Robert Lovelace from prison...

A CASE AGAINST COLONIALISM

BY ROBERT LOVELACE

Letter to the Legislators of Ontario

May 11, 2008

I am writing this letter to you from the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario. I have been imprisoned here during the last three months for contempt of court because I said I cannot obey an injunction which conflicts with my duty under Algonquin law to protect our land.

I am writing because I believe you are honest men and women who work in the best interests of your constituents and for the betterment of Ontario. Is it to your intelligence and compassion that this letter is addressed. What I write may shock and anger you. It will certainly cause embarrassment. My hope is that what you read here will engender in you the same commitment to justice that I have felt within these prison walls and throughout my life.

On February 15th of this year, I was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $25,000. Co-Chief Paula Sherman was also fined $15,000. She is a single mother and a grandmother and the sole supporter for three dependents. She cannot and will not pay the fine and will have to report to jail on May 15 to serve a 90 day prison sentence. Our offence was declaring our intention to peacefully protect our homeland after 30,000 acres had been staked for uranium exploration. The staking had been done without our knowledge or consent and the claims were registered by Ontario's Ministry of Mines without notification. Extensive deep core drilling was planned for last summer without consultation or accommodation.

In June of last year, the Council of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation requested the exploration company remove their personnel and equipment. When they complied, we secured the area with the help of our non-Algonquin neighbours. In July, the company, Frontenac Ventures Corporation, sued us for $77 million, and in August obtained an injunction ordering unfettered access to our lands. Since their still had not been any consultation, as required by Supreme Court decisions, we refused to remove the security barrier, and found ourselves convicted of "contempt" by your court.

Although the context behind my imprisonment is useful, this letter is not about mining or the out-dated Ontario Mining Act. There is already much public discussion now going on about toxic mining and the need to protect citizens' rights. This letter as well is not about Aboriginal rights or the protection of our homeland, although our Indigenous rights and responsibilities contribute to the discourse. This letter is a case against colonialism, the dysfunctional heritage that we share; the colonialism that informs every aspect of our current relationship and will undo our security and undermine the future for all citizens in this province. Democracy and colonialism can not walk hand-in-hand for long before the disparity in justice, economic opportunities and morality so sickens human spirits that we will all live without hope of becoming the nations we wish to be.

For many years in my intellectual life I tried to understand why, as Indigenous people, we were destined to suffer under the oppression of colonialism. I wanted to know if some natural law at the beginning of time had proclaimed it so, or if it were an accident of conditioning, or if it were essential to social order that made such suffering a necessity. I believed that if I could only know how it had come to be then I would be satisfied with the justification, or understand how you fix the mechanics.

As the years have carved away my curiosity, I have at last concluded that it does not matter how colonialism came to be or who is at fault. I do not care if I ever know how colonialism took root in this world. Now, I just want to be free of it. I want to know that succeeding generations of First Nations children will not be looked upon as inferior, that their birthright and home will not be stolen, that they will have the advantage of dreaming their own dreams and following their own visions. And as much as I want my own children to be free, I want your children not to suffer the moral uncertainty that comes with living well because others are oppressed.

You are legislators. You have the responsibility for writing the laws and policies that frame colonialism and give it social and political structure in Ontario. Unwriting colonialism is not a political process. One party or coalition can not do it alone. Ending legal colonialism is not for partisans. It requires a consensus among law makers who regard justice and humanity above competition for popularity. Those of you who will work for just change will believe in the rightness of your laws as strongly as I believe in the rightness of Algonquin law. When you decide to erase colonialism from your laws you will be risking your future as much as I have risked mine. They are your laws that embody colonial oppression of Aboriginal people and although we can offer guidance, it will be you as legislators who will choose to be, or choose not to be, the burden of innocent generations of come.

The present and accepted course of de-colonization has failed. It has failed both in letter and in spirit. We are living an illusion that Canada and the Provinces no longer oppress First Nations. Nothing in this lie could be further from the truth. If it was so, when did this reversal take place? Was it with Confederation? No - Confederation marked the transition from an ambivalent British Crown to a purposeful extermination of everything Indian. Was it during the Canadian centre of repressive laws that alienated Aboriginal people from their lands and customs? No. Did revisions of the federal Indian Act reverse the national strategy of "taking the Indian out of the Indian child" or save thousands of Indian children from the "sixties scoop"? No.

