Circle of Beads Continues to Seek Voting Indigenous Hamilton Council Seat – TPR Hamilton

An Indigenous group is continuing their efforts for an elected Indigenous-only seat on Hamilton City Council.

The Circle of Beads is calling on all members of Hamilton City Council to meet with them on September 20, 2024 “to engage in formal discussion” in the hope of reaching an agreement to add a voting Indigenous seat on city council.

“The point is that a seat should be reserved for the Indigenous community, which had mainstream political processes imposed upon it and have not had a meaningful voice in these processes, to the community’s ongoing detriment,” reads a press statement issued by NaWalka Geeshy Meegwun aka Lyndon George on behalf of the group.

A motion to begin the process of creating an Indigenous-person council seat was defeated in an 8-7 vote during the July 12 Council ratification meeting.

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