ANALYSIS: Tyendinaga Mohawk Defense of the Land:
“We followed the Kaianereh’ko:wa, Great Law of Peace”
– the OPP used “helter-skelter” bullying tactics
ANALYSIS: Tyendinaga Mohawk Defense of the Land:
“We followed the Kaianereh’ko:wa, Great Law of Peace”
– the OPP used “helter-skelter” bullying tactics
MNN. April 22, 2008. Congratulations! Mohawks of
Tyendinaga! You made the colonial apparatus show
their true colors! We stopped the construction and
no one got hurt. We wouldn’t have the evidence if we
hadn’t stood up to colonial lawlessness. Nothing’s
changed since Ipperwash! It might even have gotten
worse. The Mohawks used traditional guerilla tactics.
We’re there! Then we’re not there! The OPP had no
one to hit. So they left.
The vigilante state of Canada says it has an urgent
need to settle native claims. We don’t see what there
is to settle. It’s our land and it’s our resources. What
they really mean is they want to unsettle things. They
want to expand the colonial land grab in their favor.
These greedy gobblers just won’t be satisfied until
they’ve dispatched us all and stole the last square
inch of our land.
Tyendinaga is on the Bay of Quinte between
Kingston and Belleville along the TransCanada
Highway 401 The issue is the illegal squatting on
the Culbertson Tract of 1832 that guaranteed the
Mohawks would never be molested or interfered
with. Since 1832 squatting, developing and
contamination has not stopped. We want this to
stop.
We can’t stand to see how they continue to
celebrate and rejoice in their theft and attempted
bondage of Ongwehonwe people with a depiction
of an “Indian” tied up on their Parliament Building
in Ottawa .
This whole colonial scenario is to implement the
“final solution”. We are the last hold outs who
stand in their way. It’s a “life and death” drama
being played out all over the world on us.
Mouthy lawyers call us “crazy people”, like Chris
Reid, the ambulance chaser for the Ardoch Lake
“No”gonquins, likes to say. He’s part of a whole
industry of ambulance chasers who ,make a big
living off our backs. They’re always there with
their hands out, doing the “splitt’ist” and “divide
and rule” things.
The colonial government’s position was
revealed for all to see. Band Council Chief, R.
Don Maracle, sided with his colonial masters
and the squatters. He condemned our blockade
and disregarded our views on the illegal
occupation of our land. The real estate agent
and developer, Emile Nibourg, has no permits
or rights to build. He started the construction
anyway, which is the provocation. Despite the
Supreme Court of Canada ’s insistence on the
importance of bonafide consultation with
Indigenous people, this obviously carries no
weight with these people or with the Ontario
Provincial Police. They went ahead. There
was no negotiation. We resisted his
lawlessness. Then band chief R. Don said he
is for negotiation or “accommodation”. He’s
throwing the rock at us and then running off to
hide. Band chief R. Don made it public that,
“I’m the boss and the only one to sit at the
negotiating table and eat with the colonial
representatives to work out a deal”.
R. Don, it’s our land. It took a long time for
Canadian men to accept this, but no mean
no! if you go ahead anyway, it’s rape. The
same principle applies here. We said no.
We mean no. The cops should be arresting
these cultural rapists.
The OPP tried to enforce its “three monkeys”
protocol: we can’t hear you, see you or talk to
you. The regional negotiation unit Aboriginal
Response Team ART never showed up to talk
to us. They just used “might” to deal with the
legitimate rights of a sovereign people.
It’s the “helter-skelter” approach. The public
is seeing their politicians go against the spirit
of the law to get what they want. The Mohawks
of Tyendinaga and the people of Six Nations
have all the paper work on our rights. Canada
and Ontario ain’t got no evidence! In other words,
it’s desperation time! That must be why they are
behaving so irrationally. They are under the
delusion that their world will fall apart if they have
to start obeying the law. When a rat gets backed
into a corner, it bears its teeth. I guess these rats
bear their teeth even when the corner is
delusional.
We don’t want our people to get ambushed.
We need to link with our supporters. We need to
be cautious. We have to defend our land. If they
retreat, we retreat If they come back, we return.