Have decisions of the Supreme Course recognized original jurisdiction or simply redefined domination in more tolerable terms? Did the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People and hundreds of other studies inform the Nation and change public attitudes? No. Did patriating the Constitution in 1982 succeed in defining the rights and jurisdiction of Aboriginal Nations as it did for the Federal and Provincial governments? No! Please, honestly, ask yourselves, when such a historical turn around occurred and when substantial changes in legislation were written which would have allowed the transition to take place.

Freedom does not come in increments. Colonialism will not give way through wishful thinking or half-measures. In the past, politicians, clergy and intellectuals argued that Aboriginal people were not ready for "civilization" and needed the guiding hand of the colonizer. This ideology is nothing more than self-serving paternalism. Freedom is not something that Aboriginal people should have to earn. If freedom were to be bought, then we have paid for it a thousand fold. Freedom comes when the gate is opened wide or broken down. If there is anyone who has not been ready for Aboriginal people to take their rightful place in Canada, it is you, the colonizer. Until you actively and explicitly make colonialism illegal then it will always be you who are not ready.

The forces that guard colonialism are large. The federal and provincial governments employ hundreds of lawyers, bureaucrats and academics to discredit Aboriginal claims and put Aboriginal people in their place. They work on land claims, court cases and public policy in an effort to limit the Crown's obligations and liability to Aboriginal people. When have Ontario lawyers defended an Aboriginal right or vigorously advanced Aboriginal claims? They just don't do that.

