[ACE] Haudenosaunee speaking tour Saturday 30th June - bedding needed to borrow for guests

[cloudberry]

we need to borrow some bedding (eg blow up bed or
futon base) from friday 29 the and sat 30th - if you
can help please email lfannen at yahoo.co.uk - we can
pick it up 

 (this event is free of charge/donations) 

HAUDENOSAUNEE SPEAKING TOUR, EDINBURGH.

SAT 30th JUNE 7PM
The Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace.

Two representatives from the Haudenosaunee confederacy
(Iroquois)Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada will be
in England, Ireland and Scotland between June 13th
–30th. The speakers will be Mary Sandy (an Oneida
Nation Clan mother- a representative from the
traditional government)and Kathy Garlow, spokesperson
from an ongoing (since February 2006) land
reclamation. They will be speaking about the
experience of reclaiming and defending a piece of land
from development, about defending their community
against colonisation and the struggle for Indigenous
sovereignty. 

Below is more information and the other tour dates. 
For information about the Edinburgh date contact ACE 
on 0131 557 6242. For info about the rest of the tour
contact Ellie 07853 228 023 and
better_noir at yahoo.co.uk

SOME HISTORY.

The Haudenosaunee have been living as a Confederacy of
nations organised by direct consensual democracy since
1142, although there have been systematic attempts by
the colonial state to obliterate them as self-governed
sovereign people. Women have always had a leading and
equal role in Haudenosaunee government and community. 

Forty acres of land were reclaimed on the 28th of
February 2006 that had been sold by the Canadian
government to a housing development company. The land
is part of the Haldimand Tract (1784) granted by the
British in return for some of the Haudenosaunee
fighting against the soon to be United States, and
thereby losing their lands. Led by the Clan Mothers,
(their traditional female leadership) they set up camp
on the burial ground and stopped the bulldozers’
work.
A year later the land reclamation still stands and the
Six Nations community is asserting their sovereignty;
not only by taking back land that was sold by the
government without title to do so, but by practising
their right to govern themselves and their community.

The land reclamation has survived due to a massive
show of solidarity by a large part of the 20,000
strong Grand River indigenous community. 150-armed
police were walked back off the site when hundreds of
people
arrived in response to the dawn raid, indignant that
the police had arrested and beaten the handful of
people who were sleeping there. Blockades and
barricades were erected that protected the reclamation
land from further attack and also were a powerful tool
in forcing the Canadian government to take the
reclamation seriously. In June 2006 the government
bought the land back from Henco, the developer. The
site has also weathered many ongoing right wing
demonstrations that play on local, non – native
peoples’ fears and racism.

The success of the reclamation at Kanonhstaton (the
protected place)encourages indigenous sovereignty
struggles across Canada and the United States. The
Haudenosaunee are reasserting their traditional ways,
which include their surviving system of direct,
consensus based democracy (dating from 1142). On New
Years Day the Clan Mothers and Confederacy Council
reoccupied the traditional government meeting house
for the first time since its forced closure in 1924,
when the Band council system was imposed on the
reserve. The
colonial attack on Indigenous people has meant
systematic attempts to wipe out their languages,
government and identity as distinct peoples, as well
as taking their land base. However, these things,
though not undamaged still survive. Near and far to
Six Nations Onkwehonweh (original people) are taking
action to halt development, mining, and environmental
destruction on their land.

WEBSITES.

http://www.reclamationinfo.com/ (Confederacy council
official site)
 
http://sisis.nativeweb.org/actionalert/ (Settlers in
support of indigenous sovereignty- solidarity
organisation)
 
http://www.ocap.ca/taxonomy_menu/1/11 (ontario
colation against poverty's first nations section -
also see the ocap blog)
 
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/2012 (autonomy and
solidarity - have videos uploaded, links and articles
 
also you can put in "kanonhstaton" in youtube and
theres lots of short videos and photo montages people
from the site have made.

HAUDENOSAUNEE SPEAKING TOUR DATES.

· Friday 15th June – Crossroads Women’s Centre,
230 A Kentish Town Rd
Kentish Town, London, 7.30pm

· Sunday 17th June - Dublin (tbc)

· Monday 18th June - Belfast: Cultúrlann
Centre, 216 Falls Road, 7pm
– 9pm

· Tuesday 19th June - Derry (tbc)

· Thursday 21st June - Rossport Solidarity
Camp, County Mayo.

· Saturday 23rd June – Cork (tbc)

· Sunday 24th June – Kebele Centre, Bristol

· Monday 25th June – Dale farm (Traveller
community), Essex, 2.30pm

· Wednesday 27th June – Sumac Centre,
Nottingham, 7.30 pm

· Friday 29th June- Seminar at Leeds
University, Masters in Activism
and Social Change course, 4pm

· Saturday 30th June- Edinburgh Forum,
Edinburgh.





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