[HyperionTheEvil]

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The OPP are looking for several people with regards to violence at the Caledonia stand-off involving the Six Nations Reserve.

One of those people is Ken Hill:

Ken Hill, 47, of Ohsweken, faces two counts of assault

Ken Hill is not just some two-bit hooligan. He's a two-bit hooligan with a business plan:

Ken Hill, a Mohawk from Six Nations, and Jerry Montour, a Mohawk from Wahta, are partners with others at Grand River Enterprises, which is located on the Six Nations Indian Reserve. GRE, which is a cigarette manufacturing plant, is the largest private business on the Six Nations Reserve, employing approximately 175 people. They have recently expanded operations to a plant located in Germany and are also looking at establishing a plant in South Africa. Ken and Jerry will talk about this exciting international project.

Besides smoking, Ken Hill is interested in gambling as well:

Preliminary Report On Six Nations Gaming Commission And Internet Gaming Activities On The Reserve
On May 13, 2003 Steve Williams, then Chair of the Gaming Commission, met with Harvey Filger, Director of Economic Development, to discuss a proposal he had worked on in his capacity as Chair of the Gaming Commission. He advised that a third party on the reserve wished to use a private facility consisting of 12 computers for internet gaming.

During the month of June Chief Roberta Jamieson, and Councillor Sid Henhawk attended a meeting at Grand River Enterprises (GRE). Gerry Montour, Ken Hill and Steve Williams attended the meeting. During this meeting, Mr. Montour and Mr. Hill stated their interest in operating a call center and becoming involved in on reserve internet gaming. Chief Roberta Jamieson requested a legal opinion and business plan on the proposed initiatives and Mr. Montour agreed to forward these documents to the Six Nations Economic Development Committee.

Now this planning for an internet gaming operation was hung up on legal matters. The Council was not satisfied that the reserve could host internet gambling without running afoul of Canadian law despite their status as a reserve. But that did not stop someone from moving forward with the idea.

First, there is the Six Nations Network, a server hosting company dedicated to bringing "your offshore hosting back to the main land." Most internet gaming interests maintain their servers on small islands in the Caribbean to avoid law enforcement entanglements in the US and Canada. Apparently, someone at Six Nations thinks being on a reserve amounts to the same thing, but affords the client the comfort of knowing the servers are close by (and not in the path of hurricanes). Interestingly, there is a link from the site to the Six Nations Gaming Commission, though the link dies.

Somebody then started up AbsolutePoker.com, and claimed it was being managed by that same Six Nations Gaming Commission:

A commercial internet gaming site www.absolutepoker.com currently hosting its website on the Six Nations reserve with a company or partnership called Six Nations Network (SixNet), www.sixnet.ca, which indicates that it has received a license to operate on Six Nations by the Six Nations Gaming Commission.

This will advise all Six Nations members and the general public that this commercial activity has not been approved by the Six Nations Council. [October 2003]

The poker site is still active, and it still claims to be regulated in the Six Nations Internet Gambling Regulatory Body.

There is another gambling authority operating on the reserve called the Haldimand Mohocks and Allies Gaming Commission. They are also connected to the Six Nations Network. Two commissions? Not unless they share an office. Both are located at 2176-B Chiefswood Road on the reserve (see here and here).

Guess who else has an office exactly at 2176 Chiefswood Road. If you bet all your chips on the name Ken Hill, you would have won! In fact, the cigarette company Ken Hill owns, Grand River Enterprises, has their office there.

OK, I think it's fair to say that despite the protestations of the Six Nations Council, Ken Hill is deeply involved in internet gambling using the Six Nations Network as his "offshore" server farm.

Is Ken Hill still trying to make it into the lucrative world of reserve gaming, the bricks-and-mortar kind? Is he looking at the Douglas Creek Estates land as a potential site for a casino?

For a businessman with significant responsibilities, it seems strange for Ken Hill to be engaging in riots and assaulting people -- unless there was something in it for him.

Something big.

