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Federal Court Case T-1396-12…

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FEDERAL COURT JUDGE KEVIN AALTO GUILTY OF TREASON FOR BREAKING ROYAL PROCLAMATION 

MNN.  Oct. 5, 2012.  On October 1, 2012 we went to Federal Court in Toronto to remind Canada of the law and the lawbreaking that is going on in Kanekota.  Kanekota is a British Protectorate. Trespassers must stop breaking the law.     

On October 5, 2012 Judge Aalto confirmed that their Royal Proclamation supercedes all Admiralty Statutes, statutory law and rules.  Then he told us they have no jurisdiction or will to respect it.  He clearly violated his oath to their Queen, making him guilty of high treason.  The penalty is death, which we did not ask for.  The last thing Thahoketoteh of Kanekota told Judge Aalto was, “You be careful of your decision.  If you break a royal proclamation, you will be guilty of high treason”.  Now he is. [Thahoketoteh of Kanekota v The Queen T-1396-12.] 

The Royal Proclamation confirms the Guswentha/Two Row Agreement, the supreme law of Onowaregeh/Great Turtle Island.  The 1701 agreements with the French and English are the only laws that give the newcomers the right to live on our land.  They broke these and now illegally reside here.   According to the Royal Proclamation 1784 their subjects must respect the Guswentha in all matters.   

The Federal Court agreed that in 1784 Captain General Frederick Haldimand signed on behalf of the king a proclamation to protect Mohawks from white encroachment forever.   Canada can no longer pretend ignorance of the laws.  The Federal Court put on the public record that Canada openly admits its criminality and refuses to follow the law. 

Judge Aalto erroneously proclaimed that the Federal Court overrules a Royal Proclamation. [He should be kicked out of law and put in jail]. This is all gobblety-gook to sidestep the lawbreaking and gives more time for corporate destruction of Kanekota.  He also ruled that “as this court has no jurisdiction to deal with these issues, leave to amend is also denied.” Meaning he decided that we could never appeal his wrong decision.  He showed that the Federal Court is nothing more than a kangeroo court.  

We do not accept this law breaking.  Under Wampum 44 of the Kaianerekowa/Great Law, the Women Title Holders have the duty to notify all settlers that as their proclamation supercedes all their rules and statutes, all their settlements, developments and permits violate the proclamation and the Guswentha.   

Judge Aalto did not dispute any of our arguments, that: 

1-The Nanfan Treaty is the Guswentha agreement with Great Britain.  

2-The Haldimand Proclamation is their order that there shall never be any encroachment by their people on our land.  

3-The Indian Lands Act 1924 is illegal as it was never taken to the Indigenous people, passed in any legislature nor brought to the Queen.  It was a side deal of the Minister of Indian Affairs of the Colony of Canada and the Minister of Mines of Ontario.  All Ontario settlers rely on this illegal statute for their title.  

4-The seizure of Canadian Hydro Developers windmills built in Kanekota without our consent belongs to the Mohawk Nation.  Canada broke its laws on “Aboriginal consultation” at the Ontario Municipal Board OMB hearings regarding these illegal eyesores.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-jbTGh87g  The Municipal, Provincial and Federal governments must be notified of this ruling.   

5–The Outdoor Education Center by the Etobicoke Board of Education was stolen.  Now they are trying to illegally re-sell it.  

6-Enbridge Gas has illegally built a pipeline through Kanekota.  

7-Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty has illegally built a multi-million dollar estate on Kanekota. 

The Shareholders of the foreign Corporation of Canada have set up the Admiralty court system, to keep what has been stolen from us.  The courts make and manipulate its rules to make profits for the shareholders. For them the Royal Proclamation exists but they don’t have to follow it if they don’t want to.    

Dekanawida, the Peacemaker, showed us the path.  He knew that we had the mind to figure out the solutions.  Change for peace starts in each person’s mind. 

Contact:  Thahoketoteh@hotmail.com; MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com  For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0

 

 

 

 

COMMENCEMENT MESSAGE TO INDIGENOUS LAW GRADS:

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“PICK YOUR PATH CAREFULLY”MNN. June 17, 2007. The following question came to MNN from an Indigenous law grad, “…do you feel comfortable passing yourself off as a legal authority?” Yeah! On our law!

