Canadians should be watchful with the appointment of David Johnston as Governor General. In an interview with Peter Mansbridge he stated he did talk with “Chairman Harper” about utilizing the position for proroguing parliament, again. http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/story/2010/10/04/national-davidjohnston.html Canadians should be asking why a Corporate Lawyer is appointed to the highest colonial position?
It is fitting in this colonial gesture to mention some of the colonial history that has been glossed over recently, like the Canada Post stamps released on the 300 year anniversary of the confederacy visit to England. http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/2010/2010_Four_Kings.jsf
The storyline they give is absolute propaganda. The truth of this visit started in 1701 when 37 nations from turtle island met in Montreal with France. They came up with the formula to end the war problem on earth and they invited their younger brothers from across the seas to come and live under the umbrella of the constitution of peace, here on our land perpetually, forever. In 1710 we sent out a delegation from the confederacy, one from each of the 5 nations and one of them died on the voyage, hence only 4 are mentioned. Their mission was to spread the peace to Europe and bring the constitution of peace, thereby ending the war problem forever. Now you get a better picture of the true Indian problem, it is peace.
A corporation is an artificial entity that is owned by the shareholders who appoint directors to oversee their interests. The Directors monitor and steer the officers, whose job is to run the day to day business of the corporation and return dividends to the shareholders. We know who the directors of the corporation of Canada are; the Senators. We know the officers; PM, leader of the opposition, etc. But who are the shareholders? Well they are the bloodline that has always run the corporatocracy. In their constitution they state “so grand will the illusion of freedom be, they will not even know they are our slaves” here is a link to their “constitution” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09cUMjZ7j8
When we restore shareholder liability and end corporatism, it will be a great step toward our common good of peace on earth. The artificial world has proven to be toxic and unsustainable. The bankers are running amok printing themselves more fiat currency which is an attempt to continue the illusion. Real people is the solution because If you cannot stand behind your own name and reputation you do not deserve to do any business. These secret shareholders are the bloodline that have always ruled. They are the same money-changing families that Jesus exposed in the temple. Their covenant is for continual war.
In Canada you have no ratified constitution and are enlisted through your I.D. as corporate property of Canada registered at the U.N. In the U.S. your constitution has been written through legalese for the “ruling elite” not for you.
A wise Shakespeare once said “kill all the lawyers” … When you have lawyers acting as lawmakers it should be illegal as they are beholden to another oath and language that will “deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they have left” as they state in their constitution. Having a lawyer as Governor General is outrageous.
Canadians have been chemically lobotomized form the very first vaccinations to the fluoridated water and all of the food additives. Are we as stupid as THEY think we are? As the blind man says “we shall see”.
Unity, Strength, Peace,
thahoketoteh of Kanekota
http://thahoketoteh.ws
www.myspace.com/thahoketoteh
Showing posts with label colonialism. Show all posts
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Friday, March 13, 2009
Women's rights...
Women’s Responsibility
The problem with the “democracies” of this world lie in the consensus process. When 51% of the people control the other 49% you have built in “divide and conquer“. In the original model of democratic consensus, there are two houses, the council of men and the council of women. The women control the domestic affairs and are responsible for the children and the land they bring them into. This is women business. If we restore this “natural” right we will bring balance and harmony to our planet and end the war problem very fast.
Any issues that affect the entire community are put into the well. The clans each discuss the issue until there is unity within the entire clan. Then it is passed to the next clan and when all the clans are in agreement, consensus is reached. The goal being unity of mind on each of the issues, with no division.
In this model, the most powerful arm of council is the local government. We all know that when you go in someone’s house the women are in charge. Why should that be any different in the houses of government? Patriarchy is on it’s death bed as it does not follow the natural laws and seeks to place woman on a lower “status” than their men. In the Matriarchal model the most powerful form of government is the local one. The women run the community and keep balance and harmony with everything.
The illusion now is that Local government is under the provincial and federal houses and the least important of the three. That is why we have catastrophic pollution to our environment as the ruling men are only interested in money and power over their women. The land suffers from this egoic mindset and the women are the ones to bring balance to society so we can relearn how to live properly on Mother Earth.
“Kayanerakowa” is the formula for living in peaceful cooperation with each other and the environment. This is an ancient practice and we have been the guardians of this formula for 1000s of years now. The “founders” of the U.S. were greatly influenced by this formula as there meeting at Albany in 1754, attested.
They were directed by the monarchies (bankers) all along. That is why they placed a hierarchal president over a democratic congress and never mentioned anything to their women until 1924. When they were allowed to participate in the election of the officers to the corporate state, or the pretend democracy.
Now these men, self-proclaimed demi-gods are trying to force their agenda on the entire planet through their banking institutions. Their new front man is totally controlled by Wall street, as Alex Jones new movie “The Obama Deception” points out so clearly.
The banking families have been using the same debt scam for 1000s of years now, but now the people can see it in their own pocketbooks. The whole “money” system is due for complete destruction. From the ashes we will come up with a way that all of the people agree with. Using the system of consensus that follows the matriarchal model, we cannot fail.
It is time for each individual to attain peace within the self by reconnecting with the spirit. Mother earth, father creator and you. It is you that you are waiting for.
Unity, Strength, Peace,
thahoketoteh of Kanekota
www.myspace.com/thahoketoteh
www.youtube.com/thahoketoteh
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The beginning to an end...
Apocalypse Now
The word apocalypse means revealing. The masks are coming off now for all people to see what is truly going on. The “corporate” colonial states, with their bloodline bankers running the perpetual debt scam on our unborn children. The routine genocide being induced, the truth behind all the wars that we have lived through. We are living in the apocalypse now.
Now we have the first black president in the white house. It reminds me of the movie “Deep Impact” there was a black president (the first one) and he had to keep the truth from the public about an incoming E.L.E. In that movie they never warned the public until hours before their ultimate demise. They had been building underground facilities to house selected survivors for a few years before the extinction level event.
In the alternative media there has been reports about all of these underground facilities being built all over the world right now. In 2006 NASA erected the south pole telescope because it is the only place on earth that can view anything below the ecliptic plane. I have been monitoring the internet for anything from this station and have only saw a few pictures of the very real E.L.E. approaching our planet now, thanks to a couple of “real” people at S.P.T.
The Bankers Cabal has been busy preparing the people for their New World Order. This Cabal control the western democracies and own NASA, the U.S. government only has shares in the private corporation. They have stated for centuries their ideas about eugenics and their desire to kill 90% of us. All of the governments know of this ELE and the predicted pole shift. D.O.D. estimates that as many as 2/3 of the people will perish in the pole shift. Cabal controlled media will not let you know anything, until it we see it coming. When the approaching “planet x” comes above the ecliptic plane this year the lid will be off the can. The people will know they have been lied to and kept ignorant, by design.The elite are hoping to implement their total control over the world after the waters recede. The people have opened their eyes and minds and will not tow the line of the elite any longer.
Dekanawida called these elite “serpents” , he said that when the 2nd sun appears in the sky, it will signal the end of the serpents reign over the people. It was Dekanawida who taught about acknowledgement, respect and brotherly love. He gave us the very first united nations, “constitution” and was the first to bring in an era of peace, which lasted 3000 years. He told of his return on this cycle and of the next era of peace.
It is the time again to end the killing and stop wars for all time. To bury our weapons under a symbolic tree of peace and follow the formula laid down by Dekanawida (the Peacemaker). The top down hierarchies will all go the way of the DoDo bird and a return to egalitarianism will follow on planet earth. We, the people will have the final say "Skennen"
Unity, Strength, Peace,
thahoketoteh of Kanekota
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Kevin Annett's new year wish...
Looking Back, Looking Forward:
The Political Consequences of Uncovering Genocide
in Canada
By Kevin D. Annett (Eagle Strong Voice)
Squamish Nation territory
2008 was the year the impossible happened in Canada .
Our national network known as The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared made history this past year, and forever changed the political landscape of Canada. In the words of Dora, an elderly survivor of the Kamloops Indian Residential School,
“You’ve finally put our people on the map. They can’t ignore us, ever again.”
In a nutshell, we have forced Canada to admit to its genocide of native people, and issue a formal apology for the residential admit that thousands of children died in these schools. Our allied hereditary chiefs proclaimed sovereignty over indigenous land and issued eviction orders against the churches responsible for genocide.
Quite simply, after years of effort, we have forever changed the image of Canada in the world and ended an official regime of Holocaust Denial.
It has been a joy and an honor for me to help win such a moral victory for people who have never been “on the map”. But what has this victory meant for such people?
On Palm Sunday, March 16, 2008, fifty of us - natives and "whites" - walked quietly to the front of the Holy Rosary Catholic Cathedral in downtown Vancouver and stood there, facing the congregation, holding a banner that read, “All the Children Need a Proper Burial.”
We had been warned to stay away from that church. But I remember walking unafraid to the front of the sanctuary with all our people, led by three clan mothers. Among us were William Combes, Rick Lavallee and Bingo, homeless survivors of hideous tortures at Catholic residential schools.
That moment was a pinnacle for me, and for the survivors, for in the very heart of that which had tried to kill them, they were able to face it and say, We are still here, and we want our friends returned to us.
Past the angry threats of the priests, and the police who later descended on us, we were reaching out and touching the hearts of people in the Catholic church that day.
And it worked. For, after a few minutes, as our procession left the sanctuary led by the drumming of the clan mothers, the entire congregation rose spontaneously as we walked by.
It was then that I knew we had won. And sure enough, the walls began coming down after our moral victory that day.
In the wake of our March action, the missing residential school children have, for the first time, preoccupied the conscience and public discourse of Canada . It is as if the entire dominant culture is now standing, as did the Catholic parishioners, to acknowledge what they know is true, in remembrance of the missing children.
In opposition, both church and state have done their best, since that day, to belittle our work and downplay the reality of murders in Indian residential schools, and their responsibility for them. But such is always the behavior of those with their backs to the wall.
If our simple act of speaking of the dead and holding up the survivors has begun to shake loose centuries of Holocaust Denial in Canada , it has also caused us to ask ourselves, Where do we go from here?
We are no longer asking for anything from the churches and state that are responsible for genocide. Rather, all our actions in 2008 have laid the groundwork for an even greater step: drawing the broader political consequences of our exposure of Canada as a colonial and genocidal settler state, and creating an altogether new society.
Who are We and What Can We Become?
Our exposure of the Canadian genocide has simultaneously indicted the social order that gave rise to it. Euro-Canadian Christian society as a whole stands condemned in the dock alongside those persons who ran the residential schools, sterilized and murdered children, spread smallpox, and dug the mass graves.
Despite their best efforts to ignore this fact and contain the whole matter with pseudo “apologies”, the Canadian government and its partner Catholic, Anglican and United churches now face the same kind of historical reckoning that Nazi Germany did after its defeat in 1945: an awakening to their own criminal nature.
On April 20, 2007, Canada and those churches suffered a fundamental moral defeat in Parliament, when the first cabinet minister in Canadian history publicly acknowledged that untold thousands of children had died in Christian Indian residential schools.
The extent of this defeat has yet to be appreciated by most Canadians, or even indigenous people. But its impact is nevertheless reverberating throughout every level of society and undermining the very basis of Canada ’s existence.
The question now is how to draw the larger conclusions of this defeat in order to reinvent Canada from the top down, and the bottom up, with a basic purpose: the establishment of a decolonized, secular, and genuinely democratic federation of sovereign nations – the Republic of Kanata .
