[Bloquez l'empire!] Update from Kanonhstaton December 7, 2006

[Jaggi Singh]

below is an update from Hazel Hill at Six Nations ... jbs.

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From: Hazel <mailto:thebasketcase at on.aibn.com>  E. Hill
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:34 AM
Subject: Update from Kanonhstaton December 7, 2006

Good Morning from Grand River.  I know everyone has been wondering what
is happening with negotiations and our land reclamation of Kanonhstaton.
Since I last wrote after our November 14th Lands Side Table, there has
been no meetings so nothing really to report.  Unfortunately, we had
another death in one of our Clanmothers family's and so our meetings
that were scheduled for the end of November were cancelled.  They have
been re-scheduled to December 13th and 14th and we will see then how the
Crown responds to our presentation of our documents and historical
evidence as provided through our Wampum and Oral History at our last
meeting.

Clearly the Crown has found itself in a dilemma since  we have presented
the TRUTH.  They know for a FACT that the title for Plank Road (also
known as Argyle Street and formerly #6 Highway) itself still rests with
the Six Nations/Haudenesonne, they cannot contest this.  They also know
that the so-called land surrender that they are resting their entire
case on is merely minutes of a council meeting with no order in council
to support it, and no legal grounds to support it.  they also know that
the Indian agent at the time who was drafting these fraudulent
surrenders, was also the individual who was translating them to the Six
Nations, and who clearly was telling the Chiefs one thing, and then
recording it as something else.  This is not a new practice.  Our Chiefs
pointed out several times in history how this was done, including the
Nanfan Treaty, the Simcoe Deed, many areas that the Crown, when
realizing that they still were'nt satisified with our generosity and
good-will, needed to not only take more of our lands, but to create
their own patents so that they could take ownership of them.  This is no
more valid then as it would be today, and yet the Crowns Legal Advisors
have told them that they have a valid surrender.  Most of their
principal negotiators continue to mislead the people of Caledonia
telling them that they have a presented a bill of sale for the lands and
that the Six Nations will not get it back.  The politicians of today are
speaking with the same forked tongue as the Indian agents back then did.
They do not know how to speak the truth.  They cannot look their people
in the eye and tell them that their ancestors lied cheated and stole to
get what they have today, and they cannot tell them that their True
Landlords are the very people who have been treated with such
disrespect, racial descrimination and have been the victim of many hate
crimes and antagonistic behaviours since the land reclamation began in
February.
You know, one of the things I forgot to tell you about from our last
meeting was one of the most significant events since we've begun.  Our
people decided to see what the crown representatives would do when put
in the same situation our people were in during the 1800's.  Jock had
put together a document written in the Cayuga Language that outlined our
presentation that day.  He stood and read this document to the Crown
representatives in the traditional language, and then he translated it
into english for them.  He also asked them to sign this document to
verify that they had heard this presentation today.  None of the Crown
representatives would sign.  At that point Jock then thanked them for
proving our point.  Our ancestors were faced with this throughout our
history, with Crown representatives being the ones who not only drafted
the documents, but also translated it, having the opportunity to give
false information to our people.  The difference being is our people
trusted the Crown,  and this is where we went wrong.  They were
continually being scammed and mislead, and the evidence was clearly
represented that day because what was written and what was handed down
orally through our history was not the same thing.  After he thanked
them for proving that point, Federal Representative Ron Doering put "His
X Mark" on the paper.  While again, he did so only after being shown
that this was how they frauded our people.  It would be very easy for
anyone to put an "X" mark there, and for us to write down who it was and
what their role was.  As a matter of fact, that is what we intended to
do to show them how we can see through the veil of deception of the
past.  Jock told them, we were going to get you to put your "X" mark
therer and we would give you an Indian Name to describe who you are.  He
also told them that we could have written that you just signed all of
Canada back to our people, and you have no way of knowing because it is
not your language of understanding.  Just as it wasn't our ancestors
language of understanding and again, our ancestors trusted your people.
Today we know better. This is one of the reasons why I've always said,
and quoted Pope John Paul II, its not the LAW, it's only paper.