Obviously this law graduate has been totally indoctrinated. He assumes that law is the exclusive preserve of “experts”. Law is based on prior and informed consent of the people concerned, not on the power to conquer, oppress and control. In a real democracy law is made and known by all. It’s not based on authority. There is a presumption that ignorance of the law is no excuse. So ignorance of our original law and inherent jurisdiction by the colonists is no excuse for their criminality.

It’s a risky business sending our kids to law [brainwashing] school to learn about the colonizer’s customs and bad habits of thoughts. We hope they do not become colonized or colonizers themselves through the intense brainwashing process they are put through. We do have to know what they’re about. We’ve found out their law is the art of trickery, wording and using deceit to win “through manipulation of timing and rules”, as Indian Affairs Minister Jim “Jonestown” Prentice proposes to settle their claims to our land.

We have the Kaianereh’ko:wa, the Great Law of Peace. It outlines our relationship to the natural world on the land we were created known as “Onowarekeh”/Turtle Island. We Kanionkehaka/Mohawk must uphold our responsibilities as the trustees for the generations to come. Other indigenous nations take a similar approach to law. Our law is what the Americans tried to copy when they rejected “subject status” to become independent from Britain and tried to establish a democracy. Unfortunately, they did not understand democracy or human equality. They were blinded by greed for our resources.

For those who want to understand the legal history of Onowarekeh, Robert A. Williams did a study called the “American Indian in Western Legal Thought: the discourses of conquest”. This book “identifies and explains intellectual foundations …to justify keeping the Indian on the outside looking in”. It shows how their medieval background forms their behavior on Turtle Island.

Another book is Theodore W. Allen, “The Invention of the White Race”. The Euro-American legal system is all about oppression and social control. It sets up the elite to enslave the majority of the people, regardless of color. We Indigenous could not be enslaved because of our highly developed knowledge of the egalitarian relationships with the natural world.

Racism is a critical part of colonization. The elite need other people to slave for them to run their system. Their policy for us became extermination. They carried out a “holocaust” that killed 115 million or more of our people. Then they brought people from their own countries and captured Africans and worked them to death.

The colonizers created a sick and twisted racial divide. They focused their psychotic attention on enslaving Africans by conditioning people to think that people of color should naturally be slaves. This is because they’re a bunch of greedy lazy blood sucking parasites who live off others.

In our constitutional jurisdiction case in 2005, we found the web of deceit compounded one on top of the other. Justice Clarence Thomas of the US Supreme Court upheld the natural law principle when he said in Lara v. USA that he could find no evidence that any Indigenous nation had ever surrendered our sovereignty or any of our land. We got it to the U.S. Supreme Court where they refused to answer our question about how they illegally exercise jurisdiction we never gave them. [See links to Mohawk Manifesto, Constitutional Jurisdiction Case and Ipperwash].

Other schemes were used to enslave their own people. It’s not just prisons and police. It’s the way children are indoctrinated in schools. It’s fear mongering creating defeatism. It’s mortgages, taxes, fines, parking tickets, municipal ordnances, phony borders and stringent identity cards. Anyone who tries to escape the puppet masters’ control will be punished and economically excluded. To join the “American dream”, one must “obey” and let them kill your spirit. Or we have to hide it under a rock. The only right their citizens have is to change their oppressors every now and then.

A third book is William Cronon’s “Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England”. It shows how Onowarekeh was originally cared for by our ancestors to make it fertile and flourishing where people lived long lives in good health. European land management practices attacked nature as an enemy. This changed the climate and began the process of environmental destruction that continues to this day making the land practically unlivable for all.

Before 1066 common law was based on the local customs and ways of England. When William the Conqueror of Normandy France invaded, “feudalism” was imposed on the British in which a king made all decisions and all law was centralized on himself and his court. This resulted in the hierarchical system in England. They want everyone to be sucked into their obsession that anarchy is chaos. They don’t accept a society where everyone is equal, where no one is in command.

The colonial “command and obey” model comes from “feudalism gone wild”. It’s like a two-year old who objects to the discovery that there are other people in the world.

Some lawyers never get beyond this stage. They look for jobs with the biggest powerful law firm. They become the “henchmen” of mega corps[e], looking for ways to use “law” to funnel money and power into their master’s pockets. They become junkies for the perks they get on the side. They forget about us and our laws. They get tempted by the chance to dip into corporate money bags and turn against our people.

