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DISSOLVE THE INVADERS OF TURTLE ISLAND

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Sep. 21, 2025. It is scarey that the people of the Western world [primarily settlers of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand] don’t want to or can’t learn. They invaded turtle island to flee their misery and created a money based get-rich-quick delusion system based on what they stole from us indigenous and killed 95% of us for. They made imaginary money leading to imaginary success.  Most of us who took care of them and helped them survive their approach to turtle island were eliminated.  

 Their end could be near. They’re probably sitting together somewhere planning their next heist. Apologies are unacceptable for what they did to us. Now they’re trying again. They have to keep living their lies to maintain ‘the rich get richer and the poor get poorer’ criminal structure. We’re watching them being demolished by their fake marketplace system. They will return everything they stole from us. We are owners of the unceded land of turtle island and not owned by their banking system.

The colonial settlers have no right to be here. They need our permission. Their cabal is part of a slave system to run the world by inundating the people with fear. All natives know that fear is the enemy. Non-fear is our ally. We will end it. They drive around on our land, destroy it and kill our water, air and forests. They’ve carried out their genocide on us ever since they landed on our shores. 

The Palestinians met the rotinoshonni a long time ago and learned and accepted the kaianerekowa great peace. Like the British army invaded Palestine in 1947 to create the hornet’s nest called Israel is just the same as the colonists coming to North America to scalp us and murder us. They hunted us like deer. The walls of the Western empire are starting to crack.

The Palestinian children are disappearing which is our experience. There is nothing right about stealing a people’s land, putting them in prison camps to exploit their resources. They lack empathy.    

As long as just one indigenous survives creation ensures this is always indigenous land. Even the animals, insects and birds are getting ready for something and are trying to warn us! They have as great a claim to turtle island as we do and we have always worked together. We are looking for the graves of our children who were kidnapped or trafficked or murdered.   

The US is making lots of enemies and problems in the world. The Western World governments will be toppled from within. They’re attacking, misinforming and destabilizing each other and their targets. North America is build on sand. As we know castles made of sand always go into the sea.   

There are 366 oligarchs in the world that control 99.9% of every transaction in every market. If you want the true cause of every war in the last two centuries, look into Peter Phillips book where he calls them “GIANTS. The Global Power Elite”.

To bring about world peace we have safeguarded the kaianerekowa. We are available again to teach the law of peace as we did in 1710 in London and in 1923 in The Hague.

We indigenous will be liberated and we will survive. Safe drinking water is needed. The Great Lakes is the oldest and largest supply of fresh water in the world which is on our kaianerekowa great peace land. The great peace was fueled by our waters. 

Rivers are being poisoned and the fish are dying. As the serpents are slithering across turtle island, it is our job to maintain the natural balance according to creation’s “good message”: “On this planet all living things have the same mother, we all have the same source energy as father, which makes us all brothers and sisters. We shall survive and co-exist.” 

AI robots are their soldiers. Those with empathy for us will be disempowered. A sense of doom is being promoted. We are aware of their psychopathic character.  Remember, Canada has a banker for prime minister. 

Settlers who contributed to our demise will go home and fix the mess they left in their own countries. Turtle island is “onowarekeh”.  

In our story we are to watch out when sky world comes back and two suns are in the sky. When the second sun leaves, then the world will start spinning the other way and the water will move very fast. onkwehonwe indigenous have been instructed to crawl to the hilly country to heal. For us it is northern Quebec and northern Ontario.  

Remember, they are still trying to wipe us out. They are working to take our land and resources piece by piece. The courts don’t have morals or values. They are all Admiralty Laws of the Seas, which is privately owned by the same shareholders that own the private corporations known as Canada and the United States who act like they are above the law. In the prisons of Canada, 50% nationally and 70% in Saskatchewan, indigenous men, women and youth are being imprisoned. These non-humans have given into their desires to continue the genocide of our people. Creation is aware. The only way anyone can defeat the enemy is by resisting.

Researchers like David Icke has concluded that this royal bloodline is reptilian in origin. We shall continue to be in balance with nature. Our mother earth feels the hurt with us. The politicians, social institutions and their people are starting to unravel. They are turning on us because we ‘are‘ onowareke, turtle island, the land of the Western Hemisphere. Our existence impedes their efforts for economic control. The public is being told we are in the way of their solving their problems so the public is being turned against us. Police do nothing for us. They even celebrate our hardships.  

