It's Not About "Land Claims"

IT’S NOT ABOUT “LAND CLAIMS”.  IT ’S ABOUT “OUR JURISDICTION”.  IT’S ABOUT THE RAPID DECLINE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIAL ‘EMPIRE’.

MNN.  June 14, 2007.  The colonizers just don’t get it.  The squatters can’t give us what is ours.  Even their Supreme Court acknowledged that we were already living in organized societies before Europeans arrived to kill us and pillage our land. 

Legally speaking the colonizers can’t dictate anything to us, but they keep on trying.  Now they want to put what they stole from us under their own made-up foreign scheme called “‘unsettling’ land claims”.  They want to pay us with our money they made from stealing our land and resources.   They’re trying to make reparations for one crime by committing another.  It’s like playing poker with someone who doesn’t have any money and keeps borrowing from us to raise their anti.  Then they egg us on by telling us we can win big!  We just want the colonizers to get their butts out of here. 

We don’t care whether they call it “specific” theft or “comprehensive” theft, its theft!  They should admit their ancestors were cheats, vagabonds, liars,  murderers and pedophiles.  In the U.S. a former Customs Agent was sentenced to 6,242 years for sexually exploiting a young girl over a two-year period.  The colonizers have been raping us and our land for over 500 years.  These criminals should be banished forever.  We will not accept the murder of our future generations through another attempt to steal our land and resources.  It’s over!   

Canada is trying to weasel out of the agreements they’ve already made.  We can’t trust them.  Sections 109 and 132 of the BNA Act 1867 lay out respect for our inherent rights and the process that was set up to relinquish it if we so chose.  We did’nt do that because we can’t.  Canada keeps violating its own laws and the British constitution that set them up.     

Our jurisdiction can never change.  It is the fact of our existence.  We’ve been created as part of the natural world on Turtle Island.  We can’t be separated from who we are.  When we look at our children, we see our past, present and future. 

We can’t roam hither and yon as the colonists do, like a bunch of nomads looking for a home and a father.  Colonists pride themselves in coming from “Heinz 57” varieties of ancestry and being able to pick up and move anywhere they want.  We hear them say, “My mother is part English, part German and part Metis.  My father is part Italian, part Greek and my grandmother may be a Cherokee Princess”.  Mutts are mutts!  Bow wow!

Who are these strangers?  They don’t seem to have ties to any land, except to exploit and destroy it.  They rape and pollute the environment on such a grand scale, without concerns for their future generations.  To make a buck or two they’re willing to release lethal poisons that will take 250,000 or 1 million years to clean up.  The whole world is living on the last 10% of the fish stocks. 

Their wacky ideas about Turtle Island is conditioned by the colonial maps they color in kindergarten depicting their artificial colonial borders.  It shows the divisions of the goods they stole from us.  Their history is about colonization of Turtle Island by carrying out the bidding of their elite masters in Europe.

 

Because of this miseducation, immigrants and their descendants think it’s okay to come here and exploit us and our resources, to rape and pillage our land and then leave and start up a store somewhere else.  Next, it’s outer space.   We hear there’s water on Mars!  Go!  Go!  Go!

They were not taught that their ancestors came here as indentured servants, which is a cut above a slave.  They still are.  “Citizen” is just another word for slave.  They had to follow the command of some idiotic upper class generals who ran the colonies, or be shot for treason.

Immigrants are told that this is an empty land, waiting to be “developed” and our resources are here for the taking.  They aren’t taught about our natural territories, our names for the land, our system of government , how we conducted our societies, and how we dealt with the death and  oppression that came rolling upon us. 

The immigrants become Canadians by swearing an oath of allegiance to their foreign queen. She is the formal head of this weed that has encroached on our land.  They invited their people to come and live on our land on the condition that they ignore us and participate in oppressing us.

 

Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson, is in Alberta for military training.  He’s believed to be specializing in cruising bars and groping barmaids.  With a little luck, maybe on the June 29th  day of action, they’ll send him to us.  They’ll shine his armor and hoist him onto a hefty steed so he can defend the honor of the crown.  Bring him on!  We won’t harm the messenger.  When he sobers up, we hope he can take our message back:  respect our treaties and honor your granny in right of Her Majesty.   “Granny, they’re picking on me”  She’ll tell him, “Oh, Come on home.  Let the suckers go to Iraq!”

Colonialism is an addiction to short term gain that doesn’t think about tomorrow.  It’s like druggies who shoot up or smoke up without thinking about who and what is going to look after things while they’re in their temporary ‘nirvana’.  Rehabilitation of colonists is futile.  They’re too far gone.

We are watching the decline of the North American empire.  The cities are falling apart. 

The colonial system is declining because it depends on top down hierarchical dis-organization.  It needs a guy at the top to make decisions for them.  When there isn’t anyone smart enough to run the whole scam, it all falls apart.  Look at the mess the RCMP is in.  The management has been caught pilfering from their own pension fund.   

The colonial system only works when the people support it.  When the people decide they don’t want the system anymore, it will break down. It’s all been seen before.  Remember the Roman Empire!  It was Britain’s model.  When it got corrupt it fell like a ton of bricks.

Many people are disillusioned because it’s becoming a tax collecting machine that uses fear to oppress, confuse and control.  This system benefits a few lazy greedy gluttons who want to live in luxury while the rest starve. 

You can tell it’s collapsing because the cities are decaying.  Montreal is covered with cheap freeways that were built in a hurry.  Chunks of concrete are falling on people’s heads.  Sometimes whole sections of overpasses collapse crushing whoever happens to be driving beneath.  There is inflation.  Look at the price of housing.  You have to be a millionaire these days just to buy a little shack.

The foreign bankers are invading and taking over businesses.  There’s almost no such thing as a local general store anymore.  Colonial laws are organized to set up these foreign takeovers by corporations that are based somewhere offshore or in London, Paris, Cayman Islands or wherever. This makes them free to suck the lifeblood out of the land and the people without any thought for the future.   

Colonial states have always functioned in the interests of foreigners.  The colonizing culture is like a cancer that’s invaded our land and will kill the host unless the body becomes strong enough to resist it.  We try not to be part of the cancer and its lifestyle.  We have to find a way to survive until it eats itself up and dies, which we hope is soon. 

They have no claim to any of our land.  There is nothing to negotiate.  They just have to remove themselves from where they don’t belong.  They have to negotiate with their own people, like those in Caledonia.  First they have to admit that the federal and provincial governments committed fraud by giving them false titles.  Then they have to figure out how to get them off.   

Their offer to us!  Like they think that we think they’re giving us something!  We aren’t idiots!    The colonizers can dictate anything they want, we’re just not buying into their hoax!

Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News