For Immediate Release. February 6, 2006

The combined Territories of the Four Tribes make up a significant portion of the proposed Central Coast Land and Resource Management Plan (CCLRMP) area and also the Broughton Archipelago is shared exclusively by the Four Tribes. We have our own distinct relationship and attachment with our lands and waters within our territory like many distinct First Nations in the Province; we are determined to protect our values and traditional teachings, which sustain our mother earth and our way of life.

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Mohawk Nation News. Jan. 20, 2006. The Mohawk political prisoners of Kanehsatake were sentenced on January 20th 2006 in St. Jerome Quebec. A stacked white jury had found them guilty of “rioting and confinement”. They stood up to 67 paid mercenaries who invaded their community on January 12th 2004. A mercenary is a paid soldier. Payment had come through a stolen private corporation illegally funded by the Solicitor General of Canada with Canadian tax dollars. They were hired to make an end run around the legally constituted Kanehsatake Police Commission. Former Public Security Minister, Jacques Chagnon recently affirmed in a CBC Radio interview, “These mercenaries were very heavily armed”.

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TUESDAY JANUARY 10, 2006 @ 9:30 AM
COURT OF APPEAL 800 SMITHE STREET 

Beverly Manuel and Nicole (Mayuk) Manuel are appearing in the BC Court of Appeal on Tuesday to legally challenge a criminal conviction for participating in a road block at Sun Peaks Resort, near Kamloops, BC. “We have targeted the patently unconstitutional 1874 BC Lands Act as the center of our legal actions and defense” states defendant Beverly Manuel. Mayuk, a Secwepemc mother of two and member of the Secwepemc Youth Movement, has already served 30 days of a 45 day sentence for standing up for her Rights during the roadblock.

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Judge apologizes to Mohawks, lawyer. Suggested 13 rioters were using attorney to mislead her. Jeff Heinrich The Gazette

St.Jerome – All she wanted was an apology to the victims of a riot. But in the end, she was the sorry one. Denounced by one angry Mohawk for her “racist, unbelievable” attitude, a Quebec Superior Court judge apologized to Mohawks and their defence lawyer yesterday after telling the attorney she suspected his clients were using him to mislead her.

At the sentencing hearing of 13 men convicted in connection with a riot in January 2004 in Kanesatake, Judge Nicole Duval Hesler told lawyer Jeffrey Boro she didn’t believe the men were in any way sorry for their actions – on the contrary.

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Native groups rally against mining in north By Mark Hume, Globe and Mail, Canada

VANCOUVER — First nations in northern British Columbia are banding together in a bid to get more control over resource development after a battle over a proposed coal mine near Dease Lake. After a weekend conference, several key native organizations in the north issued a joint statement yesterday at a rally outside the courthouse in Terrace, where a trial involving 15 Tahltan protesters was set to begin.

The trial was called off at the last minute, when the Crown dropped contempt-of-court charges against the Tahltan members, many of whom were elders. The native protesters blocked a mining access road for two months last summer despite an order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia not to interfere in the work being done by Fortune Minerals Ltd. The Ontario-based company wants to mine more than 200 million tonnes of coal near Mount Klappan, about 300 kilometres northeast of Prince Rupert.

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