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Recall that one of the people wanted by the OPP on charges related to violence at the Six Nations stand-off in Caledonia, Ontario is Ken Hill. Hill is a major business presence on the reserve, involved in cigarettes and probably gambling.

His partner is Jerry Montour. a Mohawk from Wahta, as was revealed in this post. The Wahta reserve is made up of people who were relocated in 1881 from Kanesatake, and strong links have been maintained between the two communities.

Kanesatake is famous, of course, for the 78-day stand-off between Mohawk Warriors and Quebec police (and later Canadian troops) in 1990 in the nearby town of Oka over land.

In the aftermath, a gambling operation was started:

A few years after the crisis, the Mohawks of Kahnawake established the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and started issuing "licences" to gambling operators who host their Internet gaming websites on their reserve. Both the Canadian and Quebec governments dispute the legality of this operation, but have not risked taking further action. The websites hosted by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission are the only gambling sites that have operated in North America without legal action being taken against them.

The Warriors are not involved only in land disputes and gambling, but drugs too:

The Warriors are up to their necks in narcotics, but sometimes seem anxious to appear to be clean. After the 40-kilo find of cocaine in New York in September 1993 was publicized, Art Montour, the Warrior leader from Akwesasne, gratuitously emerged to publicly disavow Warrior participation in the cocaine industry. This was before New York State Police had even mentioned to apparent connection between the Warriors and the cocaine shipment. Art Montour did tell Dan D’Ambrosio, a feature writer for Gentlemen’s Quarterly that both of his sons use drugs.

Montour’s disavowals ring hollow in the law enforcement community. In May 1990, as police forces flooded onto Akwesasne in the aftermath of the coup attempt, 21 arrests were made in connection with a major cocaine smuggling ring centred on Akwesasne. Kanesatake, despite the small Warrior presence before May/June 1990, was the site of a methamphetamine laboratory. An RCMP raid in April of 1988 scooped up the lab and 3 kilos of 70% pure product. The lab could produce 2 kilos a day with a street value of $200,000.

Notice the name?

Art Montour.

Besides drugs, cigarette smuggling is another lucrative business for Art:

Art Montour, the leader of the Warrior’s Society in Akwesasne, insists smuggling is an expression of native sovereignty and gave the "Fifth Estate" a modest estimate of the profits of the cigarette trade as being "probably in the high tens of millions." An RCMP officer in Cornwall estimates that $1.1 billion in contraband tobacco passed through Akwesasne in 1992. The smuggler’s share of contraband usually runs to about 15% of cost, or $165 million for Montour’s colleagues. In 1993, over $1.8 billion in cigarettes filtered through the smugglers of Akwesasne.

Jake Thomas, a traditional Cayuga chief on the Six Nations Reserve, is cited in a September 1st, 1993 Globe and Mail article: "money is what makes the power of the Warrior Society. They are just using sovereignty and the Confederacy name. But at the same time, they don’t want to listen to the Confederacy. Some native people say they are smuggling just because of sovereignty. I don’t believe its right to use sovereignty for their own welfare."

Recall that Jerry Montour and Ken Hill own Grand River Enterprises, the largest company on the Six Nations Reserve. GRE makes cigarettes. The address of GRE is also the address provided for two on-reserve "gambling commissions".

Is Art Monrour related to Jerry Montour? I believe they are. Both Jerry and Art (and partner Ken Hill) made a joint donation of $21,200 to the Cruz Bustamante campaign during the California gubernatorial election in 2003:


*****
CRUZ BUSTAMANTE

*$21,200 from AT&T.

*$21,200 from Diamond Contribution Package/Arthur Montour, Jerry Montour, Kenneth Hill.

*$21,000 from Menendez for Congress of New Jersey.


(Note: Why would they be interested in Cruz Bustamante winning? I don't know. But I bet there is a story there, too. Makes me wonder if understanding the link would help explain the interest the US Border Patrol has in this.)

How could they not be related?

Art was at Oka in 1990. The violent fight was allegedly about a grave site threatened with desecration by the expansion of a golf course. The result was a major gambling operation being started.

