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99.) Brothertown Indians: Their Mission Statement. Their participation in the "Six Nation Movement", 1922-1930's. And how they lost their lands through tax foreclosures and tax auctions. (11 min. read)

Website info to follow at end. In the second excerpt, Laura Kellogg, who testified at the 1929 US Congressional Hearings (as mentioned in article 93.) is credited with starting the well-meaning Six Nations Movement, and then, what happened to it. In the third excerpt, it explains how Brothertown asked for US citizenship and individual ownership of land. And this caused many indians to lose their lands to foreclosures because they were unable to pay the property taxes and their land were sold at tax auctions. This is commonly referred to as "checkerboarding". Meaning there are lands that belong to Indians and then lands belong to non-indians, all mixed together. Let's think about the monetary land settlements with extinguishment agreements, currently being pushed upon Indigenous Nations. First excerpt, from "Brothertown timeline" page 49: "1995 the Brothertown Indians Nation Mission Statement (several years ago, I texted this Mission Statement to several of ...

98.) Here is the definition for "international lawyer" as provided by "Collaborative Social Change". (2 min. read)

Contact information on "Collaborative Social Change" (CSC) to follow after their definition of international lawyer: "International lawyers are guided by agreements and treaties between countries. They usually practice private or public international law and/or under the auspices of regional legal frameworks. To become an international lawyer, the first step is to complete a law degree and then pass a bar exam to register as an attorney in at least one country. This can be the country in which the person is a national or another country where they are allowed to register. For example, if I'm a Canadian citizen who completed my law degree in the UK, then I can complete the domestic process to register in the UK as a practicing lawyer. So this background is required for any so-called 'international lawyer'. Then, from there, what makes a lawyer "international' is that their work is affected by more than one jurisdiction, which can include international...

97.) Here are two landmark, International court decisions that were in favor of the indigenous people. (10 min. read )

These two examples show that justice is waiting for the indigenous people, at the international level. These court cases won at the international level, still have major, far-reaching affects to this day, on the lives of the indigenous people. These two brief summaries prove that indigenous court cases can not be won in the United States or Canadian courts. The first example is when the United Kingdom brought the United States into Peculinary Arbitration at the international level, on behalf of the Cayuga Indians. This was in the 1920's. The United Kingdom was successful on the international level, which started the Cayuga Nation on their journey towards land recognition in the United States. Why didn't the United Kingdom go into the United States courts to do this? Because the United Kingdom knew it did not belong there and neither did the Cayuga Nation. And the U.K. knew it could never be successful in the american courts. And the U. K. understands that as a sovereign nation,...

96.) The time has come to accept the fact, that lawyers working for sovereign indigenous nations are there to bring the indigenous nations to the finish line of becoming tax paying U.S. and Canadian citizens. Reasonable people are coming to this understanding. Here are some examples why. (11 min. read)

 The lawyers work on behalf of the U.S. and Canadian governments to get the indigenous nations to sign monetary land claim settlements and extinguish all the treaties of that indigenous nation. It is time to accept that lawyers working for indigenous nations, also work for the U.S. and/or Canadian governments, directly or indirectly. The lawyers have to, they have sworn an oath to protect those foreign, U.S./Canadian governments. There is always a relationship there, that is detrimental to sovereign indigenous nations. It's time to take matters out of the U.S. and Canadian courts and bring them into "international courts". Using "international lawyers". The domestic lawyers working with the indigenous nations now, cannot bring matters to the international courts. Nor do they want to. These domestic lawyers are currently in process of destroying the indigenous people. This is not an exaggeration. Every time a sovereign indigenous nation agrees to a court settleme...

95.) The bottom line to previous article 93.) is that some indigenous land claims are so complicated, so buried in murky and secret history, that indigenous nations should never sign away any and all of their land ownership, land rights/land claims and future land claims. It is simply an act of "self-extermination". (12 min. read )

 Onondaga Chief Vincent Johnson called me right after he read article 93. He traveled to Vermont with a Onondaga delegation in the 1970s, to investigate the 2 million acres that the Mohawk's own. (this type of interaction and communication is an example of why these articles are written.) At that time, the information that he gathered, Vermont showed a willingness to give back the land to the Mohawks. With one stipulation, Vermont would give back the land, only if the Mohawks were to all come together and ask for the land back with one voice. The Ononadaga delegation tried, but at that time, this was unable to occur. Some of the history of lands belonging to each indigenous nations is shrouded in murky history, secrecy and division, to say the least. Let us remember that the state of Vermont didn't come into existence until 1791. Before that, New York basically butted up against Massachusetts in a haze. And both were at war with each other during the Revolutionary War. They cal...

