Please Forward Widely

A delegation of natives representing various sovereign nations residing in "Montreal", sovereign Mohawk territory is planning to attend the 2010 Olympic Convergence in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories, in February 2010.

A representative of the Secwepemc Nation was recently in the city during the time the 2010 Olympic Torch was in Kahnawake Reserve and Montreal. The torch went through Montreal on December 10, United Nations' International Human Rights Day. This was the anniversary of when Sun Peaks Ski Resort corporation, with the support of the RCMP and provincial government, bulldozed 2 Secwepemc Sweatlodges, and 2 traditional Secwepemc homes that had been built on land where Sun Peaks wanted to build ski trails, and a Delta Hotel on. This desecration of sacred homes reveals the real relationship that corporations, and the provincial government have with sovereign nations in BC. The Olympics is an event, that gives the BC, and Canadian government an excuse to dump government funding into development projects that rape and pillage native land, and law enforcement agencies, to attempt to repress any indigenous resistance to encroachment and unwanted development.

Miranda Dick, our visitor from the Secwepemc Nation also informed natives, and non-native supporters about the Superhighway project that is being built from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Vancouver Port. This destructive expansion has unearthed a 7000 year old Ancestor in Secwepemc territory last spring, and Secwepemc People have re-buried her in a proper manner and are actively protecting her from the possibility of being re-dug up by the Ministry of Highways for this road expansion.

We stand strong in Solidarity with the Sovereign Nations in the west that are being negatively impacted by the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Olympics is displacing natives from their traditional land, and from their homes in the city of Vancouver. We also stand in Solidarity with the Secwpemc and Cree nations, and all the nations that this Super Highway [project] is...threaten[ing]. Down with the Olympics, Down with the Alberta Tar Sands!

We are in need of financial support to cover our travel costs to Vancouver for February 2010. Any help would be greatly appreciated. For more information you can reach us through billiepierre@hotmail.com

Please make your donations to:

Louisa Neill
Caisse Populaire Desjardins (Desjardins Bank)
077 30284 815 0209395. This is a chequing account.