Jerry and partner Ken Hill are involved in gambling interests in the Six Nations reserve. Jerry's relative Art is a Mohawk Warrior leader. The Mohawk Warriors are leading the violent fight in a land dispute. Hill is wanted on charges, so we know he is directly involved.

Did Jerry call on Art to come lend a hand? If so, why? Art might be concerned about land claims, but he is also concerned about profit from cigarettes, gambling, and drugs.

Any guess as to what the outcome is going to be in Caledonia if the land is ceded to the reserve?

http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/181232.php

[thefactremains]

Did we create the RESERVES??? And put lotta red tape on our, Gas n Oil, n Diamonds n other elements that we had dug up in our home soils, (thats reserves)..HyperIdiot, im talkin recent excavations too.ive been in the City for 25 yrs, i see drugs all over.i dont condone it at all.In any society.Im sure I'm talkin in behalf of lotta NDN's

[Virgil]

Ok, first of all, sorry Hyperion I didn't read you entire post. Ok I read the warning and that was it.

Though I have heard much that there may be a criminal aspect to the Warriors, I doubt as many Six Nations as did would have turned out for greed and drugs.

[saga]

Virgil wrote:

Ok, first of all, sorry Hyperion I didn't read you entire post. Ok I read the warning and that was it.

Though I have heard much that there may be a criminal aspect to the Warriors, I doubt as many Six Nations as did would have turned out for greed and drugs.

It wasn't Hyperions words ... it's that slime Steve Janke aka Stephen Taylor of the blogging tories.

I nailed Steve's board one night ... brought him down!!!
Later found him whinijng in some other discussion ...

Prick had doctored a news report to implicate Ken Hill ... added a line to the existing news report that wasn't there on the original site.

Ken Hill lives at Six Nations.
Six Nations is reclaiming land.
Six Nations has turned down the idea of a casino three times, and they simply are not interested, regardless of what Ken Hill would like.

Steve Janke is a paranoid schizoid, a liar and a creep.

What he makes up on his site has nothing to do with reality.

[saga]

HyperionTheEvil wrote:

Warning LIAR post

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http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/181232.php

You may not be aware, but Steve Janke is a lying creep who doctors the news reports to say what he wants them to say.

[saga]

HyperionTheEvil wrote:

Jerry and partner Ken Hill are ALLEGEDLY involved in gambling interests in the Six Nations reserve. Jerry's relative Art is a Mohawk Warrior leader. The Mohawk Warriors are leading the violent fight in a land dispute. Hill is wanted on charges, so we know he is directly involved.

Did Jerry call on Art to come lend a hand? If so, why? Art might be concerned about land claims, but he is also concerned about profit from cigarettes, gambling, and drugs.

Any guess as to what the outcome is going to be in Caledonia if the land is ceded to the reserve?

The Mohawk Warriors are not leading anything.
The Confederacy is ... The Clan Mothers are in charge.
DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY WOULD BE UNARMED IF THE WARRIOR WERE IN CHARGE? But they are unarmed. That's why the OPP couldn't keep control of the land. When the Clan Mothers and women linked arms (followed by the rest of nthe community) and walked the OPP off the land, the cops couldn't shoot them so they ran!

Ken Hill assaulted an officer ... in June ... to get a youth away from the officer. Not sure whether the hearing has been held yet.

This is very old news, Evil.
Already discredited.
Some idiots still like to believe the conspiracy theory.
Be better than the idiots eh?

[Milkyway]

Hi there,,

I am looking for the Email-address to Kenneth Hill, please help me to find it and send it to: mohawk-sweden@hotmail.com

Milkyway

[CDNBear]

Warning,,,

EDUCATIONAL POST FOR ASSHATS AND BIGOTS...