Colonialism will remain firmly entrenched as long as we work in an adversarial system in which communities that have been undermined socially, economically and politically for over two centuries must play by their opponents' rules on a field with a precipitous incline. I have watched as a generation of great minds have been squandered on both sides of this rivalry because intransigent bureaucrats and partisan politicians have been afraid to let "the thin edge of the wedge" change public policy and institutionalize just treatment of Aboriginal citizens. It is not for want of informed and competent negotiators that Canada and Ontario have a slew of unsettled claims and associated conflicts; rather it is the law makers' lack of political will, fairness and honesty in putting an end to the immoral advantage of colonialism.
Let me give you a clear and recent example of how Aboriginal people experience negotiations. In October of last year, Judge Cunningham of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, who presides in the suit brought by Frontenac Ventures against my community, suspended the hearing for twelve weeks in an effort to get all the parties talking. Ontario, Frontenac Ventures and the two First Nations agreed to a prioritized list of issues and to jointly choose a mediator. At that point, we removed our security barrier and permitted Frontenac Ventures to carry out unobtrusive survey work.
When the discussions began, the corporation did not attend or send a representative. Instead they installed security guards at the site.
Ontario's representatives consistently refused to discuss the issues outlined in the predetermined agenda which included as the first item, Ontario's legal responsibility to consult with First Nations communities before development of a resource begins. Ontario negotiators rejected out of hand three comprehensive settlement proposals put forward by Ardoch. Ontario negotiators demanded that we inventory our "values" for the staked land, but refused to accept the description of these "values" when expressed in cultural context or with their meanings in Anishnabemowin, our language.
When it was apparent that time was running out in the 12 week process, the lead Ontario negotiator, who had been a former Deputy Minister of Northern Development and Mines, conceded that Ontario's duty to consult should be met. He agreed with Ardoch that a broad range of possible outcomes should be considered. He also agreed that the consultation process could conclude with an end to uranium exploration. Ardoch had favoured such an open consultation from the beginning of negotiations. Having arrived at an agreement that a plan of "appropriate consultation" would be submitted to Judge Cunningham we proceeded to discuss the framework for the consultation process.
A week later, after substantial collaboration on the framework, Ontario's lead negotiator advised us that there had never been an intention to halt exploration and that exploratory drilling would be taking place during the proposed consultation process. We could either agree or face the court and charges of contempt.
This experience seems to be universal across the country. It has not changed much since the starvation tactics used by Sir John A. Macdonald in negotiating the early numbered treaties. While Aboriginal people cling to the hope that the Crown administrators will be merciful and accept some limited fashion of constitutionally protected rights, bureaucrats and their Ministerial masters do everything in their power to extinguish those rights and uphold the colonial state.
Legislators and governments are not solely responsible for maintaining the immoral practice of colonialism. Even the Supreme Court of Canada, often praised for its progressive decisions on Aboriginal rights, is a principle defender of the sovereign privilege of domination. Supreme Court decisions, while recognizing the historical and legal validity of Aboriginal rights, limit the scope and practice of those rights in favour of "larger" Canadian interests. An analogy of the dilemma is listening to the stories of an abused child in an Indian residential school, patting her on the head and then telling her not to disobey the priest. Such is the sanctimonious hypocrisy of your highest court. These same courts permit Canada's governments to ponder for years on the policy implications reflecting these half-hearted concessions, rendering the entire legal process of protecting Aboriginal rights an exercise in "too little, too late".
Ontario has been consistently guilty of regarding Aboriginal rights as an inconvenient demand on the moral character of a tolerant society. But Aboriginal rights are your laws, not ours. They originate in English law as the doctrine of "continuity" and find substance in such documents as the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Section 35 rights in the Canadian Constitution are an attempt to address the fundamental denial of the existing laws of Aboriginal Nations and to bring into sovereign Canada a sense of Aboriginal belonging. But we have had our own laws and governance and the Crown, through the doctrine of "continuity" has never had the right to overrule them.
Our laws do not involve a concept of "rights". In our cultures, mutual respect and benefit are understood as imperatives for survival. Aboriginal cultures regard law as a complex set of responsibilities to the land and in human relations. The emphasis is on protecting sustainability and avoiding conflict. When Europeans first came to settle in the Ottawa valley in 1800, this is what our ancestors asked of them: to share the land and get along. Through 150 years of French and 100 years of English contact, the doctrine of "continuity" was practiced. We must be clear that recent constitutional commitments in section 35 to "recognize and affirm" Aboriginal and treaty rights are Canadian law. Our leaders at the time asked for much more.
The disparity between your laws and ours' represents the gap between lip service and Aboriginal peoples' ambition to restore our homelands and cultures. Without a sense of moral clarity and comprehensive entitlements, section 35 of your Constitution is almost meaningless. It gives you as legislators no standard or instruction upon which to write anti-colonial legislation. As such, it gives Canadian courts nothing with which to reconcile the past and even less with which to arbitrate the future. Courts will continue to define Aboriginal rights as subservient and Aboriginal title as third class.
As a colonized people we must accept a share of the responsibility for our condition. Like you, we have internalized colonialism. We have allowed it to inform the way we see the world and ourselves. Too often we have turned to the colonizing governments for support. Too often we expect you to solve out problems or blame you for our inadequacies. Too often we are satisfied with handouts rather than partnerships or ownership. We have come to accept colonial labels such as "status" and "non-status" as definitions of who we are. We let these labels divide our families and communities.
Our leaders have accepted foreign forms of governance which undermine our unity and foster corruption. We have come to accept that blood quantum, shades of skin colour and even levels of education determine our Indianess. Far too often we have given up, given in to self-hate, self-abuse and the abuse of others. Like you, we have to confront colonialism on our own terms, for it is just as immoral to accept victimization as it is to benefit from oppression.
