WETSUWETEN: ALL WARS ARE BANKER WARS

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MNN. 14 Jan. 2020. “Rule of Law” is Admiralty Law, imposed by invasion of Turtle Island. They can kill everybody on behalf of the banks, corporations and money! The pipeline financiers think they can win.

AMERICANS & CANA’JON [THE CANADIAN SQUATTERS] DON’T REALIZE THAT THEY ARE IN THE SAME POSITION AS GERMANY IN 1932 WHERE ONE-THIRD OF THE PEOPLE MURDERED ANOTHER ONE-THIRD OF THE PEOPLE WHILE ANOTHER ONE-THIRD OF THE PEOPLE SAT AND DID NOTHING. 

 

 

From allies/supoporters: “This morning we find ourselves bracing for another paramilitary attack on unarmed People of the Wet’suwet’en Clans, the Unist’ot’en, their Gitxsan neighbours, and allies from other Indigenous Peoples and settlers. 

“John Horgan, the premier of BC who recently made the token gesture of herding passage of a version of UNDRIP through the provincial parliament, is “pulling a white man” and refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of Wet’suwet’en law on lands neither he or Canada has ever made treaty to access. . . .” . .  to show his corporate backers that he would honour their investment over a bunch of stone age indians wearing colourful blankets and feathers getting in the way of “progress”.

“In the next few hours or days, we will see the inevitable breaking of 10,000 year old Wet’suwet’en laws for the expediency of enhancing shareholder value while killing the planet.

Muse say it all in “Uprising”: paranoia is in bloom. the PR transmission will resume. they’ll try to push drugs that keep us all dumb down and hope that we will never see the truth around [so come on]!!!! . . . they will not force us …. they will not degrade us …. they will not control us …. we will be victorious!

THESE ARE COASTAL GASLINK WORKERS BEING ASSEMBLED TO MOVE IN.

https://www.cbc.ca/…/lng-pipeline-horgan-british-columbia-1…

#WetsuwetenStrong

“Now all you Canadians . . .  This has everything to do with you. Your Canada Pension money and tax dollars are supporting the breaking of Wet’suwet’en law and the reckless disregard for their Peoples who are now shut off by the starvation ring of the RCMP exclusion zone. This government is committing this crime against humanity on your behalf.

Canada has NEVER secured the right to access this land except at the point of a gun and mass of forces. 

This is what you support with your silence.

 Hiding behind their curtains and telling themselves a crime against humanity was none of their business because the “rule of law” said it was legal.

#WetsuwetenStrong#WhiteFragility#Genocide#CrimesAgainstHumanity

John HorganJustin TrudeauMarc Miller

wisk niwatsen tsata. wisk nikon kayenkwireh iohniron tsi skatneh tekaneren ne kenton tsi rahisaststeh ne wisk nihononwentsakeh tsi yatehonatieston, enskka wahonton, skanentsista, skayeronta tahnon skanikonra. skatne tsi enhotihyoten, enhatiyanerensehronni tanon skatneh enhatisenhayenstakeh ne  akotsennonnia ne tahatikons-tontie.

rotiynerson sjkatneh tenhontonteh enkneh sakaksa ne yori tsaniton ohtason. tsinikariwest tehonatskahon iatahonsteh nahoten ioio tihye, oen kineheh iatatahontatreneh tanon ahontenekwensariron. akwekon tsinahoton enhotenienten ne tosa ahontenekwensariron. 

ALERT! READ UNITOTEN TODAY:

Links

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-will-be-built-bc-premier-john-horgan/?fbclid=IwAR3bU0xPEE4lfb8Q9miOXZKSKGwy1-6hrHvoWIHMxW3j4AdKmBH2X3W7hvA

https://ricochet.media/en/2474/rcmp-violate-press-freedom-by-barring-journalists-from-first-nations-territory?fbclid=IwAR3AZ4fl575glDtMBmoDxM2yxZ_hABjAxCiN5FKaLIN4v2MoZi_egvdeUM

CONTACTS: Media Coordinator, Jennifer Wickham, Gidimt’en Clan: yintahaccess@gmail.com (778) 210 – 0067. Professor Margot Young, Allard School of Law, UBC . Myoung@law.ubc.ca . (778) 926-6990#WETSUWETENSTRONG

 

HARRY, MEGAN & ARCHIE WILL DECOLONIZE THE CANA’JON

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MNN. January 13, 2020. UK Prince Harry and his family want to in live in onowarekeh, turtle island. Whatever nation receives them will bestow names on them which are “hung around the neck”. They should learn to speak a native language and follow the kaianerekowa, the great peace.