Law graduates have to decide what kind of law they’re defending. Colonial laws do not promote human equality and are meant to exterminate us. You also need lots of money to defend yourself from this corporate system. We are living in a time of corruption, oppression and a delusion of prosperity that comes before a collapse, like the Roman patricians who ate until they vomited.

“Legally speaking the colonizers can’t dictate anything to us, but they keep on trying” means we are using laws defined in the founding charter of the UN that all member states have agreed to. All humans are equal. Law can only be made with the prior informed consent of the majority of those it is applied to.

Europeans can’t handle this. Our ancestors negotiated the “Two Row Wampum Agreement” with our “visitors” as the basis of our relationship in the early post-contact period. This is the only principle on which all people in the world will agree to as a basis for legality. Our two different societies can travel together as long as they stay in their boat and don’t try to come into ours. We have the inherent right to our land and resources. They have to make arrangements with us to live here.

They refuse to treat us as equals at the talks about their claim to our land and resources. It’s normal for these foreign colonial states to let corporations like DeBeers Diamonds destroy the land of Northern Ontario forever during the next 17 years in return for the “quick profit” of a few. They don’t care about making the environment completely unlivable. Now we hear that another cockroach [Paul Martin] is taking run at our pantry. He’s ready to load all our resources on his ships and send them out for his own enrichment.

Colonial law boils down to obedience to authority backed by the gun.

After law school we need to reconnect with our own and with the natural laws of whichever part of Onowarekeh we come from. In northern Quebec the Crees and Inuit close down their schools, construction projects and whatever they are involved in that is connected to colonial society. They go into the bush to stay connected to the land and our environment. We have a need to let nature dictate how to behave.

The elite of colonial society give jobs to those who are fresh out of school and easy to manipulate. They are trained not to listen to their elders, particularly women. The young inexperienced women lawyers are willing to adopt male roles in a hierarchical society.

Recent graduates, think carefully about which path you are taking. If our lawyers build their legal careers on law that is based on egalitarian principles, they will do good things for our people, for the future generations and for humankind in general. If they practice colonial law as a power game, without questioning authority, they are the puppets of the colonizers.

We Indigenous have survived because our women and elders have always been involved in the development of our policies.

Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News

See Constitutional Jurisdiction Case and Ipperwash categories

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URGENT! KATENIES WILL NOT “WALK THE LINE”

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URGENT! KATENIES WILL NOT “WALK THE LINE”

MNN. January 5, 2007. All Katenies [gaw-den-yes], a Kanion’keha:ka/Mohawk, did was ask Her Majesty the Queen to explain how all her foreign corporations got jurisdiction over her and her land. They won’t tell her because they can’t. They have claimed power over her in a way that violates the principles of international law that Canada has agreed to uphold.

This youthful looking grandmother has had it up to the eye balls with the colonial abuse that our people continue to suffer. Katenies obeys the laws of the land meticulously. The problem for the colonial Canadian courts is that the laws she follows are the legitimate laws of the land. They are founded on the Kanion’keha:ka participation in the Rotinhsonnion:we/Iroquois Confederacy.

Katenies never had any problem with the law before and is being attacked with everything the colonizing corporate-judicial-military forces can throw at her. Her crime! She simply pointed out that the Queen is guilty of genocide, violations of our freedom and our inherent right to self-determination. She ordered her to return to us all her stolen money, trusts, lands, rights and possessions that were made or taken from our lands.

On December 27th, 2006 Katenies received a document that had a medieval name. It seems to be an artifact of some quaint customs that were brought here on the sailing ships by the colonizers. It is a Notice of “Estreat”. Apparently it’s a copy from their records which they will use to extract everything she has. The Court Hearing is to be in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Katenies will be sued for every question she?s asked about their illegal actions.

The Queen’s corporation has ordered her to appear at the Cornwall court on January 18th 2007 to [have a cup of tea with her and] tell her why she shouldn’t throw all the books at her. Katenies told her that we own Canada, lock stock and barrel. Their document has stamps, dates, numbers, signatures and fingerprints of the Queen’s slaves all over the paper and envelope.

In effect, it’s just another paper noose being put around our necks at gunpoint. Will the Queen be at the execution wearing dark glasses and taking pictures with her phone to be shown on the internet?

On January 3rd 2007 Katenies received a letter dated December 18th 2006 from Ronald J-L Turgeon, the Crown prosecutor, informing her that she has been charged under ?this and that? [S.11(1), 153 (c) & 153.1] of the colonial Custom’s Act. At the hearing on December 18th 2006 they quickly closed down the court when she read her questions and charges against the Queen. she had already filed and served to everyone involved. She did appear, refused to stand and then left. She then sent her document by mail to the Queen and the Governor General of Canada.

