We're Taking over North American

 THE “ONKWEHONWE PLAN” – WE’RE TAKING OVER TURTLE ISLAND! 

MNN.  Feb. 12, 2007.  Back in the early 1960’s some old chiefs, elders and young Onkwehonwe got together.  We came up with a plan for our people.  We called it the “Indian Plan”.  We went across the land and talked with our brothers and sisters about a way to get out of the grip of colonialism that had almost wiped us off the face of the earth.  We talked about the genocide that was being conducted by Indian Affairs and the colonial governments.  We made a pact to stop it.  It was only four pages long.  People wrote for copies and it was distributed widely throughout Turtle Island. 

We said, “The colonists have to change their attitude towards us.  We aren’t going to let them continue to try to exterminate us.  They’ve been making survivors like us think we’re lucky to be allowed to live”.  Today colonization is still going as strong as ever.  But our plan is on track. 

We are asserting our true position as the title holders of Turtle Island.  Forty-five years later our young people have invaded the colleges and universities.  They overcame systemic prejudice and have become engineers, scientists, lawyers, teachers, doctors, nurses and writers.  Our young people have a grounding in our culture, respect for our people and at the same time have managed to achieve scholastic success.  They have entered every profession. 

Our food and housing may not be the best.  A lot of our communities don’t even have clean drinking water which was here for us all before colonization.  But we now have trained young people with technical skills to implement the final chapter of the “Indian Plan”.  We are going to take back control of Turtle Island!  We want to heal the land that has been desecrated by the European vandals.  The Canada people know today, the Canada that has left the land scarred and poisoned, may become a thing of the past.  It might just be a cough in our history which goes back many thousands of years.    

We are ready to assert our real position.  We are the original people placed here to take care of the lands.  We never relinquished our responsibility.  We never agreed to the vandalism that has been committed to our Mother, the Earth.  We intend to be treated respectfully and to teach the invaders the good healing manners that they have never understood.  No longer will our children be stolen or killed or forgotten.  We’ve gotten our children back. 

The colonizers may be getting ready to listen.  They are beginning to see how much damage they have caused.  We have thousands upon thousands of Onkwehonwe who are professionally trained to handle the most complex legal, financial, scientific and environmental matters to straighten out the devastation.  We have the knowledge that is needed to bridge the chasm that exists between the abusive customs of colonial society and our own custodial tradition that always keeps the future seven generations in mind.

Decolonization will take a lot of work.  If we work very hard it can be completed within a few generations.  Colonial society expects to do everything at once.  It lives in the moment with a knee jerk reaction.  But we know that it will take time to rebuild and to rediscover the full use of our customs to heal the land.  Some of the damage that has been done to the land will take thousands of years to repair.  When we all work together we can find ways to do this. 

The colonial governments have always wanted to keep us ignorant and made us think we could never do anything for ourselves.  Many of us always knew better.  The colonists are starting to see the truth.  They are now talking with Onkwehonwe people who understand better than they do the complex issues that are before them.  The colonists are having to face their contradictions.  They will lose out in the end because of our persistence. 

People are beginning to realize if our ways don’t change everyone will die.  No one wants to be at the wrong end of the predatory habits that are hurting everybody. 

A good example is what is happening right now is at Six Nations where our people reclaimed stolen land from developers.  Jane Stewart, Barbara McDougal and all the other Ontario, Canada and municipal cheer leaders and agents are in denial.  There are presently hundreds of developers trying to beat the doors of the Confederacy Longhouse down to get permission to put in what they call “development”.  They are finding out that we are a sophisticated people with a good idea of the kind of development we don’t want. 

The colonists have a lousy track record going back to the 1800’s, like the Grand River Navigation Company which went belly up, even though they were using stolen land and stolen money.  They never suckered us, but they keep trying.  They have to just start looking at it from our perspective.  Some day they’ll wake up and smell the coffee. 

The 10 million non-native people of Ontario are living, eating and breathing development of office towers, condos, shopping malls, roads, highways, mines, clear cutting, fishing and hunting species to extinction and poisoning the land water and air.  These people just don’t know how to live without fouling their nest on our land. 

The time has come for us to take over and show them how to clean up their mess.  We, the owners of the land and resources, will no longer be ignored.  Many of our people have worked in the biggest cities of Turtle Island.  Our people are architects, engineers and iron workers.  We’ve done every job you can think of. 

We are willing and able to administer our land to benefit everybody.   The colonists don’t need to worry about living as bad as they made us live.  We promise we won’t steal their children.  We won’t do medical experiments on them.  We won’t steal their assets or starve them to death.  We won’t put them in concentration camps.  We won’t destroy their food supplies.  Genocide isn’t our gig.   We’ll make that a thing of the past too.   

They know that our culture is not one of money grubbing exploitation and heartless abuse of people, whose bottom line is profit for a few.  We predict for the future changes to television shows, top 40 music, porn will go out of style, jails will be empty and exclusive shops will close.  Sharing will be the guiding principle.

Yes, we have lots of highly educated, sophisticated and skilled Onkwehonwe people.  The colonists will have to deal with us, talk to us as equals on a nation-to-nation basis.  We have roots in our past and are going forward into the future as we were intended to do.   Get ready to come to terms with us asserting our rightful position.   

Even the non-natives living on our land have told us they will feel more secure knowing that the lands and communities will be administered by the true owners.  Many want to live under our protection.  Turtle Island has always been a haven of protection for people from all over the world.  They know that our culture does not allow us to be motivated by greed or avarice.  We work for the benefit of everybody.  We are an egalitarian inclusive people.  Nobody should control anybody.  

Ordinary people will be more willing to work with us than with a government run by corporations who are in it for power, control and domination.  As the hosts we want people to live on our land, take care of it, enjoy themselves and live nice lives. We want people to take responsibility for creation.  This is not the ideology of the New World Order where control is dictated from the top down.  We want to go in the opposite direction.  We believe in true democracy where people have rights and care for each other. 

We need to tell everyone about our “Indian Plan” on how we are going to take over.  We need to develop guidelines, protocols and agreements for environmental programs based on our understanding of the natural world.  We have the technical people in our midst who are ready to get things going.    

We are going to follow our philosophy, the Kaianereh’ko:wa/Greal Law of Peace, which brings the best from the minds of everybody together.  When the Europeans arrived we had already created a paradise where food was abundant, people were healthy and lived long and happy lives.   

We want to live in well run communities, protect the environment, live in good homes, respect our old people and have those things we need to have a good life.  For everybody’s information we do not live in tipis or run around in loin cloths. 

When these developers and colonists come to see us, they’ll be facing people who know what we are talking about.  They will be Onkwehonwe faces.

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News