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Elected Chief Sherri-Lyn Hill said Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council is the legal governing body of the community as she took to the stand last week in Six Nations’ litigation case against the Crown. “Elected council is the legal governing body of Six Nations of the Grand River,” she told the court. “We advocate for our rights, jurisdiction, safety and well-being of our community.” She told the court elected council has tried to have a relationship with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council but “they don’t recognize” elected council, she said. Hill explained that Six Nations band members 18 years or older vote to elect the chief and council, who oversee an administration of roughly 1,000 employ-

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hurt and discrimination her dad went through. He was shot at and had his teeth kicked out due to racism. Her father never spoke the languages. Hill said she can’t speak any of the Haudenosaunee languages fluently but she can introduce herself in Seneca and knows a few Mohawk words. Her ex-husband, a faith keeper, is fluent in Seneca and lives in New York State. She picked up a few basic Mohawk words here and there such as how to count, in her adult years on the reserve. She didn’t learn any of the languages as a child. Her upbringing was difficult, she told the court. “I come from an alcoholic dysfunctional family. There was abuse. I didn’t want to go home. I didn’t know what mood my dad was in. I just did what I had to do to survive.” When she wanted to move back to the reserve, she said it was hard to find

a house and the pickings were slim. “I was lucky I came upon a house,” she said and she still lives there to this day, 28 years later. She has three children and seven grandchildren. Her four grandchildren are in straight Mohawk schools and the others are learning Mohawk and Cayuga in their classes, a stark contrast from her childhood. She said she is glad her children put her grandchildren in those schools. “I thank their parents for putting them there.” Hill went to hairdressing school but didn’t enjoy working with hair and eventually went to college to become an addictions worker. “I wanted to help people in the addictions field.” She worked in the community in the mental health and addictions field until about 2008 and moved to Salamanca in CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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New York state and then in 2012, she moved back home to Six Nations. She started her own consulting business around addictions. She eventually ran as a councillor for her district and she won. Her first term lasted three years. She ran again

in 2016 for councillor and got re-elected for another three years until 2019, then she ran again for councillor that year and won again. She served as a councillor for four years that term then ran for elected chief in 2023, which she won against her opponent,

Steve Williams. She said she ran for elected chief because she wanted more. “I wanted to build more relationships and I thought I’d be able to make that difference for my community.” Litigation viewings continue this week at Dajoh in the Oneida room.

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The annual Pumpkinfest took place from October 16-18 throughout Waterford. Some of the events on the schedule included: Car Show, Craft Beer Garden, Decorating Contest, Line Dancing, Lottery, Marketplace, Midway, Parade, Fireworks, Scavenger Hunt, Soapbox Derby and a Spookhouse. LAFORCE

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WILMA GENERAL MEMORIAL AWARD DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO: Has a strong background in volunteer work within Six Nations and surrounding communities. Bridges the gap between native & non-natives. Promotes unity & strength within their family & community. Demonstrates leadership to create change for the betterment & growth of families in our community. DEADLINE: November 6, 2026 @ 4:30pm Nomination forms: Available at Central Administration reception (1695 Chiefswood Road), online at www.sixnations.ca/Forms www.sixnations.ca/forms , or by email at ceft@sixnations.ca

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Six Nations water treatment plant starting to show signs of wear DONNA DURIC

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Six Nations’ state-of-theart water treatment plant, built in 2013, is starting to show signs of wear. The problem is, Six Nations, along with other First Nations, is severely underfunded when it comes to operations and maintenance for water and wastewater treatment services. First Nations Engineering (FNE) is setting out to prove to Indigenous Services Canada that the funding they’re currently providing is sub-par. Justin Gee, an engineer with the firm, said, “Our water treatment plant is very sophisticated.” But it’s expensive to run. “Capital is not the only issue for First Nations across Canada,” he told Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council (SNGREC) last week. “O and M (operations and maintenance) is a huge issue, as well.” FNE is working on a study with other partners to show Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) the

infrastructure funding gap for First Nations. Gee said ISC asked at a recent meeting if Six Nations had any special projects they had in mind that don’t follow the existing ISC funding formulas and said the main takeaway was a lack of operations and maintenance funding for infrastructure. “So we decided to a pilot study of First Nations that were operating at a high level but being funded at a low level. We wanted to highlight that gap.” FNE plans to use data from SNGREC to put together to make a case to ISC for First Nations across Canada to close that gap. “Across Canada, First Nations are being asked to operate their water and wastewater systems to perform at municipal grade levels without municipal grade funding combined with aging infrastructure, less staff, remoteness, and greater complexity,” said Gee. Current ISC formulas for First Nations infrastructure funding do not meet the true needs of First Nations services to deliver

