Statement by Skyler Williams At The Cayuga Court House
Six Nations of Grand River Territory

April 28, 2008

My name is Skyler Williams. I am a Mohawk, Wolf, from Six Nations of The Grand River Territory. I am speaking on behalf of myself and several others that have been charged with criminal offences in connection with defending our land rights at Six Nations.

We have instructed our lawyer today not to proceed with our legal defence, so long as police have guns turned on our brothers and sisters in Tyendinaga.

Over the past months, Canada’s efforts to criminalize those of us who are standing up for our land rights has reached epic proportions. The message is clear: participate in negotiations that go nowhere as our lands are developed and destroyed - or go to jail.

Today, Six Nations is standing in steadfast solidarity with those in Tyendinaga whose lives and freedoms are in jeopardy because they are standing up for their rights. We also stand with those in Akwesasne, Kanawake and all peoples who have joined in this stand.

Also, we stand with those leaders of Ardoch Algonquin and Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug that are in jail because they refuse to betray their people and allow for mining exploration in their traditional territories.

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***
Thursday October 25, 2007

Incarcerated Six Nations Man Threatened by Institutional Staff
by Janie Jamieson
Six Nations

Skylar Williams, a Mohawk Wolf from Six Nations has been held without
bail at the Hamilton Barton St. Jail since the illegal arrests at
Stirling Street September 19, 2007. Today we held a rally for him
outside the jail where he has been in the "hole" for two days.

We have reason to believe if Skyler is harmed in anyway, we know he is
the target of planned and deliberate threats and violence by jail
institution staff members.

A few days ago Skylar woke up to find the plumbing in his cell on range
5 was backed up. He notified institution staff on his range. He was
accused by staff of backing up the plumbing. The mess was left.
Skylar asked for a drink of water, he was told by staff to drink from
the toilet. Skylar responded, "there's sh*t" in there. The institution
staff's paid professional advise to Skylar was to "take the sh*t out and
then have a drink." Skylar refused and notified his lawyer of the
situation. At this point Skyler was without clean water for
approximately 18 hours.

You can write Chris at:

Chris Hill

Wentworth Detention Center.

165 Barton Street East

Hamilton, Ontario

More information below...

Support Chris Hill: Six Nations indigenous prisoner

1) Update and Report on the Release of Trevor Miller

- Report by Sarita Ahooja

- Hamilton Spectator: Tears, Applause as Activist Freed

2) The case of Jeff "Hawk"

- Turtle Island News: Jeff "Hawk" facing Canadian Courts - Interview with Jeff Hawk by CKUT Radio in Montreal

3) Free Chris Hill! – update and call-out for Support and Solidarity

Dear friends,

We are writing to let you know of a number of important upcoming events
that will be happening in the course of the next week to build support
for Six Nations political prisoner Trevor Miller. Trevor is a Six
Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan who has spent more than four months in
jail after being arrested for his involvement in supporting the
reclamation site. Trevor has been politically targeted and faced

By Fiona Becker
Indymedia
November 30th, 2006

Over 50 people packed the Cayuga courthouse on Wednesday for Trevor
Miller, a Six Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, as Trevor declared to the
court that the colonial Canadian system has no jurisdiction over him. When
the judge walked into the courtroom for the pre-trial hearing of Trevor
Miller, and the bailiff called “all rise”, only the cops and the lawyers

[please forward widely]

It has now been over 8 months now since the people of Six Nations
repossessed a tract of land that was stolen from the Haudonausaunee by
the
Canadian government and sold to developers. They have endured media
slander, racist settler violence, police brutality, constant
surveillance
and one OPP raid. Since the reclamation began, at least 23 people have
had
charges laid against them. Out of these 23 people, 3 are now in prison:

This is a very interesting interview done by CBC with Barbara McDougall who is representing the Canadian government at the negotiating table. She says some quite positive things about Six Nations and also critiques the people in Caledonia who are stirring up trouble...

Evan: You saw the piece (Letters from Caledonia aired on CBC News
Sunday, September 24th) http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/caledonia.html
you saw the different voices. They are not united on a lot of issues but
they are united on one thing: the government needs to step in and do
something fast. What is the government doing? What is the timetable?

Barbara McDougall: If there was something fast to do, it would have
been done. The government is the lightning rod. It's easier for people
to attack the government whether provincial or federal than it is to
point at their neighbor and use some kind of slur and there has been a
lot of that but the people there were on their best behavior, they were
all thoughtful. They all, I think, were trying to come up with something
that would be helpful and yes I think the government has to lead the
discussion here but at the end of the day, there has to be something
forthcoming from the Six Nations and from the neighbors. The government
can facilitate, the government can push forward the land claim to the
extent possible but not all the delays are due to the government. I mean
these are very complex issues. They've been going on a long time. The
treaties were signed in the 18th century, predates the federal
government. There were other agreements in the early part of the 19th
century predates the federal government with the government of Upper
Canada. There's an oral history versus a written history.

By Carmela Fragomeni
The Hamilton Spectator
(May 20, 2006)

CH Television is fighting the OPP seizure of videotape it aired
of a confrontation at the native standoff in Caledonia.

News director Mike Katrycz says the confiscation of the tape
violates Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Katrycz said police arrived at the Hamilton station Monday with
a search warrant for the homemade tape filmed by a Caledonia

By Meredith Macleod
The Hamilton Spectator
(May 18, 2006)

Warrants have been issued for four native protesters who failed
to appear in court yesterday to answer to charges laid during an
OPP raid at the Caledonia standoff almost a month ago.

Wayne Mark Van Every, 30, Albert Douglas, 30, David Allen
Martin, 44, and Alex Crawford, 18, all face arrest warrants.
They face a series of charges including assault, resisting