The court jesters got all flustered when she refused to stand up according to their master-slave protocol. The letter to her stated, “As you left prior to your matter being dealt with” [which is not true. They were busy ejaculating all over the courtroom and pretended she wasn’t there]. Justice of the Peace Stewart has a Bench Warrant for her arrest. Does this mean they’re going to handcuff her to some bench, or hit her with a bench?

Katenies was told that if she does not “relinquish” herself she will be jailed probably until her trial on August 10th 2007 in Alexandria. What’s this supposed to mean? It sounds like they want to institutionally rape her and beat her into submission. If these guys didn’t wear those medieval black robes, the “character” of their actions would be clearer for all the world to see. They want to confine her for their own perverse pleasure to torture her.

These weird voyeurs even asked Katenies to bring along witnesses for their “peep show” of “See Katenies in Bondage”. What is the purpose of this circus? They want to prove that they have might by pointing guns at us and being able to imprison us. This is so they can distract attention from the fact that they simply do not have jurisdiction. Corporate Canada, the charge is rape.

This whole thing started in 2003 when she was driving through the checkpoint to visit her daughter as she does every day. Then they started to harass her daughter. Why these rapacious predators decided to land on this ordinary grandmother is really difficult to understand. Now they are even scaring her 6 year old granddaughter by making her sit outside in the cold while they harass her parents. The guards want the higher ups to give them guns to make their scare tactics more effective. We can expect worse. That checkpoint should never have been there in the first place. They constantly advise us to go along with it to “make it easier on ourselves”. What do you think?

What is going on here? Katenies wants to be at the forthcoming birth of her grandchild. Are they trying to make her the female “Deskahe”? In the 1920’s he asked a similar question about the Indian Act being ultra vires the constitution of Canada. He went to the League of Nations. Canada would never let him return to Six Nations. He died in Tuscarora near Buffalo New York in 1925.

We Onkwehonwe are confronted by the US-Canada-Mexico border every day. We don’t need passports to travel freely anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. One condition of tolerating the colonial presence was that we would continue to travel anywhere on Turtle Island. We all have some kind of ID. Only we can decide how we will identify ourselves.

The AFN [Assembly of First Nations] wants us to use their government-issue “Indian status” cards. A lot of us who are real Onkwehonwe don’t have such a card. A lot of imposters do. Many of us refuse to be incorporated into Canada and become’ members of a foreign company. Incorporate means “in”. A corporation makes Canada into a “body”. We don’t want to become part of the polluted body of Canada. It all smells awful to us and we want no part of it.

Traversing our homeland is a birthright, not a “privilege” granted by them. We demand that the colonists stop interfering with our travel over their imaginary line. The Jay Treaty 1794 was a trade agreement between the United States and Britain. Ever since then the colonists have been trying to make us “walk the line”, to impose that phony line on us. They haven’t been able to do it. So now they’re trying to tie it around our necks and squeezing it as tight as they can. They are trying to drive us to desperation. But it’s not working.

No one can make us citizens of a nation we don’t want to be citizens of. No nation has a right to denationalize another nation. As independent Onkwehonwe nations we have a right to deal with such issues based on our own laws.

Under International law, we are not members of any of these colonial foreign corporations. Therefore, we cannot carry passports of foreign corporations of which we are not citizens. These drooling jackals are trying to make us commit an illegal act. If all the mystification were removed everyone would see that this all grand standing. They are creating illegal policies to determine our existence as a people. They have no right whatsoever to do this. It’s an international issue. We know many Canadians an Americans have good sense and want to belong to a decent law abiding entity.

Legality requires proper procedures and remedies. Katenies raised a legitimate legal question which has to be answered. She asked where they got their jurisdiction. The Queen and Governor General have not answered. According to law, they have to meet us on a nation-to-nation basis to polish the Silver Covenant Chain and dust the Two Row Wampum Agreement. We have to stop the ongoing theft of our lands and resources and the destruction of the environment.

Why is this ongoing bullying and threatening of Katenies continuing? The policy is probably to give resisters and their families a hard time. If these people believe in the rule of law, the next procedural step is for them to produce the proof that they have jurisdiction. That’s it!

