Come join us for a lecture on
Indigenous Colonization and Decolonization
September 20th, 2009, Arizona State University
Discovery Building Room 150, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
This educational lecture is to help our Peoples understand the tough experiences we have gone through during our history, and what we can do to make things better. We will see how and why the O’othham, or Indigenous Peoples, have lost the ability to decide what is best for our own Peoples. Come see how others began to control us and why we do not speak up or stand up for ourselves. We will look at how we can think in more positive and good ways. We will talk about how we can be happier, stronger, and how to make our Hemajkam (People, Nation) as strong as it once was.
The event is both a history lesson and a way for us to come together and begin to help one another do good things for our own selves and our own Peoples. Together we O’othham will begin to see that we can solve our problems. We will see that we can truly make our Nations better.
This is a presentation for all ages. This is a presentation for all O’othham and our supporters.
A potluck meal will be served for lunch, so please follow our tradition and bring your best dish to share with your relatives!
For more information or to volunteer call Adrian Hendricks at 602.499.5793 or e-mail oothham@yahoo.com
September 14, 2009
MNN: 2 Horns of a Dilemma: 6 Nations & Akwesasne
2 HORNS OF A DILEMMA: 6 NATIONS & AKWESASNE
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. Sep. 13, 2009. What’s happening in Six Nations and Akwesasne on Mohawk jurisdiction issues? Everybody knows the invaders have no jurisdiction over Ongwehonwe anywhere. The band and tribal councils are mum about their dealings with Canada, Ontario, Quebec, US and New York State, the five colonial meddlers at Akwesasne.
Ever wonder why the border goons scampered away so fast from the imaginary line [border] on Kawenoke Island last May 31, 2009? We hear money is in the bank for a new low level bridge over the St. Lawrence River from Cornwall Ontario to Kawenoke [formerly Cornwall Island] to US soil. It looks like a construction barge has already finished a pylon on the US side without consulting the Mohawk Nation.
Canada has installed a temporary Canada customs shack at the foot of the bridge in Cornwall. The land has already been cleared for what could be a new low level bridge to touch down from Kawenoke, along with a new multi-million dollar customs complex like the new one on the US side.
Is Mike Mitchell, the grand chief, getting big bucks to help Ottawa? We don’t want the border or the new bridge in Kawenoke. Never did! Never will! No one is singing “Baby, come back”.
Meanwhile, the Ontario Provincial police OPP are constantly exceeding their jurisdiction by foraying into Six Nations. Shouldn’t the Six Nations cops be curbing the build-up of OPP activities by taking OPP badge and car numbers, reporting it and escorting them off? Rogue cops could be sent in to try to stir up trouble. If caught, they must leave and stay away. It looks like some of our guys are holding the fort. They are there on behalf of Great Turtle Island with all Ongwehonwe standing with them.
New York State also has a dilemma. They are facing a big court case with the Haudenosaunee whom the NYS Troopers attacked in Onondaga in 1997. Most victims don’t want to settle for money. Instead they want the Troopers to stand trial. They are anxious to see if the trail leads to NYS Governor George Pataki’s office for ordering the attack. NYS is acting quiet, peaceful and accommodating. They don’t want to be seen as big bad guys like Canada, beating up Indigenous people for no reason. In fact, that is what the US is known for. That’s why they’re in court.
Meantime, the band and tribal councilors think their $hip has come in. They just have to sell out their own people. We hear Mike Flathead Mitchell is now waiting for a statue of himself to be erected at the entrance on Kawenoke [Cornwall Island], with made-in-China replicas to be sold at Wal Mart. The pigeons will love him.
Gary Wimpy McHale is the kind of stumble bum the government likes. He and his militia are photographing white customers of Six Nations stores and turning them over to the cops. Then the cops illegally harass them, grab their merchandize and probably sell them in their own swine [black] market.
McHale vows to get rid of Indigenous rights, forgetting he’s a descendant of people whom we took care of. This red neck’s too dumb to see his handlers don’t care about him. When they’re done with him, they’ll drop him like a slimy hot potato, alone and used, with no pay-off. Some day people will mention how the colonists used stupid goofs like him.
The government sets up shadow organizations like the Citizens Alliance to help patsies like McHale and his ilk. Ken Hewitt of Caledonia is their big mouth who constantly threatens our right to exist and have legitimate trade and commerce.
