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BRING THAT BUCK-BUCK-BUCKET ROUND Audio

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This is an open letter to Parliament, the provincial legislatures and their institutions to help indigenous people’s efforts to obtain justice and for the courts to respect indigenous traditions. 

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MNN. Sep. 6, 2022. The indigenous and officials of McGill knew the indigenous children were being experimented on at McGill University’s Allen Memorial Institute. It appears the bodies were hidden so they could never be found. The indigenous always wondered what happened to their children. McGill owes all indigenous people an explanation. It is time to remedy that. All graves must be found rather than more structures being built over them to hide them. Out West, the dead children were found buried in the concrete foundations. Many children are still out there somewhere. All of turtle island is soaked in the blood of the indigenous people. 

It is almost certain they are buried in the grounds of McGill University because it was known officially that these children were being experimented on and disposed of. As McGill and the Canadian government headed up those experimental projects they have to know what happened to those bodies. If they are not there, where are they? There are 88 children reported missing after being institutionalized in Quebec. Where are they? The Pope said, “Yes, it is genocide”. Hiding this is causing another crime, obstruction of justice. From the 1950s to the 1970s the indigenous were treated like outcasts and then forgotten. 

Since finding thousands of unmarked graves of indigenous children near Canadian government Indian Residential Schools, the Prime Minister has said that they all have to be found. Instead Quebec and McGill University are in the process of beginning excavation of one of the sites next to the Allan Memorial Hospital in October 2022 to start construction of the Royal Vic renovation of Mount Royal Montreal. It looks like a cover up. It is shocking that they continue to proceed. The kahnistensera Mohawk Mothers are filing for an interlocutory injunction in the Quebec Superior Court on October 26 to stop this atrocity which is the earliest date they could get. The Members of Parliament will be asked to use their authority to stop this so that there can be an investigation of this area, to force McGill and Quebec government [SQI] to look for these unmarked graves. 

Why doesn’t the government allow the indigenous to have the medical records on the victims and on the medical experiments carried out by MKUltra, the CIA, the Army and the Canadian and United States governments? Why are they being withheld? What is being hidden? Their refusal to release the files creates suspicion. No indigenous people gave permission for McGill University or anyone to take their children away, experiment on them, then dispose of them and secretly bury them. Why is this declared to be ‘top secret’? The people who propagated the crime are the same people that decide which information is “secret” or “top secret”. In effect their refusal proves the indigenous are right. What could be so secret? They had to meticulously know, proving the obstruction was planned, and to continue to conceal the crime. They know of the deaths of these children, and how they ordered the disposal of their bodies. Or there are no buried children, then they know that they were buried somewhere else or not! The perpetrators should be providing all the resources to help the search. No crime could be more horrific than what happened to these children. Possibly they know exactly where they are buried. Could they have and are still destroying all the evidence, like pulverizing little children’s bones?  If McGill is saying there are no children there, what facts are they relying on? Somebody knows where those children are. They have to keep extensive records. Murdering the children went to the top echelons of power as they were federal programs. MKUltra and other horrific psychiatric experiments including lobotomies were heavily funded by the Canadian government.

Has McGill dug up the grounds? Is it possible that they don’t know anything and just learning about it now? They can let the families know where these graves are and at least not interfere with indigenous efforts to seek the truth and recover their murdered family members. Millions of our people are gone. The dead children will find their way home. Every Member of Parliament can demand that nothing can be built until every child is accounted for. There are people alive today who know where they are. They say nothing because they don’t want to be implicated in the crime.  

The question is will the governments of Canada and Quebec stop the genocide by exposing all the evidence about federally funded medical experiments performed on indigenous and Canadians during the cold war. 

McGill University claims to be an expert at everything they do. Like the “Mule Skinner”, it won’t happen the way they think it will. As Jimmie Rodgers explains, the cards could start to fall.

Well, good morning, captainGood morning to you, sirHey, hey, yeah
Do you need another mule skinnerDown on your new mud run?Hey, hey, yeah
Yodel-a-ee-he-heHe-he-he-he-he-he
Well, I’m a lady mule skinnerFrom down old Tennessee wayHey, hey, I come from Tennessee

thahoketoteh@ntk.com MNN court reporter mohawknationnews.com  POBox 991, kahnawake quebec canada J0L 1B0 kahentinetha2@protonmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

MOHAWK MOTHERS FILE CASE AUG. 25/22

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Kahnistensera Mohawk Mothers file in Quebec Superior Court Case

#500-17-120-468-221 kahentinetha et al v. Societe quebecoise

des infrastructures et al.

The Mohawk Mothers filed at Montreal Superior Court on August 25, 2022 all the evidence for their demand for an interlocutory injunction to stop excavation of unmarked graves of children and disturbance of archeological remains of kahnienkehaka/Mohawks on tekanontak [Mount Royal Montreal]. Indigenous children and other test subjects were experimented upon in the 1950s and 1960s. More than 140 exhibits (affidavits, archives, scholar articles, newspaper clippings, drawings, pictures, maps, aerial photos, testimonies of witnesses, survivor statements, government reports, doctor correspondence, Phd. dissertations, book chapters government files,) support their position. On August 31 the opponents [McGill University, Royal Victoria Hospital, Allan Memorial Institute, McGill University Health Centre, City of Montreal, Quebec government, and Minister of Justice Canada] are challenging the right of the Mohawk Mothers to represent themselves. At the same time McGill threatens to excavate the unmarked graves and archeological remains before the hearing on October 26 to avoid an investigation of the archeological remains which their own institutions acknowledge as highly probable.

 

Affidavits

Affidavit Kahentinetha

Affidavit Lana Ponting

Affidavit Philippe

List of Exhibits

 C A N A D A S U P E R I O R C O U R T 

(Civil Division) 

PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 

DISTRICT OF MONTREAL 

No.: 500-17-120468-221 

KAHENTINETHA 

KARENNATHA 

KARAKWINE 

KWETIIO 

OTSITSATAKEN 

and 

KARONHIATE 

Plaintiffs 

v. 
SOCIÉTÉ QUÉBÉCOISE DES INFRASTRUCTURES 

ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL 

MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 

MCGILL UNIVERSITY, 

VILLE DE MONTRÉAL, 

and 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA, 

Defendants 

–and- 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF QUÉBEC 

Impleaded Party 

 PLAINTIFF’S LIST OF EXHIBITS WITH RESPECT TO THEIR APPLICATION FOR AN INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION 

Exhibit P-1 kaianerehko:wa/ Great Law of Peace Wampum 44 – women as progenitors of the soil. The Inherent Right of the Haudenosaunee to Criminal Justice Jurisdiction in Canada: a Premilinary Inquiry. Ph D Thesis, Michael R Cousins, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. 2003, p.163. 

Exhibit P-2 Ville de Montréal, Sommaire décisionnel file no. 1217400001. 

Exhibit P-3 Land Rights : A Global Solution. Six Nations Lands & Resources Department. 2019. 

Exhibit P-4 Silver Covenant Chain, nation-to-nation relationship with the British Crown. 

Exhibit P-5 Recommandations. Site de l’hôpital Royal Victoria, étude de potentiel archéologique. Arkéos. 2016, pp. 71-72. 

Exhibit P-6 Testimony from MK-Ultra survivor Lana Ponting, October 6, 2021. 

Exhibit P-7 MK-Ultra experiments on children. British Journal of Psychiatry 167. 1995, pp. 264-264. 

