First Nation Terrance Nelson: Warrior Societies are Prepared

By Terrance Nelson

Oka

Roseau River Anishinabe

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Jason Bowman (Special Assistant)
Ka-nyen-geh-ha-kah of Grand River

 

Jason,

 

Thanks for your email.

Back in 1990 after the "Oka" Crisis, Mark Maracle and other Mohawks met with us in Roseau River to discuss how we reacted to the crisis. We agreed that we were not as organized as we needed to be, that Warrior Societies needed to be more prepared for the eventual conflict with government. Conservatives in 1990 under Brian Mulroney had no respect for our people and Harper is much the same way. The difference is in how prepared we as Warrior Societies are twenty-three years later.

 

The Treaty 1-11 meeting in Onion Lake, Saskatchewan July 14 to 18 will be a chance for the people themselves to plan and carry out action to meet the current crisis in Canada. AFN will have their own meeting the same time. There is a break taking place between AFN and those First Nations that are tired of AFN. Only the Chiefs are allowed to speak at AFN summits.

 

I told Mark that the biggest event in the 1990 Oka Crisis was the railway blockades that took place in Ontario. Two First Nations blocked railway lines. This was the biggest economic impact of the Oka Crisis. Mulroney gave the people in the Treatment Center 48 hours to surrender or he would send in the Army and take them out regardless of the lives that might be lost. We in Manitoba reacted to the Mulroney threat. I stood up on the legislative grounds steps and announced that if Mohawks were killed, we would target Ford, GM, Chrysler, Alcan and of course we were talking blockades of railway lines. The Canadian army was setting up to kill our people. Of course, we would have reacted, but the trouble is that we were severely unprepared in 1990. Today, we are much better prepared.

 

Treaty 1-11 is not government funded but AFN is and AFN has always been used by Government to keep our people in line. Watch AFN come out from their summit with messages of caution and calls for calm. Watch Government offer appeasements of cash to the Chiefs. The time for the people to have a say in this is now and Onion Lake maybe the place to do that. We will see.

 

The Train Derailment is being hushed up. It is not front page news because as Douglas Bland warned, the railway lines cannot be protected and the oil pipelines are all in Treaty 1-11 territories.

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/three-confirmed-dead-in-quebec-train-derailment-1.1356941#.UdmER543ikg.email

 

Thanks again for your continued efforts to keep people informed.

 

Terrance Nelson

 

Tarsands Healing Walk Photos July 6, 2013

The Healing Walk Begins July 6, 2013. Photo by Ben Powless

Tar sands healing walk approaches first tailings pond after a prayer to the south. Photo Ben Powless

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Thank you Ben Powless, Mohawk, for sharing with Censored News!
MORE PHOTOS OF WALK:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/healingwalk/9228857876/

Mohawk Ben Powless Photos: Walkers arrive for Tarsands Healing Walk

Thank you Ben Powless, Mohawk, for sharing these photos!

Tarsands Healing Walk

Fort McMurray, Alberta July 5--6, 2013

http://www.healingwalk.org/
Yes! magazine: Clayton Thomas-Muller, Cree
 'Healing Walk through Tarsands Dystopia'

Schedule Saturday July 6, 2013

7:00 am - Wake up call
8:00 am - Load into buses and vans and rideshares and leave campsite
9:00 am - Arrive at Crane Lake
9:00 - 10:00 am - Pipe Ceremony
10 - 10:45 am- Media Panel at the Crane Lake Starting point

• Chief Allan Adam - Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
• Melina Laboucan - Massimo, Lubicon Nation and Greenpeace Canada
• Crystal Lameman - Beaver Lake Cree Nation and Sierra Prairie Chapter
• Naomi Klien -  Award Winning Journalist, syndicated columnist and author of 'The Shock Doctrine: This Rise of Disaster Capitalism'
• Bill McKibbon  -  350.org

11:00 am - Start the Healing Walk
The Healing Walk will be led by the elders and ceremony people.  There will be Prayers along the way.  Clayton Thomas Muller is the master of the ceremony for the walk and will explain to all the participants which prayers are occurring, why, and how you all can participate.
4:30 -5:00 pm - Healing Walk complete
5:00 - 6:00 pm- Load into buses, vans and rideshares and return back to the campsite.
6:00 - 8:00 pm-  Feast and closing ceremonies, speeches and prayers to leave home with hope and peace.

• Bill Erasmus - Regional Chief of the Dene of North West Territories.
• Drumming
• The 4th Annual Healing Walk near Fort McMurray Alberta
  A Different Way to Protect our Land, Air, Water and Climate from Tar Sands Expansion
  The tar sands are growing out of control, destroying the climate for all Canadians and poisoning the water of everyone living downstream.  
  On July 5th and 6th, people will come together from coast to coast to join First Nations and Metis in the Healing Walk, a gathering focused on healing the environment and the people who are suffering from tar sands expansion.
  Let’s call on the Alberta and Canadian governments to stop the reckless mismanagement of these resources. We need our governments to work with First Nations and bring people together to make wise choices about stewarding the land in ways that are sustainable and fair.
  Find out more.
  
