The Six Nations Language Commission has increased the stipend students receive. Karen Sandy, coordinator of the language commission presented the budget at Six Nations Elected Council’s General Finance meeting on September 16 and said they’ve increased the student stipend by $100 a week due to high inflation. The Haudenosaunee Chiefs Confederacy Council (HCCC) offers every Six Nations Member who chooses to take full-time language classes a stipend of approximately $300 a week, Sandy says, it hasn’t changed in years and she’s not even sure exactly how much it is. “In this case it was sort of initiated by us, that’s the case [that HCCC pays the stipend] but they don’t talk to us, basically we just picked that cost up ourselves. This year too, we increased stipends and pay an

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