Exhibit P-8 Nutritional experiments in Indian Residential Schools. Statement of Claim. Jean John Baptiste Pambrun vs. The Attorney General of Canada, Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan, Court File Number QBG 1359/18, pp. 7-13. 

Exhibit P-9 Research for the mentally ill. La Patrie, December 30, 1953. 

Exhibit P-10 Human remains found in the pigsty near St-Jean-de-Dieu hospital, in Montreal. Journal de Montréal. May 11, 1999 

Exhibit P-11 Electroshock torture practiced on children in Fort Albany’s St Anne’s Residential School. The Globe and Mail, October 21 1996. 

Exhibit P-12 Zone allegedly containing unmarked graves. Geoview Pro 

Exhibit P-13 Letters from the SQI to the Band Councils of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake. November 9, 2021 

Exhibit P-14 Synthèse de l’encadrement réglementaire, by the Arrondissement de Ville- Marie, Ville de Montréal, August 2021. 

Exhibit P-15 Statement of Dr. Richard Lloyd Letkeman, M.D., regarding the mental health of Lana Ponting. Sunshine Medical Clinique. Winnipeg, Manitoba. July 13, 2022. 

Exhibit P-16 Letter from family members of survivors of the MK ULTRA experiments to the City of Montreal. July 13, 2022. 

Exhibit P-17 “Executive summary”, “Chapter 2: Operational policies and custodial care” and “Burial policies and practices”. Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials. The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 4, pp. 1-12, 35-47, 118-123. 

Exhibit P-18 “Ottawa Studies Brain Washing”, The Gazette, January 17, 1955. 

Exhibit P-19 Project Mk-Ultra, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification. Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources. United States Senate. 59th Congress., First Session. August 3, 1977. pp. 1-8. 

Exhibit P-20 Julie Tanny vs. Royal Victoria Hospital et al. Re-amended Application to Authorize the Bringing of a Class Action. Montreal Superior Court File NO: 500-06-000972-196. 

Exhibit P-21 Correspondence between the Quebec minister of Health, the Allan Memorial Institute and the Royal Victoria Hospital about the Provincial card reporting system. Fonds Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux. 

Exhibit P-22 Request for information A-2022-02989 at Libraries and Archives Canada, Philippe Blouin. June 23, 2022. 

Exhibit P-23 Email exchange with the Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. July 18, 2022. 

Exhibit P-24 Email exchange with the Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. June 3, 2022. 

Exhibit P-25 Email exchange with Libraries and Archives Canada regarding Clifford Scott Fonds. May 14, 2022. 

Exhibit P-26 Access condition: Waredale House, National Archives of Canada. 

Exhibit P-27 Cecile Hardy and Cecil Hardy vs. The Attorney General of Canada. Fresh as Amended Statement of Claim. Federal Court of Canada File NO: T-143-18 

Exhibit P-28 “1 – The Coming into Force of the Act”. The Act to authorize the communication of personal information to the families of Indigenous children who went missing or died after being admitted to an institution, Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones in collaboration with the Direction des communication, April 2022, pp. 1-10. 

Exhibit P-29 “Ravenscrag cédé à l’hôpital Royal Victoria”. La Patrie, November 11, 1940. 

Exhibit P-30 Letter from Dr. Ewen Cameron to Dr. Cyril James, June 3, 1943. 

Exhibit P-31 Curriculum Vitae of Donald Ewen Cameron. McGill archives. 

Exhibit P-32 1949 Budget – Department of Psychiatry, McGill University 

Exhibit P-33 “Opinion of George Cooper, Q.C., Regarding Canadian Government Funding of the Allan Memorial Institute in the 1950’s and 1960’s”, Minister of Supply and Services Canada. 1986. pp. 1-50. 

Exhibit P-34 CIA MK ULTRA Subproject 68, declassified 2007/03/08 

Exhibit P-35 Eric Oosenburg, 2020. “4. Activities of the new Department of Psychology under William Tait, 1924-1935” and “Chapter Five: Between Brain and Body – The Legacy of Hebbian Neuropsychology”, In Building a ‘Cross-roads Discipline at McGill University: a History of Early Experimental Psychology in Postwar Canada, pp. 40-52, 190-204. 

Exhibit P-36 Ewen Cameron, J.G. Lohrenz, and K.A. Handcock. 1962. “The Depatterning Treatment of Schizophrenia”, Comprehensive Psychiatry 3 (2): 65-76. 

Exhibit P-37 Ewen Cameron, Leonard Levy, Thomas Ban, and Leonard Rubenstein. 1961 “Sensory Deprivation: Effects upon the Functioning Human in Space Systems”, in Bernard E. Flaherty, ed., Psychophysiological Aspects of Space Flight. New York, pp. 225-237. 

Exhibit P-38 Letters Between Donald Hebb and the Canadian Defence Research Board, 1952-1953. https://tsd.naomiklein.org/files/resources/pdfs/hebb.pdf, accessed August 20, 2022. 

Exhibit P-39 Ewen Cameron and S.K. Pende. January 1, 1958. “Treatment of the Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenic Patient”. Can 

Exhibit P-40 Yvan Prkachin. 2021. “Two Solitudes: Wilder Penfield, Ewen Cameron, and the Search for a Better Lobotomy”. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 38 (2): 253-284. 

Exhibit P-41 “Wilder Graves Penfield, M.D.”. https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/wilder-graves-penfield-md, accessed August 9, 2022 

Exhibit P-42 Donald O. Hebb. 1939. “Intelligence in Man after Large Removals of Cerebral Tissue: Report of Four Left Frontal Lobe Cases”. The Journal of General Psychology 21 (1): 73-87. 

Exhibit P-43 Ruth Hoyt. 1952. Table of contents and Acknowledgements. In Intelligence in Schizophrenic Patients with Lobotomy, PhD Dissertation, Doctor of Philosophy, McGill University, pp. i-vi. 

Exhibit P-44 Report to Rockefeller Foundation from the Department of psychiatry, McGill University. 1949-1954. McGill University Archives RG2 C.243 ACC641 Ref636. 

Exhibit P-45 Brianne M. Collins. 2020. “Chapter 2. No Longer ‘the Cinderella of Medicine’: Psychiatric Identity and the Introduction of Somatic Therapies in the 1930s. In Uncharted Territory: Psychosurgery in Western Canada, 1935 -1970. PhD dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, pp. 67-80. 

Exhibit P-46 Robert A. Cleghorn. “E.C.T., L.S.D and the C.I.A”, Summary of AMI Controversy, GA3, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Archives. 

Exhibit P-47 “Proposed alterations to part of the A.M.I. Stable to be used for Movie Photography”. 25 February, 1959. McGill Archives. 

Exhibit P-48 “Laboratory for Experimental Therapeutics. List of total personnel in Laboratory”. February 1957. McGill Archives. 

Exhibit P-49 Letter from Ewen Cameron to Cyril James, June 14, 1957. McGill Archives 

Exhibit P-50 “Draft of Proposal for the Establishment of a Pilot Centre for Juvenile Delinquency”, and letter from Bruno Cormier to Ewen Cameron. 1963. McGill Archives. 

Exhibit P-51 University Centre for Criminology, plans and correspondence. 1956-1960. McGill Archives 

Exhibit P-52 Correspondence between Ewen Cameron and Bruno Cormier, February 20, 1959. McGill Archives 

Exhibit P-53 Geraint B. Osborne. 2006. “Scientific Experimentation on Canadian Inmates, 1955 to 1975”. The Howard Journal 45 (3): 284-306. 

