{"id":115,"date":"2011-12-18T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:01:44","slug":"attawapiskat-kashachewan-and-debeers-diamonds-cold-as-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/attawapiskat-kashachewan-and-debeers-diamonds-cold-as-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTAWAPISKAT, KASHACHEWAN AND DEBEERS DIAMONDS, COLD AS ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLD AS ICE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>MNN:\u00a0 18 Dec. 2011.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Kashechewan is a Cree community on James Bay.\u00a0 In 2005 half their people had been evacuated due to DeBeers Diamond Mining overloading the sewage system.\u00a0 In 2010 they gave $5,231,000 to eight Indigenous communities, most of which went to lawyers, consultants and the political elite; DeBeers took out $446,020,000.00 worth of diamonds. In 2005 MNN was called in to Kashachewan, just south of Attawapiskat.\u00a0 \u00a0COLD AS ICE, is a story about three Kanionkehaka who were kept out.\u00a0 We issued an Objection to DeBeers.\u00a0 It\u2019s relevant to the Attawapiskat issue.\u00a0 Please read and understand.\u00a0\u00a0 MNN Mohawk Nation News.\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

KANION\u2019KE:HAKA WOMEN TITLE HOLDERS<\/em><\/p>\n

P. O. Box 991, Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory<\/em><\/p>\n

(Quebec, Canada) J0l 1B0<\/em><\/p>\n

450-635-9345 613-575-1550<\/em><\/p>\n

Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jan. 15, 2006.<\/p>\n

PUBLIC NOTICE OF OBJECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

TO DEBEERS DIAMOND MINE EXPLOITATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

OF KASHECHEWAN CREE COMMUNITY ON JAMES BAY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO CANADA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Re:\u00a0 DeBeers Diamond Mine exploitation of<\/span><\/p>\n

Kashechewan Cree community on James Bay in Northern Ontario Canada<\/span><\/p>\n

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To:<\/p>\n

President, De Beers Diamond Mines; Queen Elizabeth II; Prime Minister of Canada; Governor General of Canada; Premier of Ontario; Indian Affairs Canada; Progressive Party of Canada; New Democratic Party of Canada; Bloc Quebecois Party; UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights; International Commission for Human Rights; Coalition Criminal Court; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Bono; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ontario Aboriginal Affairs; Supreme Court of Canada; Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada; Health Canada; National Defense; U.S. President George Bush;<\/p>\n

International Peace Academy; Royal Canadian Military Institute; Canadian High Commission Trade Office in Johannesburg, South Africa\u00a0(addresses\/emails at end)<\/em><\/p>\n

She:kon\/Greetings:<\/p>\n

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We the Women Title Holders of the Kanion\u2019ke:haka are filing an objection to the exploitation of the Crees of Kashechewan by DeBeers, Indian Affairs, Ontario Government and their agents.\u00a0\u00a0 This private company and these governments have no legal authority under Canadian, international or Cree law to interfere with the indigenous resources involved.\u00a0 We advise you to back off immediately!<\/p>\n

Although we are not Cree, we have a duty under the Kaianereh\u2019ko:wa, our constitution, to help all our Indigenous brothers and sisters from the east to the west coast of Turtle Island.\u00a0 We also have a duty as citizens of the world to uphold the equal and inalienable rights of all people and to defend their human rights.<\/p>\n

The people of Kashechewan have been deprived of the most basic human rights.\u00a0 There is presently a crisis of E-coli contamination of the water.\u00a0 The Canadian government Department of Indian Affairs caused it and refuses to fix it.\u00a0 This has been going on for 9 years.\u00a0 At the end of October 2005, half of the 2,000 people were suddenly evacuated to southern Canadian cities all over Ontario.\u00a0 They were put in cheap hotels and military institutions.\u00a0 They were deprived of their right to their community, family relations and to have a decent standard of living.\u00a0 Unlike refugee claimants in Canada, they were given no resources to ensure their survival.\u00a0 They had to rely on vouchers and handouts which restricted their freedom. They could not provide for themselves and their families in these alien environments.\u00a0 One family was evacuated to Sault Ste. Marie.\u00a0 When they wanted to go home, Indian Affairs refused to fund their travel.\u00a0 They ended up in a Women\u2019s Shelter in Akwesasne and they\u2019re still there.<\/p>\n

On the weekend of January 7th<\/sup>\u00a0and 8th<\/sup>, 2006, there were three deaths in the community.\u00a0 One young man died of a heart attacked due to stress.\u00a0 Two were shackled in a building that did not meet the most minimal safety standards.\u00a0 The building caught fire and they burnt to death.\u00a0 Both the toxic water and this fire are due to criminal negligence by the colonial government.<\/p>\n

We have learned that DeBeers has a deplorable history of mistreating the indigenous people in Africa.\u00a0 Their mining operations have left the earth scarred and the environment irretrievably damaged.\u00a0 The original peoples were removed.\u00a0 Now that the area has been abandoned, they are unable to use it.\u00a0 Currently they are extending their operations to the Kalahari deserts.\u00a0 They removed the Bush Men tortured and confined them to small reserves, when a large territory is needed to survive under those conditions.\u00a0 They stopped them from hunting, gathering and seeking water.\u00a0 Many have died as a result.\u00a0 We are certain that if people knew about this they would be alarmed.\u00a0 This kind of resource theft and human rights abuse is not acceptable in Canada or anywhere else.\u00a0 Yet the Canadian and Ontario governments seem to be facilitating the De Beers operation against the people of Kashechewan.<\/p>\n

DeBeers has claimed the Cree\u2019s diamonds and promised to give Canada and Ontario royalties.\u00a0 This has placed Canada and Ontario in a position of conflict of interest because both have fiduciary obligations to the Indigenous peoples.\u00a0 According to Sections 109 and 132 of the British North America Act 1867, the constitution of Canada, the resources are not theirs to give away.\u00a0 The document known as Treaty 9 is invalid.\u00a0 It violates the constitution and international law.\u00a0 Canada does not have a legal treaty with the owners, the Cree People, who are indigenous to the land.<\/p>\n

No one can give what they do not have.\u00a0 Canada and Ontario have no legal right to the resources belonging to the people of Kashechewan.\u00a0 When the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources went to Europe to give DeBeers permission, he had nothing to give.<\/p>\n

DeBeers plans to completely destroy their environment.\u00a0 DeBeers has seemingly limitless financial and political resources.\u00a0 They have already started an operation a few miles north of Kashechewan at the sister community of Attawapiskat.\u00a0 In order to facilitate the exploitation of diamonds and other resources, belonging to the people of Kashechewan, they plan to built a huge open mine pit larger than the size of Toronto.\u00a0 Accommodations have already been built near Kashechewan with good pure water, though Indian Affairs refuses to provide this necessity to the Crees.\u00a0 Roads, air strips, rock waste dumps, treatment plants, fields for dewatering and mine water are in the works.\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously this operation and the toxins it will produce will displace the Crees or kill them.<\/p>\n

DeBeers exploitation of the people of Kashechewan is doubly reprehensible.\u00a0 First, it involves illegal exploitation of indigenous people.\u00a0 Second, it is for purposes of providing materials to make weapons in this age when war has become illegal.<\/p>\n

This is our formal notification that you are to cease and desist all of your illegal operations on the territory of the Crees of Kashechewan<\/p>\n

Attached is a report entitled \u201cCold as Ice\u201d.\u00a0 We assure you that we take the human rights abuses you are engaged in very seriously.<\/p>\n

By assuming authority over Canada, the Queen has incurred fiduciary obligations to the indigenous inhabitants of Kashechewan.\u00a0 We call on the Queen to preserve her honor and assert her authority to protect the laws of the Crees of Kashechewan.<\/p>\n

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Onen kiwahi<\/p>\n

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Kahentinetha \/s\/__________________________<\/p>\n

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Katenies \/s\/ _____________________________<\/p>\n

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Katsitsaionhne \/s\/ _________________________<\/p>\n

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President, De Beers Diamond Mines, Suite 400, 65 Overlea Blvd. Toronto, Ont. M4H 1P1,\u00a0linda.dorrington@ca.debeersgroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, %The Privy Council, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA, UK\u00a0press@royalcollection.org.uk<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Prime Minister of Canada, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canadapm@pm.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Her Excellency Mme. Jean, Governor General of Canada, Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Canada\u00a0info@gg.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, Legislative Bldg., Queen\u2019s park, Toronto, Ont. M7A 1A1 dalton.mcginty@premier.gov.on.ca<\/p>\n

The Honorable Minister of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., Ottawa K1A 0H4<\/p>\n

Stephen Harper, Progressive Party of Canada, Ottawa, Canadaharper.s@parl.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack Layton, New Democratic Party of Canada, 279 Laurier Ave., W., Ottawa Canada K1P 5J9\u00a0layton.j@parl.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloc Quebecois Party, Ottawa, Canada\u00a0Duceppe.g@parl.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights, UN Plaza, S.2914, New York 10017<\/p>\n

Rudolpho Stavenhagen, International Commission for Human Rights, Box 16, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland<\/p>\n

Coalition Criminal Court, %WFM, 708 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Ave., 24th<\/sup>\u00a0Fl., New York 10017<\/p>\n

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1200 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0R2<\/p>\n

Bono, DATA, 1400 Eye St., N.W., Suite 1125, Washington DC 20005<\/p>\n

Gail Beggs, Aboriginal Affairs, 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Fl. 720, Bay St., Toronto Ont. M5G 2K1<\/p>\n

Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada, 301 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0J1 613-995-4330<\/p>\n

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, House of Commons, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A6\u00a0onbox@psepc.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, Jeanne Mance Building, Tunney\u2019s Pasture, Postal Locator 1921A, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9 fnihb-dgspni@hc-sc.gc.ca<\/p>\n

Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of National Defence, Major Gen. George R. Pearkes Bldg., 101 Col. By Drive, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0K2graham.b@gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. President George Bush, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC 20500\u00a0president@whitehouse.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

International Peace Academy, UN Plaza, New York, NY<\/p>\n

Royal Canadian Military Institute, 426 University Ave., Toronto ON M5G 1S9\u00a0president@rcmi.org<\/a>
\nCanadian High Commission Trade Office in Johannesburg, South Africa\u00a0jobrg@international.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

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cc.\u00a0 All Media, Pope Benedictum XVI, St. Peter\u2019s Sq., Vatican City, Rome Italy; Canadian Center for Foreign Policy Development,info.ccfpd@dfait\/maeci.gc.ca<\/a>\u00a0(National Forum on Africa);<\/p>\n

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\u2018COLD AS ICE\u2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n

De Beers Diamond Mines does not show its ugly face<\/strong><\/p>\n

to Kashechewan Cree<\/strong><\/p>\n

of James Bay in Northern Ontario Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Report By<\/p>\n

Orakwa Indigenous Enterprises<\/p>\n

January 2006<\/p>\n

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MNN Mohawk Nation News had sent out two communiqu\u00e9s on Kashechewan water crisis.\u00a0 One described the crisis of E-coli infested water that had infected James Bay community.\u00a0 Half of the 2,000 people were evacuated to Canadian cities far and wide in the province of Ontario.\u00a0 The people were placed in hotels and given vouchers.\u00a0 The other story was about one family who had been evacuated to Sault Ste. Marie and wanted to go home.\u00a0 Indian Affairs refused to fund their travel.\u00a0 They ended up in Akwesasne at the Women\u2019s Shelter.\u00a0 These two stories are reproduced in this report.\u00a0 The real story is about exploitation of this community by De Beers Diamond Mines.\u00a0 This report covers the failed attempt by three Mohawks on behalf of Orakwa Indigenous Enterprises to visit the Kashechewan community in northern Ontario in early January 2006.\u00a0 They wanted to meet the people and get the facts of their victimization by De Beers with the assistance of Indian Affairs Canada and the government of the province of Ontario.<\/p>\n

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Orakwa, P.O. Box 991, Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory<\/p>\n

(Quebec, Canada) J0L 1B0\u00a0 kahentinetha2@yahoo.com<\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/p>\n

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  1. Introduction, 3<\/li>\n
  2. PLAN B \u2013 REMOVE AND DISPERSE<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    INDIGENOUS PEOPLE \u2013 the Keshachewan Experiment. 3<\/p>\n

    3.\u00a0\u00a0 More to this story than meets the eye, 6<\/p>\n

    4.\u00a0\u00a0 MNN:\u00a0 LUST FOR DIAMONDS:\u00a0 INDIAN AFFAIRS AND DE BEERS<\/p>\n

    \u201cSCROOGE\u201d KASHECHEWAN, 6<\/p>\n

    5.\u00a0\u00a0 Leave for Toronto, 9<\/p>\n

    6.\u00a0\u00a0 Akwesasne:\u00a0 Trouble at the US-Canada border crossing, 9<\/p>\n

    7.\u00a0\u00a0 Constitutional jurisdiction question, 10<\/p>\n

    8.\u00a0\u00a0 Planning around the kitchen table, 10<\/p>\n

    9.\u00a0\u00a0 Kay, our colleague, 10<\/p>\n

    10.\u00a0 African connection:\u00a0 Kalahari Bush Men<\/p>\n

    11.\u00a0 Kirkland Capital of Toronto, 12<\/p>\n

    12.\u00a0 Kirkland Capital Website, 13<\/p>\n

    13.\u00a0 Background:\u00a0 Kashechewan situation, 15<\/p>\n

    14.\u00a0 Zane Bell, 15<\/p>\n

    15.\u00a0 Observation of John P., 18<\/p>\n

    16.\u00a0 Chief Leo Friday, 18<\/p>\n

    17.\u00a0 TREATY 9, 1905, 19<\/p>\n

    18.\u00a0 Arrival in Timmins, 20<\/p>\n

    19.\u00a0 Wondering about Rebecca, 21<\/p>\n

    20.\u00a0 WBAI Radio New York City<\/p>\n

    21.\u00a0 Rebecca arrives in Timmins, 22<\/p>\n

    22.\u00a0 What is R.C.M.I.? 23<\/p>\n

    23.\u00a0 Rebecca blocks the ice road, 24<\/p>\n

    24.\u00a0 Green Peace and the flooding, 24<\/p>\n

    25.\u00a0 In the dungeon, 25<\/p>\n

    26.\u00a0 Meeting with the Governor General of Canada, 25<\/p>\n

    27.\u00a0 Conclusion, 25<\/p>\n

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    1.\u00a0 INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    My brother, Frank Taiotekane Horn, a lawyer practicing in Cornwall Ontario, called me frantically describing what was happening in Kashechewan.\u00a0 He had gone there a few times with the traveling court to represent Cree defendants as a lawyer.\u00a0 He gave me several phone numbers of contacts up there.\u00a0 I wrote the following story on October 30th<\/sup>, 2005.<\/p>\n

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    2.\u00a0 PLAN B \u2013 REMOVE AND DISPERSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

    INDIGENOUS PEOPLE \u2013 the Keshachewan Experiment<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    MNN.\u00a0 Oct. 30, 2005.\u00a0 Kashechewan, a remote northern Ontario Cree community of almost 2000 people has become an international scandal over reports of contaminated water.\u00a0 It\u2019s called a \u201cfly-in\u201d community because there is no road in.\u00a0 One thousand people have been evacuated because of sicknesses created by contaminated water.<\/p>\n

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    Ten years ago Indian Affairs designed a water treatment system where Hollow Creek joins the Albany River which drains into James Bay. James Bay is the southern part of Hudson\u2019s Bay.\u00a0 This is where Kashechewan is located. The two are fresh water rivers flowing into the salt water bay.\u00a0 Fort Albany is a little way up the Albany River.<\/p>\n

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    As they have done in so many other communities, Indian Affairs forgot about little details like health, safety and clean water.\u00a0 The Indian Affairs engineer built the water plant 135 meters downstream from a sewage lagoon.\u00a0 It flows right past the water intake pipe and sewage goes into the drinking water.\u00a0 He forgot about the tide that comes in and backs up the sewage into the drinking water.\u00a0 As a result the water pipe delivers deadly E-coli right into everybody\u2019s kitchen tap.<\/p>\n

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    Health Canada\u2019s solution?\u00a0 Based on their expertise and experience, they told the people to just put more and more chlorine in the water, boil it and then drink it.\u00a0 Almost all have come down with severe skin infections and unknown sicknesses.\u00a0 Was this one of their weird twisted experiments, or what?\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to be an Einstein to know what happened.\u00a0 It\u2019s a disaster!<\/p>\n

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    Last year Indian Affairs, which has never hesitated to throw good money after bad, paid $500,000 for an upgrade.\u00a0\u00a0 But they forgot to move the intake pipe!\u00a0 In the last six months Indians Affairs has sent in $250,000 worth of bottled water. To try to fix the system the people tied a rope and a wood plank to hold the water plant together.<\/p>\n

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    Lately they have been going to the Albany River and lugging back buckets of water to drink.\u00a0 Even this water is contaminated.<\/p>\n

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    The young people want to revive the ancient custom of taking drinking water upstream before the sewage.\u00a0 They want to move further inland to higher ground.\u00a0 Kashechewan is built on a flood plain with a dike all the way around the community to stop the floods that come with the tides.\u00a0 It was Indian Affairs\u2019 idea that Indians should spend the whole year at a seasonal camp on a flood plain.\u00a0 I wonder if they used the engineers that built New Orleans as consultants!\u00a0 The older people want to stay because they\u2019ve become attached to the location.<\/p>\n

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    Canada\u2019s been sending aid all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Now it\u2019s revealed that the water in 70% of Indian communities is a health risk.\u00a0 It would cost Indian Affairs $1.4 billion to fix all their mistakes.\u00a0 Has Indian Affairs ever sued an engineering firm for incompetence?\u00a0 Or is this Plan B of the old genocide project?\u00a0 Dying race and all that!\u00a0 Tsk!\u00a0 Tsk!\u00a0\u00a0 Or maybe it\u2019s just a question of giving contracts to political hacks to pay off a few seedy debts, eh!\u00a0 Everybody is in the habit of blaming the \u201cInjuns\u201d for draining the public purse anyway.\u00a0 The whole mess is pretty damn shocking!!<\/p>\n

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    \u201cKopy Kat Kanada\u201d.\u00a0 Indian Affairs sent in the army and put up some tents.\u00a0\u00a0 (I\u2019m sure they\u2019d rather go up there than to the Middle East.)\u00a0 In the meantime, Ontario shuffled 1000 to Cochrane, Sudbury and parts unknown.\u00a0 The elders are very upset about letting them leave as they may never come back.\u00a0 They\u2019re getting residential school flashbacks.\u00a0 Everyone is haunted by horror stories about our youth adrift in the south.\u00a0 Indian Affairs works constantly at dissolving distinct Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n

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    They think they can shove us into a non-native community and we can live like everybody else.\u00a0 This relocation strategy will dissolve the community.\u00a0 Relocation has been a disaster every time it\u2019s been tried.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chief, council and everyone are trying to keep the community together.\u00a0 They feel it\u2019s urgent to do something now.<\/p>\n

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    Kashechewan is inundated with media.\u00a0 Almost everyone is getting cameras, microphones and reporters in their faces.\u00a0 It\u2019s the news of the moment.\u00a0 They\u2019ll all leave and no one will hear about Kashechewan again.<\/p>\n