Ontario's education system is a primary instrument in ensuring that colonialism remains unchallenged. Many Ontarians know nothing of how generations of Aboriginal children were victimized by church and state. Ontarians posses only a vague understanding of how land was overrun by settlement in the 19th century and Aboriginal people were forced to sign unconscionable treaties and land sales in return for modest protection. As far as understanding the evolution of colonial laws, almost all citizens are ignorant.
Even the real suffering of their own immigrant ancestors as slaves, indentured servants, child labour and cannon fodder have been sanitized for the popular glorification of Ontario's history. Many of these immigrants were escaping colonialism in their own homelands, just as refugees today come to Canada to find a better life. But they acquire no real history about themselves and at best only an "honourable mention" of Aboriginal realities. Without an honest and fully informed education system, your job of challenging and changing colonial laws is as difficult as our in changing the attitudes of ignorant neighbours.
Almost all of you have either publicly or privately condemned the Aboriginal people who protest and obstruct economic and civic activity. At best you have expressed complacent tolerance and an admission that Aboriginal dissatisfaction may have some merit. Ontario's civility rests on its affluence, not on its moral intelligence or character. It is this artificial civility that Aboriginal protestors challenge. Each time a road is blocked, exploration for minerals is halted, or forestry is interrupted, Aboriginal activists are raising the prickly question of Ontario's morality.
Each time a protest forces a political "spin" to be re-spun, law makers are confronted with the ineptitude of their own professional history. You may not like the politics of confrontation but I would rather see Shawn Brant block the 401 than Ovide Mercredi begging at the gates of Meech Lake, or Phil Fontaine writing Steven Harper's apology for the abuse of residential schools.
The affluence of Ontario has been acquired from the sacrifice of our ancestors' health and the wealth of our homelands. If immobilizing the power of that affluence is the only way to expose the evil of colonization then you need to brace yourselves. Aboriginal people and our thoughtful neighbours are sick and tired of colonialism. People of all races who hunger for justice, who understand the sacredness of creation and the folly of greed will find expression in tearing down colonialism. Aboriginal protests are not so much about past grievances. They are about the effects of present dispossession. Aboriginal activism is about changing the course of the future.
During the last week of May, Aboriginal people across Canada will be preparing for the National Day of Action on May 29th. Many people will come to Queen's Park. They are coming to talk to you. Throughout that week you will have the opportunity to listen to Aboriginal people and their friends express their fears and aspirations for the future. You will also hear their complaints. If you are wise you will listen. If you are as courageous as they are, you will allow what you hear to inspire your actions. If you are thankful for the Creator's gift of life, you will extend your hands in peace and friendship. It is up to you if you choose a partnership with Aboriginal Nations to begin the arduous task of rewriting Ontario's laws to exclude colonial principles. But if you choose to do nothing, or to condemn us, then please do not make excuses or false promises.
In the days leading up to May 29th, the media will extol the Canadian virtue of tolerance. In the days following, the media will sensationalize the "criminality" of Aboriginal defiance. You will see large pictures of masked warriors but little honest context. As you look with trepidation into the masked faces remember that those of us who wear no masks have been faceless as well, all of our lives. The real news will be in the conversations that you will have in the midst of demonstrations and at the edge of the barricades.
As much as I would like to be with you and my brothers and sisters at Queen's Park at the end of May, I will be here in prison. Throughout my life, I have advocated the path of non-violence as the only means of restoring our cultural integrity and our belonging within creation.
Freedom, at last, is a state of spirit. Even within the walls of this cell, my spirit can heal and grow and under the burden of oppression, all of our spirits can rise up. My spirit, like a seed, can wait throughout the long winter and come to life again when there is room to grow. Non-violence does not mean timidity. Those of us who have chosen a life of non-violence vigorously fight against the oppression and injustice that is sustained by violence. Colonialism, the laws that uphold it, the police actions that take down barricades and disrupt peaceful protests, are violence. Freedom flows around violence like water in a stream flows around a fallen log. Freedom is beautiful like the colours of the earth. Violence is ugly. My spirit will be with all of you at the end of May in peace and friendship.
My immediate thoughts are with my community and the threat of extensive deep core drilling. There is also the humiliation that Ontario is unwilling to allow our community into the decision-making process before further encroachment occurs. And there is the constant anxiety of what an open pit uranium mine will do to our land, our health and the health of our neighbours down stream. My heart aches in the memories of fishing along that river; the blueberry picking on the ridges and the winter solitudes of Arty's trapline. For two hundred years, colonists have been taking out land. I wonder every day when it will stop.
Because I do not have that answer I will begin a fast on May 16 and I will fast until I have an answer. I will not be fasting as a political statement or to extricate some concession from Ontario. In our culture we fast to purify our bodies and free our spirits. We fast in anticipation of a vision of things to come and to prepare ourselves to accept a great challenge. If my fast over the next few weeks brings attention to the defense of our community I will welcome the growing interest. I will also be praying hard for the protection of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and all of the communities struggling to survive. If in some small way my fast contributes to the non-violent struggle against Canadian colonialism, then all the better. I have no expectation of the Premier or his Ministers. The gun is to our head not his. I will pray that their hearts and minds become clear and that we will meet soon to work together to find solutions to the mess we are in.
When I began this letter I wrote that you might be shocked, angered and certainly embarrassed. If reading my thoughts made you uncomfortable, I am not sorry. It was my intent to shake you out of your complacency and indifference. Aboriginal people do not want your platitudes. We want change. We want an end to colonialism. We want legislation that protects our rights and recognizes our original jurisdiction. What you did yesterday in the name of justice for Aboriginal people is not enough. No matter what happens now, we will walk tomorrow's road together; you must ask yourself how you have that journey to be.
In the spirit of Peace and Friendship, mutual respect and benefit, I wish you to be well in your work, your play and your dreams.
Migwetch,
Robert Lovelace
Retired Chief
Ardoch Algonquin First Nation
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URANIUM NEWS SPECIAL May 21st: Toronto Rally

