SIX NATIONS: An appeal for Turtle Island-wide solidarity and action. One year is too long! Recognize the rights of Six Nations!

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February 28th, 2007 marks the one-year anniversary of the Six Nations Land Reclamation. One year ago, a group of people from Six Nations took back a piece of their land that was under construction by developers and demanded an end to the destruction of their land and to settler encroachment on their territory.

Now, one year later, the Canadian government has yet to recognize the truth: that this land is not owned by them nor can it be sold by them. It is Haudonausaunee (Iroquois) territory, stolen and sold by the colonial authorities illegally.

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Ottawa, Six Nations outline positions By Marissa Nelson, Hamilton Spectator

There appears to be little agreement between the two sides on whether the former Douglas Creek Estates land was rightfully surrendered by Six Nations or not. The federal government has staked out its legal position in talks that are supposed to resolve the standoff in Caledonia. This week, lawyers for the federal government presented the Six Nations negotiators with a 13-page report that takes issue with a similar native report made in November. The federal report argues that if the case was brought to court, the surrender of what was called the Plank Road lands would be upheld. But it also stresses that negotiators must find a resolution to the outstanding land and money grievances. The next meeting of the main table is Feb. 8. Six Nations’ delegates are meeting today to discuss the report. Below is a point-by-point synopsis of the two sides of the debate, as depicted in the report.

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Gaining Ground. “A monumental year” for the people of Six Nations by Hillary Bain Lindsay. The Dominion – http://www.dominionpaper.ca

On January 1, 2007, the people of Six Nations arrived at their Council House, and walked inside. The event did not make media headlines, but the significance of the day was not lost on  those crowded into the long line of cars, bearing Iroquois Confederacy and Unity flags, that lead up to the Council House. “Even before Canada declared itself a country, we had a meeting place down here for traditional governance,” says Janie Jamison, one of the spokespeople for Six Nations. For generations, Chiefs representing the Confederacy Council gathered in the Council House to make decisions by consensus, a process often called the oldest participatory democracy on Earth.

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RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!. Fundraiser to support the Skwelkwek’welt Defenders

THURSDAY JANUARY 25TH 6:30 PM
RHIZOME CAFÉ @ 317 East Broadway, corner Kingsway
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Suggested Donation 5-10$

SHORT FILM SCREENINGS:
* Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center
* Take Back the Land – Spirit Lake
* Native Youth Movement (Secwepemc Chapter) Roadblock

Join us for a series of short movies on the struggle of the Secwepemc community defending their traditional indigenous territories from economic development being undertaken by Sun Peaks Resort, Delta Hotels, and real estate developers. Over the years, repression faced by those defending their rights against neoliberal-capitalist and colonial expansion has resulted in 54 arrests. All funds raised will go towards legal costs of
two Skwelkwek’welt defenders who in Feb 2007 will be appealing criminal charges from a road blockade in 2001.

For more information contact noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.
www.skwelkwekwelt.net
https://noii-van.resist.ca/skwelkwekwelt.html

CBC News, 10 January 2007

Aboriginal protesters blocked access to a quarry in Deseronto, Ont., on Wednesday and handed out pamphlets to passing motorists during a peaceful protest over disputed land. Shawn Brant, a spokesman for the approximately 20 Mohawk protesters, said the group erected the barricades after hearing a Kingston, Ont., developer would begin construction of a house on land claimed by the Mohawks of the nearby Tyendinaga Territory on Wednesday.

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