Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 24, 2016

Mohawk Nation News 'Trudeau's Pipe Dream'

TRUDEAU’S PIPE DREAM

Mohawk Nation News 
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MNN. Dec. 24, 2016. Last week prime minister ‘Patsy” Trudeau announced his plans to decolonize Canada. He can’t because Canada has always been occupied by illegal invaders. Canada is a Mohawk word that designates a rotino’shonni settlement. The kaia’nere:kowa, great peace, signifies our tie to creation.   
This week he threatens to  assault us if we object to the corporation looting trillions of our resources. He approved oil pipelines to illegally criss-cross our land and communities.
Before the election Trudeau said only the onkwe’hon:weh, the original people, can grant permission on all projects. The UN resolution provides ‘free, prior and informed consent”, that nothing can happen without our say so from the people, not their corporate band/tribal system.
“HEY INDIAN, LISTEN TO ‘CNN’,  NOT ‘MOHAWK NATION NEWS’ FOR THE REAL TRUTH!”
The corporation can’t prove ownership of our resources that he is selling. He says our veto means nothing! When our allies don’t stand with us to oppose unjlawful orders for unlawful aggression, they are complicit and will be the next victims.
At Standing Rock the military is carrying out treason, attempted murders and injuries by this war of aggression to put in the Dakota Access pipeline through Lakota land.
TRUDEAU: “HEY CHIEFS. GET OUTTA THAT CANOE AND JUMP ABOARD. HA-HA’.
The corpo band and tribal INDIAN tyrants are cooperating with the illegal rogue states of USA and Canada to implement the genocide and theft. They try to scare us into surrendering and demanding protection from their bosses.
We demand Trudeau and his corporate cohorts be arrested for threatening our lives, looting our property and resources. We are not anti-government terrorists [C-51]. We are protectors of our mother.  The law enforcement is already trained as jackboot oppressors for the police state.
STANDING ROCK ARCHIE: “NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. GO HOME & CELEBRATE XMAS!”
Trudeau has picked a battle with the kaia’nere:kowa, the great peace, which is based on the real truth.
Deep Purple sings about fighting deception: “They burned down the gambling house. It died with an awful sound. Funky Claude was running in and out, Pulling kids out the ground, When it all was over. We had to find another place But Swiss time was running out. It seemed that we would lose the race. … We ended up at the Grand Hotel. It was empty, cold and bare. With a few red lights, a few old beds, We made a place to sweat. No matter what we get out of this I know, I know we’ll never forget, Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky, Smoke on the water”. 
Deep purple ‘smoke on the water’
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/  WATER PROTECTORS & AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM 

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December 23, 2016

Mohawk Nation News 'Songs'

SONGS


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MNN. Dec. 21, 2016. Our ancestors explained to us that as long as our music lives, we live. Our mother has a tone, which is the basis of the way we see creation. Standing Rock has awakened our memory of the deepest feelings, thoughts and tones of our ancestors through what we have in common, music.
Music tells us more than words. Our songs come from or ancestors, which reinforce our tie to creation. Our dance steps have not changed. Like our ancestors, we sing and dance the hardest at the most difficult time to deal with suffering, sadness, despair, everything that threatens survival of us and our duty to care for our mother.
OCETI WARRIOR FOLLOWING ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS.
Our suffering is misunderstood. No matter where we are we all experience the threats that face our people throughout great turtle island. We communicate through ceremonies and songs with those who have gone before and those who are yet to come.
The invading criminals remain amoral and unpunished. The corporation instigates and continues the suffering. The past indifference of the people of the world is gradually dissolving.
THE CORPORATION DOES NOT HEAR OUR MOTHER’S TONES.
Europeans saw pain and death performed in public. They were conditioned to believe that pain, agony, torment, torture, and hurting were normal parts of life. They could not see or think that a policy of genocide is wrong. We will protect our children from further distress, hardship, misery, wretchedness, hurt, pain and anguish. We have to prevent this. 
The nobility blamed it all on god. Non-conformists and critics were sent to insane asylums, where they were starved, tortured or killed. This is not natural. The oligarchs invented and wrote down dire punishments to anyone who disobeyed them. International courts and international law should pursue the philosophy of kaia’nere:kowa, the great peace.
European colonialism is one of man’s hierarchal experiments to control nature and all life. They attempt to exterminate what they cannot control. Unbalanced nature creates an amoral confused society.
“SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME …”
Creation is the perfect truth. Redemption means that everything violated in nature has to be made right. As long as our music exists, so shall we.
Floyd Red Crow Westerman sings about the missionary strategy: “Spread the word of your religions. Convert the whole world if you can. Kill and slaughter those who oppose you. It’s worth it if you save one man. Take the land to build your churches. A sin to tax the house of god. Take the child while he is supple. Spoil the mind and spare the rod… Like an ever circling vulture, You descend upon your prey. Then you pick the soul to pieces, And you watch as it decays. Missionaries, missionaries go and leave us all alone. Take your white god to your white men, We’ve a god of our own.” [Missionary missionary floyd westerman
STANDING ROCK10 GOT IN THE WAY OF ADVANCING DAPL-ARMY. 


