Akwesasne Border Crossing Closed

This is from Mohawk Nation News:

URGENT! 

THERE WILL BE NO GUNS!  “YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND”  - 1968 FILM ABOUT AKWESASNE BORDER BLOCKADE – June 1 CBSA guards will try to carry 9mm Berettas 

MNN.  May 27, 2009.  “If the colony of Canada wants to arm their border guards, then move it out of our community”, is the reasonable decision of Mohawks and our friends and supporters. 

It was a bitterly cold day on December 20, 1968.  Over 500 Mohawks stood at the Canada Customs and blocked the international bridge on Cornwall Island in the St. Lawrence River.  This border crossing is right in the middle of the populous Haudenosaunne community of Akwesasne [at the convergence of Ontario, Quebec and New York State].  This 41 year old film records the violations of our sovereignty which continue to this day.  The people who took part in the 1968 resistance are just a little older.  We have never lost our spirit.  We always kept up our vigilance over colonial Canada’s abuse of power and our rights. 

At Akwesasne there are escalating brutal attacks by the CBSA Canada Border Services Agents.  These maniacs constantly racially profile and provoke us.  We have to cross many times a day to carry on our normal lives.  On June 1 2009 these goons will try to carry 9 mm Beretta guns.  They could instigate violence and death.  This border crossing must be removed.  We object to putting deadly guns in the hands of these openly racist border guards.  http://intercontinentalcry.org/you-are-on-indian-land/

Guns are for killing people.  We would appreciate your help by signing the following petition!  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NoGunsForCBSA/index.html

The Mohawks are asking for worldwide support.  On May 26th Cornwall city council passed a resolution that no guns should be given to the CBSA guards.  They are peace officers, not war zone combatants.  Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to militarize the border.  The RCMP must complete a 16 week firearms course.  Border guards are only required to take a 3 week course.         

Contact:  Nona 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 [email protected]; Karla 613-575-2348 [email protected];  More info www.akwesasne.ca;  Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.  Next unity march is May 30th.  Meet at the tent at the cross roads on Cornwall Island at 10:30 am.  March starts at noon.  www.nationtalk.ca

Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com [email protected]  Go to MNN “BORDER” category for more stories; Supporters may contact:  Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, London, SQ1A UK; President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Comments: 202-456-1111, Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461; The Governor General of Canada, M. Michaelle Jean, 1 Rideau Drive, Ottawa [email protected]; Alain Jolicoeur, President, CBSA, Ottawa, ON K1A 0L8, 613-952-3200, 613-957-0612; General inquiries [email protected]; Lance Markell, District Director, Northern Office – Customs, St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa Ont. K1G 4K3, CBSA 613-930-3234, 613-991-1214, General inquiries [email protected]; Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, Operator Number: 202-282-8000, Comment Line: 202-282-8495, Jayson P. Ahern, A/Commissioner, U.S. Customs, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229 Chief Counsel (202) 344-2990; Marco A. Lopez, Jr., Chief of Staff, U.S. Customs, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20229; Prime Minister Stephen Harper; House of Commons, Ottawa, [email protected]; Hon. Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, House of Commons, Ottawa; Hon. Robert Douglas Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 284 Wellington St., Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8; Attorney General of Ontario, 720 Bay St., 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5G 2K1; Hon. Yvon Marcoux, Minister of Justice and A.G.O., Louis-Phillipe-Pigeon Bldg., 1200 Rue d l'Eglise, 9th Floor, St. Foy G1V 4M1; Hon. Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs, 10 Wellington St., Hull, Que. K1A 0H4 [email protected]; Premier Dalton McGuinty, Province of Ontario, Queens Park, Toronto ON; Premier Charest, Province of Quebec, Legislature, Quebec City; British High Commission, 80 Elgin St., Ottawa, ON K1P 5K7; Canadian Human Rights Commission, 344 Slater St., 8th Floor Ottawa, ON K1A 1E1; United Nations, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017; The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat, 103, 251 BBC, The Netherlands; Coalition for the International Criminal Court, c/o WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10017 Supporters of Mohawks:  MPs Jean Crowder, Indian Affairs critic [email protected] ; Anita Neville [email protected] ; Marc Lemay [email protected] ; Sen. Nancy Green; Sen. Gerry St. Germain

AKWESASNE MOHAWKS:  BOTH BRIDGES BLOCKED – CUSTOMS AGENTS WALK OFF AT MIDNIGHT MAY 31SR.  Mohawks being held hostage. 

