Mohawk Nation News 'Falling Down'

Falling Down

Posted on March 4, 2013

MNN. Mar. 5, 2013. Panic is setting in? Prime Minister Harper’s inner circle is cracking. Queen Beatrix and the Pope ‘resigned’, him over covering up the crimes of his priests. Queen Elizabeth suddenly comes down with vomiting and diarrhea and lands in the hospital. The hierarchy is collapsing in upon itself. Canada is in a hurry to put the final nail on the coffin they made for us, in a desperate attempt to try to get our resources and funds by eliminating us. They are brazenly going for it! We’ve seen these serpents slithering underneath. Their media continues to create misinformation and fear of us to turn the world’s public opinion against us.

Queenie: Wah, what? The Indians won’t give us the trust fund!!

Journalist Doug Cuthand writes *[link] about the demonizing and personal attacks of our people. 20 nations have presented their concerns in Geneva to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Abundant evidence has been provided of racial hatred and misinformation by Corporate Canada and it’s media hounds.
“Seeing Red”, a history of natives in Canadian newspapers, states: There’s been a “consistent policy of degrading and marginalizing First Nations”, portraying us as morally depraved, inferior and resisting progress.
Ezra Levant of Sun Media called protesters “terrorists” committing crimes against Canada. He said, “It’s dangerous enforcing the law, especially against Mohawk Warriors who dress in camouflage, carry an assault rifle, some of whom have served in the Canadian or U.S. military.” 
Lorne Gunter, of Sun Media, belittled the treaties with the Crown and particularly the “Two Row Wampum” which is the basis of all valid treaties on Great Turtle Island. He ignorantly called it “rubbish” and asked, “How come non-aboriginals largely paid for both canoes and do most of the paddling in each too?”
Christie Blatchford, of The Star Phoenix and National Post, belittles  us at every chance and hopes we are doomed. She asks, “whether there’s enough of aboriginal culture left to even dream of that lofty status [legal nation to nation relations], … Smudging and drumming do not a nation make.”
Belittling the genocide is a longtime strategy. Dekanawida warned about the time we are in and the serpents we are dealing with right now. As the Temptations sang in their song: “Snake in the grass, he will surely bite you. Watch out!” Temptations: Snake in the Grass
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StarPhoenix, by Doug Cuthand “Racism Tarnishes Canada’s Leaky Squeaky Clean Image”. Mar. 1, 13. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/touch/story.html?id=8033085

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Mohawk Nation News 'Leonard Peltier'

Strong spirited because he did not do it.

LEONARD PELTIER

Posted on March 4, 2013

MNN. Mar. 2, 2013.  Why is Leonard Peltier still in jail, since 1977? He is a 68-year old Lakota prisoner of war. We need to help get him out.  
Peltier, a former member of American Indian Movement AIM, is the longest incarcerated person in the US. He is in Coleman Prison Florida. He was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of 2 FBI agents in 1975. Life sentence is 7 years. He got more than 5 life sentences, violating US laws. 

Native Elders, Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte, Peter Coyote and others held a concert in New York City in 2012, to give President Obama a message to, as Peltier said,  “Turn me loose”. 
Says Peltier, “I never got a fair trial, international laws were violated, racists sat on the jury, I had no defence, evidence was manufactured and witnesses were tortured”. The weapon tests showed negative. Judge Haney said, “There is no evidence of first degree murder. No one knows who killed the agents or what he had to do with it. But somebody has to pay for this.” 
He wants release or house arrest as he needs medical attention for a number of ailments, “I am willing to wear an ankle bracelet”. 

AIM continues.

At the time, murders were committed on Pine Ridge, financed by the government, with intelligence, armored piercing ammunition and sophisticated weaponry. Violence began when US agents  arrived carrying guns and started shooting. All the deaths were needless. Congressman Tim Johnson of North Dakota has promised to investigate this. 
Peltier symbolizes that US society is held together by force. We cannot be free if we are being threatened with violence, such as fines, jails, confiscation of possessions or denial of rights, due process and death. 
International law was violated when they failed to recognize his nation and its jurisdiction. He was denied a hearing before an impartial third party and was tried by one of the parties to the dispute, the US justice system. Peltier was imprisoned for defending the families and people. “I stood up for my people to stop the Termination Act. I did nothing, let alone kill somebody.”  
A fundamental principle of survival is that anyone who is attacked has a right to defend themselves. Good decent people of the international community need to stand with us. We will all be stronger if we respect each other’s autonomy. As Bon Scott sang in gone shooting: “Feel the pressure rise. Hear the whistle blow. Never said bye-bye. All the cryin’ eyes.” 