https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ STANDING ROCK 10 ON TRIAL
LET’S TELL THEM WHERE WE STAND: Politicians, Corporatists, Band & Tribal Councils and sell-outs that are cooperating with pipeline companies;
ENERGY TRANSFER STRATEGIST: Michael (Cliff) Waters, Lead Analyst 77002 (713), 989-2404 Michael.Waters@energytransfer.com
NORTH DAKOTA: Office of the Governor Jack Darymple: 701-328-2200; Morton County Sheriff’s Department: 701-328-8118 & 701-667-3330; Allen Koppy Morton County Attorney 701.667.3350; N.D. National Guard: 701-333-2000; Army Corps of Engineers (202) 761-5903
U.S. Embassy Worldwide & Ottawa, 490 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 1G8: (General): 613-688-5335, (Emergency): 613-238-5335, (Media): 613-688-5315 Fax: 613-688-3082, US Embassy of the United States, London UK, Switchboard: [44] (0)20 7499-9000, White House Washington 202-456-1111 or (202) 456-1414
ENERGY TRANSFER, 214.981.0700: Lee Hanse, Executive Vice President, 800 E Sonterra Blvd #400, San Antonio, Texas 78258 (210) 403-6455   Lee.Hanse@energytransfer.com Glenn Emery, Vice President (210) 403-6762 Glenn.Emery@energytransfer.com
Call Bernie Sanders202-224-5142; Call Hillary Clinton 646-854-1432—
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Water Protectors and the American Justice System


Photo copyright Rob Wilson
Water Protectors and the American Justice System

Steve Melendez
Paiute Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
President, American Indian Genocide Museum

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As the Water Protectors are in court this week, Assistant State’s Attorney Ladd Erikson asked the Morton County District Court  to enter an order to prevent any mention of the treaties, “There is no relevance to any testimony or evidence regarding: Historical treaties between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation [or] tribal sovereignty…”
We can ask as did the court in the case of the United States v. Klein (13 Wall. 128), “What is this but to prescribe a rule for the decision of a court in a particular way?”
In the Hearings on Senate Bill 3083 “Limiting Jurisdiction of Court of Claims in Indian Cases” in 1940, the discussion continued, “In other words, the act attempted to strip the Court of its inherent judicial power to make a determination of the case by requiring it to render a decision in favor of one party”.
Assistant State’s Attorney Ladd Erikson is asking the court to make a decision of trespassing without determining who has the title deed to the property in question.
We know that courts cannot alter treaties and by the same token, even the Supreme Court cannot nullify all treaties according to race.

John Hult wrote for the Argus Leader last month an article entitled Pipeline Protests: 7 history lessons which also appeared in USA TODAY. He wrote, “THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY. This legal concept was used by European Colonial powers to justify the taking of aboriginal land. Essentially, it gave land title to any Christian nation whose explorers set foot upon non-Christian soil. In 1823, the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Johnson v. M’Intosh codified the doctrine into U.S. law, when Chief Justice John Marshall wrote an opinion stating that Native Americans could occupy land, but only the government could own it. Marshall, as it happens, stood to lose much of his own land if he’d ruled for the other side”.
I was under the impression that it was the duty of the Morton County District Court to examine all of the evidence and if they should find a scam large or small,  they should rule accordingly.

We have to wrap our minds around the United States government's white supremacist colonial legal posturing that they already own everything by right of "Discovery".

The evidence should determine who owns the land. If we cannot submit our treaties as evidence, where is the justice?

Steve Melendez,
Paiute Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
President, American Indian Genocide Museum



Website: http://www.aigenom.org

December 19, 2016

Standing Rock 10 Trial Granted Continuance until January, 2017


Courtroom sketches
Malia Hulleman outside court '
In Morton County Court today, in Mandan, North Dakota, the motion for continuance was granted for ten water protectors scheduled to go on trial today. A new trial scheduled for Jan. 31, 2017.

Prosecutor Ladd Ericksen, Asst. Staff Attorney; District Judge Cynthia Feland; and Malice Hulleman and Defense Counsel.




Before court began today, Water Protectors Legal Collective released this statement:
Water Protectors Headed to Court Continue to Assert Indigenous Sovereignty. Ten Defendants face first trial in spite of gross Constitutional violations.
Water Protector Legal Collective
Contact: Angela Bibens

www.waterprotectorlegal.org
Mandan, ND: The first trial of those charged in the resistance to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) begins on Monday, December 19 in Morton County, North Dakota. Monday's trial is the first of multiple jury trials scheduled to occur during the last two weeks of December; all of the accusations stem from police response to the global outpouring of support for the resistance based out of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation and treaty territory. To date police have arrested more than 550 Water Protectors during incidents of prayer and disruption of the DAPL construction, and trials are scheduled to continue through the spring.
The Water Protectors scheduled for trial remain firm in their defense of the Standing Rock Sioux tribal sovereignty and the tribe’s desire to prevent the construction of DAPL on sacred land set aside for the Sioux by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. The Water Protectors’ actions arose in response to neglect by corporate, federal and state institutions of Standing Rock's right to self-determination.
To date the Morton County courts have denied requests made by Water Protectors that the courts recognize the Water Protectors’ actions as protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of religion and religious practice, and right to free assembly. The Morton County court has engaged in potential violations of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel through a pattern and practice of delayed appointment of defense attorneys for the Water Protectors until the eve of trial.
Last week Assistant State’s Attorney Ladd Erikson asked the Morton County District Court enter an order to prevent the accused or their attorneys from talking to the jury about issues of indigenous sovereignty and land rights during trial. The resistance to DAPL has garnered worldwide attention and support. In a request about evidence allowed to be presented at the first trial Erikson writes, “There is no relevance to any testimony or evidence regarding: Historical treaties between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation; [or] tribal sovereignty…”
“Erikson’s invisiblization of the genocide of the Indigenous people of this land cuts to heart of why DAPL chose this site to build and why thousands of Indigenous people and their Allies from around the world have felt compelled to resist.” Said Paul Estate, a supporter of the Water Protectors.
Angela Bibens of The Water Protector Legal Collective discusses North Dakota Prosecutor Ladd Erickson's Motions Against Water Protectors:www.vimeo.com/196233250
The Water Protector Legal Collective is the on-the-ground legal support team at the encampment adjacent to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, formed in opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.