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Six Nations Elected Councillor Mark Hill plans to run for Chairman of the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) later this year.  Early this year, when news of Councillor Hill’s candidacy for Chairman broke, it ignited a community conversation about privilege and influence

The longtime administrator of the Six Nations Reserve, the most populous First Nations community in Canada, was charged with the criminal assault of an indigenous woman from Ohsweken, ON, following a Superior Court hearing in Brantford yesterday. Canadians from coast

Sovereign immunity is a tenant of international law that says that the rulers of one State cannot be pursued by the Courts of another State for criminal or civil prosecution.  It stems from the notion in English common law that

Observers of indigenous politics are calling it the next ‘Standing Rock‘ — and protest camps are expected to grow all summer long — during a Parliamentary election year, to boot. On May 28th, citizens of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy barricaded the Six Nations

To understand the outrage that is being directed at Chief Ava Hill, who leads the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC), you must first understand the deep and profound political schism that has long defined the Six Nations community’s politics.  The

OHSWEKEN, ON — Ron Jamieson is an enrolled member of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve and is currently a partner with the financial services intermediary First Canadian Property Investments Ltd., which he co-owns with two non-Aboriginal partners: Derek

Six Nations’ Councilman Mark Hill is planning to run for Chief of the Grand River Reserve in Ohsweken, ON, the largest First Nations community in Canada.  Hill is the nephew of businessman Kenny Hill, a co-founder of Grand River Enterprises,

Niagara Falls’ new Mayor-elect Bob Restaino is “very open” to new public partnerships with the Seneca Nation of Indians, and a half-dozen other local tribal communities, believing that a collaborative posture will accelerate new development projects both on- and off-sovereign territory, a

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior figures in his government — including Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould —  and several of his principal political operatives have been hounding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with appeals to censor a newspaper this week.

Marco Chown Oved, an investigative reporter with The Toronto Star, posed several questions to Matthew Ricchiazzi, the publisher of The Buffalo Chronicle, this week.  Those responses are published here unedited and in their entirety.  Where did The Buffalo Chronicle come from? I founded The

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced earlier this summer that his government would spend more than $700 million a year to fund abortions overseas, Canada’s indigenous people were stunned.  Now, that shock is beginning to turn into anger and outrage.

Dear Buffalo Chronicle News, For starters I’d like to wish you and your team a Merry Christmas and Happy Nu;ya! May your year be filled with much prosperity, transparency and accountability. I find it very unfair and disturbing that you

OHSWEKEN, ON — An Ontario Superior court judge has rejected the argument of one of the Six Nations’ most prolific businessmen and civic leaders.  Ken Hill, co-owner of Grand River Enterprises, the manufacturer of Seneca brand cigarettes, asserts that Haudenosaunee

Matthew Ricchiazzi, who leads the investment group that plans to launch a new Niagara Gorge Ferry attraction, has told Artvoice that he would prefer to have a cooperative relationship with New York State, and Maid of the Mist operator Jim Glynn. Ricchiazzi is Haudenosaunne

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy established the oldest still existent constitutional democracy in the world. It was founded in 1142 at Onondaga Lake, what would be the capitol of the polity for over 650 years. The alliance of 50 chiefs — appointed by

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s medical marijuana law — which passed the state legislature last year — is being characterized by local political operatives as “designed for kickbacks.” The law authorizes only a handful of permits statewide — presumably to extort big campaign

The Niagara County Department of Health has been notified that a red fox submitted for rabies testing from Seaman Road in the Town of Hartland was confirmed positive for rabies. This is the first rabid animal confirmed in the County

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, today called for a Senate hearing to investigate U.S. strategy and obstacles to success in Afghanistan. Gillibrand’s letter comes following the Washington Post’s release of previously confidential documents and interviews, in