{"id":4243,"date":"2014-11-27T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2014-11-27T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:50:30","slug":"profound-pipeline-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/27\/profound-pipeline-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"PROFOUND PIPELINE SPEECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mnnlogo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3774\" src=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mnnlogo1-150x150.png\" alt=\"mnnlogo1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Please post &amp; distribute. Nia:wen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MNN. Nov. 27, 2014.<\/strong> In 1976 the MNN editor was working at Indian Affairs in Ottawa. One evening I was working late. A man came to see me. He spoke about 24-year old Nelson Small Legs Jr., who had appeared at the Berger Commission on the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline. His appearance was pivotal in stopping its construction. Two days later he apparently committed suicide. His father told me he was murdered. He gave me details that he had given to the RCMP, which were ignored in their report.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this speech that stopped the McKenzie Valley Pipeline.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/archives\/categories\/politics\/rights-freedoms\/the-berger-pipeline-inquiry\/my-nation-will-stop-the-pipeline.html\">Prophetic Pipeline Speech.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote a personal letter to the RCMP requesting a re-examination of the Nelson Small Legs Jr. case. Several months passed. One day a soldier from the Department of Defense came to my office in Indian Affairs. \u201cHow did you know all that about the death of Nelson Small Legs Jr.?\u201d he asked. He then admitted that it was not a suicide but the RCMP report would not be changed.<\/p>\n<p>Then the soldier said he wanted to show me something on the 14<sup>th<\/sup> floor. It was a black wall with a black almost invisible door that he opened into a dark room. All the windows were covered with black drapes. Inside was a large round table covered by a green cloth. He pulled it off to reveal a huge map of Canada. Green, yellow and red flags were pinned to each Ongwehonwe community. Most of the red were in the east along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario and a few in the Northwest. He showed me the walls covered with computers and charts. \u201cThese are for emergencies!\u201d he told me. In fact, It was the \u201cwar room\u201d for the 500-year war called colonialism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4244\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/war-room-fl-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4244\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4244\" src=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/war-room-fl-14.jpg\" alt=\"Fighting off the Ongwehonwe in the war room.\" width=\"400\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/war-room-fl-14.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/war-room-fl-14-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighting off the Ongwehonwe.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the 1990 Mohawk Oka Crisis, I went to Ottawa and looked up to the 14<sup>th<\/sup> floor. The windows on the north side were still darkened. I recalled Judge Berger\u2019s final words in his report, \u201cThe North is a Native homeland, not simply a frontier for the federal government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The war continues. The spirit of Burnaby Mountain BC has awoken the people connected to the earth. We wonder when the corpo cops will take their plastic boots off and touch their bare feet onto the ground so they hear and feel the messages she is sending to all living things.<\/p>\n<p>Today Jimi Hendrix would have turned 72, had he not been murdered.He\u00a0reminds us of our connections to the natural world: \u201c<em>While I realize that I\u2019ve been hypnotized, I love your gypsy eyes<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwRDEKL2GrY\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/history\/EPISCONTENTSE1EP17CH2PA1LE.html\">Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MNN Mohawk Nation News <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:kahentinetha2@yahoo.com\"><strong>kahentinetha2@yahoo.com<\/strong><\/a> <strong> For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohawknationnews.com\/\"><strong>www.mohawknationnews.com<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0 More stories at MNN Archives.\u00a0 Address:\u00a0 Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thahoketoteh@hotmail.com\/\">thahoketoteh@hotmail.com<\/a> for original Mohawk music visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thahoketoteh.ws\/\">thahoketoteh.ws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; gap:10px;justify-content:center\" class=\"wps-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t<a  href=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243?action=genpdf&amp;id=4243\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"Generate PDF\" style=\"width:auto; height:45px;\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Please post &amp; distribute. 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