Apr. 09,
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SIX NATIONS GATHERING
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
The
People of Six Nation, Grand River Territory, extend the hand of friendship to
all of our brothers and sisters in all Rotino’shon:ni territories, to ALL
Longhouses, to join us for a gathering of the People. We wish to re-kindle the
Fire of Peace, affirm the voice of the people and stand united against our oppressors.
Attached is the original Objection to Her Majesty filed by the Women. We are adhering
to our constitution, the Kaianereh’ko:wa, in asserting our title to our land
at Grand River. This gathering will take place on the ‘Haldimand Tract’
at the corner of 6th Line and #6 Highway, Grand River, Ontario Canada. The Peoples’
Council will begin at 10:00 am., followed by a meal and a social.
The Women,
being Title Holders to all lands of Turtle Island, assert our constitutional jurisdiction
over the Haldimand Tract. We have never and cannot ever give up our land or our
sovereignty.
1. The Six Nations are distinct original nations. We are to
be dealt with on a nation-to-nation basis by the Crown and all other nations.
2.
The Crown must respect our original relationship as set out in the Two Row Wampum,
our jurisdiction as provided in our constitution, the Kaiannereh’ko:wa, and
as respected by Sections 109 and 132 of the BNA Act, 1867 and according to international
covenants that Canada has signed.
3. We are to be dealt with on a nation-to-nation
basis as was the custom before Canada separated from the British Empire. Respect
for the independent international status of the Six Nations by Canada was established
before Canada achieved recognition as a state or gained the ability to sign treaties
on its own. The independent international identity of the Six Nations identity
has never been legally extinguished.
4. The band councils were established
with procedures that violated international law. They continue to function as
colonizing institutions. We have never consented to their establishment nor their
representing us.
5. Canada and all its politicians, bureaucrats, agents,
assignees and appointees should cease and desist immediately their attempt to
criminalize and apprehend our people for defending what is rightfully ours, the
land to which we hold title. Any further action by Canada, Ontario and their agents
shall be viewed as being a direct violation of the Two Row Wampum, the constitutional
accord between the Ratino’shon:ni and Canada and international law.
6.
The claims of Canada and the province of Ontario to have a right to legislate
for the Rotino’shon:ni Six Nations and to grant private title to our land
has no foundation in law. The presence and assistance of all Onkwehonweh is welcome.
For more information please contact: Dick hill at 519-865-7722; Hazel Hill
at 519-717-4292; 519-445-1351; Janie Jamieson at 905-517-7006; EMAIL orEMAIL
Address:
RR#6, Hagersville (Ontario, Canada) N0A 1H0
OBJECTION TO INVASION OF KAIANEREH’KO:WA
TERRITORY BY THE FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS OF CANADA AND ONTARIO, THEIR CORPORATE ENTITIES
TO ARREST ROTINOSHON’NON:WE FOR DEFENDING THE LAND KNOWN AS THE “HALDIMAND
TRACT”
DATE: March 20, 2006
FROM: The Women Title Holders of
the Rotinoshon’non:we
WHEREAS the Women are the “Title Holders”
of the land of Rotinoshon’non:we as recalled by Wampum 44 of the Kaianereh’ko:wa.
WHEREAS the “Title” held by the Women represents a trust obligation
to maintain the land for the future generations of our Nations as recalled by
Wampum 44. TO: Henco Construction, et al. (See list of recipients of Objection
at end of document).
RE: Henco Industries is building a subdivision on the
unsurrendered “Haldimand Tract”for sale to non-Indigenous people who
may be unaware that this is illegal.
WHEREAS the Canadian Government knows
this land is subject to litigation resulting from fraudulent and dubious practices.
Canada has allowed permits to be given out to Indian land it does not have title
to. Gen. Haldimand confirmed that Britain would affirm the right of the Six Nations
to a tract of land six miles deep on either side of the Grand River running from
its mouth to its source. None of this land was ever legally surrendered. Most
of this land was lost through a variety of frauds perpetrated or condoned by the
colonial governments. Canada knows it violated the law when it deposed the traditional
government in 1924. Canada is presently in negotiations to rectify these past
injustices. Offering non-native people title to this land is a deliberate attempt
to mislead and act in bad faith. Henco Industries is part of “sharp”
practice on the part of the Crown in Right of Ontario and/or Canada which knows
that it cannot grant legal title to these lands.
WHEREAS the elected Six
Nations Council of Grand River set up under the Indian Act does not represent
the Rotinoshon’non:we according to standards established under international
law, including The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
WHEREAS
Canada has ascribed to the internationally recognized standards for respecting
political rights of the People as set out in the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights and other international legal instruments.
WHEREAS
the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found
on March 6, 2006 that the United States was denying the Western Shoshone people
“their rights to own, develop, control and use their land and resources”;
they warned the U.S. to respect the Convention; and to “freeze”, “desist”
and “stop” their actions immediately and to abide by the Committee’s
“Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure”. Canada’s encroachment
violates “international human rights norms, principles and standards”.
