Post by Okwes on Apr 21, 2006 9:50:27 GMT -5
MNN Canada's "3 Blind Mice" want to appease squatters on Six Nations Land
This occupation to stop outside construction on our land has been
going on for over 6 weeks. Here's an update. Your continued
concern and support is needed. Kahentinetha Horn
CANADA'S `3 BLIND MICE' WANT TO APPEASE SQUATTERS AT THE EXPENSE OF
THOSE `BAD' SIX NATIONS INDIANS.
MNN. April 17, 2006. Ontario has a population of about 10
million. It's growing so that within a very short time there will
be 13 million. They have to take over Indian lands to accommodate
these people. They don't want the Haldimand Tract to be in
dispute. They want investors from all over the world to have no
fear of putting their money into towns, homes, golf courses,
highways and industries throughout Rotino'shon:ni land in southern
Ontario.
They should instead be working on a plan to make Indians, who will
never relinquish title to our lands, to become their partners in all
of these developments. The Crees of Quebec were made beneficiaries
in the James Bay Agreement instead of being robbed. If millions of
people are coming onto our land, we demand a say in what's
happening. As the land is held by the Indigenous Women, they need
our permission to do anything. We must be consulted on everything
that's going to be done on all of the Haldimand Tract.
Ontario and Canada can't do anything without consulting us, the
Confederacy. They can't go running to their illegal band council
puppets.
If you read the Hamilton Spectator, you would think everything
is "hunky dory". They state there is going to be a buy-out of
Henco, land is going to be returned to the Indians and the Ontario
Provincial Police are going to take down their command post. There
is even going to be a campaign to educate our tenants about us.
Indian Affairs even brought some puppet chiefs from British Columbia
into the circus to guide the Six Nations into the Canadian way of
how land claims should be dealt with. They're putting out the lie
that Douglas Creek Estates is "privately held" land which is being
claimed by Six Nations people. It is and always has been communally
held sovereign land.
The land under the protection of the Haldimand Proclamation is
384,451 hectares of land which is six miles on both sides of the
Grand River from its mouth to its source. The whole tract consists
of over 1 million hectares. The land was stolen, natural resources
were fraudulently extracted on numerous occasions over the centuries
and funds were misappropriated and invested. Sometimes they were
outright unauthorized loans made to such institutions as McGill
University and the Law Society of Upper Canada. They never paid back
these loans. This creates a major bias on the part of the judiciary
against the Six Nations. We need an international mediator that is
neutral, has no interest in the outcome and is acceptable to both
parties.
Canada says they are not accountable for actions of the British
Crown before Canada was founded in 1867! They've been running that
lie for years. This is like the colonial practice of sleazy business
men who abandon one bankrupt company and start fresh with a new
one.
The 1978 Vienna Convention on the Succession of States says you
can't get out of your obligations by turning yourself into another
state. The consent of the other parties is required before a
successor state can escape the obligations undertaken by a
predecessor state. We never gave that. Canadians seem to have
forgotten that they're the ones who benefited from Britain's
agreements with us. There is no reason why the people who are
Indigenous to Britain and stayed behind should have to compensate
the Indigenous people of Turtle Island for the benefits they got as
the people who immigrated to our land
It is sad that Canada refuses to decontaminate its laws and get rid
of colonial thinking. Those people negotiating on behalf of Canada
could be presenting the kind of partnership and solidarity that
could lead to a strong economic partnership. It should be based on
Canada honoring its agreements with Indigenous people. When people
work together in a positive way more can be achieved.
This proposed solution means that millions of more dollars and
decades of more effort will be misspent on legal battles. Are we
going to continue to throw documents and legal arguments at each
other? There is no dispute. We own this land. Is Canada going to
continue to harass and imprison the brightest and best of our young
people? When is Canada going to allow us human rights?
The Spectator is moaning on and on about losses to non-native
developers, carpenters, plumbers, roofers, brick layers and home
owners. It completely ignores our losses over the past two
centuries. We have been denied our own economic, social and
political system.
Most of Six Nations people are opposed to the band council.