services, he said. FNE said they’re seeing early rust-out and facilities on First Nations not reaching their designated lifespan because they didn’t have proper maintenance funding. “Indian Affairs has never acknowledged that their formulas don’t meet the minimum requirements to make sure that these brand new pieces of infrastructure reach their designed life,” said Craig Baker, of FNE. “It’s nonsensical that you would fund 100 percent capital subsidy for a project and then not make sure there’s sustainable funding to make sure that it reaches its designed life. We’ve got to get 100 percent funding to sustain these pieces of infrastructure that the federal government subsidizes.” ISC basically told them to prove they’re not getting enough O and M funding. “That’s the basis of what we’re trying to do here,” said Baker. He said from his experience working with wastewater treatment plants on First Nations, they’re

receiving only about half of the infrastructure funding they should be getting. “We want to get granular,” said Gee. “We want to get real data.” Coun. Alaina VanEvery, who was chairing the general council meeting, said, “It's interesting how everyone can see that everything is underfunded but nobody listens.” Deb Jonathan, SNGR CEO, said underfunding increases the risk for serious liabilities, especially when it comes to water. Six Nations Public Works Director Michael Montour said they’ve tried to tell ISC their funding isn’t enough. “We’re over the 10-year mark,” he said of the water treatment plant. “We're seeing equipment break down. There's a big gap (in funding for the water treatment plant). (ISC) basically just said, ‘our formula's our formula.’ Something needs to change. Our community shouldn't be paying close to $1 million for clean, potable water for our community.” FNE sought permission from elected council to

share their funding information for their study to bring to ISC. ISC is the project sponsor and the Anishinabek Nation is one of their partners on the study, FNE said operations and maintenance includes things like insurance, administration, contracted

services, rental equipment, materials and supplies, repairs and maintenance, travel and training, utilities, wages and benefits and replacement costs. They’re hoping to have the study complete by April 2027 with summarized findings.

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Here is the map of the Haldimand Tract BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE UE ben@tworowtimes.com

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On the other half of this page is a map of the tract. Six miles deep on each side of the Grand, from the mouth at Lake Erie to the source. Take a minute with it before you read on, because how it was made matters as much as what it shows. We started with the Crown's own printed text of the Proclamation, which is the version provable in a courtroom by producing a printed copy. We took the river itself as the instrument tells us to, the banks of the river commonly called the Grand, and we measured outward from those banks, six miles on each side, mouth to source. The watercourse we measured from is the one in the Grand River Conservation Authority's own data. The arithmetic is ours. Every input underneath it is theirs. That is worth saying twice. To draw this map we did not need a single Indigenous source. No oral history, no traditional use study, nothing a Crown lawyer could call unreliable without calling his own province unreliable first. It is Ontario's watercourse data and the Crown's printed words, put together with grade-school geometry. If there is an error on that page, it came from them. Which brings me to a question put in a Toronto courtroom this month. In its opening at the Haldimand trial, Canada told the court that the Proclamation of 1784 was

not a treaty and had failed to specify the layout of the grant with maps or surveys. A week later Crown lawyers were telling the same court that the Lands and Resources maps were not reliable. And somewhere in between, a Crown lawyer asked Phil Monture whether he was a cartographer. There is no map that satisfies all three. They want a survey where the document has none, they call the surveys unreliable when they appear, and when the man who spent forty years assembling the parcel record walks in, the question is not whether his work is accurate but whether he was allowed to do it. Nobody said a parcel was wrong. Nobody said a date was wrong. The objection is to the man, offered in place of an answer to the work. In June the Prime Minister put out a statement saying that thousands of years before any European arrived, Indigenous Peoples mapped this continent. He is closer to the truth than his government can afford. In 1801 a Blackfoot leader named Ac ko mok ki drew Peter Fidler a map of some two hundred thousand square miles, and a London printer stripped the attribution off it. Seventy years earlier Ochagach drew La Vérendrye the canoe route west, and that route became the fur trade's highway. Neither man was a cartographer. The Crown's charts were built out of their work. Now look at the page again, because two things on it are worth your time. The first is the shape. Follow the actual river,

The watercourse we measured from is the one in the Grand River Conservation Authority's own data. DOOLITTLE The arithmetic is ours. Every input underneath it is theirs.

bend for bend, instead of the tidy schematic everyone has seen for fifty years, and the tract changes. Not dramatically, but it changes, and it changes in places where people live. A river is not a ruler. The 1784 instrument measured from a

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thing that meanders, which means the honest version of this boundary has the river's shape in it, and most published versions do not. The second is harder. On this drawing, a portion of the Six Nations reserve and most of the New Credit re-

