September 29, 2021
Six Nations Reject Canadian Election Interference
in Their Affairs
Canada’s Position Is Very Self-Righteous When it Comes to Indigenous Affairs
In today’s Renewal Update we inform readers about the significant stand of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) and Clan Mothers to demand the removal of election polling stations from Six Nations Territory. The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada stands wholeheartedly behind their action. When it comes to the Indigenous peoples, what is called enfranchising them, i.e. making them Canadian citizens, constitutes a horrendous example of Canada’s attempt to deny their hereditary rights and commit genocide against them. It goes to the heart of the demands for justice for the lost children and the missing women and girls and reparations for crimes committed against the Indigenous peoples in the past and which continue to be committed in the present.
What the Haudenosaunee are saying relates directly to the experience of kidnapping of children and their imprisonment in residential schools to assimilate Indigenous peoples into the so-called European way of life and the related human rights abuses and attempted genocide we are mourning today. Besides this, the Six Nations of the Grand River were the “proving ground” for the imposition of colonial institutions said to be elected and democratic — so-called band councils — which federal governments create and destroy according to whether they submit to whatever the Crown decides is good for them. [More]
Removal of Polling Stations from Haudenosaunee Territory One of
Many Many Important Issues
During the recent federal election, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC) and Clan Mothers stood firm in defence of their sovereignty and territory by insisting that the government of Canada remove its election polling stations from Six Nations Territory. Prior to election day they issued a statement on September 15, advising “those involved to immediately remove the polling stations and elections materials from the Territory,” as it is a violation of the 400-year-old Two Row Wampum Treaty which commits the Haudenosaunee and the Crown to never interfere in one another’s government, laws and ways. [More]
Statement on Polling Stations on Haudenosaunee Territory
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy — Grand River Country, Ohsweken, Ontario issued the following statement on September 15 calling on the federal government of Canada to remove its election polling stations and election material from Six Nations Territories. [More]
A Brief Recollection of Canada’s
“Indian Policy”
At the time of the conquest and into the 19th century, what is called “Indian policy” was diplomatic and military in orientation. Both the English and the French conquerors recognized the Indigenous peoples’ nations. Besides other proof, it is known that they sought and formed alliances with various nations on a sovereign and independent basis. They also entered into the Two Row Wampum which established nation-to-nation relations. Their military and diplomatic policy towards these nations means they were forced to form alliances with them for purposes of defence and for purposes of making advances in the fur trade, in exploration, etc. In 1763, at which time the problem of settlement began to be posed, the Crown gave an assurance by Royal Proclamation that “the Indians” would not be disturbed in their territories beyond the settled colonies. “Indian land” could be surrendered only to the Crown and only by a “General Assembly of Indians.” [More]
In the News
Renewed State-Sanctioned Assault on Hereditary Rights of Wet’suwet’en
Wet’suwet’en Blockade Erected to Stop Coastal Gaslink Drilling Under Sacred Headwaters
– Unist’ot’en Solidarity Brigade, September 27, 2021 –
On the morning of September 25, 2021 the access road to Coastal GasLink’s (CGL) drill site at the Wedzin Kwa river was destroyed. Blockades have been set up and sites have been occupied to stop the drilling under the sacred headwaters that nourish the Wet’suwet’en Yintah and all those within its catchment area. Cas Yikh and supporters have gained control of the area and refuse to allow this destruction to continue. [More]
Fairy Creek Victory
BC Judge Denies Injunction Extension Against Fairy Creek Protectors
On September 28, BC Supreme Court Justice Douglas Thompson denied Teal Cedar Products Ltd.’s request for a one-year extension to an injunction set to end on October 5, preventing land protectors from blockading forestry activities in the Fairy Creek area. The injunction was granted in April, while the land protectors have been blocking the company from logging in Fairy Creek’s old growth forest for over a year. [More]
