Onkwehonwe Nations have held onto our own laws and upheld our responsibility to care for the lands and waters. We've faced wars, residential schools, and MMIWG. Through our resistance to colonial violence, our languages, our laws and responsibilities have survived.
Today, Land Defenders and Water Protectors stand in the way of colonial development that exploits lands all for the profit of industry. This unwanted development poisons water, destroys the homes of animals, and kills plants, destroying the Creation our future generations need.
All of this colonial infrastructure maintains exploitation. Roads, highways and railways that crisscross our lands will not be used to inflict more violence on our people.
Canada has built itself off of our suffering and uses police violence to maintain power and control over our Nations. The RCMP in Wet'suwet'en Territory, the OPP at 1492 Land Back Lane, and the TPS attacking houseless kin in encampments in Toronto to keep oppressing us.
There is nothing these courts and cops or racist politicians can do with their guns and jails to turn our backs on future generations. These lands are only borrowed from those generations to come. It is our obligation to hold these lands for them.
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