Those non-indigenous who surround us still have their eye on our land and will continue to kill us. We’ll resist.  WHERE WILL THEY GO?  We suggest that all the settlers who are feeling concerned for their own well being should just look at what the bankers did to us. You are the new Indians. Welcome to the reservation. The cities are death traps. There will be no help or information for them. As Pink Floyd reminds us, “Welcome, intruders,  welcome to the machine!


Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
Where have you been?
It’s all right, we know where you’ve been
You’ve been in the pipeline filling in time
Provided with toys and scouting for boys
You bought a guitar to punish your ma
You didn’t like school and you know you’re nobody’s fool

[Refrain]
So welcome to the machine

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2: David Gilmour]
Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
What did you dream?
It’s all right, we told you what to dream
You dreamed of a big star
He played a mean guitar
He always ate in the Steak Bar
He loved to drive in his Jaguar

Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine (1975)

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KNOCK, KNOCK, CANADA!

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MNN. Sept. 6, 2025. Intruding into our homeland is an “act of war”. Using our power and authority against these land thieves to protect our land and people is a revolutionary act! The Atikamekw are one of the Indigenous people in Canada whose historic territory  is the  great white north. We are family! 

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Malcolm X, an African American revolutionary during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, said: “When you are fighting for your land, it is a revolution. All wars from day one have been over land. The court will take your land violently”, which is what the capitalist bloodsuckers did on turtle island. In Kanehsatake in 1990 our people stood up and said “No”!  All our land has been taken violently and physically. The only thing they fear are the ‘warriors’ of Kanehsatake, Ohsweken, Tyendinaga, Akwesasne, Kahnawake, Ganiengeh and all our brother and sisters on turtle island. He said, “We have to eradicate white thinking”.  

Canada calls taking over our land without telling us is “developing” the north, to destroy us and the environment. Their way is to control everything. The indigenous of onowarekeh turtle island are going to be scattered fragments with no self-government. New prime minister of Canada Mark Carney wants to “redraw the map” that will show us as having “disappeared.” He will send in the military where unarmed non-violent original people live on native land the size of France. No ambiguity. No doubt the colonists are taking military control of the indigenous land of onowarekeh, dismantling us as they have always done, forcing us into a non-native system of control by the corporate mafia called government. Carney’s Bill C5 takes full control of this trajectory and trickery. Deaths, assaults and threats continue, such as the murder of Joyce Echaquan in Joliet hospital by two nurses. She sent it out on Facebook while she was dying. Humanitarian catastrophes are in full swing.

The loggers, hunters, gangsters, government and corporate agents are circling us. Troops are making their presence known to carry out their orders to mishandle the natives and use force to take us over. They refuse to talk to the traditional people who give them nothing but the truth.  The intruding foreign government gives the orders to get the Indians out of their way for development as dictated by the trillionaires on Wall Street. Destabilization and disintegrating indigenous life is the main way to deal with us such as removing the health care system, and interfering with our food source to cause famine. International aid and monitoring groups are not allowed in. The original people live off the land so  Interference with the animals and their habitats will lead to starvation.  

The military will try to take control of the north, and Indigenous original sovereignty will be disregarded. Within a year construction of housing for the flood of non-native workers, their families and development of corporate projects will destroy the land. They will remove the indigenous presence except for those who join them and sever their connection to the land. Their communities and communication are being broken up. A network of isolated enclaves will be created with no links to the outside world. They will be so far removed no one will remember they existed. This control system will be called “management control for their own good”!

The useless UN will do nothing. The late Mad Bear said, “The UN should be picked up and dropped in the middle of the ocean!”  Carney has a vision of a “greater Canadian state” without our presence.  His father Robert Carney ran one of the worst indigenous termination Indian Residential Schools in Fort Smith Northwest Territories where the prime minister himself went to school to see the government genocide plan being carried out. Sr. Carney was in the top level of planning Canada’s genocide plan to eliminate us. All prime ministers are guilty of genocide. He is just the latest of their “crime minister” 

The government says the disagreement with the Indians and Inuit is just over bad roads, zoning and demography, which they say is only “temporary”. The non-natives will not suffer these bad conditions.    

