Mohawks of Tyendinaga Under Attack!

URGENT HELP NEEDED

MNN:
April 25, 2008. Mohawks surrounded at the quarry in Tyendinaga. Ontario
Provincial Police OPP fully armed with guns drawn. They are yelling
through blow horns ordering the Rotiskenrekete to come down with their
hands up, or else they are going to take them out.

The Rotiskenrekete have told the OPP they are not coming down from there.

We
have been informed that help will probably not arrive in time. The OPP
have said they are coming right away. There are 20 left at the quarry.
Many have already been arrested.

DO SOMETHING QUICK! WE HAVE TO SAVE OUR PEOPLE.

FOR INFORMATION CALL:

518-358-3660

Warchief: 613-243-4993

Jan Hill 613-961-8515 613-827-1547

Dan 613-919-1354

Rotiskenrekete 613-849-1314 613-827-4991

OPP Easter Headquarters 613-284-4500 L.G. Beechey Chief Supt. Commander Eastern Region

R. Don Maracle 613-396-3089 Cell 613-391-9249

GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING AT THIS HOUR AT TYENDINAGA.

THEIR POSITION IS THEY ARE NOT MOVING. THEY ARE GOING DOWN. THEY WILL DEFEND THEMSELVES. THEY ARE NOT GIVING UP THE LAND.

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

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Tyendinaga Mohawk Aserakowa [War Chief] speaks from the front line

– “We’re not leaving”. OPP: “We’re coming in at dark to take you out!”

MNN: April 25, 2008. Aserakowa 613-243-4993 still at the quarry.

Shawn
Brant was doing a media interview with APTN News in Tyendinaga on
Deseronto Boundary Road. Ontario Provincial Police came along with an
outstanding assault charge. They arrested Shawn. They hauled him off to
jail. Then the OPP closed both ends of Deseronto Road. The Aserakowa
came down to see what was going on.

Steve Flynn of Aboriginal
Response Team ART of the OPP showed up. We talked. Flynn told the
Aserakowa about Shawn. By then we had men at both ends of the road. He
talked about opening the road. Flynn said, “You walk away and we’ll
walk away. Okay?” Both Flynn and the Aserkowa agreed.

“We will
get in our cars and you’ll get in yours”, said Flynn. It turned out to
be a set up. The Rotiskenreketeh started moving off the road. Suddenly
about 10 OPP jumped about 5 of our guys, threw them in the ditch, beat
them up and arrested them. They hauled them off to jail. No reasons
were given for the arrests or assaults. The OPP is certain not
operating on an honorable nation to nation model. It is not even
offering the kind of fiduciary protection for indigenous rights as it
is supposed to, according to the supreme Court of Canada.

Since when have the colonial institutions ever acted to protect Indigenous people?

After
behaving like thugs and beating up our guys, the OPP pulled out their
weapons and pointed them at us. For our safety, we retreated back to
the quarry. We didn’t want to get shot.

Once we got there cops
swarmed us from every direction. They were everywhere as far as we
could see, armed to the teeth with their guns pointed directly at us
all the time.

Then they came over with loud speakers, told us to
come away from the quarry, down the hill, with our hands up in the air
“where we can see them”.

We told them, “Fuck you. This is Mohawk land. We’re not leaving”. They raised their weapons and aimed at us again.

“You’re going to have to shoot us”, we told them.

Then
there was more build up. They told us they are coming in at dark to
take us out. They are moving Mohawk people off Mohawk lands at the end
of a gun barrel.

The Mohawks are unarmed.

The OPP have SWAT Teams, ambulances, dogs and we can’t see if they ships in the water.

Arrested are Clint Brant, Steve Hill, Dan Doreen, Shawn Brant and Mac Kunkel. We don’t know where they’ve been taken.

Six
Nations people have closed down three roads. Akwesasne guys are on the
International Bridge. In Kahnawake there will be closures.

They will be coming after us at about 8:30 pm EDT, as soon as it gets dark.

We’re not moving. We know that.

We
don’t know what’s going to happen. This is Ipperwash, 1990, Gustafsen
Lake, Six Nations, the list goes on. If they harm any of those guys at
Tyendinaga, there’s no saying what will happen.

The message from
the men is that we will defend the land. That’s our duty according to
the Kaianerekowa, Great Law of Peace, the law of Turtle Island.

SEND
URGENT OBJECTIONS TO PREMIER MCGUINTY OF ONTARIO; PRIME MINISTER STEVEN
HARPER; JULIAN FANTINO COMMISSIONER OF THE OPP: tell them to call off
their thugs and stop breaking the peace. They have a obligations under
international law to resolve any disagreements peacefully. They have an
obligation to keep the peace, not to break it.

LIVES ARE AT STAKE.

MNN Mohawk Nation News

SUPPORT:

To:RDONM@MBQ-TMT.ORG>, ,
Subject: Stop attack on Mohawks

The
whole world is watching. Stop your attack on the Mohawks now. The land
is theirs and the world supports them. They are right and you are wrong.

Pat Rasmussen
World Temperate Rainforest Network
PO Box 154 Peshastin, WA 98847
509-669-1549
patr@crcwnet.com
www.temperaterainforests.org

Subject: RED ALERT IN CALEDONIA !!!!!!!!! FORWARD OUT ASAP!

Ok everyone-

Just
got a phone call from Jacqueline House at Six Nations. In protest to
what the Canadian govt. and OPP armed officers are doing at Tyendinaga,
the Six Nations have now BLOCKED the By-Pass road at Caledonia!!!!! 3
Men have been arrested and have been jailed at Tyendinaga.

Jacqueline
House stated that all relatives with connections to people at these
Reserves, PLEASE CALL and try to mobilize help to the area ASAP.

Thanks everyone, please, PLEASE keep our relatives in your prayers, Bluejay

I've
contacted the OPP to let them know that badge or no badge, they are not
absolved in the eyes of our Creator for that which they do.

This activity will be monitored by the world.

Dieter of Germany

FOR INFORMATION CALL:

518-358-3660

Warchief: 613-243-4993

Jan Hill 613-961-8515 613-827-1547

Dan 613-919-1354

Rotiskenrekete 613-849-1314 613-827-4991

OPP Easter Headquarters 613-284-4500 L.G. Beechey Chief Supt. Commander Eastern Region

R. Don Maracle 613-396-3089 Cell 613-391-9249

GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING AT THIS HOUR AT TYENDINAGA.

THEIR POSITION IS THEY ARE NOT MOVING. THEY ARE GOING DOWN. THEY WILL DEFEND THEMSELVES. THEY ARE NOT GIVING UP THE LAND.

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News

 

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K.Kimura's picture

Thanks for posting this

Thanks for posting this amelia, I really hope it's not going to be another Ipperswash.

Jon Bullick's picture

vote to front page please!

this article was posted on indymedia last night, we put it here because of the urgent need for assistancce, there is a violent confrontation happening to Mowhawks and OPP just east of Belleville.

 

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