Negotiations are still at the point of an OPP gun. They are itching
to try out their fancy weaponry and enforce an illegal court order
on us. We never gave consent for Canada and Ontario to have
jurisdiction over us. They complain that this standoff "is giving
rise to disrespect for the law and the police!" However, they
represent the country that has totally disrespected our laws and
agreements to conduct a nation-to-nation relationship.
The OPP has no respect. When will they come clean on exactly what
they did at Ipperwash when they killed Dudley George over a land
issue? We're waiting to hear them say, "We're going to talk instead
of shoot you".
As stated by the Australian court in Mabo, "we were not a "legal
desert" when the British arrived". The idea that only British
colonists or their descendants like Australians and Canadians were
the only people who had "law" is a legal fiction.
At the Sunday April 16th emergency meeting [an emergency for
Canada], the band council voted 7 to 6 in favor of turning land
matters over to the Rotino'shon:ni Confederacy. In other words,
we'd like to see them keep the same standards of excellence that
they had back in the 1920's. Council meetings were open to the
public and were fully recorded so that the public had a better
understanding of the Six Nations people. The newspapers then were
not advocates for any side. They were not a propaganda sheet for
the government and the police like they are now.
The band council decision to hand matters concerning land over to
the traditional Confederacy council that Canada violently deposed in
1924 is a political breakthrough. It suggests that Canada can no
longer "buy" enough support to keep up its pretense that their
puppet government is legitimate. It shows that even those people
who take part in the band council elections are aware of the frauds
that were perpetrated on the Six Nations people.
This does not mean that Canada will respect the right to self-
determination of the Six Nations people. The Minister of Indian
affairs still has a right to veto it. This Indian Act provision
violates international law and is ultra vires the Six Nations. We
don't really need the Minister's consent or a resolution from the
illegal band council to do anything! The band councilors' move
reflects the attempt by the Six Nations people to express their will
in terms that Canada must accept. Canada and Ontario were told to
honor our wishes. The Supreme Court of Canada has recognized
that "aboriginal rights" must be interpreted as understood by the
Indigenous people.
How do you think Indian Affairs responded to this?
Their point man, Dave `Colonial' General, did not vote in favor of
this resolution. Instead he read out his, Canada and Ontario's
schemes on how to resolve the occupation. They want an extension to
the current Douglas Creek Estates' injunction to May 24th 2006
[rather than disposing of it because it's illegal]. They want a
poll to be conducted of all members 18 years of age and older on
whom should oversee the land issue. Will it be the traditional
Confederacy, the band council or a jointly appointed committee?
The band council is supporting the Confederacy and Dave General is
still pushing the colonial agenda. Hey, Dave, whose payroll are you
on anyway?
Dave, Canada and Ontario, the Three Blind Mice, want to send a
notice out on April 19th. The want the poll to take place on May
22nd, on "Bread and Cheese Day" [when everybody gets constipated.
Let's hope that's not how they vote!]. This is when Queen Victoria
distributed bread and cheese to celebrate her birthday. After she
died the practice fell into disrepute. It was revived in the late
1920's when the people were struggling to control the Agricultural
Hall they had built and was illegally confiscated by the band
council.
Dave asks for this, "in good faith [so that] all parties will honor
the result of the poll".
Dave and the other mice know full well that this is an old deceptive
trap. It is like the time in 1686 when Marquis de Denonville
invited the Rotino'shon:ni for a peace meeting in Montreal. When
they arrived, most of our people were either killed or forced into
galley slavery or died in prisons in France. Is Dave trying to
invite all the Six Nations people to his peace treaty and trick us
into sanctioning this land theft? We are very suspicious of voting
in any polls or election run by his colonial master. We have our
own way of making decisions which includes all people of all ages
according to the Kaianereh'ko:wa.
Only about 3% will take part and they are all employed by the band
council. Dave and his puppet masters want an agreement with Henco
Industries, a colonial court date as soon as possible, the
appointment of a polling officer [we thought polls were for dogs]
and to get the vote done right away.
Let's ask them this! Would the colonial people agree to be
dispossessed of their lands and homes on the basis of a poll? We
don't think so.
