Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam Statement Jan. 15, 2013

Press Statement From Chief Allan Adam regarding Highway 63 Roadblocks

January 15, 2013 – Fort McMurray, AB – In the wake of Idle No More and the AFN’s calls for blockades, peaceful protests and a stall of the Canadian economy Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) has made waves with talk of potential long term blockades in Northern Alberta.

“At this time we have no plans to organize or facilitate the organization of roadblock on highway 63 for January 16^th or any set date. However, the people are upset with the current state of affairs in this country and things are escalating towards more direct action.

As a leader I have been talking to the people, talking with governments and industry to try and diffuse the situation that is coming to the surface.  However, neither government nor industry seems willing to move on the issues and the people have said that enough is enough.

Both Federal and provincial governments’ have blind sided this Country with weaken environmental legislation, weakened protection of our waters, lands and animals and a weakened public review process.  These legislative changes within Bill C-45 and Bill C-38 will expedite Canada’s abilities to extract billions of dollars in profits from Indigenous lands while most of our communities live in poverty and some without basic services like clean drinking water.  The legacy that will be left for our people will be nothing more then polluted lands and waterways with little left for our people to survive on.

Our people have become the canaries in the coalmine. We are all at a precipice and at a pivotal point in history.  We can either sit idly by and watch as the government sanctions the right to destroy the lands and rights of the people of this country or we can stand up and protect our lands and rights.

Unless Harper, the Canadian government and industry see the necessity to repeal the Bills or at the very least, remove amendments made to and renegotiate the terms of the Navigable Waters Protection Act, the Fisheries Act, The Environmental Assessment Act, the National Energy Board Act and the Indian Act, you can expect to see matters escalate not just here in Alberta but across this Country.

The blockade of Highway 63 is something that has always been a possibility even before Idle No More.  For the last 50 years people in Northern Alberta have been living at ground zero in one of the world’s most destructive industrial projects, the Alberta Tar Sands.  The tar sands infrastructure includes pipelines to the east, west, south and north needed to ship tar sands out and bring in solvents used in processing.  It includes proposed nuclear reactors and natural gas mining to generate power for needed for extraction.  It involves utilizing massive amounts of fresh water to process and leaves incredibly large toxic waste lakes that are contaminating plants, animals and neighbouring waterways.  It creates vast amounts of greenhouse gases fueling climate chaos and contributing to alarming climate change.

Our community has been challenging applications made by Shell Oil Canada, has repeated asked for better environmental protections, basic third party independent monitoring, and a moratorium until further studies are done to determine to cumulative impacts of the tar sands on the people and the land. To date all we have seen is nothing more then meetings and lip service. 

The Oil, Gas and pipeline industry asked the government for legislative changes to better protect their investments and assets in the name of “economic growth” and within ten months the government made sweeping changes to legislation in their favor.

Indigenous Rights and environmental protection are intrinsically tied together, our rights are contingent on thriving eco-systems and intact biodiversity.  Without fresh water and pristine lands we cannot practice our cultural and spiritual way of being.  By weakening environmental protection and avenues for challenging industrial development the government has weakened it’s respect and fiduciary obligation to uphold the Canadian Constitution and our inherent treaty and aboriginal rights in Canada. It’s time for Canada to negotiate the terms of adequate environmental protection in partnership with Treaty and Aboriginal rights.

If no changes are made in the coming months I guarantee we will see Nationwide peaceful picket lines set up, resulting in blockades of major highways, against all resource extraction and development that is being done in violation of the Canadian Constitution, with unjust environmental standards and in contravention of our inherent rights to live, breathe and sustain ourselves on our lands.”

For More Information Contact:

Chief Allan Adam ACFN 780-713-1220
Eriel Deranger, ACFN Communications Coordinator 780-903-6598

Chief Spence's Statement Jan. 14, 2013

Mohawk Nation News: Owistah, Diagnosis and Cure

OWISTAH, DIAGNOSIS & CURE

Mohawk Nation News

http://www.mohawknationnews.com

 Posted on January 15, 2013

 

OWISTAH, DIAGNOSIS & CURE 
MNN.  Shawn Atleo, of the Assembly of First Nations, is on sick leave after the disastrous January 11 meeting between him, the corporate chiefs and Prime Minister Harper.  While you are resting, we hope you will become of a good mind with the people.  They wanted the corporate chiefs to listen to them.  The CEO puppet master did not want to talk about the treaties, or scrap his genocide laws meant to terminate us.

Get well soon.