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    It\u2019s another experiment.\u00a0 Move the Indians away from their original constitutional territory onto another Indigenous nation\u2019s land.\u00a0 This separates them from their spiritual ties.\u00a0 Skylnick in her book \u201cA Poison Stronger than Love\u201d proved removals are a big \u201cmake work\u201d project for Indian Affairs, who always say, \u201cWe\u2019ll make the decisions for them\u201d.\u00a0 The 1960\u2019s experiment on relocating Indians all had to be reversed in the end.\u00a0 Some were relocated to Elliot Lake, the Menominees were terminated, the Innu, were relocated to Davis Inlet.\u00a0 The common thread is that by such removals they lost their land and had to be reintegrated later.\u00a0 Indian Affairs never lets the people decide.\u00a0 They don\u2019t intend to do what\u2019s decent and good for the Indians.<\/p>\n

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    Here\u2019s another slant.\u00a0 What\u2019s really going on here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    The North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA was the crowning glory of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his negotiator, Simon Riesman.\u00a0 They gave away Canadian water to the U.S.<\/p>\n

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    In NAFTA Canada cannot withhold its water from the United States.\u00a0 Americans are depleting their fresh water resources and are demanding the right to get Canadian water.\u00a0 One idea was to divert all the rivers that flow into James Bay into the Great Lakes.\u00a0 Then send it to the Midwestern U.S. to irrigate land Americans have turned into a parched \u201cdust bowl\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    Another plan was to build a dike separating James Bay and Hudson\u2019s Bay.\u00a0 Then James Bay would be drained into the Hudson\u2019s Bay.\u00a0 This would be filled up with fresh water from the rivers that flow north from the Canadian Shield.\u00a0 A huge reservoir would cover the whole area.\u00a0 This would be rerouted south to the U.S., or pumped into the Great Lakes and piped out.<\/p>\n

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    The main U.S. concern is that the Mississippi is no longer viable.\u00a0 The population in California is over 40 million and it\u2019s dry.\u00a0 They desperately need water.\u00a0 Canada has the most, fresh water in the world.\u00a0 The U.S. wants it.\u00a0 The Indians are in the way.<\/p>\n

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    To carry out this plan, all Indian communities on Hudson\u2019s Bay and James Bay will have to be removed before the area is flooded.\u00a0 The Indians are basically in the way. They live on the mouths of all the rivers draining into James Bay.\u00a0 They want the northern indigenous communities to pay for the U.S. environmental catastrophe.<\/p>\n

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    On top of all this, the U.S. is going to get Canada to build the structure which has been designed to make sure the U.S. gets all the benefits.\u00a0 In fact, they already probably have signed documents making it look like the Indians consented.\u00a0 What they\u2019ve forgotten is Sections 109 and 132 of the Canadian Constitution, stipulates, that the Indians have\u00a0prior interests\u00a0<\/em>that supercede that of Canada and its provinces.\u00a0 They have to deal with us first.\u00a0 Hee haw!<\/p>\n

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    There are 100 reserves that they say have contaminated waters.\u00a0 The Indians will all have to be removed.\u00a0 This experiment with the Kashechewan community is only the beginning.<\/p>\n

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    Kahentinetha Horn<\/p>\n

    MNN Mohawk Nation News<\/p>\n

    Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com<\/p>\n

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    I asked for comments and assistance and gave the following telephone numbers for people who wanted to corroborate my communiqu\u00e9:\u00a0 John Wyne \u2013 705-275-4377;\u00a0 Leo Friday –\u00a0 705-275-4664; Norman Wesley \u2013 705-275-4109, 705-275-4519; Chief \u2013 750-275-4440.\u00a0 \u201cZane Bell\u201d \u2013 705-286-6118 emailzany60@hotmail.com<\/a>; Ellis Kirkland \u2013 www.kirklandcapital.com<\/p>\n

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    3.\u00a0 More to this story than meets the eye<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In the meantime, Zane Bell had told Rebecca Friday, the vice-chief of Kashechewan, to call me.\u00a0 She had not seen the story that I had sent out as Zane had not sent it to her.<\/p>\n

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    After talking with her about how bad the situation was and that there was no help in sight, I wrote another story on December 23rd<\/sup>2005.\u00a0 I read it to her over the phone and then sent it out.<\/p>\n

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    4.\u00a0 LUST FOR DIAMONDS:\u00a0 INDIAN AFFAIRS AND DE BEERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cSCROOGE\u201d KASHECHEWAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    MNN.\u00a0 Dec. 23, 2005.\u00a0 \u201cQuit \u2018Scrooging\u2019 them around!\u201d\u00a0 This is what Indian Affairs and De Beers are\u00a0doing to members of the Cree Nation of Kashechewan.\u00a0 Remember that isolated northern Ontario community on James Bay?\u00a0 That\u2019s where the engineering geniuses at Indian Affairs designed and built a multi-million dollar water treatment plant that spewed filth and sewage into tap waters for nine years, starting almost from the day it was built.\u00a0 \u201cJust put more chlorine in it and boil it\u201d, said Health Canada, when the people said they wanted clean water.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been sick and getting sicker.<\/p>\n

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    In early November 1,000 people, that\u2019s 50% of the community, were evacuated to faraway cities like Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Peterborough, Timmins, Cochrane, Sudbury and Cornwall to save their lives.\u00a0 Since then they have been put up in hotels and given vouchers for necessities, but little cash.\u00a0 This has lead to lonesomeness and other desperate situations.\u00a0 Families have been broken up.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have money to use phones to keep in touch with each other.<\/p>\n

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    About a week ago, Indian Affairs decided to move a family of six, the husband and wife and four children ages 14, 13, 12 and 8, from Sault Ste. Marie to the Akwesasne Women\u2019s Crisis Shelter near Cornwall.<\/p>\n

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    Apparently the couple went drinking one time.\u00a0 Who wouldn\u2019t?\u00a0 The Children\u2019s Aid Society got involved.\u00a0\u00a0 Without consulting them, they spirited them to Cornwall.\u00a0 No rooms at any inns were found there because of Christmas bookings.\u00a0 They were taken to the crisis center.\u00a0 \u201cThere were high fences and high tech gates.\u00a0 It was like a prison with guards.\u00a0 Our people do have to get help for their problems.\u00a0 They were not told anything\u201d, said the vice-chief of Kashechewan.\u00a0 \u201cWe were initially told that Cornwall could take 1,000 people.\u00a0 But there wasn\u2019t even room for one family\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    The family was not told where they were being taken.\u00a0 They were as good as kidnapped except there were no black hoods put over their heads.\u00a0 They were never told where they would end up.<\/p>\n

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    The family can\u2019t go home.\u00a0 Their trailer has been gutted and is getting fixed.\u00a0 The water is still no good.\u00a0 It has to be boiled.\u00a0 In the infamous Walkerton water crisis, all the pipes were replaced.\u00a0 In Kashechewan they are only going to sanitize them.\u00a0 They say the water is frozen and can\u2019t be drained.\u00a0 So how are they going to sanitize them?\u00a0 This situation gets worse.\u00a0 Indian Affairs won\u2019t tell the people anything.\u00a0 The water is okay only for bathing and laundry if you\u2019re not fussy about your whites.\u00a0 Ontario Water Works from Red Lake Ontario are up there maintaining and monitoring the water treatment manually.\u00a0 They have to stay there so nothing breaks down.<\/p>\n

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    Indian Affairs won\u2019t fix it because they say funding was accidentally misused.\u00a0 If the community gives it back, the plant will be fixed.\u00a0 It\u2019s impossible.\u00a0 There\u2019s no economy up there.\u00a0 There are no jobs and no income.\u00a0 How can they pay back $120,000?\u00a0 For this they are going to poison and kill everybody!\u00a0 Indian Affairs keeps cutting their budget all the time.\u00a0 No one has made Indian Affairs accountable for their miserable engineering job.\u00a0 For three years they have been asking Indian Affairs for funds to give special training to the native people to be certified to run the plant.\u00a0 No way!\u00a0 This would cut out Indian Affairs jobs!\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 The request has never been approved.<\/p>\n

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    The family in Akwesasne would like to go Sudbury to meet up with other members of their family.\u00a0 Indian Affairs refuses because of the crisis they are in.\u00a0 The crisis who is in, the family or Indian Affairs?\u00a0 When you feel so powerless, what are you going to do?\u00a0 Indian Affairs made a unilateral decision on their behavior.\u00a0 Said the vice-chief, \u201cYou guys, you think you can do this to my people?\u00a0 If you play dirty, we\u2019ll play dirty too.\u00a0 Your treatment is totally inhuman and we\u2019re going to tell everybody about it\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    Two mysterious strangers, a man and a woman, strode onto the scene.\u00a0 No one knows how they got there or who paid their way.\u00a0 When the people asked what they were up to, they said they were working behind the scenes to help them.\u00a0 The DART team did get a water purifier up there to purify and bottle water from the river.\u00a0 The woman made up a binder outlining their dire situation to get the help they needed.\u00a0 She got Band Council Resolutions to send to government ministers and to the Minister of Defense Bill Graham.\u00a0 The Canadian public was told that everything was hunky dory.\u00a0 But no one responded to their requests.\u00a0 So they phoned and were told they never got the binders.<\/p>\n

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    For three years Indian Affairs was working on an environmental assessment of the area.\u00a0 They consulted the people a few times for half a day with not more than 10 to 15 people.\u00a0 Indian Affairs approved the findings.\u00a0 They gave DeBeers Diamond Mine the right go ahead and start mining.\u00a0 The people did not understand the report and what DeBeers\u2019 interest was.\u00a0\u00a0 Indian Affairs did not translate the complicated material into Cree syllabic.\u00a0 It is a conflict of interest for Indian Affairs whose fiduciary duty is to protect the people and at the same time try to do business off their backs.\u00a0 The Province of Ontario and the federal government are going to get a portion of the royalties from the mine.\u00a0 The Indians, who own the land, get nothing.\u00a0 They may end up losing their lives because their environment has been damaged so badly.<\/p>\n

