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      Newspaper article outlining funeral service of Jessie Bird who died at the age of 100

      "In recent days thoughts of Pauline Johnson have been much with us. This came about through the great kindness of our friend Dr. James Goodwin and his daughter Barbara, who presented us with a fine letter written by Miss Johnson years ago."

      "Members of the Cayuga band of the Six Nations Indian will no longer receive an annual treaty payment. The payment will now be made every two years."

 Brantford Expositor     Grand River Sewer Project Put On Hold Protesters have won a battle to stop a sewer line from crossing the Grand River - at least until summer. The Ministry of Natural Resources has told the city that any construction must be stopped and equipment removed from the river by ...

      "A native band in Northern Ontario will manage 129 hectares of provincial park, allowing members to care for the land that's been in their realm for thousands of years"

      "In the Indian culture on the East Coast, you could "borrow" a tool, use it and return it in the Golden Rule tradition."

      "Native issues are at a turning point in Canada. A royal commission will soon report on the whole range of aboriginal matters, from land claims to urban native government. And Ottawa is again discussing self-government with native groups. In the best of worlds, these studies and talks will produce their …

      "These are the sacred things we carry around in a bundle, "Rev. Alf Dumont patiently explains to the four-year-old boy who curiously approached the mat in the middle of the floor. Kneeling in the centre of a large circle of chairs, the speaker of the All Natives Circle Conference (ANCC) …

      "Six Nations Chief Coun. William Montour has accepted the position of chief of staff for the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa."

      "When the tide is high it's a 15-minute trip by freighter canoe and high-powered outboard across the Moose River separating Moose Factory Ont., from Moonsonee. When the tide is low, sand-bars rise in the river like great brown whales. Those sandbars are one of the things people worry about when …

      "Dreams have come true for Jim Simon, a 38-year-old artist from Manitoulin Island."

      "The country does not yet know what police inspector Ken Dawson had to say in the letter he left behind when he killed himself rather than testify before the Manitoba native justice inquiry."

 Brantford Expositor, Winter 1985     "Support is growing to have Canada Post issue a special stamp honoring Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks."

      "Native people, especially members of the Six Nations, played a significant role in the early settlement of Haldimand County. Many of the early settlers fought side by side with native warriors during the American Revolutionary war. Afterwards, friendship and family alliances led some members of the Six Nations to invite …

      "For the past several weeks, the most popular songs around have been Christmas carols. Many of our favourites have European roots, but one that is still sung can claim to be the first Canadian Christmas carol."

      "When the temperature plurged to a frigid -40C last week, David Thompson worried about his infant son asleep in the famillies plywood cabin in Kee-Way-Win, an isolated northwestern Ontario community."

      "While the Six Nations community tries to recover from a bitter dispute over a recycling operation proposed for the reserve, one of it's members is calling for peace."

      "It won`t be over until the land is returned to the Mohawk people."

 Brantford Expositor     "Repairs to Chiefswood, birthplace of famed poet E. Pauline Johnson, could begin this summer, says the museum's former curator."

      "Two hundred and fifty years ago, an Indian woman gave birth to a son on the banks of the Ohio River. The woman and her husband were part of a Mohawk hunting party."