Joe Norton, a no-nonsense down-to-earth Indigenous leader, is dead

Joe Norton, a no-nonsense down-to-earth Indigenous leader, is dead at 70

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Joseph Tokwiroh Norton, a straight-talking, no-nonsense, down-to earth man who spent much of his life fighting for the rights of members of the Mohawk Nation and other Indigenious people in Canada, has died. Norton, who served for nearly 30 years… »

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