Phil Fontaine of the “Assembly of Colonized First
Nations” signed protocols with the RCMP, OPP
and SQ last year to come down hard on us if we
step out of his line. We don’t recognize Phil. Is he
setting us up for his “Phil Fontaine Day of handing
out pamphlets” on May 29th? Whatever he signed
is between him and them. Why don’t we say, “Phil,
this is the law. This is our stand. We are calling on
everybody, including you, to follow the rule of law
and not violate it for expedience or profit for you”.
The Iroquois Caucus who call themselves the
“Iroquois Confederacy” were set up by Indian
Affairs, not by the clan mothers. They did not
come forward and make a statement one way or
another. They ran and hid in the skirt of Indian
Affairs.
On Tuesday, April 22nd, the SWAT Team in full
gear was quickly dispatched to Tyendinaga. They
had “ghost cars”, marked and unmarked” cars
everywhere. The government that can’t afford to
make sure that the people they have displaced
have clean drinking water and healthy food spared
no expense on arms to suppress any indigenous
assertion of our rights. There is a large colonial
“war chest” to shut us up for speaking against
corporate and government corruption. Ontario
expected the police to make all the faschist
decisions for them.
The Ontario Provincial Police have become the
private army of the predator capitalist colonial
apparatus that is trying to enforce its will on us.
We don’t want development so they think we’re
in their way. When we deny them the right to
desecrate the environment, they see lost
opportunity. They don’t want the land and
resource owners to sit at any table. We’re too
environmentally and morally aware.
The cops brought in agent provocateurs who
got them to organize rowdy activities so they
could claim their “peacekeeping” services were
needed. They incited the non-native citizens
against us, urging them to demonstrate racist
animosity towards us. If left to themselves, most
of these people would get along with us just fine.
Our supporters in these non-native communities
have told us they’re scared to help us. They’re
scared to express their support for our rights.
The native ministries in the colonial
governments need to be contacted to find out
who ordered this attack on us. We defended
the rule of law and the norms for resolving
political differences. They are trying to
“hooliganize” everything. It’s police action
provoking a reaction in the form of a
confrontation. We always try to resolve this
peacefully as it is on native land.
In short, we resisted. It was perilous. We
retreated. They retreated. We put out our
position non-offensively. The government
refused to listen and refused to talk to us.
They catered to a privileged class of greedy
opportunists who pollute the air, land and
waters and don’t take anyone’s wants or
needs but their own into account.
By defending our rights, we are defending
everybody’s rights. It’s all in defiance of
European and Indigenous enlightenment to
stop the rule of law from functioning.
Police chief Ron Maracle was the go-
between. He frantically brought a letter
to us. “You have to take down the
roadblocks”, he inarticulately told us. He’s
the one who wants a $1.9 million cop shop
on the territory for 4 cops! We have to
watch out for these “go between” guys
who don’t want to bridge the gap of
understanding but MNN. April 22, 2008. Congratulations! Mohawks of
Tyendinaga! You made the colonial apparatus show
their true colors! We stopped the construction and
no one got hurt. We wouldn’t have the evidence if we
hadn’t stood up to colonial lawlessness. Nothing’s
changed since Ipperwash! It might even have gotten
worse. The Mohawks used traditional guerilla tactics.
We’re there! Then we’re not there! The OPP had no
one to hit. So they left.
The vigilante state of Canada says it has an urgent
need to settle native claims. We don’t see what there
is to settle. It’s our land and it’s our resources. What
they really mean is they want to unsettle things. They
want to expand the colonial land grab in their favor.
These greedy gobblers just won’t be satisfied until
they’ve dispatched us all and stole the last square
inch of our land.
Tyendinaga is on the Bay of Quinte between
Kingston and Belleville along the TransCanada
Highway 401 The issue is the illegal squatting on
the Culbertson Tract of 1832 that guaranteed the
Mohawks would never be molested or interfered
with. Since 1832 squatting, developing and
contamination has not stopped. We want this to
stop.
We can’t stand to see how they continue to
celebrate and rejoice in their theft and attempted
bondage of Ongwehonwe people with a depiction
of an “Indian” tied up on their Parliament Building
in Ottawa .
This whole colonial scenario is to implement the
“final solution”. We are the last hold outs who
stand in their way. It’s a “life and death” drama
being played out all over the world on us.
Mouthy lawyers call us “crazy people”, like Chris
Reid, the ambulance chaser for the Ardoch Lake
“No”gonquins, likes to say. He’s part of a whole
industry of ambulance chasers who ,make a big
living off our backs. They’re always there with
their hands out, doing the “splitt’ist” and “divide
and rule” things.
