We've been sending out Notices of Objection to energy corporations, casino companies and the following policing and taxation agencies who impose themselves illegally on us and our territory. We are informing them to start moving. All other Indigenous nations need to do this too. Your comments would be appreciated. All agencies and corporations have been put on notice that we Women Title Holders are resisting their theft of our land and resources and the future of our children. We have to constantly challenge them. We are right. If you would like to write to them, please do so. It's every woman's responsibility to save the land, the people and the environment. Kahentinetha and Katenies kahentinetha2@yahoo.com and katenies20@yahoo.com
PUBLIC NOTICE OF OBJECTION TO INVASION OF KAIANEREH’KO:WA/GREAT LAW JURISDICTION BY FOREIGN FEDERAL, STATE, PROVINCIAL POLICING AND TAXATION AGENCIES AND THEIR INCORPORATED LOCAL TRIBAL AND BAND "GOVERNMENTS"
DATE: December 16, 2005
FROM: Women Title Holders of the Kanion’ke:haka Nation
RE: FEMA, HOMELAND SECURITY, RCMP, OPP, SQ, FBI, CIA, BORDER PATROL, CORNWALL POLICE, MASSENA POLICE, IBET, COAST GUARD, AKWESASNE MOHAWK POLICE SERVICE, MOHAWK TRIBAL POLICE, ATF, MINUTE MEN, NYSTATE POLICE, NATIONAL GUARD, U.S. MILITARY SERVICES, NY DEPT. OF TAXATION; INTERNAL REVENUE OF TAXATION; A.G. OF U.S., A.G. OF CANADA, CANADIAN ASSN. OF POLICE CHIEFS, U.S. TREASURY DEPT., A.G. NYS, DEPT. OF INTERIOR, DEPT. INDIAN AFFAIRS, CANADA BORDER SERVICES, U.S. SUPREME COURT, SUPREME COURT OF CANADA . U.S. CUSTOM AND IMMIGRATION AND CANADA CUSTOMS AND REVENUE AGENCY
TO:
-Commissioner Andrew S. Eristoff, New York State Department of Taxation, W.A. Harriman Campus, Albany, NY 12227-0155
-Internal Revenue of Taxation, 290 Broadway, F1 3-7, New York 10007
-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington DC 20530-0001 askdoj@usdoj.gov
-Tracy S. Toubu, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, United States Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington DC 20530 202-514-8812 F202-514-9078
-Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1200 Vanier Parkway, Otawa, Ont. K1A 0R2
Attorney General of Canada, Department of Justice of Canada, 234 Wellington St., East Tower, Room 1213, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 1213 Attn: Brian Everenden 613-957-4869 F 613-954-1920
RCMP Aboriginal Policing Services, Community, Contract and Policing Directorate, 1200 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0R2
-National office, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, dale13@allstream.net 519-445-4191 613-233-1106
-Akwesasne Mohawk Police Services, %Ontario Provincial Police, 3312 County Road 43 East, P.O. Box 2020, Smith Falls, ON K7A 5K8 613-284-4500
-John Snow, Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20220
John J. Manfreda, Administrator, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street, NW - 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20220
-Mr. George Bush, President, United States, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington D.C. 20500 president@whitehouse.gov
-Hon. Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
-Hon. Paul Martin, Prime Minister, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A2
-Gov. George Pataki, State of New York, The Capitol, Albany, NY 12224
-Mr. Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, 445 Broadway, Room 218, Albany, New York 12207-2924
-Mr. George Skibine, Acting Deputy Assistant, Department of the Interior, 1849 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240
-Richard W. Pombo, Chairman, Committee on Resources, 2411 Rayburn HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515-0511 202-225-1947
-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Leo W. O’Brien Federal Office Bldg., 1 Clinton Square, Room 821, Albany, N.Y. 12207 518-431-0121 Fax 518-431-0128
-Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Inc., Route 37, Akwesasne (New York) 13655
-Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, P.O. Box 579, Cornwall, Ontario K6H 5V5
-Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, P.O. 720, Kahnawake Mohawk Territory J0L 1B0
-Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, R.R. 1, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario 613-396-3424 Fax 613-3963627
-Minister, Department of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., K1A 0H4
-Progressive Conservative Party, House of Commons, Otttawa, Ont.