Shedding the Past, Creating a Future
Canada has never been allowed to become a sovereign and democratic nation because of its historical role as a resource base and captured market for first the British and then the American empire. That dependency required that Canada remain frozen as a colonial, church-dominated, semi-feudal society: a condition that has caused the sustained genocide of indigenous peoples and the destruction of their lands, and now threatens the lives of all of us.
The two attempted democratic revolutions in our history – the abortive rebellions in 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada, and the Metis Insurrection of 1885 in the Red River basin – had as their aim the ending of an Imperial oligarchy and the creation of a democratic Republic in which aboriginals and Europeans could co-exist equally. The crushing of both rebellions ensured that oligarchy and apartheid would remain the political norm in Canada .
And yet, the same vision of freedom that propelled these revolts had been originally offered by the eastern Six Nations to the arriving Europeans through the “Two Road Wampum” Great Law of Peace, in which both cultures would share the land and not seek to dominate or conquer the other.
That offer was rejected not by Europeans as a whole, but by the religious and commercial elites who ran the foreign policy of both the French and British Empires, especially during the European Religious Wars of the formative 17th century.
Time and again, the Catholic and Protestant churches subverted peaceful relations between whites and natives, and among aboriginal nations such as the Huron and Iroquois, as part of their plan to exterminate all non-Christian peoples and take their land. In the words of the Jesuit missionary Jean Brebeuf,
“There can be no peace or parity between the savages and Christians. This is required by our Faith and the fur trade.”
Canada as we know it has arisen on the basis of this basic philosophy of Christian Superior Dominion.
There is still no equality between natives and non-natives in Canada because of an apartheid Indian Act that relegates “Indians” to a separate and inferior status, and holds most of them in a state of permanent sickness, landlessness and poverty on their own land. Such permanent internal colonialism is required by the foreign and domestic corporate interests that run Canada as a fuel pump and watering hole.
Quite simply, in a neo-colonial regime like Canada , where “the Crown” legally owns all the land, native people must continue to be killed off, legally and methodically, for such theft to continue. A constant aboriginal death rate twenty times the national average is the deadly proof.
This genocidal reality will never change in Canada as it is presently constituted, since the maintenance of natives, and the poor generally, as a disempowered cash cow for others to exploit is an institutionalized part of Canadian society.
The nine billion dollar Indian Affairs industry requires a sick, dependent aboriginal populace, and a compliant class of collaborating native elites to administer this sickness. For the resulting totalitarian control of native people at every level is precisely what resource-hungry corporations need to take the last remnants of oil, timber, minerals and water from what is still aboriginal land.
Such a structurally criminal regime cannot be tinkered with or reformed, resting as it does on the oppression of most of the population, whether native or non-native. The existence of Canadians as “subjects of the Crown” under the ultimate authority of one person – a Governor-General accountable only to a foreign monarch – amounts to a state of legal slavery utterly repugnant to democracy and sovereignty.
“The only way to reform a colonial system is by dismantling it” said the great Irish nationalist, Bernadette Devlin. And the key to dismantling the Canadian oligarchy is to establish responsible government by severing ties with the English monarchy and creating a federated and secular Republic of sovereign indigenous nations with full public ownership of the economy, the land, and all its resources.
In short, every vestige of the system that spawned genocide in Canada needs to be abolished, if we are serious about ending its legacy and doing justice to aboriginal people and residential school survivors.
A Program for Ending Genocide
Legal genocide in Canada has rested historically on three pillars: a colonial political oligarchy under the authority of the English Crown; a powerful, unaccountable and state-protected religious oligarchy in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, and later, the state-created United Church ; and a foreign-controlled, dependent economy.
To dismantle the root causes of genocide in Canada, we must replace all three of these systems, through a process of active de-construction and reconstruction: undoing what caused the wrong and building an altogether new political and social regime in its place.
To commence, our general aim must be the following steps of “decolonization and de-construction” in order to lay the basis for a true democratic and secular Republic:
I. Politically: Active disaffiliation from the English Crown and the Canadian state and its courts;
II. Spiritually: Disestablishment of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada ; and
III. Socially: De-corporatizing our economy and the creation of local, self-sufficient economies under public ownership.
A real Program of Justice for all victims of genocide in Canada must restore social equality, the health of the land, and democratic sovereignty of all nations within Kanata , through these and other measures:
I. Politically:
1. Abolish the Governor-General and issue a formal Declaration of Independence from the British Crown.
2. Abolish the Indian Act, the federal courts, the Senate, the RCMP and the Indian and Northern Affairs department.
3. Reconstitute Canada as a federated and secular Republic of Kanata , based on a recognition of the root title sovereignty of all indigenous nations and of the common ownership by all citizens of the economy, wealth, lands and resources of Kanata .
II. Spiritually:
1. Tax the churches: Revoke the charitable tax-exempt status of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church, nationalize all church property and land, audit and assess all payments owed by these churches to the people and indigenous nations since their inception, and return all lands and effects stolen by these churches from native people.
2. Revoke the legal charters and legislation governing the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, and thereby end their official, legal status.
3. End diplomatic recognition of the Vatican and expel the Papal Nuncio.
4. Separate church and state: no funding for religious schools or churches, no religious oaths or functions connected to the state, no state protection for clergy or churches (ie, revoke sections 176 and 296 of the Criminal Code of Canada).
5. Establish a public, international inquiry into crimes of these churches against native people, including in Indian residential schools, with the power to subpoena, try and jail offenders.
III. Socially
A Jubilee Campaign to restore the land and economy to the people:
1. Cancel all debts and mortgages, and return all land to its original owners.
2. Place banks, money supply and credit under public ownership and control.
3. Impose a 100% tax on all wealth gained by inheritance, interest and speculation, and the abolition of all income tax.
4. Establish a maximum wage and redistribute all surplus income to the lower paid.
5. Collect all back taxes owed by corporations and a special tax on the super wealthy and on corporate profits.
6. Abolish foreign ownership of the economy.
7. Abolish all land speculation and the commercial trading in land.
8. Nationalize all resources.
9. Socialize all housing, medicine, education and transportation, freely available to all.
A Gaia Campaign to restore the health and harmony of the land:
1. Impose a Green Tax on all privately owned vehicles.
2. Abolish nuclear power and the uranium industry.
3. Develop wind, solar and tidal energy industries.
4. Phase out petrol vehicles, and replace with non-polluting, mass-transit systems.
5. Immediately nationalize all polluting industries and abolish or eco-convert them.
6. Legally limit the size of all land ownership to 100 hectares.
7. Collectivize all farming and agriculture, and abolish all pesticides and herbicides.
8. Abolish the sale and commercialization of water: Provide free, universal access to water through the establishment of public ownership over all water resources.
Acting on this Vision and Program
These proposals are but a beginning in a long process of social and spiritual emancipation from corporate genocide.
Our purpose as a de-colonizing movement is to create a new society within the shell of the old: to bring about a parallel social order in opposition to “Canada” through a massive democratic movement from below. We can only succeed through a conscious, activated citizenry who take control of their lives and the land.
Consequently, we reject any reliance on or involvement in the existing parliamentary or electoral system, which is based on an undemocratic allegiance to a foreign monarch.
Instead, we will seek to create new popular assemblies and courts through which the people can express their will freely and openly, justice can be directly enacted, and the present political system can be overturned. We will use mass civil disobedience, strikes, withholding of taxes, and other direct actions to undermine and replace Canada and its institutions with a truly democratic republic.
To coordinate and lead this campaign, we look to a mass revolutionary party to engender but not dominate our movement. The creation of a democratic and secular Republic of Kanata will unleash the greatest freedom and diversity among the people, who will learn through their own struggles the meaning of self-government.
Our underlying recognition is that true democracy and sovereignty cannot come into being or survive without the complete public ownership of all of Kanata by all the people. The poorest person has as equal a right to the land and its wealth as the richest, and we shall work to create a society where all class distinctions and the private ownership of the economy have been abolished.
We encourage you to share this Program and Vision, and begin to act on it.
As a first step, we call upon all people who are in agreement with this Vision and Program to take the Pledge of Allegiance to Kanata (below) and to form organizing committees in their communities to prepare for the formal launching of the Republican Party of Kanata.
In solidarity and hope for our common future,
The Elders and National Council of the Republican Movement of Kanata, in alliance with traditional Squamish Chief Siem Kiapilano
………………………………………………………………………………
Pledge of Allegiance to the Republic of Kanata
I do solemnly swear allegiance to the Federated Republic of Kanata, and to the principles of sovereignty, natural law, unconditional democracy, and public, collective ownership for which Kanata stands.
I swear to defend the Republic of Kanata against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to sever all ties and allegiance to the British Crown, and to the government known as Canada. I pledge to stand in solidarity with all those who take this oath and to defend them unconditionally.
I take this pledge freely, without coercion, mental reservation, or ulterior motive, according to my honor and freedom as a natural and sovereign person.
(Name, Address and Date)
Please send a copy of your signed Pledge to:
The Secretary, RPK
260 Kennedy St.
Nanaimo, B.C.
V9R 2H8
Acting under the authority of traditional Squamish Chief Siem Kiapilano, on his territory
1 January, 2009
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
The Political Consequences of Uncovering Genocide
in Canada
By Kevin D. Annett (Eagle Strong Voice)
Squamish Nation territory
2008 was the year the impossible happened in Canada .
Our national network known as The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared made history this past year, and forever changed the political landscape of Canada. In the words of Dora, an elderly survivor of the Kamloops Indian Residential School,
“You’ve finally put our people on the map. They can’t ignore us, ever again.”
In a nutshell, we have forced Canada to admit to its genocide of native people, and issue a formal apology for the residential admit that thousands of children died in these schools. Our allied hereditary chiefs proclaimed sovereignty over indigenous land and issued eviction orders against the churches responsible for genocide.
Quite simply, after years of effort, we have forever changed the image of Canada in the world and ended an official regime of Holocaust Denial.
It has been a joy and an honor for me to help win such a moral victory for people who have never been “on the map”. But what has this victory meant for such people?
On Palm Sunday, March 16, 2008, fifty of us - natives and "whites" - walked quietly to the front of the Holy Rosary Catholic Cathedral in downtown Vancouver and stood there, facing the congregation, holding a banner that read, “All the Children Need a Proper Burial.”
We had been warned to stay away from that church. But I remember walking unafraid to the front of the sanctuary with all our people, led by three clan mothers. Among us were William Combes, Rick Lavallee and Bingo, homeless survivors of hideous tortures at Catholic residential schools.
That moment was a pinnacle for me, and for the survivors, for in the very heart of that which had tried to kill them, they were able to face it and say, We are still here, and we want our friends returned to us.
Past the angry threats of the priests, and the police who later descended on us, we were reaching out and touching the hearts of people in the Catholic church that day.
And it worked. For, after a few minutes, as our procession left the sanctuary led by the drumming of the clan mothers, the entire congregation rose spontaneously as we walked by.
It was then that I knew we had won. And sure enough, the walls began coming down after our moral victory that day.
In the wake of our March action, the missing residential school children have, for the first time, preoccupied the conscience and public discourse of Canada . It is as if the entire dominant culture is now standing, as did the Catholic parishioners, to acknowledge what they know is true, in remembrance of the missing children.
In opposition, both church and state have done their best, since that day, to belittle our work and downplay the reality of murders in Indian residential schools, and their responsibility for them. But such is always the behavior of those with their backs to the wall.
