[Migrantjusticedocumentary] Awkwesasne this Friday?

[maddie ritts]

i can go on friday!

-m


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Aaron Lakoff <aaronlakoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi folks,
> Sarita just shared this action callout about a demo in Awkwesasne this
> Friday. Is anyone able to go? It's about 2 hours from Montreal.
> Danielle, would you be able to drive?
> Aaron
>
> MOHAWK NATION CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION AGAINST THE INFRINGEMENT
> OF ITS INHERENT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
> For Immediate Release
> Akwesasne Mohawk Territory - Onerahtohkó:wa (May) 7, 2013
> Greetings from the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation of the Haudenosaunee Six
> Nations Confederacy. Straddling both sides of the Kania’tarohwá:nen (St.
> Lawrence River), the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory exists within the ancestral
> homeland of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, which has never been ceded by any
> legitimate authority of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
>
> Without the free, prior and informed consent of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation,
> both Canada and the United States have since unilaterally drawn their
> national boundaries directly through our traditional and ancestral
> territory and now limit and disrupt our free and unobstructed movement
> within our own territory. Despite this challenge to our territorial
> sovereignty, the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation continues to retain and assert its
> inherent sovereign and indigenous right to cross freely into all
> Haudenosaunee territories.
>
> Since the imposition of the Canadian Port of Entry within the Akwesasne
> Mohawk Territory, the Kanien’kehá:ka have experienced and endured racial
> harassment and mistreatment, the denial of their Haudenosaunee citizenship,
> arrest, and the confiscation of property by the Canadian Border Service
> Agency (CBSA). Since the Port of Entry was relocated to Cornwall four years
> ago, this mistreatment and abuse has intensified.
>
> Therefore, the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy are
> calling upon all people to join us in a call for action on May 17, 2013, to
> bring an end to Canada’s abuse and mistreatment of our citizens and their
> refusal to respect and honor the inherent sovereign and indigenous rights
> of the Haudenosaunee to freely move about its traditional and ancestral
> territory without hindrance. Despite the Government of Canada’s commitment
> towards truth and reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples of this land,
> these regularly unprovoked and insensitive acts by the CBSA are another
> demonstration of Canada’s indifference and lack of respect towards
> indigenous peoples and demonstrate its callous disregard towards resolving
> these issues in good faith.
>
> To resolve the border issue the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation requires the
> following:
>
> 1. To begin the process to rectify this longstanding conflict between our
> peoples, the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation requires an immediate meeting between
> the Government of Canada and the traditional leadership of the
> Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy.
>
> 2. In keeping with the principles of coexistence and non-inference as
> embodied through the Two Row Wampum, the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation requires a
> commitment by the Government of Canada to retain a nation-to-nation
> relationship with the traditional Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy, as
> their British fathers had in the past.
>
> 3. In order to preserve and maintain the distinct identity of the
> Haudenosaunee as a sovereign people, the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation requires the
> Government of Canada to recognize Haudenosaunee citizenship, by virtue of
> whatever identification issued by the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy.
>
> The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation calls upon its people to gather at the Mohawk
> Nation Longhouse at 9am on May 17, 2013, for a peaceful march across the
> imaginary line that cuts through our nation, to let all know that we shall
> continue to exercise our inherent sovereign and indigenous rights and
> uphold them for future generations. For more information, please contact
> the Mohawk Nation Office at 518-358-3381
>
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