-Jack Layton, New Democratic Party, 279 Laurier West, Ottawa, Ont. K1P 5J9
-Mr. Alain Jolicoeur, President, Canada Border Services Agency, St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1A 0L8 204-983-3500 CBSA-ASFC@canada.gc.ca
-Hon. Ann McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Sir Wilfrid Laurier Bldg. 13th Floor, 340 Laurier Ave. W., Ottawa Ont. K1A 0P8 McLellan.A@parl.gc.ca
-Mr. Lance Markell, District Director, Canada Customs and Excise, 2265 Laurent Blvd., 3rd Floor, Ottawa, Ont. K1G 4K3;
Ms. Lucinda Reading, Regional Project Officer, Northern Ontario Region – Customs, 2265 St. Laurent Blvd., 3rd Floor, Ottawa, Ont., K1G 4K3 Lucinda.Reading@ccra-adrc.gc.ca
-William K. Suter, Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States, 1 First St., NE, Washington DC 20543-0001
-Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada, 301 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0J1 613-995-4330 F 613-996-3063
OBJECTION TO: According to our law, the Women Title Holders are the “progenitors of the soil” of the Kanion’ke:haka/Mohawk Nation. We are the caretakers of the land, water and air. We are notifying you and the International Forum of Nations of our constitutional rights in our homeland that are being violated.
Your invasion of our territory requires the permission of the entire Mohawk Nation. Accordingly, our territory presently called “New York State”, “Ontario” and “Quebec” are legally held by the Women of our Nation. The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne are non-Indian corporations created by federal and state laws, violating the U.S. Constitution and the Canadian constitution. They are illegal municipal level entities who speak for the outside authorities and not for us. It is well-known that these local policing agencies of New York State, Ontario and Quebec and elsewhere target our people. We demand that you drop your schemes to invade our territory immediately. We also demand that you cease your constant lying and profiling of our people. You are misleading your people and trying to make them believe that we are dangerous, terrorists and radicals and that you require arms to maintain control over us. You know full well that you can never control us with arms. You could kill us but you can’t make us let you think for us. We have always defended our right to self-determination. We did this before the right to self-determination was recognized under international law. We continue to do this now that the right to self-determination is recognized as a universal human right.
We oppose the recent illegal invitation by the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Inc. and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne to allow foreign police and tax agencies to enter the international territory of Akwesasne, including their tribal police forces who aid and abet these outsiders. They have no right to enter into international agreements with the : FEMA, HOMELAND SECURITY, RCMP, OPP, SQ, FBI, CIA, BORDER PATROL, CORNWALL POLICE, MASSENA POLICE, IBET, COAST GUARD, AKWESASNE MOHAWK POLICE SERVICE, MOHAWK TRIBAL POLICE, ATF, MINUTE MEN, NYSTATE POLICE, NATIONAL GUARD, U.S. MILITARY SERVICES, NY DEPT. OF TAXATION; INTERNAL REVENUE OF TAXATION; A.G. OF U.S., A.G. OF CANADA, CANADIAN ASSN. OF POLICE CHIEFS, U.S. TREASURY DEPT., A.G. NYS, DEPT. OF INTERIOR, DEPT. INDIAN AFFAIRS, CANADA BORDER SERVICES, U.S. SUPREME COURT, SUPREME COURT OF CANADA . U.S. CUSTOM AND IMMIGRATION AND CANADA CUSTOMS AND REVENUE AGENCY
This list is obscene. Don’t you guys know how to get along with anyone? Don’t you know how to live without using force to impose your will on others?
We never made agreements with the United States and Canada to inspect our businesses. We have a sovereign right to control our own affairs. You have no right to attempt to control us in this way. You methodology is a violation of international law. You are trying to use force to impose your will on us. We never agreed to pay taxes to outsiders, just as you have never agreed to pay taxes to foreign states. All of your police organizations constitute criminal attempts by large states to oppress our small nation. All your negotiations with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Inc. and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne must cease and desist immediately.
You have no right to force colonial federal, provincial and state laws on us. There is no treaty with us as designated under Article II, Section 2, Paragraph 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, or under Sections 109 and 132 of the Canadian Constitution. Any agreement must be ratified at Onondaga and by a 2/3 vote of the U.S. Senate. All substitutes are unconstitutional. The continuing rule of the Kaianereh'ko:wa is expressly and explicitly confirmed by Article XI of the 1775 Philadelphia Articles of Confederation and Article VI of the 1789 Constitution of the United States.