To help and for comments, contact katenies20@yahoo.com

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

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How the British came to Ontario

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There is so much said about the British granting us the Haldimand tract. The truth is we granted them Ontario under Gushwenta. The British were never here until we defeated the French and Huron in a 92 year war. We participated in the 1701 treaty of Peace in Montreal with France and her remaining allies. In that same year we agreed to split the territory won by right of conquest with the British. Our chiefs were invited to London as guests of Queen Anne and were promoted as “The Romans of the New World” to the courts of Europe. We still have the silver Queen Anne presented to our chiefs we keep it at Tyendinaga. That is how the British came to live in Ontario. Following is a copy of the Original Nanfan Treaty, our gift to the British

A DEED FROM THE FIVE NATIONS TO THE KING, OF THEIR BEAVER HUNTINGGROUND, MADE AT ALBANY, NEW YORK, JULY 19, 1701

To all Christian & Indian people in this parte of the world and in Europe over the great salt waters, to whom the presents shall come
– Wee the Sachims Chief men, Captns and representatives of the Five nations or Cantons of Indians called the Maquase Oneydes Onnandages and Sinnekes living in the Government of New York in America, to the north west of Albany on this side the Lake Cadarachqui sendeth greeting – Bee it known unto you that our ancestors to our certain knowledge have had, time out of mind a fierce and bloody warr with seaven nations of Indians called the Aragaritkas whose Chief c?d was called successively Chohahise –
The land is scituate lyeing and being northwest and by west from Albany beginning on the south west side of Cadarachqui lake and includes all that waste Tract of Land lyeing between the great lake off Ottowawa and the lake called by the natives Sahiquage and by the Christians the lake of Swege and runns till it butts upon the Twichtwichs and is bounded on the right hand by a place called Quadoge conteigning in length about eight hundred miles and in bredth four hundred miles including the country where the bevers the deers, Elks and such beasts keep and the place called Tieugsachrondio, alias Fort de Tret or Wawyachtenok and so runs round the lake of Swege till you come to place called Oniadarondaquat which is about twenty miles from the Sinnekes Castles which said seaven nations our predecessors did four score years agoe totally conquer and subdue and drove them out of that country and had peaceable and quiet possession of the same to hunt beavers (which was the motive caused us to war for the same) for three score years it being the only chief place for hunting in this parte of the world that ever wee heard of and after that wee had been sixty years sole masters and owners of the said land enjoying peaceable hunting without any internegation, a remnant of one of the seaven nations called Tionondade whom wee had expelled and drove away came and settled there twenty years agoe disturbed our beaver hunting against which nation wee have warred ever since and would have subdued them long ere now had not them been assisted and succoured by the French of Canada, and whereas the Governour of Canada aforesaid hath lately sent a considerable force to a place called Tjeughsaghronde the principall passe that commands said land to build a Forte there without our leave and consent, by which means they will possess themselves of that excellent country where there is not only a very good soile but great plenty of all maner of wild beasts in such quantities that there is no maner of trouble in killing of them and also will be sole masters of the Boar hunting whereby wee shall be deprived of our livelyhood and subsistance and brought to perpetual bondage and slavery, and wee having subjected ourselves and lands on this side of Cadarachqui lake wholy to the Crown of England wee the said Sachims chief men Captns and representatives of the Five nations after mature deliberation out of a deep sence of the many Royall favours extended to us by the present great Monarch of England King William the third, and in consideration also that wee have lived peaceably and quietly with the people of albany our fellow subjects above eighty years when wee first made a firm league and covenant chain with these Christians that first came to settle Albany on this river which covenant chain hath been yearly renewed and kept bright and clear by all the governours successively and many neighbouring Governmts of English and nations of Indians have since upon their request been admitted into the same. Wee say upon these and many other good motives us hereunto moveing have freely and voluntary surrendered delivered up and for ever quit claimed, and by these presents doe for us our heires and successors absolutely surrender, deliver up and for ever quit claime unto our great Lord and Master the King of England called by us Corachkoo and by the Christians William the third and to his heires and successors Kings and Queens of England for ever all the right title and interest and all the claime and demand whatsoever which wee the said five nations of Indians called the Maquase, Oneydes, Onnondages, Cayouges and Sinnekes now have or which wee ever had or that our heirs or successors at any time hereafter may or ought to have of, in or to all that vast Tract of land or Colony called Canagariarchio beginning on the northwest side of Cadarachqui lake and includes all that vast tract of land lyeing between the great lake of Ottawawa and the lake called by the natives Cahiquage and by the Christians the lake of Swege and runns till it butts upon the Twichtwichs and is bounded on the westward by the Twichtwichs by a place called Quadoge conteining in length about eight hundred miles and in breath four hundred miles including the Country where Beavers and all sorts of wild game keeps and the place called Tjeughsaghrondie alias Fort de tret or Wawyachtenock and so runns round the lake of Swege till you come to a place called Oniadarundaquat which is about twenty miles from the Sinnekes castles including likewise the great falls Oakinagaro, all which [was] formerly posest by seaven nations of Indians called the Aragaritka whom by a fair warr wee subdued and drove from thence four score years agoe bringing many of them captives to our country and soe became to be the true owners of the same by conquest which said land is scituate lyeing and being as is above expressed with the whole soyle the lakes the rivers and all things pertaining to the said tract of land or colony with power to erect Forts and castles there, soe that wee the said Five nations nor our heires nor any other person or persons for us by any ways or meanes hereafter have claime challenge and demand of in or to the premises or any parte thereof alwayes provided
and it is hereby expected that wee are to have free hunting for us and the heires and descendants from us the Five nations for ever and that free of disturbances expecting to be protected therein by the Crown of England but from all the action right title interest and demand of in or to the premises or every of them shall and will be uterly excluded and debarred for every by these presents and wee the said Sachims of the Five Nations of Indians called the Maquase, Oneydes, Onnandages, Cayouges and Sinnekes and our heires the said tract of land or Colony, lakes and rivers and premises and every part and parcell thereof with their and every of their appurtenances unto our souveraigne Lord the King William the third & his heires and successors Kings of England to his and their proper use and uses against us our heires and all and every other person lawfully claiming by from or under us the said Five nations shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents–In Witness whereof wee the Sachims of the Five nations above mentioned in behalf of ourselves and the Five nations have signed and sealed this present Instrument and delivered the same as an Act and deed to the Honble John Nanfan Esqr Lieut to our Great King in this province whom wee call Corlaer in the presence of all the Magistrates officers and other inhabitants of Albany praying our Brother Corlaer to send it over to Carachkoo our dread souveraigne Lord and that he would be graciously pleased to accept of the same Actum in Albany in the middle of the high street this nineteenth day of July in the thirteenth year of His Majty’s reign Annoque Domini 1701.