IS CANADA BECOMING AN ENEMY OF THE U.S.?

The Canada Border Services Agency union created trouble to get guns in the hands of the border guards.  Their strategy was to make trouble for the Mohawks. The aftermath is that it’s illegal and we don’t forget how brutally we’ve been treated. 

MNN.  June 1, 2009.  At 10:00 pm last night, May 31, the chief was coming through Cornwall Island Canada Customs.  He was served with a letter from Peter Van Loan, Canada’s Public Safety Minister informing us that “There will be guns” on June 1st 2009. 

The Canada Border Services Agents CBSA were to be armed at midnight last night.  Instead they walked off.  The two bridges to Cornwall Island have been closed.  The north span by Cornwall police and the south span by New York State Police.  There are native guards in the customs buildings.  There has been an RCMP buildup in the area over the last few days.

The people met all day yesterday to get a peaceful resolution to all aspects of the issue.  They selected four men to be peace keepers.  Canada says they want to meet with the leaders.  They were told the people are the leaders and will decide what to do.  So far no action is being taken.  The Men will protect the people.  They are at points on each bridge and adjacent to the customs.     

Canada is escalating the issue by blocking us in.  We are now closed in and being held hostage.     

The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne passed resolution #318 on February 28, 2008 forbidding firearms to be carried by Canada Customs Border Service Agents in the Mohawk community.  According to their own legislation, that is the law on the territory.  According to the will of the people based on the Great Law of Peace, our constitution, our position is against guns.   

International law supports the Mohawks.  It forbids unilateral impositions without full consultation and consent of the majority of the people concerned.   Canada must abide by our decisions according to the international conventions they’ve signed.    

ISSUE:  In a democracy government doesn’t tell police what to do.  Otherwise it’s a dictatorship.  The agents have made a demand they will not work unless they have guns.  The CBSA management says it’s out of their hands.  The guards dispute is with management.  Management and government have no control over them.  The guards think they can do what they want because they are protected by their union, acting like a law onto themselves.

What ideological group has taken over the union?  Obviously they are anti- Mohawk, anti-democracy and anti-American. 

514-269-1400.  Contact Chief Nona Benedict 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 [email protected], go to www.akwesasne.ca.  Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.  

Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com [email protected]  Go to MNN “BORDER” category for more stories;

MNN June 1, 2009.  Bully Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, is trying to start an argument with the Mohawks to bring in paramilitary forces at Akwesasne.  On May 26, 2009 he signed into law the Shiprider Agreement, a cross border law between Canada and U.S.  The effect is those who stand up for their rights or criticize Canada are terrorists and the government can sue them and seize all their property.  This is meant for us.   

A few years ago a plan was hatched.  Prime Minister Harper was friendly with the American real estate people in New York City.  They wanted him to change the laws so that Indigenous territories in Canada can be seized by outside interests for non-payment of false fines and criminal convictions.  Their interest is primarily in Iroquois territories in southern Quebec and southern Ontario.  They also wanted to seize Indigenous property and resources in Alberta and elsewhere.  A campaign to discredit us was started. 

A huge article appeared in the New York Times about us being terrorists.  Then the Center for Public Integrity of Washington DC published a series of 12 untruthful articles in the Montreal Gazette that hooked us up with bikers and other gangs. 

Harper announced it on Sunday, May 31st, in Toronto to the Canadian Jewish Congress.  Opposition leader, Michael Ignatief, and many real estate promoters were there.  It was another piece of the puzzle being fitted together.  He will remove the protection so that his US friends and their Canadian partners can grab billions of dollars of prime Indigenous territories in urban Ontario and Quebec.  In exchange they will deliver Ontario to his party in the next election. 

A Mohawk Band Council Resolution forbids guns at the border.  Peter Van Loan, Minister of Public Safety, said the guns are going to be given to the border guards.  So far they have not. 

The border was shut down by the Cornwall city cops and NYS police, not the Mohawks.  We can’t drive on or off the Island.  If we do, we can’t go home.   Grandmothers, grandfathers and children have been branded as terrorists to force us to submit to their demands.        

