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HAUDENOSAUNEE
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MOHAWK - ONEIDA - ONONDAGA - CAYUGA - SENECA - TUSCARORA
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Mohawk Nation Kahnawake Branch
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Kanien'kehaka A'onakerahsera
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via Box 645
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Kahnawake, PQ
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Canada J0L 1B0
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To: Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada
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Premier Mike Harcourt, British Columbia
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Premier Mike Harris, Ontario
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Be advised this date, September 7, 1995, that:
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- Any further violence committed against our sovereign
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Turtle Island Brothers and Sisters of the Shuswap
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Nation, at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, or Stoney
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Nation at Ipperwash Park, Ontario, will be answered in
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kind.
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- Those directly and indirectly responsible for the
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murders of our brothers (one a fifteen year old boy) at
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Ipperwash, Ontario, will be identified and held
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accountable for their actions.
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- Those directly and indirectly responsible for the
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beatings of our women and children at Ipperwash,
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Ontario, will be identified and held accountable for
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their actions.
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We have remained silent for some time now in the hope
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that your governments could finally come to terms
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honorably with our rights to sovereign control of our
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lands and destiny. You have always said that all you
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needed was just a little more time - as if 500 years is
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not enough. And what have you given to our people with
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that little more time? You have given to us more guns,
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more bullets, more violence, more threats, more empty
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fascist rhetoric about your law and order, all at the
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expense of justice for our people.
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Even your self-government packages and policing
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agreements drip with the venomous intentions you have
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towards our people and their sovereignty. They are not
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silent on our rights. They scream out your intention to
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extinguish us. They are Dr. Kevorkian's tools for assisted
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suicide, that will kill us as surely as your guns and
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bullets.
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And so, we remain silent no more. And so, we advise
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you that we will not stand idly by while you continue to
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brutalize our people.
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For the civilized record: First comes truth. Then comes
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justice. Then comes the mutually nourishing strength
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that leads to a living law and order. Only in a brutally
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repressive fascist state does law and order stand alone -
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like police state tanks and bullets.
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The latest victims of your fascist state are:
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Dudley George, shot in the back;
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Nicholas Cottrell, 15, unarmed, executed with a
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bullet to the head.
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Rotiskenakateh
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Mohawk Nation
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Six Nation Confederacy
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Kahnawake Territory
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