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Akwesasne Women's Fire Needs Help To Stop Guns: Video and Statement
On Monday June 1st 2009 the Canadian Border Service Agency was to take up arms at the border crossing in the middle of Akwesasne of Mohawk Nation Territory. The people protested. At 11:30 pm on May 31st the CBSA guards abandoned their post and left. Since then, we have peacefully camped on the grounds next to the facility. This is the first video on the ongoing events in the camp and the people.
No band councilors showed up. They have been intimidated by the government, are afraid and caved in. It's a powerful grassroots Peoples movement with no support from any government.
NEEDED: Funds would be greatly appreciated to keep up our tents: Please go to http://www.akwesasnewomensfire.com and donate online. For donations by check or money order please send to: Akwesasne Women’s Fire, 936 Island Rd, Akwesasne ON K6H 5R7
Urgently needed are life jackets for the crossings and fuel for the boats. Your donations are appreciated of food, can goods, general supplies, non-perishable food, flashlights and batteries, lanterns, coal oil lamps, bug spray or zapper, regular toiletries - toilet paper, paper towels, soap, laundry, etc.
The caravan was greeted by an emotional welcoming ceremony and social. The people were overwhelmed by the sight of the caravan approaching over the International Bridge onto Kawenoke on Cornwall Island. We will keep it peaceful. The Customs Building is being maintained. Please send your messages of support to
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Please keep supporting us. The Chocktaw Nation of Oklahoma is coming to bring supplies and to meet the people.
Two Indigenous men hitchhiked from Vancouver. Jayson Fleury said that we are being eliminated by guns. We came to support our brothers and sisters to stop the genocide of our people. His sister ended up as one of Picton's victims on the farm where dozens of our women were murdered. We will never accept outsiders carrying guns in their midst.
Old videos of gunfire 20 years ago are being used as part of the training of the CBSA that work on the island, completely ignoring the peace that has since prevailed. They probably watch old films where a cowboy shoots one bullet and knocks a whole tribe off their horses. The blue-eyed fat Indians with Brooklyn accents were played by Italians and others. Prejudice is being promoted by showing these kind of old movies to scare the CBSA.
Victims Of Violence Among Indigenous Mothers Living With Dependent Children
Cripps K, Bennett CM, Gurrin LC, Studdert DM, 2009
OBJECTIVE: To identify individual and household factors associated with violence among Australian Indigenous women with dependent children. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Univariate and multivariable analysis of data from the 2002 National Aboriginal ...
Complications Of Otitis Media In Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Children
O'Connor TE, Perry CF, Lannigan FJ, 2009
In Australia, three to five children die each year because of otitis media complications, and 15 children will suffer permanent hearing loss each year as a result of otitis media. Extracranial complications occur most ...
Smoking Prevalence Trends In Indigenous Australians, 1994-2004: A Typical Rather Than An Exceptional Epidemic
Thomas DP, 2009
BACKGROUND: In Australia, national smoking prevalence has successfully fallen below 20%, but remains about 50% amongst Indigenous Australians. Australian Indigenous tobacco control is framed by the idea that nothing has worked and ...
Nutritional Status In Telarche And Menarche In Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Chilean Adolescents
Amigo H, Costa Machado T, Bustos P, 2009
A compensatory effect of chronic malnutrition that influences excess of weight has been reported. This effect would be more evident in indigenous populations. The aim of this study was to ...
A Randomized Trial Of A CAM Therapy For Stress Reduction In American Indian And Alaskan Native Family Caregivers
Leslie Korn, Rebecca G. Logsdon, Nayak L. Polissar, Alfredo Gomez-Beloz, Tiffany Waters, and Rudolph Rÿser, 2009
Although it is widely recognized that
caregivers of individuals with dementia experience
elevated stress that places them at ...
Protection Of The Health And Human Rights Of Present And Future Generations Through Ratification And Implementation By The United States Of The Stockholm Convention On Persistent Organic Pollutants: NCAI
The National Congress of American Indians
Resolution #PSP-09-021 TITLE: Protection of the Health and Human Rights of Present and Future
Generations through ...
British Columbia First Nations Fisheries Council Urges Fisheries And Oceans Canada To Move Quickly To Accommodate First Nations’ Access To Fisheries
For Immediate Release
November 5, 2009
The First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia congratulates the Nuu?chah?nulth First Nations on the outcome of their recent court case, which has recognized ...
Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse Responds To The Supreme Court Decision To Dismiss Sharon Mcivor’s Appeal: Chiefs Of Ontario
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Assembly Of First Nations Says Citizenship Issue Does Not End With McIvor Case
Although the Supreme Court of Canada announced, today, that it will not hear Sharon McIvor's case regarding the continued gender discrimination in the "status" provisions of Indian Act, AFN National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo and AFN Women's ...
