| | | 07.06.2007 10:49:01 | MOHAWK WOMEN KICK GUILLAUME "BILLY" CARLE OUT OF KANEHSATAKE
Phony “Indians” try to ride again! Watch out for “Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada”!
MNN. June 5, 2007. On Sunday June 3rd, Guillaume “Billy” Carle, a non-native, and his small group of non-native followers of a phony non-native organization were kicked out of Kanehsatake. He was trying to recruit us to join his non-native group to give it some authenticity.
Anyone can join, especially if you live ‘off-reserve’, are non-status or non-native, if you have a colonial birth certificate, a colonial certified genealogy, a colonial status card and a colonial payment, which they would be pleased to invest, if it’s burning a hole in your pocket.
This federal, provincial and territorial incorporated company’s aims are self-promotion, recreation, spiritual/temporal welfare, to collect funds to protect its rights, to improve their welfare and conduct research. OMG! They say it themselves in their brochure. They want to promote interest in their language, culture, folklore, art and craft. WTF! Aren’t they already protected under Bill 101 [which protects the French language]? Isn’t that enough for them?
The “Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada, or CONK, is a new colonial distraction set up by someone. We wouldn’t be surprised to find there are a few tax dollars behind it. About 25 showed up at the United Church hall in Oka at 10:00 a.m. to have their meeting to recruit someone from Kanehsatake. Not one of them looked a “tinge” native.
We decided to find out more about these “new non-native Indians” [nouveau sauvage]. They say they are getting memberships all over the colony of Canada using an imaginative interpretation of Section 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982. They were selling Indian status cards for $23 a year, or $46 for two years. If you let your status card expire, you become “colonial” again. It’s like the ‘Prentice’ card that has an expiry date.
It’s all for him and Phil Fontaine of the AFN to get more funding. They’ve been appearing together on tv. It seems that the followers just want band cards so they can ‘incorporate a new nation or create a new brand of ‘Indian’. They want to set up a reserve-less reserve. One even said he came from the community of “Hochelaga” which was absorbed by us over 400 years ago. Some of these people are time travelers! They want money from the government to do this.
This sounds something like Eric Maldoff when he and Indian Affairs stole our “Mohawk Coalition” and helped funnel $58 million through it to take over policing and the band council in 2004. This bunch is even more ambitious. They want to take over Indian Affairs all over Canada. Has CONK made a secret deal with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to privatize the Indian Act, just like his U.S. heroes who are privatizing prisons? The reserves are known as “prisons of grass”.
We think this corporation was formed by higher ups to create confusion in the public mind and to make us look like trouble while filling their own pockets. What a scam!
CONK arrived at the Oka United Church Hall around 10:00 am. They found the door locked and a sign on it telling them they were not welcome. When a small group of Mohawk women confronted them and told them to “get off our land”, they quickly left.
They even accused us of “not being Mohawks”, said one of our vigilant defenders. They could have been sent here to instigate trouble. We weren’t going to tolerate it. We told them in no uncertain terms to “get out of town fast”.
Carle [sporting dyed black hair with a skinny braid in the back] adjourned his “rally” to the “Grecco Cafe” in Oka. The women followed them there to stop their meeting, his presentation and a vote. We started shooting questions at them. “Who are you? Who put you up to this? What are you doing?” Carle and his followers got mad. Soon a loud discussion broke out. The owner came in and demanded, “What’s going on? You told me you just wanted to have a cup of coffee”. CONK became more raucous. Greco told Carle and his group to leave his establishment immediately, which they finally did. Greco said we could stay.
Carle’s entourage included a French-Canadian woman, Manon, who is known to the Mohawks as coming from Oka. She was decked out like an “Indian Barbie Doll”with a polyester Indian costume that looked like she bought it at from the Dollar Store last Halloween. She had a head band, fringes, feathers, shiny bangles and beads. The rest wore plastic bone and beaded necklaces. “She looked just like a Christmas tree”. Jingle Bells! All the way! She told us she was “represent Mohawk womanhood” and was speaking on our behalf as a member of CONK.
Then Carle tried to hold his meeting at the grounds of “Ecole des Pins” park. The women followed and told them to get off Mohawk land. They became even more irritated because they could not conduct their corporate business. They warned us that if we didn’t leave them alone, they would call the cops. This was a job for the women. They called the SQ on us. We told their head guy, “Louis [Bremer], this is our land and we’re not leaving”.
Carle tried to portray us and the Mohawk Warriors as supporters of his upcoming demonstration against Canada and Quebec that he’s planning to hold in front of the Indian Affairs “Tower of Terror” in Ottawa, from June 21 to July 2. He wants to use us as his back drop. [Watch out for these nut-sos!]
“These non-natives are trying to use us for their own personal agenda”, said Sonia Gagnier of the Kanehsatake Mohawk Women’s Coalition. “We are sick and tired of being exploited”.
“We will not support this charade by Guillaume Carle and Phil Fontaine” [of the Assembly of First Nations, that other colonial “Indian” outfit], added Sheila Bonspile, also a member of the Coalition.
Carle is in the papers and on top television shows all the time with Phil Fontaine. “Watch me on tv tomorrow. I’m gonna be on for four hours!”, he told us. It looks like he has some high priced public relations firm helping him. [Maybe he’s another of Eric Maldoff’s setups to instigate!] We’ve learned that’s the only way to get so much attention from the corporate media.
Three SQ cop cars arrived. They told the cops we were harassing them. Eventually the cops escorted Carle and his small group off Mohawk territory. The whole annoying incident was finally over at 3:30.
A few months ago they had blocked a road in La Verendrye Park in Quebec to protest something or other, passing themselves off as “Metis”. At the same time they were impersonating the “Kanehsatake and Kahnawake Mohawk warriors”. Carle and his entourage were armed, arrested and he walked! After their action was denounced by Indigenous people elsewhere in Canada, they were apparently kicked out of there too.
There’s a Canadian flag on the letterhead on the CONK website and throughout the text. It’s English on the left side and French on the right side. What a clue! Just like a Canadian government directive! They appear to be non-native imposters committing fraud.
Carle told MNN his mother is from Akwesasne from an unknown family called “Racine”. Before that he told others he was an “Indian” from “out west”. Now he’s saying he’s from Kanehsatake and is part Mohawk, Nippissing and Algonquin. We all know each other in our communities. No one seems to know any of his relatives. When you come right down to it, he looks French all over. Is this guy really one of us? Does he belong to a lost tribe, or is he just a plant? Is this another failed Canadian government investment? LOL! What do you think? [Contact Mohawk Women’s Coalition 450-479-1998 or 450-479-1156].
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
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