Six Nations has McHale and Akwesasne has Mike Mitchell. The colonists use low-lifes like them all the time. The old colonial formula is: [1] corrupt the traditional government; if it doesn’t work, [2] send in the jackals to assassinate them; if this doesn’t work, [3] bomb them; if this doesn’t work, [4] build poor rez-like communities and make them pay for it with their own resources; then [5] install quisling band or tribal councils called House Injuns. Malcolm X was right!
The CSIS agents at the shack in Cornwall are the jackal, watching our comings and goings. Their Intel coordinates the OPP, army, SQ, RCMP, CBSA and colluders like Mike Mitchell and Gary McHale.
What plans are out there for Tyendinaga, Kahnawake and Kanehsatake [Oka]?
To help contact Akwesasne Peoples Fire 613-937-1813 akwpeoplesfire@bell.net; Six Nations 519-445-1445.
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on MNN website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN SIX NATIONS or AKWESASNE categories for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. Sep. 13, 2009. What’s happening in Six Nations and Akwesasne on Mohawk jurisdiction issues? Everybody knows the invaders have no jurisdiction over Ongwehonwe anywhere. The band and tribal councils are mum about their dealings with Canada, Ontario, Quebec, US and New York State, the five colonial meddlers at Akwesasne.
Ever wonder why the border goons scampered away so fast from the imaginary line [border] on Kawenoke Island last May 31, 2009? We hear money is in the bank for a new low level bridge over the St. Lawrence River from Cornwall Ontario to Kawenoke [formerly Cornwall Island] to US soil. It looks like a construction barge has already finished a pylon on the US side without consulting the Mohawk Nation.
Canada has installed a temporary Canada customs shack at the foot of the bridge in Cornwall. The land has already been cleared for what could be a new low level bridge to touch down from Kawenoke, along with a new multi-million dollar customs complex like the new one on the US side.
Is Mike Mitchell, the grand chief, getting big bucks to help Ottawa? We don’t want the border or the new bridge in Kawenoke. Never did! Never will! No one is singing “Baby, come back”.
Meanwhile, the Ontario Provincial police OPP are constantly exceeding their jurisdiction by foraying into Six Nations. Shouldn’t the Six Nations cops be curbing the build-up of OPP activities by taking OPP badge and car numbers, reporting it and escorting them off? Rogue cops could be sent in to try to stir up trouble. If caught, they must leave and stay away. It looks like some of our guys are holding the fort. They are there on behalf of Great Turtle Island with all Ongwehonwe standing with them.
New York State also has a dilemma. They are facing a big court case with the Haudenosaunee whom the NYS Troopers attacked in Onondaga in 1997. Most victims don’t want to settle for money. Instead they want the Troopers to stand trial. They are anxious to see if the trail leads to NYS Governor George Pataki’s office for ordering the attack. NYS is acting quiet, peaceful and accommodating. They don’t want to be seen as big bad guys like Canada, beating up Indigenous people for no reason. In fact, that is what the US is known for. That’s why they’re in court.
Meantime, the band and tribal councilors think their $hip has come in. They just have to sell out their own people. We hear Mike Flathead Mitchell is now waiting for a statue of himself to be erected at the entrance on Kawenoke [Cornwall Island], with made-in-China replicas to be sold at Wal Mart. The pigeons will love him.
Gary Wimpy McHale is the kind of stumble bum the government likes. He and his militia are photographing white customers of Six Nations stores and turning them over to the cops. Then the cops illegally harass them, grab their merchandize and probably sell them in their own swine [black] market.
McHale vows to get rid of Indigenous rights, forgetting he’s a descendant of people whom we took care of. This red neck’s too dumb to see his handlers don’t care about him. When they’re done with him, they’ll drop him like a slimy hot potato, alone and used, with no pay-off. Some day people will mention how the colonists used stupid goofs like him.
The government sets up shadow organizations like the Citizens Alliance to help patsies like McHale and his ilk. Ken Hewitt of Caledonia is their big mouth who constantly threatens our right to exist and have legitimate trade and commerce.
