The Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI) has recently asked the Ontario Superior Court to allow it to become a party-intervener to the case (Court File No. CV-18-594281) on behalf of the whole Haudenosaunee Confederacy and all Haudenosaunee or Iroquois persons, including members of other bands in Canada and members of Haudenosaunee communities in the United States of America. 

The HDI say they have been delegated the authority to make this request by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council. 

The HDI wants to ask the court to hold that the proper party to the Haldimand Proclamation is the whole Haudenosaunee Confederacy and not the Six Nations of the Grand River. They are also asking the Court to hold that the Six Nations of the Grand River cannot bring this claim and that only the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council, on behalf of the whole Haudenosaunee Confederacy, can bring or negotiate this claim.

The Six Nations of the Grand River say they are preparing a response to HDl's argument that our community cannot bring this claim for the loss of the Haldimand Tract. They added that they will vigorously defend the entitlement of the Six Nations of the Grand River to bring and benefit from this claim and any judgement or settlement. 

You can find out more by visiting the HDI lawyer's website.

It is expected that the court will hear the HDI request to become involved in the case on Jan. 30-31, 2023. The case is expected to go to trial sometime in early 2024.

Listen to the report by David Moses for CKRZ FM below: