Mohawk Nation News Updates

Mohawk Nation News Updates
Mohawk Nation News Updates

YES, IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY
MNN. June 3, 2009. Canada has always known that we were against putting guns in the hands of the border guards in the middle of our community. The US and Canada have abandoned their border checkpoints at Cornwall Island in the St. Lawrence River. The New York State Police and Cornwall City Police have closed down the bridges. We can’t easily get on or off the island or go about our normal lives. In fact we are imprisoned.
Canada created propaganda against us to provoke a confrontation and then an assault. Then the guns were to be put into the middle of our community. We think other indigenous communities might be next. Prime Minister Harper just announced a policy that he was going to generously fund those Indigenous who cooperate with resource development and extraction. The rest of us will just have to sink or swim.
We are being isolated on the island. Our trade and commerce with each other is being deliberately crushed. This is having a dire impact on our ability to feed our families.
About $100 million worth of construction is planned around Cornwall and on the island for a humongous international commercial transport depot. We would never approve this.
Respondents around us think that the customs facility should be moved off Cornwall Island. Others think a joint Canada-U.S. customs facility should be built on the south side. People on the US side like to have guns to control and scare people. Canadians generally don’t the same necessity for them. Those CBSA guards who are being given guns have made it clear that they don’t like us. They are dangerous.
Both the US and Canada have set up tribal and band councils in our communities. In this case these councils have turned out to be loyal to us. Canada would like to bull doze an agreement with them. They refuse to sign any agreement because they know how it will hurt us and our families. This issue has brought everybody together.
We are standing together against our oppressors. Their idea of cooperation is to co-opt our so-called leaders. When Champlain first met us, he shot our Royaner and Otiyaner without any questions asked. In 2009 these bullets never disconnected us from our land.
The Two Row Wampum agreement is being violated. There are two paths that shall never cross. In any negotiation the colonists would have to be truthful and honorable with us.
Canada’s battleship diplomacy is intimidation with the threat of military deployment. They have put an embargo on us to starve us out and make us surrender. This approach will not lead to a lasting settlement. Canada wrongly thinks they can only use force and threats. After 500 years we’ve never violated who we are. They don’t want to sit down with us. They are afraid to see our full valid legal position that we never surrendered our sovereignty or identity on Great Turtle Island.
Armed force is building up and to make us give in. Slimy Canada is provoking the stalemate on behalf of their international bankster bosses. Their hired public relations guns are creating the myth that we are dangerous. Racial taunts, assaults and interrogation of our youth, some as young as 18 months old by the guards, have escalated.
We are a communal people and have no leaders. We have to consult each other and everyone. Secret agreements are forbidden and cannot be supported by us. When we are threatened, there can be no negotiation. The British knew this. This was the blueprint for the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and all treaties on Great Turtle Island.
We never jump into negotiations. We always went for a long lasting agreement which would stand for hundreds of years. We made sure both sides understood each others position. Sometimes we said nothing for weeks or months at a time. Then we talk. Otherwise negotiations are flawed.
Every time these invaders came to us, they had guns or something to take our lives. In Akwesasne, there is nothing to negotiate. To put the guns to our heads or not to put the guns to our heads, is the question before the colonists. Threats of force are being hurled to make us give up freedom and our land in order to stop them from harassing or killing us.
Our neighbors agree with us. The US and Canada created this demilitarized zone that we are caught in. They can open it or keep it closed. The guns issue is a cover. Canada’s institutions and para military organizations have been infiltrated. Canada wants to cut the Mohawk Nation down to size because we are standing up against the US takeover.
Our question is when will the colonists become human beings? If you can’t talk fairly with us, you should immediately return everything you took from us? You should take your guns, leave us alone and stop trying to be like violent Americans?
Contact: Rotiskenekete 514-269-1400; Chief N. Benedict 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 nbenedict@akwesasne.ca, go to www.akwesasne.ca. Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.
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AKWESASNE: CANADA FORCIBLY HOLDING CIVILIANS A WAR CRIME
MNN. June 5, 2009. Canada continues to prepare and initiate aggression against the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne in violation of international treaties, agreements and assurances. Canada is carrying out ill treatment of civilian residents on the illegally occupied territory of the Haudenosaunee.