The Western Shoshone decision indicates that encroaching as a way to take over
land has been formally rejected.
WHEREAS there has been no valid consultation
with or consent by the constitutional Indigenous People according to the standards
set by Canadian, U.S. and international law.
WHEREAS relations between
Canada and the Rotinoshon’non:we continue to be governed by the Two Row Wampum.
WHEREAS the actions being taken by Canada, Ontario and its agencies were
established in the colonial era according to procedures that violated international
law. WHEREAS General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV) requires the informed consent
of a people before they are included in another state.
WHEREAS the International
Court of Justice affirmed Resolution 1541 in the Western Sahara case.
WHEREAS
the courts of other colonial states like the Supreme Court of Australia in Mabo
have formally repudiated past colonial reasoning and practices
WHEREAS the
denial of a nation’s existence constitutes genocide according to the many
international covenants that Canada has pledged to uphold.
WHEREAS Section
35 (1) of Canada’s Constitution Act 1982 has formally recognized and affirmed
“existing Aboriginal and treaty rights”.
WHEREAS the Constitution
of Canada has stated that Aboriginal and Treaty Rights must now be respected.
WHEREAS Canada is required to respect our right to our lands and resources
under Section 109 of its Constitution Act 1867.
WHEREAS the traditional
laws of the Rotinoshon’non:we are still in effect.
WHEREAS the Women
Title Holders have never been consulted concerning this proposal to violate the
title of ourselves and the future generations by building subdivisions on our
land which involves the alienation of our people’s Indigenous rights and
lands.
WE THE WOMEN TITLE HOLDERS ACCORDINGLY REMIND THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS
AND INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT THAT:
1. The proposed construction
is illegal; that Canada and Ontario have no authority to make political decisions
on behalf of our People;
2. Rotinshon’non:we land is inalienable. There
can be no discussion of the possibility of a legitimate agreement alienating the
land.
3. The procedures deny political power from the People.
4. The proper
venue to discuss these matters is the traditional Rotinshon’non:we process
as set out in the Kaianereh’ko:wa.
5. The Canadian and U.S. Constitutions
respect that relations with us shall be conducted on a nation-to-nation basis.
(We brought this constitutional jurisdiction issue before the Supreme Court of
Canada – Kanion’ke:haka Kaianereh’ko:wa Kanon’ses:neh v. Attorney
General of Cannada and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario, Court file:
05-CV-030785. In the U.S. Supreme Court. See No. 05-165: 2005. In the Supreme
Court of the United States In re Kanion’ke:haka Kaianereh’ko:wa Kanon’ses:neh,
Non-party, Petitioner/Movant/Appellant, The Canadian St. Regis Band of Moahwk
Indians, Plaintiffs, Respondents v. The State of New York, Defendants, Respondents.
Petition for Writs of Certiorari and Quo Warranto with Prohibition and mandamus
in Aid to Prevent Genocide. Rules 17.1 and 20.1. Attached.)
6. The Women Title
Holders insist on an immediate end to this initiative, and to initiate a dialogue
to work toward a solution acceptable to the Rotinoshon’non:we.
By:
Rotinshon’non:we Women Title Holders
Ayantwahs /s/ ________________________
Gaayetweh
/s/ ________________________
Objection sent to: Henco Industries Ltd., 128
Highland Blvd. Caledonia Ontario. N3W 2P1; Brant County Community Development:
Fax (519) 442-3461; City of Brantford: Fax (519) 759-7840 E-mail: mhancock@brantford.ca;
Corporation of Haldimand County: Fax (905) 772-2148 E-mail: mayor@haldimandcounty.on.ca;
Oxford County: E-mail: info@city.woodstock.on.ca; Onondaga: Customer Service Fax
(519) 758-1619; South Dumfries: Customer Service Fax (519) 448-3105; Dufferin
County: Fax (519) 941-2816 E-mail: warden@dufferincounty.on.ca; Kent County, Michigan:
Mike Cox, Attorney General Fax: (517) 373-3042; Waterloo: E-mail: sken@region.waterloo.on.ca;
Innisfil: bjackson@barint.on.ca; Attorney General: Fax (416) 326-4007 Media Relations
E-Mail: Brendan.Crawley@jus.gov.on.ca; Governor General: Michaelle Jean Fax (613)
998-1664 E-mail: info@gg.ca; Chinese Consulate in Toronto Fax: (416) 324-6468
Her
Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace; Dalton McGuinty, Premier. Legislative
Building, Queen's Park, Toronto ON M7A 1A1, Dalton.McGuinty@premier.gov.on.ca
; Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Government of Canada, Parliament Buildings,
Ottawa Canada pm@pm.gc.ca ; Department of Justice Canada; Finance Canada; Attorney