  
  Indigenous tradition asserts that it is a human responsibility to protect land, air, and water for future generations. Many other Canadians agree. Over the past decade First Nations communities, non-native communities, scientists, politicians, and others are recognizing that the expansion of the tar sands is betraying this responsibility.
  No one feels this more then the people that have lived in the Athabasca River region for generations. They have watched their land get destroyed, they are forced to breathe dirty air, and in many communities they can no longer drink the water. The wildlife they have traditionally harvested are getting scarce, the fish they harvest have tumours, and the medicinal plants are disappearing along with the permanently changed landscape.
  There are protests against the tar sands taking place around the world. From the streets of London to the treetops in Texas, people are coming out to protest tar sands expansion. In British Columbia there is a wall of opposition blocking tar sands pipelines and oil tankers, in the United States records numbers of people are protesting the KXL pipeline, and there is growing opposition to stop Line 9 in Ontario, Quebec, and the New England states. These protests are helping. Thank you.
  On July 5 & 6 2013 there will be a different kind of event taking place in Northern Alberta in the heart of the destruction. The 4th Annual Healing Walk is an opportunity for people from all walks of life to join First Nations and Metis in a spiritual gathering that will focus on healing the land and the people who are suffering from tar sands expansion.
  This is a different kind of event. Everyone is asked to participate but please leave your protest signs and organizational banners at home. Come and see the impacts of the tar sands and be a part of the healing. First Nations leaders will conduct a traditional healing ceremony on the walk but everyone is encouraged to bring their own spirituality, their own customs, and their own beliefs.
  Hope to see you there on July 5 & 6.  Become part of the solution to protecting land, air, water, and our climate by getting involved in the Healing Walk.
  
• View the program
• Find out all the details about attending
• Register to attend
• Or, take action from home if you can't attend.

The Healing Walk is sponsored by the Keepers of the Athabasca. Keepers of the Athabasca is a collection of First Nations, Metis, Inuit, environmental groups, and watershed citizens working together for the protection of water, land and air, and thus for all living things today and tomorrow in the Athabasca River Watershed.

Terrance Nelson: When Peace Chiefs fail, time to bring in War Chiefs

Terrance Nelson: "When the Peace Chiefs have failed, it is time to bring in the War Chiefs. The War Chiefs must prepare for War in order for our people to have peace with the immigrants, peace doesn't mean that our people have to live in poverty."

 

By Terrance Nelson

First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe

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July 5th 2013

 

Chief Fox,

 

July 14-18, 2013- Treaty 1-11 National Gathering, Heritage Park, Onion Lake, SK

In attending the June court date on the CN Injunctions, the Attorney Generals of Canada and Manitoba tried to defend their right to grant titles to immigrants because the Treaties ceded and surrendered all lands to Her Majesty. I told the court that the Treaties are a fraud.

The Cochabamba Declaration by UNASUR (on the assault on President Morales)

Fri Jul 5, 2013

Democratic Underground

Cochabamba Declaration

Cochabamba, Plurinational State of Bolivia

On this Thursday night Presidents of South American Nations, gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and issued a joint statement in which they affirmed their rejection of recent actions against President Evo Morales and required the governments of Portugal, France, Italy and Spain to explain the situation and asked for public apologies.

Photos Defending Havasupai sacred land from uranium mining in Grand Canyon

Thank you Dawn Dyer for sharing your photos with Censored News. Thank you Supai Waters, supporters and defenders of sacred lands against uranium mining at the camp on Havasupai land in the Grand Canyon.

Article by Mama Bears Brigade
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RED BUTTE, Havasupai -- Energy Fuels Inc., the Toronto-based company digging the mine, have already dug 120 feet down what they hope will be a 1600 foot shaft. If the mine starts extracting uranium, it will expose residents and visitors to "low-level" radiation along Hwy 64. So called “low-level” radiation poisons air, waters, and soils for billions of years, causing cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. Even worse, Arizona's environmental and haulage regulations fail to protect the public from these dangers.

In addition to these health impacts and contamination of the Grand Canyon ecosystem and aquifer, the mine will directly harm the integrity of nearby Red Butte, sacred to the Havasupai and other indigenous people.

For the past thirty years indigenous people of northern Arizona and their allies have been resisting uranium mining at the Grand Canyon. This struggle continues as protesters gather to express their opposition to the Canyon Uranium Mine 15 miles south of the south rim.

The mine, owned by Canada-based Energy Fuels Inc., is located in the Kaibab National Forest –15 miles south of the Grand Canyon. Before approving the mine, both the company and the US Forest Service failed to consult with local tribes as required by law. Instead, the USFS rushed approval by using an outdated Environmental Impact Statement, silencing community input and recent scientific research.
--Mama Bears Brigade
Read more:  http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/06/defend-havasupai-sacred-land-from.html