No matter where the Canada-US border is relocated, it is still on Onwehonwe land. The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority is making money out of illegally leasing out our land for the border facility. According to the Jay Treaty 1794 between the U.S. and Britain, the border is meant for the colonists. Not us. Some suggest it be relocated somewhere in Europe. If the colonists block the bridges to our community every time they want to scare or control us, is it time to build our own?
Mohawks are being held hostage on Cornwall Island by Canada and the U.S. until we agree to let the gun toting border guards roam around the middle of Akwesasne. The Minister of Public Safety won't talk to us. Why? In the meantime boats and barges are shuffling kids, food and other necessities to us.
THE TWO ROW WAMPUM AGREEMENT
The basis of the relationship between us and the colonists is the Kaianereh'ko:wa, the Great Law, which embodies the Two Row Wampum Agreement. U.S. President George Washington agreed to the principle that our canoe and their sailing vessel are to travel side by side. Each contains our people, language, form of government, laws, culture, traditions and ceremonies. In our canoe are all the lands and resources of Great Turtle Island that the natural world has vested in us. Accordingly we can only deal with the U.S. President or the Queen on any issue between our nations.
These principles were implemented in the Treaty of Canadaigua 1794, Article VII. There can be no interference with our birthright to travel and conduct commerce anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.
The women are the progenitors of the soil of Great Turtle Island, the caretakers of the land, water and air.
In 2003 a grandmother was going through the Cornwall Island checkpoint in the Indian lane. She was waved through. It was recorded on the CBSA video. Later she was charged with running the border and arrested. She put forward the following notice to the Queen for a dismissal of the bogus charge:
"1.Stop breaching the peace. You are inflicting genocide upon us and our future posterity.
2. Our relations are based on equality and mutual respect as affirmed by the Kaianereh'ko:wa, our constitution. Our relations with the colonists is defined by the Guswentah, the Two Row Wampum, also known as the Covenant Chain.
3. We are the trustees of all of our land for the future generations of our People, including the part upon which your corporations and subjects are squatting.
4. Your colonial successor states and corporations have carried out rape, pillage and pollution. With your protection the squatters are stealing our resources and poisoning our land, water and air almost beyond repair. They will soon kill themselves and injure our future generations.
5.Your justice system protects the squatters to keep the stolen property. It incriminates us or kills us to stop us from making our demands for restitution and protection from the crimes of your agents. To negotiate you must come to our table and talk to us. Your one-sided decisions are not legal.
The demand is that:
6. You recognize that all your transactions as null and void, and that you must cease your illegal operations against us immediately.
7. You respect our inherent right to our land; and that our children will be born free from your bondage.
8. You deal with us, the true Ongwehonw e, on a nation-to-nation basis and stop using your unlawfully imposed tribal and band councils.
9. You respect the "rule of law" that comes from Creation. Foreigners such as you and your corporate entities respect the Indigenous law of our land. You cannot legislate over or judge us.
"For 500 years we have resisted your brutal efforts to eliminate us and impose your unnatural institutions on us. Your claims to jurisdiction over us, our land and resources are delusional. We find you guilty of: genocide; violations of our freedom and our inherent right to self-determination; theft of our lands and resources; and destruction of our environment. Your subjects and corporations are inflicting ruthless violence on us.
"You are hereby ordered to relinquish all your stolen money, trusts, lands, rights and possessions that were made or stolen from us and our lands. You must disband all your foreign corporations and all foreign laws. We shall return to the original legal nation-to-nation relationship between us, the land owners, and you, our visitors. Your money was created from exploiting us, our land and our resources. Restitution must be made to the Indigenous people of Great Turtle Island."
Canada and the US are bound by international treaties on the laws of aggression. Last week UN observers came. They made a report. Now it's time for the Security Council to resolve this issue. The Mohawks of Akwesasne need protection from the US, Canada and anyone else who wants to use us or take advantage us. We don't want a platoon of armed guards in the middle our neighborhood. The UN must stop them. These armed belligerents stationed around us - the NYS Police, Cornwall City Police and whoever else is behind them - must be removed immediately.
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohaw knationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Go to MNN "BORDER" category for more stories;
Contact Rotiskenrakete 514-269-1400. N. Benedict 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 nbenedict@akwesasne.ca, go to www.akwesasne.ca. Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.
