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      An article recalling Oakville's often forgotten Black History. This article was written as Emancipation Day was approaching in 2009.

 Tully, Erin, Turtle Island News, 8 Apr 2009     Confederacy Chiefs considering Guswenta project By Erin Tully, SIX NATIONS Representatives from Guswenta Develop­ments went before the Haudenosaunee Confeder­acy Chiefs Council again on Saturday morning. Drew Hill and Brian Porter have made a number of ...

 Sault, Al, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 8 Apr 2009, pp.1-2     Six Nations dedicates new bingo hall By Al Sault, SIX NATIONS It's been open, but Six Nations elected council only just got around to dedicating its state of the art bingo hall on Friday, April 3rd. And though it is common practice for bingo players to ...

 Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 1 Apr 2009, pp.1, 4     How new HST affects Status Indian exemptions By Jim Windle, SIX NATIONS The provincial Liberals plan for a new "harmonized" tax which combines both the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Provincial Sales Tax into one HST is getting harsh reviews from ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 1 Apr 2009     Another attempt at attention by McHale By Erin Tully, CALEDONIA While tensions between Six Nations and Caledonia have fallen to a relatively low state people may be working to change that. Gary McHale has planned a rally on April 19 that has the potential ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 1 Apr 2009     Stephen "Boots" Powless not guilty By Erin Tully, CAYUGA Justice Joseph Nadel found Stephen "Boots" Powless not guilty of assault of Gary McHale. After days of evidence brought forth by the Crown, Gary McHale, OPP officers, Jeff Parkinson and Stephen ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 1 Apr 2009     Another Powless accused of assault by McHale By Erin Tully, CAYUGA Clyde "Bullet" Powless is facing four charges stem­ming from a private prosecution filed by Gary McHale. All charges are related to a protest from December 1, 2007. The protest was ...

 Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 1 Apr 2009     Men's Fire deliver message to Hamilton Court By Jim Windle, HAMILTON Members of the Men's Fire were in Hamilton Court last week with a Mohawk interpreter to bring a message to the court. Not to participate in the court system per se, but to remind the court ...

 Sault, Al, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 1 Apr 2009     New Credit follows suit with Six Nations By Al Sault, NEW CREDIT The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation has followed suit with Six Nations elected council and purchased a $25,000.00 sponsorship package from CKRZ that, like Six Nations, will be used ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 May 2009     Trillium Fund recognizes the Pageant By Erin Tully, SIX NATIONS The Six Nations Pageant/Forest Theatre got substantial financial backing from the Ontario Trillium Fund (OTF) on Monday afternoon. Representatives from the theatre group graciously accepted a ...

 Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 12 Aug 2009, pp.1-2     Non-Natives disapprove of "Peacekeepers" photo surveillance By Jim Windle, HALDIMAND If you're one of thousands of non-Native customers of Native owned smoke shacks, smile, Big Brother will be watching you. A small group of Caledonia and area ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 12 Aug 2009     Haldimand County takes action against smoke shops By Erin Tully, HIGHWAY 6 Haldimand County has taken the first steps to legal action against landowners who have smoke shops on their property. Marie Trainer, Haldimand County Mayor, said that ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 12 Aug 2009     Planet IndigenUS shatters stereotypes of Native art By Erin Tully, TORONTO Want to be a part of the largest living wampum belt? That is a question being asked by the Woodland Cultural Centre and the Planet IndigenUS festival that will start this weekend. ...

 Sault, Al, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 8 Apr 2009     New Credit sounds off on harmonization tax By Al Sault, NEW CREDIT In a press release, The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation stated that they and other Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians members, alarmed at reading in a late November 2007 ...

 Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 8 Apr 2009     The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation to announce new student bursary at annual conference The Canadian Press OTTAWA - The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF) will announce a newly created and essential bursary at the 3rd Aboriginal ...

 Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 Aug 2009, pp.1, 2, 4     Jukasa Media - A Crossroads for Six Nations By Jim Windle, SIX NATIONS The grand opening of Jukasa Media recording studio and Arbor Records (East) at the crossroads of Sixth Line and Onondaga Road, could be to Six Nations musicians, singers and songwriters ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 May 2009, pp.1, 3     IMMAC will return to the cage By Erin Tully, BRANTFORD It is a rare occasion that a court­room breaks out into applause and cheers but that is what happened in a Brantford court last Wednesday. Bill Monture, president of the Grand River Athletics ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 May 2009     Another power company vies for Six Nations approval By Erin Tully, SIX NATIONS Months after GenPower made their proposal to provide power generation to the territory the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chief Council heard another power presentation. ...

 Tully, Erin, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 8 Apr 2009     Elders and students from Six Nations worked together to create a multi biographical book. 15 students from Oliver M Smith School, Ohsweken, chose an elder on the territory to profile. The students then retold the elder's stories in their own words, and took portrait pictures of them for the ...

 Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 8 Apr 2009     Ending the Whitewash of Genocide in Canada , This April 15, on the Fifth National Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day, organisers are calling for a boycott of the government's fraudulent "Truth and Reconciliation Commission"; the expulsion of the Catholic, Anglican and ...