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For Immediate Release
Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake - (Onerahtóhkha/April 20, 2006) On April 18th, 2006, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council at Grand River announced that the Governments of Canada and Ontario have pulled out of talks concerning the recent land repossession at Caledonia, ON.
With talks abruptly ending in this manner, it became apparent that the Government of Canada was not interested in seeking a peaceful resolve to this issue and have elected a violent imposition of their will.
At approximately 4:30am, the Ontario Provincial Police launched a violent attack upon occupants of the repossessed Haudenosaunee territory at Caledonia. The occupants there were unarmed and peaceful. Upon learning of this violent attack, the Rotisken'rakéhte of Kahnawake mobilized to discuss security measures to prevent any further violence in Caledonia and Grand River.
It was resolved that the Rotisken'rakéhte at Kahnawake shall establish defensive vigils at each entry point within our territory in support of our brothers and sisters at Caledonia. We wish to make clear that this is strictly a defensive measure to ensure that no further violence is initiated by the Governments of Canada and Ontario upon our people.
The Rotisken'rakéhte at Kahnawake urge the Governments of Canada and Ontario to stop any further plans to invade our territories. Furthermore, we insist on the Government of Canada to return to talks with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council to resolve this issue in a peaceful manner.
For more information, please contact the Mohawk Nation Office; Secretariat for the People of the Longhouse at 450.632.7639.
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Hey to all of our friends and allies from Grand River Territory.
We upheld the law and we're standing proud. this morning 15 people were arrested when the police moved in about 4:30 am. they had pepper sprayed some of the men and women, and forcibly removed our people from the site, including some of the non-native supporters that have been on the site with us, some for weeks. My husband and I weren't on the site at the time, but one of the women from the camp came and told us that the police had moved in and so we immediately headed back down. the people had congregated at the back gate and when we arrived on the scene there were police around each corner of our lands, probably about 200 total.
the people were still on the lands and had never completely left. we continued to gather and the numbers continued to grow. the people continued to tell the police to leave, women & men elders & youth, we stood together in unity.
When the police continued to resist our peaceful request to leave our territory, the caledonia by-pass was closed down, trafffic was backing up in both directions, and only then did they realize that our people were not small in numbers, and perhaps they had underestimated the support that we did have. we had hundreds of Six Nations people gathered at the site within the hour, and had the police surrounded at the back gate; and finally, the police agreed to withdraw.
we marched them off of the back gate, many women linking arms together walking the police off our land followed by the rest, we then went to the corner gate, again, marching them off of the lands. the police continued to file out of the lands onto hwy 6 in front of the disputed land area. the people then gathered to the front gate and continued to uphold our Kaierenekowah, removing the police from the site.
I attended toward the back of the property to inform the remaining officers on site that they were pulling out and asked them to leave. A female officer informed me that i was in violation of a court injunction and that if i didn't leave the property i would be arrested. i informed her that SHE was in violation of the Supreme Law of the Land, our Kairenekowah, and in violation of international law and that she should leave.
i again informed them that their officers were leaving the site and that they should leave. She again told me that if I didn't leave that I would be arrested, I told her again that she should leave, at which point she said, that's it mam your under arrest and tried to grab ahold of me. She was unable to get me down, at which point about 4 other male officers came to her assistance wrestling me to the ground. I had hollered for help and at that point several of our people had headed in my direction, they began to knee or kick me in my left thigh, I did try to defend myself and at one point kicked an officer square in the chest to get him away from me (sorry to my friends who asked me not to fight, but my instincts kicked in and my reaction was immediate to defend myself) my eldest son tried to pull the police off of me and he was shot in the back with a tazer gun, but as soon as several others arrived on the scence, the police immediately withdrew off of me, people helped me and my son over to a vehicle where they pulled the darts out of his back.
The police then got into their vehicles and on their way out I seen the female officer in the middle of the van with a big gun in her hands obviously ready to use it. Everyone followed their vans to the front gate and the people walked the opp straight down argyle street south of the main gate and when they were far enough away, we pulled in a transport truck and shut the road down. We then blocked the road just north of the 6th line leading into our community.