There are 22,000 members of the Six Nations community. A
legitimate poll should have at least 13,000 to 14,000 people
voting. Only 500 people voting would be completely illegal
according to international law. A valid poll would sanction the
traditional chiefs to speak on our behalf. There has to be complete
disclosure and fully informed consent of a majority of the people.
Otherwise it would be the decision of a small group of elitists who
are likely pawns of the outside interests.
They want to use such a fraudulent vote as showing that we have
agreed to cede the entire Haldimand Tract. Dave and his cohorts
want to say, "We have settled this conflict once and for all. We
have relinquished all our interests except for where our people
actually live. Just think, we will get some cheese, beads, promises
of some money and a few parcels of land", or words to that effect.
Remember, the vote will be run by Indian Affairs. To be fair and
legal, it should be run by the United Nations.
The people say emphatically once again, "We aren't leaving until all
the land is in our name and we have control over it. Any settlers
who want to occupy and use our land has to consult us and get our
permission, according to law. Start showing us some good faith!"
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com
Contact: dick Hill 519-865-7722; Hazel Hill at 519-445-1351 or 519-
445-0719; thebasketcase@on.aibn.com; Jacqueline House 905-765-9316
jacqueline_house@hotmail.com ;
Please send your concerns to: Globe and Mail -
letters@GlobeandMail.ca; Toronto Star - letterstoed@thestar.ca; CBC -
national@cbc.ca; Politicians: Prime Minister of Canada Stephen
Harper harper@parl.gc.ca; Justice Canada webadmin@justice.gc.ca;
Indian Affairs InfoPubs@ainc-inac.gc.ca; European Union
press.office@consilium.eu.int; Minister Indian Affairs Jim Prentice
prentice.j@parl.gc.ca; Ontario Govt. Brendan.Crawley@jus.gov.on.ca;
Ontario Premier Dalton.McGuinty@premier.gov.on.ca; Some of the
towns around Six Nations that are on our land -
warden@duffereincounty.on.ca; OnondagaCo. info@city.woodstock.on.ca;
Waterloo sken@region.waterloo.on.ca; Henco Industries owner
mhancock@brantford.ca; anyone anywhere in the world who will listen.
This occupation to stop outside construction on our land has been
going on for over 6 weeks. Here's an update. Your continued
concern and support is needed. Kahentinetha Horn
CANADA'S `3 BLIND MICE' WANT TO APPEASE SQUATTERS AT THE EXPENSE OF
THOSE `BAD' SIX NATIONS INDIANS.
MNN. April 17, 2006. Ontario has a population of about 10
million. It's growing so that within a very short time there will
be 13 million. They have to take over Indian lands to accommodate
these people. They don't want the Haldimand Tract to be in
dispute. They want investors from all over the world to have no
fear of putting their money into towns, homes, golf courses,
highways and industries throughout Rotino'shon:ni land in southern
Ontario.
They should instead be working on a plan to make Indians, who will
never relinquish title to our lands, to become their partners in all
of these developments. The Crees of Quebec were made beneficiaries
in the James Bay Agreement instead of being robbed. If millions of
people are coming onto our land, we demand a say in what's
happening. As the land is held by the Indigenous Women, they need
our permission to do anything. We must be consulted on everything
that's going to be done on all of the Haldimand Tract.
Ontario and Canada can't do anything without consulting us, the
Confederacy. They can't go running to their illegal band council
puppets.
If you read the Hamilton Spectator, you would think everything
is "hunky dory". They state there is going to be a buy-out of
Henco, land is going to be returned to the Indians and the Ontario
Provincial Police are going to take down their command post. There
is even going to be a campaign to educate our tenants about us.
Indian Affairs even brought some puppet chiefs from British Columbia
into the circus to guide the Six Nations into the Canadian way of
how land claims should be dealt with. They're putting out the lie
that Douglas Creek Estates is "privately held" land which is being
claimed by Six Nations people. It is and always has been communally
held sovereign land.