Uranium News

Enough is enough!

We all remember the "police provacateur" incident at the SPP meeting at Montebello. It showed clearly how the police act as the worst criminals out there. That was the SQ and now we see the same earmarks of a staged provocation at Tyendinaga by the OPP. If you have not seen the video at Montebello here is the link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

On Monday we received information that the developers were going to Deseronto to restart their illegal development on Mohawk land. About 20 Rotiskenrekete showed up to stop the illegality and no developer or builders showed, but there was 250 heavily armed SWAT team cops and a train of ambulances. The setup. Were they going to start killing us enmasse?

Our men retreated to the quarry and the police trained their paramilitary force on them and are still there now. They have all the modern military training and implements to commit murder against anyone who stands up to the virtual senate. The true rulers of the corporation called Canada.

Historically, the ruling elite have been trying to kill the Mohawks since their arrival here. They definitely do not want their "citizens" to hear about freedom, democracy, human rights for all. That would mean their control of the people would diminish. This is another in a long line of outright thuggery committed by the police and military against the indigenous peoples of turtle island. When will the real police of Canada take notice and realize that it is the higher ups in their police departments that are the committing heinous crimes and fabricating charges on innocent people to cover their illegalities. We are sure there are still some true officers of the law out there, we all look forward to the day they start arresting the true criminals and the true terrorists. We have all heard of the 100 monkey syndrome.

People of Canada please send emails to your representatives in parliament to show your concern about the state of the police, or the police state that we are all living in now. We do not want any more of our men to be murdered by these thugs. They are not operating on any legal basis rather they are like the street gangs and mafia, that they pretend they are fighting. Here are some email addresses Mr. Harper pm@pm.gc.ca Mr. Dion Dion.S@parl.gc.ca Mr. Layton layton.j@parl.gc.ca also contact your local reps and tell them enough is enough, and you will not be a part of the continuing genocide, as that makes you complicit in it.

Our constitution is open to all who choose to follow the white roots of peace to their source. So if you do want to be free of this tyranny, all are welcome to join us and get back to the WE. Canada has no constitution and they have broken all the treaties that make them a legal country. You can become a part of the oldest participatory democracy and the first united nations on earth. That is your own choice.

We all want peace and justice for all.

thahoketoteh of Kanekota

Awake

Mr. Harper is a supporter and promoter of the SPP, the second step in the one world government that has been sought by the ruling elite for millennia. When looked at closely, this deal is for the security and prosperity of a few families at the expense of everyone else. That the whole thing has been shrouded in secrecy and closed door meetings is on the public record. The mainstream media has been silent on this issue until true patriots bring it to the spotlight and then they do the “conspiracy theory” spin on it, as the media is owned by these same families.

These families have been ruling the U.S. and Canada through the economy, from the start. Their first step toward realizing this goal, was the genocide of the “Indian” nations. They were not able to murder all of us so the next goal was assimilation. The “reservation” system was set up and forcefully put into place to give these families a favorable PR face, so the rest of the immigrants and the international community would not hold them accountable for mass murder and ecocide. But we are still here and still trying to teach the way of peace and brotherhood. Many of the immigrants are waking up to this truth of American history and to our ancestral teachings.

The U.S. is now the “fourth Reich” with the same families who created the third one running it. That bonesman Bush’s grandfather made his fortune working with the Nazi bank in America, is on the public record. Lincoln, McKinley and Kennedy were all assassinated in their office of the presidency, for suggesting they would eliminate the control of these money changing families. If you keep going back in history you will see the same families when Jesus entered the temple of Solomon and described it as den of thieves. The estimated wealth of the Rothschild family is 600 billion dollars. So in this new world we live in it matters not what race, religion or creed you belong, only if you are rich or poor. There are only a very few that are rich, the rest of us are poor and expendable.

Collectively we can defeat this evil, it is the only way our grandchildren will be able to continue our DNA memory into the future. These families have been inbreeding for so long it is no wonder they have corrupted DNA and are truly the worst type of madmen in earth history.

The true power lies in the human mind as we are all unique aspects of creation and have the ability to communicate directly with it. Open your mind, it is you that you are waiting for.

I recommend Alex Jones new movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upo5PpWx8qU

With unity of mind through the natural law, comes great strength.

Thahoketoteh of Kanekota

The Corporatocracy

If you want to see how the corporatocracy (new world order) really works I suggest you read “Confessions of an economic hitman” , by John Perkins. Although John has no personal knowledge of North American indigenous activities by the Corporatocracy, he shows their M.O. and it paints a more clear picture of what has been going on behind the scenes here.