Source: “A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 – 1875” U. S. Serial Set, Number 4015 begining at page 552. Available “on line” from the American Library of Congress (alc.gov)

poster: Thahoketoteh

 

“Love portion #9”

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THE SORCERERS AND THEIR APPRENTICES PUT A SPELL ON CANADA: 

A TALE OF PLANNED GENOCIDE BASED ON THE U.S. MODEL

MNN. Oct. 13, 2006. The Indian Affairs Minister, Jim Prentice, has announced a new policy of forced “privatization” of Indian lands. This is a repeat performance of what happened in the United States where there was a mass execution of Indians. “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” is an old policy that is being introduced in a new form by Canada all gussied up in star studded robes topped off with a dunce cap and a political broom.

The sorcerers are trying to mesmerize the Canadian people into a stupor. They want to see them march lockstep toward their own destruction. Those being used are going to get nothing out of it. Only the sorcerers will benefit. The apprentices like Gary McHale, Marie Trainer and all those professional rioters who have been attacking the Indigenous people at Six Nations will one day walk into the middle of a big public inquiry into all their shenanigans. Videos and cameras will show who has been physically involved and sent in to run around like madmen attacking Indigenous elders, women and children. The sorcerers in the background will fly off on their brooms unnoticed to count their money down in Texas.

How do the sorcerers do this? They seem to look normal. They make promises to their apprentices who are suffering from the “oil disease” of the mind we call “owista” which leads them to believe that mega millions await them after their performances. They need a scapegoat so they are targeting the Indigenous people. Just like Hitler picked the Jews as the scapegoat for the Germans.

The sorcerers are directing people at us as being the cause of all their problems. To the sorcerers we aren’t even human beings.

No one ever forgets those people and children lying dead in the snow after the Massacre of our people at “Wounded Knee”. They want a repeat of this picture and others of unwanted Indians starving and homeless with no place to go. They want us to die or migrate from our lands to the inner cities where we can die as alcoholics and derelicts on the streets or killed in their jails. The privatized prison system are becoming the biggest “reservations” on Turtle Island.