The colonial government’s position was
revealed for all to see. Band Council Chief, R.
Don Maracle, sided with his colonial masters
and the squatters. He condemned our blockade
and disregarded our views on the illegal
occupation of our land. The real estate agent
and developer, Emile Nibourg, has no permits
or rights to build. He started the construction
anyway, which is the provocation. Despite the
Supreme Court of Canada ’s insistence on the
importance of bonafide consultation with
Indigenous people, this obviously carries no
weight with these people or with the Ontario
Provincial Police. They went ahead. There
was no negotiation. We resisted his
lawlessness. Then band chief R. Don said he
is for negotiation or “accommodation”. He’s
throwing the rock at us and then running off to
hide. Band chief R. Don made it public that,
“I’m the boss and the only one to sit at the
negotiating table and eat with the colonial
representatives to work out a deal”.
R. Don, it’s our land. It took a long time for
Canadian men to accept this, but no mean
no! if you go ahead anyway, it’s rape. The
same principle applies here. We said no.
We mean no. The cops should be arresting
these cultural rapists.
The OPP tried to enforce its “three monkeys”
protocol: we can’t hear you, see you or talk to
you. The regional negotiation unit Aboriginal
Response Team ART never showed up to talk
to us. They just used “might” to deal with the
legitimate rights of a sovereign people.
It’s the “helter-skelter” approach. The public
is seeing their politicians go against the spirit
of the law to get what they want. The Mohawks
of Tyendinaga and the people of Six Nations
have all the paper work on our rights. Canada
and Ontario ain’t got no evidence! In other words,
it’s desperation time! That must be why they are
behaving so irrationally. They are under the
delusion that their world will fall apart if they have
to start obeying the law. When a rat gets backed
into a corner, it bears its teeth. I guess these rats
bear their teeth even when the corner is
delusional.
We don’t want our people to get ambushed.
We need to link with our supporters. We need to
be cautious. We have to defend our land. If they
retreat, we retreat If they come back, we return.
Phil Fontaine of the “Assembly of Colonized First
Nations” signed protocols with the RCMP, OPP
and SQ last year to come down hard on us if we
step out of his line. We don’t recognize Phil. Is he
setting us up for his “Phil Fontaine Day of handing
out pamphlets” on May 29th? Whatever he signed
is between him and them. Why don’t we say, “Phil,
this is the law. This is our stand. We are calling on
everybody, including you, to follow the rule of law
and not violate it for expedience or profit for you”.
The Iroquois Caucus who call themselves the
“Iroquois Confederacy” were set up by Indian
Affairs, not by the clan mothers. They did not
come forward and make a statement one way or
another. They ran and hid in the skirt of Indian
Affairs.
On Tuesday, April 22nd, the SWAT Team in full
gear was quickly dispatched to Tyendinaga. They
had “ghost cars”, marked and unmarked” cars
everywhere. The government that can’t afford to
make sure that the people they have displaced
have clean drinking water and healthy food spared
no expense on arms to suppress any indigenous
assertion of our rights. There is a large colonial
“war chest” to shut us up for speaking against
corporate and government corruption. Ontario
expected the police to make all the faschist
decisions for them.
The Ontario Provincial Police have become the
private army of the predator capitalist colonial
apparatus that is trying to enforce its will on us.
We don’t want development so they think we’re
in their way. When we deny them the right to
desecrate the environment, they see lost
opportunity. They don’t want the land and
resource owners to sit at any table. We’re too
environmentally and morally aware.
The cops brought in agent provocateurs who
got them to organize rowdy activities so they
could claim their “peacekeeping” services were
needed. They incited the non-native citizens
against us, urging them to demonstrate racist
animosity towards us. If left to themselves, most
of these people would get along with us just fine.
Our supporters in these non-native communities
have told us they’re scared to help us. They’re
scared to express their support for our rights.
The native ministries in the colonial
governments need to be contacted to find out
who ordered this attack on us. We defended
the rule of law and the norms for resolving
political differences. They are trying to
“hooliganize” everything. It’s police action
provoking a reaction in the form of a
confrontation. We always try to resolve this
peacefully as it is on native land.