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    These two strangers and some community members are on a negotiation team.\u00a0 Guess whose funding this negotiation team?\u00a0 DeBeers!\u00a0 DeBeers gave the team $114,000 to negotiate with them!\u00a0 What do you think of that?\u00a0 The woman attends meetings and speaks on behalf of the Kashechewan people without any people from the community present.<\/p>\n

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    This woman is setting up a meeting in Toronto between the Kashechewan people, DeBeers and Indian Affairs.\u00a0 She even found a lawyer for them from Calgary, Jim HopeRoss.\u00a0 Is this starting to make sense?\u00a0 How do things look when you connect the dots?\u00a0 Who is helping the people of Kashechewan?\u00a0 They don\u2019t have money.\u00a0 Indian Affairs refuses to help these people.\u00a0 They throw them at the mercy of De Beers who pays for the negotiations which is attended by Indian Affairs.<\/p>\n

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    She did make a budget for the vice chief to visit the people who had been deported to the various cities.\u00a0 She got $50,000 to do this.<\/p>\n

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    She also got Jim HopeRoss from Calgary as a lawyer for them.\u00a0 He does aboriginal land claims, oil fields and other resource fights for people from those areas.\u00a0 He told them they had a \u201cwin-win\u201d case because they had not been told what Indian Affairs had done before DeBeers arrived on the scene and made their plans with them.\u00a0 Perhaps they should consult the remaining Kalahari Bushmen in Africa as to the tactics DeBeers used to remove them off their lands in order to mine for diamonds \u2013 murder, starvation, loss of hunting and gathering rights and deprivation of water, to name a few.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    This negotiation meeting at the Delta Hotel on January 3, 2006, at 9:00 am is of great public interest.\u00a0 Three parties are involved.\u00a0 Who do the diamonds belong to?\u00a0 Are they a common gift to humanity, or are they private property?\u00a0 Can they be claimed by De Beers, a private company?\u00a0 By Canada, a colonial state?\u00a0 Or by the people of Kashechewan, the original occupants of the territory who never surrendered their land?<\/p>\n

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    What do you think?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t this an important public question?\u00a0 Remember that DeBeers supplies the U.S. military through their South African mines 60% of the diamonds for their lethal armaments such as bunker buster bombs and diamond dust in the metal to make the tanks shatter proof.\u00a0 Diamond mining contaminates the water table because they water blast the soil to erode it.\u00a0 The water contains chemicals, salts and other environmental hazards.\u00a0 The mind goes down thousands of feet.\u00a0 One in Africa goes 4 miles deep.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Kahentinetha Horn<\/p>\n

    MNN Mohawk Nation News<\/p>\n

    Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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    I gave the contact number, Kashechewan 705-275-1043.<\/p>\n

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    Rebecca invited me to go to the forthcoming negotiation meeting in Toronto on January 3rd<\/sup>, 2006.\u00a0 I told her that I could not go alone.\u00a0 We Mohawks traditionally attend meetings as a threesome so that each would give their own insights in the debriefing afterwards.\u00a0 We agreed that we would join them as observers.<\/p>\n

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    5.\u00a0 Leave for Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    On Tuesday January 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Aroniakon, Katenies and I were supposed to drive to Toronto to stay with Kay Murphy and join the Crees at 7:00 am the next morning.\u00a0 They were to meet with DeBeers Diamonds, Indian Affairs, Ellis Kirkland, Zane Bell and a lawyers invited by Ellis to negotiate.\u00a0 (We were concerned about the lawyer.\u00a0 Our experience is that the lawyer would work for a percentage of the final settlement, usually around 30%.)<\/p>\n

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    6.\u00a0 Akwesasne:\u00a0 Trouble at the US-Canada border crossing<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Aroniakon arrived at my house in Kahnawake on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 We had not heard from Rebecca.\u00a0 Aroniakon, without hesitation, said, \u201cLet\u2019s go anyway\u201d.\u00a0 Within a few minutes, we jumped into my car and left for Akwesasne.\u00a0 We went by Highway 138, which is the back road that leads to the US-Canada border crossing at Dundee near Huntington Quebec.<\/p>\n

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    About 2:00 pm we arrived at Dundee crossing.\u00a0 The female U.S. customs officer on duty knew me from my five years of crossing daily to go to work at the Akwesasne casino.\u00a0 Said the female customs officer, \u201cWhere y\u2019all going?\u2019\u00a0 We said to Akwesasne.\u00a0 She said, \u201cPlease pull over\u201d.\u00a0 We underwent a thorough one-hour inspection of ourselves and our vehicle.\u00a0 After filling out forms and being asked some stupid questions, Aroniakon asked why we were being scrutinized.\u00a0 She said, \u201cIt\u2019s a random inspection\u201d.\u00a0 We accepted that.\u00a0 Finally, we were given back our car and keys and went on our way.\u00a0 We were only about 10 minutes from Katenies\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cWas that a routine check, or what?\u201d I asked Aroniakon as we drove into.\u00a0 Akwesasne.\u00a0 This Mohawk community is right on the Canada-US border at the intersection of New York State, Ontario and Quebec.\u00a0 It\u2019s a jurisdictional nightmare.\u00a0 Katenies lives in the Quebec portion.\u00a0 But you have to go through New York State to get to her place.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We finally pulled up to Katenies\u2019s house.\u00a0 She had visitors.\u00a0 They were all talking about the Akwesasne situation, commenting on various issues, such as the border crossing harassment of Mohawks.\u00a0 They cross daily from one part of their community to the other, sometimes ten times a day.\u00a0 We had just gone through this harassment ourselves.<\/p>\n

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    10.\u00a0 Constitutional jurisdiction question<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Aroniakon, Katenies, I, and others had just spent a year on the \u201cconstitutional jurisdiction\u201d issue.\u00a0 We successfully raised the question of whether New York State had gotten jurisdiction over our lands since we never gave it to them.\u00a0 So how could they deal with the New York State Tribal council they had set up?\u00a0 Their own entity was ready to sign a deal with them to give away our 9 million acres of land in exchange for a casino.\u00a0 Perplexing, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    As a result of our work, we had toppled four of the fraudulent land claims, St. Regis Akwesasne, Onondaga, Oneida and Cayuga.\u00a0 New York State and their tribal government in Akwesasne are trying again to resurrect their ploys to settle these phony New York State claims to our lands and to build the casino for the tribal council.<\/p>\n

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    11.\u00a0 Planning around the kitchen table<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    We sat around Katenies\u2019s kitchen-dining room in St. Regis Village on the territory.\u00a0 We were wondering what to do.\u00a0 Should Angus and I go home or should we go ahead?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Finally Rebecca Friday called me on my cell phone.\u00a0 She told us she had cancelled the meeting in Toronto that they were not going down there.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    What to do.\u00a0 What to do.\u00a0 She asked us if we could come to Kashechewan?\u00a0 We all said, \u201cYes\u201d.\u00a0 She would have Air Canada plane tickets at Toronto airport for the next morning at 8:40 am. to fly to Timmins.\u00a0 From there we would catch a CreeBec flight to Kashechewan.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Katenies quickly rummaged around her house for heavy duty winter clothes, long johns, extra socks, hats, gloves and coats.\u00a0 We picked up some money to help defray gas, parking and other costs from one of our supporters on the territory.\u00a0 We still needed a few things like underwear and socks.\u00a0 We were only supposed to be away one day in Toronto.\u00a0 So we planned to cross the bridge from the New York State portion of Akwesasne over to the Canadian city of Cornwall and visit the Wal Mart there.\u00a0 From there we could catch the Trans Canada highway \u201c401\u201d to Toronto.\u00a0 It was a 5 hour drive.<\/p>\n

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    9.\u00a0 Kay, our colleague<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Rebecca had warned us it was warm in Kashechewan, only 40 below 0.\u00a0 We arrived in Toronto at 9:30 pm.\u00a0 We actually made good time.\u00a0 We stayed with an old friend, Kay Murphy.\u00a0 She was a longtime volunteer in the office of the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with the Native People CASNP for over 20 years.\u00a0 Her small apartment has always been open to Indians.\u00a0 It\u2019s in a high rise in the center of Toronto.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    About two weeks earlier she had come with me and my three year old granddaughter to meet Ellis Kirkland of Kirkland Capital.\u00a0 Ellis had shown up in Kashechewan last August 2005 to \u201chelp\u201d the people.\u00a0 She worked closely with Zane Bell, an environmental biologist, who had worked previously at Indian Affairs.\u00a0 He had shown up in Kashechewan about one and half years ago as a volunteer??<\/p>\n

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    10.\u00a0 African connection:\u00a0 Kalahari Bush Men<\/strong><\/p>\n

    On the drive to Toronto the three of us, me, Angus and Katenies, talked about what we knew about Kashechewan and DeBeers.\u00a0 I had found a book expose on them on the internet which revealed a lot of hanky panky on the part of De Beers in Africa.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    On the internet site\u00a0www.khoisan.org<\/a>\u00a0I found out more about DeBeers and their dealings with the Kalahari Bushmen in South Africa.\u00a0 To say the least I found them treacherous and vicious with these people.\u00a0 They had them removed onto reserves and then had them, deprived of hunting and gathering rights and water.\u00a0 So they started to die off.\u00a0 There had been an October 2003 ruling.\u00a0 The constitutional court ruled that the Nama People (Richtersvelders) have a right to ownership of their land and its minerals, despite the fact that they have never been given title deeds and the government had always assumed that they had no rights to it.\u00a0 They were affected when diamonds were discovered there.\u00a0 Botswana and DeBeers were worried.\u00a0 \u201cThe ruling that Indigenous People who own land under their own unwritten law have the right to have this upheld inspite of other legal systems which are subsequently imposed by the state had interesting implications for Botswana.\u00a0 If the South African ruling is applied then the Bushmen own their ancestral land as well as the mineral rights underneath their territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    This can be looked up \u2013 Case CCT 19\/03 Alexor Ltd. (1st<\/sup>\u00a0Appellant) and the government of South Africa (2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Appelland) vs. the Richtersvelder community and others.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    On January 1, 2006 I had sent out an MNN Mohawk Nation News communiqu\u00e9 which apparently went all over the world which I titled \u201cLust for Diamonds.\u00a0 Indian Affairs and De Beers \u201cScrooge\u201d Kashechewan.\u00a0 I received an email from AfricaNode to re-send it to them, which I did.\u00a0 Then I asked them,<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cPlease tell me more about the tactics of De Beers.\u00a0 The Cree People of Kashechewan are having a meeting with them and the Canadian governments on January 3 in Toronto.\u00a0 We need to be prepared.\u00a0 What do you think De Beers and the government are\u00a0going to do?\u00a0\u00a0Also, a woman has come on the scene\u00a0suddenly.\u00a0 She is saying she advocates for them.\u00a0\u00a0We are not sure who this person is.\u00a0 Has this happened with other Indigenous people where De Beers is trying to take over the land for mining?\u00a0 We would appreciate any help you can give us about how these big multi national corporations overcome Indigenous people in other parts of the world.\u00a0 Thank you\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Kahentinetha<\/p>\n