If our simple act of speaking of the dead and holding up the survivors has begun to shake loose centuries of Holocaust Denial in Canada , it has also caused us to ask ourselves, Where do we go from here?
We are no longer asking for anything from the churches and state that are responsible for genocide. Rather, all our actions in 2008 have laid the groundwork for an even greater step: drawing the broader political consequences of our exposure of Canada as a colonial and genocidal settler state, and creating an altogether new society.
Who are We and What Can We Become?
Our exposure of the Canadian genocide has simultaneously indicted the social order that gave rise to it. Euro-Canadian Christian society as a whole stands condemned in the dock alongside those persons who ran the residential schools, sterilized and murdered children, spread smallpox, and dug the mass graves.
Despite their best efforts to ignore this fact and contain the whole matter with pseudo “apologies”, the Canadian government and its partner Catholic, Anglican and United churches now face the same kind of historical reckoning that Nazi Germany did after its defeat in 1945: an awakening to their own criminal nature.
On April 20, 2007, Canada and those churches suffered a fundamental moral defeat in Parliament, when the first cabinet minister in Canadian history publicly acknowledged that untold thousands of children had died in Christian Indian residential schools.
The extent of this defeat has yet to be appreciated by most Canadians, or even indigenous people. But its impact is nevertheless reverberating throughout every level of society and undermining the very basis of Canada ’s existence.
The question now is how to draw the larger conclusions of this defeat in order to reinvent Canada from the top down, and the bottom up, with a basic purpose: the establishment of a decolonized, secular, and genuinely democratic federation of sovereign nations – the Republic of Kanata .
Shedding the Past, Creating a Future
Canada has never been allowed to become a sovereign and democratic nation because of its historical role as a resource base and captured market for first the British and then the American empire. That dependency required that Canada remain frozen as a colonial, church-dominated, semi-feudal society: a condition that has caused the sustained genocide of indigenous peoples and the destruction of their lands, and now threatens the lives of all of us.
The two attempted democratic revolutions in our history – the abortive rebellions in 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada, and the Metis Insurrection of 1885 in the Red River basin – had as their aim the ending of an Imperial oligarchy and the creation of a democratic Republic in which aboriginals and Europeans could co-exist equally. The crushing of both rebellions ensured that oligarchy and apartheid would remain the political norm in Canada .
And yet, the same vision of freedom that propelled these revolts had been originally offered by the eastern Six Nations to the arriving Europeans through the “Two Road Wampum” Great Law of Peace, in which both cultures would share the land and not seek to dominate or conquer the other.
That offer was rejected not by Europeans as a whole, but by the religious and commercial elites who ran the foreign policy of both the French and British Empires, especially during the European Religious Wars of the formative 17th century.
Time and again, the Catholic and Protestant churches subverted peaceful relations between whites and natives, and among aboriginal nations such as the Huron and Iroquois, as part of their plan to exterminate all non-Christian peoples and take their land. In the words of the Jesuit missionary Jean Brebeuf,
“There can be no peace or parity between the savages and Christians. This is required by our Faith and the fur trade.”
Canada as we know it has arisen on the basis of this basic philosophy of Christian Superior Dominion.
There is still no equality between natives and non-natives in Canada because of an apartheid Indian Act that relegates “Indians” to a separate and inferior status, and holds most of them in a state of permanent sickness, landlessness and poverty on their own land. Such permanent internal colonialism is required by the foreign and domestic corporate interests that run Canada as a fuel pump and watering hole.
Quite simply, in a neo-colonial regime like Canada , where “the Crown” legally owns all the land, native people must continue to be killed off, legally and methodically, for such theft to continue. A constant aboriginal death rate twenty times the national average is the deadly proof.
This genocidal reality will never change in Canada as it is presently constituted, since the maintenance of natives, and the poor generally, as a disempowered cash cow for others to exploit is an institutionalized part of Canadian society.
The nine billion dollar Indian Affairs industry requires a sick, dependent aboriginal populace, and a compliant class of collaborating native elites to administer this sickness. For the resulting totalitarian control of native people at every level is precisely what resource-hungry corporations need to take the last remnants of oil, timber, minerals and water from what is still aboriginal land.
Such a structurally criminal regime cannot be tinkered with or reformed, resting as it does on the oppression of most of the population, whether native or non-native. The existence of Canadians as “subjects of the Crown” under the ultimate authority of one person – a Governor-General accountable only to a foreign monarch – amounts to a state of legal slavery utterly repugnant to democracy and sovereignty.
“The only way to reform a colonial system is by dismantling it” said the great Irish nationalist, Bernadette Devlin. And the key to dismantling the Canadian oligarchy is to establish responsible government by severing ties with the English monarchy and creating a federated and secular Republic of sovereign indigenous nations with full public ownership of the economy, the land, and all its resources.
In short, every vestige of the system that spawned genocide in Canada needs to be abolished, if we are serious about ending its legacy and doing justice to aboriginal people and residential school survivors.
A Program for Ending Genocide
Legal genocide in Canada has rested historically on three pillars: a colonial political oligarchy under the authority of the English Crown; a powerful, unaccountable and state-protected religious oligarchy in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, and later, the state-created United Church ; and a foreign-controlled, dependent economy.
To dismantle the root causes of genocide in Canada, we must replace all three of these systems, through a process of active de-construction and reconstruction: undoing what caused the wrong and building an altogether new political and social regime in its place.
To commence, our general aim must be the following steps of “decolonization and de-construction” in order to lay the basis for a true democratic and secular Republic:
I. Politically: Active disaffiliation from the English Crown and the Canadian state and its courts;
II. Spiritually: Disestablishment of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada ; and
III. Socially: De-corporatizing our economy and the creation of local, self-sufficient economies under public ownership.
A real Program of Justice for all victims of genocide in Canada must restore social equality, the health of the land, and democratic sovereignty of all nations within Kanata , through these and other measures:
I. Politically:
1. Abolish the Governor-General and issue a formal Declaration of Independence from the British Crown.
2. Abolish the Indian Act, the federal courts, the Senate, the RCMP and the Indian and Northern Affairs department.
3. Reconstitute Canada as a federated and secular Republic of Kanata , based on a recognition of the root title sovereignty of all indigenous nations and of the common ownership by all citizens of the economy, wealth, lands and resources of Kanata .
II. Spiritually:
1. Tax the churches: Revoke the charitable tax-exempt status of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church, nationalize all church property and land, audit and assess all payments owed by these churches to the people and indigenous nations since their inception, and return all lands and effects stolen by these churches from native people.
2. Revoke the legal charters and legislation governing the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, and thereby end their official, legal status.
3. End diplomatic recognition of the Vatican and expel the Papal Nuncio.
4. Separate church and state: no funding for religious schools or churches, no religious oaths or functions connected to the state, no state protection for clergy or churches (ie, revoke sections 176 and 296 of the Criminal Code of Canada).
5. Establish a public, international inquiry into crimes of these churches against native people, including in Indian residential schools, with the power to subpoena, try and jail offenders.
III. Socially
A Jubilee Campaign to restore the land and economy to the people:
1. Cancel all debts and mortgages, and return all land to its original owners.
2. Place banks, money supply and credit under public ownership and control.
3. Impose a 100% tax on all wealth gained by inheritance, interest and speculation, and the abolition of all income tax.
4. Establish a maximum wage and redistribute all surplus income to the lower paid.
5. Collect all back taxes owed by corporations and a special tax on the super wealthy and on corporate profits.
6. Abolish foreign ownership of the economy.
7. Abolish all land speculation and the commercial trading in land.
8. Nationalize all resources.
9. Socialize all housing, medicine, education and transportation, freely available to all.
A Gaia Campaign to restore the health and harmony of the land:
1. Impose a Green Tax on all privately owned vehicles.
2. Abolish nuclear power and the uranium industry.
3. Develop wind, solar and tidal energy industries.
4. Phase out petrol vehicles, and replace with non-polluting, mass-transit systems.
5. Immediately nationalize all polluting industries and abolish or eco-convert them.
6. Legally limit the size of all land ownership to 100 hectares.
7. Collectivize all farming and agriculture, and abolish all pesticides and herbicides.
8. Abolish the sale and commercialization of water: Provide free, universal access to water through the establishment of public ownership over all water resources.
Acting on this Vision and Program
These proposals are but a beginning in a long process of social and spiritual emancipation from corporate genocide.
Our purpose as a de-colonizing movement is to create a new society within the shell of the old: to bring about a parallel social order in opposition to “Canada” through a massive democratic movement from below. We can only succeed through a conscious, activated citizenry who take control of their lives and the land.
Consequently, we reject any reliance on or involvement in the existing parliamentary or electoral system, which is based on an undemocratic allegiance to a foreign monarch.
Instead, we will seek to create new popular assemblies and courts through which the people can express their will freely and openly, justice can be directly enacted, and the present political system can be overturned. We will use mass civil disobedience, strikes, withholding of taxes, and other direct actions to undermine and replace Canada and its institutions with a truly democratic republic.
To coordinate and lead this campaign, we look to a mass revolutionary party to engender but not dominate our movement. The creation of a democratic and secular Republic of Kanata will unleash the greatest freedom and diversity among the people, who will learn through their own struggles the meaning of self-government.
Our underlying recognition is that true democracy and sovereignty cannot come into being or survive without the complete public ownership of all of Kanata by all the people. The poorest person has as equal a right to the land and its wealth as the richest, and we shall work to create a society where all class distinctions and the private ownership of the economy have been abolished.
We encourage you to share this Program and Vision, and begin to act on it.
As a first step, we call upon all people who are in agreement with this Vision and Program to take the Pledge of Allegiance to Kanata (below) and to form organizing committees in their communities to prepare for the formal launching of the Republican Party of Kanata.
In solidarity and hope for our common future,
The Elders and National Council of the Republican Movement of Kanata, in alliance with traditional Squamish Chief Siem Kiapilano
………………………………………………………………………………
Pledge of Allegiance to the Republic of Kanata
I do solemnly swear allegiance to the Federated Republic of Kanata, and to the principles of sovereignty, natural law, unconditional democracy, and public, collective ownership for which Kanata stands.
I swear to defend the Republic of Kanata against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to sever all ties and allegiance to the British Crown, and to the government known as Canada. I pledge to stand in solidarity with all those who take this oath and to defend them unconditionally.
I take this pledge freely, without coercion, mental reservation, or ulterior motive, according to my honor and freedom as a natural and sovereign person.
(Name, Address and Date)
Please send a copy of your signed Pledge to:
The Secretary, RPK
260 Kennedy St.
Nanaimo, B.C.
V9R 2H8
Acting under the authority of traditional Squamish Chief Siem Kiapilano, on his territory
1 January, 2009
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Genocide update...
Update and Thoughts from Kevin Annett and
the International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada
(established April 15, 2008)
O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest
who ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
(Julius Caesar, Act 3:1)
A Moment of Reflection ...
If only we in Canada had an ounce of Marc Antony's outrage when it comes to murder in our midst.
All the "honorable men" who slew Caesar had the weight of law on their side, as do the officials of church and state in our country who legally killed generations of innocent children in the "Indian residential schools", and who now absolve themselves of their crime.
Can we dare to ask for pardon from the slaughtered children, for our meek gentleness with their butchers?
Can we ask them to forgive us, when we watch a recent CBC TV broadcast in which Irene Favel described seeing a newborn baby shoved live into a roaring furnace by a priest in Saskatchewan, and we do nothing?
