v LIBRARY AND ARCH VES CANADA Biblio heque e Archives Canada "III,DR.NatbS III I I IJ I II I IIIII I III 3 3286 54653548 1 r Archives Canada r I:.. f.- . =,..- - and Library Collection North NewspaP A America's #1 Native ton St. ON4 395 Wellington A 10963 ON Kl Red. No. 5 Ottawas -1 fa- 40016309 C% `,} - -l Check out the new Daily Turtle Island News at Pub w.theturtleislandnews.co ` Okarahshona kenh Onkwehonwene, Six Nations of the Grand ' Wed., Enniskó:wa /March 23, 2011 CAS numbers are worldwide Crowd says settle land rights first Six Nations could . have own child service in 30 days By Lynda Powless and Stephanie Dearing Writers ° ,,5- Six Nations Band Council Chief Bill Montour says Six Na- tions has almost 500 children under some form of children : - .; aid services care worldwide. The elected chief said the number local CAS does not have that many is staggering for any First Nation, children in care. Hill said Mon - but it could make Six Nations chil- tour's comments were "irresponsi- I dren in care the largest in Canada. ble." The Elected Chief clarified where Hill made the statement after the numbers came from after being Elected Chief Bill Montour told countered by Brant Children Aid band council 482 children were in Ar Society (CAS) directors. care with the CAS. Brant CAS Aboriginal Services di- The numbers, he said, were pre - I rector, Karen Hill confirmed the (Continued on page 2 ) Six Nations says no to agreement By Stephanie Dearing and Lynda Powless Writers t Six Nations Band Council says it will hold more community I , meetings on its controversial consultation and accommoda- a :- tion Agreement with the city of Brantford, but it looks like some councillors want to go ahead, with or without commu- nity approval. Band Council held a meeting ple turn out to reject the secret Monday morning to discuss last agreement it had hammered out in Local resident Barry Hill tells Band Council no, on their proposed consultation and accomodation agree- week's sometimes raucous coin- recent weeks. ment with_ Brantford saying there is nothing in it for Six Nations. "Let's move forward but not this way" munity meeting that saw 150 peo- "Council has agreed it is going to he said waving the document. (Photo by Jim C Powless) See Secret meeting to hold more community meetings to answer people's questions," elected map out lands, page 4 chief Bill (Continued on Page 3 ) Six Nations connection Fed negotiator Ron Doering was Carson Inside lets start Local 2 I lawyer, Elected Chief questioning feds Editorial 6 Mohawks disavow role in Car- The federal Tories appointed Ron and stole $23,900 from a corpora- I Sports 8 son scandal Doering to the Six Nations land tion and two individual clients he Notices 16 AFN demanding apology rights file when it began in 2006. represented and stashed the money Business Directory . 17 By Lynda Powless In an email Doering, who works in his own bank account. Careers 18 is mis- Classified 19 Editor for the law firm Gowling, Lafleur, "He the author of his own The federal government's lead ne- Henderson LLP., said he is still the fortune," provincial court judge Price $1.25 plus taxes gotiator on the Six Nations land lead negotiator on the Chief Fed- Jack Nadelle said when he sen- where applicable Daily news updates rights file was the lawyer for a for- eral Negotiator and hasn't acted for tenced the disgraced Ottawa 1 mer senior advisor to Prime Minis- Bruce Carson for 28 years and has lawyer to 18 months in jail in Feb- www.theturtleislandnews.com ter Stephen Harper now under no relationship to him. ruary 1983. ì-m lovin :? f s 0 1> investigation by the RCMP. According to archived newspaper His lawyer at the sentencing hear- Elected Chief Bill Montour said accounts in 1983, Carson, then 37, ing, Ron Doering, asked that the he is not happy the Tories ap- was convicted of stealing money judge consider Carson's significant : 39it pointed him to the Six Nations file. from his clients. He was sentenced community work, plus the fact i "I will certainly be asking ques- to an 18 -month jail term and was he'd already lost his job, his assets, tions about this." disbarred. Carson forged cheques his wife Mary and his reputation. o 74470 04551 9 . 