Sep 15/97: Directed e-mail action for indigenous resisters

DIRECTED E-MAIL ACTION FOR INDIGENOUS RESISTERS

Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty (S.I.S.I.S.)
SISIS@envirolink.org
September 15, 1997

Bulletin: For Maximum distribution - Please copy and circulate.

DEMAND PUBLIC INQUIRIES INTO TS'PETEN AND STONEY POINT
++ FREEDOM FOR WOLVERINE AND THE OTHER PRISONERS OF WAR ++

September 17th marks the second anniversary of the end of the RCMP siege of indigenous traditionalists and their allies at the sacred Sundance and burial grounds at Ts'peten (Gustafsen Lake). This was the largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history. The Defenders voluntarily left the Camp on the instructions of their Spiritual adviser and Medicine Man.

This was less than two weeks after Ontario Provincial Police had cold-bloodedly murdered Anthony Dudley George in a stand-off over sacred burial grounds at Stoney Point (Ipperwash) on September 6, 1995.

International and domestic outrage over the outrageous Human Rights abuses and state terror employed by the Canadian and British Columbian authorities continues to grow as new shocking revelations emerge of high level of criminal complicity in the summer 1995 operations at Ts'peten (Gustafsen Lake) and Stoney Point (Ipperwash). But so does a massive and coordinated coverup. Moreover, 66 year old Shuswap elder Wolverine and other Ts'peten Defenders remain in prison.

In Honour of these Indigenous Prisoners of War, in memory of Stoney Pointer Dudley George, in outrage over his murder by the police, and to DEMAND AN INQUIRY into all aspects of the 1995 attacks upon Indigenous Peoples at Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash WE DECLARE SEPTEMBER 17, 1997 TO BE AN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF E-MAIL ACTION.

We ask that you send the following message on September 17:

To: Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada
   Email: pm@pm.gc.ca
   Faxing by email: remote-printer.Jean_Chretien@16139416900.iddd.tpc.int

   Ujjal Dosanjh, Attorney General & Human Rights Minister, British
Columbia
   Email: bc.human_rights_commission@ag.gov.bc.ca

   Charles Harnick, Attorney-General/Minister of Native Affairs, Ontario
   Faxing by email: remote-printer.Charles_Harnick@14163264016.iddd.tpc.int
We demand that you order a full and comprehensive public inquiry into all aspects of the Gustafsen and Ipperwash matters, including your own involvement. We demand the release of the Ts'peten prisoners. We demand an end to Canadian colonialism and genocide.

FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND DECOLONIZATION

(name)

"The allegations of police and government wrong-doings are so serious that there is no question there should be a public inquiry..."

-- Canadian Forum: April '97

"The rush to sweep the Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash affairs out of the news the moment the physical standoffs were removed, shows all the signs of a classic coverup."

-- Canadian Dimension: Dec. '95

"...these actions unambiguously qualify as genocide."

-- KOLA Belgium to PM Chretien Apr. '97

"Therefore be it resolved that the Chiefs in Assembly support the demand for a full and comprehensive public inquiry into all aspects of the Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash matters..."

-- Assembly of First Nations Draft Resolution Aug.'97

More information on Ts'peten (Gustafsen Lake):

http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/gustmain.html

More information on Stoney Point (Ipperwash):
http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/ipperwash/arch01.html

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