Who’s really behind this?  Are they foreign elements who have taken power over the military, para military and peacekeeping forces in Canada? 

It seems decisions are being made by some secret entity with a totalitarian agenda.  Could it be the international banksters and multinational corporatists? 

Why is a standoff being created between Canada and the U.S. with us in the middle?  Is there a rift between two long time allies, or is something else really going on?

It’s beginning to look more like a police state situation where more are going to be uniformed, carrying guns and deadly tasers.  Everyone coming from the US is going to be facing an armed guard at the border.  The U.S. citizens might think they are surrounded by enemies.  The police control the politicians in Canada and the US.   They are dictating their need for weapons.  Their hidden agenda is to transform these two colonies on Great Turtle Island into police states.     

The US has always been worried that Canada was going to become an enemy and vice versa.  That’s why Fort Drum Army Base was put 40 miles south of the Canadian border with 90,000 soldiers ready to march in.  The Canadian police agencies have been undermined by somebody.  What about the Northcom Agreement which is integrating all policing in US and Canada?   They want to contain people and to stop freedom of travel.

There is no safety issue.  Terrorists will not come through the US to Canada.   The US is not threatening Canada.  In Akwesasne there are around 20 policing agencies.  There is no danger whatsoever.  

Throughout history the Mohawks have always been the peace makers between all the competing parties.  We do not become involved in these conflicts between greedy colonial powers that are fighting for control of the world.  We learned how to be peacemakers from Dekanawida.   

Peter Van Loan said, “It’s no use for the Mohawks to resist”.  A whole community being held hostage for being “Indian” hasn’t happened for a while.  In 1990 three Mohawk communities were surrounded for 78 days by the army.  This might go on indefinitely.  We are patient and always willing to talk

That makes me ill Jingles, because I know you are right.

Jingles wrote:

I remember well the 1990 situation. I was in the military then, and the prevailing sentiment among the "defenders of freedom" was to go in and "kill them all". I have no doubt that should Harper give the word, our police and military would destroy Akwesasne without any qualms, and the media and the people of Canada would praise the "heroes".

 

Harper would never do that.  He's more intelligent than that!  Kill all the Indians in Akwasne??  Now that would start a war for sure.

Yes, it's high time that we started a BDS campaign against Canada.

Settler people need to understand that one day children will be asking their parents "how could people have just let that happen" and they will be asking about us.

I feel the hysteria in the last few posts.  I really doubt that Harper if "given the chance" would commit genocide.  You people need to move forward into the 21st century. 

Maysie wrote:

CalypsoGold wrote:

I feel the hysteria in the last few posts.  I really doubt that Harper if "given the chance" would commit genocide.  You people need to move forward into the 21st century. 

Hi CalypsoGold! A few things.

First, using the term "hysteria" is sexist, and is best avoided.

Second, Harper, and every PM before him have contributed to ongoing genocide of the Aboriginal people who were here longer than any invaders / thieves / squatters arrived from Europe. If you disagree with this, you may be at the wrong website.

Third, "you people"? Really? Tee hee, CalypsoGold funny.

#1. I fail to see how using the "hysteria" is sexist??  Are you implying this word belongs to one particular sex?  If so, then it is YOU who are "sexist.

#2.  Harper is contributing to the "ongoing genocide" of aboriginal people?  Would you care to explain that?  How is he doing that? That's an hysterical remark if I ever heard one.

#3.  Why am I at the wrong website?  Because I have an opinion different than yours?  I think YOU are the one who is really funny.

I am applauding Stargazer.

Many years ago Dr. Art Blue, who began the Native Studies Department at Brandon University, said," this land is native and is changing the people who live on it."  That thought has stayed with me as a question and over the years as I have thought about it I have felt the truth of it.

I hope that the rights of the Mohawk people are respected and there is a peaceful conclusion to this situation.

Thank you stargazer, and thank you Akwesasne Mowhawk, may your words resound across Canada!

YES, IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY

MNN.  June 3, 2009.  Canada has always known that we were against putting guns in the hands of the border guards in the middle of our community.  The US and Canada have abandoned their border checkpoints at Cornwall Island in the St. Lawrence River.  The New York State Police and Cornwall City Police have closed down the bridges.  We can’t easily get on or off the island or go about our normal lives.  In fact we are imprisoned. 