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    Then on January 2nd,<\/sup>\u00a0Ntailan Lolkoki sent me another email, \u201c\u2026 and maybe you can have a look on\u00a0www.khoisanpeoples.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 for similarities.<\/p>\n

    DEAR TO ALL<\/p>\n

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    THE SAN PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH DE BEERS.DE BEERS MAKES MILLIONS OF RANDS HERE IN RSA,BUT WE AS SOUTH AFRICANS DO NOT.THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD MUST NEVER ALLOWED DE BEERS IN THIER COUNTRIES,BECAUSE LOOK AT HOW THEY EXPLOITED OUR COUNTRY(RSA).HERE RSA WE ARE SO USED TO SELL -OUTS,THATS WHY WE TRY ESTABLISH A TRADITIONAL IN EVERY PROVINCE IN THIS COUNTRY.IN SUCH MANNER THERE WILL BE A BOND BETWEEN FELLOW COUNTRY MEN.WE FEEL THAT YOU MUST BE AWARE OF THE DE BEERS.<\/p>\n

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    DE BEERS DID A VERY BAD THING AND TODAY WE HAVE NOTHING.ON EVERY SITE WHERE THERE WERE MINES WITH VALUABLE MINERALS THEY SOLLED IT.THATS WHY WE URGE YOU TO BOICOT DE BEERS.WE FULLY SUPPORT THESAN PEOPLE OF BOTSWANA.<\/p>\n

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    KEEP ON WITH THE GOOD WORK<\/p>\n

    ECOTERRA Intl.
    \nNairobi Node<\/p>\n

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    This certainly gave us food for thought and a lot to worry about.<\/p>\n

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    De Beers\u2019 plans for Kashechewan diamonds<\/p>\n

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    DeBeers plans to have at Kashechewan an open mine pit larger than the size of Toronto, plus clinics, change house, shops, offices, accommodations unit (which has already been build near Kashechewan with good pure water), interconnecting access, haul roads, air strips, security, freight areas, ore process plant, associated workshops, rock waste dumps, primary crushers, ramps, treatment plants, thickening plant, earth moving vehicle workshops, weather road, well field for pit dewatering and mine water.<\/p>\n

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    DeBeers diamonds are used for industrial and military use to overthrow legitimate governments.\u00a0 They are needed for airplane engines, torpedoes, warheads, tanks, artillery, weapons of war of all kinds, bearings for radar and electronics or war, stabilizers, gyroscopes, guidance systems for subs and planes, converting civilian industries into war machines.\u00a0 De Beer controls the world supply of diamonds.\u00a0 In the 1940\u2019s the US needed 6.5 million carats of diamonds.\u00a0 De Beers refused to sell it to them.\u00a0 They had members on the UK War Production Board.\u00a0 De Beers was selling diamonds to both sides, to Hitler and the allies.<\/p>\n

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    Kimberly Process.<\/p>\n

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    11.\u00a0 Kirkland Capital of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Kirkland Capital seems to be a home office company in ritzy Rosedale in Toronto headed by Ellis Danjier Galea Kirkland.\u00a0 On her extensive and fancy website she purports to be an advisor in establishing international government development strategies, free trade policies and negotiations, international finance, commerce and constitutions, management, trade and technology.<\/p>\n

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    Ellis seems to have everything but modesty.\u00a0\u00a0 She is originally from Malta, attended schools here and at Harvard, which she was quick to tell me.\u00a0 I went to Harvard too for a semester on Early Childhood Education, which she probably wouldn\u2019t care to know.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    My granddaughter and I went to Toronto on November 24th<\/sup>\u00a02005 to visit my friend Kay.\u00a0 The following morning I phoned Zane Bell, who lives in Peterborough, and tried to set up a meeting with him.\u00a0 Thirty seconds after we hung up the phone, Ellis Kirkland called and asked me out for lunch, \u201cI\u2019ll come and pick you up\u201d.\u00a0 She never showed and she never called.\u00a0 Later that day at 4:30 she called again and said she would pick us up at 5:30 and take us out for dinner at the Mandarin.\u00a0 At 6:00 we put on our coats and left.\u00a0 After had finished our dinner, she showed up at 7:30.<\/p>\n

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    She never asked me anything about myself.\u00a0 She\u2019s dark, looks Italian.\u00a0 Malta is a small island off Sicily.\u00a0 Malta which has been involved in banking and shady money deals since the time of the crusades.\u00a0 She did most of the talking about herself and never answered any of our questions.\u00a0\u00a0 She then stunned us when she said, \u201cI\u2019ve been working for a while on a project with elder Andrew Maracle\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    Kay and I were stunned.\u00a0 Kay said, \u201cWe know Andrew very well.\u00a0 How old was this Andrew Maracle you\u2019ve been working with?\u00a0 Is he from Tyendinaga?\u201d\u00a0 (This is another Mohawk community near Belleville and Andrew Maracle was a good friend of both Kay and I).<\/p>\n

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    Ellis answered, \u201cHe was young\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    Kay said, \u201cAndrew Maracle died about ten years ago at the age of 84!\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Ellis suddenly changed the subject and refused to answer any questions about her involvement with this dead man.\u00a0 She did say that she had been very sick and that Indian medicines had cured her.\u00a0 This is why she wants to help the Indians.\u00a0 She did not tell us what the sickness was.<\/p>\n

    12.\u00a0 Kirkland Capital Website<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    On her website there are no pictures or biographies of those she supposedly works with on her extensive global experience in building cities and governmental infrastructures.\u00a0 She was a NAFTA North American Free Trade National co-ordinator and representative under \u2018architecture and a co-signer on June 25, 1994.\u00a0 She was on the Tri-national committee on architecture for NAFTA, for who?\u00a0 Was it for me and you?\u00a0 She was on the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.\u00a0 She was on the Council of Ontario Association of Architects from 91 to 96 and president from 93 to 94.\u00a0 Her license is #4-185.<\/p>\n

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    On her website there are dozens of pictures of her numerous certificates of memberships and accreditations to such organizations as the US National Council of Architectural Registration Board.\u00a0 She was on the Nevada State Board of Architecture of Interior Design and Residential Design, June 26, 1997.<\/p>\n

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    Let\u2019s say at this point, my skepticism about her was being confirmed.\u00a0 Her website under \u201cthink tank\u201d has 726 pictures of the Kashechewan community.\u00a0 On January 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0I picked up the phone at my home and called Ellis Kirkland in Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0 It rang once and she answered it.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cIt\u2019s Kahentinetha Horn here.\u00a0 May I ask you some questions?\u201d<\/p>\n

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    She said, \u201cOf course\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    First she apologized about the discomfort she created at that meeting on November 25th<\/sup>\u00a0in Toronto.\u00a0 \u201cI was tired and had been in some intense meetings\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    I calmly asked her about her part in the NAFTA agreement, which, \u201cAs you know, the Indians in the Western Hemisphere oppose\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cOh, I was only on the architecture negotiations.\u00a0 Americans have huge firms and they overwhelm us.\u00a0 Now we can bid on American work on an equal basis, have access to their markets and monitor their behavior in Canada\u201d.\u00a0 She confirmed she knew that it was detrimental to the Indians and that there had been protests over it.\u00a0 As she always does when the going gets tough, she quickly changed the subject and did not answer any more questions.\u00a0 I did not tell her that we were invited to sit in on the meeting with Kashechewan in Toronto on January 3rd.\u00a0 She had set it up with De Beers, Indian Affairs and a lawyer, Jim RossHope of Calgary, she was bringing in.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cWho is advocating for the Crees?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cI am\u201d, she said.\u00a0 Then I asked how much she knew of the constitutional jurisdiction question.\u00a0 Nothing!\u00a0 So how could she negotiate on their behalf?\u00a0 She also mentioned that she heard that the Mohawks had aboriginal title to the lands from the East Coast to West Coast of Canada.\u00a0 She has no legal training and the people of Kashechewan have not been given access to any lawyers.\u00a0 They have no internet access.\u00a0 No cell phone.\u00a0 The majority don\u2019t speak English or French.<\/p>\n

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    I verified that the Kaienereh\u2019ko:wa, Great Law of Peace, our constitution, covered all of Turtle Island.\u00a0 I gave her a brief explanation about it.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a different way of relating to the settlers\u201d, I told her.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cYes\u201d, she said, \u201cI am well aware of the Mohawks.\u201d\u00a0 It sounded negative to me.\u00a0 It seemed like Ellis didn\u2019t want to hear anymore or her mind was somewhere else.\u00a0 Suddenly she said, \u201cI have to go now because I have a meeting in half an hour.\u00a0 I have to read something before that\u201d.\u00a0 Then she excused herself and hung up the phone.<\/p>\n

