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Six Nations Police conducted the first phase of the ground penetrating radar search of the grounds at the former Mohawk Institute on Tuesday, looking for the location of unmarked graves of former students who attended the Indian Residential School. To date the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission has recorded over 4000 deaths of students with official estimates going as high as 6000. Unmarked graves are a known truth and work is underway across the country to uncover those resting places of those who died. Officials estimate that in some schools the annual death rate of students was one in 20.

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Bringing our children home: the search begins DONNA DURIC

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The search has begun.

The former Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Canada’s oldest and longest-running residential school, has officially become the focus of a criminal death investigation, as police and residential school survivors began the somber task of combing the vast grounds for potential hidden graves on Tuesday.

The investigation begins five months after the discovery of 215 children’s remains in a hidden grave at a former residential school in British Columbia sent shockwaves around the world.

Ensuing searches of grounds at residential schools across the country revealed hundreds more remains of innocent chil-

It was a sombre day Tuesday as Six Nations Police began the ground penetrating radar search for unmarked graves at the former Mohawk Institute.

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dren who were snatched from their families and forced to attend the government-mandated, church-run schools in a bid to assimilate Indige-

Former student and Residential School Survivor Geronimo Henry points to where he stayed in the boys dormitory.

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nous children into Canadian culture.

That assimilation included torture and rampant abuse at so-called residential schools across

Canada, where thousands of children went missing and no answers were ever given as to their fate or whereabouts.

The search at the Mo-

Henry stands in front of a makeshift memorial that has been ever growing since the 215 unmarked graves were uncovered at Kamloops Indian Residential School earlier this year.

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hawk Institute is just one small way some survivors, now all senior citizens, are starting to feel a bit of closure from a torturous childhood they never asked for and had no choice but to heal from.

“It will hopefully bring some closure to families and communities who have been missing their loved ones for so long,” said Rebecca Jamieson, president of Six Nations Polytechnic, who led Tuesday’s press conference announcing the search was underway.

Phase one began this week, which means the grounds near the old colonial building will be searched first before

expanding further.

It is a community and survivor-led search, with the help of Six Nations Police and the Ontario Provincial Police.

A mapping exercise of the grounds has been completed and archival records have been reviewed.

Community members and Six Nations Police have been trained in the use of ground-penetrating radar, which will be instrumental in aiding the search for hidden graves.

All work is being monitored by Six Nations Survivors Secretariat human rights monitor Dr. Beverley Jacobs. The secretariat was created and formed by survivors to oversee the search of the former Mohawk Institute.

Cultural knowledge holders are conducting necessary ceremonies and traditional practices respecting the lives of any children who may potentially be buried on the grounds.

According to records, at least 45 children died or went missing while attending the Mohawk Institute.

Dawn Hill, a Mohawk Institute survivor, attended the Mush Hole from 1957 to 1961.

“We’re finally going to get some justice for those children,” she said.

“We’ve all heard stories.

As everybody came out (of the Mush Hole) and

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Bringing our children home: the search begins

Six Nations Elected Chief Mark Hill reflected on the emotional labor being required of Six Nations Police, the Survivior's Secretariat and the whole Six Nations community as the official search for unmarked graves begins. "The coming months will definitely be difficult for Six Nations."

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started talking, everybody (survivors) had similar stories. All of those stories are now coming to the forefront.”

The Ontario Provincial

Police are assisting in the investigation.

Chief Mark Hill said survivors, “have been telling us for years the stories of what happened

to them in these so-called schools. This investigation is for survivors and is led by survivors. This day has been long awaited but also brings with it a stark

reminder of the atrocities that were committed against our people in these institutions. The coming months will definitely be difficult for Six

Nations.”

Mental health supports will be available as the community prepares for the possibility of finding children’s remains, said Chief Hill.

He called upon the federal and provincial governments to honour their commitments to reconciliation, as the expensive search gets underway.

Both the federal and provincial government have committed millions to aid in the search.

“The months ahead will be difficult but this work will allow our community to begin the process of healing together and place the spirits of our lost children at rest. It’s been a very challenging time today. It’s been very tough on our community. We have to do this properly.”

Kimberly Murray, executive lead of the survivors’ secretariat, said, “I cannot stress enough the importance of listening to survivors. Hearing their truths that they have to share.

The survivors are the ones

that heard the whispered truths about where the babies and children are buried. They are the ones that know what these lands looked like, decades ago, and where the many different structures were located. We must honour them and listen to their words.”

The data from the searches will be uploaded to secure servers every day, said Murray.

The data will be sent for analysis to experts and collated into a final report. Once the report is finalized the results will be released to the community.

“This is just the beginning of our search. Over the winter months, we will be working to prepare the lands to be searched in the spring and to train further community members to assist on the ground.”

A complete search plan for the remaining 500 acres is being finalized.

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TikTok Canada and National Screen Institute help out Indigenous Creators STAFF REPORT

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TORONTO — Thirty Indigenous content creators have been selected for the first TikTok Accelerator for Indigenous Creators – a new online training program designed to empower storytellers to grow their TikTok presence and learn the necessary skills for on-platform success and beyond.

Applications were received from 12 provinces and territories. The selected participants were chosen by an independent jury comprised of screen industry professionals and Indigenous TikTok creators with input from TikTok Canada.

The TikTok Accelerator for Indigenous Creators, presented by the Nation-

al Screen Institute, is an online program providing customized, skills-based education sessions, hands-on exercises and connections with professional industry experts and peers. The curriculum is designed with traditional elements.

“We have so many untold stories that are waiting to be shared,” said program advisor Sherry Mckay. “Because there are teachings in each story, my hopes are that these creators will gain the technical skills and knowledge to not only tell their stories but inspire others to do so as well.”

The selected participants are: Star Anderson – Winnipeg, MB (TikTok handle: staranderson1) Lynn-Marie Angus – Vancouver, BC (sisters_ sage) Thea Arthurson – Oli-

ver, BC (cree..thea) Eagle Blackbird – Wallaceburg, ON (itzeaglee) Erin Brillon – Courtenay, BC (totemdesign) Vanessa Brousseau – Welland, ON (resilientInuk) Daniel Cutknife – Wetaskiwin, AB (zombieeagle7) Celeste Day Rider – Lethbridge, AB (celestedayrider) Jenny Kay Dupuis – North York, ON (jennykaydupuis) Sebastian Gaskin – Winnipeg, MB (sebastiangaskin) Hailey Hamelin-Wilson – Edmonton, AB (haileyykat) Penína Sara-Lynn Harding – Prince George, BC (academic_aunty) Crystal Harrison Collin – Sioux Lookout, ON (crystalharrisoncollin) Billi-J Heavy Shields – Standoff, AB (deadlyblack-

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Benita Prado – Vancouver, BC (pradomonroe) Matthew Brian Shorting – Winnipeg, MB (travelingstarman) Kailey Simon – Elsipogtog, NB (sleepingpolarbearart) Jessica Taylor – Regina, SK (jessalexamakeup) Kesha Tipewan – Saskatoon, SK (keshaheals) Lori Ann Tulugak-Kopak – Naujaat, NU (loraven16) Xavier Watso – Montreal, QC (watso_) The TikTok Accelerator for Indigenous Creators is hosted by advisor and Indigenous content creator Sherry Mckay (@sherry. mckay), advisor Justina Neepin (@justinaneepin), and program managers Sarah Simpson-Yellowquill and Cheyenne Bruneau.

Under their guidance and expert knowledge from presenters such as Celina Myers (@celinaspookyboo), Brett Mooswa (@ brettstoise), Jayroy Makokis (@jayroymakokis), Fawn Wood (@fawn. wood) and Duece Moto (@hoodoo_manystrikes), participants will each create a robust marketing plan and develop a series of videos to set them on the path to success.

Program sessions will include navigating TikTok, technical training, media career building and social responsibility and digital wellness. The program will begin with a sharing circle led by Elder Allen Sutherland. Online classes start on November 8.

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Upcoming concert at the Woodland Cultural Centre to highlight Indigenous musicians BRANTFORD — The Woodland Cultural Centre presents its annual concert series “Unplugged” virtually this year with Indigenous musicians from across Canada.