Exhibit P-54 Rapport annuel au Commissaire des pénitenciers, 1958-1959, pp. 1-19, 93-100, 211-216. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/lbrr/archives/csc-arcp-1958-1959-eng.pdf, accessed August 12, 2022. 

Exhibit P-55 Ewen Cameron and Bruno Cormier, note on Services Conference, October 25, 1962. McGill Archives. 

Exhibit P-56 Proposed World Mental Health Research Institute”, McGill Archives. 

Exhibit P-57 Alastair MacLeod. “La Clinique du mieux-être”. L’Action Catholique – Québec, September 18, 1955, pp.7-8. 

Exhibit P-58 “Une institution pour les jeunes malades mentaux”, La Presse, May 4, 1951. 

Exhibit P-59 “Centre de recherches pour maladies mentales”, La Patrie, December 30, 1953. 

Exhibit P-60 “Étude sur l’adolescence subventionnée par Ottawa”, La Patrie, June 9, 1955. 

Exhibit P-61 “Une étude sur l’adolescence”, La Presse, June 9, 1955. 

Exhibit P-62 “Enfants difficiles”, Le Droit, November 28, 1956. 

Exhibit P-63 “Puériculture”, La Patrie, November 20, 1956. 

Exhibit P-64 Heinz Lehmann, T.A. Ban, and J.J. Lorenz. 1961. “Observations on the Action of Sernyl – A New Psychotropic Drug”, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 6 (3): 150-157. 

Exhibit P-65 Program of the Regional Research Conference of the American Psychiatric Association, McGill University, December 4-5, 1953. 

Exhibit P-66 Lauretta Bender, Lothar Goldshmidt and Siva Sankar. “Treatment of autistic schizophrenic children with LSD-25 and UML-491”. 1961. Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry 4: 170-179. 

Exhibit P-67 Gloria Menard. 1996. “Preface” In Anne MacLennan. Red Feather in Montreal. Red Feather Foundation, pp. i-x. 

Exhibit P-68 Krista Maxwell. 2011. “Chapter 3 From Mental Hygiene to Family Healing: Mental Health Professionals, Aboriginal Parenting and Indigenous Resistance”. In Making History Heal: Settler-Colonialism and Urban

Indigenous Healing in Ontario, 1970s-2010. PhD dissertation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 2011. 

Exhibit P-69 “Research memorandum concerning Family Health, Adolescent Roles and Mental Health”. McGill Archives. April 2, 1954. 

Exhibit P-70 Emmanuel Delille. 2018. “Eric Wittkower and the foundation of Montréal’s Transcultural Psychiatry Research Unit after World War II”. History of Psychiatry 29 (3): 282-296. 

Exhibit P-71 David H. Price. 2016. Cold War Anthropology. The CIA, the Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 

Exhibit P-72 Raymond H. Prince. 2000. “Transcultural Psychiatry: Personal Experiences and Canadian Perspectives”. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 45: 431-437. 

Exhibit P-73 H.B.M. Murphy. 1969. “Ethnic Variations in Drug Response: Results of an International Survey”. Transcultural Psychiatry 6 (1): 5-23. 

Exhibit P-74 H.B.M. Murphy. 1974. “Theories of Youth Unrest in Cross-Cultural Perspective”. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 8: 31-40. 

Exhibit P-75 Wallace E. Lambert, Eva Libman, and Ernest G. Poser. 1960. “The effect of increased salience of a membership group on pain tolerance”. Journal of Personality 28: 350–357. 

Exhibit P-76 Ernest G. Poser, George W. Fenton and Leila Scotton. 1965. “The classical conditioning of sleep and wakefulness” Behaviour Research and Therapy 3 (4): 259-264. 

Exhibit P-77 Wallace E. Lambert and Yosh Taguchi. 1956. “Ethnic Cleavage Among Young Children”. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 53 (3): 380–382. 

Exhibit P-78 E. David Sherman. 1943. “Sensivity to Pain (With an Analysis of 450 Cases). Canadian Medical Association Journal 48 (5): 437-441. 

Exhibit P-79 Barbara Wainrib and Joan Rothman, under the supervision of H.B.M. Murphy. A Look at the Children of Caughnawaga. Paper presented at the Services Conference – May 23, 1963, Allan Memorial Institute. 

Exhibit P-80 Minutes of the Panel on Indian Research. Library and Archives Canada, RG10, vol 6036. 

Exhibit P-81 Stanley Brice Frost.1984. “Chapter 6: Developments Between the Wars”. In McGill University: For the Advancement of Learning, Volume II, 1895-1971. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 139–186. 

Exhibit P-82 Correspondence about the Panel on Indian Research. Library and Archives Canada, December 15, 1947. file 150-144 and RG10, vol 8618, File 1 1-15-1. 

Exhibit P-83 G.H. Turner and D.J. Penfold. 1952. “The Scholastic Aptitude of the Indian Children of the Caradoc Reserve.” Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie 6 (1): 31–44. 

Exhibit P-84 Hugh Shewell. 2001. ” ‘What Makes the Indian Tick?’ The Influence of Social Sciences on Canada’s Indian Policy, 1947-1964″. Histoire Sociale/Social History 34 (67): 133-167. 

Exhibit P-85 R.A. Farmer. Letter to Ross Macdonald, May 17, 1950. Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs School Files, RG10, vol 6036, File 150-144, part 1. 

Exhibit P-86 Fred Voget. 1951. “Acculturation at Caughnawaga: A Note on the Native-Modified Group”. American Anthropologist 53 (2): 220-231. 

Exhibit P-87 Oswald Hall. 1949. “The Use of Sampling Procedures and Role Theory in Sociological Research”. The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 15 (1): 1-13. 

Exhibit P-88 Joan Eleanor Kabayama. 1958. “Outline”. Educational Retardation Among Non-Roman Catholic Indians at Oka. Masters dissertation, Department of Education, McGill University, pp. 1-9. 

Exhibit P-89 Ian Mosby. 2013. “Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952” Histoire sociale / Social History, XLVI (91): 145-172. 

Exhibit P-90 Jonathan Turner. 2012. “Chapter 3.7: The Program” The Defence Research Board of Canada, 1947 to 1977. PhD dissertation, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. University of Toronto, pp. 84-113. 

Exhibit P-91 Shane Wiseman. 2017. “Chapter 3: Funding Defence Research and Development.” Matthew The Science of Defence: Security, Research, and the North in Cold War Canada. PhD dissertation, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, pp. 121-157. 

Exhibit P-92 Rod Mickleburgh. “Ruling upheld in ‘deplorable’ case of abuse by therapist”. The Globe and Mail, April 19, 2003. 

Exhibit P-93 Matthew S. Wiseman. 2015. “Unlocking the ‘Eskimo Secret’: Defence Science in the Cold War Canadian Arctic, 1947–1954”. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 26 (1): 191-223. 

Exhibit P-94 Matthew Farish. 2013. “The Lab and the Land: Overcoming the Arctic in Cold War Alaska”. Isis 104 (1): 1-29. 

Exhibit P-95 Kieran Oudshoorn. “Inuit in Canada’s Eastern Arctic Speak Out about Skin Grafts Done Without Consent in 1970s. CBC news. May 14, 2019. 

Exhibit P-96 Robert A. Cleghorn. 1990. “The McGill Experience of Robert A. Cleghorn, MD: Recollections of D. Ewen Cameron”. CBMH/BCHM 7: 53-76. 

Exhibit P-97 J.W. Thomas, Margaret A. Stuckey, H.S. Robinson, J.P. Gofton, D.O. Anderson and J.N. Bell. 1964. “Blood Groups of the Haida Indians”. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 22: 189-192. 