The N.W.O.’s procedure is to send in the EHMs first to a country, to try and make the rulers play the game according to their business plan. If that does not succeed they send in the jackals, whose job is to commit assassinations that create an opening for another leader who is more favorable to the corporatocracy. If that does not work they send in the military to complete the job.

Let us think back to 1990 before the Oka crisis hit. There was much work being done by the EHMs to persuade the Mohawks to accept the casinos through financing by the bankers (masquerading as private corporations). When that did not work, in came the Jackals and assassinated two Mohawk men at Akwesasne. The man the S.Q. put in charge of the murder investigation was none other than Corporal Lemay. When he found that that the murder weapon was purchased at a gun store in Quebec with an SQ cheque and was going to expose the conspiracy, the botched SQ raid at Oka was implemented. Incidentally Corporal Lemay was the only casualty of that raid after being placed up front and taking “friendly” fire. When that raid failed in came the army and you all know the rest.

I found this scenario eerily similar to the tactics discussed in Mr. Perkins work. If we fast forward to the present I find the situation at Caledonia to have the same EHM earmarks. All of a sudden a new group shows up called the Haudenosaunee Development Authority trying to persuade the people to play the game according to the business plan of the corporatocracy. We can assume that the lawyer representing H.D.A. is in a similar role as an EHM. We wonder what the Jackals are planning now? If they fail we wonder if they will send in the army?

We need more men like Perkins to expose the true nature of the N.W.O. and pass on the knowledge to the rest of us. When we all wake up to this truth of the real motif behind these international trade agreements, we can collectively put a stop to it. True leadership is by the people, of the people, for the people. The goal of the Corporatocracy is fascism at it’s finest.

Take back your power, that is your ability to think for yourself. Stop the SPP before it goes any further.

Unity, Strength, Peace
Thahoketoteh of Kanekota

Thrown? speech

Throne Speech

Democracy in Canada is in need of a complete overhaul. The pomp and pageantry of the governor general acting like the queen, sitting on a throne and making a speech that was designed by Mr. Harper’s spin doctors, reminded me of a colonial era that is supposed to be gone. That it was made in the senate chamber only adds to the hypocrisy of Canada’s claim to be a great democratic country.

Out of the 105 senators in the chamber only one is elected. The rest are appointed by the sitting PM. Since only the liberals and conservatives have ever formed the government they each appoint a senator that will tow their party line. The senators hold half the lawmaking powers in Canada and they only answer to the billionaires who run the economy. No wonder John Macdonald was knighted by the monarchy of England for creating such a system. The British billionaires remain in control while the people think they live in a free and democratic country. This is the real reason Canada never had a war with England for their apparent independence.

The Canadian taxpayer pays the bill of the senate, yet they have no say who is put there. In John Perkins book “confessions of an economic hitman” he uses the term corpoatocracy, which is what Canada is. There was no mention of the SPP the government is building behind the backs of their constituents in an undemocratic fashion. No mention of honoring the royal obligations that make Canada a legal entity. No wonder there was no mention of the growing gap between rich and poor, since it was designed that way from the beginning.

There was much made of the need to spend more of the taxpayer’s money on increased police authoritarianism. We think the true government prefers a police state, over a government of the people, as it makes it easier for the rich to get richer by throwing dissenters in jail. The environmental issues that were mentioned shows Mr. Harper’s commitment to the American spin on climate. We will not be here in 2050 if we do not change the way we are violating the laws of nature now.

It is time for Canada to become a true model of democracy that the rest of the world can use as an example. We think that a model based on “peace on earth” for our entire earth family is the only way we can assure our grandchildren’s security. War is not an option for creating peace, as we have saw in the last century. War begets more war and the “corporatocracy” becomes unbelievably wealthy on the blood shed of the common man, hence why the war on terrorism was instigated by “bonesman” Bush. It is a war that will never stop until all of the resources of the world are controlled by a few men.

In this era of instant global communication the chance for peace on earth is within our grasp.

Unity, Strength, Peace,
Thahoketoteh of Kanekota

Ping Pong

The provincial government keeps suggesting that it is the federal government that needs to resolve the land theft issues, but they keep handing out permits to developers. The federal government keeps hiding its head in the sand. The media keeps putting their corporate spin on it to try and influence public opinion in favour of their corporate masters.

The issue is between the British government (the crown) and the Rotinonhsonnion:we (six nations confederacy). The Canadian government represents the crown in all of this land called Canada, that is why you have a picture of the queen on the Canadian money. Mr. Harper has shown that he is not honoring the crown’s obligations by his silence and inaction on this issue. Mr. McGuinty is showing that he also does not honour the crown by allowing provincial agencies to issue illegal permits to builders and developers all over the tract. What does the queen of Canada think about the dishonour that these two entities are placing on her family at the expense of her most faithful ally in North America?