Our relationship is based on the Guswentha/Two Row Wampum Agreement. The Kaianereh’ko:wa and U.S. Constitution agreed to respect this agreement as an “alternative to war”. In accord with due process the United States must show us how one of our citizens has committed a wrong, injury or harm to your people. Only the President of the United States may contact us according to our constitution-to-constitution relationship. Foreign agencies cannot enter our community to enforce their foreign colonial laws upon our people. We must follow nation-to-nation protocol. You should actually go through our customs office to come onto our territory for any reason whatsoever. It’s only because of our good graces that we have not installed customs houses which could seriously delay the business of your citizens. However, the fact that we have not installed customs houses does not mean that we do not have the right to do so.
We have registered our objection to this illegal assumption of jurisdiction made by the federal, state, provincial and local governments of the United States and Canada. We brought this constitutional jurisdiction issue before the U.S. Supreme Court. See No. 05-165: 2005. In The Supreme Court of the United States In re Kanion’ke:haka Kaianereh’ko:wa Kanon’ses:neh, Non-party, Petitioner/Movant/Appellant, The Canadian St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians, Plaintiffs, Respondents, v. The State of New York, Defendants, Respondents. Petition for Writs of Certiorari and Quo Warranto with Prohibition and Mandamus in Aid to Prevent Genocide. Rules 17.1 and 20.1.
In Canada we took the same action – see Kanion’ke:haka Kaianereh’ko:wa Kanon’ses:neh v. Attorney General of Canada and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario, Court File: 05-CV-030785.
The federal, state and provincial governments have evaded the constitutions of both the Kanion'ke:haka and the United States and Canada and violates the rule of law. By doing so, they are committing genocide of our nation and the faces yet unborn.
FURTHER OBJECTIONS:
Whereas:
1. Jurisdiction over our ter ritory now called “New York State,” “Southern On tario” and “Quebec” and beyond, belong to the Rotinonshonni/Iroquois Confederacy.
2. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, Paragraph 1 of the U.S. Constitution respects that relations with us shall be con ducted on a nation-to-nation basis; Sections 109 and 132 of the constitution of Canada declares that the interests of Indians shall supersede that of Canada and its provinces and that the relations with us shall be conducted on a nation-to-nation basis. The constitution is the law of the land. Contracts and wheeling and dealing by these foreign policing and taxation agencies do not supersede the constitution-to-constitution relationship between our nations. Their conduct is treasonous and lawless.
3. The United States and Canada have never made a treaty of cession with the Rotinonshonni Confederacy. We continue to have constitutional jurisdiction over all Kaianereh’ko:wa lands. Contact with the constitutional Indigenous people must be made only through the President of the United States or the Governor General of Canada, not with the corporate tribal or band buddies of the outside interests.
4. The denial of a nation’s exis tence constitutes genocide, according to the many international covenants that the United States and Canada have pledged to uphold;
Therefore:
5. We demand that the federal, state, provincial and local tribal governments immediately cease and desist your illegal assumption of jurisdiction on our territory.
6. We demand that George W. Bush, and Her Majesty the Queen immediately abide by our constitution-to-constitution relationship.
7. Finally, we demand to be officially informed how federal, state, provincial and local tribal and band ‘governments’ can violate international law and the rule of law by superseding our jurisdiction over land that we never surrendered through a treaty or any means whatsoever.
By Kanion’ke:haka Women Title Holders
Kahentinetha/s/ _____________________
Katenies /s/_________________________
Route 14 (P.O. 418), Akwesasne, Kanion’kehaka [13655], 613-575-1550 Fax 613-575-2032 email katenies20@yahoo.com
Commissioner, FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Ariel Rios Federal Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington DC 20528, 202-282-8000
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover Building, 935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington DC 20535-0001 washington.fbi.gov
Cc. All media; UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights, UN Plaza, S. 294, New York, 10017; Rudolpho Stavenhagen, International Commission for Human Rights, P.O. Box 16, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland; Kanion’ke:haka Kaianereh’ko:wa Kanon’ses:ne, P.O. Box 1016, Akwesasne (NYS) 13655; Minister, Department of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., Ottawa, Canada K1A 0H4; Coalition for the International Criminal Court, %WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Floor, New York (NYS) 10017, cicc@iccnow.org; The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat 103, 251 BBC, The Netherlands t: +31-70-363-4484 F: +31-70-364-0259; Pope Benedictum XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, Rome, Italy