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    13.\u00a0 Background:\u00a0 Kashechewan situation<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The project started 20 years ago.\u00a0 Diamonds had been discovered.\u00a0 Canada gave the claim to the diamonds to DeBeers.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t theirs to give.\u00a0 They did not have a legal treaty with these owners, the Cree Nation who are indigenous to the land.\u00a0 Five years ago the Minister of Natural Resources Canada went to Europe to give permission to DeBeers to start the development program to begin the mining.\u00a0 The first problem was that Indians lived on this land.\u00a0 From De Beer\u2019s experience with the Kalahari Bushmen, they decided to find a way to remove the Indigenous People.\u00a0 They needed the help of those evil monsters, Indian Affairs.\u00a0 The royalties from the diamond mines go to Indian Affairs and to the Ontario government, none to the Indians.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    14.\u00a0 Zane Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    DeBeers had a contact in Canada, Ellis Kirkland and Zane Bell.\u00a0 Zane had worked for Indian Affairs.\u00a0 He was an \u2018environmental biologist\u2019, who looked at rocks with a member of Kashechewan.\u00a0 He is tall, blue eyed with a pony tail of very light hair.\u00a0 He says he\u2019s part Indian \u2013 Mohawk, Penobscot, MicMac, and some other nation.\u00a0 His wife is also researching her Indian background, which is Ojibway, and several other nations.\u00a0 Quite a mixture, but he still acts like a white man.\u00a0 When I talked to Rebecca Friday of Kashechewan, I said to her, \u201cDeep in your mind and heart, is this man an Indian?\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    She replied, \u201cHe\u2019s a white man\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Zane worked for Indian Affairs for a year and a half and suddenly resigned and went to work for Ellis.\u00a0 We were thinking, \u201cSomehow someone got a \u201cfinder\u2019s fee\u201d to deliver the Crees to DeBeers.\u00a0 Could it be Ellis or Zane?\u201d\u00a0 A finder\u2019s fee is money given to someone in the community like Jim Ransom or Lorraine White of Akwesasne to help the outside interests or corporation\u2019s project to come into existence on the territory.\u00a0 The finder\u2019s fee-er\u2019s job is to make it happen.\u00a0 So we were wondering, \u201cWho is the \u201cpoint man\u201d here for De Beers?\u201d\u00a0 The secret finder\u2019s fee is usually given to a band chief or band manager or someone who has authority or influence in the community and is in a position to sell the people out.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t sure who it was, but we kept our eyes open.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Zane knows the area because he\u2019s been going to Kashechewan as a volunteer for a year and half!\u00a0 Hey!\u00a0 This costs money!\u00a0 How can he volunteer to go up there?\u00a0 It\u2019s isolated.\u00a0 There is no road.\u00a0 The only way to get there is to fly or drive on the ice roads in the winter.\u00a0 Airfare costs $400 from Toronto to Timmins return and $900 from Timmins to Kashechewan return.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t pay for this.\u00a0 \u201cWho does?\u201d we wondered.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We got curious about Zane.\u00a0 After I sent out that article \u201cLust for Diamonds\u201d, on December 28, 2005, he sent the following email.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cGood article:\u00a0 It should stir up some response.\u00a0 I appreciate your talking to Rebecca, you did get her a little confused but she is learning.<\/p>\n

    \u201dYou are quite right about Indian Affairs.\u00a0 Doug Forbes, the previous Regional Director General of Ontario was the main person sent out to destroy the relationship of the three Cree communities by directing all the negotiating funds only to Attawapiskat (north of Kashechewan) and the other
    \ncommunities got no funding.\u00a0 The community had to get money from De Beers
    \njust to talk to De Beers.\u00a0 Indian Affairs has squeezed the community over the last 5 years allowing them to go into debt and making sure they did not have funds
    \nto pay the staff.\u00a0 So the band administrator spent money for other things on
    \nstaff pay roll.<\/p>\n

    \u201dIndian Affairs allows the hiring of co-managers, but makes sure they can\u2019t do the job (such as Nabil B.)\u00a0 (As a general principle, it seems the less people do the more they get paid when they work for the Canadian governments).\u00a0 Financial reports are never submitted on time so the spiral continues so they are over 14 million in debt.<\/p>\n

    \u201dThis is the reason I left Indian Affairs after 1.5 years to assist them.\u00a0 (The question still is, who paid?)<\/p>\n

    They have absolutely no support system.\u00a0 Even the Muskegowuk Tribal Council
    \nwhich replaced the local Indian Affairs Moosonee Field office and the NAN\u00a0Nishinabi Aski Tribal Council do not help the local communities.\u00a0 They drain funding from the bands to support themselves and take directions from Indian Affairs who mostly funds the two tribal councils.<\/p>\n

    (On the plane from Timmons to Toronto Katenies picked up some magazines such as Wawatay News.\u00a0 Almost every other page had a smiling picture of Stan Beardy, the point man on this Council for Indian Affairs.\u00a0 It was getting annoying to keep looking at this phony smiling Jack).\u00a0\u00a0 Back to Zane\u2019s email.<\/p>\n

    \u201dThis has led the council of Kashechewan to rely on an Iranian consultant (Nabil) to help them.\u00a0 He has done some stuff that I will not say in paper, good or
    \nbad?<\/p>\n

    \u201dSo what is left for the community to do?<\/p>\n

    \u201dI have some other stuff you might want to hear.\u00a0 Hope you had a nice holiday<\/p>\n

    Wabiska Mukwa<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    I left him five messages to call me and he never did.\u00a0 Then shortly after the first email, another arrived.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cBy the way, the $114,000 was the funding De Beers started to pay for the
    \ncommunity based negotiation team consisting of Gary Wesley and 8 other
    \ncommunity members, the ex-Chief Andrew Reuben, the current Deputy Chiefs
    \nelder brother and myself as a volunteer.\u00a0 That negotiation team disbanded due to mishandling of the money by the community members.\u00a0 The negotiation team was replaced in May.\u00a0 The Chief and Council asked me to help them.\u00a0 So I introduced them to Ellis Kirkland as she knows how to deal with companies like De Beer\u2019s.\u00a0 (How\u2019s that?)<\/p>\n

    \u201dThe information on De Beers and the Bushmen I introduced to the
    \ncommunity at a community meeting in April and in May. The articles are all
    \nover Kashechewan.\u00a0 The people can\u2019t assimilate this information as yet.\u00a0 But it\u2019s in their minds.<\/p>\n

    \u201dDe Beers refused to advance anymore money to the Band negotiation team until
    \nEllis forced them to do so due to her ability to make press against them.<\/p>\n

    \u201dDe Beer\u2019s is now partially owned by the Botswana Government.\u00a0 They came to
    \nCanada knowing that Canada already put the natives in concentration camps
    \nand they think they can control the natives like they did in Africa.<\/p>\n

    \u201dKashechewan controls the access to northern Ontario.<\/p>\n

    \u201dIndian Affairs split the reserve into two bands on one reserve in the 50\u2032s when they where looking for the resources in the north, including the big water issue.<\/p>\n

    \u201dWhen the De Beer\u2019s thing all started, although they have been in the north
    \nfor over 20 years, the president of De Beer\u2019s had a meeting in England with
    \nthe Minister for Natural Resources Canada and the next week NRCAN was the
    \nlead agency for the federal CEAA process.<\/p>\n

    \u201dNRCAN was pushing speed and dealing with Attawapiskat only.<\/p>\n

    \u201dIt was I and my associate Cheyanne Loan a Cree from Quebec that forced the
    \nfederal regulators to deal with the other communities.\u00a0 But that is about
    \nall we could accomplish to help the bands deal with the Feds and De Beers.<\/p>\n

    \u201dIt slowed down the activities so far but the province never negotiated with
    \nthe bands and the province gave away the land over 45 square miles to De
    \nBeers.\u00a0 No compensation to the communities except Attawapiskat who received
    \nabout 20 million which is one day\u2019s profit of the mine and the mine will run
    \nfor over 20 years on the first strike.\u00a0 There are over 20 other potential
    \ndiamond producing zones De Beers has located and claimed.<\/p>\n