To them the indigenous cannot remain as the true land and resource owners as they will have a right to speak up, which is the last thing Carney and his crew want. Intruding gangs are being sent in and will start conflicts with them. Diplomats will be sent up there to lie to the people. Services to them will come and go, mostly non-existent. The indigenous will resist being removed. They won’t conform. Removing services is one way. Dismantling support is another. Canada is showing them how fearful a full military entry looks! Some of our people will go along with this. Ideology plays an important role. A complete sudden takeover would cause deaths. Canada is willing to pay a high price to shut us up, which has been discussed with their military, industrial complex.  

Canada does not want any bad talk about this anywhere. Actions are being taken with no political statements to the people. The assault of the North is on. Ideological rhetoric is intensifying.  A sense of inevitability is coming over like a big heavy dark cloud. It is a long term secret project to reconfigure the geography so there is no alternative for us. It’s continued mass murder of our land and people. Canada wants to control this narrative. The minions sit on all the boards to take over the indigenous people and the land.  

They are parasites who are living inside host indigenous nations. There will be arguments between our people and the squatters on our land. Their redrawn maps are fake. The false claimers will keep on lying. They follow the money. Those who help them are bigots. Canada’s band councils help our enemies to build walls around us. They are doing the inside job as always. 

Like Fats Domino we have heard all of Canada’s pretend knocks of friendship on our door! Like fats said, “We hear you knocking but you can’t come in”.

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MURDER INCORPORATED

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MNN. July 24,  2025.

The word “government” comes from the Greek ‘gobernado‘, which means ‘‘control” and from the Latin ‘mente‘ which means ‘the mind’. It means  ‘controllers of the mind’. In a free society one should be able to say anything against  the government. Government is an unnatural legal fiction that deprives all of nature and natural persons of their fundamental rights and freedoms. We are born sovereign and then the bankers impose a corporate fiction on us and we receive all capital letter identification. In legalese all capital letters mean a corporation. The kaianerekowa great peace teaches us that we are part of the whole natural system, we are the humans, that the power of the creative mind allows us to accomplish anything our mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. Then we were attacked in 1492 by the Europeans who tried to enslave us. We were not docile because we were born free. Then they tried to murder us all thinking there would be no consequences. When one deceives life balances out the deception.  These invaders installed a political system controlled by violence, intimidation and death. The official “final solution to the Indian problem” to exterminate us started on October 25, 1924 with the Indian Advancement Act. The policy was to create reservations as POW camps for the ‘Indians‘ with the army now the Department of Indian Affairs standing at the gate checking each as we came and went. A blood quantum system was created whereby only the Canadian government decides who is an Indian or not. The Admiralty Laws are the only laws of ‘Canada’. Only indigenous natural ways are the laws of turtle island.

Today the evil foreign lncorporate occupations of the Western Hemisphere are carrying out their long range plan to dominate the world with hardly any objections through well planned economic chaos and fear. The objectors are severely persecuted. There is hardly any opposition. Turtle island is now their home base fortress and they seek to send their tentacles out to dominate every country on the planet.

Peace was achieved by the indigenous people on onowarekeh turtle island by developing the Two Row and kaianerekowa great peace. We had surrendered our weapons against each other and had peace for thousands of years.  The Europeans arrived and brought back the war. George Orwell said it well about our current state, “Picture a police boot on your head driving it into the pavement, forever.” They have been trying to kill us since they got here. The current US president and his administration collectively plot and scheme together. They are experts in creating chaos. The public does not know what to do to stop this. The public has no say. They left the chaotic situation in Europe and carried out the same atrocities on turtle island on us. Now the refugees stand confused and aghast at what they brought upon themselves here. Donald Trump is following the Authoritarian Playbook right now. First you create a problem that will get a reaction from the people. Not until the people demand a solution will you give them the solution which is the reason the problem was created in the first place. We suggest that they be invited to our longhouse to come to the true source of democracy to learn about true equality and natural freedom that both US and Canada falsely espouse.

