[Imc-thunderbay] FW: Six Nations: Warrior Societies on "Yellow Alert"

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Roger Lymburner
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>From: "Orakwa International Indigenous Ent." <orakwa at paulcomm.ca>
>To: "ActionCanadaNetwork" <actcan at web.net>
>Subject: Six Nations:  Warrior Societies on "Yellow Alert" Date: Fri, 31 
>Mar 2006 11:31:20 -0500
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chief Terrance Nelson
>To: Orakwa International Indigenous Ent.
>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:50 AM
>Subject: RE: MNN Six Nations: "I did it my colonial way" croons Canada
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>This is issued today to all media and across First Nations in Canada
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>Please use your communications system to send this out further
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>We stand with you and I have alerted others to comment publicly
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>Box 75, Ginew, Manitoba, Canada ROA 2RO
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>From  (Mush-ko-dah-be-shik-eese) Terrance Nelson, Okiijida Society 
>Spokesman and Representative from Canada; National (US) Board of Directors: 
>American Indian Movement
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>Yellow Alert for Warrior Societies
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>March 31, 2006
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>The Okiijida Society is issuing a yellow alert for all Warrior Societies 
>regarding the escalating situation between Mohawks at Six Nations and the 
>Ontario Provincial Police. In 1990, most First Nations were in shock over 
>the Oka crisis. Since 1990, warrior societies have meet regularly to plan 
>out a strategy if a similar situation occurred. A yellow alert is a stand 
>by alert issued by warrior societies to their membership on a particular 
>situation. It is also a warning to Canada that the situation is being 
>monitored.
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>Mohawks at Six Nations issued the following, "At noon, Wednesday, March 
>29th, four Ontario Provincial Police OPP cruisers were spotted at the 
>nearby Unity Road School, three Jimmys, about 14 to 15 undercover cops, two 
>cruisers side by side above the site and on the other side at Canadian Tire 
>the cruisers face the site directly .We welcome our brothers, sisters, 
>friends and allies with open arms to stand in solidarity with us against 
>this illegal invasion of Six nations Land (Highway 6, Caledonia Ontario)."
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>In 1990, Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation was the first non Mohawks to 
>blockade to show their support. The warrior societies across Canada agreed 
>to the following on situations like this. 1. To stay in our home territory 
>and monitor the situation. 2. That if bloodshed occurred we would take 
>action in our territories that would include blockades but more 
>importantly, we agreed that in the event of the Canadian army killing 
>indigenous people, we would bring the Canadian economy to a halt. We have 
>made it perfectly clear to Canada that the Treaties gave recognition to the 
>whites to peaceful co-existence, deliberate bloodshed by Canada is an end 
>to that treaty right.
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>As the Mohawks stated "The whole issue is jurisdiction and title and we're 
>allies, not subjects,".   Canada must stop using guns to resolve its legal 
>disputes with the Indigenous People.  They know they stole it, they have to 
>give it back."  It will remain to be seen if the Conservatives who were in 
>power in 1990 have learned anything from the Oka crisis.
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>For Further information contact
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>Chief Terrance Nelson
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>204-782-4827
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>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Orakwa International Indigenous Ent. [mailto:orakwa at paulcomm.ca]
>   Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:19 AM
>   To: ActionCanadaNetwork
>   Subject: MNN Six Nations: "I did it my colonial way" croons Canada
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>   CANADA CROONS "I DID IT MY WAY (COLONIAL) WAY".   SIX NATIONS SINGS, 
>"HOW CAN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT WHEN YOUR DIRTY BEDS ARE BURNING?"
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>   MNN.  March 30, 2006.  It is obvious that Ottawa is trying to push 
>pyradmidal pegs into round holes.  The colonial settlers refuse to accept 
>the fact that there are no Indian treaties giving them the right to control 
>Turtle Island.  They were supposed to stay in the Two Row Wampum agreement 
>and manage their own ship on the river where Indigenous canoes had traveled 
>freely since time immemorial.
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>   The settlers came from a culture where private ownership reigned.  They 
>belonged to a hierarchical society with a hereditary monarchy.  In their 
>social system those at the top of the heap had a better chance of survival. 
>  Those at the bottom lived in abject poverty and misery, often literally 
>held in place with iron chains.