Canada created propaganda against us to provoke a confrontation and then an assault.  Then the guns were to be put into the middle of our community.  We think  other indigenous communities might be next.  Prime Minister Harper just announced a policy that he was going to generously fund those Indigenous who cooperate with resource development and extraction.  The rest  of us will just have to sink or swim.   

We are being isolated on the island.  Our trade and commerce with each other is being deliberately crushed.  This is having a dire impact on our ability to feed our families.    

About $100 million worth of construction is planned around Cornwall and on the island for a humongous international commercial transport depot.  We would never approve this. 

Respondents around us think that the customs facility should be moved off Cornwall Island.    Others think a joint Canada-U.S. customs facility should be built on the south side.  People on the US side like to have guns to control and scare people.  Canadians generally don’t the same necessity for them.  Those CBSA guards who are being given guns have made it clear that they don’t like us.  They are dangerous.     

Both the US and Canada have set up tribal and band councils in our communities.  In this case these councils have turned out to be loyal to us.      Canada would like to bull doze an agreement with them.  They refuse to sign any agreement because they know how it will hurt us and our families.  This issue has brought everybody together.   

We are standing together against our oppressors.  Their idea of cooperation is to co-opt our so-called leaders.  When Champlain first met us, he shot our Royaner and Otiyaner without any questions asked.   In 2009 these bullets never disconnected us from our land.

The Two Row Wampum agreement is being violated.  There are two paths that shall never cross.   In any negotiation the colonists would have to be truthful and honorable with us. 

Canada’s battleship diplomacy is intimidation with the threat of military deployment.  They have put an embargo on us to starve us out and make us surrender.  This approach will not lead to a lasting settlement.  Canada wrongly thinks they can only use force and threats.  After 500 years we’ve never violated who we are.  They don’t want to sit down with us.  They are afraid to see our full valid legal position that we never surrendered our sovereignty or identity on Great Turtle Island. 

Armed force is building up and to make us give in.  Slimy Canada is provoking the stalemate on behalf of their international bankster bosses.  Their hired public relations guns are creating the myth that we are dangerous.  Racial taunts, assaults and interrogation of our youth, some as young as 18 months old by the guards, have escalated. 

We are a communal people and have no leaders.  We have to consult each other and everyone.  Secret agreements are forbidden and cannot be supported by us.    When we are threatened, there can be no negotiation.  The British knew this.  This was the blueprint for the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and all treaties on Great Turtle Island. 

We never jump into negotiations.  We always went for a long lasting agreement which would stand for hundreds of years.  We made sure both sides understood each others position.  Sometimes we said nothing for weeks or months at a time.  Then we  talk.  Otherwise negotiations are flawed.       

Every time these invaders came to us, they had guns or something to take our lives.  In Akwesasne, there is nothing to negotiate.  To put the guns to our heads or not to put the guns to our heads, is the question before the colonists.  Threats of force are being hurled to make us give up freedom and our land in order to stop them from harassing or killing us.

Our neighbors agree with us.  The US and Canada created this demilitarized zone that we are caught in.    They can open it or keep it closed.  The guns issue is a cover.  Canada’s institutions and para military organizations have been infiltrated.   Canada wants to cut the Mohawk Nation down to size because we are standing up against the US takeover. 

Our question is when will the colonists become human beings?  If you can’t talk fairly with us, you should immediately return everything you took from us?  You should take your guns, leave us alone and stop trying to be like violent Americans?

Contact:  Rotiskenekete 514-269-1400; Chief N. Benedict 613-551-5421 613-938-8145 [email protected], go to www.akwesasne.ca.  Chief Wesley Benedict 613-551-2573; Larry King 613-551-1930; Chief Joe Lazore 613-551-5292.  

[quote=Stargazer] Prime Minister Harper just announced a policy that he was going to generously fund those Indigenous who cooperate with resource development and extraction. The rest of us will just have to sink or swim. [/quote=Stargazer]

Phil Fontaine spoke out against this on Newman's Politics last week, and said he will bring this up with Strahl before he retires.

ETA: I'm having trouble editing with this new software, finally had to disable rich text.