A few brave comedians and others who criticize the persecutors are being threatened. They are standing up for their right to free speech according to their constitution. This constitution they are depending on to protect them was created by the oligarchs who are now the bankers who run the whole show. Now Americans are left to stand up and fight for free speech which they denied to us. As it happened to us, we understand what is going on. These colonial subjects stomped on our sovereignty and now it is happening to them and they don’t know what to do to stop these steadily calculated attacks on them.  The comedians are not being silenced. As Lakota activist Russel Means always said, “To all Americans, you are the new Indians. Welcome to the reservation!”  

Truly there is no equality and freedom and there never was. Ordinary people never had any rights. They can’t save themselves from these psychotic people of power and greed. They have been hit with the ‘disease of power’ for which there is no cure. Everybody is being kicked in the teeth by this elite force they voted into power. This voting system is meaningless. They want to rule by treachery and stop all interference. They got their existence here through murder, lying, cheating and stealing. We speak for ourselves as sovereign individuals all following the natural law of nature.  

STEPHEN COLBERT, YOU'RE FIRED!The great peace is the solution where no one wins or loses but reaches an understanding. Equal rights is the basic principle. Comedian, Stephen Colbert, was recently fired by CBS which was bought by the mob in order to get him out of the way. Truth is being exposed through monologues about the mob’s authoritarianism which is based on Hitler’s playbook. Anyone who spoke against Hitler went to jails which were the original concentration camps for ordinary German people, set up under Admiralty corporate laws as is the constitution of the United States. The mob is firing people from their jobs because they personally do not like the truths being exposed. 

Americans are enslaved to the dollar. The oligarchs of the original Thirteen colonies are illegally occupying turtle island.  The Americans voted a tyrant into the Whitehouse to run a government system that is exposed as a joke by the comedians. We met with the 13 colonies in Albany in 1754 on our homeland. They were European bankers and took ownership of everything. It is a well organized plan to illegally occupy turtle island. We were killed like animals. The people stand underneath the game table of the rulers holding up the system of oppression of the elites over themselves. To overturn it all they have to do is stand up, flip over the board and the game will be over. They could start using the real law of nature, kaianerekowa, council of the great peace.  

The moral collapse starts with rule by child abusers by the complicity of the people who say and do nothing because they have no moral courage. Now there is generational trauma. Alex Jones always reminded his listeners “There is a real war on for your minds”.  All have been programmed and it seems to be reptilian programming. We are held down by government, military, NGOs, UN, religion, charities,  peacekeepers, children being murdered publicly and images of them being abused to scare everybody. Everybody is being programmed to be unable to retaliate. 

Of course those who publicly criticize them will be punished to quiet their voices. Today the “walking dead” is the future of those who do not stand up to a few trillionaires. If we don’t go into the fields to feed ourselves, we will starve like everybody else. We have to become indigenous again. If not you’re doomed. 

The real revolution is spirit evolution: Everybody’s talkin political corruption. All across the planet. exploitation and destruction. Our past generations resorted to solutions to overthrow aggression with war and dissolution. But the real revolution is spirit evolution. Eternal soul is our true constitution ..

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MOHAWK V. CANADA WAR OF 1990

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MNN. July 21, 2025. There is a statue in the East River of NYC commemorating the gesture of the indigenous toward those refugees who found their way here. The Statue of Liberty, officially named “Lady Liberty,” shines a light for any oppressed people coming from the eastern Atlantic shore.   

We all have our stories of war and violence being waged on us by Canada. Stated kahentinetha of kahnawake, “On September 28, 1990, my two 14 and 4 year old daughters and myself were attacked by M-16 bayoneted soldiers. She was protecting her little sister and other little children when she was bayoneted by an order follower in a Canadian uniform. Another soldier put a bayonet to my chest and told me to “back off, lady” for trying to help them.  When I looked into his eyes I saw a deep void. There was no one home and the light was very dim. The Human Rights Commission of Canada said there was no evidence of the attack despite films, photos and hundreds of witnesses. All for a golf course.” 

Nature never lets us turtle islanders give up. In 1990 when Canada sent in the army to attack us our call for help was heard throughout the world. Our duty has always been to care for our mother earth and that Creation does not allow us to surrender. We have never lost a war as our differences are to be settled through dialogue where we search for an understanding. Courts are privately owned to enhance the Admiralty Laws of the Seas of foreign elites. We reminded these oppressors of our duty to carry out the will of creation so nobody wins or loses. When the white people left their homeland, they came here uninvited to our land and destroyed the tree of peace and declared themselves the Republic of War on our land. These war mongers have no place on onowarekeh turtle island without a binding agreement based on the teiohateh two row agreement and the kaianerekowa the great peace constitution. 