In short, we resisted. It was perilous. We
retreated. They retreated. We put out our
position non-offensively. The government
refused to listen and refused to talk to us.
They catered to a privileged class of greedy
opportunists who pollute the air, land and
waters and don’t take anyone’s wants or
needs but their own into account.
By defending our rights, we are defending
everybody’s rights. It’s all in defiance of
European and Indigenous enlightenment to
stop the rule of law from functioning.
Police chief Ron Maracle was the go-
between. He frantically brought a letter
to us. “You have to take down the
roadblocks”, he inarticulately told us. He’s
the one who wants a $1.9 million cop shop
on the territory for 4 cops! We have to
watch out for these “go between” guys
who don’t want to bridge the gap of
understanding but want to deliver us
to their higher ups
Wouldn’t it make more sense to use this
money to improve the water and remove
the mould in the houses? Once the
desperate and life threatening health
problems have been solved, there are
many other things a community would
rather build than a cop shop. Like a
school! How about a Kaianereh’ko:wa
law school so everybody can learn what
we’re about instead of hitting us. Canada
is, after all, required under international
law to teach its citizens our points of view.
Ontario must have spent over $1 million
to spring the 400 or more SWAT Team
and other cops from Toronto and
elsewhere. There were cruisers,
ambulances, fire trucks, cameras and
cube trucks lined right down the road
for miles. Big police boats putt putted
in the Bay. They got out all their fancy
military toys. Every angle was covered.
There will be a solidarity march on
Wednesday, April 23rd, at 8:00 am in
Kahnawake, on Route 138. For information
call Roxanne at 450-638-8683.
Watch for their next step: is it going to the
same old, same old? Jails, injunctions
and fines? Or are they going to take a
deep breath and try something different –
like becoming law abiding and living up
to their obligations to keep the peace and
respect our nation-to-nation relationship?
This is the law! The Bay of Quinte is a
beautiful area and we want to keep it that
way.
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Rotiskenekete 613-849-1314 –
613-827-4991 email
“We followed the Kaianereh’ko:wa, Great Law of Peace”
– the OPP used “helter-skelter” bullying tactics
MNN. April 22, 2008. Congratulations! Mohawks of
Tyendinaga! You made the colonial apparatus show
their true colors! We stopped the construction and
no one got hurt. We wouldn’t have the evidence if we
hadn’t stood up to colonial lawlessness. Nothing’s
changed since Ipperwash! It might even have gotten
worse. The Mohawks used traditional guerilla tactics.
We’re there! Then we’re not there! The OPP had no
one to hit. So they left.
The vigilante state of Canada says it has an urgent
need to settle native claims. We don’t see what there
is to settle. It’s our land and it’s our resources. What
they really mean is they want to unsettle things. They
want to expand the colonial land grab in their favor.
These greedy gobblers just won’t be satisfied until
they’ve dispatched us all and stole the last square
inch of our land.
Tyendinaga is on the Bay of Quinte between
Kingston and Belleville along the TransCanada
Highway 401 The issue is the illegal squatting on
the Culbertson Tract of 1832 that guaranteed the
Mohawks would never be molested or interfered
with. Since 1832 squatting, developing and
contamination has not stopped. We want this to
stop.
We can’t stand to see how they continue to
celebrate and rejoice in their theft and attempted
bondage of Ongwehonwe people with a depiction
of an “Indian” tied up on their Parliament Building
in Ottawa .
This whole colonial scenario is to implement the
“final solution”. We are the last hold outs who
stand in their way. It’s a “life and death” drama
being played out all over the world on us.
Mouthy lawyers call us “crazy people”, like Chris
Reid, the ambulance chaser for the Ardoch Lake
“No”gonquins, likes to say. He’s part of a whole
industry of ambulance chasers who ,make a big
living off our backs. They’re always there with
their hands out, doing the “splitt’ist” and “divide
and rule” things.
The colonial government’s position was
revealed for all to see. Band Council Chief, R.
Don Maracle, sided with his colonial masters
and the squatters. He condemned our blockade
and disregarded our views on the illegal
occupation of our land. The real estate agent
and developer, Emile Nibourg, has no permits
or rights to build. He started the construction
anyway, which is the provocation. Despite the
Supreme Court of Canada ’s insistence on the
importance of bonafide consultation with
Indigenous people, this obviously carries no
weight with these people or with the Ontario
Provincial Police. They went ahead. There
was no negotiation. We resisted his
lawlessness. Then band chief R. Don said he
is for negotiation or “accommodation”. He’s
throwing the rock at us and then running off to
hide. Band chief R. Don made it public that,
“I’m the boss and the only one to sit at the
negotiating table and eat with the colonial
representatives to work out a deal”.