Dual citizenship is illegal in the great law. They can only follow the kaianerekowa or they cannot survive here. 

Kayoni tsata niwasen: 

“Onen kati, tsonkwehonwheson ne onkwenakerasera, sehwateryentarak ne rahosenna, rahotiwatsirah tokani ratiwatsiresonha wahonterisen ne ahonsahontatenatonkwen ne ahosenna ne tsinon totinakeraton tanon wahatiyatetah nahkon ohwentsokon. Ken enskahawiteh, tosa onka ne onkwanakerasera ne enkatroyat nahosenna tsinon tatinakeraton. Ne tonayetowayrehreh ne tenkasterihateh ne enwatokten ne skennen.”

Translation: … such a family or families [who want to live on turtle island] shall have ceased forever to bear their birth nation’s name and have buried it in the depth of the earth. Henceforth let no one of our nation ever mention the original name or nation of their birth. To do so will hasten the end of our peace. 

Otherwise they are colonial settlers squatting on stolen native land like all the other ‘Cana’jon’ squatters.

Our role is to spread the great peace throughout the world. We went to Europe in 1710 to do that. In 1923 we went again by sending Deskahe to the League of Nations to spread the great peace.

The Queen is a shareholder of the Crown which ‘claims’ ownership of onowarekeh. The Crown is the Vatican. Iontonheton, creation, set us the natural people and all natural life on turtle island. “onwe” means we are the people of the forever. The Indian interest can never be removed.

Harry mentioned wanting to live in the United States, which is also a company owned by the Crown. Harry wants to become a businessman. If he conducts his business the Iroquois way where he has 100% concensus on all decisions made in his company, he would be showing the proper way to do business.

When he comes he will begin the decolonization process of turtle island.

Donovan singing to Saffron could be Harry singing to Megan. Them leaving their royal duties behind could be considered very “mellow yellow”:

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GUSTAFSEN LAKE B.C. IN 5 MINUTES 1995 https://www.straight.com/news/1345776/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-pose-monumental-challenge-40-billion-lng-project-and-bc

WETSUWETEN MONUMENTAL CHANGE  https://www.straight.com/news/1345776/wetsuweten-hereditary-chiefs-pose-monumental-challenge-40-billion-lng-project-and-bc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CANA’JON [CANADA] COMMITTING ‘ACTS OF WAR’ ON WETSUWETEN

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MNN. Cana’jon* [Canada] keeps attention on Iran rather than the acts of war it is conducting against the sovereign Wetsuweten people. Police documents show the Cana’jon ordered the RCMP to use lethal force, shooting them if necessary. 

Prime Minister Trudeau paints the façade of world peace while authorizing the RCMP to “sterilize the site” so Coastal Gaslink pipeline can be built through unceded native land known as “British Columbia”, a private corporation.  

CANADA INDIGENOUS LAND DEFENDERS POLICE DOCUMENTS provides the lethal strategies the Cana’jon are implementing against native people on turtle island. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents]

To stop the planned slaughter and to bring world attention to the Cana’jon acts of war, the allies of the Wetsuweten people conducted a “rolling blockade” on the TransCanada Highway 401 from akwesasne to kentekeh: [Video] YOU HAVE EVERY SACRED RIGHT TO YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF https://www.facebook.com/100010655049628/posts/1051199985245160/?d=n

US President Trump is feeling the backlash for his assassination of top General of Iran, Solomeini. This is exactly the situation the RCMP will find themselves in if they continue to threaten any acts of war against the Wetsuweten or any other sovereign native nations. 

GENERAL SOLEMEINI WAS KILLED ON A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO IRAQ TO RECEIVE TRUMP-POMPEI PEACE MISSIVE: https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/01/05/breaking-confirmed-solemeini-killed-on-diplomatic-mission-to-iraq-to-receive-trump-pompeo-missive/

UN CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE RCMP WITHDRAWAL IN WETSUWETEN STANDOFF https://thenarwhal.ca/what-cost-are-human-rights-worth-un-calls-for-immediate-rcmp-withdrawal-in-wetsuweten-standoff/ NARWHAL

BLACK SABBATH “War Pigs”reminds us of our current predicament: “In the fields the bodies burning as the war machine keeps churning…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8UYcEnwGg4

RT HAS THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8UYcEnwGg4

PUTIN AND MERKEL MEET REPORTERS AFTER TALKS IN MOSCOW  https://www.rt.com/news/478020-putin-merkel-moscow-presser/

PUTIN AND MERKEL MEET REPORTERS AFTER TALKS IN MOSCOW https://www.rt.com/news/478020-putin-merkel-moscow-presser/

*Cana’jon/Canada/Canadian/Canadien is Mohawk word for “squatters” who have imbedded themselves on our land without our permission.  

