pasta.”
Emmanuel Lewis, Chair-person of the Dreamcatcher Foundation Board of Direc-tors said the organization had brought over apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cante-lope, carrots, bell peppers on Thursday. “And onions and garlic,” he said. “That'll go good with the pasta.”
Lewis was referring to the
skid of pasta and pasta sauce that he had brought with him when he showed up on Fri-day afternoon, around 2 pm. A second truck had arrived with Lewis, carrying a skid (about 120 to 140-2 kilogram bags) of white sugar. “That's what she [Buck] asked for.,” said Lewis. “She said she ran out of pasta.”
While waiting for Lewis's arrival, his executive assis-tant, Staci Coldham, who was on hand to take photo-graphs, described her boss's personality as “go big or go home. That's exactly his per-sonality.”
Dapper in a fine suit, tie and fedora, Emmanuel said “we talk all the time. I've
been donating quite frequent-ly on my own.” The donation was the result of “Sadie tell-ing me what she needs and what they're low on and how it can really help her. And just her instructions. I follow instructions very well, okay? Especially from my female counterparts. It's something I learned from my mom. So I listen and this is the reaction of all of us coming together and taking those heart felt words into action.”
Just as everyone was pre-paring for the photograph, before unloading the trea-sures, Emmanuel said “we're not even done yet.”
“We have something else that we want to donate to
you,” Emmanuel told Sadie. The next thing known, a gi-ant cheque had been brought out from its hiding place and presented to Sadie.
Sadie was visibly shocked as the cheque was turned around so she could see it was made out for $60,000. “Oooh! Oh my God! Oh my God,” she said to the delight of all those gathered around her.
“I'm shocked,” she con-fessed. But within seconds, the enormity of the donation was sinking in, and Sadie wiped away sudden tears. “Thank you very much, and all the people thank you too,” she told Emmanuel. “I'm telling you what a load that
is off my mind,” she said.The helpers decided to
off-load the sugar first and formed a line, passing the sugar from person to person from the truck to the shelves of the food bank, laughter freely punctuating the work.
Lewis said the donation was “a team effort. Every-body is helping out. There's no “i” in team. Everybody's out to make it a great day.”
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The Hodiskeagehda formally invited Six Nations Elected Council to attend the Recital of the Great Law of Peace, which will take place beginning
with a sunrise ceremony at 6 am on August 10th, and will continue until August 19th. One of the organizers of the recital, Jagwadeth (also known
as Chris Sandy) told Elected Council all of the Six Nations will be together for the first time since 1890 for the recital. He thanked the Elected Coun-
cil for their help with facilitating the historic event. Tahariwenhawih presented Elected Chief William Montour with the wampum beads. Elected
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to Six Nations. And more per-sonally, land that her grandfa-ther’s grandfather was born on in the mid 1800’s.
Which means, if she decid-ed to fight the issue based on the belief that the Six Nations never gave that tract of land up, neither the HDI nor the HCCC would support her in any tangible way in a possible court action. In other words, she’d be completely on her own with or without signing the certificate of responsibility.
“So what am I getting by signing this certificate,” she asks. “I don’t need to sign any certificate to be responsible to the land. If they won’t fight with me, what’s the sense?”
VanEvery knows she could be evicted should she pursue her challenge to the city not to pay any tax on her home as an Haudenosaunee woman living on Haudenosaunee land.
As with most things, the devil is in the details and so far anyway, VanEvery is be-ing deviled by the lack of de-tail in the application form she has been advised to sign by the HDI.
There are still a lot of ques-tions that I have,” VanEvery said. “I am showing this docu-
ment they (the HDI) gave me to some people here in the community to get their opin-ion on it before I sign any-thing.”
There may be perfectly acceptable answers to her questions, but her immedi-ate response is, “I went to ask the Chiefs to stand with me if I challenge this tax is-sue, (which is listed on their eight points of jurisdiction),” she said. “And what I get is a document saying they will not fight for me should I be evicted or any litigation be put against me by the city.”
She may change her mind with some of these important questions answered, but for now, she is disappointed and may soon seek support from the Elected Council instead.
“This isn’t just about me,” she says. “If I can win this challenge, it could effect as many as 2,500 Onkwehon:we people currently living on un-ceded land in Brantford and Brant.”
VanEvery has not met with Brantford City Council about this matter, as reported in an-other publication, but has only had a casual conversation with one city councillor about it.
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Another vehicular collision saw Fourth Line closed between Onondaga Cayuga Roads shortly after 1 pm on August 1. It is not known how many vehicles were involved, or whether there were any injuries. Six Nations Police Officer, Derrick Anderson, who is responsible for communications for the service has been enjoying some time off for the “last two weeks, or most of it,” according to an email from Chief Glenn Lickers. No further information on the collision has been provided by Six Nations Police.
Six Nations Police BriefsStaffSIX NATIONS
Stolen vehicle recoveredA vehicle confirmed to have
been stolen from the Oxford area was recovered on August 11 “at the rear of the Mohawk Grounds on First Line Road,” said a Six Nations Police no-tice. Police received a tip from an area farmer about the ve-hicle and upon investigation, found a pickup truck “with no wheels and the ignition had been damaged,” said the report. The vehicle, a 2007 GMC Sierra, with an Ontario licence plate (7262XL) was
confirmed stolen by Oxford OPP. An investigation is still underway.