R. Don, it’s our land. It took a long time for
Canadian men to accept this, but no mean
no! if you go ahead anyway, it’s rape. The
same principle applies here. We said no.
We mean no. The cops should be arresting
these cultural rapists.
The OPP tried to enforce its “three monkeys”
protocol: we can’t hear you, see you or talk to
you. The regional negotiation unit Aboriginal
Response Team ART never showed up to talk
to us. They just used “might” to deal with the
legitimate rights of a sovereign people.
It’s the “helter-skelter” approach. The public
is seeing their politicians go against the spirit
of the law to get what they want. The Mohawks
of Tyendinaga and the people of Six Nations
have all the paper work on our rights. Canada
and Ontario ain’t got no evidence! In other words,
it’s desperation time! That must be why they are
behaving so irrationally. They are under the
delusion that their world will fall apart if they have
to start obeying the law. When a rat gets backed
into a corner, it bears its teeth. I guess these rats
bear their teeth even when the corner is
delusional.
We don’t want our people to get ambushed.
We need to link with our supporters. We need to
be cautious. We have to defend our land. If they
retreat, we retreat If they come back, we return.
Phil Fontaine of the “Assembly of Colonized First
Nations” signed protocols with the RCMP, OPP
and SQ last year to come down hard on us if we
step out of his line. We don’t recognize Phil. Is he
setting us up for his “Phil Fontaine Day of handing
out pamphlets” on May 29th? Whatever he signed
is between him and them. Why don’t we say, “Phil,
this is the law. This is our stand. We are calling on
everybody, including you, to follow the rule of law
and not violate it for expedience or profit for you”.
The Iroquois Caucus who call themselves the
“Iroquois Confederacy” were set up by Indian
Affairs, not by the clan mothers. They did not
come forward and make a statement one way or
another. They ran and hid in the skirt of Indian
Affairs.
On Tuesday, April 22nd, the SWAT Team in full
gear was quickly dispatched to Tyendinaga. They
had “ghost cars”, marked and unmarked” cars
everywhere. The government that can’t afford to
make sure that the people they have displaced
have clean drinking water and healthy food spared
no expense on arms to suppress any indigenous
assertion of our rights. There is a large colonial
“war chest” to shut us up for speaking against
corporate and government corruption. Ontario
expected the police to make all the faschist
decisions for them.
The Ontario Provincial Police have become the
private army of the predator capitalist colonial
apparatus that is trying to enforce its will on us.
We don’t want development so they think we’re
in their way. When we deny them the right to
desecrate the environment, they see lost
opportunity. They don’t want the land and
resource owners to sit at any table. We’re too
environmentally and morally aware.
The cops brought in agent provocateurs who
got them to organize rowdy activities so they
could claim their “peacekeeping” services were
needed. They incited the non-native citizens
against us, urging them to demonstrate racist
animosity towards us. If left to themselves, most
of these people would get along with us just fine.
Our supporters in these non-native communities
have told us they’re scared to help us. They’re
scared to express their support for our rights.
The native ministries in the colonial
governments need to be contacted to find out
who ordered this attack on us. We defended
the rule of law and the norms for resolving
political differences. They are trying to
“hooliganize” everything. It’s police action
provoking a reaction in the form of a
confrontation. We always try to resolve this
peacefully as it is on native land.
In short, we resisted. It was perilous. We
retreated. They retreated. We put out our
position non-offensively. The government
refused to listen and refused to talk to us.
They catered to a privileged class of greedy
opportunists who pollute the air, land and
waters and don’t take anyone’s wants or
needs but their own into account.
By defending our rights, we are defending
everybody’s rights. It’s all in defiance of
European and Indigenous enlightenment to
stop the rule of law from functioning.
