Turtle Island News is a weekly community newspaper

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, published in Ohsweken

Ohsweken, Ontario

Ohsweken, , is a village on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Indian reserve near Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Approximately 300 of the 2,700 homes on the reserve are in Ohsweken, and it is the site of the reserve governmental and administrative offices...

, Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is North America's

North America

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 leading native weekly newspaper, the recipient of numerous awards from the international Native American Journalists Association

Native American Journalists Association

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 for being number one in its field. The Turtle Island News also covers First Nation and aboriginal issues across North America. Editor Lynda Powless, has received numerous journalism awards for her work in mainstream newspapers and was named one of Canada's Top 100 most powerful women of 2006 by the Women's Executive Network.

The Turtle Island News has a circulation of 20,000, according to its website.

The name "Turtle Island News" is a reference to the Turtle Island (North America)

Turtle Island (North America)

Turtle Island is a term used by several Northeastern Woodland Native American tribes, especially the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy, for the continent of North America.-Iroquois:...

.