The following is written by Sarita Ahooja, and is one of several documents from the February 2007 report The Criminalization of the Six Nations Land Reclamation. On February 9, 2007, Trevor Miller, a 31 yr-old Mohawk man charged by the colonial authorities due to his participation in the Six Nations …
The following is one of several documents from the February 2007 report The Criminalization of the Six Nations Land Reclamation. The Hamilton SpectatorCAYUGA (Feb 10, 2007)by Paul Legall Mohawk activist Trevor Miller pumped his fist into the air as he stepped out into the sunlight for his first breath of …
The following is written by Donna Durlik and Lynda Powless, and first appeared in Turtle Island News on January 24th, 2007. It is one of several documents from the February 2007 report The Criminalization of the Six Nations Land Reclamation. When a handful of women walked onto a housing development …
Three Native Warriors were targeted and arrested yesterday during a protest against the 2010 Winter Olympic Games planned to take place in Vancouver/Whistler, KKKanada.NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT WARRIOR TARGETED & ARRESTED ATANTI-OLYMPIC PROTEST IN VANCOUVER, BC, KKKANADA “THE INDIAN WARS ARE NOT OVER” (February 13, 2007, …
The following from Indymedia: Mohawk Political Prisoner Challenges Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts By Fiona BeckerIndymediaNovember 30th, 2006 Over 50 people packed the Cayuga courthouse on Wednesday for Trevor Miller, a Six Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, as Trevor declared to the court that the colonial Canadian system has no …
Heads up: journalist Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has written about Canada’s Highway of Tears – the stretch of road in northern “British Columbia” where so many indigenous women have been disappeared over the past decades. Since 1988 over 500 indigenous women have “gone missing” across Canada. Victims of racism, victims of …
This from today’s Hamilton Spectator: Six Nations women lay claim to windmills by John BurmanThe Hamilton Spectator(Aug 19, 2006) Two Six Nations women title holders have laid claim to a $27-million green power wind farm project near Shelburne.  Kahentinetha Horn, who lives at the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal and another woman …
The following just arrived in my email box – as you may have noticed i have been out of town for over a week, and thus have not been able to keep up my regular blogging. My apologies for letting the ball drop – the context for the below is …
The following regarding repression at Grassy Narrows from Peace, Earth and Justice News: Ontario Police Raid Earth Justice Gathering and Grassy Narrows Blockade:Â Â 17 arrests reported Zoe BluntRainforest Action Network July 16, 2006 Â Â The latest reports say more than fifty police officers have blocked the roads leading to and from the …
Last Thursday, July 13th, people from Grassy Narrows First Nation were joined by members of a number of environmental groups in escalating their blockade – targeting the Trans-Canada Highway for one day. (For more information of the Grassy Narrows blockade see my post earlier today.) They were able to keep …