Unplugged is a virtual concert as part of the Tehonkieron:nions (They are Entertaining) performing art series. The acoustic concert is highlighting the Indigenous singer-songwriters voices of Celeigh

Cardinal (Alberta), Don Amero (Winnipeg), Semiah Smith (Six Nations) and Aysanabee (Toronto).

Due to COVID-19 restrictions the performances will be screened virtually. eleigh Cardinal was a 2020 Juno Award winner and has performed across stages across North America and internationally, including Reeperbahn in Germany, and tours in Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Don Amero

An engaging storyteller, singer-songwriter, performer and three-time JUNO Award nominee, Amero has been tirelessly touring, performing and speaking across Canada for the last decade, earning the respect and attention of the Canadian music industry and fans alike.

Semiah Kaha:wi Smith is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka (Mohawk) Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River.

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Rise in local COVID cases expected STAFF REPORT

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BRANTFORD/SIX NATIONS — A small rise in local COVID-19 infections is expected this season as colder temperatures push events and people indoors. This from Dr. Rebecca Comley, Acting Medical Officer of Health with the Brant County Health Unit.

“Last week, there were 46 cases of COVID-19 locally. We are experiencing an increase in both our local case numbers and key indicators. This rise is not unexpected. As the weather changes and more people are driven indoors, we will see case numbers increase,” said Dr. Comley.

On Six Nation case counts have risen once again to 8 new infections with 3 people hospitalized.

In Brant County, Dr. Comley says that 89 percent of cases in the region were in unvaccinated individuals. Only one percent of cases in Brantford/ Brant were in people fully vaccinated.

Another notable rise in the Brantford/Brant cases was an increase in youth

being infected. Just about half of the local cases were in youth under the age of 20 — indicating a rise in case traced back to schools and school transportation.

Last week, the Province announced the expansion of third-dose booster eligibility. In accordance with this, the Brant County Health Unit has begun offering booster doses to the following populations: Individuals aged 70 and over (born in 1951 or earlier); Health care workers and designated essential caregivers in congregate settings (including long-term care home and retirement home staff and designated caregivers); Individuals who received a complete series of a viral vector vaccine (two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine or one dose of the Janssen vaccine); and First Nation, Inuit and Métis adults and their non-Indigenous household members.

Booster eligible individuals on Six Nations can receive a third dose if they have been 6 months past their last dose. Those seeking a booster can call the COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Call Centre at 226227-9288.

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An Ungodly Alliance - Who knew what about the Mush Hole : PART ONE

By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS In memory of Liona Moses, Six Nations elder and former curator at the Mohawk Chapel. This series on the Mohawk Institute was originally written by Jim Windle in 2012.

Documentary evidence to back up decades and generations of horrific allegations of abuse within the walls of the Mohawk Institute may be finally coming to light, thanks in no small part to the tenacious work of a Six Nations woman.

Liona Moses, a Six Nations elder and a long-standing member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church on Chiefswood Road, describes herself as a “devout Christian” and a “loyal Anglican”. But she knows far too much to sweep under the carpet and she refuses to do so.

For the first time, she is going public with what she knows, partly for the sake of the integrity of the church she loves, but more so, for the sake of thousands of children who suffered under Canada’s policy of forced assimilation through cultural genocide, abuse and neglect, including instances of negligent manslaughter, and perhaps even murder.

“It’s very much like what the Catholic Church is going through today, dealing with sexual abuse issues against children. That has happened to Native people and the church is not taking full responsibility for some of its people’s actions,” says Moses. “Not all Anglican ministers and teachers were bad. We know in our society then and now there are bad people amongst the good in every walk of life. But it isn’t right that

Mohawk Institute, 1930s.

these people are not being punished for their actions under the law .”

Recent allegations against a Six Nations Baptist Minister underscores what she believes is the need for openness and transparency when someone of leadership, trust and authority betrays that trust, especially against children.

Although Moses was lucky enough to have missed the horrors of life at the “Mush Hole”, many other Six Nations residents and friends were not so fortunate.

Moses now says she has remained silent with what she knows long enough.

Although not speaking publicly on the matter, she has been a constant thorn in the side of the Huron Diocese Bishops and church leaders for years while waiting for

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the Diocese and the National Anglican Church to do the right thing and release to the public records and documents that reveal what they knew took place, and when they knew it.

Several years ago, Moses was asked to help in the church’s internal research when several private litigation and class actions suits against the church and the federal government first began to surface in the mainstream media.

“I don’t know how she heard of me, but the head researcher of the Huron Diocese research team, Dr. Wendy Fletcher, began calling me,” recalls Moses.

“I never met her before the investigations started. She invited me to come to the archives with her. I went with her for a few days and I saw much of the evidence

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with my own eyes that I am speaking about now.”

The research team Moses worked on for a short time found reams of both circumstantial and concrete evidence to support many of the traumatic experiences people have related to Moses over the years. This evidence was located not only in Anglican Church records, but in other records as well, including the archives of the New England Company in London, England, as well as through transcribed interviews with victims and teachers.

But the most damaging material is located within the now, closed files, of the federal Department of Indian Affairs. Fletcher’s team gathered thousands of documents before the D.I.A. closed its records in the face of a class action

suit filed against them by former residents of these schools.

The negative press worldwide following that suit forced Prime Minister Stephen Harper to offer a public apology, however, all of the the actual documented evidence has never been revealed. It is unknown at this time if all of these files will ever be opened, even to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

According to Moses, she has firsthand knowledge that the Anglican Diocese of Huron has been withholding its Mohawk Residential School (Mush Hole) records and other incriminating documents, despite a written promise from church leaders in 1998, when the class action suit was made known and the research began, that it would release,

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within the next 10 years, all of the documents collected and hidden away.

“They’re two years late,” says Moses. “Those documents still remain under the care and control of the diocese. Not in the public archives, but rather, hidden away somewhere where no one is allowed to go and look at them, except for lawyers for the diocese and the Bishop, who is in complete control over those records.”

She and a handful of other church insiders have been persistently asking the Diocese leaders when they were going to release this information. Frustrated with nonspecific answers, if any answers at all, Moses recently told her diocese leaders she would give them until a certain date, about four weeks ago, to 'fess up and do the right thing or she would go public herself.

“I really believe the church is still trying to protect the teachers and ministers by withholding this information,” she says.

“I am an Anglican and I will always be Christian, but there was an injustice done to my people — a big injustice and I want that rectified. I want the world to know that one of the reasons Native people are in the position we are in today is because once a person has been sexually molested, it follows through their entire lives — to their children and grandchildren — unless the problem is dealt with and fixed right at the beginning.”

As painful and damaging as these revelations may be, Moses is part of a movement within the church that believes nondisclosure is much more

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Who knew what about the Mush Hole : PART ONE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 damaging to the integrity of the church and to the honour of God. “It falls back on us if we do not report these things.

That makes us as guilty as the people who committed these indecent acts,” she says. “That is why, ever since I have known about it, I have wanted this information made public.”

As one former residential school student put it, “The healing can’t start until the hurting stops.”

To her, withholding this information is a disgrace to the church and nothing more than a continuation of abuse.

Moses’ quest for justice and healing has lead her to make several calls over the years to the Minister of Indian Affairs, to her Member of Parliament, to successive Bishops, and to the heads of the Canadian Anglican Church.

Persistence may be paying off.

Just last week the new Huron Diocese Bishop, Rev. Bob Bennett, finally made the decision to open the diocese archives to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which is being

conducted under Professor John Milloy, the new chair of the commission (Note: he was replaced by Dr. Murray Sinclair). Milloy is a professor of history and Native studies at Trent University and is the author of the book, “A National Crime”, which has been called the “quintessential book on the residential school area”. The Literary Review of Canada calls it, “One of the 100 most important Canadian books ever written.”

In the next leg of her research Dr. Fletcher went to England and did more digging within the New England Company archives.

It was in the 18th month of her research that she had seen enough and left the diocese, handing the rest of the research over to others to complete.

Her focus was exclusively the Mohawk Institute.