Today, we are faced with having to deal with all of this.  However, many
things have progressed and continue to progress.  At last Chiefs Council
meeting there were at least six development companies that have come to
our Traditional Council in hopes of finding a way to begin consulting
with the Landowners as opposed to the Crown.  Interestingly enough, each
of those developers have stated that the Crown representatives continue
to mislead them.  In this case every single one of them mentioned that
the lead provincial negotiator Jane Stewart continues to tell them that
they need only to consult with the band council.  I guess the Crown
hasn't clearly understood what is happening in our community as well as
across the country and the world with respect to the Onkwehonweh.  The
PEOPLE have said they have had enough.  We are no longer going to
tolerate the Crowns interference in our governance.  The band council
does not represent the people.  Please understand that it is not the
individual people within that system who are at fault, they have been
mislead into believing this is the government because this is what the
Crown, and its corporation of Canada has set up.  It is the system
itself that has been developed to do exactly what it has done,  to
undermine the authority of our traditional government, our people,  for
one thing; but also to assimilate our people into canadian society so
that the crown will never have to answer to its crimes.  This is why the
people have stood and will not back down.  It is not a personal attack
against the Elected Chief, or the elected councillors,  nor is it an
attack against any of our other brothers and sisters who have been
forced into a system to try and help their people.  It was a set up.  It
was part of the genocidal practice of the Crown.  Well, again, our
people have turned that negative into a positive.  The Chiefs Council
has invited representatives from across Canada to join us for a meeting
on December 9th.  All of the Chiefs of Ontario as well as the AFN have
been invited to come to meet with the Traditional Council.  All of our
territories and people are invited to attend.  The purpose of this
meeting is to explain the very same wampum and history as was explained
to the Crown.  Only in this instance, to show how that relationship
worked with the other Nations, how they fall under the shelter of that
Great Tree, and how today that can be worked out so that the
Haudenesonne Council, the Original League of Nations, will have its
rightful place again, and carry the voice and concerns of the
Onkwehonweh to the Crown.  This is the way it was, and this is the way
it should be.  We had an opportunity to look at minutes of the council
meeting from 1870.  Many of our people travelled to Six Nations at that
time to counsel.  There were representatives there from Rama, St.
Francis, Muncey, Alderville, Chippewas of the Thames, Oneidas of Muncey,
Sarnia, Lake of Two Mountains, St. Regis, Caughnawanga, Saugeen, Cape
Croker, Walpole Island, Rice Lake, Sauble, Kettle Point, Bay of Quinte,
Snake Island, Mississauga of the New Credit, Moravians of Thames as well
as Six Nations.  What is happening today is exactly why the Crown
brought in the Indian Act in the first place.  To prevent the
Haudenesonne from doing its job.  So, this meeting on December 9th, 2006
is like a continuance of our counsel from June 10th 1870.  We've been
slightly interrupted for over a hundred and fifty years, but again, as
was pointed out to the Crown, our Traditional Council has continued,
uninterrupted, and nothing the Crown has done, nor can do, will ever
cancel that out.  This is something that was given to us by the Creator,
and this is what the people continue to uphold.

I guess, while there are going to be many who say that our Confederacy
Council cannot work with the band council, it is this very issue of
governance that our people must begin to put their minds to.  To figure
out how we can help our people who have been taken outside of that
circle, and bring them back in.  Again,  we can say that they have done
so willingly, and that they have no voice.  From my perspective, just
like when our children were stolen and put in residential schools, or
when our children were beaten and strapped for speaking their own
language, or how we were forced into their education and religions, and
how today when our people are criminalized for trying to defend the
future of our people and our homelands.  It was all part of the over-all
plan to get rid of the "Indian Problem".    When the Peacemaker came and
reminded us of the Great Law, he also gave us the mechanism to work
together in Unity & Peace.  This was the Five Nations Confederacy.  The
Original League of Nations.  It is very much alive today, as it was the
day it was given.  Anything we are faced with can be resolved through
the Great Law, and through the Confederacy Council.  We need only take
up our responsiblity to it and uphold what was given to us.  This is how
we can bring the other councils in, they can come under the Confederacy
and support the Confederacy in carrying the voice of all of the
Onkwehonweh to the Crown.  We must stand United and we must stand
Strong.  This is all part of the prophecies and it is also what the
Crown has been trying to prevent from happening for many generations.

