{"id":483,"date":"2007-04-29T19:29:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2012-07-24T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T12:10:46","slug":"when-indian-affairs-is-no-more-the-dismantling-of-an-illegal-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/when-indian-affairs-is-no-more-the-dismantling-of-an-illegal-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN INDIAN AFFAIRS IS NO MORE:"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u2013 THE DISMANTLING OF AN ILLEGAL ORGANIZATION\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>MNN. April 29, 2007.<\/strong> Back in 1969 the Liberal government of Canada under Pierre Trudeau decided to do away with Indian Affairs. They weren\u2019t going to do away with the \u201cTower of Terror\u201d. They were going to do away with us by pretending to remove their obligations, budget and protections. They wanted to push us out onto the streets of Canada to die out.<\/p>\n

Killing off a criminal organization like Indian Affairs is inevitable. We have to take it apart piece by piece. We have to do it ourselves every step of the way. The Indian Act was the “weapon of mass destruction” [WMD] meant to kill us off. How are we going to kill off Indian Affairs? By enforcing the Great Law of Peace and the Two Row Wampum.<\/p>\n

Indian Affairs is currently the subject of an avalanche of criticisms and various lawsuits. The murders of our kids in residential schools, the police brutality, military attacks against us and the constant lies and deceptions by politicians has to stop. Their sudden dismantling Indian Affairs may be a ploy to remove the defendants in actions for liability for all the cruelty and larceny they’ve committed against us. They say, \u201cremove Indian affairs, the Indian Act and to hell with them!\u201d We can see right through them. They want to change our status as Indigenous people into \u201cCanadians\u201d so they can get out of their liability. It won\u2019t work, Canada! We are not and never will agree to be Canadians.<\/p>\n

So far, our relations with our colonial visitors has been one of \u201cbreach\u201d rather than honor. They tell us the Indian Act is the only \u201cvehicle\u201d for delivering Canada\u2019s obligations to us. Based on what we\u2019ve been getting so far, this is an empty vehicle and it\u2019s time to junk it.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve always been struck by Indian Affairs\u2019 similarity to organized crime organizations like the \u201cMafia\u201d, except it\u2019s \u201cdisorganized\u201d. The head \u201cDon\u201d is the \u201cprime minister\u201d. He has cohorts and henchmen called \u201cprovinces\u201d, \u201cministers\u201d, \u201ccorporations\u201d, \u201cjudges\u201d and \u201carmed forces\u201d that are given authority over certain territories. The cohorts go out and enforce their rules. The government legitimizes its criminal activities with picturesque language that no one understands.<\/p>\n

Originally the Mafia came in and lent money to immigrants to set them up. If somebody couldn\u2019t pay them back, the enforcers would demonstrate their unseen power over life and death. The government\u2019s cohorts set up this Mafia style system over us. They stole everything we have to make it look like we can\u2019t function without them.<\/p>\n

Indian Affairs cohorts must also take something akin to \u201cblood oaths\u201d to Queen Elizabeth and have to keep secrets until they die.<\/p>\n

This Indian Affairs Mafia will control us unless that control is taken from them. Like the original Mafia, the only way to become a full \u201cpatch member\u201d is to be from a certain ethnic background. The band councils strive to become full patch members so they can exercise the rule of terror over us to keep us in line. No matter what, they\u2019ll never be accepted as full members of the white Mafia. The government encourages them to try anyway.<\/p>\n

Indian Affairs was originally supposed to carry out nation-to-nation relations with us and to negotiate with us on land use. Greed lead the colonizers to \u201cgoose step\u201d their mandate. Indian Affairs was set up to carry out the \u201cfinal solution of the Indian problem\u201d. Parliament gave itself extraordinary powers beyond its authority under the British North America Act 1867 to carry out the genocide of our people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to close down the butcher shop and go back to the beginning. The real relationship is between us as landowners and them as \u201csquatters\u201d. We want our tenants to live up to the leases they made with us, to obey the laws and keep their promises. We want full accountability and a total forensic audit of Indian Affairs and its entire gangsta’ apparatus.<\/p>\n

Once the Indian Act and Indian Affairs are removed, then Indigenous sovereignty, rights to self-determination and stewardship of all of our territories will be dealt with on a proper landlord-tenant nation-to-nation basis. Canada, stop falsely claiming our land. Start planning how you are going to carry out our instructions and authority over every square inch of our land. You have to stay in your ship and not pull our canoe as the Two Row Wampum agreement provides.<\/p>\n

Canada, stop aiding and abetting corporate squatters who are gobbling up our assets, polluting our land and destroying the inheritance of our coming generations.<\/p>\n

No more encroachment! Enough of our land and environment have been seriously damaged. It\u2019s on the verge of becoming unlivable, not just for Indigenous people, but also for the colonial visitors who don\u2019t seem to care about their own future generations or anyone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The abuse of us, our lands and possessions is the biggest scandal in history. Bringing down Indian affairs means freedom and self-determination for us.<\/p>\n

Why do we think this is going to happen? Well, so far huge amounts of profit have gone towards the colonial machines that defraud and oppress us because of our complaints everywhere. A lot of lawyers and consultants have been getting big career boosts and piles of money out of inquiries and investigations into the criminal acts committed against us by the colonial government of Canada without resolving them.<\/p>\n

Indian Affairs, we hope you\u2019ve shut down your \u201cWar Room\u201d in the Tower of Power run by the military! Stop funding racists like Gary McHale and the skinheads, KKK, Brown Shirts and rioters he\u2019s organizing to attack us. Department of Defense, stop financing the demonizing of us in your military manual as \u201cdomestic insurgents\u201d so that you can find an excuse to round up our \u201cleaders\u201d and young people. We know you want to put us in \u201cGuantanamo Bay\u201d prisons without charging us, for indefinite periods of time because you have labeled us as \u201cterrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hey, colonial crooks, let\u2019s not get stuck on details. Let\u2019s go back to square one when you landed here with nothing.<\/p>\n

No, we\u2019re not afraid to get rid of Indian affairs. They think they\u2019ll shut us up by threatening to cut off all services and benefits. They can\u2019t. They have an ongoing debt to us supported by all the human rights covenants Canada has signed and supports internationally.<\/p>\n

We have to sit down and start talking about the terms under which you \u201cintruders\u201d can remain here. You know we never gave up the land. We never will. We can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Europeans are Europeans, no matter what. The British are British. The French are French. And the immigrants are immigrants. For over a century colonial states have been dumping their rejects and social problems on our land. These displaced people tried to kill us off. We cannot tolerate the presence of this insane grasping culture which continues to commit genocide on us and our land.<\/p>\n

These starving and disease ridden ragamuffins killed most of us off, stole our land and possessions and continue to try to stomp us out. Do we have to keep on being kind to them? We think we\u2019ve given enough. We will look at the new situation pragmatically. We have to carry out our original instructions. The land has to be taken care off. The damage committed to us has to be repaired. The heritage of our future generations has to be restored. The visitors have to return Turtle Island back into the beautiful paradise they found when they arrived.<\/p>\n

Kahentinetha Horn<\/p>\n

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