Betraying the women, who bring together the minds of the people, causes the owistah disease. It’s our AIDS that brought us to the victimized state we’re in.  The corporate chiefs job is to infect us with the virus of debt to the bankers.   It causes hierarchal pyramidal mental constriction. They deliver the owistah diluted blankets from the economic hit man to us.   He reminds the corporate chiefs that you have to think only of yourself and your family.  The main symptom of this sickness is, “Me, me, me.  I, I, I”.  The cure is “We”.  
CEO Stephen Harper of the Corporation of Canada wanted his corporate chiefs to swing the corporate sword at us to divide us. The corporation can exist only when our minds are separated. We were to be delivered to Harper and his handlers [the bankers].  Soon other corporate chiefs will start showing symptoms of owistah, like Atleo. 
Western democracies are based upon control through corruption and bribery. Payouts to secret bank accounts are the cause of the Owistah disease.  The only cure is the Kaianerekowa.  
The corporate chiefs could not remind Harper of the “Indian Trust Money” as they are part of the swindle.  Only Indian money from our resources pays to operate the cartel known as the corporation of Canada. 
In the 1800s millions of Mohawk money was taken from our trust funds to build Osgoode Hall, the seat of “legality” in Ontario.  McGill University was also built with stolen Mohawk money.  Both never repaid us.    
The rich don’t work.  They rule and take their cut from every transaction that goes through the bank, as the current Quebec corruption scandal proves.  

British victimize China in opium wars.

The British architects of this debt scam made vast fortunes from the opium wars in the 1800s. Then they came to Great Turtle Island with their drug money and set up the American banking cartels [Rockefeller, Morgans, etc.]  Today these drug dealers are running the criminal agenda to create the male hierarchical system under a totalitarian global government. 
The international cartel gets a 10% cut of every deal made in Canada forever.  
Atleo, for a full recovery, go back to one mind generated by your women.  You and your corporate counterparts must resign your positions and your adherence to the genocidal Indian Act.   The traditional people will stand up our councils to bring peace to everyone. The illegal corporation of Canada will obey the law of the land.    
All Indigenous on the earth are shedding our corporate overlords and getting a booster shot from the Idle No more movements.  
Atleo should listen to Mick Jagger singing:  “Oh, help me, please doctor, I’m damaged.  There’s a pain where there once was a heart.  It’s sleepin’, it’s a’beatin’, can’t you please tear it out, and preserve it right there in that jar?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjASYx9a9k 

Hearts of Corporate  Chiefs.

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First Nation Terrance Nelson: Oil Pipeline and Rail Blockades

 

By Terrance Nelson, First Nation Roseau River Ojibway

Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

 

Chief Fox

My sources have raised a concern that needs to be considered. Although, I have not used these two sources too much and I do not know if this information is true, it rings like the truth. I am being told that the "big money" in the States are hoping that an oil blockade in Canada takes place. The big money oil guys in the States will ensure that the price per barrel of oil skyrockets due to the Canadian pipeline blockades and they will make a lot of money. Harper will get a lot of the controlled news media support in the States and Canada to label our people terrorists when the oil blockades happen. Americans will be told that they are paying high prices for gasoline because of the "terrorists" in Canada.

What I do know is real is that Enbridge and TransCanada are pumping at the highest capacity right now. They are storing as much oil in Cushing Oklahoma and elsewhere as possible. There is at least six months of capacity. An oil blockade must last more than six months if a pipeline blockade is to be effective. So, the two sources I am in touch with maybe right. I still am not sure about their "truth" but it is enough to take into consideration for the strategy for the blockades. The oil pipeline blockades will have dramatic effects within three days of the action. The Enbridge pumping station at Gretna Manitoba pumps a million barrels a day into the States. It is in our territory.

You have made the statement in Ottawa that we must shut down the economy of Canada. I have made similar statements for many years. Grand Chief Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs also made the same statements. The 2007 National Day of Action was a warning that has been ignored by Harper. Now we are stuck with the need to move ahead with action to back the statements that have been made. On Wednesday January 16th at noon, we will blockade two major railway systems in Manitoba. This is not "Idle no More", this is not a round dance. The 50 or so Chiefs on the  teleconference in late December have said that January 16th will be the time we implement action nationally. We will do our part. What the people in other provinces do is up to them.

We are on solid legal ground to carry out blockades of the economy. The legislation that Harper has passed is fundamentally breaching the treaties. The Treaties granted the immigrants rights that we must now revoke as a result of Harper's legislation.