Police chief Ron Maracle was the go-
between. He frantically brought a letter
to us. “You have to take down the
roadblocks”, he inarticulately told us. He’s
the one who wants a $1.9 million cop shop
on the territory for 4 cops! We have to
watch out for these “go between” guys
who don’t want to bridge the gap of
understanding but MNN. April 22, 2008. Congratulations! Mohawks of
Tyendinaga! You made the colonial apparatus show
their true colors! We stopped the construction and
no one got hurt. We wouldn’t have the evidence if we
hadn’t stood up to colonial lawlessness. Nothing’s
changed since Ipperwash! It might even have gotten
worse. The Mohawks used traditional guerilla tactics.
We’re there! Then we’re not there! The OPP had no
one to hit. So they left.
The vigilante state of Canada says it has an urgent
need to settle native claims. We don’t see what there
is to settle. It’s our land and it’s our resources. What
they really mean is they want to unsettle things. They
want to expand the colonial land grab in their favor.
These greedy gobblers just won’t be satisfied until
they’ve dispatched us all and stole the last square
inch of our land.
Tyendinaga is on the Bay of Quinte between
Kingston and Belleville along the TransCanada
Highway 401 The issue is the illegal squatting on
the Culbertson Tract of 1832 that guaranteed the
Mohawks would never be molested or interfered
with. Since 1832 squatting, developing and
contamination has not stopped. We want this to
stop.
We can’t stand to see how they continue to
celebrate and rejoice in their theft and attempted
bondage of Ongwehonwe people with a depiction
of an “Indian” tied up on their Parliament Building
in Ottawa .
This whole colonial scenario is to implement the
“final solution”. We are the last hold outs who
stand in their way. It’s a “life and death” drama
being played out all over the world on us.
Mouthy lawyers call us “crazy people”, like Chris
Reid, the ambulance chaser for the Ardoch Lake
“No”gonquins, likes to say. He’s part of a whole
industry of ambulance chasers who ,make a big
living off our backs. They’re always there with
their hands out, doing the “splitt’ist” and “divide
and rule” things.
The colonial government’s position was
revealed for all to see. Band Council Chief, R.
Don Maracle, sided with his colonial masters
and the squatters. He condemned our blockade
and disregarded our views on the illegal
occupation of our land. The real estate agent
and developer, Emile Nibourg, has no permits
or rights to build. He started the construction
anyway, which is the provocation. Despite the
Supreme Court of Canada ’s insistence on the
importance of bonafide consultation with
Indigenous people, this obviously carries no
weight with these people or with the Ontario
Provincial Police. They went ahead. There
was no negotiation. We resisted his
lawlessness. Then band chief R. Don said he
is for negotiation or “accommodation”. He’s
throwing the rock at us and then running off to
hide. Band chief R. Don made it public that,
“I’m the boss and the only one to sit at the
negotiating table and eat with the colonial
representatives to work out a deal”.
R. Don, it’s our land. It took a long time for
Canadian men to accept this, but no mean
no! if you go ahead anyway, it’s rape. The
same principle applies here. We said no.
We mean no. The cops should be arresting
these cultural rapists.
The OPP tried to enforce its “three monkeys”
protocol: we can’t hear you, see you or talk to
you. The regional negotiation unit Aboriginal
Response Team ART never showed up to talk
to us. They just used “might” to deal with the
legitimate rights of a sovereign people.
It’s the “helter-skelter” approach. The public
is seeing their politicians go against the spirit
of the law to get what they want. The Mohawks
of Tyendinaga and the people of Six Nations
have all the paper work on our rights. Canada
and Ontario ain’t got no evidence! In other words,
it’s desperation time! That must be why they are
behaving so irrationally. They are under the
delusion that their world will fall apart if they have
to start obeying the law. When a rat gets backed
into a corner, it bears its teeth. I guess these rats
bear their teeth even when the corner is
delusional.
We don’t want our people to get ambushed.
We need to link with our supporters. We need to
be cautious. We have to defend our land. If they
retreat, we retreat If they come back, we return.
Phil Fontaine of the “Assembly of Colonized First
Nations” signed protocols with the RCMP, OPP
and SQ last year to come down hard on us if we
step out of his line. We don’t recognize Phil. Is he
setting us up for his “Phil Fontaine Day of handing
out pamphlets” on May 29th? Whatever he signed
is between him and them. Why don’t we say, “Phil,
this is the law. This is our stand. We are calling on
everybody, including you, to follow the rule of law
and not violate it for expedience or profit for you”.
