[IPSM] Fwd: Six Nations, with attachment this time

[lcarle at po-box.mcgill.ca]

Hi, sorry to bother you and then not even have added the attachment.

Please consider,
L

...

Dear all,

Please have a look at the petition attached, and consider sending it 
along to the UN yourselves (e-mails provided below).  I've been 
following the blockade situation at Six Nations a bit, and the Canadian 
and Ontario Governments, as well as some vigilantes are behaving quite 
shamefully.  The immediate cause of the problem is the government's 
illegal 'OK'ing of a subdivision development on Six Nations land by 
Henco Industries.

The leaders of the blockade have been very concerted in their efforts 
to keep things peaceful in the face of police, military, and settler 
imtimidation.  Below are some excerpts from the petition and from the 
e-mails I have received, including the latest from today at the end.

Please consider carefully.
Loren

"9.      The best way to resolve this is for everyone to put their 
documents on the table so that everyone can see who owns what.  
Therefore, we request that the United Nations appoint as soon as 
possible an independent international mediator who is agreeable to both 
sides and has no conflict of interest to bring this to a legal 
resolution.  We do not want to wait another 200 years.  Now is the 
time."

"For over 200 years Canada has tried to impose its institutions on us.  
We would like to remind Canada that it is never too late to polish the 
Covenant Chain.  We would like to invite Canada to take part in 
renewing the spirit of the Two Row Wampum, which has since been 
affirmed in international law.  We would like the settler population to 
experience the power of our Great Law, the solemn relations that were 
established and to enter the kind of talks that will make consensus 
possible, the kind that were used in the beginning when they first 
arrived."


"10. Canada and the province of Ontario have continued to issue permits 
for the use of our land even though they know they do not have legal 
title.  As a result, a private company called Henco Industries began 
building a subdivision on the "Haldimand Tract" for sale to 
non-Indigenous people who may not have been aware that there was no 
legal root to the title they were given.

11. On February 28th, 2006, the Rotino'shon:ni decided to stop this new 
encroachment on our land by blocking the entrance to the housing 
project.  Most Canadians do not know anything about our history.  We 
have never surrendered our sovereignty or given Canada jurisdiction 
over us or our land.

12. On March 17, 2006, Henco Industries obtained an ex parte order from 
an Ontario court to evict us from our land.  Our people have been 
protesting these thefts of our land for over 200 years.  Our complaints 
were well-known.  Yet, Henco was never required to prove the legality 
of its title.  Ontario was never required to prove its capacity to 
issue title.  No attempt had been made to speak with us.

13. On April 20th 2006, the people protecting our land, including 
grandmothers and small children, were attacked by a heavily armed force 
of the Ontario Provincial Police.  None of our people were armed.  Many 
were severely beaten up and assaulted with batons, pepper spray and 
taser guns.  16 were arrested.  However, many reinforcements arrived 
and the police retreated.  We are still occupying our land."


"The [April 20] police effort ultimately backfired, capturing national 
media attention."
--globeandmail.com, May 23, 06

...so, we wouldn't have heard about it if the illegal police raid had 
been successful?


"We need reports on troop movements.  If anyone can let us know where 
the riot police, OPP, RCMP and the army are stationing themselves.  
What directions their movements are, times, numbers, any unusual 
activity, choppers, if there are any tanks or troop carriers on the 
move, equipment.  Where are they setting up.  Keep your eye out where 
the military is getting ready.  We need to know for our protection.  
Based on past experience, we believe the riots were caused by 
instigators.  We've seen it happen many times before.  These people 
appear.  They get people fighting.  They throw things at the cops.  We 
get shot at.  We expect the armed forces work things so that the 
rioters and our non-native supporters disappear leaving us under siege. 
  This happened at Oka and in many other places.

So far everything has followed the pattern we've seen before."

--e-mail, May 22


"5:20 AM Friday April 21, 2006

PREPARE FOR MILITARY OPPRESSION:  OKA BLUEPRINT BROUGHT OUT AGAIN
Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Allies,

We need information about the moves being made against us, solidarity, 
witnesses to stand with us, alternative communication systems, cameras, 
food, medicine, runners, people to apply pressure on the Prime 
Minister, Parliament, Premier of Ontario, Governor General, etc.  
Addresses and phone numbers are further down this email, contact with 
and information to media to get the word out, supporters outside of 
Canada to put pressure on governments, United Nations, protests.  and 
whatever you can think of to help us prevent bloodshed, imprisonment, 
persecution.