    Wabiska Mukwa<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    On the same day I sent the following email.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cSo the negotiation team has to be to the liking of De Beers or they won\u2019t talk to them?\u00a0 Colonialism is alive and well.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cJust what did Ellis do to persuade DeBeers to fork over the funds?\u00a0 Did she have connections or did she work for them sometime in the past?\u00a0\u00a0That would be the only way she could have some persuasive powers with them.\u00a0 What did she offer to them so they would pass on the money?\u00a0 Did it go to her or to the People of Kashechewan?\u00a0 What is her relationship to De Beers?\u00a0 Who are her\u00a0personal contacts within DeBeers who can do favors for her while\u00a0they work things out the way they want?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    So what is it?\u00a0 What is the CEAA process? Did you say that DeBeers paid those they wanted to talk to?\u00a0 Who did they pay –\u00a0you,\u00a0Ellis and whoever you selected?\u00a0 Why has the community been left dangling by Indian Affairs who are the fiduciaries?\u00a0 This is a human rights issue which Canada has agreed to uphold.\u00a0 What did that Iranian do and how did he come on the scene?\u00a0 It seems strange that he would appear from nowhere.\u00a0 Are you sure DeBeers didn\u2019t send him in there ahead to massage them for the onslaught that followed?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    I asked again for him to call me but he never did.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    15.\u00a0 Observation of John P.<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Then John P., a Mohawk friend in Toronto sent me this on January 1, 2006.\u00a0 \u201cSis, you are stating pretty much the same thing I\u2019ve have been telling people since the water crisis came to light down here. When you take a look at when they first discovered that there may be diamonds up there, the length of time it takes to do the geological surveys, analyze the data, then try to do a proper survey in SWAMPLANDS, then factor in just when the water treatment plant was built, it starts to look pretty shady, At least to this Indian, it does.\u00a0 But then again, it\u2019s only some savage, backwoods, heathen, pagan Indians.\u00a0 Who\u2019s going to miss or care about them?\u00a0 Let\u2019s get all the riches and dollars we can from Mother Earth!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    So it looks like we aren\u2019t the only suspicious people.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    16.\u00a0 Chief Leo Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Leo Friday is the Chief of Kashechewan band council.\u00a0 Rebecca is the vice-chief.\u00a0 Rebecca said that Leo has agreed to remove the people and help De Beers.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Ellis came up with the idea to remove the people.\u00a0 She flew up there in August in a De Beers jet.\u00a0 Indian Affairs had moved the Kashechewan people onto a flood plain on the River draining into James Bay.\u00a0 Walls, as high as 20 feet, have been built all around the territory to keep the water out.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the levees around New Orleans.\u00a0 It is a swamp land which is very damp and causes all kinds of problems in their houses such as moss, fungus and other toxic conditions.\u00a0 It\u2019s making them sick.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Indian Affairs doesn\u2019t want to fix the water treatment plant because that would make the place viable.\u00a0 The houses could be fixed up.\u00a0 The idea seems to be to either move the people or to not bring them back to the community.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    On January 3, 2006, Leo was supposed to bring the people to Toronto be assisted by Ellis to understand the agreement.\u00a0 Then at the end of the day De Beers was supposed to come in and meet with them and maybe finalize the agreement.\u00a0 Rebecca and the people held a meeting back in Kashechewan and refused to go to Toronto.\u00a0 They told Ellis, \u201cIf De Beers wants to speak to us, they\u2019ll have to come here\u201d.\u00a0 Rebecca said that Ellis was pretty upset over this turn of events and wanted to know what brought it about.\u00a0 Leo and Ellis had set up this meeting.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    17.\u00a0 TREATY 9, 1905<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Canada and Ontario have no rights to anything on this land without a treaty.\u00a0 Treaty 9 is fraudulent.\u00a0 Indian Affairs in 1905 selected the \u201cHead Men\u201d to sign this treaty.\u00a0 The Indian Act council was already in place before the treaty.\u00a0 This violates the constitution of Canada, Section 132 which stipulates that a treaty of surrender of land and sovereignty must be made before the Indian Act or the band council can be put in place in a community.\u00a0 The head men were selected by Indian Affairs.\u00a0 So the signatories were Indian Affairs nominees who were designated to sign away all the land.\u00a0 This is illegal and fraudulent according to constitution of Canada, the B.N.A. Act 1867, international law and the rule of law.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    In Treaty 9, Kashechewan Crees were coerced into opening up their land for \u201csettlement, immigration, trade, travel, mining, lumbering,\u201d etc.\u00a0\u00a0 The Crees were informed they had agreed to \u201ccede, release, surrender and yield to the colonial governments of Canada and Ontario their rights, titles and privileges forever.\u201d\u00a0 This violates Section 109 of the constitution in which Indigenous people have \u201cprior interests\u201d in all lands and resources.\u00a0 These rights supersede that of Canada and its provinces.\u00a0 The settlers allowed the original people the right to pursue hunting, trapping and fishing on their sovereign territory.\u00a0 Indian Affairs promised to set aside reserves of one mile per family.\u00a0 They will allow them to sell their reserve.\u00a0 Their reserve can also be expropriated for public works, railways and roads, etc. with compensation for any improvements if the government should so decide.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The Cree received $8 each at the signing and $4 every year for each family since then.\u00a0 What a bargain for the thieves!\u00a0 We wondered, \u201cDon\u2019t all the other territories involved in Treaty 9 have to agree if there is any change to the treaty?\u201d\u00a0 This agreement is outright genocide and violates the International Convention on the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.\u00a0 Canada signed onto this!\u00a0 The Indian Affairs signer was none other than that cad Duncan Campbell Scott.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    18.\u00a0 Arrival in Timmins<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We arrived in Timmins at 9:30 am on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006, to catch our 10:40 flight to Kashechewan.\u00a0 Rebecca had told us to go directly to the CreeBec Airlines ticket counter for our tickets for the remainder of our jaunt.\u00a0 Leo was supposed to pay for this part of our journey from Timmins to Kashechewan and return to Timmins.\u00a0 There were reservations but our tickets had not been paid.\u00a0 I called the band office in Kashechewan and no one answered.\u00a0 After calling constantly about 20 times, a receptionist answered and kept putting me on hold.\u00a0 Music blared at me while a radio host spoke in Cree.\u00a0 She would not come back to the phone.\u00a0 I would hang up and call her right back.\u00a0 Finally, I told her, \u201cStay on the phone.\u00a0 I want to speak to Leo\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cHe\u2019s on the phone\u201d, she said.\u00a0 Finally CreeBec who had been holding up the plane for us, had to close the gates and take off.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Finally in the afternoon Rebecca called my cell and told me how distraught she was.\u00a0 She had personally paid for our tickets from Toronto to Timmins on her own credit card.\u00a0 She told us, \u201cGo to a hotel and wait for me.\u00a0 I need to speak to you.\u00a0 It is urgent.\u00a0 Please stay\u201d.\u00a0 She suggested the Bon Aire Hotel in Timmins.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll arrive tomorrow, Thursday, at 6:00 pm and meet you at your hotel room.\u00a0 I\u2019ll call you five minutes before I get on the plane\u201d.\u00a0 This was beginning to sound clandestine, like a mystery novel.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We found our way to Bon Aire.\u00a0 It\u2019s a busy motel.\u00a0 We got two rooms, one for me and Katenies and one for Aroniakon.\u00a0 It was getting pretty cold.\u00a0 The motel was full of Indigenous people who came and went, giving us glances acknowledging us as their brother and sisters.\u00a0 One time I was walking back to my room and came upon two tall Cree girls in warm parkas, one red and one blue.\u00a0 They looked exactly alike.\u00a0 They were standing outside their rooms smoking.\u00a0 \u201cWhere you girls from?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cWe\u2019re from Moose Factory\u201d, they answered.\u00a0 This community is south of Kashechewan on lower east side of James Bay.\u00a0 I had visited this place twice, once in the winter and once in the summer.\u00a0 I knew people there.\u00a0 It is a hard place to get to.\u00a0 We had to drive to Cochrance, took the Polar Bear Express for six hours through wilderness, and finally got there.\u00a0 It was exciting.\u00a0 It is so far north, very few non natives, and then suddenly you arrive in Moosonee, the sister community of Moose Factory.\u00a0 It full of life, people, skidoos, trucks and cars.\u00a0 All the businesses and people are open and friendly.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cHey, my former son-in-law, Victory Linklater, is from there.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cHe\u2019s our cousin\u201d, said the twin in the dark coat.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cCan you tell him that his Mohawk mother is asking about him for me?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    They laughed, \u201cWe sure will.\u00a0 Nice meeting you\u201d.\u00a0 They gave me his phone number and told me he was working for CreeBec Airlines at the airport in Moose Factory.\u00a0 I finished walking back to my room.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    There were about 100 rooms set out in a long row which formed an \u201cL\u201d at the far end.\u00a0 We stayed at one of the far end rooms.\u00a0 It was nice and clean.\u00a0 We freshened up and went to nearby Mike\u2019s to eat.\u00a0 We kept talking about what could possibly have happened to our planned trip.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    19.\u00a0 Wondering about Rebecca<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cLet\u2019s just hope she gets on that flight tomorrow\u201d, said Aroniakon.\u00a0 He was worried about her.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cShe wants to tape our meeting so she can play it all back to her people back home\u201d, I said.\u00a0 We agreed it was a good idea.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We wondered about Leo\u2019s relationships with De Beers, Ellis and Indian Affairs.\u00a0 Katenies commented, \u201cThey know about us and kept us from going there.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I think. But why?\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We then went back to our room and got on Aroniakon\u2019s computer which we hooked up to the motel internet.\u00a0 We did some research on De Beers and Ellis\u2019 website.\u00a0 We answered our emails.\u00a0 Many responses had come in on the MNN communiqu\u00e9, \u201cLust for Diamonds\u201d, offering help and advice.\u00a0 We were encouraged by this.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    20.\u00a0 WBAI Radio New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The next morning, Thursday, we listened to the Indigenous program on WBAI in New York City on the computer.\u00a0 I had been invited to speak on the Kanehsatake issue.\u00a0 But I had emailed them that I could not.\u00a0 I was away in the great white north.\u00a0 So they set up Pearl Bonspille and John Harding of Kanehsatake for the interview.\u00a0 We are writing a book on their adventures called, \u201cWho\u2019s Sorry Now?\u00a0 The Good, the Bad and the Unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake\u201d.\u00a0 It is a satirical review of how Indian Affairs, the Quebec government and their point man, James Gabriel, were trying to remove these Mohawks off their land to mine the niobium they are living over.\u00a0 Niobium is a mineral that makes steel and other metals stronger and lighter, for armaments and space exploration.\u00a0 For twenty years the Mohawks have constantly resisted these attempts to remove them to the point that Canada organized a raid on their community.\u00a0 So the whole issue got international attention.\u00a0 Their interview was great!\u00a0 They were there.\u00a0 They could speak about the issues with passion.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cTheir situation is similar in some ways to Kashechewan, isn\u2019t it, Katenies?\u201d I exclaimed.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cWe should explain this to Rebecca to show how this is the m.o. on native people everywhere\u201d, she replied.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Luckily Katenies had all our communiqu\u00e9s on her email archive.\u00a0 She pulled it out so we could read it to Rebecca.\u00a0 This way she would realize others are in the same boat as her.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    22.\u00a0 Rebecca arrives in Timmins<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca did call us 5 minutes before she boarded her flight.\u00a0 She arrived at the hotel at 8:00 pm.\u00a0 \u201cI cannot understand what\u2019s happening, but I know something is happening\u201d, said Rebecca.\u00a0 \u201cI need to understand the whole thing\u201d.\u00a0 She felt that getting the information will make her secure.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Over supper, Rebecca started to explain, \u201cDe Beers came in the 1960\u2019s.\u00a0 They went to the Dene people in the Northwest Territories in the 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 They came to Attawapiskat three years ago.\u00a0 De Beers and a whole bunch of others have stakes all around James Bay.\u00a0 We were never told anything!\u00a0 And this is our land!\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Aroniakon quietly explained, \u201cIn the U.S. there is a big push to open up the Arctic for oil drilling and minerals.\u00a0 It is closer to the US than the Middle East.\u00a0 Canada and the US are fighting over sovereignty\u201d.\u00a0 He explained, \u201cFor the past year we have been involved in the constitution jurisdiction issue.\u00a0 This is a land claims issue, a water issue.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about NAFTA.\u00a0 In this agreement the US has taken over Canadian water.\u00a0 In the future the US might annex Canada, taking the border right out and putting everything under their control\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca exclaimed, \u201cDid you know that there\u2019s going to be a port built on Hudson\u2019s Bay?\u00a0 I heard about it a year ago.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t been told yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca said that Green Peace had visited Kashechewan last year.\u00a0 She had asked them, \u201cWhy did you come so late?\u00a0 We just found out about the diamond mines.\u00a0 Diversions have been created, such as the health issue from the foul toxic drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We asked Rebecca, \u201cWho are the people you are dealing with at De Beers?\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    She said, \u201cJonathan Fowler and Jeremy White who is the Vice President.\u00a0 Other names are Joe Young and Steve White of Thunder Bay Indian Affairs.\u00a0 They work together\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Finally, we were all tired out and decided to call it a night.\u00a0 But Rebecca, Katenies and I kept talking long into the night.\u00a0 There was so much for us to learn from Rebecca and she needed so much information.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    22.\u00a0 What is R.C.M.I.?<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We were all up early on Friday morning.\u00a0 Rebecca started recalling some strange happenings with Ellis and De Beers.\u00a0 \u201cAbout two weeks ago I had to go to Toronto to meet up with Ellis and De Beers.\u00a0 I arrived at the airport.\u00a0 Ellis\u2019 butler picked me up.\u00a0 He was grubby looking and had a small dirty junky car.\u00a0 How does Ellis have someone like this working for her?\u201d Rebecca pondered.\u00a0 He must have noticed that I was looking around and thinking about it.\u00a0 Anyway, the next day, he came to pick me up and he was all dressed up in a snazzy suit with a tie and he was driving a limo\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    I asked her, \u201cWhere did you stay in Toronto?\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca said this was another strange occurrence.\u00a0 She couldn\u2019t remember the name of the place.\u00a0 Ellis told her it was an \u201cEmbassy\u201d.\u00a0 It was like a dark gothic museum full of guns and weapons.\u00a0 Finally she remembered, \u201cIt was R.C.M.I.\u201d\u00a0 None of us knew what those initials stood for.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    After a while we figured it out.\u00a0 It was the \u201cRoyal Canadian Military Institute\u201d.\u00a0 But why would Ellis put her up there?\u00a0 Ellis said she was a member and had set up a meeting with them at this place one time.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    We looked up RCMI on the internet.\u00a0 Sure enough, there was such a place as the Royal Canadian Military Institute.\u00a0 Rebecca recognized the pictures of the macabre exhibits and furniture.\u00a0 The website said that RCMI does \u201coriginal research and studies of historic and contemporary defense issues.\u00a0 They are a key component of the ongoing effort to become the leading \u201cthink tank\u201d for military and strategic affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Wow!\u00a0 This was getting stranger by the minute.\u00a0 The head cheese is Col. Brian S. McDonald.\u00a0 They are developing laws and policies to establish martial laws should it ever be necessary.\u00a0 There is an \u201ceducational mandate\u201d for something called \u201cStrategy 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The RCMI website states that RCMI is involved with all kinds of organizations like the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, military colleges, CIDA Canadian International Development Agency, the Navy, Canadian Secret Service, Emergency Preparedness and Response and Department of National Defense\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    They are involved with the Canadian American Strategic Review, Asia Pacific Security, the McKenzie Institute, security and defense programs in universities, Arms Control Institute, Brookings Institute, Bulleting of Atomic Scientists, Global Security.org, Rand Corporation, International Institutes and Associations like the British American Security Information Council, Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, North American Aerospace Defense Command, NATO and, of course, the United Nations.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    RCMI\u2019s mission is to deal with the violence of terrorism and horrendous possibility of attacks with weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Ellis told Rebecca, \u201cKashechewan is going to be the model for other communities\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    23.\u00a0 Rebecca blocks the ice road<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Rebecca talked about the agreements for the roads through Kashechewan.\u00a0 They had given them to Ellis and Zane about a year ago and so far there was no feed back from them.\u00a0 \u201cThe agreements we are being asked to sign are for new roads to be built right through our community.\u00a0 They are demanding stringent conditions and the compensation goes directly to Indian Affairs, not to us, unless there is something left over. If there is any unrest, we forfeit any bonus payments.\u00a0 De Beers has not consulted the people and the chiefs signed the agreements without letting us know\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    Aroniakon quickly read over the agreements and found a lot of omissions.\u00a0 For one, a fixed sum will be paid for maintenance as long as it is needed by De Beers.\u00a0 \u201cThey should pay every year for ever to the community consistent with inflation\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

