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October 12, 2006
Six Nations: Who has title?
Turtle Island News: "Canada cannot produce documents to defend their position.What we have been waiting for is them to produce evidence that they have an order in council or council minutes or anything official that shows the chiefs agreed to sell our lands or that we even got money for them."
February 01, 2005
Ward Churchill assaulted by reality deniers
Native American author and activist Ward Churchill is under attack by reactionaries across the United States and within corporate media America. Distorting his reasoned post-9/11 analysis, many are opposing his right to free speech and his responsibility to expose the crimes of the American government. This situation has forced Churchill to resign as chair of the department of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The original essay, which you can read here, was written days after 9/11, and was eventually reproduced in an award-winning and meticulously documented chronology of U.S. aggression since 1776, "On the Justice of roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Arrogance of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality, available through AK Press. Despite being essentially forced to resign, Churchill reiterates the actual intent of his argument in a January 31st press release:
"In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same extent that the fabrications have been."
December 14, 2004
Ultimate Control
NYTimes: "[T]he Haida have become used to challenging the rich and powerful, and winning. Today they are in the vanguard of what appears to be a renaissance of Indian nations in Canada that legal scholars and others say could determine ultimate control over many resources vital to Canada's future, including oil, timber and diamonds."
October 12, 2004
The Man, The Murderer, Christopher Columbus
"Indegenous People's Opposition to Celebration and Glorfication of Colonial Pirate Christoper Columbus"
The settler governments and peoples of North, Central and South America who occupy the lands of various Indigenous nations of peoples will again celebrate with holiday parades and festivals for the 512th year of the invasion of our sacred lands by the colonial pirate Christopher Columbus. Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust against Indian peoples that claimed at least 60 million people from 1492 to the present.
September 24, 2004
Building A "Canadian" Decolonization Movement
Fighting The Occupation At "Home"
by Devin Burke
devin@riseup.net
If you've been following the news, it would appear that the current situation in Kanehsatake has been unravelling over the past 7 months, from the time when James Gabriel, unannounced to the community, first attempted to establish his own personal police force, with the stated purpose of "cracking down on organized crime". However, if you speak to a Kanehsatake community member and ask when this problem began, you will likely be told that it's a situation rooted much more deeply in the history of Mohawk-Canadian relations, that it dates back well before the time when Jimmy Gabriel came into power, and even long before the 1990 uprising known as the "Oka Crisis". Many would likely say that the current conflict is merely symptomatic of a greater problem, that being Canadian colonialism.
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Ward Churchill in Vancouver Audio
Listen to Ward Churchill's Keynote Address at Under The Volcano August 8, 2004...
September 02, 2004
Realizing Native Sovereignty at Sun Peaks
From the latest issue of Seven Oaks Magazine:
"On Sunday, August 29, a group of nearly two hundred Native and non-Native demonstrators led by grassroots Secwepemc activists took to the sprawling and malignant Sun Peaks ski resort to protest the expansion of the mini-Whistler and its centerpieces – the Delta hotel and an incipient golf course."
For updates on the ongoing occupation of Sun Peaks, visit the Anti-Poverty Committee:
"On August 29, shortly after the 250-strong protestors left, the provincial government served a Trespass Notice on the Skwelkwek’welt Protection Center. The Trespass Notice articulates the position that the construction of a permanent monitoring center on unoccupied Crown Land adjacent to Sun Peaks’ expansion is a violation of the BC Land Act. Janice Billy has said “it is business-as-usual for the province and Sun Peaks. They are both treating Aboriginal Title as if it does not even exist. The BC Land Act is outdated because even the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized Aboriginal Title in all of unceded lands, including Sun Peaks.”
August 22, 2004
Secwepemc
Harsha Walia and Stefan Christoff: "Sun Peaks resort and Delta Hotels are built on Secwepemc territories that have never been ceded or surrendered. Land and Water BC disregarded the Secwepemc, who said NO to expansion in stakeholder meetings and in June 2001 obtained a court injunction to forcibly remove the Secwepemc from their homelands. The Skwekwelk’welt Protection Center, at the resort’s entrance, claims aboriginal title and rights. For this exercise of rights, 54 arrests with charges ranging from criminal contempt and intimidation by blocking a road to resisting arrest have been made."
March 20, 2004
The Canada You Stole
The following statement was made to the Council of Canadians in Fredericton on March 15th, 2004.
The Canada You Stole: Suggestions on Stopping an Economic Steamroller from Some People Who Already Have Been Flattened, by A Group of Indigenous Nobodies in Particular and the Praxis Collective
We hope the irony hasn't escaped your notice that your group and like-minded individuals are organizing to resist precisely those policies visited upon US by successive Canadian governments, bureaucracies, and institutions. Here's OUR identity card, for example. And you should add "citizenship" to the immigration and refugee policies you worry are about to be overwritten by US standards, since that is central to what your government is doing to us. In all events, however, indigenous peoples who continue to resist their enforced assimilation are as concerned as much as you are about the Uncle Samitization of Canada, if for no other reason than we can't see how adding another, higher level of arrogant bureaucratic indifference (and one with it's own track record of running roughshod over indigenous peoples) could possibly make our task easier.
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