As happened at Oka some of our communication has been disrupted.  We 
need alternative communications systems to ensure safety if someone 
gets hurt.

We have learned 1000 OPP have been brought in nearby and we received 
the following email about the Canadian Army (we need verification, if 
anyone can provide this):

C wrote:

"I wanted to pass on information I heard from an employee who works at 
the Hamilton Airport. Apparently at 9:30am tomorrow the military will 
arrive there and begin using the airport as a staging area".

in solidarity,

Thanks, C.  What other info do you have?  Anything at all.  Whatever.  
Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News

*Can anyone verify this information.  If so, please inform us asap so 
we may prepared ourselves for an all-out assault.  We remain unarmed."


"7:30 FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2006

EXTREME HIGH ALERT!  POLICE MOVE IN FOR THE SLAUGHTER

Twenty RCMP vans arrived loaded with Mounties and weapons arrived.  
Ambulances nearby.  Need people right now!  Phone working sporadically. 
  Need alternative communications.  Need people to stand with us with 
cameras, eyes and ears.  Contact everybody you can to get the word out. 
  Need some medical personnel to help in case of injury.  OPP and it is 
believed the Canadian Army are coming in too at Hamilton airport at 
9:30 am."


"9:10 am

Need more people.  The Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty 
stated that the presence of 1000 OPP was confirmed by CHCH TV news this 
morning.  RCMP are using the Hamilton Airport as a staging ground.

Behind Canadian Tires on Kinross St. Caledonia, there were 18 – 11 
passenger vans, great big ones.  They are full OPP officers.  One seen 
with gun on passenger side.  There were some standing behind the vans.  
Couldn’t tell what they were doing."



TODAY'S NEWS

“BREAD AND CHEESE FIGHT” VICTORIA DAY AT SIX NATIONS - WHO WAS BEING 
SUCKER PUNCHED?  ONTARIO DOES NOT WANT TO RECOGNIZE SIX NATIONS OR ANY 
ABORIGINAL TITLE



MNN.  May 23, 2006.  At 6:00 am May 22nd, “Bread and Cheese Day”, the 
Six Nations people removed the barricade on Argyle Street in Caledonia 
as a gesture of goodwill.  What ensued is being called, the “Bread and 
Cheese Fight”.  It was the 83rd day of the reclamation of Six Nations 
land and the stopping of construction of a housing project of Henco 
Developers.  Talks aimed at resolving the situation were scheduled to 
continue.  Let’s not be fooled.  What followed was part of somebody’s 
plan.  It’s clear that professional instigators played a role in the 
rioting.  David Peterson’s tactics created fuel for the flames.



The rioters were to arrive with about a dozen instigators and 
outsiders.  Several savvy observers counted and this is what they saw.  
Our sources have consulted with genuine “Caledonians” and confirmed 
that the most active rioters were people they had not seen before.  The 
rioters were supposed to find the native barricade still up.  We think 
they are pro' instigators because we’ve seen the same kind of faces 
before.  In particular the main rabble rouser looked like a 50 year old 
cop.  He was surrounded by guys made to look like “skin heads” [as if 
skin heads are still around.  As if they lived in a nice rural 
community like Caledonia].  A short guy with sun glasses who was 
punching a cop was recognized by a native viewer.  She said he is the 
spitting image of a guy high up in the KKK.  We’ve also seen the m.o. 
before.  The police routinely function to get the “rabble” to do their 
dirty work.



Then they were to make a ruckus and start attacks on the Six Nations 
people.  The uniformed OPP were to just stand there and watch, 
pretending to be neutral.  Then it would turn into a melee. Then the 
crowd was supposed to turn on the cops for not letting them get at the 
Indians.  A few cops would get hurt.  Then there would be an excuse to 
bring in the riot police conveniently stationed nearby.  Many would be 
arrested, native and non-native.  The non-native would be released and 
we would never know who they were.  The natives would be charged.  All 
this we’ve witnessed before.



