[news] Jake Fire Would Have Joined the National Day of Action

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

MNN Mohawk Nation News - May 29, 2008

On May 1, 1899, an Akwesasne Mohawk, Saiowisakeron, also known as “Jake Fire”, faced the barrel of a gun in the hands of an RCMP officer. The RCMP had been sent to arrest the Akwesasne traditional chiefs..Standing up for what was right, an unarmed Jake Fire was shot and killed by the RCMP officer...[The] shooting and killing [of] Jake Fire is the kind of violence and aggression that the colonists use when dealing with Indigenous Peoples asserting our rights.   


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