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Note: skanawadi tekeni renhoterihontakeh enhateriwatentiatakeh. enska nene royaner ihken, tanon ne enska nene ahsarakowa. toka enyontreriyo, akwekon ensakorori ne wisk nihati ahsarekowatson ne wisk nihononwentsakeh nahotate weyenenentaneh ne ahonteriyo tanon ne ronnonkwe ahonatatehwehyenentahon tsinikahawi tanon kanon tenhatiniotatieson ne ratihsons ne skennenkowa. [tsata niwasen tioten]

MNN: IRAN: HISTORIC SUPPORTER OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

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RE-EDITED FROM OCT. 8, 2012.

We feel the time has come to republish this important letter delivered to our Iranian allies in 2012.

Iran always supported human rights of the Indigenous people of Great Turtle Island.  When Terrance Nelson of Manitoba informed us that he was going to Iran to speak about the continued genocide of our people, he took the following letter.  Iran supported the Iroquois Confederacy application for a seat in the League of Nations in 1923.

Jan 10, 2020

TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAN:

She:kon,

You always supported our human rights efforts, especially in 1923. Briefly, the Iroquois Confederacy sent Levi General, the Deskaheh, to get recognition for our people at the League of Nations.  He came from Grand River [Ontario].  

With a Haudenosaunee passport, he went to Geneva, Switzerland to speak at the League of Nations in 1923.  There he presented “The Red Man’s Appeal for Justice,” and reminded the Europeans of their obligations under the Guswentha, Two Row Wampum. This pact was made in 1701 between the 48 Indigenous Nations and our allies of Onowaregeh/Great Turtle Island with the Europeans. It is the only agreement giving foreigners the right to live on our land.  They violated it and their occupation is illegal. 

Iran supported our effort.  British, American and Canadian pressure was too strong for Deskaheh to continue.  He returned home.

On October 7 1924 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated him. Then they dissolved the traditional Six Nations government, stole important documents and wampums, created the Indian Advancement Act and the reservations.  The Canadian government declared an immediate election to displace the traditional government. Deskaheh was forbidden to return to his home and family.  He was murdered in Tuscarora New York after giving his famous last speech on the radio on March 10, 1925, against the United States and Canada’s policies of genocide.  

“In Ottawa, they call that policy “Indian Advancement”. In Washington, they call it “Assimilation.” We say it is outright tyranny. If this must go on, we would rather that you come with your guns and poison gases and get rid of us that way. Do it openly and above board.”

Historically, Iranians have been champions of justice.  We remember you for your goodness, good minds and for always looking out for us.  Nia:wen, Kahentinetha, Woman Title Holder, Bear Clan, Kanionkehaka/Mohawk Nation”.

Terrance was interviewed on Iran TV.  He spoke about the continued genocide of our people that Canada is built upon, particularly about the theft of our natural resources and the targeting of our women.   The police are not investigating this.   Their goal has always been, “kill the Indian”.

The PRESSTV interview is on YouTube:  “Canada has Ethnic Cleansing of Aboriginal on Agenda:  Native Ex-Chief”.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceZtHLieAKs

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‘She was absolutely adored’: Iranian scientist spent her life fighting for Indigenous voices in conservation

Message to our allies: iaakwateriwanieteh. tsinonkwa onkwatenroserahson’a. deskahe Levi General tionkwatasawentsi tewatenro. tia ki iats wa non ne. tewakwekon tewaskeneks ne skennen. 

“O CANA’JON” THE REVISED ANTHEM

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MNN. Dec. 12, 2019. cana’jon is the root for Canada, Canadian, Canadien in  kanionkehaka [Mohawk] which means “squatter”. . See the explanation @ https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2019/11/18/guess-what-canadians-are-ga-na-jon/

The squatters sing it and mark everything they stole with the word “Canada”, which means nothing is theirs.  ‘Canada’ always conceded that they are ‘squatters’. They named themselves and everything “canada”, “canadians” or “canadien”. The corporation of the government of Canada [the squatters], the Montreal Canadians [squatters] hockey team, and millions of other things. They in effect admit they own nothing on onowarekeh [the Western Hemisphere]. Everything belongs to the onkwehonweh [the true original people placed here by creation]. 

