DAVE GENERAL MARCHES TO COLONIAL "GOOSE STEP" WITH CANADA AND ONTARIO ON SIX NATIONS PEOPLE
MNN. April 14, 2006. Dave "Colonial Point Man" General is Canada
and Ontario's real estate agent. His job is to deliver the goods to
them. Dave General wants money and business "as usual". He has
personally committed the band council to take action to end the
protest at Douglas Creek Estates immediately. He has asked
that "John and Jane Doe" (how about John and Jane Buck?) cause no
problems as they are peacefully removed from the site of the protest
by the OPP `black shirted' Gestapo. (They're sending in Special
Forces to try and make what they're doing look legit). He wants
Henco Industries to continue their illegal housing development on
Six Nations land.
Henco Industries owner, Mr. Hancock, and his lawyer, Mr. Hennings,
seem to be able to get mainstream media attention that we can't
get. They appeared on television last night adamantly
demanding, "We have court orders, injunctions, arrest warrants
(manpower and fire power). We want the cops to do their job."
There was no media coverage at the protest. It was decided at a
recent meeting of the US, Canada, Ontario, Quebec, the band
councilors, most policing agencies on both sides of the border and
the media to completely black out any news about any attacks on our
people. Unless, of course, it reflects us in a negative light.
Dave General presented a position paper put together by the gang at
the Indian Affairs War Room. They did not acknowledge the
Confederacy chiefs. Dave General totally absolved Canada and Ontario
of any responsibility for the reasons for the protest. Someone at
the meeting did speak up to say that the band council has nothing to
do with our lands. He was quickly shot down.
Anyone crossing the line will face the People who are standing firm
in upholding the law. Come on! The protesters demands have not
been met. We want the development to completely stop. We want
respect for our ownership of this land. Instead of accepting the
responsibility for the fraud by Ontario in giving Henco Industries
illegal title to our land, Dave and his cohorts are trying to make
the Six Nations People pay the price.
We cannot and will not end the protest. We can be physically
evicted. They can get out their tanks and ride right over us,
grinding our flesh and bones into the ground following the precedent
set at Tianamen Square. Hey, Dave!
Shame! Shame! At the "Bag of Wind" negotiation meeting at the Best
Western an anonymous note was passed around suggesting that the band
council building be locked up until Dave is impeached. History
repeats itself. There was a big to-do about locking the People out
of the Agricultural Hall after the legitimate government was deposed
by Canada in the 1920's.
Dave General agreed to the government giving his band council some
money to speed up certain land claims around the territory. (So
what was in it for you, Dave?) Other lands will come back. Don't
celebrate. They're not giving them back in the condition they stole
them in. They're now polluted and unlivable.
Canada says it wants to put in place measures taken from the Haida
Taku and Mikisew Cree court decisions of the Supreme Court of
Canada. This is sort of like saying that a US decision concerning
American relations with Paraguay is binding on Canada! Do you
really think the Canadian public would go for that?
Besides, the Six Nations situation is completely different from
Haida Nation, Taku River and the Mikisew Cree. The Haida Nation and
Taku River are in British Columbia. There were no treaties or
promises of protection from the Crown. The Mikisew Cree are
supposed to be part of Treaty No. 8. If their participation was
invalid, they're in the same position as the British Columbia
nations. If it was valid, the treaty specifically consents to
settler occupation of their land. The Six Nations situation is
completely different. Here we have an explicit unilateral
representation made by General Haldimand that the British Crown
would protect the Six Nations' right to occupy land for six miles on
either side of the Grand River forever. There is no ambiguity
involved. It is simply a matter of making sure that Canada upholds
the honor of the Crown. They were to never allow any encroachment.
There have been promises of future monies and lands for hundreds of
years. None have ever come through. But never mind the old
transgressions. Let's look at recent events.
Kanehsatake/Oka is a prime example. Remember the Mohawk Oka Crisis
of 1990 when Canada and Quebec sent in the SQ and the Canadian Army
with guns blazing? The governments made all kinds of promises and
never implemented any of them. We have over 250 square miles of
unsurrendered lands that Canada wanted. We always resisted the
Indian Act. We were supposed to get some land. Canada never came
through. Instead they succumbed to the pressure of the Quebec
government, just the same as Canada is succumbing to Ontario.
Ontario does not want to give any lands back to the Indians or pay
what they owe for past violations of Six Nations' rights. Ontario
is afraid of setting a precedent. The Bear Island people have
already tried to claim back their rights to the unsettled resource
rich areas of northern Ontario. Ontario doesn't want that.
As Canada did not exist at the time of these agreements, the federal
crown has taken over the position of the British Crown in its
relations with the Indigenous peoples. Section 109 of the
Constitution of Canada states that Canada must always place the
interests of the Indigenous people before that of Canada and its
provinces. This respects the Indigenous constitutional jurisdiction
to Canada. The Indian Act is a violation of this nation-to-nation
relationship respected by the Kaianereh'ko:wa/Great Law and the
British North America Act 1867. Indigenous Peoples have never
validly surrendered any lands and resources or sovereignty according
to the means set out in Section 132 of their constitution.
Today the Crown in right of Canada has become custodian of the
obligations to uphold the Haldimand Agreement. At the turn of the
century, the British Privy Council and the Supreme Court of Canada
determined that Canada must always act with utmost legality toward
the Indigenous people. They are the trustees of the Crown's
obligations to us. Canada is in breach of their trust
responsibility to carry out their constitution.
Dave General doesn't represent the Six Nations People. He speaks
for Canada and Ontario. We, the People, were treated like outsiders
at that Best Western meeting. There was no consultation with the
people concerning what would be negotiated. Those who went were not
allowed to participate. This agreement does not include us by any
stretch of the imagination. They can negotiate a solution with
their puppet band council, with their Liars Club sitting at the top
of Mount Olympus or with the Easter Bunny. It really doesn't
matter. None of these represent the Six Nations People. So the
accord they produced is imaginary.
We continue to call for an independent mediator from the
international community whom doesn't have any interest in the
outcome, and who is agreeable to both sides. Dave General, you must
sit with Canada and Ontario across the table from the Six Nations
people.
Not that their shenanigans are any surprise. We knew what they were
going to do. They are following the old colonial "goose step".
They want to grind us under their heels.
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Kahentinetha Horn MNN Mohawk Nation News
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