Supporters may send comments to: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London, SQ1A UK; President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Comments: 202-456-1111, Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461; The Governor General of Canada, M. Michaelle Jean, 1 Rideau Drive, Ottawa info@gg.ca; Alain Jolicoeur, President, CBSA, Ottawa, ON K1A 0L8, 613-952-3200, 613-957-0612; General inquiries CBSA-ASFC@canada.gc.ca; Lance Markell, District Director, Northern Office - Customs, St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa Ont. K1G 4K3, CBSA 613-930-3234, 613-991-1214, General inquiries CBSA-ASFC@canada.gc.ca; Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, Operator Number: 202-282-8000, Co mment Line: 202-282-8495, Jayson P. Ahern, A/Commissioner, U.S. Customs, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229 Chief Counsel (202) 344-2990; Marco A. Lopez, Jr., Chief of Staff, U.S. Customs, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229; Prime Minister Stephen Harper; House of Commons, Ottawa, harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Hon. Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, House of Commons, Ottawa; Hon. Robert Douglas Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 284 Wellington St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8; Attorney General of Ontario, 720 Bay St., 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5G 2K1; Hon. Yvon Marcoux, Minister of Justice and A.G.O., Louis-Phillipe-Pigeon Bldg., 1200 Rue d l'Eglise, 9th Floor, St. Foy G1V 4M1; Hon. Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., Hull, Que. K1A 0H4 Strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; Premier Dalton McGuinty, Province of Ontario, Queens Park, Toronto ON; Premier Charest, Province of Quebec, Legislature, Quebec City; British High Commission, 80 Elgin St., Ottawa, ON K1P 5K7; Canadian Human Rights Commission, 344 Slater St., 8th Floor Ottawa, ON K1A 1E1; United Nations, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017; The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat, 103, 251 BBC, The Netherlands; Coalition for the International Criminal Court, c/o WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Supporters of Mohawks: MPs Jean Crowder, Indian Affairs critic crowdj@parl.gc.ca ; Anita Neville nevila@parl.gc.ca ; Marc Lemay lemaym@parl.gc.ca< FONT face="arial" size="3"> ; Sen. Nancy Green; Sen. Gerry St. Germain;
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ARE TWO NWO CAMPS FIGHTING FOR WORLD DOMINATION? Europeans v. USA
MNN. June 5 2009. Why are armed US and Canadian forces holding the Mohawks hostage? We refuse to let the Canada Border Services agents CBSA carry guns in the middle of our community.
Like anybody else, members of the Mohawk Nation can speculate about events surrounding us. Europe and the US are both running out of resources. Their economies are crashing. They have to steal what they need from others around the world. The economic meltdown of the US was caused by the European international banks pulling the plug on them. Europe has to destroy the US to take over the world and vice versa.
The Western Hemisphere is all Indigenous. The Europeans have always been fighting over it. For a long time France infiltrated Canada through Quebec. During the 1960s French teachers came to Quebec to get involved with the youth. They started the movement to separate Quebec from Canada. In 1967 French President Charles deGaulle visited Quebec and yelled, “Vive, Quebec libre!” to give momentum to separatism.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest made a statement recently that North America belongs to the French. He’s basing it on the Louisiana Purchase by the US from France in 1803 which is 23% of the US. It connected southern US with Quebec. France tried to surround the 13 colonies along the east coast. Spain planned to control the territory west of the Mississippi River. Recently Mexican Americans claimed they were the indigenous people of the US. The Iroquois reminded our brothers and sisters that the territory east of the Mississippi is ours.
US said in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 that the Western Hemisphere is their sphere of influence and will resist European intrusions. They never mentioned they’re all immigrants to Great Turtle Island and beyond.
Certain parties from Germany put out a phony article about the Mohawk issue at Akwesasne, purportedly put out by MNN. All articles by MNN can be verified at www.mohawknationnews.com
What is the connection at Harvard between US President Obama and Liberal Party of Canada leader, Michael Ignatieff? Are they part of the European camp? Ignatieff is the son of white Russian nobility whose father was a Canadian diplomat at the UN Security Council Committee on Palestine. In WW II many of the white Russians had their own battalions in the German army because they opposed the Bolsheviks.
Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, appears to be with the US camp. The Europeans would like to see an election soon to put their nominee, Michael Ignatieff, in as Prime Minister of Canada.