But as this information and thousands of gathered documents began to reveal more than the church was willing to have revealed at that time, former Bishop, Bruce Howe, placed a 10 year gag order on all of those involved in the internal investigation.

“Wendy promised the Native people that no matter what the outcome of this research was, she would tell us the truth,” says Moses. “She and other researchers had to sign an agreement saying that they would not write about the research or speak about it until all litigation was finished. when she and her husband realized that they would not be able to speak about what they knew for many years, and also when they saw how aggressively the church was committed to silence, they left the diocese and moved to BC.” Because part of the oath they took as Anglican ministers included an agreement to obey the Bishop and his orders, the Fletchers felt that the only way they could get out of that oath without outright disobedience was to leave the Huron Diocese. They moved to British Columbia where Dr. Fletcher is presently the Principal, Dean and Professor of Church History at the prestigious Vancouver School of Theology.

Moses maintains contact with Fletcher, who

has become a friend and has encouraged her, as have two other ranking insiders of the church, to dig in, learn as much as she can, and, as a lay person, pressure the church to come clean about what it knows about what went on in the name of God, the Anglican Church, and education in Anglican run residential schools under the direction of the federal Department of Indian Affairs.

“One man that I know of, when he heard what the church was doing to the Six Nations people, he quit being a minister altogether,” says Moses. “Others, like the Fletchers, just left the Huron Diocese.”

Moses never heard from Fletcher much after she left Ontario, until, out of the blue, she got a call from Vancouver.

“One day many years ago, I got a call from Wendy and she asked me to put together a small group of people at the Woodland Cultural Centre,” Moses recalls.

Fletcher flew out from Vancouver as part of her healing journey in light of the trauma which still

remained from the research she had done. She met with the group who lived at the Mohawk Institute to speak about life there through history and to answer any questions she could about life at the school as she was able to understand it.

Fletcher told the small gathering that she knows firsthand about thousands of documented pieces of evidence against the church and Indian Affairs, that the documents and evidence she gathered were all in order from the beginning of the church’s involvement in residential schools, right to the end.

“She knows because that is how she arranged it all before she quit,” says Moses.

“Wendy said at that time that it would make a great movie.”

Moses has been gathering her own testimonial evidence as well. She says that while serving as curator of the Mohawk Chapel, former residents would come and often tell her some of their experiences while students of the institute.

“I’ve been told by some of the former students

that when they left their rooms in the daytime, the beds were all made and inspected by the matron who locked the door when the kids left,” Moses relates.

“They could not reenter their room until it was unlocked. But at the end of the day, when they opened the door, one of the beds would be all messed up. So the children all knew which child had been molested that day while the others were away.”

One boy told Moses that he was molested in the fruit and vegetable cellar in the basement of the school.

“I have had many instances of people coming to the Mohawk Chapel and telling me about what happened to them at the institute,” says Moses. “Some of those stories are written in those documents being hidden from outside eyes.”

Moses says that there is valuable land claims information in those protected documents as well since the New England Company dealt with acres of land within the city of Brantford and elsewhere along the Haldimand Tract.

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The fortunes of war; Subalterns of “A” Company, 107th “Timberwolf” Battalion, France, July 29th, 1917. Pictured at front row, sitting at left, is Lieutenant Oliver Martin, a Mohawk from the Grand River Reserve; and back row standing at right, Lieutenant James Moses, a Delaware from the same Reserve. Both were later seconded to the Royal Flying Corps. Martin survived the war as a pilot, stayed active in the Canadian Militia during the interwar years, and was appointed Brigadier during the Second World War. Moses was reported missing, later confirmed killed, on April 1st, 1918 while serving as an air observer. A third Indian junior officer from the 107th, John Randolph Stacey, a Mohawk from Kahnawake, also became a pilot, but was killed in a flying accident in England a week after Moses.

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OTTAWA _ Federal leaders marked the sacrifices of Indigenous veterans on Monday, as well as the discrimination they faced after returning from war.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says all flags on federal government buildings, including the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, were lowered to acknowledge the service of Indigenous veterans. ``Indigenous people who served across this country ? did that facing often systems and discrimination and barriers that were greater,'' he said before a caucus meeting in Ottawa.

Trudeau added that he spoke with several Indigenous veterans earlier, ``to talk about their experiences and mostly talk about the path forward, both for Veterans Affairs and for Indigenous peoples.''

It is estimated that more than 12,000 Indigenous people joined the Canadian military during the First and Second World Wars and Korea.

More than 500 were killed and countless more injured.

Many of those who returned to Canada ended up falling through the cracks after they were denied the same benefits provided to non-Indigenous veterans, while others found out they had lost their Indian status by putting on a uniform.

While not formally recognized by the federal government, Indigenous Veterans Day has been growing in size and scope each year on Nov. 8 since it was inaugurated by Winnipeg's city council in 1994.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole marked the occasion by narrating a video about Tommy Prince, who became one of Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldiers while fighting in the Second World War and

Korea.

Despite that record, Prince like many others was denied veterans' support and eventually became homeless before dying in 1977.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh led his caucus in honouring the sacrifices of Indigenous veterans at the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in downtown Ottawa, where they laid a wreath and roses during a short but sombre ceremony.

Singh described the treatment of those Indigenous veterans as an injustice, as he paid homage to those currently serving in uniform.

There are more than 2,500 Indigenous people currently serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, representing around 2.7 per cent of all military personnel.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 8, 2021.

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Take time on November 11th to pause and think of the Freedom we enjoy today as a result of the Sacrifices made by our Veterans.

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Six Nations mothers opposed participation in WW1 JIM WINDLE

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OTTAWA - At the advent of WW1, there were many Six Nations young men who signed up for service in the Canadian Military which made some mothers and father proud of their young Warriors, but not everyone. The following is a letter found in the Canadian Military Archives which shows advocates for not only some who signed up too young without their parents approval, or that of the Confederacy Council of the day.

This argument, although perfectly true and solid, was ignored by Canada and Britain and as far as we know, no one we sent home as a result.

Jan 31st, 1917.

To his majesty King George V of England.

May it please Your Majesty to listen of our pressing business, to lay it before Your Majesty and it is this.We the undersigned our sons and young men, the are not of age, but they enlisted in Your Majesty’s army by the persuasion of other men, therefor send them home.

And our grounds for for asking Your Majesty to discharge our Sons is this, as Your Majesty see in this letter engraved and inserted, a “Wampum belt Treaty” between us the Five Nations (now Six) and your British Nation’s Government.

Having one row and two men standing, one man at each end of the row, holding the Covenant Silver Chain. This signifies the Two Nations.

And the first Nation is Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas holding one end of the Covenant Silver Chain, and the British Nation holding the other end of the Covenant Silver Chain.

Thus the two Nations did Covenanted themselves together as Allies, to defend the another in case of war.

And if the British is (sic) in War, if the British needs help, then the King or Queen will write a letter to the Governor General of Canada and ask the Six Nations Union Lords, now commonly called Chiefs, to ask them to help the British in their War. Then the Six Nations Union Lords will hold a council will address the Five War Chiefs to repare and get ready of their

common Warriors to go and help the British in their War. The next Wampum belt, “Treaty of Two Rows” This Two Rows of Wampum Treaty signifies the Two separate government Governments shall exist.

Namely; The Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, and the British Nation’s government shall exist and independently from each other, forever.

And the Six Nations shall not rule over the British Nation.

And the British Nation shall not rule over the Six Nations.

And the following names are enlisted in Your Majesty’s army: Pte Robert Skye, 739597, B.Co. 35th Batt.

Pte. James Williams, 739810, B.Co. 35th Batt.

Pte. Hardie Fish, 739941, Canadian Reserve, B.Co. 35th Batt.

Pte. Willie Fish, 4th Canadian Reserve, B.Co. 35th Batt.

Pte. Josie Bumberry (sic) 4th Canadian Reserve, B.Co. 35th Batt.

orange flag to fly alongside the Canadian flag until all children are recovered, named and returned to their homelands _ physically or symbolically _ with proper ceremony.