The OPP have been continuosly reporting that they did not use any weapons other than pepper spray, that our people were armed etc., but when they moved in, the people were resting, some of them awakened from sleep and told to move out. We maintain that we did not break the Peace, the opp crossed the line and came into our lands fully packed with guns and other weapons with the intent to use them. The situation was very tense but as I have told many many reporters today during interviews, "we upheld the Law that the Creator gave to us and are standing strong in front of Creation, honouring our Creator, our responsiblities according to the Kaierenekowah and Our Spirits and our hearts swelled with Pride.
We continue to keep the Peace, we have many supporters from many territories coming in to our aid and we want to send a Big Nya Weh to all of you, who, while you might not be here physically, all of the efforts through e-mails, letters etc., the food and other donations that you have been bringing in have touched our hearts tremendously, and through your support, you have helped in keeping that spirit alive and in the forefront. will talk to you soon. our prayers are with all of you tonight as well.
Hazel.
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4:30 AM - SUNDAY MORNING - POLICE ATTACK SIX NATIONS AGAIN
FRIDAY ATTEMPT WAS NOT A FALSE ALARM. SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED AND SOME CELLS WERE JAMMED. URGENT CALL. POLICE ATTACK SIX NATIONS AGAIN. ALL BROTHERS, SISTER, FRIENDS AND ALLIES PLEASE GET OVER THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. BRING FACE COVERING. RAIN GEAR AND BOOTS. GET THE WORD OUT IF YOUR CELL IS WORKING. PHONE SOMEBODY THERE TO GET INFORMATION. REMEMBER MANY PHONES AND EMAILS ARE NOW BLOCKED. NEED PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY TO STAND BY US. MAKE WHATEVER NOISE YOU CAN IN YOUR AREA SO IT IS HEARD RIGHT ACROSS THE LAND. TRIED CALLING CELLS. CAN'T GET THROUGH. STAND WITH US. GIVE INFORMATION.
SUNDAY MORNING FALSE ALARM TACTIC AT SIX NATIONS - DETAILS TO FOLLOW
False Alarm has been confirmed. Investigating details and will send them immediately. Stay tuned. Kahentinetha
SIX NATIONS UPDATE - HOW TO SURVIVE A SEIGE
MNN. April 23, 2006. The source of the false alarm was discovered. Someone, in this case, a native, seems to have instigated another false alarm. This person is acting as a tool to disrupt all attempts to achieve a peaceful solution. The deliberate attempt to disturb people's sleep and make us live in constant fear is a familiar tactic. We saw it before at the seige of Kanehsatake/Oka in 1990. Now that Six Nations/Caledonia is under seige, it is worth remembering what was done to us then.
The master mind brought in by the Canadian government was a Col. Musgrave. We saw his picture in the papers. This little Eichmann even had a little mustache like Hitler. He had sharpened his claws by becoming Britain's expert on psyhchological warfare tactics used against the Irish. He announced that it would take 3 weeks to break us down mentally and psychologically. We weren't duped. It just didn't work. It didn't seem to have worked for the Irish either. They sent him packing back to Britain.
But that doesn't seem to be stopping them from trying the same shit again. They used it at Gustafsen. They used it at Burnt Church. The OPP think they got it right at Ipperwash when they shot and killed Dudley George in 1995. They're trying it again here.
Let's take a look at the Kanehsatake/Oka prototype. They flew helicopters over our heads all night long and shon blinding bright lights through our windows to disturb our sleep. They flew jets low over our heads. Apparently if any women were pregnant they could miscarry. They knew we had a television in there, so they made misleading news reports. They showed big bunkers, 50 calibre machine guns and all kinds of weaponry we never knew we had. This was designed to scare the public. We were laughing. If we had that kind of firepower and their kind of mindset, we could have wiped out the whole city of Montreal. Remember, they were attacking us. We weren't attacking anybody. They were trying to provoke us to take the first shot. We never did. Part of their attack included cutting off or interfering with our communications with the outside world. (They've already done this at Six Nations/Caledonia). Based on our experience we can expect more harassment and interference. At Oka they turned our water and electricity off and on. They stopped food from coming in. When they did let some through, it was old and rotten and the soldiers had peed in the juice. (That's right, they urinated in the food we were expected to feed to our children). What could we do. We took the rotten eggs and threw them right back at them.
