MNN Editor Arrested for 'Assaulting' Canada Border Commandos

MNN EDITOR ARRESTED FOR 'ASSAULTING' CANADA BORDER COMMANDOS - TRIAL PENDING

MNN Sept. 7, 2010.

On July 19, 2010 the police of the town next to the Mohawk community of Kahnawake arrested Kahentinetha Horn, the 70 year old editor of MNN Mohawk Nation News. She was unaware that two cross-Canada warrants for unspecified charges were issued by the Akwesasne Mohawk Police on behalf of the Canada Border Services Agency CBSA.

Kahentinetha was ordered into the back seat of the police car. They made arrangements to transport her out of Quebec to parts unknown to her! She was not allowed to phone her family.

The 90 degree F heat wave turned the police car into an oven. The windows were tightly shut. Kahentinetha started to suffer heart palpitations, shortness of breath and sweats. She banged on the windows, coughing for air, as she waved her nitro emergency heart attack spray at the two officers.

Two years previously on June 14, 2008, she had been assaulted by CBSA at Akwesasne near Cornwall Ontario. This caused a trauma induced heart attack. Since then she has not left her home and continues to receive medical care.

Kahentinetha asked the Chateauguay police to call an ambulance immediately. She was taken to nearby Anna Laberge Hospital where she remained for 2 days. The police called the Akwesasne Mohawk Police, who told them to release her and for her to call them from home. She called the Akwesasne Mohawk Police.

Jeff Bova and John Cook refused to tell her the nature of the charges and to go to Akwesasne to find out. A lawyer made some calls. She apparently was charged with assault and obstruction of the CBSA on June 14, 2008, the day she was assaulted by about a dozen special CBSA commandos. They were wearing flak jackets, leather gloves, steel reinforced boots and various weaponry hung around their waist.

After roughing her up and cuffing her, two commandos applied the “stress hold”. The cuffs on her arms behind her back were tightened to stop blood circulation to her arms and chest. Then her head was pushed forward and downward to cause blood to rush into her heart, which could cause instant death. Her brother’s sudden appearance at the checkpoint saved her life. The lawyer said they intend to proceed to a trial on the charges and asked for their evidence.

Kahentinetha, MNN Mohawk Nation News
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40th Anniversary of the Takeover of Mount Rushmore

Native Americans mark 40th anniversary of reclaiming Mount Rushmore
www.kotatv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13064126
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_6e82a8b8-b3f0-11df-a9b5-001cc4c002e0.html
MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL -- “Today is a lesson in history,” Robert Cook, former president of the National Indian Education Association, said Sunday at Mount Rushmore.
“It feels good that we had people who stood up and risked being arrested, losing their freedom at a place that represents freedom,” Cook said, recalling a group of Native American activists who protested and held a three-month-long occupation of the memorial 40 years ago, bringing national attention to Native issues. It wasn’t done on a whim, Cook said, but involved courage to stand up for their beliefs. (click link for more)

Forgotten People: Photos Peabody Coal destroying Black Mesa

Photos Peabody Coal destroying Navajoland, copyright: Forgotten People

Forgotten People: Navajos oppose renewal of Peabody Coal lease
(Click links for documents to read or print. May take a couple minutes to load.)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/36781766/Opposes-Renewal-of-BM-amp-Kayenta-Lease-Re-Opener
Forgotten People: Navajos oppose carbon sequestration on Black Mesa: http://www.scribd.com/doc/36782504/Carbon-Sequestration

Indigenous Politics Radio: Is the Cobell settlement a scam?

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Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode that will examine the politics of a class-action lawsuit filed against the federal government in Cobell v. Salazar regarding the mismanagement of billions of dollars overseen by U.S. Interior for Indian trustees since 1887. The lead plaintiff in the case is Elouise P. Cobell - a member of the Blackfeet Nation from Browning, MT- who filed the case in 1996 due to the federal government's failure to properly manage Indian trust assets on behalf of all present and past individual Indian trust beneficiaries, including over 300,000 current Individual Indian Money (IIM) account holders. The named defendants are the U.S. Secretaries of the Interior and Treasury and the Assistant secretary-Indian Affairs. On Friday, July 22, 2010, the U.S. Senate rejected a $3.4 billion government settlement of the case that had been added to a much larger war-funding bill. On the show, we will hear from Angelique EagleWoman and Richard Monette who are critical of the settlement and its agenda, and view the Senate rejection as an opportunity to transform the terms of what would constitute a just resolution. Richard Monette is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and an Associate Professor of Law, and Faculty Advisor for the Great Lakes Indian Law Center, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 2000-2003, he served as Chairman for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and has also served as a Staff Attorney with US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Director of the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota, and an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law. She is currently on the governing council of the Northwest Indian Bar Association
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