Why should we be forgiven? Who are we to issue an "apology" for our crimes when we refuse to be held accountable for them? When names are not allowed to be named? When priests and nuns are allowed to get away with murder? And when "misconduct" in residential schools cannot even be referred to at the government's upcoming "Truth and Reconciliation" hearings?
Crimes without criminals. Words without substance. That is the Canadian way.
Looking Back, and Forward:
Written on Squamish Nation Territory, under Foreign Occupation - July 21, 2008
Over the past year, the impossible has happened: the government and churches of Canada have been forced for the first time to publicly acknowledge that massive numbers of children died in their Indian residential schools, and that many of these deaths were criminal in nature.
But the predictable has accompanied the impossible: the very same guilty parties have responded to this exposure by effectively absolving themselves of this crime with a verbal "apology" and a self-appointed "inquiry" that is structured to ensure that the crime will be officially whitewashed.
Nothing less can be expected in a place like Canada, where the institutions that ran the residential schools are still in power and call the shots, with the help of their aboriginal collaborators.
But rather than being a cause of despair, this predictable scramble by the guilty to hide their filth is yet another crumbling piece of masonry in the collapsing facade called colonial Canada, which has never resolved what it likes to call its "Indian Problem" - and never will.
Only in an insecure and guilt-haunted nation could the fact of missing aboriginal children generate the enormous turmoil and change that we've witnessed in Canada since April of 2007, when the Harper government was forced to address the missing residential school children in Parliament.
The media scramble that resulted, and has never abated, hovers around the issue of dead residential school kids like a voyeuristic John, watching but not daring to touch all those mass graves. And yet two years ago, the topic was strictly forbidden and censored in the monopolized corporate media in Canada. Today, the Establishment seems to be struggling to gradually acclimatize the populace to the fact of genocide in their midst.
This is all a repeat, but on a bigger scale, of what was tried a decade or more ago, when the first lawsuits by residential school survivors threatened to nail the Catholic, Anglican and United churches to the wall. By slowly leaking to the public some aspects of the residential school nightmare in small, digestible pieces, the media and the courts contained the potentially- explosive issue to yet another ho-hum abuse litigation, complete with "apologies" and "compensation" .
Back then, by reducing genocide to a matter of personal injury claims, Canada spared itself what it's now forced to face: its own history of deliberately exterminating aboriginal nations. But, then as now, the strategy of the guilty churches and state seems to be identical: namely, to minimize and contain the issue by pretending to address it whole not addressing it.
Just as the so-called "Aboriginal Healing Fund" contained the fallout of residential school lawsuits with hush money to survivors, so now does the misnamed "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (TRC) appear to inquire into missing children by studiously preventing any actual disclosure of their fate.
A simple reading of the TRC mandate reveals an alarming deception. While portraying itself as the definitive investigation into Indian residential schools, the TRC in fact is not an investigative body or a legal inquiry; it has no power to subpoena or compel involvement, does not allow the naming of the names of perpetrators, and will not allow any statement involving wrongdoing by a person or organization; nor does it extend immunity or protection to anyone offering evidence.
In short, the TRC is an explicit whitewash of any criminal behaviour in the residential schools. Imagine a "final report" on these schools that has not a single mention of misconduct in it!
Again, this is precisely what one expects when church lawyers and officials like the United Church's former Moderator Bill Phipps - a TRC convenor - establish an inquiry into themselves. And yet, this whole effort by the guilty is doomed to failure.
For one thing, the crime is too huge to contain. Since April 10, we have documented and released to the press thirty-three mass grave sites across Canada near former residential schools, where countless children are reputedly buried. In response, I have been inundated with stories from eyewitnesses who buried children, witnessed the incineration of others, and who saw killings and other crimes in the schools. And many of these stories have appeared in the media.
But what is especially encouraging and unusual about this disclosure is that it is being accompanied by a new wave of lawsuits against the churches responsible for these deaths, brought by relatives of children who were killed. For the first time, the churches and government of Canada are being named in criminal lawsuits for acts of murder.
It gets even better. In some cases, like on Squamish territory in what whites call Vancouver, these lawsuits will be launched not through Canadian courts of law, which have time and again disqualified claims involving murder, but in aboriginal courts of Justice, convened by traditional elders like Squamish Chief Kiapilano.
In other words, raising the spectre of murdered children is unleashing a revolutionary challenge to Canada and its courts, as survivors and other native people invoke their own sovereignty to win justice.
This fact raises the second problem of Canada's attempt to co-opt and contain its culpability for genocide: namely, that there is no consensus "at the top" of how to deal with the threat of indigenous sovereignty. The power of the Canadian establishment is too fractured and regionalized to devise a common response to the growing breakdown of native peoples' imprisonment in their own land.
Today, the Canadian state does not have a single, credible group of collaborating native elites to impose a uniform "Indian policy" across the nations, which means that any effort to simply shut down or contain the furor over missing residential school children will meet with failure. The growing native populaces, restless, off reserve and plagued by poverty and discontent, are too diverse to be so easily managed anymore.
This fact highlights the third roadblock to any easy resolution of the residential school crimes: the particularly vulnerable position of Canada in the world economy as an exporting and tourist nation, and the battering its "humanitarian" image and credit rating have taken as a result of the residential school scandal.
One of the main reasons behind the creation of the fraudulent "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" was the need to create a convincing public relations front to the world during the period leading up to the 2010 Olympics in British Columbia, a region that is the hotbed of independent native protest and non-treatied communities.
The Canadian elites - native and white - are terrified of the prospect of native road and railway blockades during the B.C. Olympics, disrupting as these will the "new relationship" between these elites in their efforts to secure new foreign export markets for Canadian resources, most of which are located on unceded native land. An upstart aboriginal bourgeoisie is acting as the chief arm of the Canadian state in securing these markets, especially with Asian countries, and restraining protests by their own people in the process.
Nevertheless, all of these factors add up to a single truth: Canada and its churches - and their aboriginal accomplices - will be unable to extricate themselves from their liability for their crimes, and therefore will remain extremely vulnerable to any public criticism or protest campaigns aimed at exposing the full extent of the residential school genocide.
The Implications for Us, and the Challenge
Until recently, the movement to bring Canada and its churches to justice for genocide has been localized and relatively unpopular, even among supposed "progressives and radicals". And yet its impact on events has been profound, and has forced Canada's back to the wall, simply by continuing to make public the hard evidence of death and torture in residential schools.
This work is finally paying off, as our efforts are stimulating a much broader reaction among even mainstream Canadians, and we are linking up with more disgruntled residential school survivors and aboriginal youth. There are now twenty six local groups across Canada working with our network, organizing protests, documenting evidence, and educating the world about the Canadian holocaust.
As the frustration of survivors continues to grow with their loss of any avenue for resolving their claims, as the bogus "TRC" exposes itself as Canada's version of the Warren Commission, and as the puppet native chiefs continue to become alienated from their own people, a huge crisis of leadership is emerging in the aboriginal world.
This crisis has created a unique opportunity for those committed to indigenous sovereignty and full justice for residential school survivors. What is lacking is the audacity, the networks, and the overall strategy to begin uprooting the causes of genocide and the colonial political-economic system that is ruining our lands and people.
Last April 15, ten indigenous elders launched their answer to the government's TRC: an independent "International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada". That Tribunal will begin its work this autumn, by convening local inquiries into deaths and other crimes in residential schools, in open opposition to the TRC.
As part of its work, this Tribunal will begin enforcing the Eviction Notices issued by Squamish hereditary Chief Kiapilano against the Catholic, Anglican and United churches on his territory, in "Vancouver". We will claim these buildings and lands as our Mohawk cousins are doing in their land reclamation battle in "Ontario". And within these liberated zones, we will be establishing popular courts of justice to try and convict those persons and organizations responsible for the residential school crimes.
Until September 15, I will be travelling in Europe and elsewhere to gain new international allies for this campaign and cause. Let us begin planning for this "hot autumn" by planning local Tribunals and direct actions of sovereignty and reclamation in all of our communities, against the churches, corporations and government responsible for the murder of our peoples.
May our hearts and courage rise to this challenge. Spread the fire.
I am your brother,
Kevin Annett Eagle Strong Voice
for the Tribunal and sovereignty campaign
260 Kennedy St.
Nanaimo, BC V9R 2H8
ph: 250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007
hiddenfromhistory@ yahoo.ca
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Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
“Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past.”
- Dr. Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“A courageous and inspiring man." (referring to Kevin Annett)
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Belfast , Northern Ireland
The very lands we all along enjoyed
they ravished from the people they destroyed ...
All the long pretenses of descent
are shams of right to prop up government.
' Tis all invasion, usurpation all;
' Tis all by fraud and force that we possess,
and length of time can make no crime the less;
Religion's always on the strongest side.
Daniel Defoe, Jure Divino (England, 1706)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
jurisdiction...
-- "Canada" has no jurisdiction over Mohawk land
On July 14, 2008, Mohawk grandmother and activist Katenies has again been ordered to appear before a judge in the Superior Court of Cornwall, Ontario. Again, Katenies will refuse to recognize the authority of the courts and demand that Canadian officials prove they have jurisdiction over her as an Indigenous woman.
One month ago, on June 14, 2008, Katenies -- accompanied by Kahentinetha of the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory – was targeted for arrest by Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) guards on an outstanding warrant for allegedly "running the border" in 2003, and offenses resulting from her refusal to appear in court and validate the colonial justice system.
Katenies has maintained since 2003 that border officials and the Canadian colonial courts have no jurisdiction over Kanion'ke:haka people or land. In January 2007, Katenies served court officials with a “Motion to Dismiss”, demanding that they establish jurisdiction, if any, over Mohawks and their ability to travel freely between "Canada" and the "United States".
[The Motion to Dismiss is linked here: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/03/katenies-serves-court-with-jurisdiction.html ] and summarrized as follows.
During the CBSA attack, Katenies and Kahentinetha – who are both writers and contributors to Mohawk Nation News (MNN) – were treated brutally by border guards. Both were handcuffed and tackled to the ground. Katenies was jailed for three days. Kahentinetha suffered a heart attack and is under the care of her family. [ www.mohawknationnews.com ]
[Reports about the CBSA attack, and background information, are linked at:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/06/katenies-cbsa-background.html ]
As mainly non-native groups and collectives based in settler communities on or near Mohawk lands, we are publicly standing in support of Katenies, and demand all charges against her by the colonial courts be dropped. We also condemn the brutal attacks by the CBSA on both Katenies and Kahentinetha on June 14, 2008 and declare our solidarity with Indigenous struggles for land, freedom and self-determination.
Endorsed by:
Agitate (Ottawa)
Les Apatrides Anonymes (Montreal)
Block the Empire-Montreal
Kingston Indigenous Solidarity Network
No One Is Illegal-Kingston
No One Is Illegal-Montreal
No One Is Illegal-Ottawa
OPIRG-Carleton
OPIRG/GRIPO-Ottawa
La Otra Campaña (Montreal)
People's Global Action Bloc (Ottawa)
Solidarity Across Borders (Montreal)
To endorse this statement, and Katenies, please contact indigenoussolidaritymontreal@gmail.com This legal challenge will cost money. MNN has none. Canada is apparently hiring top law firms to fight the Mohawks. If you could send donations, it would be greatly appreciated to: “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Nia:en/Thank you very much. www.mohawknationnews.com katenies20@yahoo.com
A summary of the documents that Katenies filed are included to provide the legal background on which this case is based.
SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
CITY OF CORNWALL
Katenies [aka Janet Davis]
v.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
MOTION TO DISMISS
Information #C2202/03, and Court File #06-140
Dated: January 12, 2007
Prepared by: Prepared for:
Aroniakons Katenies a.k.a. Janet Davis
Rotiniaton (turtle clan) Rotiskare:wake (bear clan)
Kahentinetha Rotiskare:wake (bear clan)
Women Title Holders
Kanion’ke:haka of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe
P.O. Box 418, Akwesasne
Via New York) 13655
SEE LIST OF RECIPIENTS AT END OF DOCUMENT.
The question Presented: Provide me in writing the legal basis for your claim to jurisdiction over me and our land.
Attachments: Law, Facts and Analysis served and filed into the record December 18, 2006, Information #C2202/03, and Court File # 06-140, Mohawk Manifesto Books I, II III. Mohawk Manifesto CD format.
MOTION TO DISMISS
(VIOLATION OF ANCIENT BIRTHRIGHT)
SUBJECT OF ANCIENT BIRTHRIGHT
The person of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe who is being charged by the Canada Customs Act with a violation of s.11(1), 153(c) & 153.1, asserts that the corporation of Canada and its agent, Canada Customs, have violated her Ancient Birthright.
The Rotinonhsonni’onwe assert that to deny its people the ability to conduct trade, commerce and travel throughout their territories according to their ancient practices and customs violates the Kaianereh’ko:wa, also known as the Great Law of Peace, as well as the Constitution of the Iroquois. Our agreement is that each party will have jurisdiction over its own people.
The Superior Court of Justice of the province of Ontario in the City of Cornwall is respectfully requested to dismiss all charges and demands for appearance and to return the jurisdiction of this matter to the Mohawk Nation Territory and its Council.
INCIDENT REPORT
On November 13th 2003, I, Katenies, was accused of a non-incident. I was driving through the “Cornwall Island checkpoint” that is placed in the middle of Akwesasne. I was waved through. Supposedly the alarm went off. I was arrested. Customs made a false report forming assumptions that I had “run the border”. I submitted all my paper work challenging the authority of “Her Majesty the Queen”, the corporation of Canada and its agents at the border. The court refused to answer in writing my question in the “Judgment by Retraxit” in the allotted time frame. In March 2004 they lost by default. This made their actions null and void.
According to Section 109 of the Canadian Constitution, Indigenous nations have “prior interests” before that of Canada and its provinces. According to Section 132 of the Constitution the only relationship is nation-to-nation unless there is a surrender. There never was one. I told them they were “squatting” on our land.
On August 16, 2004 I refiled a default to the “Judgment by Retraxit” as the Queen and her courts had not answered me in the 20 days. The court continued to proceed with false actions and proceedings. In February 2004, Federal Magistrate Renaud stated he understood my position on the question about jurisdiction. However, they proceeded to trial anyway. I appeared in early September 2004. He acknowledged then that I did not have to appear. He adjourned to September 22nd 2004. I appeared before that date. I continued to travel freely in my community. Without my knowledge they met and charged me with “not appearing on September 22nd, 2004”. They issued a warrant for my arrest.
I have never accepted their arraignment procedures or any colonial process to impose these “assumed” charges and jurisdiction of the court.
One year later on November 18th 2005 my daughter was accosted by five “Canada Border Service Agents” at the Cornwall Island checkpoint which is an international trading zone. We have an international right to “trade and commerce” which we never gave up. On November 24th 2006, I was on my way to pick up my daughter. A five minute ride takes me through five colonially imposed foreign entities referred to as “United States”, “Canada”, “Ontario”, “Quebec” and “New York State”. on that day I was arrested and taken to Cornwall court to be processed. A court appointed lawyer was sent to represent me. I had not asked for one.
During the bail hearing the court was cleared. Brent Lafave, the Customs investigator, accused me of “being lawless” and demanded that I be detained indefinitely. I explained that Canada follows foreign laws that come from across the water [Britain] and that Onkwehonewe law, the Kaianereh’ko:wa/Great Law, is the law of Turtle Island. I have never given my consent to be other than who I am, an Ongwehonweh. The judge decided I had never been in trouble before. There was no evidence that I would not show up on December 18th 2006. Since they had no jurisdiction and could not “extort” money from me, I was released.
I refused to sign a release form. After threatening to keep me behind bars until a trial and filing new charges to keep obstructing my question, I signed “under protest and duress”. I objected to your illegal detention. I don't understand the nature and cause of your actions applying to me on my land. You must tell me how you got jurisdiction.
December 18th 2006 I showed up and filed a judgment on their actions. When I started reading it into the record, they made noises, tried to get me into their “well”. I felt I was in danger and being set up. By then there were only cops and court personnel in the room. The court was shut down. They ignored me and went on to another matter. We left. They issued a warrant that I left before they could set another date. In January 2007 the CBSA told me that the crown prosecutor had sent me a notice to turn myself in at the border. They mailed me a notice that they had set up a “Court of Estreat” hearing for January 18th 2007 to assess the value of my belongings. I did not attend because the letter informed me that they would keep me in jail until the trial that was set for August 10th 2007. Throughout all this I have represented myself. Then on June 14, 2008 I was arrested on the basis of the September 2004 warrant which had already been dealt with. This warrant was illegally used twice on me.
INDIAN ROOTS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
SPECIAL CONSTITUTIONAL BICENTENNIAL EDITION 1988
Published by the North East Indian Quarterly
Edited with Introduction by Jose Barreiro
Based on “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave”
Oren Lyons
The Honorable Oren, speaker for the Onondaga Nation, presented the following statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on Senate Resolution (S. Con. 76) to recognize the Iroquois origins of the U.S. Constitution.
I have titled this discussion “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave”.
Upon the continent of Onowaregeh [Turtle Islans], long before the arrival of the white man, a great league of peace was formed. Dekanawida and Jigosaseh organized a functioning confederation under the Kaianereh’ko:wa, known as Great Law of Peace. The basic principles were peace, equity, justice and the power of the people.
Aionwatha, an Onondaga by birth and a Mohawk by adoption, helped establish a union of peace under the natural laws of the universe. They formulated the good message of how to live in equality where every person had a voice. .
The Dekanawidah, Aionwatha and the people gathered on the shores of the lake now called Onondaga. A Grand Council was formed. It was a government where the people were the power.
The families were formed into clans headed by women. Men and women were equal. The spokesmen were the royaner [roiianer]. The spokeswomen were the Otiyaner [otiianer]. Their voice had to be ratified by full consensus of two-thirds of all of the people. They worked together to establish the inner source of vitality and dynamics necessary for the survival of the community
Two houses were formed in the Grand Council. The “Younger Brothers”, consisting of the Oneida and Cayuga Nations and later the Tuscarora. The other was the Elder Brothers, consisting of the Mohawks and the Oneidas. The Mohawks were the “Keepers of the Eastern Door”, the Onondaga became the “Firekeepers” [chairmen] and the Senecas became the “Keepers of the Western Door”. The rafters of the house were the laws of the Rotino’shonni:onwe, also called the Haudenosaunee, the people of the Long house.
By this process, no leader could be self-proclaimed. Their titles and duties were given by the people. The people could remove him for malfeasance. .
The people have the power to recall royaner, otiyaner or any transgressors of the law based on valid complaints from the people. They were warned three times to change their ways. They shall have a witness at their heaving. The first will be their niece or nephew or someone who could speak for them from their clan. The second shall be the partner of the royaner in council. The third and final warning comes from a man or woman who holds no title. Then shall be exonerated or lose their title or be declared to have carried out a misconduct. The power of recall was vested in the people.
The roiianer and otiianer belong to the people. They must be free from any crime against the people. They cannot have blood on their hands. Their minds must be directed toward the welfare of the people. Their skin must be “seven spans thick” to withstand the accusations, slander and insults as they go about their duties for the people. Their authority is that which the people give him. They cannot demand the people obey their orders. No one could influence their judgment. They carry their title for life or until they are relieved of it by bad conduct or ill health.
At the first council, there were 50 original representatives. Their names became “the Circle of 50 Rotiyaner” to be filled by each succeeding generation. The original government established absolute democracy.
We became a nation of laws. The people joined of their own free will to participate in the decision making of the National Council and the Grand Council.
Self-determination began with the individual. All people were recognized to be free from the youngest to the eldest. It was the nature of free men to defend freedom.
The symbol of the Haudenosaunee became the great white pine with four white roots of truth extending to the four directions. People may follow these roots back to the tree to seek shelter. It was called “the great tree of peace”. An eagle was placed at the top to be ever vigilant against those who would harm the people. The eagle shall scream warnings to the people.
When the roiianer and otiianer were raised and the Great Law was firmly established, the tree was uprooted. The weapons of war were thrown into the chasm to be carried by the undercurrent of water to the furthest depths of the earth. The tree was placed back over this chasm, throwing away forever war between these nations but not against the enemies of the people.
When the white man arrived they found free nations guided by democratic principles, all living according to the natural law, the ultimate spiritual law of the universe. This was the land of the free and the home of the brave.
To Europeans sovereignty relates to the power of kings and queens to rule men as they saw fit and control the lives and property of their subjects. As Felix Cohen put it, “the Indian people had Americanized the white man” who threw off this yoke.
The first treaty between the Indians and the white man took place at Skanect Dah De [Albany, New York] in 1613. It was called the Guswenta or the Two Row Wampum. It established a relationship of separate coexistence on this land between our peoples. The canoe of the Indian and the boat of the white man were to go down the river in peace and friendship forever. The Indian people, our government, our culture, our land and resources in our boat. The white man’s boat carried his religions, government and people.
Brothers and sisters, we now turn our faces towards the future and continue to wish you well in your endeavors as a nation. Perhaps it would be well for you to look back again at our principles of peace, justice and equality, to grasp firmly our hand in recognition of our long association and heed the treaties that we made so long ago that these treaties may continue to thrive for our association as government to government.
With that statement, I close the message from the Haudenosaunee, and I think you very much for your kind attention.
Declaration of Inalienable Powers
We remind the people of the United States and Canada and their agencies that:
Article I: we the Rotinonhsonni’onwe (people of the Longhouse ways forever) who have since time immemorial, been governed by the principles and philosophies instilled within the Kaianereh’ko:wa (Great Law of Peace).
Article II: we the Kanion’ko:haka (people of the flint) also known as the Mohawk are Rotinonhsonni’onwe and are of the Confederacy known also as the Six Nations. We shall continue our ancient traditions of Hunting, Fishing, Trapping and Gathering for personal and economic development which includes transport and trade, which is vital to insure the continued existence of our people and our future generations.
Article III: the agreements that were made between our people and the people of the United States and Canada that we shall continue our traditional way of life and to go undisturbed for all time to come.
Laws of the Kaianereh’ko:wa (Great Law of Peace); also known as the Constitution of the Iroquois.
Wampum 99: The rites and festivals of each nation shall remain undisturbed and continue as before, because they were given by the people of old times as useful and necessary for the good of people.
Wampum 92: “If a nation, part of a nation or more than one nation should endeavor to destroy the great peace by neglect or in violation of its own laws and resolve to dissolve the confederacy such a nation or nations or part of a nation shall be deemed an enemy of the Great Peace.
THE ROTINONHSONNION:WE
THE ROTINONHSONNION:WE: are “The people of the Longhouse ways forever”. We are alternately known as Haudenosaunee, Rotinonhsonni’onwe, the Five Nations, League of Five Nations, Six Nations, the Iroquois and the Iroquois Six Nations Confederacy. Our original territory is protected under the NanFan Treaty of 1701 which covered the land east of the Mississippi to the Arctic.
