thanks Peace..for helping to get the word out..
this might get a bit rambling, but historic references are important in the shedding of some light on this ongoing malaise.. I was fortunate enough to have been taught these things primarily by Dacejewiah and Kahntineta... longtime traditional Mohawk activists and friends. Their knowledge of the Rule of Law is extensive. I'll scratch the surface a bit..

as usual this particular situation is about resource management Colonial style, from the end of a gun barrel, paid for by taxes of Ontario citizens. With such a high concentration of population in the SE part of the province, building developers, and well financed speculators have designs on what little has been left to the Natives. Same Ol'. This has been ongoing since the Haudenausonee (Iroqois Confederacy) sided with the British during the American Revolution, Some Loyalist Mohawk bands were granted land tracts in Upper Canada after that war. These people were promised, nation to nation, that they would be left undisturbed to live on the land in peace... this had already been established by The Royal Proclamation of 1763. Generally speaking it was presented to Indian Nations by King George III, in the form of a binding offer to protect these Nations and lands and became the basis for the treaty process and established the legal Trust Obligations of Britian to the Indian Nations. The Royal Proclamation had its status elevated significantly when its guarantees were formally appended to the Canadian Constitution during the Trudeau effort in 1982.

To the Native traditionalists, The Assembly of First Nations is a neo-colonial elected system and their Chiefs are dependent on Federal funds, and are therefore considered collaborators of a foreign power.

Over the years these lands were carved up, reduced in size through white settlement, the duplicity of sell-out Chiefs, or out and out theft as in the case of Ipperwash. So what we have are a few people, who still stand on International and Constitutional Law, and who refuse to let any more of their territory be sub-divided, quarried, mined and otherwise exploited by a Foreign Power and its agents.

It is important to the Gov't that these resistors are smeared in the media as thugs, violent criminals, terrorists (common word these days) in order to send in the Cavalry to harass, arrest, and sometimes kill them for the greater security and 'common good'.

Case in Point : Gustafsen Lake, BC, 1996. A full scale massacre was narrowly averted by the tireless efforts of a few dedicated souls who managed to break the real news to the outside world. That a peaceful spiritual gathering ended up being protrayed as a gang outlaws. That they were in fact on unceded Indian land and had over 70,000 rounds of ammunition fired into their camp, which contained mostly elderly people, women included. A Landmine was used, JTF2 were there, and staged incidents were carried out by the RCMP (such as shooting at their own bulletproof vests) to intentionally smear the defenders so that deadly force would be justified.

Fortunately no one was seriously injured... either the RCMP were bad shots and/or there were other powerful spirits of protection at work.

I don't think that it's an accident that the only two countries that didn't sign the recent U.N Declaration of Indigeneous Rights were Canada and the USA. There are those at the highest levels of Gov't who know that it would be a lot easier and more profitable if the Traditional Native would disappear. They've been taking this approach for over 500 years now. Fortunately, word spreads fast these days.I'm of the opinion that we must do what we can in our own way to support those who are perhaps our last line of defense, in the assault on our freedoms and outright desecration of our
'Home and Native Land'