LET’S SING ‘O CANA’JON’. 

 

 

TRUTHFUL WORDS: “o cana’jon, you squat on native land. with greedy minds you do the banks command. you pay them tax and shop around on onowarekeh. on turtle island the land of our birth. no more TRAPS TRICKS OR GENOCIDE. the great peace is the only way. o cana’jon you must fix mother earth. o cana’jon you must fix mother earth.”

THE CROWD WENT WILD THE FIRST TIME THEY HEARD “O CANA’JON”

kahentinetha, iakoskari’wakeh.  mohawknationnews.com box 991, kahnawake Quebec Canada J0L 1B0 contact kahentinetha2@protonmail.com 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/racist-comments-pal-flight-1.5390513?cmp=rss

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/departmental-results-2017-18-index/supporting-documents-index/canadas-reserve-force.html

CANAJON DEATH CULT

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MNN. Nov. 24, 2019. The pre-planned canajon death cult was implemented by the squatters instructed by the bankers from the moment they invaded onowarekeh, turtle island. [canajon is “Canadians” and means “squatters” in Mohawk.] [wahatinatsoten, they imbedded themselves in our land.]

“WHICH MEANS I CAN’T TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GENOCIDE OR WE ARE FINISHED.”

The houses are being smashed or falling. The consciousness of the earth is gradually manifesting itself. The squatters are doing the banker’s bidding, not knowing they are owned by the same bankers. 

enkiyaseteh, [genocide] we are kept out of sight, healing in the hills. In the near future, if they don’t steal, the squatters will have nothing to eat and no refuge. 

Children who question their indoctrination are being labelled as “misfits” and misdiagnosed by physicians to place them on psychotropic drugs. Bankers are terrified of any phenomena they can’t control. Banking law [Admiralty law] is artificial. Natural law is permanent. Creation, and our mother see the devastation. A bright light will soon come. asontewekowa, our spirits move about turtle island.  

The want us dead! But we are very much alive. We are part of the natural world designed by creation and placed on mother earth. When we listen we can hear nature. They can’t. The messages come to us from karennah, the tone from mother earth. 

The bankers are now living a bad dream. They are uneasy. Creation is going to fix everything the way it’s suppose to be. They know it. Fires are starting. Water is rumbling.  Strong winds are turning things upside down. It is because waonkinatakari, they attacked us and our villages like rabid dogs. sasewatenti, We tell them to go home! 

Bankers have “blind hate” of our simple warmth and humanness. They sense turtle island is haunted. It is! By our spirits that roam turtle island! Bankers tell themselves they have all the keys for all the barriers they have set up, buildings, bridges, cities, walls, economy, politics, finances, media, classes of people and so on. Some know there is something beyond what they see and they are concerned. 

THE SQUATTER’S FEAR LEADS TO ANGER AT EVERYTHING. IS NATURE GOING TO EAT THEM UP? WHERE WILL THEY RUN TO ESCAPE? 

They will not defeat creation. They argue, accuse, arrest, jail and attack. They call the natural world “paranormal”.  

We represent connection to creation they cannot see or experience or have any love for. Now nature and earth are screaming for them to return to where they come from, to disappear so we will never see them again. Some old people and young children hear the vibrations of creation. 

To save themselves there is a flurry of infrastructure repairs for themselves. But they are band aids. Through fear, there have created a rise in terrorism, taxes, drug use, looting, suicides, killings, false flags and false hope. Everybody is suffering from “brokeitis” because they can’t live without their crutches and infrastructure. Evil is their crutch. 

YES, CREATION IS MANIFESTING ITSELF. THE ONKWEHONWEH ARE THE KEY TO UNLOCKING & CHASING AWAY THE BANKERS. 

“Wooden Indians” are coming to life. The bankers created an image they want us to live. Now it’s changing. We are who we really are.  

We are seeing them as the murderous stupid people they really are who let banks, politicians and corporate entities control them because they get a minor benefit from their crimes against us and onowarekeh. 