BACKGROUNDER ON THE CLAIMS OF THE
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER BAND OF INDIANS



In March 1995, the Six Nations of the Grand River Band of Indians filed a lawsuit against the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario. The lawsuit involves allegations of breaches of fiduciary duty in the administration of Six Nations lands and assets, most of which are based on events that took place before Confederation. In other words, the Six Nations claims focus on how land and money were managed, rather than questioning ownership and/or a return of lands.

Specifically, the Six Nations give fourteen examples of claims, or allegations, which they are attempting to prove against Canada and/or Ontario, including:

the Crown did not give the Six Nations all the land promised in the Haldimand Proclamation;

the Crown patented land in the tract known as “Block 5” (part of Moulton Township) without having received a valid surrender;

the Crown patented land in the tract known as “Block 6” (part of Canborough Township) without having received a valid surrender;

William Claus, a Crown agent, misappropriated monies belonging to the Six Nations and the Crown did not properly secure reimbursement;

the Crown did not compensate the Six Nations for land flooded during the construction of the Welland Canal;

the Crown speculatively invested the Six Nations’ trust monies in the Grand River Navigation Company;

the Six Nations did not receive appropriate compensation for 368 7/10 acres patented to the Grand River Navigation Company;

the Six Nations did not receive adequate compensation for the lands surrendered for sale in the Town (now City) of Brantford;

the Crown patented Six Nations land adjoining the Talbot Road in lot sizes not approved by the Six Nations;

the Crown improperly patented Six Nations land adjoining the Hamilton Port Dover Plank Road that the Six Nations wanted leased;

the Crown did not properly compensate the Six Nations for land taken at Port Maitland;

the Crown did not secure a valid surrender of the Six Nations’ interest in the lands on the Grand River in 1841 and that the current reserve does not contain all the land set aside in the Order-in-Council of October 4, 1843;

Samuel Jarvis, an agent of the Crown, could not account for all the Six Nations’ money with which he had been entrusted;

the Six Nations did not receive proper compensation for the exploitation of oil and gas under their reserve.

As outlined in its Statement of Defence, the Government of Canada’s position is that the Six Nations validly surrendered all the lands that are not now part of the reserve; that the Six Nations received full and fair compensation for the lands they surrendered; and, that if there is any liability, the liability related to breaches that pre-date Confederation rests with the Province of Ontario.

In 1999, 2000 and 2001, all three Parties – the Six Nations, the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada – turned from active litigation and towards talks to find common ground upon which to proceed with some form of out-of-court resolution. Since 2004, the Government of Canada has been in exploratory discussions with the Six Nations’ elected Chief and Council and the Province of Ontario to address the claims.
This timeline reflects the tremendous complexity of the factual issues that must be addressed. There are already more than 70,000 pages of material dating from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. A full response to the Six Nations’ allegations requires a comprehensive social, political, legal and economic history of southwestern Ontario from 1784 to the present.
April 2006

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/j-a2006/snjsbk_e.html

[CDNBear]

Warning,,,

MORE EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL FOR ASSHATS AND BIGOTS...

Haudenosaunee Update Dec. 26/06No doubt about it! This partial update is regarding the land theft at Six Nations known as the “Plank Road”. It is expertly researched and put out by the Six Nations/Haudenosaunee Negotiating Team.

Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road Update

(Caledonia Ontario – Six Nations of the Grand River Territory)

December 6, 2006

Overview

On June 18, 1987, Six Nations submitted the documentation to the Government of Canada verifying Six Nations’ ownership in the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road Lands. No response was received from Canada until 19 years later on November 03, 2006 as presented by the Department of Justice and only than as a result of the February 2006 Douglas Creek Land Reclamation.

Previously, every documented land claim put forward by Six Nations and counter researched by Canada was validated in Six Nations favor. The stumbling block in resolving these claims has been an acceptable process for Six Nations many complex and unique issues. Canada’s Specific Claims Policy “Outstanding Business” is policy based on the extinguishment of treaty rights and has been recognized by Canada and First Nations across Canada as a failure. Canada and the Assembly of First Nations attempted to revamp Canada’s failed Claims Policy between 1991-1993 and 1996-2002. Ontario’s present negotiator Jane Stewart when Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs for Canada had both the mandate to address and resolve Six Nations June 18, 1987 Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road submission and establish a truly Independent Claims Tribunal to resolve Land Claims across Canada. She failed on both accounts.

