Update from the hills

Kanekota

Kanekota means “where the waters come from the earth” or headwaters. It is the high country in Ontario. The waters start here and flow South into the Grand, west into the Saugeen, north into the (Beaver, Mad and Noisy), east into the Pine, Boyne and Nottawasga. There are 78 springs which start the head of the Grand river, they form into a small river when they flow under Highway 89. The Haldimand Proclamation of 1784 clearly states that 6miles from each side of the Grand, from Lake Erie to it’s head , shall be protected for us and our posterity forever.

In 1710 we sent a delegation to London to meet with Queen Anne to “polish the chain”. The visit was popularized by the paintings one of the royal artists created, they were known as “the Four Kings”. One of those men was my grandfather. When he got back from that trip he expressed the most important thing that he learned, he said “they rely on the written word, it is how they will be judged” I know he would expect me to understand that lesson he taught and hold them to their words, as they wrote them down.

If you look on Google Earth at Kanekota now it is frightening to see what has been done to the most ecologically important area in Ontario. The earth has a system where she pumps out clean water in the hills and it flows down cleaning and nourishing everything in its path. When you are polluting the water at source deliberately, you are going against the natural law of the universe. We the people, have jurisdiction over these laws and it is our duty to uphold our responsibility to creation, so our earth family continues.

In Hornings Mills, the man-made pond has been spewing out lethal toxins continuously for over 60 years now. The first response I ever got from Stephen Harper was the next day after I put out the Poison Pine River story . He said “Minister Ambrose has been alerted” as if that was supposed to make it better. Most of the people in the village do not know what the history of the pond entails. The constant foam that never stops was the first thing I noticed when I moved there. I contacted the Ministry of the Environment in Guelph and reported that I had an ecological emergency, they said they would send someone to investigate. After 2 days I called back because no-one showed up and the guy told me “we sent someone there and he said it was a little foam in the river, no problem”. Another person expressed a local legend to me, she said that “the navy sends their divers to practice there because it is one of the deepest natural lakes around”. I noticed a very high incidence of type 2 diabetes in that small village. Diabetes 2 is known to be a P.O.P disorder. When you start to add up all the evidence it looks like the Canadian government has been knowingly poisoning their taxpaying citizens.

The attachments clearly show it is not a natural lake. The eyewitnesses who remember the Canadian Army building the lake in 1945. The Prime Minister all of a sudden showing an interest in my work. The dying fish and sick wildlife. Every level of government complicit in covering it up totally. Now we have new land destroyers moving in to finish the job. These are the windmill developers trying to make this into a giant industrial park. With no regard for the earth or the life but very concerned about the revenues. Do you think something is wrong with this picture?

I am the eyes and ears of the Mohawk nation here in the hilly country of Ontario (Kanekota), it is my duty to put this “into the well“. It is something that affects us all in the great lakes watershed. It is your duty to the future generations to do something. So instead of saying “what will they do” ask what you will do for your future children. They will be your ultimate judge.

Unity, Strength, Peace,
Thahoketoteh of Kanekota
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