January 2, 2013

Mohawk John Kane urges Chief Spence to halt fast and join the people

Mohawk John Kane says the 'nation to nation' relationship is a white man's concept and urges Chief Spence to halt her 'suicide mission'

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence said,“First Nations leadership need to take charge and control of the situation on behalf of the grassroots movement. We need to re-ignite that nation-to-nation relationship based on our inherent and constitutionally protected rights as a sovereign nation. We are demanding our rightful place back, here in our homelands, that we all call Canada.”
More at APTN National News:
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By John Kane, Mohawk
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I could not disagree more. I have listened to this bullshit about "nation-to-nation" relationships all my life. Our sovereignty is not vested someone's idea of what a "nation" is. Our sovereignty is a birthright; it comes from Creation. It is our right and authority to carry ourselves. This notion of nationhood came from the white man. So did the idea of individuals vested with power over their people. Our sovereignty is not vest in some man-made institution, a band chief, first nation, federally recognized leader or anyone else. It is an individual right, power and responsibility. None of the words we use to describe ourselves translate to anything close to "nations". We are simply the people.
Theresa Spence is no more a nation than the smallest child stomping out a round dance. Those that claim to be the "First Nations leadership" should settle in behind and among the people and stop trying to be what the white man created. This bogus leadership is the reason the people will be Idle No More.
My message to Ms. Spence is to grab a sandwich and stand with your people. A thirty day attempted suicide makes a sensational story and draws plenty of sympathy but it undermines what the people are rising up for. No one individual is the face of this movement and no individual act symbolizes the movement or passion. For any of these "leaders" to now claim to be "Idle No More" only begs the question as to why the hell they have been idle till now. The sovereignty and power is in the people.
Ms. Spence still seems to be missing the point. A request for Idle No More leadership to join with the chiefs reflects a lack of understanding. It is those who have sat separate and above their people that need to stand among them. Even the very singular act of this drawn out threat of self imposed death demonstrates a certain level of narcissism.
Stop this real or staged suicide mission and join the people. Glorification of such an act is the last thing our young people need. Humble yourself and stand equally with everyone else and quit the quest for martyrdom. If you believe creation placed you on this current path then perhaps you need more education about what is real and what is imagined.

John Kane, Mohawk, is radio host of Let's Talk Native Pride
http://letstalknativepride.blogspot.com/

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INDIGENOUS RISING

MNN. JAN. 1, 2013. Corporate band and tribal councils are falling. A new day is coming. Out with individualism. In with collectivism. The fraudulent corporations of Canada and the United States of America are duly put on notice that you will be soon dissolved. Your shareholders will be liable for all their crimes. The strategy of corruption, deceit and death through their band and tribal council apparatus is over. They are all going down. There will no longer be a means to apply the genocide program on us and everyone else in the world through this fraudulent corporate business plan.

The band councils job is to help Canada and US kill us, destroy us, buy us and make us give in. Through them we have been attacked militarily, politically, socially and ideologically. Illegal orders violating their own corporate constitutions, to totally exterminate us physically and psychologically, have never been rescinded. The Appropriations Act of l871 and the Indian Act of 1876 are illegal corporate by-laws. Because traditional truths were passed to us by our elders, we are still here. [Sun never sets on Indigenous people].
If Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat dies of hunger, it’s the symbolic death of these councils. Harper and Obama rely on them to control us, our land and resources. When they fall, so do their parent Corporations, Canada and the US.
We shall reclaim Great Turtle Island. No more divide and conquer. Honest people here and the world know we are the land and resource owners. Stealing from us to enrichment themselves is going to stop. Government prison guards patrolling the community cell blocks are sell-out Indian and paramilitary police. Any advance by them is an act of war.
We will protect our communities, improve our living conditions and bring peace to everyone. We are not the enemies or rivals. We did not commit the frauds and attacks that caused centuries of suffering to us and our Mother Earth. Our visitors are welcome to live under the protection of the Guswentha and the Great Law, where our protection comes from. They must come to one mind with us on the original agreements allowing them to live on Onowaregeh, Great Turtle Island.
The great natural power designed our ways to give us our instructions, energy and courage. We will set things right without military weapons, death or destruction.
Our Mother wants us to remove you corporate bloodsuckers. You can leave with what you came with. Nothing!

As Wilie Nelson and others sang, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over. They say that all good things must end. Let’s call it a night. The party’s over”.

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