This is what happened to our people in the United States.

The Sorcerers and their Apprentices who run the “Tower of Power” in Ottawa got the old U.S. recipe for concocting “Indian Termination”. They are going to use the old colonial broom and sweep us into their toxic brew to disappear from the face of the earth so they can make a final claim to our land and resources. Where does this idea come from? In 1887 the U.S. passed the General Allotment Act to break up indigenous governments, abolish Indian communities and force Indians to assimilate into white society. They divided up the communally owned lands into private plots to break up Indian nations and bring “whites” in to “civilize” those who did not die out.

It was catastrophic. The Indians were never consulted. Most lands left were not suitable for farming. To stave off starvation many were forced to sell their lands for very little or they were forced to foreclose on them for not paying taxes.

Of the 140 million acres under Indigenous control, only 50 million acres remain. Of course we still have aboriginal title to Turtle Island as long as there is one Indigenous person left that adheres to the traditional ways.

In 1934 the allotment system was abolished. Congress passed the Indian Reorganization Act “to rehabilitate Indian economic life”. It recreated new land bases and reorganized the Indigenous communities.

During the 1950’s Congress brought in “termination” which was the forced dissolution of our land bases. This brought Indigenous people to the brink of collapse. At the same time they passed to the states jurisdiction over criminal and civil matters without the consultation or consent of the Indigenous people. The states which were the traditional enemies of the Indians had always wanted control over Indian lands and resources but did not want responsibility to provide services to Indians because they had no agreements or treaties with them, so they argued.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson denounced termination and declared: “We must affirm the rights of the first Americans to remain Indians” “We must affirm their rights to freedom of choice and self-determination”. They started to reverse termination when it was too little too late.

In their cauldron the Sorcerers and their apprentices are cooking up their potion. They think that Canada has the power to wipe out Indian nations with or without theirs or the Canadian peoples’ consent. Canadians are being suckered into committing genocide by a U.S. based sorcerer. The sub-sorcerer is in Canada. In Canada the sorcerer’s apprentices are known as “band councils” which they’ve incorporated under their laws. These apprentices have no choice but to do what their bosses tell them because of their greed. They’ve been socialized as not being successful as human beings unless they live a certain colonial lifestyle. Their only access to this as Indians is to be sell outs. The people standing up to all of this are the traditional indigenous people who have many non-native supporters.

Canada must not adopt this illegal U.S. made policy to do away with Indigenous people in Canada. Call your Member of Parliament and tell them you don’t agree with the Conservative government’s policy of genocide. They are puppets of the corporate controllers of the Republican Party in the U.S. who are running the Conservative agenda in Canada.

It is frightening not just to the indigenous people but to all Canadians when they cannot see what is in store for them. Don’t think they’re going to stop with us. They plan to take over everyone. The U.S. has always wanted to reverse their defeats in 1776 and 1812 when the Iroquois helped the British stop the American invasion. They’ve always wanted to take over Canada, the first place they ever tried. The protection from encroachment of the Six Nations as British allies is set out in the Haldimand Proclamation 1784. It was not a grant of land. It was a contract to stop encroachment. Canada, you’ve breached this contract. You better make it right immediately! The world sees that you do not honor your international promises.

Please come down on Sunday October 15th to Six Nations for the “Peaceful Potluck” to celebrate the reclamation of our land.

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News

poster: Thahoketoteh

 

“GOOD MOON RISING” ” INDIGENOUS TITLE TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA AFFIRMED ” BYE BYE COLONIALISM!

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“GOOD MOON RISING”
” INDIGENOUS TITLE TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA AFFIRMED ”
BYE BYE COLONIALISM!

MNN. Sept. 21, 2006. It’s a landmark case. The Noongar Aborigine people of Australia were affirmed as holding title to a substantial part of Western Australia, including the city of Perth. In the case of Bennell v. State of Western Australia (2006) FCA 1243, the Noongar people proved that their community continues to exist and that they are still part of the land. They continue to observe the community’s traditional laws and customs, including their relationship to their land.

The Noongar have a claim under their own laws and customs as a result of their occupation of the land before the colonial visitors arrived on the scene. This community continues to exist today. They are still guided by the spirits of their ancestors. They continue to acknowledge their laws and customs even though there have been some alternations and interference by their white visitors. In other words, the rights are possessed under traditional laws that are acknowledged and observed which maintains their connection to their lands and waters.