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ing. But it is on the page, it came out of Ontario's own data, and it is the sort of thing that ought to have been drawn and published a century ago. Let me be plain about what this map is not. It is not evidence that we were here first, and it is not offered as that. Our interest does not come from being here first. It comes from a document written in 1784 in the Crown's own hand, naming a people and saying their posterity were to enjoy that land for ever. A court reads that kind of holding within the four corners of the paper. An instrument does not need a survey attached to say what it says. Six miles deep from each side of the river, from Lake Erie to the head of the said river, is already a description. A surveyor could walk it tomorrow. That is precisely what we did on paper. So the complaint about maps and surveys deserves one more look. The Crown is not saying the words are unclear. It is saying the words are insufficient, which is a different thing and a convenient one, because the party that never surveyed the grant in two hundred and forty-two years is the same party now objecting that nobody surveyed it. To the government of Canada: you asked for a map. It is printed here, at the size a newspaper allows, drawn from your own river data and your own printed words. You will find it easier to read than the one you have been avoiding, which is the register of your own transactions on the same land.

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Six Nations Police Service and Brantford Police Service are examining co-ordination practices after a series of recent incidents near the territory boundary. In early October, Six Nations Police investigated an armed robbery and related break-ins along Highway 54 in Ohsweken. Multiple masked suspects carrying firearms entered a business east of Chiefswood Road. A firearm was discharged during one incident. Suspects fled east toward Caledonia. No injuries were reported. Six Nations Police worked with the Ontario Provincial Police Forensic Identification Unit and increased patrols

in the area. Earlier the same period, suspects attempted robberies at other businesses on Highway 54 and stole merchandise and cash from a third location. Six Nations Police asked the public for camera footage and information. Both services already operate mobile crisis response teams supported by provincial funding announced in late 2025. Six Nations Police received $240,000 over two years. Brantford Police received just over $207,000. The funding supports collaboration with trained crisis workers for mental health and addictions calls. Brantford Police Chief Jason Saunders stated at the time that the investment strengthened capacity for timely and compassionate responses and continued partnership

with community agencies. Six Nations Police Chief Darren Montour offered a public thank-you for the support and noted the importance of local mobile crisis teams. The recent commercial robberies have prompted renewed discussion of information sharing, joint patrol presence near the border, and response protocols when suspects cross jurisdictions. Highway 54 remains a frequent corridor for both services. No formal new joint protocol has been announced. Both services continue separate investigations while sharing relevant information through existing channels. Increased visible patrols remain in place on the Six Nations side following the October incidents.

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By Jace Koblun Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council is reviewing the latest construction status and remaining steps for the new tourism welcome centre at Chiefswood National Historic Site. The project, located adjacent to the E. Pauline Johnson home, has moved into its final construction phases. Six Nations Tourism has fully secured the funds required to complete the building. Major contributions include $1.2 million from the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association through the Signature Indigenous Tourism Experiences Stream, $225,000 from the FedDev Tourism Growth Fund, and $300,000 generated by the department itself. Earlier funding approvals brought the total project cost above $1.17 million. Construction began after council support in 2025, following delays linked to federal election timing. The centre will

include office space, a gift shop featuring local artists and craftspeople, a fully equipped kitchen, seating areas, and public washrooms. Six Nations Tourism has described the building as a way to increase staff capacity, generate revenue, and serve as a central point for visitors entering the territory. The department received the Indigenous Tourism Award at the Ontario Tourism Summit in October 2025 and was named a national finalist for the Canadian Tourism Awards. Council updates earlier this year confirmed the project was progressing well and that a grand opening was expected later in 2026. The latest discussion focuses on remaining construction items, final fit-out, and the precise opening schedule. Community members previously raised questions about construction on the historic site. Councillor Greg Frazer, who sits on the tourism

committee, has pointed to the growing tourism market as justification for the investment. Council earlier approved additional funds from Ontario First Nations Limited Partnership sources to finish the work. The centre is intended to support Indigenous tourism operators and bring more visitor spending into the community. Six Nations Tourism has emphasized that the facility will complement the existing museum and historic site while improving programming space and outdoor areas. No final opening date has been publicly confirmed. Council is expected to receive further operational updates as the final construction work concludes. The project remains one of the larger capital investments tied to tourism growth on the territory in recent years. Exact status of remaining interior work and any outstanding permits will determine the final timeline.

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No Experience Necessary Dates: October 19 November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Time: 6:30 – 8:00PM All are welcome to join us

In celebration of the Original 1784 Haldimand Proclamation October 25th @1pm Kanata Village 440 Mohawk St. Brantford

The local knitting group is asking for volunteers to knit and crochet Red Scarves. Scarves will be hung in the Veteran’s Park on December 1st World Aids Day. Yarn is available Wednesdays from 4:30 - 6:30 pm at Dajoh ... Free to anyone willing to help knit/crochet scarves. We will teach knitting and crocheting to anyone willing to come and learn.