On July 11, 1990, Canada sent their entire military to attack their so-called “Mohawk” citizens” for stopping the cutting down of the great white pines of kanehsatake to extend the private Oka golf course. All ports across Canada were shut down by native people. Nations around the world stood with the Mohawks, when the refugees threatened the people of a once peaceful pristine land, with death, destruction and genocide. The kaianerekowa great peace always stands with turtle island. Some day everybody will stand with creation to help our mother earth and all life.  

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The indigenous are skilled at fighting to bring about the great peace. We have no fear because of what we are standing up and protecting for peace, equality, freedom and what is right as the great peace instructs us do. We must help assert self-determination and sovereignty of every person on earth. We are not criminals for carrying out the great peace.  

In 1990 we had to let the world know our responsability to the environment. The indigenous stood with us. There was a 78-day standoff in many communities. We let the world know how serious we are about taking care of our mother.  We are like all life from the earth. Our unborn babies are the owners. We learned how to balance our relationships with all life through understanding natural law to work together and to be warlike when necessary. All the natural world will fight to the death to protect and secure their safety from any harm. The process is based on studying animals, plants, waters, earth, sky and the cosmos.  We saw that we are all equal and are to respect and survive together. 

We are a people. There is no win or lose. There is balance. Extending a golf course and destroying graves of our ancestors is not equal to sending 5,000 heavily armed  troops and their deadly weaponry to show us that “might makes right” and to drag us into their foreign courts and subject us to their foreign laws. Or that they need to play golf! It was not and will not be tolerated.Their problem is that we are not afraid of them. The issue was small. They could not let the original people assert themselves. We don’t know fear. That is why our men are steel workers, one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. They feared such bravery could spread across the continent. So the guilty who deliberately injured us or caused our deaths were never punished. 

We did not want a blood bath in kanehsatake. Canada wanted to destroy the spirit of the warrior society, to make us afraid to do what is right by attacking the people of three Mohawk  kanienkehaka communities, Kanehsatake, Kahnawake and Akwesasne. They wanted to create indigenous communities with no teeth and no claws to defend ourselves and leave us high and dry. They promised us money which never got to the people. All the land, money and resources they exploit belong to the indigenous. Our young people have their whole lives ahead of them. They don’t want to be entertainers and menial workers. They refuse to be brainwashed.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called in the military as a last resort because Canada could not sit down and talk with the true resisters. To help them conquer us they brought in traitors to advise them how to conquer us. They helped write the narrative, for the soldiers to put bayonets on their M-16s to kill the unarmed men, women and children as we were leaving the Treatment Centre. 

A lot of T-shirts were sold. Band and tribal councils got some money for trying to make fools out of us. Some got jobs for which they were not qualified. 

We are still here and we will persevere. 

Listen to Magik Squirrel’s “Mohawk War Song” about 1990:

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LEONARD PELTIER HOMECOMING

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MNN. FEB. 20, 2025. Thank you, Brenda Norrell of Censored News, for your longtime coverage of one of the most important stories that has faced indigenous people since the arrival of the invaders to turtle island. Leonard Peltier seems to infer that it is not over! 

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/peltier-speaks-on-turtle-mountain.html

Redbone song “We were all wounded at wounded knee” became a hit in Europe but was not released in the US:

Redbone - We were all wouded at Wounded Knee lyrics

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FREEDOM

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Ralliers march in the streets, some holding a large painting of Leonard Peltier.

MNN. JAN. 20, 2025. Joe Biden is the best President in the history of the United States. From 1976 to 2025, there were Gerald Ford, Jmmy Carter, Ronald Reagen, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George, Bush Jr., Barak Obama and Donald Trump. No one did it. A president can be judged upon what he does upon leaving the presidency. None released Leonard Peltier when they could have. In 1993 Leonard was eligible for parole and none would let him out. They let that indigenous man languish in jail. 

Leonard knew he was going to be free. Mr. Biden, we honor you!