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    Rebecca got so mad that she went out and blocked the ice road.\u00a0 Trucks could not go onto Attawapiskat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then there was a revised agreement.\u00a0 The police will be sent up to stop anyone if they protest any incursions on their own land.\u00a0 \u201cIf we object we\u2019ll be arrested\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

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    The arbitrator to settle any disputes will be selected by them from Ontario.\u00a0 They are benefiting from the mining so how neutral can they be?\u00a0 The community will have no input.\u00a0 \u201cThey will contact Ontario Justice Committee and they will determine what is best for us\u201d, she exclaimed angrily.\u00a0 No independent party will be allowed to enter the arbitration process.\u00a0 The entire procedure must be conducted in the English language.\u00a0 The people in Kashechewan do not speak English.\u00a0 They will not understand what is going on!<\/p>\n

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    During our discussions, Rebecca began to validate her thoughts and feelings about\u00a0 what is happening.\u00a0 \u201cNo matter what happens, if De Beers offers a deal and you say \u201cno\u201d, they will go to the Ontario Court of Justice.\u00a0 They will favor them because they are all getting a benefit.\u00a0 We are a nation, our laws have to apply.\u00a0 We have to be allowed to bring our own people into this discussion\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    24.\u00a0 Green Peace and the flooding<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cOur river, the Nispatio, is going to be dammed and diverted.\u00a0 The province of Ontario secretly approved it without consulting us or getting our approval\u201d, Rebecca told us.\u00a0 \u201cWe will be flooded.\u00a0 Green Peace told us that we will have to be removed!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 What have they done since their visit to help these people?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    25.\u00a0 In the dungeon<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    After her complaints, she was spirited away to Toronto.\u00a0 Ellis put her up at the Royal Canadian Military Institute.\u00a0 \u201cWas this to intimidate me?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca said something very startling, \u201cThat Ellis is very disciplined, like a soldier!\u201d\u00a0 We all commented that every time we had seen her she was wearing black clothes and a black trench coat like those kids wore at the Columbine school shootings.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Aroniakon said, \u201cA very disciplined soldier\u201d.\u00a0 Why was Rebecca brought there?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Ellis told Rebecca, \u201cDon\u2019t use your cell phone.\u00a0 Use only the Embassy phone.\u201d\u00a0 Rebecca didn\u2019t listen.\u00a0 She used her cell.\u00a0 She felt like she was being watched.\u00a0 \u201cI thought I was a guinea pig for this place\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 It was full of weapons, ancient and recent.\u00a0 There was even Von Richtoven\u2019s seat from his Fokker plane from the First World War on display in a glass case\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    26.\u00a0 Meeting with the Governor General of Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Then something else happened, that bewildered Rebecca.\u00a0 Ellis took her along to meet with the new Governor General of Canada, Micha\u00eblle Jean.\u00a0 Ellis told the Governor General that she wants to make Kashechewan community redevelopment model for the rest of James Bay.\u00a0 The Governor General said she would help Ellis to do this.\u00a0 It would cost a lot which would come from Indian money.\u00a0 They talked about making a model for Haiti at the same time.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the Governor General comes from.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca said, \u201cEllis and the Governor General discussed plans to develop the model for James Bay and sell it to Haiti\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Ellis told Rebecca, \u201cThis is a secret meeting and nobody is supposed to know about it\u201d.\u00a0 Ellis also told Rebecca that she was going to take her on a trip to China!<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    This wouldn\u2019t have something to do with Indian reserves, and Haiti development as tax free havens, would it?<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    27.\u00a0 In conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    In the end Rebecca said, \u201cPeople are so desperate.\u00a0 They notice things.\u00a0 For the military to be involved this must be a big project.\u00a0 The Dart Team brought water up there\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cWhy the Dart Team?\u00a0 This must be through Ellis\u2019 connection with RCMI\u201d, we suddenly realized.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cIt cost $7 million to evacuate our people.\u00a0 Now the water costs $300 a bag of one litre that\u2019s being provided from the army!\u201d<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u2018People are fighting for jobs.\u00a0 Indian Affairs created this whole situation.\u00a0 They are spending $8 million to renovate badly constructed houses.\u00a0 This is creating fights between members of the community.\u00a0 We need an economy that we have total control over.\u00a0 Indian Affairs, De Beers and the Ontario government have all the strings\u201d.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Rebecca said that, \u201cThey don\u2019t want us to know what\u2019s going on outside so we can get information and help.\u00a0 There are a lot of human rights violations going on here\u201d.<\/p>\n

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