URGENT ACTION Lil'wat nation in b
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Mon, 13 Sep 1993 21:12:00 PDT
September 13, 1993
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Once again the Lil'wat nation is facing a renewed assault by
International Forest Products Limited upon the last stand of its
old growth forests. The Lil'Wat are a Sovereign Indigenous People
in the south-west British Columbia.
Although existing natural, international, and constitutional
law all recognize and protect Lil'wat's sovereign status, the
non-Native judiciary and governments of British Columbia and
Canada refuse to address the law to which they are bound.
International Forest Products is preparing to roadbuild into
the unceded sacred burial area of the Lil'Wat.
As in the past, police power will be used to crush the
resistance that the Lil'watemcs are bound and entitled to put up.
Canada's genocidal pogrom against the First Nations Peoples
is a matter of record. As the last of the ancient forests fall,
the beleaguered Native nationalists are facing an additional
attack by an imposed elite of Indian Act collaborators, which act
as administrative units of the colonial governments. These
puppets conduct 'negotiations' with their white masters to
provide the illusion of consent to the holocaust.
By and large, environmental and social justice organizations
have refused to deal with the inherent heritage governments of
Native Nations, preferring to support the alien and imposed
D.I.A. [Department of Indian Affairs] system.
The Lil'wat people are prisoners of Canadian 'democracy.'
They are facing a last stand situation.
Please demand that the governments of Canada and British
Columbia stop the ecocide, and begin honourable nation-to-nation
negotiations with Lil'wat.
--Prime Minister Kim Campbell [House of Commons, Ottawa, ONT, K1A
0A6, CANADA] or
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali [United Nations
Building, New York, NY, 10017, USA] or contact
-Lil'wat Estken, PO Box 208, Mount Currie, (via) B.C., V0N 2K0,
CANADA. Harold Pascal (Tsemhu7qw) tel. (604) 894-6640 ph/fax.
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