Their dirty tricks weren't limited to adolescent pranks. Snipers were assigned to take out anyone they thought might be a leader. They did not hesitate to use weapons on children. One 14 year old child was bayoneted in the chest right next to her heart while protecting her 4 year old sister. When we came out of the Treatment Center, they gave us all a darn bad beating. Harassment continued against us for years.
It wasn't just police and army violence we had to watch out for. False media information was used to incite violent attacks against us by red necks and psychologically unstable members of the general public. At one point in the crisis, we had organized an evacuation of elderly people and children from Kahnawake. The rabble rousing media found out about this. They called out to all the hooligans in the neighborhood to rush out there at the end of the Mercier Bridge and to do their worst. The Quebec police kept the convoy trapped on the bridge for hours until a large crowd gathered. When the captives finally drove off the bridge, the cops stood and watched as the crowd stoned, beat the people and crushed their cars. One elderly man died of a heart attack the next day. Another a few days later. All for the sin of thinking that the Canadian forces would act with minimal standards of decency. Despite the public outcry about what happened in kahnawake, the same tactics were used at Burnt Church to sic French fishermen on their Native neighbors. We are already seeing the same tactics at Six Nations/Caledonia where local drunks have attacked the people at the barricades.
In Kanehsatake we had a doctor's phone which they could not disconnect. We found one place in the field where we could make an emergency call. We carried on.
The person who set off today's false alarm let themselves become tools of the colonizers? Maybe they want to feel important. Maybe they're bored and want excitement in their lives. This is a dangerous game. It can cost lives. In the fairy tale, the boys who played wolf sent out so many false alarms that no one would listen. This made it possible for the wolf to move in for the kill undisturbed. That's what the military tacticians are hoping they'll be able to do here. We know they're set to move in. The reports that the army has taken over a hangar at Hamilton airport are real. The reports that children in Caledonia were kept out of school on Friday were real. The attack would have happened then if they thought they could get away with it. Don't be fooled. The wolf is still lurking in the forest. Six Nations remains under seige.
If Canada was really interested in a peaceful solution, it would withdraw the troops, raise the white flag, withdraw the troops and leave. They don't even need to negotiate with us. All they need to do is to pull out their archival documents and look for the root of their title that they used to give Henco Industries the right to move onto our land. All we've ever been asking for is, "Let's put our documents on the table". They don't want to do this. We know why. They could not give Henco a valid title because they did not have one themselves. They have been perpetuating a fraud that began almost 200 years ago. They have violated the honor of the Crown by failing to keep the promises made by General Halidimand in 1784.
If Ontario needs to negotiate with anyone, it should be with Henco. They're the ones who gave him the false title.
Canada is not likely to seek an honest and peaceful solution. Let's take stock of where we stand now. Democracy is under seige. The rule of law is under seige. We have to figure out how to survive this. We need your support. The more non-native supporters there are, the safer it will be for us and the safer it will be for the rule of law and world peace.
These sleepless nights and the endless fear of not knowing when we will be attacked or who might be killed, is not helping matters one little bit. We have at least one youth still in prison simply because the only name he has is Mohawk. They want him to produce a colonial birth certificate. He's being denied his inherent right to his Indigenous identity in violation of international law. When Canada is showing itself so willing to violate international law, when Canada has a history of using violence and armed force against Indigenous people, how can anyone sleep at night, how can we hold off our heart attacks.
Living under seize is an art. What we learned at Oka is that humor is the best medicine. We looked at things from our perspective. That helped us to see that Canadian behaviour was silly, as well as dangerous. We remembered our ancestors. We continued our ceremonies. We remembered the faces that were coming to us in the next generations. We survived and so did our friends and allies. Our children grew up together. Many of us have grandchildren now. They know what we did. They're proud of us. When we were under seige, our brothers, sisters, friends and allies on the outside kept up the pressure and saved our lives. Thank you.
Supporters, if you wants to send us a flag from your country to show your support, we will be honored to hoist it alongside the Indigenous unity and Confederacy flag. Sign it and send it to Haze Hill, RR#6, Hagersville, Ontario Canada N0A 1H0. Deliver it in person. We'd be glad to meet you.