General of Canada; Attorney General of Ontario; Department of Indian Affairs;
Mohawks of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory; Iroquois Caucus; Mohawk Council of Kanehsatake;
Six Nations Council; World Intellectual Property Organization, 34 Chemin de Colombettes,
Geneva information.center@wito.int; Hong Kong Stock Exchange, info@hkex.com.hk
bjo@hkex.com.hk; International Monetary Fund, 700 19th St., NW, Washington DC
20431, F 202-623-4661 lelgislative affairs mschrader@imf.org; Chiefs, Saint Regis
Mohawk Tribe Inc., 412 State Route 37, Akwesasne (New York) 13655 518-358-3203;
-Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, P.O. Box 579, Cornwall, Ontario K6H 5T3; Mohawk
Council of Kahnawake, P.O. Box 720, Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory, (Quebec) J0L
1B0; Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, R.R. 1, Tyendinaga of Mohawk Territory, Ontario
613-396-3424 Fax 613-396-3627; World Trade Organization, Mike Moore, 154 rue de
Lausanne 1211, Geneva 21 Switzerland info@gatt.org ; World Bank, 1818 H St NW,
Washington DC 20433 USA f 202-477-6391 hotline@worldbank.org ; SAM Indexes Gmgh,
DJSI, Seefeldstrasse 215, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland, info@sustainability-indexes.com
; UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights, UN Plaza, S. 294, New York, 10017;
Rudolpho Stavenhagen, International Commission for Human Rights, P.O. Box 16,
CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland; Kanion’ke:haka Kaianereh’ko:wa Kanon’ses:ne,
P.O. Box 1016, Akwesasne (NYS) 13655; Coalition for the International Criminal
Court, %WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Floor, New York (NYS) 10017, cicc@iccnow.org;
The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat 103, 251 BBC, The Netherlands t: +31-70-363-4484
F: +31-70-364-0259; Pope Benedictum XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, St. Peter’s Square,
Vatican City, Rome, Italy; Shiva Vanadana vshiva@giasdl01.net.in; Cayuga Nation
of Indians Inc., P.O. Box 11, Versailles, NY 14168 F 716-532-5417; Seneca Nation
of Indians, Allegany Reservation, P.O. Box 231, Salamanca, NY 14779 F 716-945-1790;
Cattaraugus Reservation, 1490 Route 438, Irving NY 14081 F 716-532-9132; Oneida
Indian Nation of New York Inc., 223 Genesee St., Oneida NY 13421 F 315-361-6333;
Onondaga Nation, Rte. 11A, Box 229, Nedrow, NY 13120, T 315-492-3041; Tonawanda
Band of Senecas (Tonawanda Seneca Nation), 7027 Meadville Rd., Basom NY 14013
T 716-542-4244; Tuscarora Indian Nation, 2006 Mt. Hope Rd., Lewiston NY 14092
T 716-297-4990; Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs Mohawkna@slic.com, Box 366, Rooseveltown,
NY F 518-358-3488; Kanatsiohareke, 4934 State Hwy. 5, Fonda NY 12068 kanatsio@superior.net;
Oneida Nation, RR 2, Southwold, Ont. N0L 2G0 T 518-652-5414.
OPP and others.
Cities of London, Brantford…, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Province of
Ontario, government of Canada, Supreme Court of Canada, Department of Justice
Canada, Attorney General of Canada, Attorney General of Ontario, John Prentice,
Minister of Indian Affairs, Mohawsk of Tydinaga, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Inc.,
Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Mohawk Council of Kanehsatake, Six Nation Council,
Iroquois Caucus, Dalton McGuinty, Premier, Legislative Bldg., Queen’s park,
Toronto ON M7A 1A1; Hon. Stephen Harper, prime Minister, Governemtn of Canada,
Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada; Hon. Gilles Duceppe, Block Quebecois, Government
of Canada, Parliament Buidligns, Ottawa Canada; Hon. Jack Layton, NDP, Government
of Canada, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa Canada; Federal Judicial Affairs; Judicial
Institute, Royal Canadian military Institute, Toronto Stock Exchange; Montreal
Stock Exchange; Board of Directors %Corporate Secretary, New York Stock Exchange,
Inc., 11 Wall St., New York 10005; Fax 212-656-3939; Chu, Tokyo Stock Exchange
The
lands in question, being part of the Haldimand Tract; according to the Injunction
are listed as:
"Schedule A"
FIRSTLY: Parts of Lots B and
C, Range West of Plank Road, geographic Township of Oneida, in Haldimand County
and being Part 1 on 18R-6217
SECONDLY: Part of Lot 18, Broken Front Concession
on the Grand River, geographic Township of Oneida, in Haldimand County, and being
Parts 2, and 3 on Reference Plan 18R - 6217
AND THAT the said land is registered
in the Land Registry Office for the Land Titles Division of Haldimand as Parcel
BC-18 in the Register for Section Rng W Plank Rd & BFC on GR (Oneida)
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