Gunshots shattered the cold, clear dead of night, south of the Grand River on Fourth Line.

The last weekend of January, bullets struck the glass vestibule of Burger Barn on Six Nations, Canada’s most populous First Nation, home to the six tribes of the Haudenosaunee, which means “People of the Longhouse.”

Back then, it seemed odd that a burger restaurant southwest of Hamilton, long popular with customers on and off the reserve, would be targeted by what its owner, Jason Hill, called a drive-by shooting.

The MO resembled the signature gangster warning: there will be more to come . There were no arrests.

But nine months later, the attack seems less out of place in the context of fear and anger on the territory concerning crime, and the OPP’s subsequent warning of a “non-Indigenous orga

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