Exhibit P-98 Letter from the Regional Direction of Medical Services, Northern Region. May 31, 1967. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-99 Library and Archives Canada, School File Series, Indian Affairs, RG10, vol 6258, file 576-10, part 8. 

Exhibit P-100 A.A. Foster. 1943. “ESP Tests with American Indian Children. A Comparison of Methods”. The Journal of Parapsychology 7 (2): 94-103. 

Exhibit P-101 Tyler Clarke. “Brandon sanatorium named in lawsuit filed on behalf on ‘Indian Hospital’ patients”. The Brandon Sun, February 3, 2018.¸ 

Exhibit P-102 Donna Carreiro. “‘Our people were experimented on’: Indigenous sanatorium survivors recall medical tests”. CBC News, September 22, 2017. 

Exhibit P-103 “Insane Indians”, Department of Indian Affairs, August 9, 1933. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-104 “Services for the Care of Mentally Defective Persons in Canada”, Department of National Health and Welfare, Letter to the Direction of Indian Health Services, September 28, 1956. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-105 “Memorandum”. Deputy Superintendant General, June 9, 1936. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-106 Library and Archives Canada. RG29 Vol 333 File 436-3-4 – Mental Health – Administration- consultant services, Indian Health Services 

Exhibit P-107 Mental Illness in Indians. Letter from P.E. Moore, Director of Indian and Northern Health Services, May 7, 1956. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-108 “Indian and Northern Health Services 1956”. Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 1957. The Department of National Health and Welfare, pp. 76-93. 

Exhibit P-109 Mentally Ill Eskimos. Letter from John S. Willis, M.D., D.P.H, to the Regional Superintendent of the Eastern Region, November 3, 1955. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-110 Minutes of the fifth meeting of the Committee on Eskimo Affairs held on November 29th, 1954. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-111 List of hospitals and affiliated N.A. & N.R. Officers, Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-112 Letter from Paul Martin, the Minister of National Health and Welfare, April 1, 1955. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-113 Press Release, Indian Health Survey, James Bay. October 28, 1947. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-114 Letter from Indian Health Services officer Leroux to social worker Fortin, April 5, 1952. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-115 The Indian Act and its Amendments. S.C. 1951, c. 29, pp. 351-352. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/aanc-inac/R5-158-2-1978-eng.pdf, accessed August 15, 2022. 

Exhibit P-116 Joan Sangster. 2002. “She Is Hostile to Our Ways”: First Nations Girls Sentenced to the Ontario Training School for Girls, 1933-1960″. Law and History Review 20 (1): 59-96. 

Exhibit P-117 Robert Menzies and Ted Palys. 2006. “Turbulent Spirits: Aboriginal Patients in the British Columbia Psychiatric System, 1879–1950”. In David Wright and James E. Moran (eds.), Mental health and Canadian society historical perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 149-175. 

Exhibit P-118 Nadia Kanani. 2011. “Race and Madness: Locating the experiences of Racialized People with Psychiatric Histories in Canada and the United States.” Critical Disability Discourses 3. Retrieved from

https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/31564, accessed August 14, 2022. 

Exhibit P-119 “Chapter 5: Medical and Hospital Services”. Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 1951. The Department of National Health and Welfare. 1951, pp. 62-66. 

Exhibit P-120 Project 35: Study of Lobotomy in Schizophrenia. Restricted file R1183, RG38, vol 340, no 35. Library and Archives Canada. 

Exhibit P-121 A.O. Bernstein. 1976. “The significance of reports of mercury in various body tissues”, Circumpolar health: proceedings of the 3rd international symposium, Yellowknife, NWT. pp. 650-663. 

Exhibit P-122 Arrêté en Conseil, chambre du Conseil exécutif, no. 816, August 1954. 

Exhibit P-123 “Justice At Last? The Duplessis Orphans Scandal”. AMI Magazine, February 16, 2011, pp. 48-55. 

Exhibit P-124 “Le Cimetière oublié des Orphelins de Duplessis”. Le Journal de Montréal, May 11, 1999. 

Exhibit P-125 Insurance Plan Maps, December 1957, Ville de Montréal 

Exhibit P-126 Patrimoine Montréal. Énoncé de l’intérêt patrimonial. Site de l’Institut Allan Memorial (ancienne villa Ravenscrag)., 29 août 2019. 

Exhibit P-127 Your Pocket Guide to the New Royal Victoria Hospital, 1955. 

Exhibit P-128 Viewpoints and urban profiles of the Allan Memorial Institute and the Royal Victoria Hospital. August 2022. 

Exhibit P-129 City of Montreal Aerial photos and Google Earth snaphots of the Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial Institute throughout history. 

Exhibit P-130 Photographs of the Allan Memorial Institute and Ravenscrag gardens, November 2021. 

Exhibit P-131 “Chapter 6. Determination of Archeological Potential”. Royal Victoria Hospital Archaeological Potential Study. Arkeos and Decasult. 2016, pp. 63-72. 

Exhibit P-132 Donovan King, “Indigenous Burial Sites on the Mountain and Beyond”, August 2022. 

Exhibit P-133 Mathieu Sossoyan. Sacred but Forgotten: Prehistoric Burials on the Island of Montreal. Powerpoint Presentation. 2014. 

Exhibit P-134 Karonhianoron. “A Critique of the Arkeos Report”. August 10, 2022. 

Exhibit P-135 Brief presented by the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) to the Office de consultation publique de Montréal, November 10, 2021. 

Exhibit P-136 Letter from the Société québécoise des infrastructures to the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, November 9, 2021. 

Exhibit P-137 Samir Shaheen-Hussain. 2020. “Chapter 9. Cruel Treatment: Indian Hospitals, Sanatoria, and Skin Grafting”. In Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp.150-178. 

Exhibit P-138 Alisa R. Lombard. “Mistreatment & Violence Against Women During Reproductive Care, With Focus on Childbirth – RE: Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada”. Letter to Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, OHCHR-UNOG. May 17, 2019. 

Exhibit P-139 Dr. Kisha Supernant, Director, Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology. “Overview of Technologies for Searching for Human Remains and Unmarked Graves”. Prepared for the kahnistensera – Mohawk Mothers. August 2022. 

Exhibit P-140 JAllore. “Tales from The Douglas Psychiatric Institute for the Insane / WKT5 #18”. Podcast. October 19, 2021. https://theresaallore.com/2021/10/19/tales-from-the-douglas-psychiatric-institute-for-the-insane-wkt5-18/, accessed August 18, 2022. 

Exhibit p-141 Facebook post by Ian Lafrenière, Quebec Minister Responsible for Indigenous Affairs, July 29, 2022. 

Kahnawake, August 24th, 2022 

KAHENTINETHA 

Plaintiff 

KARENNATHA 

Plaintiff 

KARAKWINE 

Plaintiff 

KWETIIO 

Plaintiff 

OTSITSATAKEN

 

Plaintiff 

KARONHIATE 

Plaintiff 

P.O. Box 991, Kahnawake, Quebec, J0L 1B0 

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No: 500-17-120468-221 

SUPERIOR COURT (CIVIL DIVISION) 

DISTRICT OF MONTREAL 

KAHENTINETHA, 

KARENNATHA, 

KARAKWINE, 

KWETIIO, 

OTSITSATAKEN, 

KARONHIATE, 

Plaintiffs 

vs. 