Our young men are frustrated to the breaking point. If developers keep buying into the illegality of the permits that Mr. McGuinty keeps issuing, they are also illegal, and do so at their own risk. It has been almost two years since the occupation at Kanonhstaton began. Still these two levels of the Canadian corporation (that is what it is) continue on their illegal, genocidal path. We think the people of Canada have had enough and do not want to be a part of the genocide of the first peoples of this land.

Encroachment is not legal according to the international rule of law. It seems the corporation of Canada is hoping this law will change when the “New World Order” that they are obviously a huge supporter of, finally rewrite international law into favour of the empire.

It is time for Mr. Harper and the rest of the federal government to stop the illegal issuance of permits on all of the Haldimand tract. This is the least they could do to honour our most faithful ally, their queen, and save her family’s reputation on the world stage.

We are certain that most of the other countries watching this scenario unfold, will step in soon to hold Canada accountable. We call on our ancient allies from around the world to put pressure on Canada to follow the international rule of law, preserve the peace so it can be spread to the rest of the world and honour their responsibility to peace on earth.

Unity, Strength, Peace,
Thahoketoteh of Kanekota

Honour matters

You all received a copy of the message I sent to Mr. Harper on the recent OMB Decision/Order no. 2230 regarding case # PL060653 and the one I sent to Mr. Mcguinty on July 26. As I never received a response from either of them I resend a letter regarding honour of the crown. With the upcoming provincial election and the shaky situation in the federal sphere, this letter is absolutely applicable now.

A Matter of Honour
The current situation with Canada and the Mohawk nation, in fact all of the original nations, has come full circle. Just like in a cycle. The question everyone needs to ask is, does Canada honour her obligations in the international sphere? These unresolved land claims all over this vast land are of utmost importance to Canada’s reputation on the world stage. We got a letter back from the Queen stating that Canada is a constitutional democracy (without a ratified constitution I might add), and to take up our issues with her representative the Governor General. As far as I am aware the Governor General has never answered that call. But for her and the rest of the elected and appointed representatives in this so-called democracy, their duty is to honour the Crown.

In the Haldimand Proclamation the Crown was to protect for us and our posterity forever, 6 miles from each side of the Grand River starting at Lake Erie and extending to the head. It is spelled out quite clear what they are supposed to be doing to honour the British Crown’s reputation.

Now I have been up here at the headwaters for 7 years paying rent to the tune of $10Gs a year and have been asking the government through its various arms, where is the land you are supposed to be protecting for me and my future generations? The people whom I have met and conversed with here, all assume that we have been conquered somehow. I ask “when did that happen” because we still are "her majesty's faithful allies" as it states in the Haldimand contract

As eyes and ears of the Mohawk Nation here at the headwaters (Kanekota), it is my duty to all Mohawks and their future generations to hold them to their word. As Hendrick said in 1710 when he arrived back from Britain “They rely on the written word, and that is how they will be judged”

There are 8 fires going now for the Mohawk nation in New York, Quebec and Ontario. These corporations seeking to exploit our jurisdiction need to start understanding that. It doesn’t help that the government of Ontario and Canada keep trying to steer them on the illegal path.

The process for these windmill groups is definitely not legal when they are not honouring the crowns obligations. Their lawyers seem to follow the age old strategy of trying to find a scapegoat, like Joseph Brant, and somehow trying to appear legal. When that doesn’t work they bring in the police and when that doesn’t work they bring in the army. Why not try honouring your legal responsibilities? That might work.

In Peace,
Thahoketoteh of Kanekota

Unity

Unity of Mind

The people need to understand that we do not have a problem with them, only their immoral government. There is a whole section in the Great Law that describes the rights of all nations. They all have a place within the framework, as it is meant to bring peace to the world. I only assume that most people would embrace peace as it is the only way to bring harmony to this world. The American government was born of war and has continually engaged in them, their foreign policy "manifest destiny" promotes war and conquest. If all of the people did not buy into their plan for global domination then they would have no more power to war on the rest of the world.

