Library and Archives Canada J Biblio hèque et Archives Canada fJ3'tOR,NF,InS 110 n I 3 3286 53466927 6 .I North America's #1 Native Weekly Newspaper I A Í ,4 it a _ c I t NM . L Library & Archives Canada Newspaper Kanonhstaton Thanksgiving Collection 395 Wellington St. marred by rally celebration Ottawa, ON K l A ON4 See page 4 r r Okarahshona kenh Onkwehonwene, Six Nations of the urar ria II ,, .---" CTOf3LR (v, a 0 )07 Moulton Township, Burtch, Highway 6 t 1i -'; , g g s emir 'It- -2) = . r . ,t- Canada admits it . : r ht " ;.,.. - - , 11 o M tr. ` :, owes Six Nations to " _ By Lynda Powless p sr" r Editor The federal government has admitted liability to Six Nations for its land rights in Moulton Township,while agreeing to appoint historians to work with Six Nations researchers over ownership of the former Plank Road, or Highway 6. Confederacy spokesman said Thursday. Kéd' Cayuga sub -chief Leroy Hill the federal government's said Thursday, the federal stalling tactics are preventing ,,jj ' It-/ government has acknowl- the negotiations from mov- a,. orb edged liability to some of i' ing forward. , t Six Nations land rights. "Canada was suppose to That includes lands lost to "/= come back to this meeting flooding by the Welland with documents proving that canal, - 30,000 - acres in Six Nations surrendered the Moulton Township, and the .; Plank Road, they have not P Burtch lands. (Continued on page 3) But, sources said at the same Ét r; 4 . 11, s OPP Cruiser flips in chase see047,.. An OPP cruiser, travelling at high speeds on Cayuga Road between Second and Third Line Monday night, flipped sending the patrol car slid- ing into the - r7+r..t. Witnesses told Turtle Island News the cruiser had been chasing a black c---- truck when it hit the curve on Cayuga Road and lost control. L Six Nations police did not respond to Turtle Island News request for i information. Haldimand OPP said it was a Six Nations investigation but did not answer questions as to what the OPP was doing on Six Nations. Inside Local 2 ... ,v RIP ----- / Editorial , 6 Native Women's Association of Canada, president Bev Jacobs, of Six Nations led a march of women through Sports 9 Ottawa Streets last Thursday and held a vigil on Parliament Hill to draw attention to the problem of violence Careers 21 against native women and girls. Women carried posters of missing native women. See national pages for more. 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J } _22Ad4mn.e.r.w4tds,099.rwd I /beJ tuber 10, 2007 October 19 2007 TVwi1.E ISLAND NEWS ::.0.1 drw...cu belt Deed - J CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE WE'RE STREAMING ALL -LOCAL WITH Beni ,dy'IT reedthatnshmldreco6n a 7.:tDayIl'sjust ram dam to fowlfo Je e-m ra yuñ b y veb«v arias . THE NATIVE NEWS YOU WANT TO SEE OR HEAR Haldimand Day geNVgelor ofcan from people asking wM1at level from re g hag to der" hand councilor Carl H' said. Right now, bath, However, H II d 1y of h rat level ma 1 wv..\\.thi dirt Ipi <landnr\cs.com will go ahead? is Several Nod Loca nsilo" e a g concern Nat ray were agreeing to xi11es...33 elect.. cooed he wen v eommil to boa. event a fwd. mu , without knowing how much they e spending By Lynda Ik.oirx mT Editor Canada admits liability to Six Nations for oulton, Burtch.... Six Nations may never kilo 'TIRO happened to, ro. what was in about 70 truck- (Conlinued/mm jronr) was pulled out or Ne aie Titus was loads of topsoil taken from Kanonhstaton (formerly Douglas Creek Estates), an doe that- formula used to name up with edthatonalber. Canada laImeW. laneed,fkral represenotive Alla archeologist hired to reassess the land just outside Caledonia, told a communi- wan us ro oNem from the Doering told Six Ned. repre «u- ty meeting Friday night. JO.00O acres m Moulton age Ne L7' wee. Canada agrees o have les Coop River Navigation Community residents heard arche- perform an afeheological as 1k historian work with Six Nations antra. found at the site. and they p' e e Company. ologist Peter Timmins say despite meat of what was Men considered should be returned to Six Nations, rochers. Instead, he said Haudenosaunee repeated tens on what has become Douglas Creek Estates. once a suitable site to receive Nero re'We had agreed to that . month and brad researchers rire working Kanonhsoon, Six Nations He mid what is apparent et the site is found. ago. They are already working together Io come uP with a reclaimed land on the outskirts of is it was the site of an early He said the reassessment together. This is just mother has also la. Caledonia, teem Iowa - stalling tactic on behalf of . - tw led out the wsannal is xe surI data canada was 5o a.ya for sure how Canada," said one 1pven man topsoil w - Onion* requirements source. to come up with docummu prou. removed from the property. and needs, The is work, Hill said Cando has "admito TÌ Worry a8 Su Nations surrender m sold Ile also told the crowd, while he ing on new guidelines now, Nis m there is some liability there for Ne Plank Road lands . They amt human. burials in the areas he I de to have ,ran Mouton Iwds." The awounco- art oportunity 0500 5" two arase awdaofere has rco peed "I cannot rule out 1 those guideli es. "he said. ment after a de Y Ion óOeó6- m that here two days before a the possibility of burials being me,( Archaeology the Oneida side sable member ue8otieliws were sil o fowl in .et have not been Busids sePark complex. Ua' start .. I Haulill said prior to negotia- spin' a looked m t tions letter was to R_., He said Six Nations researchers time . Nations farmers, av the He told about a0 people gathered Ontario Ministry Bunch ill all os ofCLlore looked He said the Welland the reassessment of Mayor Marie over the documen.,'they Canal flood- property and a awe of wheat is He said federal negotiator Babara an archaeolog- inS Six Nan s about the ing couldn't use than They were had ow 2,500 acres flooded bemgput N crutch sale ical dig 'has been done 1 b soil. McDougall said the would oil fed- never previous mchaeulngysurvey "W He photocopies, or Wend of Ne doc- said 'w helpers are coming Mohawk Chief Allen eral employees No back before. OnmrioaThis .13 first sn Put dam o maim that if my wants meeting to N a ' !u -e uments, where the pertinent infor- up options for the loss of our lands M htoa old Confederacy more myth. found Is new among doing n on expeditious manner but we where wg the part at, pre- By Lynda Powder due to Looking avere mation k wv a on We told the Flooding" council .rday, options for con. have less Nan people, they ground.- vi w firm,. found. we con follow fns Arum 20 Canada Nat was ma«eprable " He said those options had included pries m the Welland (anal have hundreds and they keep say- He said he waspy with up on Haldimand County's controversial Ile said McDougal and Doering two for one option, two acres for flooding will be ry what he fund. "We found. each presented to Ne tg weeks. a all know Timmins said he could not - uralization process as opposed to a t Mayor Marie result' nuns the door for to Trainer has sut al agreed provide proper every one flooded, or penal land e will put area that w o dun- community. - together how Indian Affairs works. They reassessed there - Pelee Twnnns anentwas whether the prev utifice archaeology po letter to Confederacy Cowin - i "We know they tot and partial dollar whom all Ne options for the community have people sitting sound increasing artifacts ad " ... tar see Nneomu.em.. 1 earl ray Brian Skye he is as said looking OnorioCeWC made this happened.