Six Nations has McHale and Akwesasne has Mike Mitchell. The colonists use low-lifes like them all the time. The old colonial formula is: [1] corrupt the traditional government; if it doesn’t work, [2] send in the jackals to assassinate them; if this doesn’t work, [3] bomb them; if this doesn’t work, [4] build poor rez-like communities and make them pay for it with their own resources; then [5] install quisling band or tribal councils called House Injuns. Malcolm X was right!
The CSIS agents at the shack in Cornwall are the jackal, watching our comings and goings. Their Intel coordinates the OPP, army, SQ, RCMP, CBSA and colluders like Mike Mitchell and Gary McHale.
What plans are out there for Tyendinaga, Kahnawake and Kanehsatake [Oka]?
To help contact Akwesasne Peoples Fire 613-937-1813 akwpeoplesfire@bell.net; Six Nations 519-445-1445.
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on MNN website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN SIX NATIONS or AKWESASNE categories for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!
MNN: Military & Geographers Map Dispossession of Indigenous
MILITARY & GEOGRAPHERS MAP DISPOSSESSION OF INDIGENOUS
In 1973, Henry Kissinger in effect said that depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the less developed countries because the US needs to steal their resources. [www.findsomequotes.com/henry-kissinger-new-york-times-oct-28-1973].
The greatest resistance to global control by international banker thugs are indigenous communities. We assert autonomy, self-determination and human rights when we communally hold our territory. This creates an obstacle to theft of our land and resources by US political and economic interests.
The US military and geographers have a plan to prey on and dissolve indigenous communities and resistance.
In 2005, the US Department of Defense gave Kansas University $500,000 to map communally-held indigenous land in the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Oaxaca. The professors and the US Foreign Military Studies Office FMSO at Fort Leavenworth are implementing the “Mexico Indigena” program to privatize Indigenous lands which are presently held communally.
The Officers are trained in land and resource theft at the US Army School of the Americas which also teaches torture and sets up death squads in Latin America.
The plan is to get rid of Indigenous autonomy and self-determination to get our territory and resources. Propaganda is being spread that our communities are breeding grounds of crime and insurgency and must be done away with.
Land data and military strategy was carried out in Colombia [Mapping Colombia: Land Data and Strategy]. While collecting data, the FMSO assessed so-called guerrilla armies, terrorist organizations and Indigenous defenses.
In 1992 the Mexican President revoked Article 27 of the constitution which had turned communal land grants over to Mexico’s indigenous people in 1912. The North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA revoked this.
The day NAFTA went into effect, on January 1, 1994, the Zapatistas captured a third of the state of Chiapas, who continue to resist and inspire human rights struggles elsewhere.
Oaxaca State is extremely wealthy in natural resources. It is a site for NAFTA based mega industrial projects known as Plan Puebla Panama such as highways, railways, ports, wind energy, mines, agribusinesses, and maquiladora-style assembly plants. Indigenous communities are pushed off their land, used for cheap labor or robbed of their livelihood because they are considered non-viable.
A geographer at the University of the Earth in Oaxaca City saw the danger of these mapping junkets. They were combined with talks for US military aid known as the Merida Initiative. The military planned to displace Indigenous communities, remove hot spots and control the region. Natural and mineral resources could then be stolen by the government and its transnational allies.
On June 14, 2006 a teacher’s union strike in Oaxaca City blew up into a popular Indigenous uprising of farm workers, teachers, students, housewives, and laborers. The people wanted traditional forms of land tenure and self-governance.
The Oaxacan People’s Popular Assembly APPO took over the state’s capitol city for six months. It became the de-facto government, organized under the Indigenous principle of leading by obeying the people. Organizing was done by consensus.
APPO members occupied state, local, and federal government offices throughout the city and took over food, water, transportation and communication. The state retaliated with murder, disappearance, rape, torture and police led drive-by shootings. The social movement was eroded for a while.
During this resistance, the “Mexico Indigena” mapping project moved its operation to a biologically diverse and mineral-rich region in Oaxaca.
Territory and culture are together in daily life for the indigenous of southern Mexico. Free Trade forces a loss of identity and tradition. There is constant propaganda that devalues Indigenous culture. Mannequins in Oaxaca City are tall, skinny, and very white. The most prevalent cosmetic product sold to indigenous women is skin bleach. We obviously need to reclaim our autonomy, territory and natural identity.