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>   The social model of the Indigenous people of Turtle Island was 
>completely different.  We know that all people are equal.  Our model for 
>social order is circular.  There is no boss and there are no high places 
>from which to fall.  The only chains we know are those linking our arms 
>together in friendship. The word "chief" is not our word.  We have 
>"royaner", which means "he knows the path".  Our women are "Oyaner" which 
>means "they know the path".  The colonists always assumed that our society 
>was like theirs.  They keep asking us, "Take me to your leader" like the 
>lost Martians of their imaginations.  We don't have leaders in our society. 
>  Everybody leads.
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>   No position in our culture is hereditary.  Everyone gains office through 
>processes of extensive consultation with the People.  When in office, no 
>one has authority over the people.  The clan mothers and the chiefs' job is 
>to facilitate the consultation process according to our constitution, the 
>Kaianereh'ko:wa.  They speak only on the decisions made by the People.
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>   Canadian society is frighteningly authoritarian and getting more so.  It 
>is run by people who make secret agreements without consulting the people.  
>They have secret weapons caches.  They do not hesitate to use them against 
>people with opinions different from theirs, especially if they are 
>Indigenous.
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>   Between 3000 and 4000 heavily armed troops surrounded Kanehsatake, 
>Kahnawake and Akwesasne in 1990.  At Gustafsen Lake (British Columbia) 
>77,000 rounds of ammunition were fired at a Sun Dance attended by only 26 
>Indigenous people, of whom the majority were women and very young children. 
>  At Ipperwash they killed Dudley George.  Recently at Kanehsatake a truck 
>full of high-powered armaments was brought in by secret government forces 
>who had a list of 55 people "to be taken out on sight".  Now police and 
>military are circling us at 5 of our Mohawk territories, including Six 
>Nations.
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>   Now the Canadian government sends in a unilaterally appointed mediator, 
>Michael Coyle, to talk at us.  His main focus is on how to "gently" 
>handcuff the women.  "I want to rape you, but I am not violent, eh!"  Is 
>this what his master's thesis was on?  Canadian people should be asking 
>some serious questions about the kind of government they are supporting.
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>   Jim Potts, the "Indian expert" organized the Aboriginal "mercenaries" 
>hired by the Canadian/Ontario governments to attack the Six Nations people 
>on March 22nd.  First he "We're not coming in".  Then he said, "No one is 
>going to get hurt".  They hired mercenaries to do their dirty work.  They 
>set up ambulances and cleared hospital wards to receive the wounded.  They 
>emptied jail cells and transferred prisoners from Brantford to Hamilton so 
>they could make room for the captives of their attack.  Does this sound 
>like they were planning a peaceful operation?
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>   Ottawa pretends to have a change of heart.  Coyle arrives without a gun 
>on his hip.  He's just a front man.  Our territories and perimeters are 
>crawling with undercover cops.  As if we can't recognize strangers in our 
>own neighborhood!  This is an attempt to apply force.  Flying army 
>helicopters over our homes, scaring our kids and elders, is very menacing.  
>Do Canadian communities have to put up with the menace of low flying army 
>helicopters?  No way.
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>   Mr. Henning of Henco Industries of the United States, is the squatter 
>trying to illegally build on our land.  He put a paid ad in the newspaper 
>saying, "This land is our land, this land is our land, this land was made 
>for (not you) just me".  Since when does a declaration in a newspaper 
>establish clear title?  Mr. Henning is relying on the misrepresentation 
>that Ontario can give him title to our land.  Is Ontario trying to help the 
>Americans colonize Canada?  So, with his new court order, the OPP are 
>acting as the private army of this private American corporation!
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>   The bottom line is that if Canada sincerely wants to negotiate a 
>peaceful solution, they should call off their dogs and cowboys.  Send in 
>their real representatives for nation-to-nation consultations and 
>negotiations.  There could then be an orderly settlement based on an 
>orderly investigation of the facts and an orderly identification of the 
>laws that apply.  Then the laws can be applied based on the facts.  The 
>reason Canada doesn't want to do this is because it knows full well when 
>the process is complete, the facts will clearly show they have illegally 
>invaded our land.  They are the illegal occupiers of our land just like at 
>Ipperwash.
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>   Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News, Kahentiinetha2 at yahoo.com
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>   Coming soon www.mnn.mohawknationnews.com
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>   Six Nations contacts:  Jacqueline_house at hotmail.com ; Janie Jamieson 
>905-517-7006; Dick Hill 519-865-7722 thebasketcase at on.aibn.com ; Hazel Hill 
>519-717-4292 or 519-445-1351

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