,t,tli3tu +1'; l f /If .to! I\iJr.OR. bs North America's #1 Native Weekly Newspaper $1.00 it . r 1ional Library off ana Newspaper Collection 395 Wellington v l; I ¡' Street f jjjJfl.r Ottawa ON K1A ON4 sept 04 ! Okarahsonha kenh OnkwehonweneSix Nations the Ri re- brUcLrc ' of Grand / 25, 2004 Band councillor says elected Jan Longboatg delivers °'message from "women and council must approve elanmothers" 4 Confederacy's Red Hill nt Creek agreement By Lynda Powless Editor ry HAMILTON-The City of Hamilton's implementation commit- tee will send the controversial Red Hill Creek agreement on t to its public works committee after a testy meeting Tuesday saw protesters heckling both council members and a Six '9 Nations Confederacy council representative. Hamilton Red Hill Creek project and a recomendation to proceed director Chris Murray said a report will go to the city's public works on the meeting will be written up (Continued on page 2) t Jamieson "in debt" over AFN election bid refuses to open the books i.. d. ;....r By Lynda Powless Editor ov,J' t Six Nations Band Council Chief Roberta Jamieson is in debt over her _ bid to be the national leader of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) +--''-.. '"5-, `- and and her supporters are launching a fund raising cocktail Jamieson zkv reception in Toronto March 8th to help wipe out the unknown amouq t Six Nations resident Jan Longboat delivered a message from the "clanmothers" and "women" to the of debt apparently left over from her bid to be national chief of the Hamilton city Red Hill Creek Expressway implementation committee members Tuesday to "cease" all Assembly of First Nations. negotiations with the Confederacy. Councillor McHattie accepts a letter . (Photo by Jim C Powless) The reception is being supported by the Royal Bank and law firm of (Continued on page 7 in _ Chretien testifies Calgary suit claiming Inside feds mismanaged native oil money Local 2 CALGARY (CP) _Jean_ Chretien provided a history lesson into changes in aboriginal policy Monday, telling a packed courtroom he considered the Indian Act an embarrassment that left Editorial 4 . ° 'a? e, bureaucrats in charge of everything on reserves 35 years ago. s- ... ß ' , Sports 8 . e m ;_ a ° oe.> But the former prime minister said stymied by native leaders who Department of Indian Affairs, but National 16 attempts to give native people viewed change as dangerous. Indian leadership at that time ' should no more opposed that," Chretien said Cates 17 + more control over their lives were "I said we have . Monday as he testified in Federal .ci' 11 Classified 18 xtve Court at a lawsuit launched by an r A,--a-,.--t Mohawk community chiefs meet band over natural gas roy- Business Directory 19 Alberta TT t _, ::' Met_ I ki --- to discuss nation -wide policing alties. This "Bit by bit I got them to look after Lam' McDonald's/ NHL TYENDINAGA, Ont.- Mohawk band council chiefs from across - their own affairs." REPLICA TROPHIES Mohawk territories met here last Friday to discuss establishing a proto- He says he never considered February 6 - March 4, 2004 col agreement that will allow them to provide emergency policing ser- putting energy trust monies from New Credit (while supplies last) vices from their territorities to each other. an Alberta aboriginal band into the Tyendinaga elected Chief Don Maracle said the Mohawk Round Table stock market to get a higher rate of Hockey was called because of the policing crisis in Kanesatake. 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A i 9;600 km's only 72.990 is ottly4Sß;4..w .. el 7 /les February 25, 2004 - 3 February 25, 2004 #(3S Local 2 Local r, Red Hill Expressway passes another hurdle on to city public works Hill Creek Expressway about mitigating the damage" tendered 5a mrll..r- Red If from se ) by Clan Mothers to Cry lawy Nay 5 'th told (Continued fromfront) includes creating a unique joint Men ineneted f clarifying W will bring the following g and th gg I committee to city maned stewardship board Nat owns. -.11111111IV He said the federal government "ee'ff ffede development of the valley. hare select. Jan KaM1 " h b d h reay.nk.n,Pnrr.,rlw.<s n April. t e , these word 1 sa e Ilmlullrn le pb11S- (.I L now goingnng move It also calls for culturally specific Longboat b any peon. If no INnJ poems. o m n age eme i ' for Nations The Wier reads: We the women Cc. this W m report the public c spinoffs Six 711 would like o involved we - ( nb the CmfeJ c . ^y¡í,f1I.11i works cwmndna nest oth, rec- people including replanting of the and Clan Mothers of Six Nations of 1 dition M de agreement, Hamilton cn y councillor Son ommending ratifying the agree- valley, cultural heritage k. the Grand Ri TeMory d come Iem But Nis b greo- 5,_«rS`1Vrt'-S,L . aWed r of by deliver to Me City of Hamilton y MeMla Williams it was ment," Murray told Tel Island work related to the reahgriment Joni a N d ding N ee gern News the cant. Council he following duet k PI d man g to the s nN.sn Be i ed h gr ot Then le uel mw p pas public Williams amwd b.: end C 1 T were guaranteed to Six Nations, ©, Confederacy Í or tie city of e and fume g does make works 8 'ry, council, 'The The Corm., no William Id him, to mad the earliest it could hit council is Hamilton have signed the agree- of Red Hill all and the Cry of menu lh titles. it 1 does meet Hamilton are hereby declared null not base We authority to make a oppomrdtia sectroo of the ton April.' w'll. But mine Ica h may end up being And he said he is not aware of the and void by the diodinoshoni may. The city in a creation of the cod .rid there are people internal Six Nations politics that agreement being referred to the - Women caretakers of Mother Hard Crown and bound by tie oblige- a. wen that Six Nations people hhd: the deal for Six Nations. Nations elected band muacil f and all..e Iapla'aN.a. food, dt d the crown" N water and would benefit from sing cck ly sad fine deal is review. cines. a, animals Coumalor Mitchell said while he 1 I I 1 g Paul WU.. shakes hands cored Wayne Manner an m r rte from works ee.erebeling s o h n.su, no oar will want He did tell the Hamilton impl people. had -empathy with the traditional PI tank. Northers Ontario asks if Me Confederacy cantina, a poll 41 She NamWe e$}nrWkmemtmnee mittee met ta dises the Red Hill Creek agreement Tuesday. m that embers Be solved that: The fora of Bovcmmen the band coun- ing of Red fBll,'TUt it also saYaJ deal with Six Nations in the fume Nations city council "we knew we were u during negotiations there could work Tue.hl .h. band council'. mire- oshon men. chiefs and Paul and tenainly diminishes the image timing trancherons grounds with aloe about our two in such a volatile Six, Nations side. This is not to Councillor Me rte told communities together situe and standing of the Confederacy .cn nellor Daed Gneral Williams (negotiator) cease and has been kept abreast of what is desist from any further action asso- de tail the process but we are going Melanie, 'having fire in Council in outside told thou. ^.e knew we Cared with Red Hill Valley and the tole letting two tenders for 545 Brantford for a number of years - hapPeoiag. yes Paul goWillams could not stop the road. So we bd He said the elected band council City of Hamilton. million . that's to lot of money there is one thing I learned you Confederacy d negoti r, after the to look at what an. to had "concerns that were being Be it resolved that The we 're loo.g at l need to be con- don't want to get involved in their heated session Tiede, gate the damage and what can we worked women and Clan coned with the risk of millions of politics. It's internal to their A hidful of Six Nations members out' ...Mom tir dollars:' tie future".