"Canada's Natives are Uniting in Fight to Reclaim Their Land"

Every day you read the newspaper, there is some trouble that the native people are having with one of the Canadian governments over land ownership and treaties being broken, restrictions being placed on native people in their own land. No wonder they're getting angry when they know they are being robbed by the Canadian governments. At election time the government is trying to have as little trouble as possible. But as soon as it is over they will have another four years to do as they have always done in the past, lying and taking advantage of those who can not help themselves.

Since the first white immigrant landed on the shores of America in the year 1492, the natives of America have been cheated, lied to, stolen from, mistreated, had treaties broken. They have lost their freedom, and their rights to fish and hunt wherever and whenever they want.

The natives have been raided, imprisoned and murdered by these white immigrants, who now claim all the land for themselves. After almost 500 years of white domination over them, the native people finally realize they don't have to take any more of this sort of treatment from any foreign governments.

The native people have lived in peace with the white governments of Canada for over 200 years. The native people have never received any payments from the Canadian governments; who use the natives' lands to get rich. The government is getting richer and the natives are getting poorer. There is no future for the native children and there will be no land for them either. This group of greedy people must be stopped now, before it is too late.

The first nations of this land are more united now than at any other time in history. The native nations want to be independent and not be under any foreign government. They will not be second class citizens in their own land. The Canadian governments have been taking the natives' oil, natural gas, timber, coal, gold, silver, nickel, amethyst, iron ore, uranium, fish, potash, land, etc., and not giving anything in return. It is time to collect for unpaid lands and everything else that is coming to all native people who have never had a fair deal so far.

All native people in this land have a common enemy, the Canadian governments. If you do not stand together you will fall alone, one nation at a time. Divide and conquer. Let me update you on some of the troubles other native nations are having with the Canadian governments.

1. In Alberta, the Lubicon native nation has declared itself an independent nation and not part of Canada. The Canadian governments have been getting natural gas and oil out of Lubicon land for 48 years and never paid the Lubicon owners anything for it. Chief Bernard Ominayak will put check points up to stop people taking any more from their lands without paying for it. The Chief is a real leader to his people, by taking action instead of talking, which is cheap. They will defend their land, with weapons if it is necessary.

2. In Alberta the Blackfoot natives are blocking the main highway in Banff National Park, over their claim to land in the park they own, but have never been paid for.

3. In British Columbia, the McCloud native people are blocking a logging road on their land. A treaty made in 1899 recognized their land rights. This is the land that the government wants to build a road into so they can get logging companies to steal more of the natives' trees, without paying the owners.

4. British Columbia provincial government sold the Morseby Islands to the federal government for $190 million. The province gets the money, the federal government gets the land, but the native people who own the land get nothing.

5. Cornwall, Ont.: 250 police from Ontario and the U.S.A. attacked the natives of the Iroquois Confederacy once more. This time it was in the St. Lawrence Islands and they arrested seven natives. The police took $200,000 worth of native cigarettes, some weapons and also some narcotics. The native people have threatened to close down the international border.

6. In Ottawa, Algonquin natives set up tents to protest the government allowing loggers and hunters to use their land without their permission. The police arrested some and forced others to leave. This is not the first time. The natives clashed with the RCMP on Parliament Hill in 1974.

7. The Barriere Lake natives, 125 of them, protested against illegally logging on their lands and also against the government of Quebec society against their will. They are not French and they don't want to be.

8. Greg Sarazin, Chief of the Golden Lake territories, says the Algonquin natives claim all the land in the Ottawa River watershed, including Parliament Hill.

9. St. Thomas: A treaty signed by the Iroquois Confederacy and the British in 1664, allowing them to fish and hunt forever, was broken when Charlie Nicholas was found guilty in court on a charge of illegally hunting raccoons. The judge said, the treaty is no longer valid.

10. At Tobermory, Ont., natives on Sept. 30, rose up to protest over a treaty made in 1851 with the British and the native people. The agreement was never honored. It concerned 500,000 acres of native land.

11. The natives own the land of Temagami, where the government wants to open the road so the loggers can take the natives' logs from them. This would destroy the natives' hunting and trapping grounds, that they depend on to make a living.

12. Goose Bay, Labrador: The natives have set up tents on the Canadian Forces bombing range in protest over the bombing and flying over their lands, destroying their hunting and trapping grounds by scaring the animals away.

I am bringing this matter before the public so everyone can see for themselves, and can form their own opinion on this problem the native people have been having, before it comes to a shooting war, as it will if these injustices are not corrected.