Jimi Hendrix is a brother to Leonard Peltier though he thought about this song before Leonard was arrested. It sounds like this song “Freedom” was for him.  
You got my prideHanging out of my bedYou’re messin’ with my lifeSo I brought my leadYou even mess with my childrenAnd you’re screamin’ at my wife, babyGet off my back,If you want to get outta here alive
Freedom,That’s what I want nowFreedom, that’s what I need nowFreedom to liveFreedom, so I can give
You got my heartSpeak electric waterYou got my soulScreamin’ and howlin’You know you hook my girlfriendYou know the drugstore manWhen I don’t need it nowI was trying to slap it out of her head
Freedom, so I can liveFreedom, so I can giveFreedom, yeahFreedom, that’s what I need
You don’t have to say that you loveIf you don’t mean itYou’d better believeIf you need meOr you just want to bleed meYou’d better stick in your dagger in someone elseSo I can leaveSet me free(Yeah)
Right on, straight aheadStay up and straight aheadFreedom, so I can live itFreedom, ’cause I’ve got lotta to give, babyFreedom, so I can live, freedom(Keep on pushin’, straight ahead)

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THE PIG STY CEMETARY
MNN. June 26/24. The aim of real archeology is to try to understand the future. To find what happened in the past to help us interpret the present. To find what we have forgotten. Something makes us want to see what is going on around us and what happened to us. Our ancient language is about hidden knowledge, such as, for example, what happened to the Duplessis orphans when the colonial settlers decided to develop a super liquor warehouse on top of a graveyard of children who died at the nearby hospital. It was called the ‘pig sty cemetary’. A lot of the secrets about this sordid event are now coming out into the open. The orphans saw things and were told it was in their imagination. They want to remember who they are. The more they seek and find the truth, the less angry they will be for the disappearances they witnessed of their friends.  SEE THE APTN COVERAGE: 
It seems like Ricky Scaggs may have visited the Montreal East site near the Port of Montreal where they moved out their filth from the pig pen:
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
Dark clouds are risingSure sign of rainGet your old gray bonnet onSweet little Liza Jane
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
Bake ’em biscuits, babyBake ’em good and brownWhen you get them biscuits bakedWe’re Alabama bound
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
Goin’ on a mountainTo sow a little caneRaise a barrel of SorghumSweet little Liza Jane
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone

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INTERIM REPORT: MISSING CHILDREN & UNMARKED BURIALS

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MNN. June 18, 2023. Kimberly Murray BA, LL.B, IPC

“I am honoured to have been entrusted with being the Special Interlocutor… to support the work of Survivors and Indigenous communities to protect, locate, identify, repatriate, and commemorate the children who died while being forced to attend Indian Residential Schools”. 

Kimberly Murray BA, LL.B, IPC

She was appointed for two years as Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. She is a member of the Kahnesatake Mohawk Nation.

THIS IS THE PODCAST of Ms. Murray presenting the Interim Report, “Sacred Responsibiility: Searching for the Missing Children & Unmarked Burials”.

Interim report on the search for missing children and unmarked burials | APTN News

THIS IS THE REPORT:

Part 6 of the report begins to lay the foundation for a new Reparations Framework to address the gaps and barriers within Canada’s current legal system, which is ill-equipped to provide accountability and justice for Indigenous Peoples in the face of genocide, colonial violence, and mass human rights violations. It defines an Indigenous-led process and explains why such a process is essential to the search and recovery of the missing children and unmarked burials. It concludes by outlining ten elements of reparations that will form the basis of the Final Report. Summaries are included throughout to illustrate the barriers communities are facing, as well as emerging Indigenous-led practices that have been applied to advance search and recovery work in accordance with Indigenous law and protocols. 

https://osi-bis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/OSI_InterimReport_June-2023_WEB.pdf

Helen Reddy knows the energy of someone like Kimberly Murray:

I am woman, hear me roarIn numbers too big to ignoreAnd I know too much to go back an’ pretend‘Cause I’ve heard it all beforeAnd I’ve been down there on the floorAnd no one’s ever gonna keep me down again
Yes, I am wiseBut it’s wisdom born of painYes, I’ve paid the priceBut look how much I’ve gainedIf I have to, I can do anythingI am strong (strong)I am invincible (invincible)I am woman
Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Official 4K Video)
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DEMAND MORITORIUM ON QUEBEC LOGGING

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MNN. June 21, 2023. 