The planners got it wrong this time.  The Six Nations did open the 
road.  When the non-native rioters arrived, they found the street open. 
  This threw their plans out the window.  There was no obstacle to 
overcome.  So they set up their own barricade so they could find a 
target.  When a car carrying native people came along, they attacked 
it.  When people from the site came to help, they attacked them.  What 
ensued was not a confrontation between the native and non-native 
people. It was a planned attack on the native people.  When the native 
people started defending themselves, the corporate media got the photos 
they wanted.  Images that make the natives look like the aggressors are 
plastered all over the media today.  They also have Caledonians saying 
things like, “Bring in the army”, “This is terrorism” and “Dissolve 
both sides and everybody should go home”.  Even the power outage was 
part of the scheme to create what was to look like chaos between native 
and non-native.  Are there any real journalists left in corporate media 
in Canada who will report the truth?



During the riots David Peterson, the so-called “negotiator”, arrived on 
the scene.  The native people were polite.  He went over to the 
non-native rioters and got pushed around.  It was all a show.  Then 
Peterson said, “The government wants the Caledonian and the Six Nations 
people to be in solidarity”.  He said he was against all the people who 
used force to make everything generate into chaos.  Who used force?  It 
was clearly the non-native side.  His most telling remark was, “The 
talks may not go on” [he hopes].  This is what the whole display was 
all about - to stop the talks and to distract attention from the 
validity of the Six Nations claim.



If you were to dig deep to find the underlying interests that are 
served by stopping the talks, you would hit the hard rock of corporate 
greed.  What is happening in Six Nations right now is not just about a 
piece of land on the Grand River.  It’s about all native rights to land 
and resources in Canada.  It will set the tone for the treatment of 
Indigenous rights in every other part of the country.  Big business 
absolutely does not want Canada to start respecting Indigenous rights.  
They had a real problem a few years ago when Justice Thomas Berger’s 
Report on the McKenzie Valley Pipeline raised public awareness of the 
relationship between environmental issues and Indigenous rights.  The 
Berger Report is almost forgotten.  The McKenzie Valley pipeline is on 
the negotiating table again.  Corporate interests do not want to suffer 
another Berger type setback caused by a bunch of do-gooder Canadians 
who think they want to live in a clean and healthy world.



Affirmation of the Six Nations right to the Grand River land could mean 
the end of their reign of environmental destruction and dissolution of 
their illegal colonial system.  What happened at Six Nations yesterday 
is a small distraction.  We don’t know who Peterson’s clients are when 
he’s not at Six Nations.  We do know that he is aware of the corporate 
interests served by the denial of Indigenous rights.  We also know that 
he’s been double dealing telling Caledonians that Ontario has no 
intention of returning land to the Six Nations while assuring Six 
Nations people that Ontario would formally recognize our title.



Once we realized this, we knew that Peterson did not really want the 
talks to go on even though he sounds conciliatory in public, especially 
when he talks to the media.  He put on a different face during the 
meetings with the Six Nations.  He sat there with a surly expression 
the whole time.  This is a man who is not happy when things do not go 
his way.



Said a Mohawk about what’s going on, “You can’t steal land.  You can’t 
put it into your pocket and walk away with it.  You can only illegally 
occupy it”.



Another commented, “They lost the argument about the land.  When a baby 
doesn’t get its way, they start busting everything.  That’s what they 
did yesterday.  The media has not been telling the public or the people 
of Caledonia the truth”.  There is no real difference between the 
people of Caledonia and the people of Six Nations.  All agree they want 
to live peacefully.  Let’s hope people don’t get distracted from this 
goal by outside instigators who don’t care spit about the people of 
Caledonia or Indigenous people.  The real Caledonians and the Six 
Nations people do not want to hurt anybody.  The Caledonians threw 
bricks of cheese at the Six Nations who threw it back at them.  Maybe 
this can be reenacted every year after this.



Could the ‘Bread and Cheese Fight’ have been avoided?  Not when there’s 
so much corporate “greed” at stake.



Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

www.mohawknationnews.com

kahentinetha2 at yahoo.com




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