Hazel’s great update, May 7, 2007

The Queen certainly wasn't in the parlor eating bread and honey.  The Prince wasn't counting all the money.  Both Crown reps are on Turtle Island trying to put their big feet on our land again.  Getting rid of the “Head” must be done under the constellation of the 'Swordsman' holding the 'head' of Medusa! 

Is the British Crown here to repeat the brutal steps they took to undermine the Onkwehonweh and reconfirm their theft of our authority on Turtle Island?  

The Queen has come to Jamestown Virginia, the first settlement of the 13 “colonies”.  At the same time Prince Andrew is coming to Cambridge Ontario which is on the “Haldimand Tract”.  This is where the 'crystal skull' resides. 

Is this a co-incidence?     

The Onkwehonweh are the true sovereigns.  We are the embodiment of the Original League of Nations brought together by the Peacemaker, Dekanawida.  We are also known as the “Haudenosaunee” or the “Iroquois Confederacy”.   We are the part of Creation with responsibility to take care of the lands and animals in this part of the world.  This obligation was blocked many generations ago. 

Enough!  We have stood before Creation and re-affirmed our responsibilities to protect our land, our law, and our people.  The Crown has not fooled Creation.  Re-tracing their ancestral footsteps and claiming our homelands does not make it theirs.  Your first attempt was a failure.  This one will be too!

Yesterday, our Clanmothers welcomed Aborigine visitors from the Wiradjuri Nation from Australia.   They gave us a flag to fly with those of our many supporters at Kanonhstaton.   They have been fighting a mining company that has desecrated their traditional lands. 

The Wiradjuri told us of the cultural genocide that the colonists have inflicted on them.   They suffered extinguishment of their sacred fire, massacres, murders and the kidnapping of their people who were placed into “mission stations”.  They called these “concentration camps”.   In Canada they were “residential schools”. 

Other visitors from Bolivia, Venezuala, Cuba, Columbia, and the many e-mails we receive tell the same story.  Geography is the only difference. 

They refer to the earth as their mother.  Water as the earths lifes' blood.  Their appearance here is not a co-incidence.  They have traced the roots back to the Tree of Peace, to the true “League of Nations”.  We pledged to stand together in Unity and Peace with all of our Onkwehonweh Brothers and Sister throughout the World.  We are One!  It was a good day.

Regarding the Land “Negotiations” between Six Nations and Canada/ Ontario, the feds have requested 6 months to prepare [create] their documents to make their claim to our lands, Kanonhstaton and the Plank Road lands.  The feds are saying the lands “negotiation” is taking a long time “because of the internal governance processes of the Haudenosaunee”.

The feds requested this time!  The feds want to mislead the public into believing they don’t have any research on these lands.  The Six Nations elected council brought research to them many years ago which ended up in litigation [in the colonial court].  The Crown should have been preparing to resolve them.  

The Six Nations research team is ready and waiting.  Kanonhstaton might seem confusing if you're not present at the discussions.  There was no legal surrender.  The Crown relies on minutes of a meeting in 1844.  At first they referred to a purported surrender document of 1841.   Then one of their historians said it was irrelevant.  Now they’re using it as part of their evidence.  So which is it?

The Six Nations maintain that the so-called surrender, the minutes of the meetings and the other tabled documents show that the intent of the Crown was, and continues to be, to encourage squatters onto our lands.  They tell us they were offered first chance at the lands in exchange for clearing it for the Plank Road.  They issued patents without our knowledge and consent.  It’s not legal by anyone's laws!

Some monies might have been paid toward the former “Douglas Creek” lands, which we’ve reclaimed.  That money appears to have never benefited the Six Nations.  There is evidence that the Indian Agents/Crown representatives took these lease monies, put them into the Trust Account, then immediately took them out and gave them to the Crown’s for their use and benefit. 

According to our law we could not sell this land.  How does this work?  Sell your neighbor’s property, draw up a phony agreement, issue your own patent to the new owner, then spend the money instead of giving it to your neighbor! 

To them “native” that we don’t have human rights.   The Crown pretends to know what is better for us because it has the “high hand” over us.   The Crown purports to be educated, “civilized” [if you call lying, cheating and stealing civilized], religious and with superior laws. 

The Onkwehonweh Law, Traditions and Customs were in existence long before Europeans invaded our lands.  Our government structure, ceremonies and traditions are part of Creation.  Not man-made to control.       

There is evidence that the whole town of Caledonia as well as many other lots in the area were never paid for.  The federal government should tell the mayor and the residents, “By the way, we forgot to tell you that we may not have paid for the town of Caledonia.  Sorry guys.  We made a mistake”.  If I were a taxpayer in Caledonia or in any of the other towns/townships along the Grand River, I'd be demanding answers. 

Six Nations gave the Crown 30 days to come back with an offer on three unsettled lands for which the Crown has already acknowledged liability for.  To side track us, the Crown asked if they could pursue other areas.  They want us to wait for their research team to finalize information on Kanonhstaton.  We agreed to let them go ahead and look at more of our land, the Welland Canal, the Burtch Lands and lands known as Block 5, or Moulton Township. 

David Peterson’s unkept promise is that the Burtch Lands would be returned after the barricades came down last May 24^th 2006.  The Welland Canal was a result of the flooding of our lands for which the Crown admitted responsibility.  Moulton Township, also known as Block 5, is one of the original lease agreements set up during Joseph Brant's time, for perpetual care and maintenance.  The Crown admitted they broke the lease back in the 1800's and that they are liable.  An insulting settlement offer was made to the elected band council (around 1992).   Nothing has happened since. 

We also just learned that the lead “negotiator” for Ontario, Jane Stewart, is being replaced by Murray Cooligan, an “expert” on the specific 'claims' process.  [He knows “specifically” how we got robbed and will try to keep it under his hat!] 

For the last year we’ve told the Crown that we are NOT sitting at the table according to Canada's colonial laws nor any colonial land claims process.  We are here according to ancient customs and treaties, the Two Row and our legitimate Nation-to-Nation relationship.  NOTHING at the table has to do with Department of Justice Positions or Specific Claims Processes. 

Why weren’t Cooligan’s “expert” knowledge of our land rights brought in at the beginning?  The Crown admits it is a year of stalling!  Rather than wasting another $350,000+, it's time to bring in an international neutral mediator agreeable to both sides. 

Canada now appears to admit its own justice department can’t enter Nation-to-Nation dialogue because Canada is not a Nation.  At the most they are a “nation state”.  At the table they could not acknowledge that our dialogue was Nation-to-Nation. 

Minister Ramsay of the Ontario government admitted on national television that one of the reasons for their difficulties is that "we are dealing with a Sovereign Nation".  He acknowledged we are NOT Canadians.    

The Governor General’s position is to represent the Crown.  We must go back to the beginning.  INSIST on the re-polishing of the Silver Covenant Chain.  Cut out the bureaucratic crap!  If the Crown wants its Canadian agents to represent them, then they better remind them of protocol!

Some good things are happening on the Grand River tract.  The women and other invited the Mohawks from the other communities to our territory this past weekend.  Discussed were the environment, our relationship with the earth and teachings about the prophecies.  We talked about roles, responsibilities, dialogue and contacts with the other territories to reinforce our nationhood.   

There will be a follow up meeting at one of the other territories, perhaps Akwesasne.  Also meetings have been conducted within Six Nations specifically, geared toward working together and our relationship with the Confederacy.  

The cornerstones within Turtle Island on which the Crown has built its empire are crumbling.  What happens to a bridge when the footings are gone?  London's Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down...................!

   

In love, light and peace,

Hazel