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At the Six Nations reseve itself, there are members of all six Indigenous nations, but most are Mohawk. In the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations, Iroquois) Confederacy, which spans the US border and includes Six Nations, Akwesasne, and some New York state tribes, there are also all six.

All are at the site on a rotating basis.
There has been no blockade since May 23.
The police frequently have to set up a police line to prevent some unruly Caledonians from making fools of themselves by 'attacking' Six Nations. They settle for screeching racial slurs instead.

I think the issue of blockades has become moot because the government can't stop them. Six Nations has found the winning formula: The Clan Mothers are incharge, because they are the titleholders. There are no firearms allowed, by their order. Since they can't shoot unarmed women and men, the automatic weapons the police carry are useless. Without shooting unarmed women and men, the options for their removal are quite limited. With the communication available to them today, any threat - like a police buildup, aerial surveillance, etc. - is met by an influx of supporters from near and far, Indigenous people AND Canadians (like me). The police are simply outnumbered and their weapons are useless. It took five police officers to get one Indigenous grandmother down. It would take a ten to one ratio to even consider trying to remove them, and I doubt it would work anyway. There are 11,000 adults at Six Nations alone. From another thread on here, I have learned that Canada's troops are not numerous enough for this task either.

Until the government gets its act together and creates a good faith process and acknowledges the global picture of land claims across the country, blockades will be our way of life.

It is quite appalling that Canada prefers to victimize Canadian communities and the police by putting them in these unfortunate situations, rather than dealing proactively with its obligations under the law.

   

Saga I agree this blockade is only the start of more to come less the Government starts to shape up and get these Land Claims looked at with a bit more interest and concern.
I recall Northern Ontario past Sudbury where Prospectors could not stake any claim cause of a Lands Caution in effect cause of Native dispute over huge amounts of land.
It took over 10 years to settle that problem and now new Mines are being found were they would have been now 20 years ago.

Hey the Canadian Politics


PeaceMaker....

   

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We'll blockade anything we want. We're blameless. Too bad, Whitey.

   

And we'll just screw you all the more. We're feckless. Too bad, Injun.

   

You blockade because that's all you can do. I notice you don't openly confront our armed forces.

   

Because they're pussies. We're Warriors.

   

They're soldiers and you're all talk. Those "warriors" are so brave standing behind barricades while being protected by the White Man's laws. They make a lot of noise, but i'll bet a local detachment of cops could whomp their asses

   

I notice our armed forces don't openly confront us either. If we are so wrong and you are so right you'd think you would have the tools to solve the problem.

   

Actually, that's because they respect the law. It's the one thing standing between the "warriors" and a butt kicking by the police

   

Ya, with donuts.

   

Whatever works.

   

I heard that the Lakota Nation recently seceded from the US. That should be inetresting. Past history indicates that the US reacts negatively to secession.

It's a little silly to think that any First Nation in Canada would present any kind of military threat to Canada. Blockades are propaganda exercises to win bring attention to issues and win support, not military confrontations. To that end, some blockades have been successful.

   

Seems like if the indians were in the wrong and the cops were in the right they could go in shooting, beating and tazering indians - men, women and children alike - and be within the law.

Guess that means the land is theirs afterall.

   

Huzzah!

   

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