94.) As of this date, March 24,2024 there are 5,275 downloads of this blog. Here's a list of the 23 countries that have downloaded this blog. And apparently my blog is being blocked by "Indian Act- six nation band council" wi-fi.(1 min. read )

Well... the rest of the world is reading it.  It's been about 2 years 9 months since the blogs inception June of 2021. Most download the whole blog. Here is the list of 23 countries with views. U.S.                          2.8K Canada                   2.22K Germany                27 France                    22 Russia                     19 Ireland                   15 Switzerland          14 United Kingdom  11 Sweden                  11 Belgium                   8 Hong Kong              3 South Korea    ...

93.) 3 Mohawk topics from a 1929 U.S. Congressional Hearing. 1.)"St Regis Indians" own 2 million acres in the state of Vermont-Mohawk Chief. 2.)"No historian has ever been successful in determining just who the Seven Nations were"- Assistant NYS Attorney General. 3.) Chief can not sell portion of reservation to NYS without Council and taking it up with the "tribe" first.- Mohawk Chief .(20 min. read)

A reasonable person would think that before a sovereign indigenous nation extinguishes all future land claims, that they would find out first, if there may be land that belongs to them, that they don't know about. This is the reason why extinguishment agreements for all future land claims should never be agreed to or signed. Even in 2024, the history of land claims is still murky. Check out what they were saying in 1929. This is another reason why the U.S./NYS is pushing sovereign indigenous nations to extinguish all future land claims, quickly. While indigenous nations may have forgotten or are not aware of lands they own, the U.S. government and New York State know there are many valid outstanding land claims. The following two excerpts are from exchanges given during testimony in a 1929 U.S. Congressional Hearing. The following is from a government document titled : "The Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committe...

92.) When an indigenous nation agrees to monetary land settlements, an "extinguishment clause" to void treaties, treaty land rights/land claims is a mandated part of that settlement. Everytime this is done, the United States and Canada are one step closer to assimilating indigenous people through legislated, administrative measures. (7 min. read)

 And those legislated, administrative measures are already in place. In the United States, it is the administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs that is assimilating these "tribal nations". This process has already started. And in Canada, it is the "central administration" of the "Indian Act-elected band councils", also known as the Assembly of First Nations, that is assimilating these "first nations". This process has already started. Both of these "administrations of assimilation", are currently masquerading as "governments" of the indigenous nations. Again, this is why treaties do not belong in the courts. Treaties are to be dealt with nation to nation, at the negotiation table. A major step in the assimilation process is the extinguishments of treaties. Chip by chip, piece by piece, treaties are lost to the court system this way. This has already been done with many indigenous nations across north america, through monet...

91.) The legal "age of consent" is 18 years of age. This "age of consent" is based on science. (3 min. read )

The last part of the brain to develop in a child is the part of the brain that controls good judgment. This part of the brain is called the "frontal lobe". It's located in the front of the brain, behind the lower forehead. Science says that generally, the use of the frontal lobe, will not become fully functional until around 18 years of age and into the early 20's. It depends on the individual. This is why children under 18 years of age, are deemed incapable of making competent decisions for themselves. This is science. This is why teenagers make such bad decisions. Teenagers have more time out of the control or direct supervision of their parents. Younger children are generally under the control of their parents or a responsible adult to make good decisions for the child. And this "legal age of consent" is used and accepted throughout all legal and common sense aspects of society. This legal age of consent, is why the crimnal court system takes age into con...

90.) "The worst thing a people can do is to fool around with their religious belief. This can make people sick, it can kill people." (5 min. read)

 This is an old saying, from around the world. It is true. This is what is happening now to indigenous people's "religious belief". This major push for change, is "fooling around with indigenous peoples religious belief".  And indigenous people are now in fact getting sick and are dying from this "fooling around with their religious belief".  And the people pushing this change don't seem to know or care how negatively it is affecting the indigenous people. Because changing the indigenous people is the only thing they care about. It's the popular thing to do. They don't care what happens to the indigenous people after they force this change. They never do. Everyone is appalled by what the heinous and hateful Residential Schools did to the indigenous children. There are now people pushing the indigenous people to change, just as the residential schools changed the indigenous children and people. And now, these same people, feel that this next...