[IPSM] STAND BY! SIX NATIONS TALKS BREAK DOWN & news

Wed Apr 19 04:32:55 PDT 2006

SUPPORTERS ASKED TO STAND BY!  SIX NATIONS TALKS BREAK DOWN - CANADA REFUSES TO RESPECT SIX NATIONS BAND COUNCIL VOTE AND SNUBS PEOPLE - OPP SAYS "YOU ONLY HAVE HOURS LEFT" 

We are asking our brothers, sisters, friends and allies to continue to stand by and support us if and when OPP come in.  Please do everything you can to stop this before it happens.  There is a big OPP buildup, with forces coming in from Hamilton and surrounding cities.  Paddy wagons are already here.  

MNN.  Tuesday, April 18th, 2006.  3:15 pm. 

At 2:00 pm, on Tuesday, April 18th, the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, Onondaga Longhouse, stated Canada absolutely refuses to address the land issue with Confederacy chiefs.  It is a 200 year old outstanding land claim of the Six Nations.  This is the 50th day of the standoff.  Protesters have stopped Henco Industries from building an illegal  housing development on their land.  The Confederacy has proposed a peaceful lawful resolution. 

Canada only wants to deal with the Indian Act band council they illegally enforced on the territory.  In 1924 Canada sent in the RCMP to violently depose the legitimate Confederacy council.  They seem to be planning the same tactics again.  The 1924 armed invasion was a military coup implemented by the Canadian government using the RCMP.  They say it was a declaration of war.  The OPP coming onto our territory is a declaration of war again.  Under our law, the Kaianereh'ko:wa/Great Law, we have every right to defend our men, women and children by any means necessary.  

Henco is taking the OPP to court tomorrow for not enforcing the illegal injunction.  Henco seems to think that private companies can order the OPP around like an army of private mercenaries.  The OPP are allegedly going after the protesters before the court hearing and have sent a message to the protesters, "You only have hours left".  Two paddy wagons are already parked nearby and the OPP cruisers are driving up and down Highway 6, all "swat teamed up".   

On Sunday, April 16th at a people's meeting the Confederacy and the band council agreed to work together and let the Confederacy chiefs and clan mothers deal with the land issue.  Legally they are the only ones who can as Canada and their band councils are recent creations.  Only councilor Dave General refused to go along with the people.  He read out Canada and Ontario's position against what the people wanted.  He wants a "poll" to be conducted which he and his masters can control.  If this happens, we want impartial international observers to make sure it is legal.  Otherwise it's just a rubber stamp for the establishment.  

Obviously what's happening now was Canada and Ontario's intention all along.  They do not want the Confederacy to deal with the land issue.  Canada is clearly in default.  They do not want to come to a peaceful agreement with the Six Nations on the illegal building of non-native housing on their land and the many other land issues that plague Six Nations people.  Canada is caught.  There is an iron clad promise under the Haldimand Agreement from the Crown to protect Six Nations people from encroachment.  This has been violated for over 200 years.  Canada and Ontario prefer to back Henco, an American corporation.  They do not want the Indians to get anything.    

Canada is ready to create a situation where there will be a bloody confrontation between the police and the Indians.  Things could get out of hand.  Nobody will know about it because the media blackout already in place will be continued.  At the same time many friends and allies of the Six Nations are being targeted.  The Indians are always ready to talk peace and negotiate.      

We need people to head over there with video cameras and other cameras to take pictures.  That isn't threatening, is it?  If the OPP behave correctly and not evict people from their own land, then there will be nothing to hide.      

If Canada and Ontario are allowed to expropriate Six Nations for private American corporations, where will it stop?  Predators are waiting to come in and take over the 20,000 acres that the Six Nations people are living on right now.  Land values in this area are skyrocketing because of the influx of immigrants from all over the world.  We Rotino'shon:ni are in the way of so-called "progress".  The Haldimand Deed guaranteed that there would never be any encroachment on our land ever!    

In 5 years it is foreseen that cities on the Haldimand Tract will more than double their population.  To allow this, the federal government is relinquishing its trust responsibility that it would always protect the Rotinol'shon:ni/Iroquois from any encroachment whatsoever.  Beware!  The federal government is not credible as they are not willing to uphold this solemn promise.      

Call Dick Hill at 519-865-7722; Jacqueline House at 905-765-9316; Hazel at 519-445-1351;   

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

Kahentinetha2 at yahoo.com

Send emails to stop this insanity to:  Prime Minister Stephen Harper pm at pm.gc.ca; Attorney General Ontario www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca; Henco Industries Ltd., 128 Highland Blvd. Caledonia Ontario. N3W 2P1; Brant County Community Development: Fax (519) 442-3461; to cities on our land - City of Brantford:  Fax (519) 759-7840 E-mail:  mhancock at brantford.ca; Corporation of Haldimand County: Fax (905) 772-2148  E-mail: mayor at haldimandcounty.on.ca; Oxford County:  E-mail:  info at city.woodstock.on.ca; Onondaga: Customer Service Fax (519) 758-1619; South Dumfries: Customer Service Fax (519) 448-3105; Dufferin County:  Fax (519) 941-2816 E-mail: warden at dufferincounty.on.ca; Kent County, Michigan: Mike Cox, Attorney General Fax: (517) 373-3042; Waterloo:  E-mail: sken at region.waterloo.on.ca; Innisfil:  bjackson at barint.on.ca; Attorney General:  Fax (416) 326-4007 Media Relations E-Mail: Brendan.Crawley at jus.gov.on.ca; Governor General: Michaelle Jean Fax (613) 998-1664 E-mail:  info at gg.ca; Chinese Consulate in Toronto Fax: (416) 324-6468; OPP Brantford 519-756-7050; Hamilton 905-572-2401; Jim Potts OPP liaison 613-795-3907; RCMP London 519-640-7267; Dalton McGuinty, Premier. Legislative Building, Queen's Park, Toronto ON M7A 1A1, Attorney General of Canada; Attorney General of Ontario; Department of Indian Affairs;  

Crossed wires muddle effort to end land standoff

      Kaz Novak, the Hamilton Spectator 
      Michael Laughing, a member of the Six Nations, stands on the Douglas Creek Estates bridge yesterday.