Stargazer - I see here a mistake that I've seen repeatedly. If you are dealing with the government of Canada on a nation-to-nation basis (as you have every right to do), then you must try not to complicate and distract from the matters at hand by invoking treaties and agreements concerning another, a third party. The treaty of Canandaigua signed with George Washington, as one example, binds the Canadian government to nothing. 

Boom Boom wrote:

Peter Van Loan was on CTV's QP today saying if the Mohawk community doesn't come around to the idea of armed border guards, then one option is to move the border crossing point elsewhere. No details were given on how to accomplish this.

I think that would be a good thing for the Mohawks of Akwesasne.

1. The US is unlikely to move their border station.

2. The Cornwall bridge (or the proposed low-level bridge) would still have to be in place which means the government would have to build another new separate bridge somewhere else that would have to span the entire St. Lawrence away from Cornwall Island or face the same issues.

3. A new customs building on the American side would still put the border guards in violation of Akwesasnes law in that if they can't have guns at the border station it is unlikely Akwesasne people would allow them to pass through the territory with guns. That is still a violation of their sovereignty.

4. Putting a new customs building in Cornwall might be an option, but it essentially leaves the border unguarded. People on Cornwall Island are a contiguous group with those on the American side and as such they have access to the US side and then to Quebec by land OR water without any interference.  If the transportation of tobacco or contraband was an issue now, it will amplify at the customs gets to Cornwall. After all customs cannot stop Akwesasne Mohawks from moving from one side to the other, in and out of Canada or the US at will.

I see what Peter Van Loan is doing is only trying to flex muscle against the Mohawks. Unfortunately all the muscle he has is behind his ears. He is hurting the Cornwall economy (and Massina, New York). I doubt the US or the politicians in Cornwall will stand for much more of his posturing and suspect that the US will open their side within another week.

In that interview Van Loan said the policy right across Canada is for all border guards to be armed, and he is just enforcing a policy decision that is now the law of the land. I suspect if he were to make an extraordinary exception for this one border crossing it would be seen as a sign of weakness or giving preferrential treatment to one group. At any rate, he said he is determined to enforce what is now law, and if is necessary to move the border crossing entirely, then the inference I got from Van Loan in the interview was "then so be it`.

PS: Van Loan constantly repeats Conservative talking points - like the entire Conservative caucus - and comes across as a blathering fool.

The whole "one law" thing is how treaty violations are justified and supported by racist politicians and the majority of Canadians who have no clue about treaties and are horribly racist in their thought around Indigenous/settler issues.

Look for Canadian politicians and pundits using the whole "we can't change the law depending on your race" line lots if this thing heats up in the media.

What they don't tell us is that the Confederacy has never treated its sovereignty to either the US or Canada and that argument of "race-based law" sounds ridiculous to people who have not been indoctrinated like Canadians and USians. It would be like Canada trying to apply its laws to Chile and meeting Chilean'976s objections by repetitively blurting "YOU CAN'T HAVE DIFFERENT LAWS BECAUSE OF YOUR SKIN COLOUR!"
That's why Canada is a joke in the global human rights community - despite what we get taught in school.

Le T wrote:

The whole "one law" thing is how treaty violations are justified and supported by racist politicians and the majority of Canadians who have no clue about treaties and are horribly racist in their thought around Indigenous/settler issues.

Especially by Chuck Strahl and his new policy of rewarding aboriginal communities that toe the Conservative line.

Stargazer - Thanks for the heads up on the Shiprider Agreement

It will be very interesting to find out how many of the 41 arrests made actually result in convictions, and whether this fascist government is able to justify any of their accusations of 'terrorism'.

Food for thought for sure, and if people cannot see the truth in what they wrote, then they are purposefully keeping themselves blind.

Thanks stargazer for the continued reports, am forwarding them out too.

Was that this morning?

WE HOLD THE ROCK [ALCATRAZ], SAID RICHARD OAKES OF AKWESASNE IN 1969 

MNN.  July 5, 2009.  No Canadian or US government officials are talking to us.  The guards and workers in the two checkpoints in Akwesasne have abandoned their posts since June 1, 2009.  We can come and go off the island to the north.  We can go off to the south but can’t come back.  Our ancestors invoked some basic principles for us to use in such times.   

