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  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • Windspeaker Staff

Page 4

Elections are usually a time when a politician's true stripes never show.

Kissing babies, promising jobs, handing out favors and making life with them as leaders look too good to be true is more often the way life for the candidates goes in the weeks preceding voting days. Not so, this time. Not for Natives.

Natives are definitely on the outside in this election.…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Cornwall Ontario

Page 3

Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Cornwall Ontario

Page 3

Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Cornwall Ontario

Page 3

Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Cornwall Ontario

Page 3

Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing…

  • D.B. Smith, Windspeaker Staff Writer, Cornwall Ontario

Page 3

Gunfire and intimidation are nothing new in the battle over who controls cigarette smuggling across the St. Lawrence River, said the chief of the Akwasasne band.

"Pirates" on the river have been shooting at reserve residents and at each other for years over the control of contraband cigarettes smuggling, said Chief Mike Mitchell.

"I've suffered from the same thing…