47.)"WARRIORS WORDS CALL FOR EXECUTION and ONONADAGA CHIEFS SHOULD BE KILLED, WARRIOR SAYS", title of 1990 newspaper article interviewing self-proclaimed founder of the Warriors- Louie Hall, about his Manifesto and a quote by Paul Delaronde praising Louie Hall.(15 min. read )

 Newspaper article is from The Herald Journal of Syracuse New York. Date of article is July 4th 1990. Page A1, and continues on to page A4. News article written by staff writer M. C. Burns.

This newspaper article can be downloaded from numerous newspaper archives.

Title of article on page A1, and continuing on to page A4: Warriors words call for execution. And Onondaga Chiefs should be killed, Warrior says.

(Beginning of newspaper article) :

Louie Hall lives in an isolated trailer with the battered typewriter he used to pound out his manifesto. Over the last 10 years, that document has inspired a decisive, militant resurgence in the Iroquois Nation and fostered a rebirth of a warriors movement from Canada to Wisconsin.

When masked Mohawks with assault rifles block entrances to the St Regis reservation a year ago, Louie Hall was behind them - - not physically, but his words put them there.

Those gunman, members of the well-armed Warrior Society at the reservation in New York and Canada, idolize Louie Hall. Today they are key players in the violence and the uneasy peace that exists in the place Mohawks call Akwesasne.

Hall's writing produced by slender fingers rattling his Olympia, is outrageous, vehement, angry. "There will come a day" he wrote recently, "when the Indian will put the white man in a boat and send him back to Europe where he belongs and keep him there."

The manifesto reinterprets the Great Law of Peace, the continuation of the Iroquois, and give some Native Americans the rationale they need to carry weapons. In it Hall ask "What can the warrior societies do?"

He answers "Dump bridges into rivers - which are now sewers -- and into the seaway, canceling all traffic. Knock out powerhouses, high tension power lines, punch holes in the reactors of nuclear power houses."

He urges young Iroquois to reject the peace - oriented teachings of the traditional chiefs, including those who sit on the Grand Council of the Six Nations of the Iroquois.

He believes that some traditional chiefs - including all of the ones who sit at the Onondaga Nation -- have betrayed the Great Law, and for that they should be executed, Mafia--Style, by Mafia hitman, if possible.

Hall is not kidding.

"They should be executing the traitors." he said in an interview. "But they would have to do it the way the Mafia do it- in secret and never see the victim again. No body. No case."

Some Warriors agree with him and do not question his teachings, even concerning executions.

"Yes they should be executed. " said Francis Boots, war chief of the Warriors Society at Akwwesasne. " It's the law. "

Boots usually has a copy of Hall's Manifesto close by.

"But it is his actual presence that impresses us." Boots said. "He has the message and he knows how to articulate it."

Onondaga Chief Leon Shenandoah is Chairman of the Iroquois Confederacy and one of the people Hall think should be executed.

"There is no place for warriors at the Grand Council. " Shenandoah said." That is what the Great Peacemaker did. He got rid of them. And we became a peace loving people."

LOUIS HALL'S TRAILER rests at the edge of a dirt road, deep in the heart of Kahnawake- pronounced Gun-wah-gay - a Mohawk reservation outside of Montreal. Boxes of books clutter the floor, and his paintings take up a wall, hung edge to edge.

Their colors are bold, the images fierce. Hall, a former bodybuilder, put sculpted muscles on the male Indians in his paintings. The women have strong, broad faces that show a quiet anger.

His prints can be found in many warriors homes. So can the flag he designed. At its Center is a warrior with long hair, a single feather and blue eyes, just like Hall's eyes.

Artists he says, should be willing to work for an important cause.

When Hall talks, he runs his hand over his head, feeling for the hair that is no longer there. His voice has lost the resonance it once had. The anger, though, is still there and has been for most of his 72 years.

"I was born what you would call a Catholic." he said. "I had no way of preventing it. When I was just a few days old they took me to the enchanted hut with high ceilings and a steeple.

"They brought me in there to see a priest in a woman's clothing. They poured cold water over my head and started me off on a long life of sinus troubles. "

HE ATTENDED the Kahnawake Catholic school and achieve some of his best grades in religion. Priest asked him to become a jesuit. He refused.

"There are a lot of things I would consider being but not a priest." he said.