RoseAnne Archibald, the national chief, said the assembly was ``in agreement that the flag must be raised before Remembrance Day so that all veterans will be honoured when lowered to half-mast on Nov. 11.''

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked for the flag to be lowered in May after the discovery of what are believed to be hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The government has been consulting with Indigenous groups about raising the flag ahead of Remembrance Day, when it is traditionally lowered to half-mast.

Marc Miller, minister for Crown-Indigenous relations, said Thursday there is ``not a clear consensus'' on what should happen and that some want the flag to remain lowered ``until every site is searched.'' ``Others have a preference for bringing it up. And there's, within that spectrum, a variety of views on it. What is clear is that this is a very important symbolic act,'' he said in an interview.

The flag will be lowered at the National War Memorial on Nov. 11 by the Royal Canadian Legion, which is in charge of the site on Remembrance Day. It has recommended that Legion branches throughout Canada lower the flag at branches and cenotaphs to honour the country's war dead.

Signed by the mark of Joseph Sky Lucinda Bumberry (sic) Maggie Williams Elizabeth Fish.

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OTTAWA _ The Assembly of First Nations says it has found a solution that would allow the Canadian flag to be raised before Remembrance Day while continuing to grieve Indigenous children who died at residential schools.

The assembly's executive passed a motion on Thursday calling for the flag to be raised on all federal buildings on Sunday, alongside an orange ``every child matters'' flag.

In a statement, the assembly says it sees the need to honour veterans by lowering the flag on Nov. 11 and it also wants the flag lowered on Monday to recognize Indigenous Veterans Day. The assembly wants the

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Remembrance Day - The legacy of Leutenant Frederick Loft JIM WINDLE

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SIX NATIONS — Imagine poking around the internet and discovering you are a direct descendent of the founder of one of North America’s first Native activists organizations of the 20th century. Frederick Ogilvie Loft was the creator of an alliance of Indian (Onkwehonwe) Nations from across the country, known as the League of Indians, which eventually morphed into the Assembly of First Nations of today.

These are the revelations Six Nations born Ironworker, Rope Loft, discovered while looking up another relative on-line, five years ago and it still has him floored.

Great-Great-Granddad Loft, and Ojibwa soldier Francis Pegahmagabow, most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history of World War I, used their positions to seek equal rights for “Indians Allies” who were serving in the military

at the time. He is also one of the first reporters to alerted the world about the residential schools problems of abuse as early as the 1890’s.

According to author John L. Taylor, "F.O. Loft was undoubtedly a man born before his time. His resources were insufficient to sustain and enlarge the organization he envisaged.

He was nearly sixty when he began and he had to maintain full-time employment to support his family.

In any case, one person could not have done all that was required."

As it turns out, Rope’s great-great-grandfather was Lieutenant Frederick Ogilvie Loft, who served in the Canadian forces during WWI in the Forestry Service, an extremely important service in Europe when war broke out on the Western Front. Shipping of raw building materials and tools for the war effort was being curtailed by the German navy’s sinking of supply ships bound for Britain and the front.

Rope has only recently rediscovered his roots and

This wonderful photo of Frederick Ogilvie Loft was discovered recently amongst a cache of old glass negatives between the floor joists of a now demolished home, owned at one time by a Brantford photographer of the early 1900’s. Fredrick Loft was not only a WWI war veteran, but one of Canada’s first Indigenous rights activist creating what was known as the League of Indians, which eventually morphed into the Assembly of First Nations of today.

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after reading dozens of newspaper clippings from the early 1900’s and as many books as he could find about his famous relative, he expresses the pride he now feels in being in the lineage of one of the first political organizers for Native Rights across Canada.

When the war in Europe broke out, the call went out from Britain and France and their colonies for experienced forestry workers to fell trees, saw-millers to mill the lumber to erect field hospitals, clear paths for troop movement, airfields, line the hundreds of miles of underground trenches and tunnels for troop movement and sappers. Sappers were explosives experts but the worked closely with the tunnel builders, consisting of recruited miners and lumbermen.

Sappers would dig miles long tunnels under the front lines of the German trenches, fill them with explosives and at a strategic time, detonate enormous explosions, lifting millions of tons of earth several feet into the air, killing hun-

dreds of soldiers at a time and destroying forward machine gun and artillery positions.

The allies were not the only ones employing this subsurface warfare. The Germans were good at it as well. In fact there are some remaining reports and documents that told of Allide sappers actually hearing their German counterparts digging their own tunnels towards the British lines, only feet away.

Lieutenant Loft was well educated, spoke fluent Mohawk and English and was a born leader, generally an impressive figure at 6’, at a time when the average hight for a man was 5’6”.

The Canadian Forestry Corps was created on Nov.14th, 1916 and quickly became known under the nick-name, the "Sawdust Fusiliers", by the troops.

The Canadian Forestry Corps badge consists of a circle, with a beaver on top, superimposed on a pair of crossed axes, with the text "Canadian Forestry Corps" around the edge. At the

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Great-great-granddad etched in history - Frederick Loft centre of the circle is a maple leaf with the Imperial State Crown.

The contribution Loft and these unsung heroes of the Great War made to the war effort can not be overstated, but was especially valuable during the trench standoffs in France and Belgium.

It was estimated by military planners at the time that every soldier needed five trees: one for living quarters, cooking and recreation; one for crates to ship food, ammunition, tanks, and so on; and three for explosives, gun stocks, coffins, ships, factories, in support of the fighting on the front line.

The stretch of deep, sticky mud, blood, bodies and body parts littering the no-mans-land between Allied trenches and those of the German army made even walking a step a chore.

The trenches had become cess pools of disease and discomfort for months.

More died of disease on both sides than were actually killed in battle.

The need for wooden planks and beams was great, to create some kind of flooring to walk on within these horrible trench conditions, as well as for building rudimentary underground barracks and war-rooms to plan strategies from.

It was all supplied by the “Sawdust Fusileers”, and without it, a person could easily be swallowed up in a death pool of mud and squaller, never to be seen again.

Lining the trenches and tunnels required massive amounts of materials as well. Every tree within a reasonable distance of the trenches was used up or reduced to riddled stumps by the incessant storm of lead going in both directions.

One-hundred years after the war, military archaeologists and local relic hunters are still finding tunnels which honey-come almost all of France.

Today, the work of Loft and the other “Sawdust Fusiliers” usually goes unnoticed, but certainly

not to the veterans of the “Great War” themselves.

They knew all too well that without them, the horrors of the tenches would have been far worse.

Loft did a lot of recruiting work amongst the men of Six Nations and New Credit area, in advance of the war and during it. He also worked for a time as a reporter for the Brantford Expositor and the Toronto Globe and Mail.

His Mohawk name seemed to fit the tall, strong and handsome Frederick Loft well. His given Clan name was Onondeyoh: which means, “Beautiful Mountain.”

Rope Loft has a lot to be proud of. Although records of Indigenous soldiers in WWI are incomplete and were not well recorded, he has made it his mission to find out as much as he can about the life and times of his great-great-grandfather, Lieutenant Frederick Ogilvie Loft, activist and “Sawdust Fusilier.”

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Free menstrual products coming to Group sues Colorado over law banon reserve schools: Indigenous ning Native American mascots CANADIAN PRESS

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Free menstrual products will be available in on-reserve schools ``very soon,'' the federal Indigenous Services minister said on Friday. ``Period poverty should never be a barrier to going to school. End of story,'' Patty Hajdu said in a Twitter post. ``Menstrual products are a basic need, and very soon they will be freely available in all on-reserve schools.''

Hajdu's office did not immediately respond to a request for more specifics about the timing of the plan and which products would be included.

Her announcement came amid criticism that First Nations schools were excluded from an Ontario government partnership with Shoppers Drug Mart to provide menstrual products to school boards. British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia have

similar programs.

Under Ontario's plan, six million free menstrual products are to go to Ontario school boards each year.

The boards will then decide how to distribute them to local schools.

NDP member Sol Mamakwa, who represents a riding covering northern Ontario First Nations, raised the issue last month of First Nations schools being left out of the Ontario plan.