The land under the protection of the Haldimand Proclamation is
384,451 hectares of land which is six miles on both sides of the
Grand River from its mouth to its source. The whole tract consists
of over 1 million hectares. The land was stolen, natural resources
were fraudulently extracted on numerous occasions over the centuries
and funds were misappropriated and invested. Sometimes they were
outright unauthorized loans made to such institutions as McGill
University and the Law Society of Upper Canada. They never paid back
these loans. This creates a major bias on the part of the judiciary
against the Six Nations. We need an international mediator that is
neutral, has no interest in the outcome and is acceptable to both
parties.
Canada says they are not accountable for actions of the British
Crown before Canada was founded in 1867! They've been running that
lie for years. This is like the colonial practice of sleazy business
men who abandon one bankrupt company and start fresh with a new
one.
The 1978 Vienna Convention on the Succession of States says you
can't get out of your obligations by turning yourself into another
state. The consent of the other parties is required before a
successor state can escape the obligations undertaken by a
predecessor state. We never gave that. Canadians seem to have
forgotten that they're the ones who benefited from Britain's
agreements with us. There is no reason why the people who are
Indigenous to Britain and stayed behind should have to compensate
the Indigenous people of Turtle Island for the benefits they got as
the people who immigrated to our land
It is sad that Canada refuses to decontaminate its laws and get rid
of colonial thinking. Those people negotiating on behalf of Canada
could be presenting the kind of partnership and solidarity that
could lead to a strong economic partnership. It should be based on
Canada honoring its agreements with Indigenous people. When people
work together in a positive way more can be achieved.
This proposed solution means that millions of more dollars and
decades of more effort will be misspent on legal battles. Are we
going to continue to throw documents and legal arguments at each
other? There is no dispute. We own this land. Is Canada going to
continue to harass and imprison the brightest and best of our young
people? When is Canada going to allow us human rights?
The Spectator is moaning on and on about losses to non-native
developers, carpenters, plumbers, roofers, brick layers and home
owners. It completely ignores our losses over the past two
centuries. We have been denied our own economic, social and
political system.
Most of Six Nations people are opposed to the band council.
Negotiations are still at the point of an OPP gun. They are itching
to try out their fancy weaponry and enforce an illegal court order
on us. We never gave consent for Canada and Ontario to have
jurisdiction over us. They complain that this standoff "is giving
rise to disrespect for the law and the police!" However, they
represent the country that has totally disrespected our laws and
agreements to conduct a nation-to-nation relationship.
The OPP has no respect. When will they come clean on exactly what
they did at Ipperwash when they killed Dudley George over a land
issue? We're waiting to hear them say, "We're going to talk instead
of shoot you".
As stated by the Australian court in Mabo, "we were not a "legal
desert" when the British arrived". The idea that only British
colonists or their descendants like Australians and Canadians were
the only people who had "law" is a legal fiction.
At the Sunday April 16th emergency meeting [an emergency for
Canada], the band council voted 7 to 6 in favor of turning land
matters over to the Rotino'shon:ni Confederacy. In other words,
we'd like to see them keep the same standards of excellence that
they had back in the 1920's. Council meetings were open to the
public and were fully recorded so that the public had a better
understanding of the Six Nations people. The newspapers then were
not advocates for any side. They were not a propaganda sheet for
the government and the police like they are now.
The band council decision to hand matters concerning land over to
the traditional Confederacy council that Canada violently deposed in
1924 is a political breakthrough. It suggests that Canada can no
longer "buy" enough support to keep up its pretense that their
puppet government is legitimate. It shows that even those people
who take part in the band council elections are aware of the frauds
that were perpetrated on the Six Nations people.
This does not mean that Canada will respect the right to self-
determination of the Six Nations people. The Minister of Indian
affairs still has a right to veto it. This Indian Act provision
violates international law and is ultra vires the Six Nations. We
don't really need the Minister's consent or a resolution from the
illegal band council to do anything! The band councilors' move
reflects the attempt by the Six Nations people to express their will
in terms that Canada must accept. Canada and Ontario were told to
honor our wishes. The Supreme Court of Canada has recognized
that "aboriginal rights" must be interpreted as understood by the
Indigenous people.
How do you think Indian Affairs responded to this?