Police investigating dead snakes
The mysterious appearance of four dead boa constric-tors at the intersection near First Line and Seneca Road is under investigation by Six Nations Police. The snakes, found dead in an abandoned laneway near the intersection, are believed to have possibly died of starvation. Police re-ceived a complaint about the animals on August 12. The Public Works Department assisted the police in finding the snakes, said the police, and helped remove and dis-pose of the animals.
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To Those I Love and Those Who Love Me
When I am gone, release me, let me go.I have so many things to see and do.
You must not tie yourself to me with tears,Be happy that we had so many years.
I gave you love and you can only guessHow much you gave me in happiness,I thank you for the love you’ve shown,
But now it’s time I travelled alone.
So grieve for me a while, for grieve you must,Then let your grief be comforted by trust,
For it’s only for a little while that we must part,So bless the memories within your heart.
I won’t be far away, as life goes on,So if you need me, call and I will come,
Tho you can’t see or touch me, I’ll be near,All my love around you soft and clear,
And when you must travel this way alone,I’ll meet you with a smile and say,
“Welcome Home”.
Hill – David:With much love and gratitude, the family of the late Da-vid Hill wish to thank their families, relatives, friends for the overwhelming support shown during the pass-ing of a very special husband, brother, dad, uncle, friend. We are blessed by the many memorial donations, calls, cards, floral tributes. Your support has given us strength and has mad us all very proud. He was such a wonder-ful and an amazing man. Special thanks to Pallbearers, Jason, Hughie, Randy, Rob, Tim and Lance, also cooks and speakers, R.C.L. 164, Toronto General – Dr. Ross, Dr. Stephanie Brister, Hamilton – Dr. Seely. St. Josephs Neu-rology. Dr. Cloete, Hyde & Mott Funeral Home, Ironwork-ers Local 736.Your sympathy & thoughtfulness will always be remem-bered. Thank You.Love Kathy & RobbieLongboat family – Hill family
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I would like to thank the Dreamcatcher Fund for their assistance and financially supporting my 2011/12 Dance Fees at Michelle Farmer’s Studio of Dance. As a result my Duet, “Rhythm is a Dancer” received 1st Place Dynamic Gold and 2nd Place Overall in the Flash Dance Competi-tion in Hamilton, ON. We also received 1st Place Gold and Overall Top Performance at the Showstopper Re-gional Competition in Grand Island, NY and went onto the Showstopper Finals at Disneyland, CA where we took 1st Place Gold. Without your contribution this would not have been possible and my Mommy and I thank you. It is greatly appreciated.Nia:wen Kowa,Tilicia Davey
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The Un-Incredibles Co-Ed Slo-Pitch team would like to thank all of those who purchased tickets for our fund-raising draw. Draw winners were Brandy Bomberry and Lisa Kirk. Special thanks also goes out to Knight Hawk Security for their generous support as we represent Six Nations & New Credit in the provincial championships later this month.”
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Plowing match
Six Nations invited
with the help of a walking plow and a team of two Bel-gian horses has been plowing up furrows every year for the past 60 years.
“When we did the lines Wednesday, it was hard,” said Telfer.
The Bank of Montreal pre-sented a cheque for $525 to the Brant-Six Nations Plow-man’s Association. The bank “is a proud sponsor of the
plowing match,” said Chris Balazz.
Six Nations member Lore-lei Isaacs was crowned Queen of the Furrow.
The Tekawennake would like to “tip its hat” to the Bank of Montreal staff for gracious-ly offering the use of an um-brella after an unfortunate product failure occurred – we thank you for your thought-fulness and generosity!
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mances.Pyper closed by pre-
senting Elected Chief Wil-
liam Montour with a large plaqued poster featuring the artwork for the 2012 plow-ing match.
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Cecil Wells is well known for his skill with a walking plow and a team of horses. Here, he is plowing with the help of a team of Belgians. Wells, who has been competing for 60 years, took home First Place in Class 7.
24. Wrath 25. Put up with some-thing 27. Divertimento 32. Comportment 33. Toward the mouth 34. Take in marriage 35. Composer of Rule Britania 36. Central parts of fruits 38. Ice hockey goal 39. Lair 40. A citizen of Denmark
41. Algeria’s 2nd largest city 42. Buildings 44. Extensive landed property 46. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! 47. Cereal grass spikelet bristles 48. Gives you instant long locks 55. Umbrian industrial city 56. Cheremis language 57. Wm. the Conqueror’s burial city 58. Beach (French) 59. 7th Hindu month 60. Tightly curled hair-style 61. Niches 62. Connects the keel & sternpost 63. Take a seat CLUES DOWN 1. Persian dialect 2. Yemen port & gulf 3. Switchboard (abbr.) 4. From that place 5. Invisible emanations 6. Shear 7. Mexican tortilla dish 8. Highly regarded 9. Said of a city that “rose up” 10. Turkish district 11. Of a very dark black 12. Fall back time 14. Inanely foolish
21. Furnish with help 22. Former Italian mon-etary units 25. Made public by radio or television 26. Aka sesame 27. Skin infections 28. Before 29. Being cognizant of 30. Ballet dancer impres-sionist 31. Eve’s garden 32. Produced 36. Hiding place for stor-age 37. A single unit 38. Napoleon’s birthplace 40. Daily journals 43. Hanging threads edg-ing 44. A canvas canopy 45. Central nervous sys-tem 47. Nest of an eagle 48. Assist 49. Father of Araethyrea 50. Yuletide 51. A piece of work 52. Clods 53. St. Philip, Patron of Rome 54. Arrogant & annoying person 55. Yearly tonnage (abbr.)
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