During a legislative question period, he pointed out that the products are more expensive in the north and said people can be forced to choose between tampons and food. ``Young people attending First Nations schools have high needs for these products but they are being excluded,'' Mamakwa told the legislature. ``It is unfortunate that the public-private sector agreement did not see the need to address the issue for all students in Ontario, but only for those who attend provincial schools.''

A spokeswoman for Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce said at the time that questions about support for on-reserve schools should go to the federal government because it funds and regulates them.

In a written statement, Lecce said Friday that Ontario is ``pleased that the federal government has agreed to match Ontario's initiative to provide free menstrual products to their students.'' ``We advocated for the federal government to adopt this program, which will now extend to all federally-run schools across the country,'' he said.

At another news conference last month, Lecce was asked why the province was providing take-home COVID-19 tests to First Nations schools under a provincial initiative, but not including on-reserve schools in the menstrual products plan. He said the province wanted to protect more settings from transmission of the virus.

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DENVER (AP) _ A North Dakota-based organization claiming to represent Native Americans sued Colorado this week for a measure banning American Indian school mascots which was passed last year amid a nationwide push for racial justice following George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis.

The lawsuit by the nonprofit Native American Guardian's Association was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, naming Gov. Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Weiser and Kathryn Redhorse, the executive director of the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs. The firm is representing a John Doe, Jane Doe and three other Colorado residents who cite Native American heritage in the lawsuit.

The organization's lawsuit argues that the Colorado law is unconstitu-

tional and ``unlawfully enacts state-sanctioned race discrimination'' against the Native American residents the association is representing.

The Colorado measure, signed into law in June, fines public schools, colleges and universities $25,000 monthly for their use of American Indian-themed mascots after June 1, 2022. The law does not apply to schools on tribal lands and also allows exceptions for schools that had existing agreements with tribes.

The suit argues that the complete erasure of Native American imagery is not beneficial and that the use of positive and respectful Native American symbols and mascots in schools honors the group, helps neutralize offensive stereotypes and teaches the public about Native American history. The lawsuit also states that the use of positive Native American symbolism is a form of ``reappropriation'' or a way to ``reclaim names and images

that were once directed at them as insults in order to turn them outward as badges of pride.''

According to the lawsuit, John and Jane Doe, who are of Cherokee and Chippewa descent, attend Yuma High School in northeast Colorado which is home of the ``Yuma Indians.'' The two want their school to continue honoring their cultures and heritage because as the suit alleges, they ``would suffer a hostile environment'' if the Native mascots were banned.

The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs has identified more than 20 schools across the state for violating the law by using terms such as Savages, Indians and Warriors in their mascot's name.

Spokespeople for Polis and Weiser said they would not comment because the lawsuit is ongoing.

An email sent Thursday to the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs for comment on the lawsuit was not immediately returned.

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OTTAWA _ Elections Canada has launched an investigation to see if errors cost Indigenous communities across Canada their right to vote.

It is checking to see whether First Nations in Kenora, Ont., were the only ones denied the ability to vote on polling day or if it was ``a more general problem.''

There have been reports of incorrect information about polling stations on voter cards on reserves, and stations opening late in Indigenous areas.

Three fly-in First Nations communities in Kenora, including Pikangikum, Poplar Hill and Cat Lake, had no polling stations on election day.

Elections Canada is already looking into what went wrong in Kenora and has issued an apology ``to any elector who was unable to vote as a result.''

In a statement, it said it is looking at voting services offered to Indigenous people across the country and plans to speak to communities to gauge if and how mistakes were made in order to prevent them happening again.

It says it needs to work to ``build trust'' with Indigenous voters. ``We are still working to get a complete picture of what happened. This involves consulting with the returning officer and Elections Canada staff as well as with community leaders and those who were affected,'' said Matthew McKenna, a spokesman for Elections Canada. ``As part of our examination, we will look at the voting services offered to Indigenous communities across the country to find out if what happened in Kenora is a singular event or if it is indicative of a more general problem.''

Elections Canada, an independent body which runs the federal election, including in each riding,

is also planning to look at ways ``to improve our pre-election outreach to Indigenous electors.'' ``We know that to deliver the services that people need, there has to be engagement. We need to build trust and work to maintain that trust. We will look at ways to improve how we engage with First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities between elections, so that when election time comes, we can rely on those relationships to help ensure that everyone feels supported and well-served,'' McKenna said.

Elections agents went to great lengths to ensure ballots reached voters in some remote Indigenous communities on time, including transporting them by dog sled in Nunavut.

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A century after its discovery, insulin and other fundamental components of diabetes care remain beyond the reach of many who need them. Founders of World Diabetes Day (WDD) say this must change and want to help ensure that the people

who need care can access it.

World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. WDD became an official United Nations Day in 2006.

It takes place every November 14, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting,

who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.

“WDD is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of more than 1 billion people in more than 160 countries,” said representatives from WDD in a press release.

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The World Diabetes Day campaign aims to be the: - Platform to promote IDF advocacy efforts throughout the year.

- Global driver to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue The campaign is represented by a blue circle logo that was adopted in 2007. The blue circle is the global symbol for diabetes awareness. It signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes epidemic.

Every year, the World Diabetes Day campaign focuses on a dedicated theme that runs for one or more years. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021 to 2023 is Access to Diabetes Care – If Not Now, When?.

Millions of people with diabetes around the world do not have access to diabetes care and people with diabetes require ongoing care and support to manage their condition and avoid complications.

Organizers of WDD want to see medicine, technologies, support and care made available to all people with diabetes.

They also want to see governments increase their investments in diabetes care and prevention.

“The centenary of the discovery of insulin presents a unique opportunity

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to bring about meaningful change for the more than 460 million people living with diabetes and the millions more at risk,” said the release.

How you can get involved - Pledge your support for greater access to diabetes care by supporting our online petition. Visit, worlddiabetesday.org for more information.

- Engage a local or national policy-maker to ensure that all people with diabetes have access to the care they need.

- Organize a ‘Learn about diabetes’ event in schools.

- Organize or participate in a local diabetes awareness walk.

- Light up a local landmark, your home or workplace in blue.

- Arrange an activity with your work colleagues.

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Join the Global Diabetes Walk Regular physical activity is an important part of diabetes management and reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes. Whether indoors or outdoors, every step counts to help stay healthy.

Join the Global Diabetes Walk, an initiative created by the World Diabetes Foundation in support of World Diabetes Day. Take to the streets – if circumstances allow – to raise awareness of the impact of diabetes and the importance of physical activity. If outdoor activities in your community are restricted, walk or exercise in your home or workplace and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to join in.

Whichever way you exercise make sure to wear blue and show your support for #WorldDiabetesDay and the #IfNotNowWhen campaign.

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Insulin at 100

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Nearly 500 million people are currently living with diabetes worldwide. Without action, the figure could rise to 700 million within the next 25 years.

This potentially debilitating chronic condition can lead to life-threatening complications when left untreated and an early death.

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Frederick G Banting has idea for insulin research Banting meets John JR Macleod Banting begins experiments, assisted by Charles H Best Banting and Best first use extracted insulin to regulate the blood glucose of dogs with severe diabetes

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James B Collip joins the research team to help purify the crude insulin extract

January 1922

The first successful insulin injection is administered to Leonard Thompson on January 23

October 1923

Banting and Macleod are awarded the Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin John JR Macleod

James B Collip

Leonard Thompson

Charles H Best Best and Banting

Decades of innovation to provide care

A Nobel prize

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First specialised insulin syringe

1954

First disposable glass syringe

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First oral medications for type 2 diabetes become available

1965

First blood glucose test strip

1971

First blood glucose meter

1979

First commercial insulin pump

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Human insulin introduced

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First insulin pen

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Analogue insulin introduced

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First Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system

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First islet cell transplantations conducted

2013

First artificial pancreas is developed

IDF is leading a three-year World Diabetes Day campaign to increase access to diabetes care, and highlight the need for more action to prevent diabetes and its complications.

Get involved at www.worlddiabetesday.org

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Journalists are increasingly under attack online, with media workers facing ``prevalent and pervasive'' harassment ranging from sexualized messages and attacks against their identity to death threats, new research released Tuesday has found.

