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Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 18 Sep 1968, pp.1-8, p. 6

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Coming Events - Six Nations Sept. 11, Wednesday, Six Nations bowling at Echo Lanes Brantford, 7:00 p.m. and each succeeding Wednesday. Sept. 12, Thursday, meeting of the Six Nations Ploughmen's Association. Home of Elliott Moses, 8:00 P.M. Sept. 13, Friday, Six Nations Benevolent Association Annual Turkey Supper at the Community Hall, Ohsweken. Adults $1.50, children $1.00. Supper served 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sept. 14, Saturday, O.B.A. Ontario Championship Finals, Cayuga Longhouse Ball Park, 2:00 p.m. Sept. 20 & 21, Friday and Saturday, Six Nations Fair, Ohsweken. Magazine Section I - The Indian version of the 23rd psalm. II - The story of Catherine Brant at the Mohawk Village, part l, (sent in by E.B.M.) III - Feathers fit for a queen. IV - Observations Staff of Tekawennake New Credit: Ward LaForme, George Beaver Six Nations: A. & W. Jamieson Martin's Corner: Anita Hill Four Corners: Muriel Porter Sour Springs: Sharon Vanevery Sports: Ron Lickcrs Typists: Joanne LaForme - New Credit Rena Bender - Six Nations Address all correspondence to: Mrs. Wilma Jamieson, Sec. Treas. R.R. 1 Ohsweken, Ontario Annual Subscription $5.00 Semi Annual $2.50 Individual Copies 10 cents An Indian Version of the Twenty-Third Psalm The Great Father above a Shepherd Chief is. I am His and with Him I want not. He throws out to me a rope, and the name of the rope is Love and He draws me to where the grass is green and the water not dangerous, and I eat and lie down and am satisfied. Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down but He lifts me up again and draws me into a good road. His name is "Wonderful." Sometime, it may be very soon, it may be a long, long time, He will draw me into a valley. It is dark there, but I'll draw back not. I'll be afraid not. For it is in between those mountains that the Shepherd Chief will meet me and the hunger that I have in my heart all through this life will be satisfied. Sometimes He makes the love rope into a whip, but afterwards He gives me a staff to lean upon. He spreads a table before me with all kinds of food. He puts His hand upon my head and all the tired "is gone." My cup he fills till it runs over. What I tell is true. I lie not. These roads that arc "away ahead" will stay with me through this life and after; and afterwards I will go to live in the Big Tepee and sit down with the Shepherd Chief forever! Story of Catherine Brant (E.B.M.) Extract from book, Campbell's Travels in North America in 1792. Campbell, an Irishman, was a traveller and observer, coming to Canada by way of Nova Scotia and Quebec to Montreal, and it was his plan to see the Six Nations. It was winter when he reached a trading post on Burlington Bay approximately where Dundurn Castle stands today. Beaseley the trader did a fine business in furs with the Mississaugas and the Six Nations and he showed Campbell a white fox skin he said was worth five guineas. The trader drove Campbell by sleigh to the Mohawk Village and told him of Joseph Brant, chief of the Six Nations, saying he was highly renowned and the congress of the United States was waiting for him to join them in Philadelphia for a conference as soon as he recovered from an illness. (cont'd)

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