To them everything has a dollar value, land, nature, original people, water, anything beautiful and the natural order. Their genocide schemes continue. Their crimes made it possible for the squatters to have a house, job, life, to send their children to schools and “pseudo freedom”, as they live in a quasi police state run through fear. 

The bankers real fear is that the squatters will learn they have been lied to all this time and their heads are going to be chopped off like the French Revolution.  They want turtle island to be depopulated of people and revitalized for the
UN “New World Order”. When they have no more customers for their stolen booty, they will have no need to be here.  

The squatters think their god will lead them to safety, but the real god of the bankers is money. 

Their own mother is screaming for them to return home.

THEY HAVE LOST ALL CONTACT WITH THEIR MOTHER, LEAVING THEM A HOMELESS POPULATION.

 When the settlers wonder where they should go next, they should listen to Credence Clearwater: “Whoa. Thought it was a nightmare. Lord, it’s all so true. They told me, “don’t go walking slow’ cause the devil’s on the loose. You better run through the jungle. You better run through the jungle. You better run through the jungle. And don’t look back. Thought I heard a rumbling calling to my name. 200 million guns are loaded. Satan cries, “Take aim”, Better run through the jungle …”

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/11/when-warriors-were-warriors-robert-free.html

 

GUESS WHAT! CANADIANS ARE “GA NA JON”

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MNN. OCT. 18, 2019. Have we got an international revelation for you about Canada! Finally the invaders will learn where the words “Canadian” and “Canadien” come from.

Some historic background first. Each of our communities had three or more settlements. We would move to another location so our land could rebirth to its natural condition. Eventually we would return to the original village.

wahatinatsoton. To rebuild our community, we bend the poles and bind them to make beams to hold up our roofs. wasenatsoton. kanata comes from kanatsoteh which means it is ‘imbedded’ in our land. We connected the side poles to the others and used cross members so they would stand firmly. Then the outer skin was put on.

wahetiskwaron. The invaders were called kanakonronen. Without permission they ‘imbedded’ themselves in our homeland. They did not intend to leave. They put the poles deep into the native ground. We called them ”kanatien” [pronounced ga na jon] the “squatters”. Now they call themselves Canadian and Canadien, from “canatienton”.

When the invaders say, “I am Canadian” or Canadien”, they are saying “I am a squatter on kanastoteh”. Be careful of the words you use. Know where they come from and what they means. Canadians have a problem defining who they are.  And now we’re telling them. They’ve been using the word long enough. It is time we told them what it means. 

Natives should be excused from singing “O Canada”. Here’s a suggested replacement that everybody knows! Hockey is a rotinoshonni [Iroquois] game. It comes from the Mohawk expression, “ahkee”. Stompin’ Tom Connors sings: “Hello, out there, we’re on the air, it’s hockey night tonight. Tension grows, the whistle blows, and the puck drops down the ice. The goalie jumps, the players bump, and the fans all go insane. Someone roars “Bobby scores!”, at the good old hockey game. Oh, the good old hockey game is the best game you can name. And the best game you can name is the good old hockey game.”

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FROM POPPIES TO HEROIN

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MNN. 13, 2019. Protect the poppies says Don Cherry, the loud mouthpiece for “Hockey Night in Canada”.  Heroin is made from poppies. Wearing the poppy means you celebrate, glorify and want more war and drugs. This UK tradition started after World War I. The bankers will not stay wealthy from peace. 

Don Cherry, a European immigrant, scolds everybody, in effect, for not supporting the war, “You have benefitted from the genocide of the Indians here”. Many told him to shit in his hat. The bankers sent the youth to die for them on Flanders Field. Their families got nothing but heartaches and headaches. Poppies being made into heroin is to addict the world for more war. The bankers get rich through war! 

Just because the invaders militarily occupied turtle island and claim it as their own, doesn’t mean it is their property. There is no statute of limitations on theft and murder. 

Every war is a banker’s war. The invaders to turtle island are rich because they murdered almost all of the natives. We are heroes because we defended all life on onowarekeh turtle island against the barbaric invaders. 

ateriwanensken. Less settlers are enlisting to go murder people in far off lands. The illegal settlers came to our community in trucks to kidnap our youth to be trained to become blood thirsty killers for them. enswateninikonwaseroni. The invaders constantly work at twisting the minds of our men to think, “I wanna be a soldier!” to help them kill anyone who gets in the way of the bankers.