The findings, based on a survey of more than a thousand journalists and media workers this fall, suggests an epidemic of online bullying leaving many in the industry struggling with mental health challenges.

The Ipsos poll, the first of its kind conducted on behalf of a dozen media organizations in Canada, found more than 70 per cent of media workers reported experiencing harassment in the past year.

Cyberbullying was by far the most common, with 65 per cent of journalists subjected to online vitriol, followed by in-person harassment,

threatening phone calls and physical attacks, the survey found.

A wide variety of online harm was reported, including vulgar and sexualized messages or images, physical threats and offensive comments targeting gender or ethnic identity.

The overall media climate, accusations of ``fake news'' and objections to the media organization a journalist works for emerged as the key factors prompting harassment.

Yet an undercurrent of misogyny, racism and homophobia appears to permeate many of the online attacks.

Media workers who are women, Black, Indigenous, people of colour and part of the LGBTQ2+ community reported facing harassment more often _ and to a greater severity.

The harassment _ a daily occurrence for some journalists _ appears to be taking a toll both on the personal well-being of workers and on the broader media industry, the survey found.

One third of media workers reported feelings of fear, shame and anger, with some experiencing trouble sleeping or other mental health issues.

Others felt the need to take a break from social media, delete their accounts or considered leaving journalism altogether, the Ipsos poll found. Still others avoided potentially controversial stories or considered requesting different assignments.

Meanwhile, the online harassment of media workers appears to be only worsening. Nearly 85 per cent who have experienced cyberbullying believe occurrences are rising rather than declining, the poll found.

Despite the increasing prevalence of the online abuse, much of it goes unreported either because the target of the harassment questions the seriousness of the offence or doubts anything will be done about it, the survey found.

The results of the Ipsos survey were shared Tuesday at the virtual

forum ``#NotOK _ Stand Up for Journalism and Democracy,'' a two-day event hosted by CBC/Radio-Canada for journalists and media professionals across Canada.

The poll was conducted on behalf of 12 Canadian media organizations: Canadian Association of Journalists, Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, CBC/Radio-Canada, CTV News, Federation professionnelle des journalistes du Quebec, Global News, Journal de Montreal/Journal de Quebec, Journalists for Human Rights, National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, News Media Canada, Postmedia and the Toronto Star.

The survey of 1,093 journalists and media workers was conducted online in both English and French between Sept. 27 and Oct.13.

According to the polling industry's generally accepted standards, online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.

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The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has announced the release of the Key Findings and Recommendations for Decision-makers of the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (FNFNES). The 10-year study was led by principal investigators and researchers from the AFN, the University of Ottawa and Université de Montréal.

Built on collaborative research with 92 First Nations across the country, “The FNFNES highlights that traditional foods remain foundational to First Nations’ health and well-being and that the quality of traditional food is superior to storebought food,” said the study, built on collaborative research with 92 First Nations across the coun-

try. “However, due to environmental degradation, socioeconomic, systemic and regulatory barriers, many First Nations face three to five times the rate of food insecurity more than the Canadian population overall.”

The study says that families with children are affected to an even greater degree.

The FNFNES partners urge decision-makers to use the key findings and recommendations, being released the week after World Food Day, to inform policies and programs to address First Nations food insecurity and sovereignty. The six primary recommendations are: - Support initiatives promoting First Nations rights, sovereignty, self-determination, values and culture.

- Prioritize protecting the environment, First Nations lands, waters and territories.

- Build capacity to elim-

inate barriers to proper nutrition, reducing food insecurity.

- Improve partnerships, collaboration and communication between First Nations and all levels of government, as well as partnerships between First Nations to support sharing information about food, nutrition and the environment.

- Support continuing research, education and public awareness.

- Create a First Nations-led joint national task force or committee to plan how to implement these recommendations.

“For First Nations, traditional food represents much more than nutrition, it plays important cultural, spiritual and ceremonial roles,” said Tonio Sadik, AFN Senior Director of Environment Lands and Water and FNFNES Principal Investigator. "There is an urgent need to address systemic problems and barriers relating to First

Nations food systems, security and sovereignty in a way that honours First Nations knowledge, leadership and rights.”

Sadik added that new programs, policies and legislation must be created to protect the environment from further degradation and ensure that First Nations have access to a healthy diet, including traditional food.

“This first of its kind study can only be accomplished because of the strong partnership between the AFN, the government officials and the academic researchers. In particular, we are grateful for the collective wisdom of the nearly 7,000 participants and team members from the 92 communities throughout the country over the last 10 years,” said Dr. Laurie Chan, FNFNES Principal Investigator, University of Ottawa professor and Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental

Health.

“We sincerely hope the findings of FNFNES will contribute to improving the nutritional quality of food and the health of First Nations for generations to come,” explains Chan.

According to the release, studies like the FNFNES can support First Nations to make informed decisions about nutrition, the environment and environmental stewardship, lead to further research and advocacy safeguarding First Nations’ rights and jurisdiction and provide a baseline for measuring environmental changes.

“This participatory research was possible because it emanated from a need expressed by First Nations to shed light on the nutrition and environmental situation in their communities,” said Dr. Malek Batal, FNFNES Principal Investigator, Professor in the Nutrition

Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Université de Montréal, and Canada Research Chair in Nutrition and Health Inequalities.

“First Nations face disproportionate challenges in terms of access to healthy, culturally relevant food. FNFNES points to the need for guaranteeing improved access to traditional food which has a potential role in countering the rise in chronic disease and combating food insecurity,” Batal adds.

Now complete, the FNFNES identified areas needing further study. Its core partners are collaborating on another multiyear research project called the Food, Environment, Health and Nutrition of First Nations Children and Youth (FEHNCY) study. Like the FNFNES, this study is being funded

by Indigenous Services Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.

Taking care of your teeth is about more than a nice smile Dental health is a key part of overall health and well-being and whatever your age, practising good dental hygiene and following healthy lifestyle habits is more important than ever during the pandemic.

Did you know there’s a link between dental health and diabetes?

People with diabetes are at greater risk for dental problems like gum disease and infections that can make it harder to control diabetes.

The good news is that treating either gum disease or diabetes can lead to improvements in the other!

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Regular exercise and meditation can help reduce the impact of stress on your mouth and immune system.

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“It’s really nice to be here,” ILA hosts U15 and U17 World Championships try-outs STAFF REPORT

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SIX NATIONS — On Sunday evening, young Haudenosaunee players vying for positions on one of two Team Haudenosaunee divisions came together at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena just days ahead of a proposed International Indoor Junior Lacosse (IIJL) World Championship tournament to take place in the USA. A first since 2019: the three-team tournament will feature a U17 and U15 Team Haudenosaunee, Team Canada and Team USA to take place this Thursday in Massena, New York at the St. Lawrence Sports Complex.

General Manager Gewas Schindler said that being in the arena again was a long awaited experience.

“It’s been two or three years since we’ve been here and I know the boys are

A first since 2019: the three-team tournament will feature a U17 and U15 Team Haudenosaunee, Team Canada and Team USA to take place this Thursday in Massena, New York at the St. Lawrence Sports Complex.

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really happy to be here,” he said.

Schindler explained that with border access open this Monday, players living in Canada can attend the event to begin on November 11, with final selections for both teams made this week. Schindler explained that the team rosters are being made so close to the

tournament date out of love for the game.

“I think that everyone wanted to play so bad that we threw as much together as we could in three weeks notice,” he said. “We had a strong showing here in Six Nations” Out of 50 players, the team will be a selection of just 23 players, comprised

The first two World Junior Lacrosse Championships, 2015 and 2016, were played in Six Nations and hosted by Haudenosaunee.

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Unfortunately, Schindler explained that there were more interested Haudenosaunee players that couldn’t make the try outs held in Canada.

“A bunch of the Senecas

from Cattaraugus got denied at the border because they aren’t vaccinated,” he said, adding that some did make the try out held the week before.

