[IPSM] NON-VIOLENT INDIGENOUS WARRIOR APPEARING IN COURT AFTER 4 MONTHS BEHIND BARS

[fiona at resist.ca]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NON-VIOLENT INDIGENOUS WARRIOR APPEARING IN COURT AFTER FOUR MONTHS BEHIND
BARS WITH NO TRIAL DATE

Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, November 28th, 2006 - On
November 29th, at 9 am, Trevor Miller will appear in the Cayuga Court for
a pre-trial hearing after being captured on August 8th, and held hostage
for more than four months in Barton Street jail. Trevor Miller is Canada's
latest indigenous political prisoner, on trial for having non-violently
defended his land at Kanehstaton (The Protected Place), otherwise known as
the Six Nations Land Reclamation, or the "Caledonia Standoff". He will be
defended by the Mohawk Traditional Council, and the court process will be
attended by his supporters, allies, and human rights monitering groups,
including Amnesty International and Canada Court Watch.

At no time in history has the Mohawk Nation relinquished their inherent
rights as a sovereign nation. Trevor Miller, Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, is
to be tried by a foreign, colonial system of governance which he neither
recognises nor adheres to. He is being held behind bars not because he has
been proven guilty of anything by this colonial judicial system, but
rather because he is a victim of the colonial criminalization of
non-violent indigenous resistance to genocide and land theft. Moreover,
the Crown has yet to produce a single piece of evidence which incriminated
him even under these colonial laws.

Trevor Miller, 31, has three young children who are desperate to see their
father. Should there be infractions held against him, he demands to be
tried by his own people, and by his own system of governance, under the
"Iroquois" Great Law of Peace, which has existed well before any European
set foot on this land, and continues to be asserted and practiced by the
Mohawk Nation today.

Signed,

FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF TREVOR MILLER

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For further information: 514-250-6683