Showing posts with label AIM. Show all posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Is Angelican Church Guilty of Mohwak Children Genocide?

Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970.

According to Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and States (www.itccs.org), the Mohawk Institute was "set up by the Anglican Church of England in 1832 to imprison and destroy generations of Mohawk children. This very first Indian [First Nations] residential school in Canada lasted until 1970, and, like in most residential schools, more than half of the children imprisoned there never returned. Many of them are buried all around the school."

Preliminary scanning by ground penetrating radar adjacent to the now closed main building Mohawk Institute has revealed that "between 15-20 feet of soil" was brought in and put over the mass graves just before the Mohawk Institute closed in 1970 in order to camouflage the mass graves of Mohawk Children and avoid prosecution for genocide and crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions, the International Criminal Court, and cooperating national courts.'

Saturday, October 15, 2011

#American Indian Movement Joins Occupy Minneapolis

The People’s Plaza, formerly the Hennepin County Government Plaza, in downtown Minneapolis, was the site of the Indigenous People’s Day Cultural Ceremony on day four of Minneapolis’ answer to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, led the ceremony with traditional drum groups and dancers of North America and Meshikas of Mexico and Central and South America.

Indigenous peoples of North and South America are here to reoccupy our sacred Mother Earth,” said Bellecourt. “We will join together as one on this day of national mourning of the genocide of 120 million indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as American and the world celebrates the pirate Columbus.”

Bellecourt directed the ceremony as an Anishinabe Chief. He discussed some of the historical issues, used tobacco in his sacred ceremony and asked for inclusion of all. “We know who the 98% are, It’s you, and we know we are part of that,” he said. He performed the traditional blessings of the corners, Mother Earth and the Creator. The lead dancer closed the ceremony with a reminder to observers that the feelings and benefits were for all people.