This was a detriment to the overall line up, but Schindler said that they were still “very happy” with the turn out. The team name will be under

By TRT Staff with notes from ALL.com

"Currently all players, coaches, referees, volunteers and fans 12 years of age and over, have to be fully vaccinated in order to enter any of the facilities we play in. This includes our Women's and U22 Divisions. We realize this will prevent a few of those unvaccinated from participating but we have to follow the guidelines set forth." St. John added.

Those entering the venues will also be subject to Covid-19 screening, and masks will be mandatory

Haudenosaunee instead of Iroquois for this level, and the teams will be one in two trios to round robin, with hope to expand next year.

“The Iroquois Nationals don’t have box lacrosse at this age, so we do it separately and we’ve been doing international lacrosse since 2015. We had 10 international teams at one time, and we now have 14 that are interested in playing.

So, next year it will be really big, but we will have just the three teams competing this year.”

The first two World Junior Lacrosse Championships, 2015 and 2016, were played in Six Nations and hosted by Haudenosaunee.

“We’re really happy,” said Schindler.

An excerpt from Graham D’Alvia in a press release on the CLL World Juniors website reads: "It is only fitting that the first IIJL World U17 Lacrosse Championship is hosted in Six Nations; birthplace of the World Juniors."

Vaccination Required for Arena Lacrosse League in December

SIX NATIONS — As with many current sport congregations, the Arena Lacrosse League announced last month that each participant associated with the league, including players, coaches and officials, will be required to be fully vaccinated in order to enter each of the ALL venues, in Ontario.

This extends to the Langley Events Centre, in Langley, BC, host of the ALL West Division games.

throughout each of the facilities.

The first games to take place on Saturday, December 18, include the Toronto Monarchs versus the Oshawa Outlaws and the Pterborough timber men versus the Whitby Steelhawks at the Children’s Arena. On the following Sunday, the Paris RiverWolves will take on the St. Catharines Shockwave and the Toronto Monarchs will match with the Six Nations Snipers at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.

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Team Ontario’s Canada Summer Games to host try-out clinic OSHAWA — After an undefeated regular season the Western University Mustangs Women’s Field lacrosse team ended the OUA playoffs in third place with a 9-6 win against the Guelph Gryffons. It was the Trent Excalibur Women’s Field Lacrosse Team that repeated as Ontario University Athletics Patterson Cup champions after defending their title in a 10-9 victory over the Queen’s Gaels on Sunday.

The Mustangs women’s lacrosse team was also proud to announce five OUA first team all star players, including Six Nations own Timmia Bomberry, who plays midfield.

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By TRT Staff, with notes from NHL.com CHICAGO — On Sunday, November 7, the Chicago Blackhawks unveiled a stunning helmet design be worn by the Blackhawks new goaltender, Marc André Fleury, designed by Patrick Hunter in light of Native American Heritage Month.

Hunter is a 2 Spirit Ojibway from Red Lake, Ontario specializing in Indigenous themed designs and original painted artwork. His designs have been applied to everything from corporate branding, to mugs, apparel and steel. He is also the recipient of a 2021 Indigenous Entrepreneurship Award from Pow Wow Pitch, a non-profit organization that supports and celebrates Indigenous entrepreneurs.

Hunter was announced as a winner of the 2021 Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at the inaugural awards which celebrate excellence and outstanding achievement and impact in Indigenous entrepreneurship.

Through his business, Patrick has created commissioned pieces and large murals while teaching virtual painting classes to support Indigenous artists in expressing

A stunning helmet design be worn by the Blackhawks new goaltender, Marc André Fleury, designed by Patrick Hunter in light of Native American Heritage Month.

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their culture through art.

He has worked in graphic collaborations with RBC, BMO, EY, West Elm, Staples, and the Chicago Blackhawks and was the first Artist in Residence for Prince’s Trust Canada charity that aids in the reclamation of Indigenous languages.

The artist that designed Fleury’s original mask for

the season with the Chicago Blackhawks said that three of his designs were rejected by the team over "racial tensions."

"After three concepts refused by the team due to racial tensions, here is Marc-Andre's new mask," wrote Bergeron to his Facebook account.

"Many elements related to natives cannot be repro-

duced on the masks of the Blackhawks which greatly limits my creativity.”

But a limit of creativity was not met by Hunter.

In a post to Facebook, Hunter named his piece “Courage,” and explained that the design is interwoven with Anishnaabe teachings.

“It shows the feathers and florals I originally designed for their first ever Land Acknowledgement that they play in United Centre before each home game. The feathers represent the 7 grand father teachings, something that all their players exemplify.

They also represent the nations that surround Chicago, the team, Black hawk himself and the 3 Fires Confederacy. Connecting all of these feathers together are floral designs that Indigenous Communities around the Great Lakes would have beaded or sewn similar motifs onto clothing and traded amongst each other for hundreds of years and even to this day,” he wrote.

Fleury, whose wife is of Abenaki and Mi'Kmaq descent, debuted the new mask designed by Hunter during morning skate last Sunday at the United Centre.

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Finally, the chance to try out for Team Ontario’s Canada Games teams has arrived. Team Ontario will be holding a series of tryouts for the girls box lacrosse team and boys box lacrosse team for athletes born between 2005-2007.

For camp registration, any athlete attending a Team Ontario Lacrosse box lacrosse camp must be a registered member of their Ontario Lacrosse Association (OLA) sanctioned Association for the current season. If an applicant was unable to register with their OLA club this year because of Covid-19, the OLA will contact you with a registration link once notified.

The rest of the process can be found on the OLA website.

As for the upcoming dates, the schedule will range between November 20 - December 4, with follow up dates for selected athletes only. The youth boys schedule is as follows: Nov 20 2021 — CSG Boys Box: ID Selection Camp TRYOUT 1: CLOSED - CAMP IS FULL Dec 4 2021 — CSG Boys Box: ID Selection Camp TRYOUT 2: Oshawa Children's Arena 12:30PM-3:30PM Dec 4 2021 — CSG Boys Box: ID Selection Camp TRYOUT 3: Oshawa Children's Arena 3:30PM6:30PM Dec 11 2021 — CSG Boys Box, Invitational

TRYOUT 1: Memorial Arena, Brampton 5:00PM-8:00PM (by invitation only) Dec 18 2021— CSG Boys Box: Invitational TRYOUT 2 -Memorial Arena, Brampton 5:00PM-8:00PM (by invitation only)

The youth girls schedule is as follows: Nov 20 2021 — CSG Girls Box, TUNE UP CAMP 1, CSG TEAMS: Oshawa Children's Arena 12:30PM-3:30PM Nov 20 2021 — CSG Girls Box, TUNE UP CAMP 2, CSG TEAMS: Oshawa Children's Arena 3:30PM6:30PM Dec 5 2021 — CSG Girls Box, ID Selection Camp, TRYOUT 1 Memorial Arena, Brampton 1:00PM-4:00PM Dec 12 2021— CSG Girls Box, ID Selection Camp, TRYOUT 2: Memorial Arena, Brampton 1:00PM-4:00PM Dec 12 2021 CSG Girls Box: TRYOUT 3: Memorial Arena, Brampton 6:00PM-9:00PM Dec 19 2021 CSG Girls Box Invitational Camp TRYOUT 1: Memorial Arena, Brampton 1:00PM4:00PM (By invitational only).

Final camps are to be determined by January 2022. It must be noted that camp Fees are non-refundable, but if the COVID-19 causes the OLA to cancel the clinic, with no re-scheduling possible, 50 per cent of the fee to be credited back to applicants.

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Indigifund open for athletes to apply for sports bursary

By TRT Staff IndigiFund, a recently launched non-profit organization, is set to provide financial assistance to Indigenous youth aged 15 to 30 in the areas of sport, education, and culture.

Launched by Kendal Netmaker, a speaker and entrepreneur, along with his wife and sister to amplify assistance in the areas that may need extra help, the fund has already named two rounds of

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Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called the ban a ``monumental

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Over the years, the trio have donated tens of thousands of dollars to helping youth through their apparel brand, and now they are looking for support in their mission to empower young Indigenous people across the country.

The fund announced Maxwell Hill, from the Seneca Nation from Six Nations in Southern Ontario, as a recipient in April of this year. Hill is the Director of Indigenous

Issues for the Lakehead Law Students’ Society.