This is also why they continue to use tactics such as instigators like
Gary McHale to come in and hopefully create a situation that will divert
the people from our path.  Last weekend they had the nerve to use the
Canadian Troops as an excuse to try and create such a situation.  They
claim they wanted to hang ribbons and flags up in support of the troops
in Afganistan.  They had the television media there even before they got
there with their flags, waiting in anticipation and hoping our people
from the site would come out and try to stop them or fight with them.
They did not anticipate that we would simply inform the OPP to deal with
their people, and that again, we have been respectful.  we have our
flags flying on the site and in front of the site.  we could go into the
town of Caledonia and fly them, because as i've said, we've proven that
the road itself is still ours, and that most of the town is still ours
too, but we have respected the people and have maintained our presence
on and near the reclamation site.  We only ask that the same respect be
shown in return.  We do not have a problem with them hanging their flags
anywhere outside the proximity of the site, it was being veiwed as it
was intended,  to try and instigate a fight.  When the OPP prevented
them from hanging the flags across the road from the site there was much
anger at the fact that they should be able to hang their canadian flag
on canadian soil.  I  understand and respect this.  However, it is
questionable whether there is any land within Turtle Island that they
can claim as Canadian soil, and in this particular case, again, the road
itself we have already proven is within the Six Nations jurisdiction and
we were within our rights to ask them to respect that.  Interestingly
enough, when they did go down just past 6th line to hang their flags in
support of the troops, (still in our jurisdiction but we gave them
permisison to hang them there) the television camermen didn't follow
them.  Again, they were there only to make sure they caught on tv any
violence that they were hoping would erupt.  Shame on those who used the
troops in that way!

There are many things going through my mind and things I would like to
share, but at this point, I will close with one last message.  I want
all of you to keep in mind December 17th 2006.  It appears that since
the Crown has been put in the position of having to address the issue of
the theft of our lands and resources, at having been put in the position
of answering to the crimes they have committed,  we are going to be
faced with continued attempts of instigation and potential violence.
Gary McHale is again planning another rally.  I've been told he has the
help of a woman (sorry I don't know her name off hand), but she is like
the president of a white supremist group.  Again they are hoping to
bring violence to our people at Kanonhstaton. I would like all of you to
bring your minds to PEACE on that day, and offer your sacred tobacco or
medicine to help support us in upholding the LAWS OF CREATION.
According to the star map, December 17th is directly under the Temple of
Taurus, and Orions Belt which is representive of the Peacemaker.  The
Temple of Taurus is our Rosetta Stone.  It is our Great Law.  It is who
we are and how we connect to the Peacemaker.   These are things our
people have forgotten, but it is how our ancestors knew when to do
things, just like they know when to begin the midwinter ceremonies and
our other ceremonies.  Through the Stars.  It IS OUR MAP in Creation.
But,  the Crown has learned this too.   Throughout history the Crown has
used the stars just as our ancestors did, to sanction their continued
use and abuse of our people and the Great Law.  This is how they have
been able to keep our people down and under their thumb for so long.
They have kept us in spirtual bondage.  They use our own people and our
medicines to do this. This is what the People have been fighting and
this is what the Women and Clanmothers stopped the day they went onto
our lands to stop development, and this is what the Men have been
standing and protecting.  And this is what today, we have to continue to
stop.  Today, we need to bring all of our minds together to do this.
All of the Onkwehonweh must stand before the Creator and acknowledge the
Law that was given to us, we need to acknowledge our responsibilities to
Creation, and acknoweldge our duty to uphold and protect the Law that He
provided.  That is what I would like each of you to do everyday, and
specifically on December 17th.   We need only to let Creation know we
are standing strong and doing our best, and Creation will respond.
That's all I have to say for now.  Nya Weh!

In Love, Light and Peace,


Hazel