SIX NATIONS – What was going on behind the closed doors of Canada’s Parliament leading up to the 1922 and the 1924 RCMP raids on Six Nations?
Some supporters of the elective council say it was the desire of the majority of Six Nations people that the government intervene in Six Nations politics and culture to replace the traditional government, which some saw as corrupt.
But this document, written to Deputy Superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs Duncan Campbell Scott by an unknown superior, spells out how and when the “coup” against Six Nations was to unfold. The document is filed in the National Archives in Ottawa on microfilm role #210, under document number 1663. It shows this unknown superior scolding Scott for not moving earlier than he did in attacking Six Nations’ self-governance and the forced implementation of the elective system.
The following is a verbatim copy of its content. Let the reader decide if the take over of the traditional government was the popular sentiment of the day, or not.
Aug. 25th, 192?. (unreadable)
To: Duncan C. Scott Esq. F.R.S.C. Litt.D.
Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
Department of Indian Affairs. Ottawa. Ont.
Dear Mr. Scott,
The publication of Colonel Thompson’s report has aroused great interest on the reserve, the greatest pleasure being evidenced by the Loyalists and sulky [resistance?] by the Levi General faction, which will probably take a more specific form at the Council meeting on September 2nd, for which however I am providing as I have asked Supt Newsome to make the R.C.M.P. Detachment up to its original authorized strength of eight on the reserve which has been allowed to drop to four.
There is a persistent rumour on the Reserve, and Rogers tells me that Levi General will return to the Reserve for the Fall Fair, September 1st, 2nd & 3rd.
I hope that you will be able to consider early action regarding the announcement of an elective Council and the deprivation of authority of the present chiefs under section 96, as it is highly important to the facility with which this coup is to be carried out that the Department should strike whilst the iron is hot, while the loyalists are encouraged with anticipation and the disloyal faction correspondingly discouraged at the possibility of an early election.
I feel sure that if the matter is now allowed to die down and the disloyalists allowed time to hatch plots with General here to encourage them we shall have quite serious trouble but if it could be arranged that I could announce the dissolution of the present Council as incompetent, under section 96, at the next meeting, so that if General is allowed to enter the country he will no longer be a chief when he gets here, much of his influence will disappear, the loyalists will rally and the rats, of whom one, a noted disloyalist, was telling me on Saturday how loyal he was, will leave the sinking ship.
I understand that there is a large amount of Six Nations stock in circulation signed by Levi General and this, not being registered is fraudulent and should form an ample indictment to put some of the worst of them out of the way for a while.
I will not take your time further beyond earnestly asking you to consider the evils of delay in this matt0er.
You will recollect that when you visited the Reserve shortly after the war the returned men petitioned for an elective Council and if the Minister could then have seen his way of sanction if these existing evils would have disappeared on a wave of popular enthusiasm.
It was not done and now fifty percent of the returned men who then wanted it have joined the opposite faction and surely, if the public publication of Colonel Thompson’s report is not followed by action we shall lose a further high percentage of our now enthusiastic loyalists.
Believe me.
Yours very truly,
(Name signature unreadable)
The Haldimand clearly states yours to enjoy forever. MORE LANDS WERE PROMISED AFTER THAT.
The Five (later Six) Nations Iroquois surrendered a huge tract of land, including land in what is now the U.S.A. and land in what is now southwestern and along the Grand River, to the British Crown and “for ever quit claime” to that land according to the Albany (Nanfan) Treaty in 1701.
After the American Revolution ended in 1783, Quebec Governor Haldimand bought a huge tract of land in what is now southwestern Ontario including land along the Grand River from the Ojibwa Mississauga Indians on May 22, 1784. That land became the Crown’s land.
About six months later on October 25, 1784, Governor Haldimand issued an announcement inviting Mohawks and other Six Nations Indians to enter, occupy and use some of the Crown’s land along the Grand River. Canadian courts have said Haldimand’s announcement was a licence to occupy, not own, the Crown’s land.
In 1793, Governor Simcoe offered the Six Nations a letter patent for land along the Grand River but Mohawk leader Joseph Brant and the Six Nations chiefs would not accept the Simcoe Patent (deed) so the land along the Grand River remained the Crown’s land.
When the Six Nations Indians are living on the reserve on the Crown’s land, they are subject to the rules, regulations and laws of the Crown.
It would seem to me, when the Crown owns the land, it can tell people who occupy the Crown’s land how they should govern themselves.
The Crown Of Canada is Incorporated, Canada Inc, then by legal definitions is a company therefore breaching Agreements with Six Nations Traditional Haudenosaunee Peoples Hereditary Chiefs And Clan Mothers along with Breaching the TwoRow Wampum Treaty Of 1612, And according to Business Law by the Crown to Assume to Purchase Land from the Ojibway, who in fact, we’re occupying Six Nations Traditional Beaver Hunting Grounds As was previously recognized by the Great Britain and England and France As was recognized and recorded in the Mitchell Of 1701 Under the title of, Six Nations Traditional Beaver Hunting Grounds of 1701.
And you’ll notice there’s a lot of references to the year, 1701. This is because Trickery was already being employed by the Crown Of Canada, 1867, who by the way, we’re into business that had taken place long before the existence of the Crown Of Canada, therefore illegal for the following reason, The Only existing Documents before any of this business was to Documents that were legal and binding and that is, The Royal Proclamation Of 1763, That in essence recognized that Six Nations Haudenosaunee Peoples Hereditary Chiefs And Clan Mothers are the Legal Owners Of Turtle Island, referenced by them as, North America, long before Canada and The 13 Colonies, And before the Confederation Of States And certainly before United States, then the pair Illegally Recognized each other as a Country because No One else in the World would not recognize a criminal Act which led to that both Canada and United States were not allowed to join the United Nations because neither Canada nor United States could not prove land ownership nor could they own land because each Canada And United States were both Incorporated so they could do business with each other and the world with stolen land and stolen resources, only after many years of thefts sold all over the world then both Canada and United States continued to conspire to this day slitting the law or as long as it took for both to legalize criminal systems and criminal Activities to Illegally Appropriate Everything Of value to be sold on the open market around the world , that’s still going on to this day.