By Daniel Nolan
The Hamilton Spectator
CALEDONIA (Apr 19, 2006) 
There is confusion over the status of talks between Six Nations and Queen's Park and Ottawa to try to end a native standoff at a Caledonia housing project.

The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, the traditional form of government on the reserve, sent out a release yesterday afternoon saying talks had broken down.

But Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Ramsay and Patricia Valladao, a spokesperson for federal Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice, said discussions are ongoing to try to find a peaceful resolution to the seven-week standoff at Douglas Creek Estates.

"Negotiations are both ongoing with Canada and Ontario," Ramsay told The Spectator last night.

"We're prepared to negotiate in good faith and we continue to talk to all parties," said Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Ramsay. "We are in constant contact with all parties to this process, including the Confederacy chiefs. Nobody has walked away."

Indian Affairs spokesperson Valladao said, "Despite the press release, it is our understanding the discussions are still under way."

She said Canada and Ontario are waiting for a formal response to a joint-government proposal presented to Six Nations officials last Thursday at a meeting in a Brantford hotel.

The two-page Confederacy release was signed by Mohawk Chief Allan MacNaughton and Cayuga sub-chief Leroy Hill. The release said talks broke down Monday night because the federal and provincial governments refused to address Confederacy proposals to end what Six Nations protesters are calling a "land reclamation."

This included ceasing development on Douglas Creek Estates until there is a broader resolution to the issue of Six Nations land rights; not viewing the standoff in the context of criminal activity; and eliminating the "Indian Act council" from Six Nations land claims. This latter comment referred to Chief David General and the elected band council.

The Confederacy also called on Prentice to immediately become involved in talks with the chiefs to "reach a peaceful resolution to the standoff and long-term land rights issues." MacNaughton and Hill could not be reached for further comment.

Ramsay and Valladao would not comment on the Confederacy's proposals.

"I don't want to get into negotiations in the newspaper," said Ramsay. "It's a very delicate dance, a negotiation like this ... It would be inappropriate for me to make a comment."

Canada and Ontario have offered to end the standoff by, among other things, providing money to Six Nations to research land and resource issues and start talks to turn over provincially-owned land in Brant County, South Cayuga and Townsend to Six Nations.

Natives occupying Douglas Creek Estates say the Argyle Street South property was never surrendered by Six Nations. Canada and Ontario, however, say the land was surrendered and sold in 1841 to help construct the Plank Road (Highway 6).

Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer was alarmed at the Confederacy statement.

"Oh boy, that's too bad," she said. "I'm extremely disappointed because this sounded so positive. They were all willing to sit down and talk and make something positive happen. I don't know what the next step will be."

Michael Bruder, lawyer for developers John and Don Henning, said the statement was "certainly not good news" for his clients. He said they still wished for a peaceful solution, but he planned to talk to the Ontario Provincial Police legal counsel today to see what impact this might have on getting the OPP to finally execute a court injunction to remove protesters from the site.

Chief General could not be reached for comment.

dnolan at thespec.com

905-526-3351

Feds must clean up their own mess

By Garry Horsnell, Brantford
The Hamilton Spectator
(Apr 19, 2006) 
Re: 'Glimmer of hope in resolving Caledonia land protest' (April 13)

Natives from the Six Nations are protesting near Caledonia. They say a developer is building illegally on native land.

However, there is some controversy about whether the land actually belongs to the natives.

Meanwhile, a provincial judge has ordered the Ontario Provincial Police to remove the native protesters.

I don't get it.

The treaties, which the natives feel are being breached, are between natives and the federal government and it's the federal government, and not the province, that is responsible for Indian affairs.

So why is the provincial government getting involved in a situation which should be resolved by the federal government?

Shouldn't the federal government act responsibly and clear up its own mess?

Good relations damaged by 'outsider' pressures

By Len Wheeler, Hamilton
The Hamilton Spectator
(Apr 19, 2006) 
Re: 'Glimmer of hope in resolving Caledonia land protest' (April 13)

The people of Six Nations have been duped. What started out as a mild protest has turned ugly due to outsider influence. The outsiders have their own agendas and don't care about Six Nations, New Credit or any other native band.

The consequences undo all the good from the past in community relations. Caledonia, Cayuga, Hagersville, Six Nations and New Credit have gotten on well over the last two centuries. The end result of this will be divisive and resentment within the communities will grow.

One has to ask these questions:

If no one wants violence, why is the Warriors Society in Caledonia?

Who invited them?

Why do the natives in news videos and photos cover their faces?

Who are they hiding from?

No one wins if violence breaks out. Peaceful protest and promotion of understanding and education will enhance their cause. Greenspace does not need to be eaten up with residential expansion within that community. Violence only promotes anguish and heartbreak. They should send the outsiders away and not let those outsiders represent local interests.
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