Their point man, Dave `Colonial' General, did not vote in favor of
this resolution. Instead he read out his, Canada and Ontario's
schemes on how to resolve the occupation. They want an extension to
the current Douglas Creek Estates' injunction to May 24th 2006
[rather than disposing of it because it's illegal]. They want a
poll to be conducted of all members 18 years of age and older on
whom should oversee the land issue. Will it be the traditional
Confederacy, the band council or a jointly appointed committee?
The band council is supporting the Confederacy and Dave General is
still pushing the colonial agenda. Hey, Dave, whose payroll are you
on anyway?
Dave, Canada and Ontario, the Three Blind Mice, want to send a
notice out on April 19th. The want the poll to take place on May
22nd, on "Bread and Cheese Day" [when everybody gets constipated.
Let's hope that's not how they vote!]. This is when Queen Victoria
distributed bread and cheese to celebrate her birthday. After she
died the practice fell into disrepute. It was revived in the late
1920's when the people were struggling to control the Agricultural
Hall they had built and was illegally confiscated by the band
council.
Dave asks for this, "in good faith [so that] all parties will honor
the result of the poll".
Dave and the other mice know full well that this is an old deceptive
trap. It is like the time in 1686 when Marquis de Denonville
invited the Rotino'shon:ni for a peace meeting in Montreal. When
they arrived, most of our people were either killed or forced into
galley slavery or died in prisons in France. Is Dave trying to
invite all the Six Nations people to his peace treaty and trick us
into sanctioning this land theft? We are very suspicious of voting
in any polls or election run by his colonial master. We have our
own way of making decisions which includes all people of all ages
according to the Kaianereh'ko:wa.
Only about 3% will take part and they are all employed by the band
council. Dave and his puppet masters want an agreement with Henco
Industries, a colonial court date as soon as possible, the
appointment of a polling officer [we thought polls were for dogs]
and to get the vote done right away.
Let's ask them this! Would the colonial people agree to be
dispossessed of their lands and homes on the basis of a poll? We
don't think so.
There are 22,000 members of the Six Nations community. A
legitimate poll should have at least 13,000 to 14,000 people
voting. Only 500 people voting would be completely illegal
according to international law. A valid poll would sanction the
traditional chiefs to speak on our behalf. There has to be complete
disclosure and fully informed consent of a majority of the people.
Otherwise it would be the decision of a small group of elitists who
are likely pawns of the outside interests.
They want to use such a fraudulent vote as showing that we have
agreed to cede the entire Haldimand Tract. Dave and his cohorts
want to say, "We have settled this conflict once and for all. We
have relinquished all our interests except for where our people
actually live. Just think, we will get some cheese, beads, promises
of some money and a few parcels of land", or words to that effect.
Remember, the vote will be run by Indian Affairs. To be fair and
legal, it should be run by the United Nations.
The people say emphatically once again, "We aren't leaving until all
the land is in our name and we have control over it. Any settlers
who want to occupy and use our land has to consult us and get our
permission, according to law. Start showing us some good faith!"
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com
Contact: dick Hill 519-865-7722; Hazel Hill at 519-445-1351 or 519-
445-0719; thebasketcase@on.aibn.com; Jacqueline House 905-765-9316
jacqueline_house@hotmail.com ;
Please send your concerns to: Globe and Mail -
letters@GlobeandMail.ca; Toronto Star - letterstoed@thestar.ca; CBC -
national@cbc.ca; Politicians: Prime Minister of Canada Stephen
Harper harper@parl.gc.ca; Justice Canada webadmin@justice.gc.ca;
Indian Affairs InfoPubs@ainc-inac.gc.ca; European Union
press.office@consilium.eu.int; Minister Indian Affairs Jim Prentice
prentice.j@parl.gc.ca; Ontario Govt. Brendan.Crawley@jus.gov.on.ca;
Ontario Premier Dalton.McGuinty@premier.gov.on.ca; Some of the
towns around Six Nations that are on our land -
warden@duffereincounty.on.ca; OnondagaCo. info@city.woodstock.on.ca;
Waterloo sken@region.waterloo.on.ca; Henco Industries owner
mhancock@brantford.ca; anyone anywhere in the world who will listen.