Recently, and he played varsity football for the Announcement University of Waterloo.

Those interested are encouraged to apply here: https://www. indigifund.com/apply ad will be prompted to follow a four-sep process to provide a personal introduction, proof of status, a recent Ganohkwasra/ Sonhatsi:wa announces the retirement of Linda Jamieson following Ganohkwasra/ Sonhatsi:wa announces the retirement of Linda Jamieson following 25 years of photo and a letter of 25 years of community care. Nya:weh to Mark , Jason and Lisa (Pooksie) (Pooskie) for care. Nya:weh to Mark , Jason andofLisa (Pooskie) for supporting love part Linda’s recommendation. communitysupporting with love Linda’s passion being a community helper. Anwith integral of passion Ganohkwasra-her always be valued and remembered. work,be valued a being a community helper. Ancontributions integral part will of Ganohkwasra-her contributions willHer always commitment dedication are worthy of admiration.

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achievement and bold step in the right direction to promote healthy living among our Navajo people. ``It is a fundamental right to protect our Navajo people's right to breathe clean air,'' he said in a statement.

Tribal lawmakers approved the bill in October that prohibits the use of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, electronic

cigarettes and other commercial products in public buildings and workspaces, including a 25-foot (7.6-meter) buffer outdoors.

The ban will not apply to the ceremonial use of tobacco or in people's homes unless they are being used as day care centers, adult care centers or as business offices.

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MARACLE: Muriel Marie “Sis”

ENSE: Stewart Richard October 2, 1954 - November 3, 2021

It is with profound sadness and broken hearts that we announce the passing of Muriel Marie Maracle “Sis” who started her journey on Saturday, November 6th, 2021 at St. Joseph’s Hospital at the age of 69. Beloved daughter of Hazel and Frank Maracle, beloved sister to Mildred Nesbitt, Bernadette Maracle (Michael Nomee) and predeceased by George Maracle (Josette), Frank Maracle Jr (Erma), Dorise Henhawk (George), Bernard Maracle (Lyla). Longtime friend of Bedge Vyse and Sadie Buck.

Loved sister-in-law to Marie Hess (Don), Dawn Hill, Roberta Hill. Special Aunt to David (Shawn), Thelma, George, Paul, Jeff (deceased), Donnie (Nohelia), Edmond (Suzanne), Wray (Deceased), Scott, Patrick, Maryann (Arlen), Arlene (Andrew), Beverly, Jenny (Jeff), George Jr., Tony (Cindy), Rocky (Gil), Judi, Glenn, Steve (Julie), Deb, Doug (Michelle). Beloved and adored great aunt to Brittaney (Shayne), Alexandrea, Sharlee (Michael), Kaya, Taylor, Abigail and Peyton. Loved Great-Great Aunt/Grandmother figure to Kalub, Bailee, Liam, Kali, Hudson, Stuart, Kamiyah, and Adley. Sis also leaves behind many generations of nieces and nephews that were all loved and cherished as well. Sis graduated from Mohawk College with two diplomas as a Legal Secretary and Accountant, worked many years with Six Nations Council and Six Nations Police. She was a hard-working, strong and independent woman her whole life and an amazing role model to her family. She loved and cherished all her family and left behind many funny stories and life lessons that we will remember for a lifetime. Friends and family are welcome to pay their respects at Hyde & Mott Chapel in Hagersville on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 from 2pm-4pm & 6pm-8pm. We will be gathering at Hyde & Mott Chapel on Thursday, November 11th at 10am for preparations to transport to the Grand River Baptist Church Cemetery at the corner of Mohawk Road and 4th Line, Ohsweken, where she will be laid to rest with her family. www.rhbanderson.com

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He will be lovingly remembered by his children Jessica, Timothy, Stewart Jr., and Melissa; wife Linda; several grandchildren and great grandchildren; siblings Molly (late Victor), Donnie, Gary, Shirley, Tommy (Sharon), Bernard, Wilfred, John (Lisa) Brenda (Kirk), Catherine (Andre), and; the Sandy family, the late Chris, the late Cleveland, Gail, the late Morley (Mary), Mike (Kelly), the late Gary, Johnson (Brenda), Jerry, Brenda (late Sherwin), Beverley (Freeman), and Sherry, and numerous nieces and nephews. Son of the late Edward & Elizabeth Ense. Son-in-law of the late Mitchell & Geraldine Sandy. Resting at 3478 6th Line after 4pm. Thursday where funeral service will be held on Friday, November 5, 2021 at 10am. Cremation to follow. Arrangements

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November 10th, 2018 2021 DECEMBER 19TH,

CLUES ACROSS 1. Taxis 5. Mega energy unit (abbr.)

8. Single-strand break 11. Combinations of countries 13. Cutting tool 14. Small bay in Gulf of Maine 15. Actress Lathan 16. Chatter incessantly 17. Energy, style and enthusiasm 18. Simple shoe 20. Woman (French) 21. Abnormal rattling sound 22. Able to change 25. Future butterfly 30. Used in cooking and medicine 31. A street for nightmares 32. French modernist painter 33. Dishonors 38. Integrated data processing 41. Frameworks 43. Apply new materials 45. Where merch is displayed 48. American figure skater Lipinski 49. Cycles per second 50. Oohed and __ 55. Dark olive black 56. Peyton’s little brother 57. Plant in the bean family 59. A wife: __ covert 60. Born of 61. Arranges balls on the pool table 62. Title of Italian monk 63. Tooth caregiver 64. American feminist poet CLUES DOWN 1. Dan Rather’s old network

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, someone is appealing to your softer, more sensual side lately and you’re not quite sure how you feel about it. Showing emotions is not a sign of weakness. Enjoy the attention.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, if you’ve been tasked with motivating others and getting them on track, it may be a tough go of it. Despite your encouraging words, some don’t want to budge.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, identify those people who stick around even when the chips are down. These are the people you want in your corner to offer comfort and support.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 You are pushed up against a wall even though you are not up for any more pressure, Cancer.

Find a physical activity to blow off steam and any pent up energy.

2. Expression of sorrow or pity 3. __ fide (Latin) 4. Sign of healing 5. Warm-blooded vertebrate 6. Model 7. Of or relating to plants 8. Plant of the heath family 9. Where to weigh something 10. Internal structure 12. __ Paulo, city 14. South Slavic person 19. A way to record 23. Have already done 24. As much as one can hold 25. Auburn legend Newton 26. Comedienne Gasteyer 27. Beloved dog Rin Tin __ 28. Midway between east and southeast 29. Call it a career 34. Former CIA 35. American time

Answers for November 10th, 2021 Crossword Puzzle

36. Confederate general 37. Soviet Socialist Republic 39. Travel downward 40. Made red-blue 41. Vietnamese revolutionary Le Duc 42. Capital of Italy 44. Small bunches of flowers 45. Calvary sword 46. A distinctive, pleasant odor 47. A well-defined track or path 48. Cereal used to make flour 51. Retrospective analysis (abbr.)

52. Grayish white 53. Engrave 54. Famed men’s basketball program 58. Midway between south and southeast

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LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 It may be difficult to avoid internalizing the opinions of others, Leo. However, that’s just what you have to do this week. Brush off comments that get in the way of your productivity.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, get in touch with a distant relative or old friend. This person may be in need of company and a simple phone call or text could be just what the doctor ordered.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Don’t be surprised if someone rubs you the wrong way this week, Libra. You don’t have to feel compelled to like everyone, but you will have to get along.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 It’s difficult not to take things personally when someone disagrees with you about something, Scorpio. Resist the urge to get into a heated debate. Focus your energy elsewhere.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, this is a time for plenty of communication between you and your loved ones or coworkers. Listen and contribute to discussions as much as you can this week.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, your slow and steady nature will be appreciated and acknowledged by others, particularly those who have been paired with you on a project.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, you may find out something surprising about your family that you didn’t know before.

Even if it comes as a shock, delve deeper for the story behind the situation.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Emails are going back and forth, the phone is ringing off the hook and video conferences are booming. Try to find a quiet place to unwind, Pisces.

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