The Europeans have always been infiltrating Canadian government, business and finance as part of ongoing colonialism. The majority of the Canadian military is now mainly in Quebec due to the bilingual policy under former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The only people rising up in the ranks are French speakers.
The Germans are now attacking former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a conservative, who brought in the free trade deal. He’s probably with the US camp. Germans wanted to set up a factory to make armaments in Nova Scotia. He was paid but didn’t do it. The Europeans would need to make heavy artillery here to make it easier to move the military and equipment anywhere they’re needed.
On May 31 there was a crash of an Air France flight in the Atlantic Ocean. It had about a dozen Thyssen Krupp of Germany and Michelin of France executives aboard. A deal was made for steel production at 11 installations in Brazil. The Germans have been in South America, particularly in Brazil, since the 1800s. Many Nazis fled to South America after WW II.
Is the Canada/US border going to be guarded by soldiers posing as CBSA? Are we in the way of some big plans? We have a right to defend ourselves and will remain neutral in the conflict between these competing interests. We will remain steadfast in not having guns at the border.
Mohawk communities are strategically located in southern Quebec and southern Ontario. The Europeans may want them for army bases to protect the border should the US invade Canada. US Fort Drum Army Base south of Akwesane would need to come through Awesasne and Kahnawake to take over these populous areas of Canada. Kanehsatake is located where the Ottawa River flows into the St. Lawrence. Tyendinaga is surrounded by numerous Canadian army installations. Six Nations is west of Toronto. Our communities are strategically located in the way of a US invasion. If the US invades Canada, they would want to use our communities to set up their bases.
As the people who follow the philosophy of the Kaianereh’ko:wa, Great Law of Peace, we can resolve this matter peacefully between these parties.
In the meantime the US camp wants us to stop guns at the border. They aren’t worried about us. They just don’t want guns in the hands of Euro influenced CBSA guards to be aimed at them.
These reflections are like throwing an onion into the pot for the flavor!
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Go to MNN “BORDER” category for more stories;
Contact Rotiskenrakete 514-269-1400. N. Benedict 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 nbenedict@akwesasne.ca, go to www.akwesasne.ca. Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.
Supporters may send comments to: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London, SQ1A UK; President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Comments: 202-456-1111, Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461; The Governor General of Canada, M. Michaelle Jean, 1 Rideau Drive, Ottawa info@gg.ca; Alain Jolicoeur, President, CBSA, Ottawa, ON K1A 0L8, 613-952-3200, 613-957-0612; General inquiries CBSA-ASFC@canada.gc.ca; Lance Markell, District Director, Northern Office – Customs, St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa Ont. K1G 4K3, CBSA 613-930-3234, 613-991-1214, General inquiries CBSA-ASFC@canada.gc.ca; Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, Operator Number: 202-282-8000, Comment Line: 202-282-8495, Jayson P. Ahern, A/Commissioner, U.S. Customs, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229 Chief Counsel (202) 344-2990; Marco A. Lopez, Jr., Chief of Staff, U.S. Customs, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229; Prime Minister Stephen Harper; House of Commons, Ottawa, harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Hon. Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, House of Commons, Ottawa; Hon. Robert Douglas Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 284 Wellington St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8; Attorney General of Ontario, 720 Bay St., 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5G 2K1; Hon. Yvon Marcoux, Minister of Justice and A.G.O., Louis-Phillipe-Pigeon Bldg., 1200 Rue d l'Eglise, 9th Floor, St. Foy G1V 4M1; Hon. Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., Hull, Que. K1A 0H4 Strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; Premier Dalton McGuinty, Province of Ontario, Queens Park, Toronto ON; Premier Charest, Province of Quebec, Legislature, Quebec City; British High Commission, 80 Elgin St., Ottawa, ON K1P 5K7; Canadian Human Rights Commission, 344 Slater St., 8th Floor Ottawa, ON K1A 1E1; United Nations, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017; The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat, 103, 251 BBC, The Netherlands; Coalition for the International Criminal Court, c/o WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Supporters of Mohawks: MPs Jean Crowder, Indian Affairs critic crowdj@parl.gc.ca ; Anita Neville nevila@parl.gc.ca ; Marc Lemay lemaym@parl.gc.ca ; Sen. Nancy Green; Sen. Gerry St. Germain;