Following the OKA crises of 1990, Canada attempted to address the failures of its Claims Policy and established the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) in 1991 as an alternative to litigation and to promote “in good faith” negotiations. Frustrated by the ICC’s inability to move forward land claim settlements, all the Commissioners of the Indian Claims Commission tendered their resignations on June 27, 1996. Canada’s present Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs; Jim Prentice was the Chairman of the Indian Claims Commission and also resigned.

Canada’s Specific Claims Policy “Outstanding Business” and the Indian Claims Commission continue to be used by Canada as its ineffective means to address land claims across Canada.

SUMMARY OF DOCUMENTATION AND ORAL EVIDENCE

On October 25, 1784 the Haldimand Treaty secured for the Six Nations Indians a metes and bounds tract of lands within Six Nations Beaver Hunting Grounds, 6 miles deep on each side of the Grand River beginning at Lake Erie and extending in that proportion to the head of the said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.

Legal Land Alienations

The Crown had legislated explicate instructions for the legal alienation of Indian Lands beginning in December 9, 1761; October 7, 1763; December 7, 1763; Royal Instructions of 1768; January 3, 1775; August 23, 1786; September 16, 1791; December 24, 1794 and May 1, 1812. The legislated requirements for the lawful surrender to sell the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road Lands have been acknowledged by Canada as having not been followed.

Notice to Trespassers and Squatters

The Crown had Legislation requiring that it protect Six Nations Lands from Trespass and Injury. The Crown attempted to fulfill its Lawful Duty to The Six Nations by issuing Public Notices in February 1, 1812 specific to Haldimand County forbidding White People from settling on Indian Land; November 20,1835 notifying settlers on the Hamilton and Port Dover Plank Road to apply for leases or face ejection and on January 22, 1844 notifying that all persons on Six Nations lands between the Townships of Brantford and Dunn are to remove themselves as well as those on the North side of the River or be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the law.

The Grand River Navigation Company

In 1832 Legislation was passed by the Crown to incorporate the Grand River Navigation Company (GRNCo.) to make the Grand River Navigable from the feeder of the Welland Canal at Dunnville to Brantford and up river as far as Galt. The promoters of the GRNCo. decided that by making the Grand River navigable with locks, dams, milling sites and other improvements it would render the passage of rafts, boats and other crafts beneficial for the surrounding neighbors, access the most generous amount of timber for export and “eventually swindle the Indians out of their lands”.

As early as 1829, upon hearing of the proposal to dam the Grand River, Six Nations protested against such scheme. Protests continued by Six Nations against the works of the GRNCo. through out the life of the Company; but to no avail.

When approached to make loans to the GRNCo.the Lieutenant Governor proposed raising monies from the sales and leasing of Six Nations lands. In 1834 the Executive Council later approved transferring Six Nations Monies held in London England to be used by the GRNCo. and in other investments to create today’s Canada.

In 1838 the Government with the sanction of the Executive Council pledged the proceeds from the sale of all Six Nations lands to pay for the works of the GRNCo. It than became imperative for the Indian agents to secure the sale of Six Nations lands by any means to raise money to support the Grand River Navigation Company. Even with reports to the Indian Agents of hardship and starvation among families on Six Nations, Six Nations would have no say in the matter of their monies or lands being used by the GRNCo.

In 1907 A.G. Chisolm agreed to act on behalf of Six Nations and commence legal proceedings against the Crown for monies invested by the Crown in the Grand River Navigation Company. In 1927 Canada passed Legislation barring Indians from independently hiring lawyers to proceed with the prosecution of any legal proceedings against the Crown.

Leasing.