Negating communal land holding is to deny indigenous culture, life and identity. The US knows that our relationship with the land is the biggest threat to the capitalists. Our identity and our birthright is the land. International law dictates that changes can only be made with our full knowledge and consent, which we’ll never give. Removing the artificial borders between Canada, US and Mexico is for the immigrants and foreigners, not us.
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on MNN website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “WORLD” category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!Left Turn July/Aug 2009, Simon Sedillo www.elenemigocomun.net,
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com
MNN. Sep. 12, 2009. The three colonies of Canada, US and Mexico are forming a political block to better control Indigenous labor and to seize our resources.In 1973, Henry Kissinger in effect said that depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the less developed countries because the US needs to steal their resources. [www.findsomequotes.com/henry-kissinger-new-york-times-oct-28-1973].
The greatest resistance to global control by international banker thugs are indigenous communities. We assert autonomy, self-determination and human rights when we communally hold our territory. This creates an obstacle to theft of our land and resources by US political and economic interests.
The US military and geographers have a plan to prey on and dissolve indigenous communities and resistance.
In 2005, the US Department of Defense gave Kansas University $500,000 to map communally-held indigenous land in the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Oaxaca. The professors and the US Foreign Military Studies Office FMSO at Fort Leavenworth are implementing the “Mexico Indigena” program to privatize Indigenous lands which are presently held communally.
The Officers are trained in land and resource theft at the US Army School of the Americas which also teaches torture and sets up death squads in Latin America.
The plan is to get rid of Indigenous autonomy and self-determination to get our territory and resources. Propaganda is being spread that our communities are breeding grounds of crime and insurgency and must be done away with.
Land data and military strategy was carried out in Colombia [Mapping Colombia: Land Data and Strategy]. While collecting data, the FMSO assessed so-called guerrilla armies, terrorist organizations and Indigenous defenses.
In 1992 the Mexican President revoked Article 27 of the constitution which had turned communal land grants over to Mexico’s indigenous people in 1912. The North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA revoked this.
The day NAFTA went into effect, on January 1, 1994, the Zapatistas captured a third of the state of Chiapas, who continue to resist and inspire human rights struggles elsewhere.
Oaxaca State is extremely wealthy in natural resources. It is a site for NAFTA based mega industrial projects known as Plan Puebla Panama such as highways, railways, ports, wind energy, mines, agribusinesses, and maquiladora-style assembly plants. Indigenous communities are pushed off their land, used for cheap labor or robbed of their livelihood because they are considered non-viable.
A geographer at the University of the Earth in Oaxaca City saw the danger of these mapping junkets. They were combined with talks for US military aid known as the Merida Initiative. The military planned to displace Indigenous communities, remove hot spots and control the region. Natural and mineral resources could then be stolen by the government and its transnational allies.
On June 14, 2006 a teacher’s union strike in Oaxaca City blew up into a popular Indigenous uprising of farm workers, teachers, students, housewives, and laborers. The people wanted traditional forms of land tenure and self-governance.
The Oaxacan People’s Popular Assembly APPO took over the state’s capitol city for six months. It became the de-facto government, organized under the Indigenous principle of leading by obeying the people. Organizing was done by consensus.
APPO members occupied state, local, and federal government offices throughout the city and took over food, water, transportation and communication. The state retaliated with murder, disappearance, rape, torture and police led drive-by shootings. The social movement was eroded for a while.
During this resistance, the “Mexico Indigena” mapping project moved its operation to a biologically diverse and mineral-rich region in Oaxaca.
Territory and culture are together in daily life for the indigenous of southern Mexico. Free Trade forces a loss of identity and tradition. There is constant propaganda that devalues Indigenous culture. Mannequins in Oaxaca City are tall, skinny, and very white. The most prevalent cosmetic product sold to indigenous women is skin bleach. We obviously need to reclaim our autonomy, territory and natural identity.
Negating communal land holding is to deny indigenous culture, life and identity. The US knows that our relationship with the land is the biggest threat to the capitalists. Our identity and our birthright is the land. International law dictates that changes can only be made with our full knowledge and consent, which we’ll never give. Removing the artificial borders between Canada, US and Mexico is for the immigrants and foreigners, not us.
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on MNN website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “WORLD” category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!Left Turn July/Aug 2009, Simon Sedillo www.elenemigocomun.net,