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Posted by Tyson Yunkaporta Apr 15, 2007 |
We are concerned about the 'co-incidental' release of Canada's National Defense Training Manual for the military. They decreed that all 'first nations' who defend our homelands or our sovereignty would be classed as “terrorists” and “insurgents”. Insurgency is defined as "the actions of a minority within a state who are intent on forcing political change by a mixture of subversion and propaganda and military pressure to persuade or intimidate a broad mass of people to accept such a change". This is exactly what the colonists did to us in 1924 when violent armed RCMP invaded the Haudenosaunee to put in the illegal band council government.
Then on April 20, 2006, the colonizers tried to sneak onto our reclaimed land at Six Nations we call “Kanonhstaton” and attacked us. We defended ourselves.
The Crown continues to tell us they have valid surrenders of our land. That's not what their documents say. Canada is "making a claim" to our lands. Canada can't give us proof of its claim or what they did with our monies they supposedly put into trust for us. That's because they didn’t.
We refuse to discuss the land issues according to colonial 'Canadian law'. Their Justice Department opinion is not relevant. It's a nation-to-nation issue.
We continue meeting with the Crown to watch them scramble around trying to dig up phony proof. We are looking at the other thousands of acres that the colonists swindled from us. The Six Nations band councilors have been doing “information sessions” on each parcel to see which will be dealt with next.
We are becoming more involved in developing means on how we are going to assert our jurisdiction on our lands. The Crown has to stop issuing illegal permits to develop lands that are in dispute. The municipalities and developers have no business talking to the government imposed band council. They have to come to the people through our spokespeople, the Confederacy Chiefs.
We intend to protect the Grand River tract and the future of our people. The Federal and Ontario governments keep pushing illegal development on our land. Our priority is protecting the environment.
Other indigenous people on Turtle Island should be wary of these developers. The colonists must answer to the people. We will decide what kinds of development will go on our homelands and whether they will protect the environment.
We have the obligation to make decisions for the future generations. All the leases, with the exception of blocks 1-4, have expired. Rent is way past due. It’s either time to pay up, renew the lease, or move.