Women Title holders of Six Nations Confederacy charge Canada with violating Two Row Wampum, Silver Covenant Chain and International Law. By Kahentinetha Horn.
By Kahentinetha Horn
THE WOMEN ARE THE TITLE HOLDERS of the land of Turtle Island as recalled by the Kaianereh’ko:wa, constitution of the Rotinonhsonni:onwe
In a Six Nations meeting with the Mississauga on May 22, 1784, Pokquan the Mississauga Speaker told the British that:
“We have considered your request Father.We the Mississauga are not the owners of all that Land laying between the three Lakes, but we have agreed and are willing to transfer our right of Soil & property to the King our Father...”
In 1784 the British were aware that the Mississauga had no interest in the land now known as the “City of Toronto”.“Toronto” is a Mohawk name.“Ontario” is also a Mohawk name.So is “Canada”.In 1787 this Purchase of Toronto by the British was found to be fraudulent because it is Six Nations land and the Mississauga admitted to not owning it.The British got the Mississauga to sign a blank agreement and paid them 10 shillings for 392 square miles of Six Nations Land.After the signing the British inserted the dimensions making it larger than agreed upon.Throughout the Mississauga knew they could not sell land that belongs to the Six Nations.
According to the Kaianereh’ko:wa Joseph Brant, who witnessed this theft, had no position with the Iroquois Confederacy.He was appointed as a Pine Tree Chief by the Confederacy to act as a translator.It was a ceremonial position without any power.Joseph Brant was an officer in the British army and a British subject, not a Mohawk of the Confederacy.He signed as a British subject to sell land to his colonial friends.All these alienations by Joseph Brant are illegal.Our lands cannot be alienated.Any transactions of any kind to do with land have to be sanctioned by all the nations of the Confederacy at a Grand Council meeting.This has always been our law and it is consistent with modern international law as affirmed by International court of Justice in the Western Sahara case.
No nation legitimizes foreigners to sell their land.The British would not themselves nor let Germany put up England for sale on the world market!Neither does France or Japan or China!Whenever a peoples’ homeland is threatened by occupation or other means, the Indigenous people of those lands take it as an act of aggression and an act of war.