SOCIÉTÉ QUÉBÉCOISE DES INFRASTRUCTURES, 

ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, 

McGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE, 

McGILL UNIVERSITY, 

VILLE DE MONTRÉAL, 

-and- 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA 

Defendants 

-and- 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF QUEBEC 

Impleaded Party 

______________________________________________________________________ 

PLAINTIFF’S LIST OF EXHIBITS WITH RESPECT TO THEIR APPLICATION FOR AN INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION 

ORIGINAL 

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MNN. Aug 13, 2022. Here are two articles on “Mohawk Mothers” who asked for the removal of the Mount Royal Cross, translated from French. First, from Quebec reactionary  Mathieu Bock-Coté, followed by a response published on Aug. 11, 2022 in The Metro Journal By Philippe Blouin, Phd. candidate McGill, and Guillaume G. Poirier,  doctorate candidate, U. of Ottawa. 

UNMARKED GRAVES OF CHILDREN MURDERED BY THE INVADERS.

The Metro newspaper reported the “Mohawk mothers” as “Aboriginal peoples who see the cross the way the Jewish people see the swastika as equivalent to the symbol of Nazism!

Bock-Cote accuses the “Mohawk mothers” of Nazifying the history of New France. Bock-Cote asks how can one seriously equate European expansion from 1492 and the era of the Great Discoveries with the history of the Third Reich? 

Bock-Cote says the new scapegoat is the “big bad white man, presented as a dirty little Satan, condemned to perpetual penitence, to eternal genuflection, to repentance until the end of time. It is obligatory to hate him”… The desire to erase the cross on Mount Royal is part of this logic similar to the public prayer now recited about the supposedly unceded territories, as if we were not at home in our country!

Bock-Cote says in effect that “We are destroying the legitimacy of the countries resulting from European expansion. The Mohawk Mothers do not talk about “reconciliation”, but the most radical Amerindian militants dream of revenge. For them, we are “intruders” in America. They are influenced by the radical left, which leads its anti-Western crusade. Unmistakably the residential schools genocide represent an indelible stain on Canadian history. But redressing this injustice should not mean self-destruction though this is the temptation of our elites, who indulge in masochism”.

Bock-Cote states that for now the idea of removing the cross is rejected. The Mount Royal Cross represents for them “a major historical  emblem of Montreal recalling historical events, and represents the French Canadian population, transforming the history of the Quebec people into the history of one ethnic community among others”. 

Bock-Cote says, “We feel that the City of Montreal is ashamed of this cross. “Mohawk mothers” equating the cross to the swastika means we have already mentally lost the battle”.

Is M. Bock-Coté, MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE. OPEN LETTER – BY PHILIPPE BLOUIN AND GUILLAUME G POIRIER, PHD CANDIDATES. August 10, 2022.  After spending one week in Canada, Pope Francis confessed that his visit had been a real “slap in the face”, leading him to realize that the natives there had suffered genocide. For Bock-Côté, who was born here, the slap does not seem to have come yet. In response to the Mohawk Mothers, who are asking for the removal of the Mount Royal cross, a symbol of the horrors experienced by Aboriginals in the same way that the swastika was for the Jews, Bock-Côté regrets that this request could be “taken seriously” by the City of Montreal.

Yet the Catholic Church authority has explicitly recognized the genocidal nature of its program of assimilation of  Aboriginals, and by extension, the fact that its symbol, the cross, can be associated with genocide. The question: is  Bock-Côté more Catholic than the Pope?

We return to the distorted words of the author of The Racialist Revolution. First, the notion of “genocide”. The Geneva Convention defines it as “the intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”. It also defines criteria that apply unambiguously to what happened here: “Forced transfer of children from the group to another group” (boarding schools); “Measures intended to prevent births within the group” (forced sterilizations); “Intentional subjection of the group to conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” (reservation system), etc.

To date, more than 2,300 children’s bodies have been found in mass graves in Canada, while three quarters of the residential schools have yet to be excavated.  Let’s imagine that we Quebecers are forced – on pain of going to jail – to send our children to study year-round in a residential school where a foreign language and religion are imposed on them. Imagine the after-effects on Quebec culture after just ten years of forced acculturation. The Aboriginals have lived more than 150 years of forced acculturation. Would Whites, Quebecers or others, be ready to undergo this experience in order to attain the status of victims that Bock-Côté has given them? By denouncing the “demonization of the white man” that we would witness today, Bock-Côté reverses reality. The Church has always associated Aboriginal spiritualities and ways of life with “Satan”, but not those of the white man. The “Lord’s Prayer”was forced to be recited in residential schools, not the “public prayer acknowledging  the unceded indigenous territories”. Gas chambers were not necessary here to find a “final solution” to the “Indian problem.” Religious indoctrination, cultural ethnocide and sexual and physical abuse were enough. Let us not forget that many whites were also victims of Catholic torturers during the Great Blackness. The Mohawk Mothers’ press conference was also attended by Duplessis Orphans, who came to demand the removal of the cross, a symbol whose authority was used by priests to abuse them in orphanages. Thanks to Decree 816, signed on March 18, 1956, Maurice Duplessis, whom Bock-Côté describes as “the defender of  Quebec,” had changed the status of a whole generation of orphans to “mentally retarded” in order to receive more federal subsidies. Many of these children, born out of wedlock, were seen as children of sin, and treated by Catholic congregations with a barbarity of which no Quebecer could be proud. In 1999, the “Soue à Cochon” [pigsty] cemetery near St. Jean de Dieu Hospital, where the Duplessis Orphans had been unceremoniously piled for years, was covered by an SAQ [alcohol] warehouse. The first shovelful of earth was given by none other than [Quebec Premier} François Legault. By jointly asking for the removal of the cross from Mount Royal, the Mohawk Mothers and the Duplessis Orphans are demanding only a minimal recognition of these crimes, in a context where the secularization of public space is being demanded from all sides. If a survey were to be  launched, it is likely that many Montrealers would agree.

THE CROSS IS THE SYMBOL OF THE  BIGGEST GENOCIDE IN HUMANITY  OF  150 MILLION INDIGENOUS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 

This brings us to the story of the word, “Québec”. Bock-Côté takes exception to the city of Montreal’s use of the term “French-Canadian population”, forgetting that the word Quebec is both an Aboriginal term and a British assignment. It was the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that established Canada as the Province of Quebec, using an Anishinabe word meaning “narrow passage”. On the other hand, the term “Canadian” was initially reserved for the French settlers, and repugnant to the British. In the Mohawk language, Kanatiéns means “squatters”. It is paradoxical, to say the least, that the demand for the removal of  colonial symbols should be labelled as “identity masochism”. Isn’t the real “morbid pleasure” that of the colonizer-colonized (Bock-Côté) who rejoices in the name that another colonizer (the British crown) has given him? How can Bock-Côté so well decry the colonial oppression of Quebecers by the British, while being unable to see that he is reproducing it against the Aboriginals?

If contemporary Quebecers want to show their solidarity with the victims of their colonial heritage, it is essential that they take seriously the testimonies and claims of the victims of the European invasion and of Catholic fundamentalism. It is even a duty to prove that we have more sensitivity than the Nazis – and that we sincerely want to repair the past. We believe that Quebec in its overwhelming majority is ready to hear and to face the terrible reality that the Pope has acknowledged about the Aboriginal people. However, everything seems to suggest that Bock-Côté has a problem of listening (not to say understanding) in this matter. We hope that he will come to his senses, as the representative of his cross. In his defense, it must be recognized that Bock-Côté has followed, in spite of himself, what many natives and non-natives sensitive to the decolonial cause would like him to do: he has returned to make his life in Europe. If France is favorable to him, let him stay there. We will take care of our colonial heritage ourselves, right here on Turtle Island.