He says a Jewish lawyer in Montreal changed him. Hall respects Jewish people because he says they are successful and make "damn smart lawyers". He says that "if you want to get a lawyer that fights, get a Jew."

The lawyer drew parallels between the 3,000 years of persecution suffered by Jews and the persecution of indians. He asked Hall if there was such a thing as a national religion for indians. Hall said yes, there was a Long House religion.

"He said, 'you know a lot of us Jews have no use for any kind of religion. But we are members of our own national religion. We support our religion with money and our presence when needed. It is a force for unity and national survival.' "

HALL SAID HE BEGAN  to see Longhouse as a force for the unity and survival of Native Americans. He still does, but today he says he has doubts about its spiritual tenants.

In 1963, I went through a ceremony to join the Long House and was given a Mohawk name, Karoniaktajeh. It translates into,  "close to heaven."

He represented his clan at meetings of the Grand Council at the Onondaga Indian Nation, the capital of the Iroquois Confederacy.

About 20 years ago, Hall met an immigrant who said he had been a colonel in Adolf Hitler's army. The Nazi inspired Hall to record his beliefs.

"He was 6 ft 2 and weighed 320. He came here to see one of our chiefs. He believed in the dictatorship. Hitler was one of his major war heroes." Hall said. "He's the one who told me,  'if you're going to do anything, write a manifesto. Tell what you are and what your arms are. Write it all down'.

"So I wrote a manifesto."

It's called "Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy" and it outlines his position on subjects such as homosexuality and genetic differences between white men and Indian men.

"Men worships a woman and a woman worships a man." He wrote. "It's only disgusting when man worships another man and a woman another woman. It is then perverted. Both men and women worship the same male God when men should be worshiping a goddess. It may be the reason for so many queers in the world."

HE SAYS THAT MEN of European descent have hairy chest because the white race was was begun by a union with a monkey.

"The creator told Adam and Eve to populate the earth. They did their best and produce Cain and Abel. Cain tried his best to make Abel big with child but Abel was sterile. In frustration, Cain killed Abel and left for another country."

"One account has it that Cain fell in with a tribe of monkeys which explains why the immigrants from Europe have a lot of hair all over their bodies. "

The manifesto often advocates the use of violence:

"Now that the Indians have the ability, not only to make peace but also to destroy the white man's peace, it is time to require Canada and the US to render a real and true justice to the true owners of this land by restoring some of the stolen lands."

Myrtle Bush once sat as an elected chief of the tribal council at Kahnawake. She says many people reject Halls teachings.

"Many of his supporters are people who are disenfranchised." she said. "They are young men who are maybe only part indian, and through his writings they discover their indianness. They become militant. It is the same as a person who is a convert to a church having the loudest voice."

SOME OF THE CONFLICTS  that have beset Indian tribes today would still exist without Hall's book. Bush said. There must still be factions fighting over gambling, taxation and smuggling.

"But" she said "his writings endorsed a new kind of behavior that leaves out the humility and other qualities we have always stressed."

Hall contends that the Ononadaga Chiefs, as well as Chiefs Jake Swamp and Tom Porter of Akwesasne, both of whom oppose gambling, are traitors. They've committed treason. Hall says, because they accept and live by the code of Handsome Lake, a 19th century Indian philosopher.

He was a reformed alcoholic who developed a code that bans gambling and drinking and encourages confession of sins.

Hall contends the code is Quaker - inspired and represents Christianity, not Indian beliefs.

"Following the code is treason." Hall said. "Death is the punishment for treason."

The code of Handsome Lake is at the heart of the gambling dispute at Akwesasne. Some traditional people say gambling should be banned because of the code. The warrior Society counters with Halls reasoning.

HALL'S ANGER has grown old with him. For years, he has said any Indian who is a Christian is no longer an indian. Today, he can be more radical. One of his latest tracts says white North Americans must be sent back to Europe and walled in there, never to be released.

This anger is what appeals to Warriors. 

"He has been a good teacher to all of us. He has given his life to the struggle of our people." Said Paul Delaronde, a warrior at Kahnawake,  the reservation were Hall lives. "He has really inspired our people to strength."

One of the main tenants of Iroquois belief is that of the Great Peacemaker who united five warring Nations by burying their weapons at the base of a tree near Onondaga lake.

Hall says it is time to dig up the weapons and establish powerful nations, uniting all Indian people.

(End of newspaper article)