282 ArgyleiSt. S.Caledonia (Continued on page 5) 24 Hour Dispatch Brantford's Premier Taxi Company www.branttaxi.com sae Uniformed Drivers maws 7xYs 'fi --. 1I - Newer Model Sedans Passenger Vans _== i Service that is noticeably different at no extra charge c ' Chauffeur Service Al Taxi Price : Corporate Accounts Welcome Brantford's Only c»:gssniflineessii Wheelchair T Accessible Vans! 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And we wide... a new Vol- 1 IIy, We're streaming native news all the time! .t stippori for sae and replace their Local P grams pis essential Maimed Malden sacrifice unteer Firefighters Tax Credit" CAS figures wrong, cases actually dropped significantly Community says no to secret consultation and accommodation deal from frond W need to st.working on pre- (Continued 5 Kionnrl d( /r^ J 1[ Montour told Turn Island News He mid On not ,anion. H I f will honour it co d 'Ili hld d hlpf l b k g h ST mean oon 5 Monday. :Y4s* unless itis court ordered, family me won= recently who sr.. ''..') And Se mid they will provide He said council fr. og,iw. .a. J II ad? did hear the com- has tracked S' Nations children I. ultdre and everything leading to Or%1 -I, question and ender document to A ry t tj - mull iy message of getting the c n i n only local CAS care, but the mmmunlry m well. - t"W:_ - land claims rat, first Y - mss and into the U.S. IT- 'r e h J That .umber essu some But, he said, same ouncillors -a iF . "A general, yeah we took a few numbElected come from said the 17..; x-.t lo go ahead with u the acme- o shots but there were embers of the canm.iry ., ay TF'rt r Y . a lot of good iambus Dome from other CAS 8 ti. i. marched to Six Nations conned ment with or without community questions Mat should have boom. branches net organimtions in the 1 v _ r, throughTuesthe drizzle on . approval. =rj pmvirwe. romñ _ March IS last with m uddras "The council sees this as the way 10 .11 v1 I- sred.Community members questioned "Thais the coral number of Six % \ he said. the lack community 1. Armed forward.- of represent. p,,..,schtd the dglbmlw . and And Ile added, band council could Lsk 0 rhos n the committee and the prove and we bout, another 37 placards the got.group eked \ir to with always continue its discussions 1 ' agreement to o hold m comm. bunco, children ('AS A - ow intcr in y I wrohofM Mme." with Brantford, without an agree- J awed, in camera. even hove two in "bring me. Calif,Cai I ,-rla`0 . t' said de- ment Butch Thomas told the meeting, nia Hill asoFMarchlB, her % pocked house mW band council ear sign an agreement with Brantford (Photos by Jim C Aweless, a} We Ile said "It wake up every has 170 open cases. 107 d p caustilltitdownandtalkto . hurts . Canadian law stipulates when any pastrami ( our neighbours without of people, the silent majority. This community does not approve of understood from landlan rights pro- day to some new crisis here. It's eases are off -reserve families, .. , it" First Nations children are taken document is the wrong one at tnis We are saying no. You. vying tectors4My were not opposed to many of which arc Six Nations f Heated bared council will attempt not going to gets, better." into care Me community has to be - -,- - tune: he said a resounding cheer the council will thaw it ((they development but wanted some re- families" The remaining 73 files Ii I to meet with Confederacy Council "For the elated system p say alerted. Elected Chief Bill Mon.". watches as balloons are released. (Photo by Jim C Pasha and shouts of yes from the audi- say yeah, and you sign that paper, turn on the use of Six Nations are Six Nation families. Of those, about the issue. they want to work with Confeder- Ile said the local Brant CAS day, Excc.ive Direelor Andrew Tfoweve, I won't let my be to care. The release was to an- do you realize the ramifications leads. acy, but want oral of 57 children from 30 tarn- staff Speaker after speaker, last week Confederacy don't to wouldn't be aware of the larger l K said elected council `had attacked without merit, because .ounce the aalnm.wn of "the told band council it had to meet ;The document I thou gltt we were that will happen in Mis community.