The concept of leasing the lands to White People for specific periods of time to one plow depth was an acceptable practice by Six Nations to get their lands cleared for their future use and for Six Nations to regain possession of the lands when the lease period ended. Government officials acknowledged that if we were to lease the lands it “would render the Six Nations of Indians the wealthiest proprietors in the Province.” The Crown further acknowledged that as relates to the lands along the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road “Six Nations Indians will not surrender to us in perpetuity and as we want the land it is surely better that we should get it as we can by leasing, than not to get it at all”.

On January 16, 1835 the Chiefs agreed that if it was necessary that both sides of the Road (Hamilton/Port Dover) should be settled they will permit a half mile on each side of that road to be leased to the whites for their Benefit. Six Nations conditions would not allow a Town Site to be established at the river crossing (Caledonia) no taverns or the sale of spirits are to be allowed and the rents will be increased every seven years for 21 years.

Despite constant pressures from Indian Agents whom had close friends and business associates interested in the works of the GRNCo. and Indian Agents dismissed from office for stealing Six Nations monies, the Six Nations were finally able to get a response from the Executive Council of Upper Canada in 1843 assuring the Six Nations that the Government had no wish to take any portion of their lands against their free wishes.

The Squatters

“Our white brethren look upon us not as the original possessors but intruders on a Soil which was granted to us” is how the Six Nations expressed their concerns in a January 9, 1844 petition to the Government.

Upon formal government inquiries it was concluded that inducements were promised the squatters on Six Nations lands by many senior Government Officials (one being Sir John Colborne the Lieutenant Governor whom was investing Six Nations monies without their consent in the GRNCo.) to “go on with your improvements you shall be protected”. The Supt. General of Indian Affairs reported receiving communications from White Persons Squatting on the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road that inducements were promoted by Lieutenant Governor Colborne and other Government Officials to locate them there with the promise that the Indians would be made to surrender the lands to them. The White People were flagrantly breaking the law with the assistance and support of Government Officials to the point that they, the squatters were dictating the terms, conditions and amount they were going to pay for the Six Nations lands they were squatting on.

The Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road

“An Act to authorize the construction of a Road from Hamilton, in the Gore District to Port Dover in the London District” was passed on March 6, 1834. In fact construction of the road commenced before it was even legislated as the Six Nations questioned the authority of cutting the road through our lands at an Indian Council on February 4, 1834.

It was further pointed out that even though Sir John Colborne had promised to Six Nations that the road would not proceed; it did anyway.

Regardless of Six Nations wishes, the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road (Highway 6) exists today and no payment has ever made to Six Nations for the road as stipulated by the Legislation Incorporating the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road.

Conclusions

-There is no surrender document meeting the legal requirements for the lands identified as the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road Lands to be lawfully sold nor does Canada have such document registered in its Indian Lands Registry. However, if there is such a document (which we deny) evidence shows it would have been by the Crowns inducement and against the free wishes of the Six Nations Indians.

-The Crown was systematically inducing the sale of Six Nations lands without lawful surrenders and misappropriated land payments into the works of the Grand River Navigation Company (and other Government expenditures) against the constant protests of the Six Nations of the Grand River Indians.

-The Crown breached its Lawful Fiduciary to protect Six Nations Lands against Trespass and Injury and instead promoted and protected the Non-Natives whom were breaking the law.

-Six Nations never authorized the building of the Hamilton/Port Dover Plank Road across our lands nor have we ever been compensated for it being built.

In Peace and Friendship

Phil Monture

Six Nations/Haudenosaunee Negotiating Team

phil@nativelands.infoposter: Thahoketoteh

[thefactremains]

the Whites, just want the biggest handout, all of North America, that aint going to happen.They got enough already.

[CDNBear]

thefactremains wrote:

the Whites, just want the biggest handout, all of North America, that aint going to happen.They got enough already.

I really hate the use of racialy identifiable words like "the whites". If you are actually Native "thefactremains", and you were brought up with a minute amount of the traditional ways, as was I, you may already know that "the whites" are sons and daughters of the Great Spirit, thus making them our brothers and sisters.

We are all in this together, and from what I know, none of us will get out alive, lol.