Today they train through mind control their attack dogs known as the “band council” to continue the slaughter of their own people so we will be dead and gone, out of the way. They are not mindful of the disastrous deeds. A psychopath is unempathetic and has no remorse. They don’t take any blame for their unconscionable behavior. 

We will rejoin our peace, our earth and all our relations. 

All politicians and their pawns are icons for hire who divert us from seeing the ther plan to totally annihilate us. Cynics and Critics get it: “If you’re happy and you know it, then there might be something wrong with you. What’s the point in holding on, when all of us don’t want you to. It’d make us feel better, knowing you’d be stuck forever. Sick minds stick together, we can stay sick forever”. [Icon for hire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYmpMbKM-A

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/transform/ HOW THE POPPY FLOWER IS TRANSFORMED INTO HERON

https://globalnews.ca/video/6155399/don-cherry-out-at-hockey-night-in-canada-following-controversial-poppy-comments 

 

WAR PHOTOS OKA 1990

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MNN. Nov. 10, 2019. Our men and women are the true warriors. We defend the onkwehonweh and the homeland according to the great peace. The attack of unarmed men, women and children kanionkehaka [Mohawks} was in the early hours of July 11, 1990 in the pines of kanehsatake. It was one of many ongoing military attacks on Indigenous people for our land and resources and to continue the genocide: 

WARRIOR HAILS VICTORY. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. Canada pays and trains paid professional killers to do the dirty work of the corporations throughout the world. 

PEOPLE FOUGHT THE ENEMY TO UPHOLD THE GREAT PEACE [SEPT. 18, 1990].: 

NO FEAR! NO FEAR!

DANNY IN DEFENCE OF OUR HERITAGE ON THE ISLAND:

EVERYBODY’S NIGHTMARE. ENEMIES ATTACKING TWO DEFENCELESS CHILDREN!

 

LISTEN TO THE TRIBUTE TO ALL INDIGENOUS TRUE HEREOS WORLDWIDE:

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MOHAWK WARRIORS ELITE: EGYPT TO WW1

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MNN. 8 Nov. 2019. In 1884 the British soldiers lead by British General Gordon were trapped in Khartoum in Egypt. They needed supplies, food and ammunition.

No one could get through the treacherous rapids on the Nile known as the “Cataracts”. Only the kanionkehaka [Mohawks] of Kahnawake were known for their skill in shooting such dangerous rapids. They lived by the Lachine Rapids, the strongest in the world. They expertly took huge cargoes in long canoes over some of the world’s most treacherous rapids. 59 Mohawks volunteered for this dangerous mission in Egypt. 16 were lost. They took their long canoes to shoot the rapids on the Nile. They got to Khartoum. Everybody there had been slaughtered.

MOHAWKS EXPERTLY TRAVERSE THE DEADLY FAST WATER AND ROCKS. 

GUEST STORY: “Mighty Indigenous Warriors: From Egypt to the First World War

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On the left of the graphic, Tatânga Mânî [Chief Walking Buffalo] [George McLean] in traditional regalia on horse. In the middle, Iggi and girl engaging in a “kunik”, a traditional greeting in Inuit culture. On the right, Maxime Marion, a Métis guide stands holding a rifle. In the background, there is a map of Upper and Lower Canada, and text from the Red River Settlement collection.

By Elizabeth Kawenaa Montour and Sara Chatfield

When First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation were recruited in 1914 to fight in the First World War, enlistees were not aware of the new reality of 20th-century warfare. As a prelude to the First World War, in 1884, approximately 56 Kanienkenha:ka (Mohawk), 30 Ojibway and 19 Métis men were recruited for Britain’s six-month Nile expedition in Egypt totalling 400 men. The men were chosen for their strength, endurance, and skill in handling boats and rafts—qualities that were needed to navigate up the numerous cataracts and rapids of the Nile River.

They did not see active battle, as they arrived two days after the city of Khartoum, Sudan had fallen, and British Major Charles G. Gordon had been killed. The expedition returned with the loss of 16 men and stories of what they had seen. Along their journey on the Nile, they saw monolithic temples and statues carved out of hillsides at Abu Simbel, the Sphinx of Giza, the pyramids, exotic markets and Egyptian life in Cairo.

A black-and-white photograph of a large group of men standing in front of the Parliament buildings.