Indigenous guardians of the ancestral territories of the Innu, Atikamekw and Mohawk are demanding a moratorium on logging in Quebec.

A banner in the middle of a forest road on which one can read: “Guardians of the territory on the lookout”.

This coalition is made up of the Innu collective Mashk Assi, which defends the unceded territory of Nitassinan; the Ekoni Aci movement, which brings together defenders of the Atikamekw territory of Manawan and Wemotaci; and the Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera, better known as the Mohawk Mothers.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF MASHK ASSI COLLECTIVE

Due to the “ecological disaster caused by the forest fires”, a coalition of traditionalist Innu, Atikamekw and Mohawk indigenous peoples demands a moratorium on logging and mining activities north of the St. Lawrence River by the end of 2023.

Activists with banners block a logging road.

Innu and Atikamekw activists block logging roads to oppose logging on their unceded ancestral territory.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF MASHK ASSI COLLECTIVE

These First Nations activists recall that the millions of hectares burned affect not only the habitat of wildlife that is crucial to their culture, but also the health of many Aboriginal communities.

With what is happening concerning the quality of the air which is unbreathable in several places, we think that it is really important to put a brake at the moment , specified Michael Paul of the Mashk Assi collective.

In addition to the moratorium, the Aboriginal people who present themselves as holders of ancestral title to their respective territories are asking for an inquiry into the causes of the forest fires.

“  The government, through its mismanagement of the forest, has created this situation of extreme danger for which it is responsible. By prioritizing profitability, the government has created monoculture coniferous forests that turn into veritable powder kegs in dry and hot weather, at the risk of public health.  »

— A quote from  Excerpt from the letter from the Mashk Assi collective, the Ekoni Aci movement and the Mohawk Mothers

This forest management is based on cutting potential, industrial development and immediate profit. The priority place of the forest industry in forest management is too great and has created a situation of unprecedented danger. We must act immediately to break this impasse , continue the Aboriginal traditionalists.

The Chibougamau forest fire, seen from the air.

The Chibougamau forest fire (File photo)

PHOTO: COURTESY

The coalition also calls for an independent environmental impact study to be carried out in collaboration with the United Nations Special Rapporteur and that it be chaired by the indigenous guardians of the territory. We are the custodians of ancestral knowledge that has allowed the boreal forest to survive until today. We know every corner of our territory and the families of animals with whom we share it. As recognized by a UN report, Indigenous peoples are by far the best guardians of the natural territory and the environment, everywhere on the planet , supports the coalition.

The blockage maintained in the Laurentides wildlife reserve

Three weeks ago, before the forest fires broke out and restrictions came into effect, Indigenous people from the Mashk Assi collective forced the closure of several logging sites located in the Laurentides wildlife reserve. They denounce the destruction of the forests south of Lake Kénogami.

This blockage is still in effect on Nitassinan. In particular, a permanent camp has been set up at kilometer 216 of Route 175 to monitor the comings and goings in the forest.

These Innu, who do not benefit from the support of the Mashteuiatsh band council , sent eviction notices to the forestry companies present on their ancestral territory. 

Since May 29, indigenous activists have been regularly patrolling Nitassinan to ensure that there are no loggings.

We are ready to go to court if it is not respected , mentioned the committed artist Michael Paul.

A native camp in the forest.

Innus have set up a permanent camp along the logging road located at kilometer 216 of the Laurentides wildlife reserve.

Mike Paul Kuekuatsheu - Ashinetau - vidéoclip officiel

 

PHOTO: COURTESY OF MASHK ASSI COLLECTIVE

The Lignarex Group, which qualifies this file as delicate , is one of the manufacturers who complied by withdrawing their forestry machinery from certain construction sites. From the outset, the leaders of Lignarex said they were ready to negotiate with the Innus .

The collective has also authorized the logging company to recover the trees already felled to avoid wasting wood.

Innu artist Michael Paul Kuekuarsheu sings of the resistance of his people:

With information from Gabrielle Morissette

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Mike Paul Kuekuatsheu - Ashinetau - vidéoclip officiel
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