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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This is what real Nation to Nation looks like, Haudenosaunee and Wet'suwet'en family standing together against the colonial violence and corporate greed that threatens the safety and well-being of future generations.
The Wet'suwet'en have called on their Allies across Turtle Island to stand with them. They need boots on the ground, people in the streets, folks amplifying on social media, wherever you are, whatever you can do can make a difference.
Forcing Indigenous People from their lands is an act of genocide. When we stand together, we can fight back against the violence Canada brings to our homelands at the end of a barrel.
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council restated their support for Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs on the West coast.
Across Turtle Island, Onkwehonwe have faced generations of colonial genocide perpetuated against our nations.
Our families have stood together in solidarity to protect our lands, waters and cultures, unity has been the strength of our success.
I'm proud to stand alongside my family to uphold our hereditary and inherent right to care for plants, animals, lands and waters in the ways that have been passed down to us for generations.