The Iroquois Caucus who call themselves the
“Iroquois Confederacy” were set up by Indian
Affairs, not by the clan mothers. They did not
come forward and make a statement one way or
another. They ran and hid in the skirt of Indian
Affairs.
On Tuesday, April 22nd, the SWAT Team in full
gear was quickly dispatched to Tyendinaga. They
had “ghost cars”, marked and unmarked” cars
everywhere. The government that can’t afford to
make sure that the people they have displaced
have clean drinking water and healthy food spared
no expense on arms to suppress any indigenous
assertion of our rights. There is a large colonial
“war chest” to shut us up for speaking against
corporate and government corruption. Ontario
expected the police to make all the faschist
decisions for them.
The Ontario Provincial Police have become the
private army of the predator capitalist colonial
apparatus that is trying to enforce its will on us.
We don’t want development so they think we’re
in their way. When we deny them the right to
desecrate the environment, they see lost
opportunity. They don’t want the land and
resource owners to sit at any table. We’re too
environmentally and morally aware.
The cops brought in agent provocateurs who
got them to organize rowdy activities so they
could claim their “peacekeeping” services were
needed. They incited the non-native citizens
against us, urging them to demonstrate racist
animosity towards us. If left to themselves, most
of these people would get along with us just fine.
Our supporters in these non-native communities
have told us they’re scared to help us. They’re
scared to express their support for our rights.
The native ministries in the colonial
governments need to be contacted to find out
who ordered this attack on us. We defended
the rule of law and the norms for resolving
political differences. They are trying to
“hooliganize” everything. It’s police action
provoking a reaction in the form of a
confrontation. We always try to resolve this
peacefully as it is on native land.
In short, we resisted. It was perilous. We
retreated. They retreated. We put out our
position non-offensively. The government
refused to listen and refused to talk to us.
They catered to a privileged class of greedy
opportunists who pollute the air, land and
waters and don’t take anyone’s wants or
needs but their own into account.
By defending our rights, we are defending
everybody’s rights. It’s all in defiance of
European and Indigenous enlightenment to
stop the rule of law from functioning.
Police chief Ron Maracle was the go-
between. He frantically brought a letter
to us. “You have to take down the
roadblocks”, he inarticulately told us. He’s
the one who wants a $1.9 million cop shop
on the territory for 4 cops! We have to
watch out for these “go between” guys
who don’t want to bridge the gap of
understanding but want to deliver us
to their higher ups
Wouldn’t it make more sense to use this
money to improve the water and remove
the mould in the houses? Once the
desperate and life threatening health
problems have been solved, there are
many other things a community would
rather build than a cop shop. Like a
school! How about a Kaianereh’ko:wa
law school so everybody can learn what
we’re about instead of hitting us. Canada
is, after all, required under international
law to teach its citizens our points of view.
Ontario must have spent over $1 million
to spring the 400 or more SWAT Team
and other cops from Toronto and
elsewhere. There were cruisers,
ambulances, fire trucks, cameras and
cube trucks lined right down the road
for miles. Big police boats putt putted
in the Bay. They got out all their fancy
military toys. Every angle was covered.
There will be a solidarity march on
Wednesday, April 23rd, at 8:00 am in
Kahnawake, on Route 138. For information
call Roxanne at 450-638-8683.
Watch for their next step: is it going to the
same old, same old? Jails, injunctions
and fines? Or are they going to take a
deep breath and try something different –
like becoming law abiding and living up
to their obligations to keep the peace and
respect our nation-to-nation relationship?
This is the law! The Bay of Quinte is a
beautiful area and we want to keep it that
way.
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Rotiskenekete 613-849-1314 –
613-827-4991 email
OPP Eastern Regional Headquarters
613-284-4500 fax 613-284-4597
lg.beechey chief supt Commander,
Eastern Region, Smiths Falls .
MBQ R. Don Maracle, 613-396-3089,
CELL 613-391-9249
613-284-4500 fax 613-284-4597
lg.beechey chief supt Commander,
Eastern Region, Smiths Falls .
MBQ R. Don Maracle, 613-396-3089,
CELL 613-391-9249
613-396-3424 ext. 106 info@mbq-tmt. org
Jan Hill 613-396-6742 Emile Nibourg
613-561-0984 fax 613-544-7868
613-561-0984 fax 613-544-7868
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