Freedom!

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Oglala Lakota Sioux 'Count Coup' on Border Town Liquor Stores

Oglala Lakota Sioux "Count Coup" on Border Town Liquor Stores


By Natalie Hand
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
French translation by Christine Prat

PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Over 100 Oglala Lakota Sioux tribal members and allies, including members of Deep Green Resistance, rallied once again today to round dance and raise awareness of the dire conditions in the Nebraska border town of White Clay, NE, an unincorporated hamlet that has four liquor stores next door to the "dry" Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Led once again by Oglala Sioux Tribal President, Bryan Brewer, the non-violent protesters marched in to White Clay and served the Nebraska State Patrol and local county Sheriff Terry Robbins with a copy of a resolution from Traditional Headsman Floyd Hand of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council which sites the 1851/1868 Ft. Laramie Treaties, an active, legally-binding agreement between the United States of America and the Great Sioux Nation. Within this agreement, a 10-mile buffer zone on the exterior boundaries of the reservation was established, in which no liquor was to be sold. The State of Nebraska, with the assistance of the U.S. government, has ignored the buffer-zone clause. The Oglala Lakota Sioux believe that the liquor is a form of modern-day genocide, perpetuated by greedy profiteers in White Clay.
The protesters, led by Alex White Plume, Spokesman for the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, proceeded to each of the four liquor stores and conducted a Lakota tradition of "counting coup" on each establishment, by touching it with their hand, or eagle feather staff. Lakota believe that when you count coup on an enemy, death soon follows. They believe that this act will essentially kill the liquor stores. All four stores were closed during the protest.

Already this evening, reports confirm that liquor stores in White Clay could not cash checks due to the lack of cash in their tills.

Contact: Natalie Hand at pteole@gwtc.net

DES SIOUX OGLALA PORTENT ‘LE COUP QUI COMPTE’ AUX COMMERCES D’ALCOOL A LA FRONTIERE DE LA RESERVE

On March 7, 2013, in Amérindiens en lutte, Lakotas, by Chris P

DES SIOUX OGLALA PORTENT ‘LE COUP QUI COMPTE’ AUX COMMERCES D’ALCOOL
Par Natalie Hand
Censored News
Dimanche 3 mars 2013
See original article in English
Traduction Christine Prat
PINE RIDGE, Dakota du Sud – Plus de 100 membres de la tribu Sioux Lakota Oglala et des alliés, parmi lesquels des membres de Deep Green Resistance, se sont réunis à nouveau ce jour pour une ronde afin d’éveiller la conscience des conditions désastreuses dans le village de White Clay à la frontière du Nebraska, un hameau qui compte quatre commerces d’alcool près de la Réserve Indienne de Pine Ridge où l’alcool est prohibé.
Conduits à nouveau par le Président Tribal Sioux Oglala Bryan Brewer, les manifestants pacifiques sont entrés dans White Clay et ont remis à Terry Robbins, de la Patrouille d’Etat du Nebraska et Sheriff du comté local, une copie d’une résolution de Floyd Hand, Président Traditionnel du Conseil du Traité de la Nation Sioux des Black Hills, site des Traités de Fort Laramie de 1851/1868, qui constituent un accord toujours en vigueur et légalement contraignant entre les Etats-Unis d’Amérique et la Grande Nation Sioux. Dans le cadre de cet accord, une zone tampon de 16 km autour des limites de la réserve a été établie, zone dans laquelle on ne doit pas vendre d’alcool. L’état du Nebraska, soutenu par le gouvernement des Etats-Unis, a ignoré cette clause. Les Sioux Lakota Oglala pensent que l’alcool est une forme moderne de génocide, continué par des profiteurs rapaces à White Clay.
Les manifestants, conduits par Alex White Plume, porte-parole du Conseil du Traité de la Nation Sioux des Black Hills, se sont rendus devant chaque commerce d’alcool et ont procédé à l’acte traditionnel Lakota du ‘coup qui compte’ sur chaque établissement, en le touchant de la main ou avec le bâton à plume d’aigle. Les Lakota croient que lorsqu’on ‘compte le coup’ avec un ennemi, sa mort survient à court terme. Ils croient que cet acte ‘tuera’ les commerces d’alcool. Les quatre magasins étaient fermés pendant la manifestation.
Ce soir déjà, des rapports confirment que les commerces d’alcool de White Clay n’ont pas pu encaisser des chèques à cause d’un manque d’argent liquide dans les caisses.
Contact : Natalie Hand pteole@gwtc.net