Kahentinetha Horn
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Contact: Dick Hill at 519-865-7722; Hazel Hill at 519-865-7272, 519-445-0719, 519-445-1371 The Basket Case; Janie Jamieson at 905-517-7006; Jacqueline House at 905-765-9316 J's email
April 22, 2006
Mohawks and Others Block Trains in Ontario to Protest Land Use
Are Military Forces Operating From Hamilton Airport in Six Nations Standoff?
Officials "not aware" of military involvement in Six Nations crisis, but won't deny reports
By Anthony Fenton and Dru Oja Jay
A military force of unknown size and capacity seems to be operating out of the Hamilton airport, according to information gathered by the Dominion. The deployment of military forces would be a major escalation in the standoff between native protesters and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The OPP has tried once, unsucessfully, to remove demonstrators occupying a housing development that Six Nations Kanienkehake (Mohawks) say is illegal under Canadian, Haudenosaunee and international law.
In an interview, an Airport official initially confirmed that Canadian Forces were at the airport in a "back up support" capacity. Mary Beth Horvath, Marketing/Commuications Coordinator for the Hamilton Airport, initially told the Dominion that Canadian Forces were not "using it [the airport] as a staging ground. I haven't heard it regarded in that term."
Asked later to confirm, Horvath repeated that "there is some backup support there." When asked to specifically to confirm if Canadian Forces were on site, Horvath responded that "I don't know if, again, I don't know to what extent or to what, so I'm not, I really don't want to be quoted on that because I'm not there to actually see it, physically."
Horvath referred the Dominion to two other officials, neither of which denied that Canadian Forces were operating from the Hamilton Airport.
"I know nothing about that," said Haldiman County official Bill Pierce when asked about a military staging ground at the airport.
Dave Rector, a spokesperson for the Ontario Provincial Police, said "I am not aware of the presence of any Canadian armed forces."
As of this writing, the Dominion could not find any officials willing to deny the deployment of military to the airport.
Federal Involvement?
The deployment of military would mark the involvement of the Federal Government, marking a departure from what officials have repeatedly insisted is a Provincial matter.
The last time Canadian Forces were deployed against native demonstrators was during the 1990 Oka crisis, when Kanienkehake citizens occupied land that was slated for a golf course development. The land had been stolen a century earlier by the Catholic Church, and a century of Kanienkehake protests had not changed the situation. Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa invoked the National Defense Act, requesting "military aid to the civil power". The deployment of the Canadian army ended with one dead soldier, two civilian deaths, and reports of torture and unjustified tactics earned Canada the condemnation of the International Federation of Human Rights and a place on Amnesty International's list of violators of human rights.
Provincial officials requested the deployment of Canadian Forces--specifically, the elite Joint Task Force Two--during the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff, but were officially denied. According to court testimony by police officers, police took flack jackets to a firing range and fired guns at them in order to create the appearance that police had been shot by the small group of natives occupying the site. Internal police video showed commanders stating the need for a "disinformation and smear campaign" against the native occupiers. With 77,000 rounds of ammunition shot by police, the deployment of amoured vehicles, and the use of a land mine against a truck driven by one of the demonstrators, Gustafsen lake has been cited as the largest paramilitary deployment in Canadian history.
Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese, in his book Canada's Secret Commandos: The Unauthorized Story of Joint Task Task Force Two, wrote that JTF2 "wasn't deployed to the standoff."
"But civilian police officers privately confirm that JTF2 operators were at the siege, helping them in covert intelligence gathering as well as determining the lay of the land in case the entire unit was needed for an assault on the native encampment," wrote Pugliese. "Some of the native protesters also insist that it was members of JTF2, and not the RCMP, who engaged them in a gun battle in early September."
Of the current standoff in Six Nations, Federal officials have simply denied that it has anything to do with land. "This is not a lands-claim matter," Deirdre McCracken, a spokesperson for the Minister of Indian Affairs Jim Prentice told reporters. McCracken also said that the blockade "has nothing to do with the federal government."
The presence of Canadian Forces on the ground, if confirmed, will be a stark change from the government's state policy.
