By First Nation Terrance Nelson
Roseau River Anishinabe
Abas,
Fars News
Once again thank you for posting my article on Fars News Agency on June 23, 2013
http://english.farsnews.com/
http://english.farsnews.com/
Please find attached poster on the Dakota Unity Ride. Chief Gus
Higheagle is a traditional spiritual elder. He leads the Dakota Unity
Riders and he is undertaking an immense effort to go to New York City
and Washington D.C. The United States Government does not acknowledge
the Dakota people in Canada. The Dakota in Canada have lost all their
lands in the United States and Canada refers to them as refugees from
the United States. This is absurd, these are original peoples of North
America. They are not refugees.
In the past the American Government has always ignored the history
of the Dakota. The Massacres of Dakota people in the late 18th century
is a part of the history of terrorism and genocide against the
indigenous people that was carried out by the United States army. See
Attached pictures from Wounded Knee South Dakota 1890.
In Canada, the Dakota face severe poverty. Chief Frank Brown, one
of the Chiefs who attended the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa in our
delegation in 2012 now faces jail time after they sold untaxed Mohawk
cigarettes to gain some income for their people. In Canada the system is
stacked against the indigenous people. Chief Brown will face the same
court system as I did. Canadian National Railway won a court case
against us. We didn't expect anything from the Canadian court but we
wanted to ensure that the court will not get away with making a decision
without us being there to tell them our side.
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| Wounded Knee |
Before anyone believes that the Canadians are a gentler nation, see
attached information on how they can and will use police and the Army
if the indigenous people resist.
We thank Iran for taking our human rights in Canada seriously. Can
you post the Warrior Publications information regarding the 1990 Oka
Crisis, then perhaps many of the 120 non aligned nations can see how
Canada really treats our people. They used 4,500 soldiers in 1990 to
suppress a Mohawk protest. To think of Canada as a gentle nation is
simply not true.
I attach for you a copy of the court decision released on June 28,
2013 that denies us a right to blockade the theft of our natural
resource wealth. Many of our people are in jail or will be in jail for
defying court injunctions.
The laws of Canada are backed up by armed police and the army.
Indigenous people are not allowed to protest in any meaningful or
effective way. The Thieves can continue to steal our lands and resources
and armed whites will enforce their theft.
In the Treaty 1-11 meeting in Onion Lake July 14 to 18, the people
will make the decision of what actions if any the indigenous people will
take to protect their fundamental human right to property.
The Dakotas need $50,000 to complete the ride to New York and
Washington. We are putting out a request to all people to help the
Dakota so that they can take their cause directly to President Obama.
Regardless of whether or not Obama acknowledges the Dakota and the
American history of genocide, remains to be seen. I will be taking the
Dakota request directly to the Grand Governing Council of American
Indian Movement in the next two days and I will take their information
next week to Onion Lake for support. Anyone else who can support the
Dakota Riders can contact Gus Higheagle at the phone number on the
attached poster or contact the supporters in the United States at the
website address, which is also on the poster.
Again thank you Abas for your continued support of our people here
in Canada. I understand that due to the sanctions, Iranians cannot
contribute financially to the Dakota, however if you can post this
information and send it to some of the 120 Non Aligned Countries,
perhaps some will respond. The Dakotas will leave on the Unity Ride
within two weeks on July 24, 2013.
In the near future AIM Manitoba will be erecting a statue of the
famous war chief Sitting Bull near Winnipeg with information on the
Genocide in North America. It will be the first step on our drive to
build a museum. I will send you the Museum Concept within two weeks. If
you can help us distribute that information to other countries, it would
help the Dakota people even if the United States continues to ignore
its history.
Terrance Nelson
Vice Chair American Indian Movement
THE DAKOTA NATION UNITY RIDE:
5000 MILES ON HORSEBACK FROM MANITOBA TO NEW YORK CITY JULY 27 - AUG 17TH 2013
"A RIDE FOR HEALING...FOR EVERY NATION...FOR ALL MANKIND"
5-25-13
Their ‘Unity’ ride last summer was a
Memorial, commemorating
200 years since the War of 1812, when ‘Seven Nations’, the Dakota,
Ojibway/Chippewa, Assiniboine, Cree, Hidatsa and Mandan Nations defended
and
held the ‘line’ of American expansion and aggression holding the ‘Mandan
Trail’ open from
what is now Canada, all the way south to the Mandan lodges, in what is
now the
Fort Berthold reservation. The ‘Many
Sitting Eagle’ Chiefs’ traditional leadership of the seven tribal
nations,
defended their camps and people in 'unity' while their warriors were
away fighting the War
of 1812, allied with the British troops. The war ended in the eventual
loss of their Homelands. The ride was to honor the memory and 'unity'
of the seven tribes at that time.
For further information about the Unity Ride, contact Gus High Eagle: 204-854-2584
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