Canadian voyageurs in front of the Parliament Buildings, a detail from the “Canadian Nile Contingent,” 1884. (c002877)

Three decades later, their next involvement in an overseas military expedition was with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces (CEF) in the First World War. It was an opportunity for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation soldiers to see the world, and to prove their courage and combat skills. Soldiers were facing a major change in combat style and warfare. The new reality of war involved the use of chemical warfare, machine guns, fighter aircraft, armoured vehicles, and trench warfare.

Our latest Co-lab challenge, Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War, illustrates some Indigenous peoples’ experiences during the war, touches upon how their communities coped during their absence, and gives information about their lives after they returned home. These documents provide us with information that the Personnel Records of the First World War may not. They offer information such as what the solider planned to do after the war, if he owned land or farm animals, or if he was suited to farming. There is also information about whether the soldier suffered any lingering disabilities, who they lived with, and if they had any dependants.

Created by the former Department of Indian Affairs, these records are unique in that an overseeing federal “Indian Agent” included personal information and comments on the returning First Nations soldiers. In contrast, this was not the case for non-Indigenous soldiers, as no similar sets of records exist for the rest of the CEF.

A page from the “Indian Agent’s Office,” Chippewa Hill, Saugeen Agency, February 14, 1919.

Document from RG10 Vol 6771 file 452-30 sent to Duncan Campbell Scott from T.A. Stout on February 14, 1919, providing information about John Besito. (Image found on Canadiana)

This personal information became part of the federal government files in Ottawa. The records are also unique in that the “Indian Agents” delved into the soldier’s post-service life. The information that was collected included gratuitous private information and personal judgements about the veterans and the civilian lives they returned to. For example, the “Indian Agent’s Office” notes dated February 1919 for Private John Besito from Saugeen Agency, Ontario, state, “He has a location of fifty acres in the Reserve. He has a house and some improvements on his location.”

As well as administrative information, such as CEF regimental numbers and membership in First Nation agencies and bands, these records also give us genealogical information. For example, the names of three deceased soldiers are listed in a letter to the Department of Indian Affairs dated February 12, 1919, written by the “Indian Agent” of the Griswold Agency in Manitoba. The letter states that the deceased soldiers are from Oak River and Oak Lake Reserves. The letter also includes the CEF regimental number of one of the deceased, Private John Taylor, and that the Department of Indian Affairs paid a pension to his wife and two children. Other correspondence informs us that Private Gilbert Moore, who was killed in action on March 24, 1918, left behind parents in poor circumstances and that they applied for a pension; and that Private Thomas Kasto left a mother who received a pension.

A black-and-white studio portrait of a First World War soldier in uniform and holding a rifle.

Photograph of Canadian Expeditionary Forces soldier Michael Ackabee. (e005176082)

As well as providing information about the soldiers who fought with the CEF, these files make reference to women in First Nation communities who provided funds to help with the war effort to organizations such as the Red Cross, the Girls Overseas Comfort Club, and the Canadian Patriotic Fund. Women in the communities knitted socks and made shirts to add to the “comfort boxes” that were mailed to the men overseas. They also fundraised by making beadwork, woven baskets, and quilts to sell at box socials and fairs.

Indigenous soldiers who survived the war often returned home changed, both positively and negatively. Sapper Peter Taylor, a Kahnawake soldier, suffered the rest of his life with complications from mustard gas poisoning until he passed away in 1955. Private Tom Longboat, the Olympic long distance runner from Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, returned home from his duty overseas in France to find his wife had remarried after receiving word that he had been killed.

A black-and-white photograph of two men in First World War military uniforms smiling and buying a newspaper from a young boy. The man on the right is accepting a newspaper from the boy and giving him money in exchange.

Private Tom Longboat, the Onondaga long distance runner, buying a newspaper from a French boy, June 1917. (a001479)

Many who returned home were affected mentally and physically. We give our gratitude for their sacrifices and service, and they will be forever acknowledged, honoured, and respected.

This blog is part of a series related to the Indigenous Documentary Heritage Initiatives. Learn how Library and Archives Canada (LAC) increases access to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation collections and supports communities in the preservation of Indigenous language recordings.

Elizabeth Kawenaa Montour is a project archivist and Sara Chatfield is a project manager in the Exhibitions and Online Content Division of the Public Service Branch at Library and Archives Canada.

The Andrew Sisters pumped out the best propaganda for the imperial war machine: “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile. Don’t let your joy and laughter hear the snag. Smile boys, that’s the style. What’s the use of worrying. It never was worth while. So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile”.

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