The Rotinonhsonni’onwe is a confederacy of independent sovereign nations of the Western Hemisphere, on the continent known as Onowaregeh, Turtle Island. We refer to our race as Onkwehonwe, “human beings forever”. We are the Kanienkehaka (Mohawk), Oneniotehaka (Oneida), Onontakehaka (Onondaga), Kweionkohaka (Cayuga), Tsionontowanehaka (Seneca), Tehatiskaroens (Tuscaroroas) Nations. We have many friends and allies of other sovereign nations.
POSITION STATEMENT
“Among the Five Nations and their descendants there shall be the following Clans: Bear, Eel, Snipe, Beaver, Hawk, Turtle, Deer, Heron, Wolf. These Clans distributed through their respective nations shall be the sole owners and holders of the soil of the country and in them is vested, as a birthright”. (Wampum #42, title of clans, Kaianereh’ko:wa “Great Law of Peace”).
The women are the progenitors of the Nation. They pass on the Clan to their children. The lineal descent of the people shall run in the female line. Those women who shall be chosen to sanction the Rotiyaner shall be known as the Otiyaner also referred to as Clan Mothers.
As a member of my respected nation, the Kanion’ke:haka, I, Katenies, also known as Janet Davis, assert my birthright under articles 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 of the Kaianereh’ko:wa (the great good) also known as the Great Law of Peace or the Constitution of the Iroquois. Any attempt by any foreign or domestic agencies or their departments to deny me my birthright violates the Kaianereh’ko:wa and the Guswentah, also known as the Two Row Wampum Agreement.
A right may exist because of its recognition from time immemorial. A wrong is committed when a right is violated. It may be committed by the denial of a right or by refusal to perform an obligation which is considered a right.
THE CLANS
WAMPUM #42
TITLE OF CLANS: The Clans distributed through their respected nations shall be the sole owners and holders of the soil of the country and in them is vested, as a birthright. Note: There are clans other than these among the 5 Nations. The Europeans, not being members of any of these Clans, have no right to own any land in this part of the world.
WAMPUM #43
MEMBERS OF THE SAME CLAN IN OTHER NATIONS: People of the Five Nations who are members of a certain clan shall recognize every member of the Clan no matter what Nation, as relatives. Men and women, therefore, who are members of the same Clan are forbidden to marry.
WAMPUM #44
LINEAL DESCENT OF THE PEOPLE RUNS IN THE FEMALE LINE: The lineal descent of the people of the Five Nations shall run in the female line. Women shall be considered the progenitors of the nation. They shall own the land and the soil. Men and women shall follow the status of their mothers.
WAMPUM #45
THE CLAN MOTHERS, WOMEN TITLE HOLDERS: The women heirs of the chieftainship titles of the League shall be called Oyaner or Otiyaner for all time to come. Note: The Clan Mothers shall be called Oyaner. Oyaner is derived from the word Oyana meaning “path”. Oyaner is the female “good path maker”. Otiyaner is in the plural. Royaner means “He makes a good path for the people to follow”. Rotiyaner is in the plural.
WAMPUM #46
CLAN MOTHERS ARE KEEPERS OF THE AUTHORIZED NAMES: The women of the 48 (now 50) noble families shall be the heirs of the authorized names for all time to come.
When an infant of the Five Nations is given an Authorized Name at the Midwinter Festival or at the Green Corn and Strawberry and Harvest Festivals, one in the cousinhood of which the infant is a member shall be appointed a speaker. He shall announce to the opposite cousinhood the names of the father and mother of the child together with the clan of the mother. Then the speaker shall announce the child’s name twice. The uncle of the child shall then take the child in his arms and walking up and down the room shall sing, “My head is firm; I am of the League”. As he sings, the opposite cousinhood shall respond by chanting; “Hyen, Hyen, Hyen, Hyen…”, until the song is ended.
Note: The “cousinhood” is the other Clan. The purpose of announcing the Clan of the mother is to point out the Clan of the child. A child is born a Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, etc., but when he is named in the Great Law ceremony, the child becomes an Iroquois or Rotinonhsonni’onwe. He is a Mohawk by blood and can Iroquois by law, for Kaianereh’ko:wa is also known as the Great Law, is the Constitution of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe or the Iroquois Confederacy. By the same token, if an individual or a whole nation leaves the Iroquois Confederacy and in time realizes their great error and decide to be reinstated, they would be required to go through the naming Ceremony or in their case, a re-naming ceremony and hold the Pledge Wampum and re-accept the Great Law and this act could be called the Iroquois Pledge of Allegiance.
ROTINONHSONNI’ONWE PROTOCOL
THE FIRST THREE STRINGS OF WAMPUM
DATE: January 16, 2007 FOR: CANADA PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
Sekon (Greetings)
The oldest protocol of our people is to open every gathering, whether it be spiritual, council, social event or any important proceeding, with an opening called the Ohenten kari’ watehkwen. It means “the words that go before all else”. This ritual is a thanksgiving to all the sustainers of life, to the Powers of Creation, and ends with a request that all the people present become as one peaceful mind. This ritual is in common use today by traditional minded Rotinonhsonni’onwe. Article #7.
Another protocol of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe is The First Three Strings of Wampum from the Condolence or Installation Ceremony. (Kaiahereh’ko:wa: Article #28). This ritual is sometimes referred to as a “Small Condolence”. It is conducted whenever our people meet after a long absence, when we meet new people or at an important event was to take place that required all parties be of a mind that is both clear and at peace.
Are our eyes filled with tears caused by the loss of some of our people since the last time we met? Are our ears packed with dust, impaired our hearing by loss of a loved one? Are we unable to speak freely because there is dust caught in our throats because of the loss of a loved one?
Wampum String #1: If there are tears in our eyes, we now reach to the forests and symbolically retrieve the softest skin of the fawn. We use this soft cloth to cleanse your eyes and wipe away your tears so that you may see, the Rotinonhsonni’onwe, and all of Creation, clearly once again.
Wampum String #2: If your hearing is difficult, we now cleanse from your ears the dust of grief. We now reach for the sky and retrieve a soft feather. We now use this soft feather to clean your ears so that you may hear our voices and sounds of Creation clearly once again.
Wampum String #3: If it is difficult to speak, we now symbolically retrieve water from the purest underground streams deep in our Earth Mother. We give you this pure water. As you drink, the water will cleanse your throat and wash away the feeling of sadness. This will permit you to speak clearly again.
The family Kahwatsire (family) or Clan is the center of our existence. Death was seen a dreadful force. Each log in a fire symbolized a family member. Death was seen as a force that took a log out of the fire (Kahwatsire) so violently that the other logs were greatly disturbed and threw up such a cloud of ashes that the dust settled in the remaining family members’ eyes, ears and throat. This makes it difficult to see, hear and speak after the loss of a loved one.
This symbolism was seen as being so important in our human relationship with each other, that our ancestors adopted this symbolic ritual to be used whenever our people after long absences, new people were greeted, or when proceedings are so important that a clear mind is required.
This ritual indicates a profound understanding of the nature of the human mind, and a desire to restore clarity and a state of peacefulness to it.
KAIANEREH’KO:WA - THE GREAT LAW
THE GREAT LAW: is the philosophy and constitution of the Iroquois based upon peace, natural righteousness and power. This law provides a procedure on how to govern ourselves, how our representatives, both male and female, are selected, their duties and responsibilities and the rights, duties, and responsibilities of the people. It also instructs us on how to resolve disputes internally and externally with foreign nations.
The articles of law have to be know internally by each individual. The Great Law ensures peace to all the people of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe for all time to come. It provides governance that is right and just. It ensures that all the people of the nations have a voice and place in the government. By spreading the message of peace, friendship, unity and justice, it brings lasting peace to all the nations of the earth.
INTERNATIONAL TREATIES
TREATY MAKING POWERS: The Rotinonhsonni’onwe have treaty making powers. The “Guswentha” or ”Tekeni Teiohate” means “Two roads”. The treaty is called “Two Row” or “Two Row Wampum”. It is a relationship created between two sovereigns and is recorded on a belt made of wampum shells.
The first Rotinonhsonni’onwe treaty with a European nation was with the Dutch around 1606. It is a “Peace and Friendship” and a “Trade and Commerce” treaty. It enabled the Dutch to trade freely in and around Rotinonhsonni’onwe Territory without interference or aggression. The Rotinonhsonni’onwe made similar treaties with Great Britain, France, the Thirteen Colonies, and eventually the United States of America. These treaties are referred to as the “Covenant Chain”.
The canoe and sailing vessel travel side by side on the river of life. Each boat symbolically contains their people, language, form of government, laws, culture, traditions and ceremonies. In the indigenous canoe are all the lands and resources that the natural world has vested in the Ongwehonwe. The parties agree to not interfere or make war with the other, forever.
An important feature of the Two Row is the “comity” form of jurisdiction. Each party agreed to turn the alleged guilty party over to their own nation for trial and appropriate punishment.
The Dutch, British and French empires accepted this concept and the United States implemented this principle in the 1794 Canadaigua Treaty, Article VII. It confirms the “Two Row Wampum”, already entered into by U.S. President George Washington.
Another principle of the “Two Row” is that each citizen, of our respective nation, is encouraged to stay completely in our respective “vessel or canoe”. We cannot have “one foot in the canoe and the other in the vessel”. We could find ourselves stranded or perish should a storm suddenly arise and the vessels separate away from each other.
We can only follow one jurisdiction, one law. Forcing our people into Canadian or Ontario jurisdiction can subject our nations to great peril.
The Great Law embodies the principles of the Two Row Wampum in the following articles:
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #78: whenever a foreign nation enters the League or accepts the Great peace, the Rotinonhsonni’onwe and the foreign nation shall enter into an agreement and compact by which the foreign nation shall endeavor to persuade other nations to accept the Great Peace.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #83: When peace shall have been established by the termination of the war against a foreign nation, the shall the Great Peace come.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #84: Whenever a foreign nation has been conquered or by their own will accepted the Great Peace, their own system of internal government may continue, but they must cease all warfare against other nations. Note: Since the foreign nation’s internal government is kept intact, this implies that all other aspects of that nation’s society remain as before such as: territory, language, laws, jurisdiction, culture, traditions and spiritual (or religious) ceremonies. A further protection of spiritual ceremonies is found in the Great Law. Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #87: When the war of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe on a foreign nation is ended, peace shall be restored to that nation. When all the terms of peace have been agreed upon, a state of friendship shall have been established. Note: After the war, the former enemies shall become friends.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #97: Before the Onkwehonwe united their nations, each nation had its own Council Fire. Before the Great peace, their councils were held. The Council Fires shall continue to burn as before and they are not quenched.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #99: The rites and festivals of each nation shall remain undisturbed and continue as before, because they ere given by the people of old times as useful and necessary for the good of men.
LAND
Historically, the Rotinonhsonni’onwe extended its power from the east of the Mississippi, to the Arctic, to the Atlantic seaboard and to Florida. Rotinonhsonni’onwe are independent of, and not subject to, other nations and their laws. The Rotinonhsonni’onwe cannot give up or sell our land.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #56: Five strings of shells tied together shall represent the Five Nations. Each string shall represent one territory and the whole a completely united territory known as the Five Nations (Rotinonhsonni’onwe ) Territory.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #57: Five arrows shall be bound together very strong and shall represent one Nations each. As the five arrows are strongly bound, this shall symbolize the complete union of the nations. thus are the Five Nations (Rotinonhsonni’onwe) completely united and enfolded together, united into one head, one body and one mind. They, therefore, shall labor, legislate and council together for the interest of future generations.