 “And the undersigned Chiefs do hereby bind and pledge themselves and their people strictly to observe this treaty and to maintain perpetual peace between themselves and Her Majesty's white subjects, and not to interfere with the property or in any way molest the persons of Her Majesty's white or other subjects.”
 
Not to interfere with the property… of Her Majesty’s white subjects is a treaty right granted by indigenous people to the people who immigrated to our lands. It is a treaty right that is contingent upon Her Majesty fulfilling the conditions of treaty.

The position from our blockade will be as follows:

1.        $10 per barrel of oil collected by the Americans to be used as payment to the indigenous peoples of Canada.
2.        An end to federal funding of First Nations in Canada.

3.        Canada is our land, our resources, we give the immigrants a share of our resources, not the other way around.

4.        We will build our own Casinos on our own authority, no more provincial oversight.

 

My public statement to the Canadian Taxpayer Federation will be blunt and to the point, "take your taxpayer money and shove it up your arse".

 

As the owners of the land, we own all the resources of these lands. We finance the immigrants, not the other way around. We will give them a share of our natural resources, we are not asking them for a share of our own property, let them understand who lives on whose good graces. In Ottawa, some of the Chiefs begged for a meeting with Harper. When the railway blockades go up permanently, Harper will be asking for a meeting. When CN and CPR aren't able to transport stolen property to the Americans, Canadians will begin to understand that this was the most peaceful country in the world because we put up with the bullshit for far too long. They forgot who the immigrants are and who are the owners.

 

Matthew Coon Come has a lot of influence over the Americans. The northern Cree of Quebec power up the eastern United States. The Cree signed a $3.5 billion deal with Quebec to send electricity south. The Cree want to ensure that there is no disruptions of that delivery of electricity to the Americans. When bloodshed occurs in the west as a result of the railway blockades, the Cree cannot guarantee that the indigenous people in the south of Quebec and Ontario will honor the Cree agreement. Coon Come should be in New York and Washington asking Americans to call Harper.

 

I would ask that the oil pipeline blockades not occur for three months. We need to try other blockades until we see the results. If we need to block oil pipelines, we want support from OPEC. Ask OPEC for two days of oil stoppage to show worldwide solidarity for indigenous rights to property in Canada. OPEC needs to hear from us. OPEC will make billions if the price of oil skyrockets.

 

We have support from Arabic people. The big news media in the United States and Canada will label us terrorists but they have a big problem, the public comments of Canadians, comments of hatred of indigenous peoples that need to be heard in other countries.

 

There is the six hundred murdered and missing indigenous women in Canada, thirty thousand indigenous children in care, police brutality, housing conditions, the deliberate economic sanctions that cause 60 to 95% unemployment in many First Nations communities etc. We need to ensure that the internet is alive and that the world hears about the plight of our people. When the economy of Canada starts to collapse, the world will hear us. Look at what some of the Palestinians are saying:

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/palestinians-endorse-idle-no-more-146631#.UPN2ix-AMhk.email

 

 

The following part of the article made me smile;

 

An empathy with Native peoples goes back to Barakat’s childhood. As a young boy growing up in Palestine he saw that the Israeli media always portrayed Native peoples as savage, barbaric terrorists – the same terms used to portray Palestinians in the media, he said. “So even when we were children we would fight over who would play the cowboys and who would play the Natives, because everybody always wanted to play the Natives,” he said.

Barakat said it was no coincidence that he chose to begin the call for the Palestinians in Solidarity with Idle No More... “It’s almost an instinctive feeling to see ourselves in the indigenous struggle,” Barakat said. “It’s because of this that Palestinians in general see that what happened and is still happening to Natives in Canada and the U.S. is actually happening now in Palestine.”

 

Chief, the support around the world is growing. When the railway blockades go up, there will be a severe backlash. The people who are on the blockades need to be clear, this is not a round dance, this will have consequences but if we keep in mind that our children will not have land or rights in our country in the future, the sacrifices we make today will be worth it. We are pledged to peaceful but effective protest. We know the whiteman, we know that violence is in his nature. We must be prepared, but we do not need to be victims forever.

 

When we are arrested, others will take up our blockade. When AIM took over in Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, they did so as peacefully as possible but many people died, sixty-five and more. Two white FBI died and that is all that is remembered. We do not want bloodshed but we know the whiteman, in Gustafson, in Ipperwash, in Oka, in Caledonia, in Tsuu Tina, we know the price our people had to pay for standing up. Chief Morris and his council know the price that must be paid but we know that on January 16th, we will stand.