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 Thanks to dgSolidarity for sharing this!

 Thanks to dgSolidarity for sharing this!

 Thanks to dgSolidarity for sharing this video!

 Ta'Kaiya Blaney makes an impassioned speech against the Northern Gateway Pipeline and performs her original song "Shallow Waters" at the No Tankers Rally in Vancouver, March 12, 2012

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Feature Film was shown at two film festivals, and a forty minute version was shown at the 2004 convention of Society of Cinema and Media Studies Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, 2004. Screenplay by Donald Morin, additonal writing by Gunargie O'Sullivan. Due to political nature of film, never completely shoot screenplay, due to difficulty in obtaining funding.

Tyendinaga is a Mohawk community located on the shore of the Bay of Quinte between Toronto and Montreal, in eastern Ontario. The Mohawk Nation is one of the five original nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Part 5: Boots speaks about one of the actions in a wave of protests ensuing from the initial land reclamation on Douglas Creek Estate and the following Stirling Street takeover in Caledonia (Ontario).… En savoir plus

Part 4: Leroy Hill and Bill Montour explain the importance of challenging the divide and rule logic of the colonial system.

Bill outlines the 8 points of jurisdiction that are central to the defense of their traditional land base and culture:

1) the Haudenosaunee Great Law,

2) the Land,

3) Treaties,

4) International relations,

Part 3: Bill Montour - Six Nations elected councillor in the Indian Act administrative body, the Band Council - speaks about the history of research that has been done to establish Six Nations ownership to the Haldimand Tract.

Part 2: Leroy Hill, Cayuga Nation, is one of the Six Nations Confederacy chiefs who participates in the land negotiations with the federal and provincial governments.… En savoir plus

In February 2006, ten women and their children galvanized the community of Six Nations into occupying an area called Douglas Creek Estate to halt the growing land encroachment by the bordering town of Caledonia. The area, Six Nations land, had been illegally sold to a US-based developer to build a suburban housing complex.