Kaianereh’ko:wa – Article #72: The soil of the earth from one end to the other is the property of the original people who still inhabit it. By birthright, Onkwehonwe (human beings forever) are the owners of the soil, which they own and occupy and no other may hold it. The same law has been held from the oldest times.
PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATIVES
PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATIVES: We, the people of each Nation, have the constitutional authority to select our national male representatives. Our national female representatives and women nominate the men, approve them or nominate their own candidates. They must be legally installed.
ROIANER is our National and Rotinonhsonni’onwe male representatives. Roianer means ‘he who is given the path to follow” which is set by the Great Law. They do not “lead” the people according to their own will but only according to the Great Law.
OIANER: is the female representative. It means, “she has been given the path to follows”. They are also referred to as Clan Mothers and hold the Rotiianer titles.
AHSAREKOWA: is the mediator between the people both during times of peace and during times of stress.
RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
WAMPUM #93
Referendum
The people decide on the most important matters
Whenever an especially important matter or a great emergency faces the League Council and the matter effects the entire Five Nations then the rotiianer of the League must submit the matter to the people. This decision shall be a confirmation of the voice of the people. Note: When the referendum (decision by the people) was first practiced.
WAMPUM #94
THE MEN OF EVERY CLAN SHALL HOLD A COUNCIL OF THE CLAN AND THEIR DECISION SHALL BE CONSDERED BY THE COUNCIL OF CHIEFS
The men of every Clan of the Five Nations shall have a Council Fire ever burning in readiness for a Council of the clan. They may hold a council to discuss the welfare of the Clan. This Council shall have the same rights as the Council of Women
WAMPUM #95
THE COUNCIL FIRES OF THE WOMEN OF EVERY CLAN HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS THE COUNCIL OF THE MEN
The women of every Clan of the Five Nations shall have a Council Fire ever burning in readiness for a council of the Clan. They shall hold a council, and their decision and recommendation shall be introduced before the Council of Rotiianer by the Rotiskenrakete.
THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION OR CONFEDERACY OF NATIONS
KAIANEREH’KO:WA – Article #96: All the Clan Council Fires of a Nation or of the Confederacy of Nations may unite into one general Council Fire to discuss the interests of the people. The people can make appointments and delegate their power to others of their number. When their council shall have come to a conclusion on any matter, their decision shall be reported to the council of the nation or the League Council (as the case may require) by the head Warrior or head Rotiskenrakere.
Note: The League Council is also known as the Grand Council. When the people hold a general council, the Grand Council has to go along with the decision as the Confederacy is a people’s government.
WAMPUM STRINGS
Article #23: Any of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe may use shells or wampum as the record of a pledge, contract or agreement entered into. The same shall be binding as soon as shell strings have been exchanged by both parties. The people of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe have both an inherent right and a constitutional right to assemble at any time or place within our territory, without seeking permission from any nation, Councilor or authority other than the Great Law itself.
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL IS THE PROPER PLACE TO ADJUDICATE THIS ISSUE. THEREFORE THIS COURT IS RESPECTFULLY REQUEST TO DISMISS ALL CHARGES AND RETURN THIS ALLEGATION TO THE KANION’KE:HAKA COUNCIL FIRE. AS WELL A REVIEW OF THIS CASE SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE GRAND COUNCIL IN ORDER THAT ALL NATIONS MAY BE ABLE TO OBSERVE ITS FINDINGS.
SUBMITTED TO: THE ONTARIO COURT, PROVINCIAL DIVISION, 29 SECOND ST. WEST, CORNWALL ONTARIO CANADA ON Kanion’ke:haka Land.
I asked you a reasonable question and have a right to an answer. Show me in writing how did your court get jurisdiction over me and my land. I am not a citizen of Canada. Our relationship is governed by international law. You must deal with me through your head of state, not through your court or law enforcement agents.
Because you have placed yourselves illegally in the midst of my community, you are interfering with my right to freely traverse my territory.
You have set a date for me to appear in your court on December 18th 2006 and a trial for August 10, 2007 in Alexandria “to deal with the outstanding charges”. Before any of this can be undertaken, you must prove your jurisdiction over me and my land. This imaginary line does not pertain to me. You have no right to charge me before your court.
On December 18th 2006 I spoke for myself before your court in full view of thirteen people.
The Jay Treaty of 1794 is between two colonial entities, the U.S. and Great Britain. This line was meant for your subjects only. As the Jay Treaty is a third party agreement, it is not binding on Onkwehonwe. You cannot interfere with our birthright to conduct trade, commerce and travel anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.
We can only meet with your head of your state to clear up this misunderstanding.
Attached is the Information I filed on this case on December 18th 2006. It contains the Facts, the Law and the Analysis of this case. Also attached and filed into No. C2202/03 and Court no. 06-140, formal recorded evidence of U.S.S.C. 05-165 and File #A-363-05 Federal Court of Appeal of Canada contained in the Mohawk Manifesto, bound and labeled Book I, II, III, and in CD word document format.
CONCLUSION
THE ROTINONHSONNI’ONWE ARE SOVEREIGN ONKWEHONWE NATIONS OF ONOWAREGEH, ALSO REFERRED TO AS THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. WE ARE CREATED AS FREE AND INDEPENDENT PEOPLE WHO ARE PART OF THE NATURAL WORLD. WE DEVISED A LAW AND A WAY OF LIFE THAT IS NATURAL AND ADDRSSES THE TRUE NATURE OF HUMAN BEINGS.
WHEN HUMAN BEINGS FROM FAR AWAY CAME AMONG US, WE ENTERED INTO TREATIES OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH THEM. WE AGREED TO RESPECT EACH OTHER AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND NOT TO INTERFERE WITH ONE ANOTHER.
WE HAVE ADHERED TO THESE PRINCIPLES . IF YOU SAY THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS MADE OTHER ARRANGEMENTS AND HAS GIVEN HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO JURISDICTION IN THESE MATTERS, THEN THAT IS A VIOLATION OF A SOLEMN TREATY ENTERED INTO BETWEEN OUR NATIONS AND IN TURN VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL LAW. THIS MATTER IS CLEARLY A POLITICAL MATTER. FOR ALL THE REASONS STATED ABOVE THE ALLEGED CHARGES SHOULD BE DISMISSED.
Signed on this ____ day of January 2007 on Kanion’ke:haka territory,
Katenies [aka Janet Davis] _______________
Woman title Holder of the Kanion’ke:haka of the Rotinonhsonni’onwe – according to Wampum 44 of our law, the Kaiahereh’ko:wa, the Women are the “progenitors of the soil” of Turtle Island. The women are the caretakers of the land, water and air of Turtle Island. As the trustees, the Women are obligated to preserve and protect the land’s integrity for the future generations.
LIST OF RECIPIENTS OF "MOTION TO DISMISS"
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace, London, SQ1A UK
Justice of the Peace Stewart
Superior Court of Justice
29 Second St. West, Cornwall, Ontario
Ronald J-L Turgeon
Crown Attorney
404 -132 Second St. East,
Cornwall Ontario K6H 1Y4
Brent Lafave, CBSA, Investigator
90 Akwesasne International Road
Akwesasne, Ontario K6H 5R7
Murray McDonald
Crown Attorney
404-132 Second St. East
Cornwall, Ontario K6H 1Y4
T. Donihee
Counsel for the Federal Crown
404 -132 Second St. East,
Cornwall Ontario K6H 1Y4
Lance Markell, District Director,
Northern Office – Customs, St. Laurent Blvd.,
Ottawa Ont. K1G 4K3
Jennifer Burke and Guy Simard /A
Office of the Crown Attorney
United Counties of Stormont,
Dundas & Glengarry
29 Second Street West
Cornwall, ON K6J 1G3
The Governor General of Canada
M. Michaelle Jean
1 Rideau Drive, Ottawa
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
House of Commons
Ottawa
Hon. Stockwell Day
Minister of Public Safety
House of Commons, Ottawa
Alain Jolicoeur
President, CBSA
Ottawa, ON K1A 0L8
Hon. Irwin Cotler
Justice Canada
284 Wellington St., SAT-6053
Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8
Daniel A. Bellemare
Justice Canada
284 Wellington St., SAT-6053
Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8
Hon. Robert Douglas Nicholson
Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Canada
284 Wellington St.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8
Hon. Michael J. Bryant
Attorney General of Ontario
720 Bay St., 4th Floor
Toronto, ON M5G 2K1
Hon. Yvon Marcoux
Minister of Justice and A.G.O.
Louis-Phillipe-Pigeon Bldg.
1200 Rue d l'Eglise, 9th Floor
St. Foy G1V 4M1
Hon. Jim Prentice
Minister of Indian Affairs
10 Wellington St.
Hull, Que. K1A 0H4
Premier Dalton McGuinty
Province of Ontario
Queens Park, Toronto ON
Premier Charest
Province of Quebec, Legislature
Quebec City
British High Commission
80 Elgin St.
Ottawa, ON K1P 5K7
Canadian Human Rights Commission
344 Slater St., 8th Floor
Ottawa, ON K1A 1E1
United Nations
405 E 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
Women Title Holders of the Kanion'ke:haka
c/o Box 991
Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory
J0L 1B0
Confederacy Rotiianer Alan McNaughton, Arnie General, Six Nations Secretariat Leroy Hill
RR #6
Hagersville, N0A 1H0
The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat
103, 251 BBC
The Netherlands
Coalition for the International Criminal Court
c/o WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Statement from kahentinetha...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STATEMENT--June 18, 2008
Kahnawake--Two Mohawk women were assaulted by Canada Customs officers on Saturday June 14, 2008 at 2 pm. at the Cornwall Island border in Akwesahsne.
Mohawk rights-activist and elder Kahentinetha Horn, 67, suffered arterial damage during the assault and was hospitalized under guard. Also hurt in the incident was Mohawk Nation News (MNN) editor Katenies, who was held until Sunday and released.
Charges against Ms. Horn were dropped. Ms. Horn was hospitalized in Cornwall until her release June 18. Charges against Katenies were dropped on Monday June 16.
"I understand that our people are upset about this," Ms. Horn said, after her release from hospital and under private care for her injuries.
"I am concerned that the incident has upset my daughters and grandchildren. There's no excuse for what they did to us."
The incident is under investigation. No other details are available at this time.
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Contact: Family spokesman
Thohahoken (514) 726-7493
STATEMENT--June 18, 2008
Kahnawake--Two Mohawk women were assaulted by Canada Customs officers on Saturday June 14, 2008 at 2 pm. at the Cornwall Island border in Akwesahsne.
Mohawk rights-activist and elder Kahentinetha Horn, 67, suffered arterial damage during the assault and was hospitalized under guard. Also hurt in the incident was Mohawk Nation News (MNN) editor Katenies, who was held until Sunday and released.
Charges against Ms. Horn were dropped. Ms. Horn was hospitalized in Cornwall until her release June 18. Charges against Katenies were dropped on Monday June 16.
"I understand that our people are upset about this," Ms. Horn said, after her release from hospital and under private care for her injuries.
"I am concerned that the incident has upset my daughters and grandchildren. There's no excuse for what they did to us."
The incident is under investigation. No other details are available at this time.
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Contact: Family spokesman
Thohahoken (514) 726-7493
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Apology rejected...