Those rights are recognized by common law in Australia, Canada, the United States and other commonwealth countries, including those in Africa. The major point of the decision is that the native people are identified by their own laws, not by colonial laws. Even though they have been prevented from exercising their rights for a period of time by the colonists, they still have title.

It is a persuasive decision in terms of setting a precedent for a new stage in the relationships between Indigenous people worldwide and the colonial states that have imposed themselves on our lands.

We think that the Department of Indian Affairs in Canada has become hysterical over this reaffirmation of our rights to our lands and resources. They are the only ones we can think who might be responsible for planting stories trying to make the Canadian public think that Indigenous people are trying to do them in. Last Monday there was an explosion on the 17th floor of the “Tower of Power” known as Indian Affairs at 10 Wellington Street in Hull Quebec. It’s right across the Ottawa River from the Parliament Buildings that are squatting on Algonquin land. This is the second time that the police have been called in to investigate “vandalism”.

I was home on Monday. This reminds me of the time I worked on the 17th floor until I was fired during the Mohawk Oka Crisis of 1990. In 1988 there was a Canadian soldier working on the 14th floor. Yep. The Canadian military was right there in the middle of Indian Affairs. One day the officer in charge came to see me. He wanted to talk about my opposition to the claims that Nelson Small Legs Junior had committed suicide. He died suddenly two days after testifying at the hearing against the McKenzie Valley Pipeline. I told him I wanted an investigation. He came back a month or two later. He more or less said that I was right. It was not a suicide, as his father had claimed to me. But the RCMP was not going to change the report.

He then suddenly decided to show me something extraordinary. He took me down to the 14th floor to the western side of the building which was all painted black. There was a cutout of a door with a lock. He took out a key, opened the door and invited me inside.

It was a large room. The windows were all covered with thick black drapes. In the middle was a large round table covered by a green felt cloth. He pulled off the cloth and revealed a map of Canada. On the map were small yellow, red or green flags on each Indigenous community in Canada. I noticed that the Mohawk communities and a few in Northern British Columbia and the Northwest Territories had red flags. Most had green. Were they considered to be “pushovers” who gave colonialism the green light? Were the red flags describing those stalwart defenders of Indigenous rights? Red meant that these communities had to be stopped in their tracts. I asked him what this was all about. He said it was in case of “emergencies”. I asked, “Like what”? He said like fires, floods and other catastrophies (like martial law?)

At the left side of the door there was a room full of computers. I wondered what kinds of information were being put into them. He said, “All kinds of information” was being collected. But he didn’t go further. He was in charge. In others words, this was the “war room” being run by the Canadian military in the Department of Indian Affairs. It’s obvious they never forgot that Indian Affairs began as a branch of the British military back in the days when they were plotting the “conquest” of the French in North America and dreaming that they could suck the Indians into doing all their dirty work for them. They still haven’t learned that we just don?t like “trespassers”.

Later, after the Oka Crisis, I was in the hotel adjacent to Indian Affairs. That night I looked up at the building outside my window and counted up 14 floors. Sure enough! The black curtains were still on the windows. The imperial menace was still lurking inside.

What documents is Indian Affairs trying to get rid of by setting off explosions in the building? Have they gotten caught up in the “Fight Club” mentality that’s inspiring teenagers to fake phony fights and put them on the internet. Are they giving themselves black eyes and trying to blame it on us? They expect the public to believe that we’re doing it to them. They’re trying to justify their own existence.

We’ve been asking them to produce their documents on how they got control over us, our lands and resources. We’ve been telling them all along that they just could not come here, land on our shores, rob us of everything we have, and we wouldn’t complain about it! The time has come for their heirs to face up to this monumental fraud and hoax. We’re just not buying it and they can’t make us. As Floyd Westerman sang, “We just ain’t your Indians anymore!” as if we ever were! Canada, you have no choice but to come to terms with this colonial operation called “plunder and pillage”. You helped yourselves to everything and killed 99% of us off in the process.

Well, Canada, it looks like St. Nick and the Easter Bunny have left the building. You’ll just have to follow them out. And please take with you your bag of lies and genocidal policies. We don’t want any left over explosive caps or land mines. Oh! On your way out, clean up after yourselves. Leave things in the condition you found them.

(see: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2006/1243.html )

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News

poster: Thahoketoteh