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Haldimand Tract trial resumes Monday after a Six Nations witness described language loss and displacement
The Six Nations land-rights trial returns Nov. 9 with Professor Alan Taylor scheduled to testify. Turtle Island News has published the first account of Joseph Martin’s testimony, and community viewing access ends…
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Haldimand Tract trial breaks until Nov. 9 as the court weighs Six Nations oral history
The Six Nations land-rights trial adjourned Oct. 28 and resumes Nov. 9 in Ontario Superior Court. Here is where the case stands.
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Analysis: Canada tells the Haldimand court it didn’t inherit the Crown’s debts to Six Nations. In the 1920s, it paid toward one anyway
Three weeks into the Six Nations of the Grand River trial, Canada and Ontario say today’s governments aren’t answerable for what the Crown did with the Haldimand Tract. Canada’s own court filings…
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Akwesasne Mohawks and Tonawanda Senecas are fighting hyperscale data centers at both ends of New York
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe opposes a 635-megawatt data center planned near Akwesasne as Massena lines up lawyers for the review, while the Tonawanda Seneca Nation fights the STAMP project in court.…
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Traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ council challenges Cayuga Nation police appointment, saying no clan consensus approved it
The Condoled Chiefs and Clan Mothers Council says the Halftown administration’s police department was never approved by the clans, and that Cayuga families who oppose it should not be called “dissidents.”
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Six Nations’ Haldimand Tract lawsuit is finally on trial, and its roots run through New York
Thirty-one years after filing suit, Six Nations of the Grand River is in court against Canada and Ontario over lost lands and trust funds, with potential damages estimated at $13.9 billion to…
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Jury delivers mixed verdict in Cayuga Nation’s civil suit against tobacco retailer
By Staff Reporter December 16, 2025 SYRACUSE, N.Y.—In a courtroom drama that laid bare the bitter fissures within one of New York’s smallest Native American nations, a federal jury on Thursday handed…
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Carolyn Bennett risks the Trudeau government’s credibility with continued delay of Six Nations talks
Activists at Six Nations say that Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett is risking the credibility of the Trudeau government’s wide-ranging rhetoric relating to Canada’s historic alliance with Six Nations if she continues…
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A new mayor in Niagara Falls is likely to partner with local Indian Tribes
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…
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Candidate for Six Nations’ council seen on video aiding in the brutal beating of a critic
Crystal Monture, a candidate for Six Nations’ administrative council, is seen on video footage aiding in the violent beating of a woman outside of a community meeting in February. She is seen…
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Hydro One injunction sparks political unrest at Six Nations, as corruption allegations emerge against Reserve official
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…
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Will Obama Administration recognize Haudenosaunee right of return?
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.…
