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      "Tiffany Longboat of Ohsweken gets $1,000 to continue flute lessons; Shannon Wadsworth of Victoria gets $800 for art supplies."

      "As a citizen of Canada, and more specifically of South-western Ontario, I must protest the decision of the Ontario government to give the aboriginal peoples priorities in the harvesting of fish and game over the rest of the population. I am deeply insulted and I would hope that my feelings …

      "Ottawa is easing out of its delivery of native social services programs with the hope that Indian bands will eventually take over such programs themselves, says a spokesman for the Indian Affairs Department."

 Southam News, Winter 1992     "Ontario has recognized that the inherent right of natives to govern themselves includes their right to control land and resources, says the head of a provincial association of Indian chiefs."

      "Many Canadians are weary of the country's ongoing constitutional discussions, but the topic is a lively one in the Six Nations community."

      "It seems fitting that the Hodenosaunee begin the 500th year of the Columbus voyage from Europe by reciting the Kai: ianereserakowa or Great Law

      "Indian Act regulations allowing government officials to arrest people on Indian reserves and burn down their houses on suspicion of them having an infectious disease are being scrapped."

      "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."

      "Her Majesty's Chapel of The Mohawks was the first Protestant church to be built in what is now Ontario."

      "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."

 Beaver, George, Brantford Expositor, Spring 1992     "A couple of weeks ago I went around to visit Kaweni: ie, the Mohawk Immersion School. When I went into the portable classroom usually occupied by the Grade 1 class, it was empty. I soon learned that Mrs. Loft's class had gone over to the Iroquoian Institute's sugar bush. They …

      "Back in the 1820's, enterprising businessmen believed water transportation would be the key to unlock the riches of the continent. As a result, a frenzy of canal building took place."

      "Native women questioned whether aboriginal governments would protect their individual rights, noting the high levels of violence against aboriginal women and the resistance of male leaders to the reinstatement of women who were stripped of their Indian status."

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

      "In a week of camping out, drumming late into the night, media attention, and direct negotiation with the department of Indian Affairs, the Chippowas of Nawash accomplished what had failed to come about in the previous year."

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

      Hamilton house is on Main Street

      "When Bertha Skye puts on her beautiful Iroquois deerskin dress to dance at native gatherings, she feels proud of her heritage."

      "The man, a prisoner at the Saskatchewan penitentiary near Prince Albert, talked about growing up in a white foster home where his foster father made him dress as a girl for six years and abused him."