SIX NATION: Media and Canada disinformation smear campaign
DON'T BELIEVE THE STORIES THAT CANADA AND THE MEDIA ARE SENDING OUT. THE SEIGE IS DEFINITELY NOT OVER. THE COPS, MOUNTIES AND THE ARMY ARE STILL BREATHING DOWN OUR NECKS. CANADA HAS NOT WITHDRAWN ITS TROOPS FROM SIX NATIONS. AT 5:00 AM THIS MORNING A SWAT TEAM WAS SEEN ON UNITY ROAD 10 MINUTES AWAY FROM HERE. RCMP AND OPP HAVE SET UP HUGE HEADQUARTERS NEARBY. 20 RCMP VANS LOADED WITH WEAPONS AND PERSONNEL WERE CITED IN CALEDONIA. THERE'S STILL ARMY INSTALLED IN 5 HANGARS AT HAMILTON AIRPORT. THERE COULD AS MANY AS 100 WELL EQUIPMENT SOLDIERS IN EACH HANGAR WITH APC'S AND EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO TAKE CARE OF THE "INDIAN PROBLEM" THE WAY INDIAN AFFAIRS ALWAYS DREAMT IT COULD.
WE ARE STILL LIVING IN A STATE OF FEAR. AT THE READY ARE 1000 ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE, 250 RCMP AND HANGARS FULL OF ARMY PERSONNEL READY TO ATTACK UNARMED INJUNS. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. BRING RAIN GEAR AND BOOTS. NON-PERMISHABLE FOOD. GAS MASKS. LEMONS TO CLEAR THE TEAR GAS FROM YOUR EYES. ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION. STRONG HEARTS AND GOOD CHEER. EVERYTHING YOU'LL NEED TO STAY HERE MAYBE FOR A WHILE.
WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR AN APOLOGY FROM CANADA FOR THEIR RUDENESS AND FOR THE ASSAULT
THEY COMMITTED ON US THE OTHER MORNING.
Contact: Hazel. 519-865-7273;
NYM SOLIDARITY ACTION W/ SIX NATIONS
NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT
INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT
STOP THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON NATIVE PEOPLES
KKKANADA CALLS FOR POLICE AND MILITARY REINFORCEMENT ONTO NATIVE WOMEN,
CHILDREN AND WARRIORS
OCCUPYING DISPUTED INDIAN LAND
NYM TAKES SOLIDARITY ACTION TO SUPPORT SIX NATIONS
(Neskonlith Reserve, unceded Secwepemc Territory/Saturday April 22, 2006)
The Secwepemc Native Youth Movement has set up an information picket along
the Trans Canada Highway (Hwy #1) at Neskonlith Reserve, 5 KM west of Chase,
BC to show solidarity with our Brothers and Sisters at Six Nations, near
Caledonia, Ontario. We have set up camp and posted billboards, banners and
Warrior flags to get the message out to the 10,000+ travellers per day that
drive this highway. The billboards read: "Stop OPP Terrorism" "OPP out of
SIX NATIONS"
On Thursday, April 20, 2006 over 150 heavily armed Ontario Provincial Police
(OPP) with M-16's and riot gear moved in to try and end the 52-day
occupation at Six Nations. The Six Nations have been occupying the land of
disputed Douglas Creek Estates luxury housing development since Feb. 28th.
This Land has always belonged to Six Nations but KKKanada and Ontario have
made land deals without true ownership, with stolen Land.
The OPP arrested 16 Natives, assaulted women, threw tear gas at them and
tasered some during the arrest but police retreated as Natives chased them
off and more Natives arrived. KKKanada has called for massive police and
military reinforcement. There is over 3000 OPP and RCMP (Royal Canadian
Mounted Pigs) and 1000 military just waiting for KKKanada to give them word
to move in for another assault.
The Six Nations (sovereign Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and
Tuscarora Nations) has called for support and to let the World know that
terrorist attacks are happening here in KKKanada against the Original
Peoples of the Land.
This land is all Indian Land. We have a common struggle with our Brothers
and Sisters at Six Nations; we never surrendered our land to anyone. We
claim jurisdiction throughout our whole territory.
STOP POLICE TERRORISM-OPP OUT OF SIX NATIONS---NATIVE LAND
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