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Obituaries

In Memoriam

McNaughton: Laura Joy September 16, 1953 - October 18, 2026

In Loving Memory

On October 18, 2026 Laura (Joy) McNaughton passed away peacefully at the Brantford General Hospital, surrounded by family at the age of 73.

Of a wonderful Mom Eleanor Staats April 23, 1933 – October 19, 2022 You were always the perfect mom So caring and gave us love We remember our talks and laughter Knowing you are watching us from above. You left us beautiful memories Your traditions and teachings are still our guide And although we cannot see you We know you are always at our side

Loving mother of Darryl Longboat (Lyndsi), Trisha Longboat (Shane), and the late Joshua Longboat. Loving grandmother of Shani, Ryley, Harlee, Joe (Aaliyah), Spencer (Russell), Kenna (Kole), Lucas (Tiana), Bryson, Owen, Dalton, and Quinton. Great grandmother of Tyra, Quinley, Aubree, Greyson, Chase, Zavier, and Aliyra.

Love and miss you – daughters Brenda and Paula

Joy is now reunited with her Son, and peacefully on journey. Resting at 4 Bicentennial Trail, Ohsweken after 12 noon on Tuesday, for family viewing. Funeral Service to be held at Styres Funeral Home, 1798 4th Line Rd., Ohsweken on Wednesday October 21, 2026 at 1pm. Cremation to follow. www.rhbanderson.com

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Nocturnal rodent 5. Requesting 11. Give temporarily 12. Frivolousness 16. Military arm 17. “Westworld” actor Harris 18. Persian Gulf port city 19. Air hostesses 24. Partner to “Pa” 25. Percussion instrument 26. Raincoats 27. Lower the light 28. Asian mountain range 29. Every one of two or more 30. Lack of difficulty 31. A public announcement of a proposed marriage 33. Reduces in size 34. Make an impact 38. Serviceman 39. A French river 40. Prehistoric people 43. Messenger ribonucleic acid 44. “Layla” singer Clapton 45. Ancient Greek sophist 49. Largest English dictionary (abbr.) 50. “Top Gun: Maverick” actor Powell 51. A way to disentangle 53. Atomic #93 54. Manifesting approval 56. Indigo bush 58. Larry and Curly’s pal 59. Off-Broadway theater award 60. Fencers 63. Masses of fish eggs 64. Passerine birds 65. Arrange systematically CLUES DOWN 1. Colorless part of blood

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 This is a great week for you, Aries. You are empathetic and tuned into your surroundings. You might feel warm and friendly to everyone. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, this is a feel-good week for you. Enjoy spending some private moments during which you reflect on the things you want to accomplish. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, sympathy toward a cause or a friend may prompt you to become involved in a charitable organization. You also are interested in learning more from others. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Use the fact that others are noticing you to your advantage, Cancer. You can set good examples by being compassionate and generous to others.

2. Of a main artery 3. Photog’s tool 4. Blues Traveler hit “But __” 5. Grew older 6. Not the leader 7. __ Lang: country singer 8. A driver’s license is one 9. Nests of pheasants 10. Antelopes 13. One quintillion bytes 14. Japanese lute 15. A type of cat 20. It cools your home 21. Dorm official 22. Pouches 23. German trigraph 27. Form of Persian 29. __ route 30. Upper body part 31. Bridge building degree 32. Indicates position 33. Political action committee

Answers for October 21st, 2026 Crossword Puzzle

34. Edible nuts 35. Front part of a quadruped 36. Locate 37. Geological time 38. Of I 40. Northern Utah city 41. They work in the trenches 42. Hammer is one 44. Tall deciduous tree 45. Performers 46. Slang for mistake 47. More open 48. Most slick 50. Provokes 51. Home of the NCAA’s Flyers 52. Sodium 54. Large fish of the mackerel family 55. Not one 57. __ and behold 61. Atomic #21 62. “The Great Lakes State”

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, your desire to expand your world is strong this week. You may renew an interest in travel and begin making progress on some big ideas. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 You are happy to be working behind the scenes, Virgo. However, you might take on a prominent fundraising role or engage in other activities that benefit others. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 This is a popular time for you to converse with others and interact with members of the general public, Libra. You might develop a strong connection to someone new. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, you might make a fabulous impression on someone this week. This might compel this person and others to get involved with a cause dear to your heart. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Do something different this week, Sagittarius. You are open for an adventure. Accept invitations to socialize, and use your free time to the fullest. CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, you are sensitive to the needs of family members right now. You might be on a mission to help someone who needs assistance by researching programs or funding. AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, you may have to be especially patient with a loved one who is still trying to process the news you gave them. Everyone deals with things in their own time. PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, if you can do something to help others, especially within your professional arena, do not hesitate to do it. Your willingness to assist others will not go unnoticed.

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