PM HARPER'S "APOLOGY' TO BE OFFICIALLY REJECTED
For Immediate Release: Breaking News from Squamish Nation Territory
Prime Minister Harper's "Apology" to Be Officially Rejected by Residential School Survivors at Rally and Press Conference
Vancouver, 18 June, 2008
Disgusted by the attempt by Canada and its churches to exonerate themselves with an "apology" for crimes against humanity in their Indian Residential Schools, grassroots survivors and their elders will rally in Vancouver next Monday, June 23, to publicly reject the apology.
Led by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) and hereditary elders, residential school survivors will say no to the Harper apology, and condemn what they see as an attempt by the Harper government to trivialize and hide the reality of genocide in Canada.
"They say they're sorry, but that won't bring back the kids I saw killed at the Catholic school in Kamloops" said survivor William Combes on the Hidden from History radio program this week.
"If they're so sorry, then when will the priest who killed them be brought to trial? How come the churches are off the hook?"
Combes and others will rally next Monday, June 23 at 10 am (PST) at the office of the government's Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada (IRSRC) at 1166 Alberni street in downtown Vancouver.
A press conference will be held at that time and location, where a letter will be issued to Prime Minister Harper and the United Nations from residential school survivors and the FRD.
This IRSRC office was the scene of a sit-in by residential school survivors last year that pushed Ottawa to issue its "apology".
"Steven Harper should be in jail" commented second generation survivor Rob Morgan of the Nishga Nation, who led last year's occupation.
"He admitted in Parliament that Canada and its churches deliberately planned the residential schools, that killed thousands of kids. So why aren't they all facing trial now? We made them apologize, but now we're going to make them face the music for what they did and are still doing to us."
The FRD is one of several groups that is sponsoring an independent inquiry into Canadian residential schools and the death and burial of children that will run counter to the government's dubious "Truth and Reconciliation Commission".
Last April 10, the FRD released a list of twenty eight mass graves near former Indian Residential Schools across Canada where countless children who died in these schools are interred. An updated list of burial sites and other evidence is being compiled by FRD researchers.
Information:
Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared
1-888-265-1007 (pager) or 250-753-3345
email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
For Immediate Release: Breaking News from Squamish Nation Territory
Prime Minister Harper's "Apology" to Be Officially Rejected by Residential School Survivors at Rally and Press Conference
Vancouver, 18 June, 2008
Disgusted by the attempt by Canada and its churches to exonerate themselves with an "apology" for crimes against humanity in their Indian Residential Schools, grassroots survivors and their elders will rally in Vancouver next Monday, June 23, to publicly reject the apology.
Led by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) and hereditary elders, residential school survivors will say no to the Harper apology, and condemn what they see as an attempt by the Harper government to trivialize and hide the reality of genocide in Canada.
"They say they're sorry, but that won't bring back the kids I saw killed at the Catholic school in Kamloops" said survivor William Combes on the Hidden from History radio program this week.
"If they're so sorry, then when will the priest who killed them be brought to trial? How come the churches are off the hook?"
Combes and others will rally next Monday, June 23 at 10 am (PST) at the office of the government's Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada (IRSRC) at 1166 Alberni street in downtown Vancouver.
A press conference will be held at that time and location, where a letter will be issued to Prime Minister Harper and the United Nations from residential school survivors and the FRD.
This IRSRC office was the scene of a sit-in by residential school survivors last year that pushed Ottawa to issue its "apology".
"Steven Harper should be in jail" commented second generation survivor Rob Morgan of the Nishga Nation, who led last year's occupation.
"He admitted in Parliament that Canada and its churches deliberately planned the residential schools, that killed thousands of kids. So why aren't they all facing trial now? We made them apologize, but now we're going to make them face the music for what they did and are still doing to us."
The FRD is one of several groups that is sponsoring an independent inquiry into Canadian residential schools and the death and burial of children that will run counter to the government's dubious "Truth and Reconciliation Commission".
Last April 10, the FRD released a list of twenty eight mass graves near former Indian Residential Schools across Canada where countless children who died in these schools are interred. An updated list of burial sites and other evidence is being compiled by FRD researchers.
Information:
Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared
1-888-265-1007 (pager) or 250-753-3345
email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Nimrod
The Followers Of Nimrod's
Secret Sect Versus The
People Of Abraham
By Benjamin Fulford
6-14-8
When I was invited to join the Freemasons at the highest level last year, I was told that it was the year 5773, which was 6 years older than the Jewish calendar date of 5767. They told me there was no God and that they were God. They said there were 13 steps in Freemasonry above the 33rd degree. That also corresponds with 13 sacred bloodlines. The implication of this is that the Jewish people have been slaves to an inbred group of families for 5768 years.
There is evidence for this in the old testament of the Bible and in the writings of the Roman historian Jesophus. It seems they have used smoke and mirrors to fool their slaves for a long time. We remember how the bible says Moses turned the Nile red as blood and poisonous. Well, according to Josephus they dumped toxic red rock (possibly containing mercury?) into the Nile. The poisoning of the water would have caused the frogs to flee the river as also reported in the bible. Similarly the poisoning of the irrigation waters would have caused crop failure and therefore trigger a plague of locusts etc.
So, it would seem they have been staging 911 type events for a long time. With this in mind, let us look at Exodus 19:
"Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'
My translation: you will be my senior slaves. Exodus 19 also contains evidence of more smoke and mirrors: "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever." Well, smoke anyway.
Exodus continues as follows:
For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves that you donot go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow;whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the ram's horn sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."
So an almighty God with unlimited control of the universe needs to use arrows and stones to keep people from finding out his secret (ie that he was just an old patriarch with a beard) and a ram's horn to announce his presence.
Here is more of Exodus:
"Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp tremble. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice."Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them."
So only the high priests and Moses were allowed in on the secret of God. It sounds like this was the first Bilderberg meeting doesn't it?
We know the Israelites were monument builders for the Pharaoh. We know that Freemasonry is linked to stonemasons. We also know from many sources that the Rothschilds consider themselves to be descendants of Nimrod. Other sources (eg "William Josiah Sutton, The Illuminati 666, 198) note that Nimrod was the first to teach the arts of masonry as in the tower of Babel.
We also know that Nimrod was associated with Ba'al or Molech. We also know that Abraham confronted Nimrod about his blasphemous worship of Molech (eg terrorism illuminati p 24).
The bible contains many passages warning about this. Including this one:
Jeremiah 32.35: "And they built the high places of the Ba'al, which are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire Mo'lech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."
So, what appears to have happened is that the job of God passed on through the descendants of Abraham was usurped, through an organization known as the Knights Templars, by descendants of Nimrod, ie the Rothschilds. Molech is a figure that looks much like the devil of folklore.
Molech
So, there is to this day, unknown to most of the Jews or other peoples, an actual job of God and furthermore, this job has been taken over by devil or Molech worshippers.
The freemasons who rise through ever greater hurdles to the top thinking they are serving God only find out the bait and switch when they get to the very top and there is no escape.
That is why the rest of the world looks on the West as a slave society.
There are now numerous eye-witness reports that to this day they still sacrifice children to Molech. One senior CIA source and one in the NSA have personally confirmed this to me. Recall a news item from the Sunday Times on Feb 11, 1998 that the mutilated bodies of six children and four adults were found in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's house.
The events of 911 and the continuing campaign to turn the EU into a centralized dictatorship represent an attempt by these people to cement their control forever before the enslaved Westerners wake up.
If I were them, I would be very scared now that their scam has been exposed. However, since these people were born into that system and had no choice but to go along, I suggest we get them to appear before a truth and reconciliation committee and then grant them amnesty as long as they agree to step down peacefully, gracefully and honourably. Otherwise, we will have to hunt them all down and exterminate them and their seed for the rest of time. Their plan to enslave humanity forever must not and will not be allowed to be carried out forever, period.
Benjamin Fulford
Secret Sect Versus The
People Of Abraham
By Benjamin Fulford
6-14-8
When I was invited to join the Freemasons at the highest level last year, I was told that it was the year 5773, which was 6 years older than the Jewish calendar date of 5767. They told me there was no God and that they were God. They said there were 13 steps in Freemasonry above the 33rd degree. That also corresponds with 13 sacred bloodlines. The implication of this is that the Jewish people have been slaves to an inbred group of families for 5768 years.
There is evidence for this in the old testament of the Bible and in the writings of the Roman historian Jesophus. It seems they have used smoke and mirrors to fool their slaves for a long time. We remember how the bible says Moses turned the Nile red as blood and poisonous. Well, according to Josephus they dumped toxic red rock (possibly containing mercury?) into the Nile. The poisoning of the water would have caused the frogs to flee the river as also reported in the bible. Similarly the poisoning of the irrigation waters would have caused crop failure and therefore trigger a plague of locusts etc.
So, it would seem they have been staging 911 type events for a long time. With this in mind, let us look at Exodus 19:
"Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'
My translation: you will be my senior slaves. Exodus 19 also contains evidence of more smoke and mirrors: "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever." Well, smoke anyway.
Exodus continues as follows:
For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed to yourselves that you donot go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow;whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the ram's horn sounds long, they shall come near the mountain."
So an almighty God with unlimited control of the universe needs to use arrows and stones to keep people from finding out his secret (ie that he was just an old patriarch with a beard) and a ram's horn to announce his presence.
Here is more of Exodus:
"Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp tremble. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice."Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them."
So only the high priests and Moses were allowed in on the secret of God. It sounds like this was the first Bilderberg meeting doesn't it?
We know the Israelites were monument builders for the Pharaoh. We know that Freemasonry is linked to stonemasons. We also know from many sources that the Rothschilds consider themselves to be descendants of Nimrod. Other sources (eg "William Josiah Sutton, The Illuminati 666, 198) note that Nimrod was the first to teach the arts of masonry as in the tower of Babel.
We also know that Nimrod was associated with Ba'al or Molech. We also know that Abraham confronted Nimrod about his blasphemous worship of Molech (eg terrorism illuminati p 24).
The bible contains many passages warning about this. Including this one:
Jeremiah 32.35: "And they built the high places of the Ba'al, which are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire Mo'lech; which I did not command them, nor did it come into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."
So, what appears to have happened is that the job of God passed on through the descendants of Abraham was usurped, through an organization known as the Knights Templars, by descendants of Nimrod, ie the Rothschilds. Molech is a figure that looks much like the devil of folklore.
Molech
So, there is to this day, unknown to most of the Jews or other peoples, an actual job of God and furthermore, this job has been taken over by devil or Molech worshippers.
The freemasons who rise through ever greater hurdles to the top thinking they are serving God only find out the bait and switch when they get to the very top and there is no escape.
That is why the rest of the world looks on the West as a slave society.
There are now numerous eye-witness reports that to this day they still sacrifice children to Molech. One senior CIA source and one in the NSA have personally confirmed this to me. Recall a news item from the Sunday Times on Feb 11, 1998 that the mutilated bodies of six children and four adults were found in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's house.
The events of 911 and the continuing campaign to turn the EU into a centralized dictatorship represent an attempt by these people to cement their control forever before the enslaved Westerners wake up.
If I were them, I would be very scared now that their scam has been exposed. However, since these people were born into that system and had no choice but to go along, I suggest we get them to appear before a truth and reconciliation committee and then grant them amnesty as long as they agree to step down peacefully, gracefully and honourably. Otherwise, we will have to hunt them all down and exterminate them and their seed for the rest of time. Their plan to enslave humanity forever must not and will not be allowed to be carried out forever, period.
Benjamin Fulford
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