Philippe Blouin is a PhD candidate in anthropology at McGill University, working on his dissertation on Mohawk political philosophy, and will publish in September the book “The Mohawk Warrior Society. A Handbook on Sovereignty and survival.” Guillaume G. Poirier is a doctoral candidate at the School of Political Thought of the University of Ottawa, working on a thesis on the role of the “savage” in the history of colonization and in the doctrine of the sovereign state in Thomas Hobbes.

The Beatles know that basically nothing is gonna change the world because the church and its symbols cannot kill the kaianerekowa, great peace: Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing Through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns. It calls me on and on across the universe. Jai guru deva, om. Nothing’s gonna change my world.

 

MNN Note: The genocide has never ended. It continues today and tomorrow. Bock-Cote attacking the Mohawk Mothers is attacking his own mother. All women around the world are right. We onkwewonweh are here and will continue to resist.

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POPE PLEADS GUILTY TO COMMITTING GENOCIDE Audio

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948 

Genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world, 

It is agreed that:

Article I

That genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article II

Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article III

The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide;

(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;

(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

(d) Attempt to commit genocide;

(e) Complicity in genocide.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf

           

CREE SINGS WORDS OF TRUTH TO POPE AND THE WORLD

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MNN. July 30. 2022. She was supposed to sing ‘O Canada’ to the Pope at Ste. Anne de  Beaupre in southern Quebec before he left for Iqualit in northern turtle island.  It turned out she wasn’t singing O Canada or to the Pope. She was voicing a truthful message to the indigenous people and to the whole world!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her actual indigenous words were: “You are hereby served spoken law. We, the daughters of the Great Spirit and our tribal sovereign members cannot be coerced into any law, any treaty that is not the Great Law,” she translated later for CBC News.

She is part of the ongoing process of the indigenous people retaking total control of their original homeland, turtle island, onowarekeh, indigenous land. The kahnistensera stand with her as she reignites the tie between the indigenous and creation among the original people of the Western Hemisphere.

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THE POPE *** IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Audio

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Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) demand that the Pope must leave our land and take the cross and all of the symbols of their atrocities with him. Indigenous people see it as how the Jewish people see the swastika. McGill must stop bulldozing alleged unmarked graves before any investigation.

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“The pope must leave and take the cross with him”, demand the Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers), who are carrying out their duties under the direction of the great peace kaianerekowa, and to stop the unmarked graves from being bulldozed by McGill University, which is now in Quebec’s Superior Court. They are trying to desecrate a crime scene, which violates their own law.

Tiohtiàke/Montreal, July 28, 2022. The Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) joined by their 50+ supporters had a rally and press conference to share updates on their attempt to stop McGill University from conducting excavation work on the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital, regardless of allegations of unmarked graves of Indigenous children. The rally and the press conference took place yesterday at the Mordecai Richler Gazebo at the foot of the unceded kanien’kehà:ka homeland of tekanontak (Mount-Royal), which all parties concede is all indigenous land as caretakers for future people.

On July 26th, 2022, a case management conference at the Quebec Superior Court in Montreal confirmed that McGill University intends to start building its “New Vic” campus in October 2022, in an area adjacent to McGill’s psychiatry department, the Allan Memorial Institute, where infamous CIA-funded Mk-Ultra “mind control” experiments were conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. The kahnistensera fear that forensic evidence of criminal research activities will be destroyed if the land is excavated before a thorough investigation is made to their satisfaction. The Superior Court will hear the kahnistensera’s demand for an interlocutory injunction against the construction project on October 26th 2022.

Meanwhile, the Société québécoise des infrastructures (the alleged owner of the Allan Memorial Institute), McGill University, the government of Canada and the City of Montreal are encouraging the desecration of the unmarked Indigenous graves situated on the former Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial sites, unceded land traditionally known as tekanontak, “two mountains” (Mount Royal). McGill University is being permitted to go forth with their $700 million “New Vic” project in the guise of furthering public policy and sustainability research.

Out of “common decency”, the kahnistensera ask a commitment from McGill university to not desecrate the bodies of their ancestors and children before the truth is known about the medical crimes committed on those lands. Instead, they demand McGill to provide access to archives so that proof of the graves can be ascertained. Furthermore, it is unceded Indigenous territory and its stewardship should remain in Indigenous hands. All permits for any construction can only be provided by the kanionkehaka, the rightful owners of the land.

The kahnistensera, as Mohawk women traditionally vested with the responsibility of caretaking the land, also denounced the visit of Pope Francis to Turtle Island. “He did not apply for permission from the true indigenous people to enter turtle island. He is not welcome and not wanted. He is just another trespasser,” said the kahnistensera. The legacy of the Catholic church on turtle Island is indisputably tied up in the genocide of Indigenous Peoples through residential schools and other oppressive and assimilationist practices evidenced in the thousands of unmarked graves discovered across the country to date. Millions more expected to be found. Canada hired the churches to carry out the genocide.

According to the Mothers, confronting the reality of these unspeakable crimes involves more than just words —it requires tangible action, particularly the dismantlement of the colonial oppressive apparatus called “Canada”. Apologies are unacceptable. Real action starts by “canceling the ‘doctrine of discovery’. No one can discover something that was not lost! [Mad Bear Anderson]. This is the only argument they use to justify their genocide”, said kahentinetha at the Rally and press conference. This goes for all of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. There is no statute of limitation on such crimes against humanity. 

Real action means taking accountability for what has been done which can never be rectified by “giving back” something they never owned. The churches and Canada still exist and are responsible for their crimes. This stands in stark contrast to the Pope’s slap in the face to all indigenous people, such as “prayers’, phoney apologies, empty promises and continuing genocide. These cannot heal or help the countless lives taken and harmed by the Catholic church and other evil denominations. “The Pope doesn’t have any business coming over here. And all of these people, that were involved in the biggest genocide/holocaust in world history, are walking around free as a bird and being glorified by the state, the politicians the banks” and the sheep, emphasized kahentinetha. They should join in finding these graves. “The cross must come down” was one of the main demands of the kanien’kehà:ka kahnistensera, referring to the 31 meters tall cross on top of Mount Royal. “It’s a symbol of murder, rape, violence, oppression and abuse of genocide power”, said karakwiné, one of the Mohawk Mothers, as she felt the pain of so many of her ancestors. The cross as a symbol of human cruelty was also highlighted by the Duplessis Orphans who were present and recounted the stories of sexual abuse and oppression they experienced at the hands of the priests.

This demonstrated an alliance between peoples who suffered inhuman and cruel treatment under the stewardship of the church. “The cross is a symbol of power that was used to abuse children”, said Hervé Bertrand of the Duplessis Orphans. The kahnistensera invite all people in solidarity with the cause to help them prevent the desecration of the graves of Indigenous children and ancestors before their next hearing, on October 26th. -30- Contact: kahnistensera@riseup.net 514-825-4001 Source: mohawknationnews.com [1] Milton Parc Citizens Committee (statement [2]) Links: —— [1] http://mohawknationnews.com [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/10j4ndAOUACOcSPE3Ozh87hBW5QuC7rtAwGflBsIgZ78/edit

ALJAZEERA: “MEET THE INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TAKING QUEBEC TO COURT”

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MEET THE INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TAKING QUEBEC TO COURT

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Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. [Lydia Yakonowsky/National Trust for Canada]

By Theo Malhotra

In recent years, more North American colleges have begun to perform land acknowledgements, which recognize the Indigenous people on whose unceded land their campuses were built centuries ago. But recent events show that talk is cheap.