Through the media they promote fear and justify their immoral actions. One of the best lessons I have learned is; the only fear you should have is fear itself. Fear is a disease and any fear you hold in your mind will definitely manifest itself, that is how the mind works. The solution is to lose your fear and engage in positive thinking because your mind will attract the positive energies that are abundant in the etherial cover. Then our reality would become much different as people regain their individual power and control their own thoughts.The new world that would come about with this shift of thought would be a beautiful one, our future children would be secure with the rest of the earth family.

Here in Canada we have the opportunity to engage in the building of peace as it starts in each persons mind. We have a diverse population with many of the people of the world living here who could pass the message of peace to their home countries. Canada once had a reputation of promoting and preserving peace, but its actions in Afghanistan have tarnished that reputation. We are human and we make mistakes but we can address and correct those things that have put us to the brink of total war. In America now, the neo-conservatives are prepping the rest of us for nuclear war which would destroy the entire earth family.

We have the power to open our minds to the prospect of true peace, just by putting those thoughts out there. War begets more war as we have seen in our lifetime. The key is to bury our weapons for all time under the tree of peace and truly unite as one earth family. What a good world we could leave our posterity then.

With unity of mind through the natural law, comes great strength.

Thahoketoteh of Kanekota

Police Reform

The recent inquiries into the RCMP by the Commons Committee is bringing to the surface problems all of us will face in an authoritarian police state. The indigenous people of Canada have been the first victims of this mistake as the record will clearly show. The tip of the iceberg is now being touched and the whole judiciary will have to be examined and rebuilt based on true principles of democracy.

I think the parliamentarians and the judiciary must read “Returning to the Teachings” and “Dancing with a Ghost” by Rupert Ross. He has studied the aboriginal form of justice while working for the Ontario Crown Attorney’s office in Northwestern Ontario. His work on this topic is paramount to finding solutions that will be everlasting for the different peoples now inhabiting Turtle Island.

The other police forces, such as the SQ in Quebec and the OPP in Ontario are rampant with corruption to their core. We wonder when they will be scrutinized. I give one example of the OPP that I have personal knowledge of. Many people will remember the efforts by them to stop the influx of cheaper American booze coming through Mohawk territory in the 90’s. I spoke with an eyewitness to one of their busts as he was the only person to escape detection. He was able to view and hear the officers splitting the booty between themselves. He heard them laughing and only entering half of the cases of booze into evidence while splitting the rest amongst themselves. When the police become the criminals that they are apparently apprehending, we have a huge problem.

The recent release of Paris Hilton in the States after 3 days in jail shows how the American (and Canadian) forms of justice depend on how much money you have. We also can assume that Conrad Black (Bilderberger) will not be put in jail, as he is above the law that the rest of us are subject to. My own experience with my drivers license is worth mentioning, I was told by a lawyer that if I paid 10Gs all this trouble would go away. I didn’t have the money at the time and so still have no license to drive a car in my own homeland.

The Masonic (white serpent) influence within the police is total according to an officer I know personally. The oaths of secrecy they make to their brethren through this association negates any oaths they make to uphold the law.

We have a lot of work ahead of us to collectively clean this mess that the hierarchy has created.

Unity, Strength, Peace,
Thahoketoteh of the hills of the Haldimand tract (Kanekota)

N.W.O. agenda

New World Order
We applaud some of the NDP people who are asking the right questions regarding the conservative government’s N.W.O. involvement. The thing that hurts a secret agenda the most, is that it is no longer secret. Mr. Julian is just touching the tip of the iceberg on this issue. We should all be thankful for that.

To get the story we must go back in history to find the true agenda of this New World Order crowd. We know them as the Black Serpent and they are derived from the secret societies, reorganized by the Illuminati. Their true agenda is world domination. They do this through the creation of trade blocks like NAFTA and EEU.

This is the beginning of one world government, controlled by a very few at the top of their hierarchy. If you start to look at the real power behind the apparent democracies of Canada and the U.S. you will see the Illuminati fingerprints. They control the Banks, markets, media, both the Conservatives and Liberals, the Republicans and Democrats.

Not only are the Iroquois the oldest democracy, we are the only true democracy. In the Mohawk language we have no word for “I” only “We” as it should be in an egalitarian state. Each mind is important so that is why I always say Wake up. If we all take control of our own minds then we can take back our power as the people.

These guys having the not-so secret talks in Alberta should be looked at as the Fourth Reich. In that scenario Canada is like Austria in the 1930s. Canadians should be thankful that they have some parliamentarians asking the right questions and the Iroquois standing by, preserving democracy. Remember your history or it will repeat itself.

Unity, Strength, Peace
Thahoketoteh of Kanekota