The federally run prison on Alcatraz Island in San Franciso Bay had been abandoned in 1963.  In 1964 a small group of Lakota attempted to take the Island to invoke a principle in the 1868 Treaty of Laramie.  All surplus abandoned federal land automatically reverts to the Indigenous nations.

On November 20, 1969 Richard Oakes of Akwesasne lead Indigenous People onto  Alcatraz Island and held it until 1971.  It was to prove a basic point.  This event changed the relationship between Indigenous and the US government.   Up to then it was negotiation, compromise and legal remedies forced down our throats by the government. 

The Alcatraz Proclamation was signed, “In the name of all Indians … we reclaim this island for our Indian Nations”.  Other abandoned federal facilities were reclaimed afterwards. 

The US government knowing this principle was furious that the Indigenous would have the audacity to invoke it.  This act focused the entire world upon this basic law.  The US government was put on the spot.  It could no longer be hidden in the dusty archives of the Bureau of Indian Affairs basement.  In 1971 Richard Oakes was assassinated. 

The Mohawks of Akwesasne have always asserted our rights for the world to know.  The current Cornwall Island event reveals the nature of the relationship between the Mohawks and the US and Canadian governments.  The Canadian government knows we can assert our rights over the abandoned buildings in the community, the highway and bridges that go through our sovereign land. 

We can invoke the Great Law of Peace which all Indigenous people adhere to.  We are one people by covenant. 

The checkpoints have been abandoned because we won’t let their guards carry guns.   We have not been violent in any way.  

According to the principle, the abandoned US border checkpoint at Akwesasne irrevocably reverts to the Mohawk Nation. 

The Canadian Twilight Zone check point in the middle of Kawenoke on Cornwall Island was abandoned and irrevocably reverts to the Mohawk Nation.

The two bridges and highways onto the island are closed/abandoned by the US and Canada.  They irrevocably revert to the Mohawk Nation. 

The RCMP and other foreign police who patrol the foot of the bridge in the city of Cornwall are trespassers.  This is disputed Mohawk land.  They must leave.

None of these structures cannot be torn down because they now irrevocably belong to the Mohawk Nation.  You build anything on our land, it’s ours. 

The US checkpoint and bridge are patrolled by US Border Security Field Operations and a Mohawk Policeman.  US Border Security is trespassing and must  leave.

We can traverse the whole community of Akwesasne as one entity without borders.  It was illegally divided by the US, Canadian and British governments into five jurisdictions – Ontario, Quebec, New York State, US and Canada.  They legislated two separate councils, tribal and band, to divide us with their imaginary boundary line. 

The outsiders cannot establish the perimeter of our territory to limit us to small areas of our vast Haudenosaunee territory.  It is our right to decide who will cross the two bridges and enter our community and our territories.      

The Mohawk elders and people made the initial demand for no guns in the hands of foreigners in our midst.  Both US and Canadian band and tribal councils stood together and made demands on behalf of the sovereign Mohawk people. 

The  Akwesasne people took the initiative.  This is an Iroquois Confederacy issue.     It affects all Ongwehonwe, our friends and allies at the Canada- US and US-Mexico borders which were never meant for us.  The visitors cannot apply their line to us. 

Rumors has it that US and Canada might build a new bridge several miles west of Akwesasne.  This is part of Haudenosaunee Territory.  They have to consult us and get our permission.  They think they stole this land outright.  No so!  Most people in the world know that Great Turtle Island is ours.  They cannot show any evidence that they’ve legally acquired any of our land.  International law was violated by the US and Canada when they made laws to claim our land and resources. 

Arrangements to speak with us must be made through the Governor General and US President.  Mike Mitchell, the tribal and band councils do not speak for us.  Under the Great Law, they have don’t speak for the Iroquois Confederacy or Mohawk Nation.   Anything they decide is not valid because they represent the foreign US and Canadian jurisdictions.  Our people sit under the tent at the crossroads at Kawenoke and patiently wait for them to come and make valid and legal arrangements with us.           

Ties right in to Charter Rights post in the Day after Canada Day thread.

Thank you for posting that Stargazer.  I am in awe of and grateful for their words and actions.

How about you cite some facts about Canadian border guards being shot at?