A group of Mohawk women from the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation outside Montreal has taken legal action to prevent the expansion of two McGill University buildings on historically Mohawk land. This is also the site where the CIA’s MK-Ultra psychological experiments took place, in which unwilling test subjects were used in dystopian brainwashing and mind control experiments. The Mohawk group claims that the unmarked graves of children – victims of these experiments – lie beneath both the Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial Institute.

The Kanien’kehá:ka kahnistensera, or Mohawk Mothers, presented their case to the Quebec Superior Court on May 30. They’re demanding a thorough investigation of the sites to collect evidence of unmarked graves. We spoke with Mother, activist and Mohawk Nation News founder kahentinetha about McGill’s refusal to return stolen Iroquois funds and why Canada’s “whole system will fall” when the Mothers’ case is heard in court.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

WHO ARE THE MOHAWK MOTHERS?

We are the progenitors of the land, and all decisions that are made about it have to go through the women. We work together with the men, but the women are the ones that select those at the higher levels of power, for example, the chiefs.

WHERE DO ALLEGATIONS OF UNMARKED GRAVES AROUND MCGILL ORIGINATE? 

We have had many children taken from us, murdered and buried. This was based on the 1924 Indian Lands Act, which turned our resources over to the provinces and put us on reservations, which were actually death camps. They took our children and set up residential schools. Now we’re finding these children, and they’re everywhere in Canada, in unmarked graves. [Ed. Note: 1,800 confirmed or suspected unmarked graves have been identified to date, while a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report estimates that 3,200 exist.]

We’ve done a lot of research. We went to the McGill library archive, and now we’ve seen with our own eyes the proof of what was done, and it’s boxes and boxes. There’s so much.

After World War II, McGill got a lot of money from the military, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Canadian government to do mind control and all kinds of gross experiments on our children.

But the main scientist working with the CIA and the Canadian military on MK-Ultra was Dr. Ewen Cameron, who led the Allan Memorial Institute [a psychiatric hospital and research institute that led the CIA’s MK-Ultra experiments from 1957 to 1964]. We also have some people who lived through it and are willing to come and testify at our trial about the Native children that were brought in there and were buried. They saw shovels and everything. I personally know of somebody who was taken there because he was “unruly.” They did a lobotomy on him and sent him back. And for 40 years, his family took care of him.

My two uncles and my aunt were sent to one of the residential schools near the Six Nations reserve, and they came back and told us about it. They said to my father, whatever you do, don’t ever go to that place. So that’s how I heard about it. We knew about it. Our grandparents knew about this. It was just that nobody ever believed us. But people talked about it, and now it’s coming out.

WHAT IS THE MOHAWK COUNCIL, AND HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE ITS ROLE IN THIS SITUATION? 

 [Ed. Note: In Canada, band councils are composed of and elected by Indigenous tribal members, and are responsible for administering education, community housing and other services. However, council election turnout is very low, and the band councils are accountable to the federal government.]

Well, they don’t get much support from the people because they work so much against us. We call them “paid killers” because they were right there from the beginning in 1924, when Canada set the reservations up.

The band council ran the reservations and helped the government to carry out the genocide. They helped select the children that were sent to these schools and were never seen again. The genocide’s purpose was to rid Canada of the Indigenous people, because all the land is Indigenous land, and there is no way to sell or transfer it because it belongs to the unborn children. So the only way they could get it would be to kill off all the children and sterilize the mothers, which they did.

I was young at the time, so I experienced quite a bit of it. The band council would point out who was considered to be unruly. They would suggest that they get tested, and then who knows what would happen to them after that. That’s how people disappeared. We didn’t see them again, and we couldn’t find out what happened to them.

WHAT DID YOUR PETITION TO MCGILL UNIVERSITY ASK FOR? 

I started in 2015 by writing a letter to McGill in which I took a seizure of the university, reminding them that we continue to have jurisdiction over all Mohawk land. I informed them that it was built without my knowledge or consent, and that this land belongs to us.

McGill University was built in 1821 with money from the Iroquois trust fund, which had been seized by the Canadian government, because they had decided that we were “wards of the state.” They took the money and loaned it to James McGill, a slave owner, to create a military college. Then they borrowed more money from the same fund when they turned it into a university, which has never been returned. And we’ve asked for it back in this court case, because there’s more than enough evidence.

One of the things I asked McGill for was proof that any of this land was ever transferred from the Native people. On McGill’s own website, it says very clearly there that this is Kahnawake land since time immemorial and it has never been ceded. Everybody has to say that now, before they start any meeting.

I also asked McGill to discontinue its war labs, which fund military research. I said this violates the Haudenosaunee Great Peace. This is our university, it’s on our land and we will not allow that.

HOW HAVE THE MCGILL ADMINISTRATION AND THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONDED TO THESE CLAIMS? 

I waited for a response and I didn’t get one. So I wrote back to them and I said, the time has come. When you don’t answer, that means you’re in default, you have admitted every allegation that I have made.

We went to the Federal Court of Canada and they were swamping us with protocols. We decided to drop out because they were going to do that to us for years to come. So we took it to the Superior Court of Quebec. They knew they were going to lose the case because their constitution says pretty plainly that all of the laws that have come here do not supersede Indigenous law. Anything that conflicts with that is of no force or effect. Canada has never allowed anybody to challenge it in court because that would prove it, and their whole system would fall.

We’re just doing what we know from our own way, by ourselves. We have no lawyers. The other party, well, they have their law. We have many, many lawyers working against us. They’re going to use hundreds of thousands of laws foreign to Turtle Island. Go ahead, use your law. See if any of it supersedes our way. None of it does. Their own constitution says that Indigenous law is still the law of the land. Read sections 52 and 35 yourself. But nobody’s challenged it up until now.

WHAT RESOURCES CAN PEOPLE ACCESS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS? 

The McGill library would be a good beginning, but the files are also hidden in the Department of Indian Affairs and hospitals like Brandon Sanatorium in Manitoba.

What we want to do is we want to get all that information, all of the proof that we have, and put it on the court records and have it there for people to look at. We want the truth out there and we want it posted in their own system.

— Theo Malhotra (@theo_malhotra)

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MNN. Apr. 21, 2022. What’s the fuss over the Jay Treaty? It does not exist on great turtle island [the Western Hemisphere] for the sovereign indigenous people. International law exists as long as it serves the United States. So there is no international law. Article 2 of the Jay Treaty of Trade and Commerce 1794 acknowledges the that there are no borders for indigenous people because the supreme law of  great turtle island is the kaianerekowa and indigenous laws that have been here since time immemorial. Canada commits a crime when they refuse to acknowledge the kaianerekowa and do not allow indigenous from anywhere in the Western Hemisphere to pass and repass the artificial borders placed anywhere on turtle island by the invaders.
The Jay Treaty is between US and Britain to settle the colonial wars between them. great turtle island is one land for all indigenous people.  
The band council is an administrative arm of the invading Canadian/British army that enforces the foreign”Admiralty Law of the Sea”. The Indian Act provides that the band council as Canadians have no authority to represent us because they violate the teiohateh, two row. The tribal councils in the United States do not represent the indigenous people either for the same reason.

This ‘imaginary line’ to exploit the people is made out of thin air. It exists only by foreign legislation and is not natural. Birds, deer, indigenous people don’t need statutes to move about on their land. 500 years ago indigenous people were naturally free to travel ocean to ocean, pole to pole. We are stopped, penalized, imprisoned and forced to live on small POW camps called “reservations” overseen and enforced by the “weaponized peacekeepers.”

Violence against indigenous people at illegal economic border

US VIOLENCE AT ILLEGAL BORDER AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

The kaianerekowa, great peace, and all original indigenous law is the law of great turtle island. In 1794 the Americans and British carved an illegal line through onowarekeh, turtle island, calling the north side Canada and the south side the United States and Mexico, but the same families ruled all sides of the pretend borders. Canada and United States will stop their criminality and totally remove the boundary and let all natives cross and recross freely. The South Americans cannot be stopped from moving north. The non-natives and their band and tribal councils have to live by the kaianerekowa or leave great turtle island. 
When we go to the border, we can drive or walk through and tell the border guards to get out of our way. They have to open the gates for us as though they do not exist. Some remarks by indigenous when harassed at the border: “There is no Canada or United States!” Another was asked where he born. He said “Six Nations!” The immigration fella said, “You are Canadian”. His father corrected, “If a calf is born in a horse’s stall, does that make him a horse?”    
Instead of lying, murdering and warfare the O’Jays sing that we should all get on the “Love Train”: “People all over the world everybody [all over the world] join hands with the love ride. Start a ‘love train’, ‘love ride’, ‘love train’. At the next stop that we make will be England. Tell the folks in Russia and China too” . . .  

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MNN. Apr. 19, 2022. By Thahoketoteh, MNN Correspondent. The solution to this war insanity is the kaianerekowa, the great peace. The indigenous have been continually offering it to the world. This works because it is based on nature. Until the women of the world take their proper place in the concensual decision making process, there will be no peace. This war between Ukraine and Russia was not called by the women, the mothers of the men and boys who are dying on all sides. According to the kaianerekowa, the mothers decide if there shall be a war. A true war is always about the protection of the land and the people. 

What is the American Empire? It is the “empire of the city” ruled by the Vatican, the City of London and Washington DC. owned and controlled by the bankers. It is an illusion of empire based on an artificial private corporation. They create chaos and mayhem, based on a private corporation called the Crown.

THE UNENDING FIGHT FOR THE LAND.

 

Factually all land and assets in the western hemisphere belong to the indigenous people since time immemorial and to infinity. The Western Roman empire is occupying unceded indigenous land from ocean to ocean and pole to pole, without the permission of the caretakers of the land, the indigenous people.

1710 Four Iroquois chiefs at first international conference on peace in London.

 

Presently two nuclear armed camps with the ability for nuclear disaster are threatening the world. The women of the world are the true titleholders of the earth. In the 1960s when Russia tried to put weapons in Cuba, the US put an embargo around Cuba and went on full military alert to invade Cuba. It was called off.

The indigenous never surrendered any of the land that creation placed them upon. It is owned by the future generations. To get control of turtle island, on October 25, 1924, the Indian Lands Acts was passed ,and the natural original people were placed in Prisoner of War camps called ‘indian’ reservations. 

The kahnistensera women as well as tghe other women of the world have the duty to protect mother earth and all life as they are the life bringers. The longest military occupation in the history of the world has been on turtle island, to create nation states under one world government. The women of the world are allied together to save the earth.

When Putin announced that the Russians were going into Ukraine, they did not want to own or occupy it. They are attempting to cleanse the land of the neo-nazi mentality.     

Turtle island is self sufficient as everything the indigenous need is here, which makes them 100% sovereign. The indigenous want to cleanse this land of its invaders who have been devastating turtle island for 500 years. 

Europeans putting their flags on turtle island does not mean they own it. They are trespassers who invaded, stole and divided indigenous land. 

Recently the U.S. and Canadian band and tribal council puppets met with American and Canadian authorities in Ottawa to discuss the Canada/US border. The Jay Treaty 1794 is between the US colonies and Britain to end their colonial war.  No one can circumvent the kaianerekow, great peace. Article 2 acknowledges the indigenous people as independent with the inherent right to cross and re-cross the ‘imaginary’ border that was artificially put across turtle island. This applies to all of turtle island, north and south.

The band and tribal councils work for the invaders. Indigenous law does not recognize the laws of the invaders nor their indian “traitors” who are slaves on the invader’s ship. They are all ‘squatters’ if they don’t follow or recognize the kaianerekowa. The band and tribal councils are sell-outs of the great peace which makes them guilty of treason.

What they have done together to the indigenous people and mother earth is atrocious. Those ‘indians’ went to Rome and kissed the ring of the Pope to show their subservience to him. He said, “Sorry” but not “please forgive me”, the same for the Canadian and American criminals. They do not speak on our behalf on anything.  

No one is being held accountable for the biggest holocaust in all humanity. The indigenous want to bring this issue before a proper world format.

There are several scenarios. onowarekeh is one entity. First, US, Canada and Mexico will again become onowarekeh, the basis of mother earth. The indigenous recognize themselves as one people. Second, Indian Affairs is desperate because they realize their end is coming soon. From the 14th  floor in Hull the generals are issuing thousands of new Indian Status Cards to non native people to influence the vote that none of the traditional people ever take part in, in the 51% hierarchical elections. So there is always conflict. the indigenous do not vote because they are not part of them and they are not part of the indigenous.    

Nature will protect the indigenous people who are part of all creation on turtle island. The recent secret meeting in Ottawa on the Jay Treaty has been kept secret. The government has never been transparent to anyone.   

Is Eric Clapton asking for the impossible? Tell the truth.
Tell me who’s been fooling you? Tell the truth. Who’s been fooling who? There you sit there, looking so cool While the whole show is passing you by.
You better come to terms with your fellow men soon, cause The whole world is shaking now. Can’t you feel it? A new dawn is breaking now. Can’t you see it?

MNN Correspondent thahoketoteh@ntk.com. mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@protonmail.com. PO Box 991, kahnawake quebec canada J0L1B0

WHAT’S TO COME: SEE ‘BABAKIUERIA’ [BARBECUE AREA] 1986, ON RELATIONS AROUND ROLE REVERSAL WHEN ABORIGINALS INVADE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqcFg4z6EYY

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOHAWK MOTHERS IN QUEBEC COURT DELAYED TO MAY 30/22 Audio

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MNN. Apr. 16, 2022. Update by thahoketoteh, MNN court reporter. The mohawk mothers were ready to proceed without lawyers with the case on April 14, 2022. For various reasons the court meeting has been postponed to May 30, 2022. The mothers continue to monitor the entire Royal Victoria Project while the case is in court. All proposed renovations continue to be challenged by the kahnistensera, the caretakers of the unceded land in question. No work is being carried out at this time.

INDIGENOUS WOMEN LEAD FIGHT FOR LAND 

On May 30 there will be a Calling of the Roll” and case management.  Then the kahnistensera can present their case.

The Attorney General of Quebec has been notified that the case has crucial constitutional and public interest importance to both Canada and Quebec and has intervened in the case, i.e. indigenous lands and crimes against humanity regarding the unmarked graves. Defendant SQI has appointed new lawyers.

The rotiskenraketeh [men’s fire] will follow their duty and will carry out the women’s bidding as per the kaianerekowa.

As Billie Holiday sings about something that’s being delayed: “I’ll be seeing you in old familiar places, that this heart of mine embraces all day through. I’ll see you in the morning sun and when the night is through. I’ll be looking at the moon and I’ll be seeing you” [on May 30].

 

thahoketoteh@ntk.com  MNN Cour Reporter. [kahnistensera – kahentinetha2@protonmail.com, P.O. Box 991, kahnawake Quebec Canada J0L 1B0

 

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